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Donuts moves its registry to AWS
Top level domain company migrates backend to the cloud. Top level domain name company Donuts announced today that it has migrated its backend registry from on-premises backend infrastructure to the cloud. The company migrated to Amazon’s AWS an...
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Donuts moves its registry to AWS
Top level domain company migrates backend to the cloud. Top level domain name company Donuts announced today that it has migrated its backend registry from on-premises backend infrastructure to the cloud. The company migrated to Amazon’s AWS an...
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April 22, 2020, 3:12 pm
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NewZone.com at $20K leads end user sales
A clothing brand, office space designer, and hand sanitizer company bought domains. Sedo’s top sale this past week was NewZone.com for $20,000. It also had some nice non-.com sales, such as LPM.org, Surge.ai and Collective.space. As a quick hea...
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NewZone.com at $20K leads end user sales
A clothing brand, office space designer, and hand sanitizer company bought domains. Sedo’s top sale this past week was NewZone.com for $20,000. It also had some nice non-.com sales, such as LPM.org, Surge.ai and Collective.space. As a quick hea...
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April 22, 2020, 1:19 pm
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ICANN’s Attorney General problem
ICANN has a big problem if it can’t placate the California Attorney General. ICANN’s Board of Directors was ready to decide on whether or not to approve the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit registry overseeing the .o...
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ICANN’s Attorney General problem
ICANN has a big problem if it can’t placate the California Attorney General. ICANN’s Board of Directors was ready to decide on whether or not to approve the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit registry overseeing the .o...
Discussion
April 21, 2020, 5:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy patent: Images to Domain Names
Clever idea uses image information to suggest domain names and create a website. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,630,639 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Suggesting a domain name from digital image metadata.” The pa...
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GoDaddy patent: Images to Domain Names
Clever idea uses image information to suggest domain names and create a website. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,630,639 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Suggesting a domain name from digital image metadata.” The pa...
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April 21, 2020, 3:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gameloft recovers Asphalt 9 domain names
Company wins cybersquatting cases. Gameloft, a popular mobile gaming company, has recovered two domain names related to the latest game in its Asphalt racing video game series. The company won cybersquatting cases against the owners of asphalt9legend...
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Gameloft recovers Asphalt 9 domain names
Company wins cybersquatting cases. Gameloft, a popular mobile gaming company, has recovered two domain names related to the latest game in its Asphalt racing video game series. The company won cybersquatting cases against the owners of asphalt9legend...
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April 21, 2020, 3:03 pm
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State Farm loses another domain dispute – state-shaped farm bowls!
Is that The State Farm Bowl or the State “farm bowl”? State Farm has lost another cybersquatting dispute because of how its name can be interpreted when combined with other words. The latest decision is for TheStateFarmBowl(.)com. Just lo...
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State Farm loses another domain dispute – state-shaped farm bowls!
Is that The State Farm Bowl or the State “farm bowl”? State Farm has lost another cybersquatting dispute because of how its name can be interpreted when combined with other words. The latest decision is for TheStateFarmBowl(.)com. Just lo...
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April 20, 2020, 11:20 pm
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Laws forcing Google to pay for news “content” hurt small publishers
Google is the lifeblood of small publishers. Australia is the latest country to consider mandating that Google pay news publishers for “content,” even if this content is just a headline and short snippet. Google and Google News have becom...
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Laws forcing Google to pay for news “content” hurt small publishers
Google is the lifeblood of small publishers. Australia is the latest country to consider mandating that Google pay news publishers for “content,” even if this content is just a headline and short snippet. Google and Google News have becom...
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April 20, 2020, 5:15 pm
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Domains in Hollywood – DNW Podcast #282
Why movies have such crappy domain names. There was a time, not so long ago, when people went to movie theaters to watch movies. They were subjected to 30 minutes of previews before the movie began. And these previews included domain names for each m...
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Domains in Hollywood – DNW Podcast #282
Why movies have such crappy domain names. There was a time, not so long ago, when people went to movie theaters to watch movies. They were subjected to 30 minutes of previews before the movie began. And these previews included domain names for each m...
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April 20, 2020, 3:30 pm
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Answering some reader questions
Kassey Lee answers some of the questions readers have asked him about their domains, as they relate to China. In this article, I would like to answer some questions readers have posed to me. Does AR27 have any particular meanings in Chinese? AR is an...
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Answering some reader questions
Kassey Lee answers some of the questions readers have asked him about their domains, as they relate to China. In this article, I would like to answer some questions readers have posed to me. Does AR27 have any particular meanings in Chinese? AR is an...
Discussion
April 17, 2020, 2:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN postpones .org decision after California AG says sale shouldn’t happen
Deadline pushed back two weeks to May 4. ICANN’s due date to decide if it should allow Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company that runs the .org domain, to be sold to a private equity company has been delayed again. ICANN and PIR agreed to...
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ICANN postpones .org decision after California AG says sale shouldn’t happen
Deadline pushed back two weeks to May 4. ICANN’s due date to decide if it should allow Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company that runs the .org domain, to be sold to a private equity company has been delayed again. ICANN and PIR agreed to...
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April 17, 2020, 1:58 am
