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Web.com to Cut More Network Solutions Employees
Company plans more pink slips at iconic domain registrar. Web.com plans to fire more Network Solutions employees after it acquires the company than it previously thought. The company, which also owns domain name registrar Register.com, originally tho...
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Web.com to Cut More Network Solutions Employees
Company plans more pink slips at iconic domain registrar. Web.com plans to fire more Network Solutions employees after it acquires the company than it previously thought. The company, which also owns domain name registrar Register.com, originally tho...
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October 17, 2011, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
SedoMLS Lands Moniker
Moniker customers can now list domains on Sedo‘s distributed listing service. Moniker customers can now list their domain names for sale on the SedoMLS system, the two companies announced this morning. This is a big win for Sedo. Not only is it...
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SedoMLS Lands Moniker
Moniker customers can now list domains on Sedo‘s distributed listing service. Moniker customers can now list their domain names for sale on the SedoMLS system, the two companies announced this morning. This is a big win for Sedo. Not only is it...
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October 17, 2011, 9:53 am
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Afternic Domains to be Listed on Go Daddy Registration Path
Fixed price Afternic listings to be featured on Go Daddy registration path. Customers who sell domain names through Afternic are about to get a lot more exposure. Afternic has struck a deal with Go Daddy to start showing its fixed price listings in t...
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Breaking: Afternic Domains to be Listed on Go Daddy Registration Path
Fixed price Afternic listings to be featured on Go Daddy registration path. Customers who sell domain names through Afternic are about to get a lot more exposure. Afternic has struck a deal with Go Daddy to start showing its fixed price listings in t...
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October 16, 2011, 4:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
5 Questions To Be Answered at Next Week’s TRAFFIC Conference
The only TRAFFIC of the year is upon us. This year TRAFFIC will host just one conference, which kicks off Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. Last year there was a TRAFFIC conference just about every other month. Combined with other domain conferences it was ...
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5 Questions To Be Answered at Next Week’s TRAFFIC Conference
The only TRAFFIC of the year is upon us. This year TRAFFIC will host just one conference, which kicks off Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. Last year there was a TRAFFIC conference just about every other month. Combined with other domain conferences it was ...
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October 14, 2011, 10:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Got Milk Domains?
If so, you might be in trouble. If you have “Got Milk” domains, the milk man is a’coming. The California Milk Processor Board, which has a trademark on the slogan, just filed UDRP cases against the owners of GotMilk.me and GotMilk.b...
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Got Milk Domains?
If so, you might be in trouble. If you have “Got Milk” domains, the milk man is a’coming. The California Milk Processor Board, which has a trademark on the slogan, just filed UDRP cases against the owners of GotMilk.me and GotMilk.b...
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October 14, 2011, 10:19 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s Assets Grow to $100 Million
ICANN releases audited financial statements for FY11. Today ICANN posted its audited financial statements (pdf) for Financial Year 2011 (which ended in June). Here are some highlights: Total assets grew to $100 million from $83 million the year prior...
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ICANN’s Assets Grow to $100 Million
ICANN releases audited financial statements for FY11. Today ICANN posted its audited financial statements (pdf) for Financial Year 2011 (which ended in June). Here are some highlights: Total assets grew to $100 million from $83 million the year prior...
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October 14, 2011, 10:07 am
Domain Name Wire
.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
A charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies c...
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.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
A charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies c...
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October 13, 2011, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: VeriSign Withdraws Request for Domain Takedown
VeriSign cancels request to ICANN to allow it to offer new anti abuse service. Just days after formally proposing a controversial mechanism to scan domain names and take down web sites used for malicious purposes, VeriSign has withdrawn the request. ...
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Breaking: VeriSign Withdraws Request for Domain Takedown
VeriSign cancels request to ICANN to allow it to offer new anti abuse service. Just days after formally proposing a controversial mechanism to scan domain names and take down web sites used for malicious purposes, VeriSign has withdrawn the request. ...
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October 13, 2011, 2:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners
A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened U...
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Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners
A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened U...
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October 13, 2011, 1:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s Reply Cycle Falling Flat
Circular-reference comment period not eliciting more comments. If you held a comment period about comment periods, then tested a new comment period idea called “reply cycle” on that same comment period about comment periods, would anybody...
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ICANN’s Reply Cycle Falling Flat
Circular-reference comment period not eliciting more comments. If you held a comment period about comment periods, then tested a new comment period idea called “reply cycle” on that same comment period about comment periods, would anybody...
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October 13, 2011, 8:33 am
