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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting April 15
More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ther...
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting April 15
More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ther...
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April 2, 2013, 9:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Twitter co-founder starting new company called Jelly at JellyHQ.com
As with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? ...
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Twitter co-founder starting new company called Jelly at JellyHQ.com
As with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? ...
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April 1, 2013, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Outrageous and stupid numbers about new top level domains
Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Adv...
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Outrageous and stupid numbers about new top level domains
Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Adv...
Discussion
April 1, 2013, 4:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit: cybersquatters tried to dupe suppliers out of $60,000+ of merchandise
W. W. Williams says fraudsters uses domain name to try to trick suppliers to send merchandise. Usually when a cybersquatter grabs a domain similar to a company’s name, the cybersquatter just hopes to make a few bucks from a parked page. But som...
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Lawsuit: cybersquatters tried to dupe suppliers out of $60,000+ of merchandise
W. W. Williams says fraudsters uses domain name to try to trick suppliers to send merchandise. Usually when a cybersquatter grabs a domain similar to a company’s name, the cybersquatter just hopes to make a few bucks from a parked page. But som...
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April 1, 2013, 2:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint
The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the...
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Video: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint
The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the...
Discussion
April 1, 2013, 12:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
It’s opening day and MLB is batting .867 with domains
Major League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an uns...
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It’s opening day and MLB is batting .867 with domains
Major League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an uns...
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April 1, 2013, 10:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Google says parked domains = spam
Google’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hiddin te...
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Google says parked domains = spam
Google’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hiddin te...
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April 1, 2013, 10:14 am
Domain Name Wire
“Domainer” and “Domain Parking” hit CNN.com home page
Article discusses cybersquatter who calls himself a domainer. One of the top stories on CNN.com today is about a self-proclaimed “domainer”. Unfortunately, that domainer is a cybersquatter, so the article doesn’t paint domainers in ...
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“Domainer” and “Domain Parking” hit CNN.com home page
Article discusses cybersquatter who calls himself a domainer. One of the top stories on CNN.com today is about a self-proclaimed “domainer”. Unfortunately, that domainer is a cybersquatter, so the article doesn’t paint domainers in ...
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March 31, 2013, 11:03 am
Domain Name Wire
ICC publishes initial list of new TLD Community Objections
Group posts first 28 objections. International Chamber of Commerce, which is handling new TLD objections for community objections and limited public interest objections, has published a list of pending cases. The list so far includes 28 objections. A...
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ICC publishes initial list of new TLD Community Objections
Group posts first 28 objections. International Chamber of Commerce, which is handling new TLD objections for community objections and limited public interest objections, has published a list of pending cases. The list so far includes 28 objections. A...
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March 29, 2013, 3:26 pm
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Online video company paid over $100,000 for uLive domains
Real Gravity is mystery buyer of uLive.com and uLive.tv. Last week Afternic reported that it sold uLive.tv for $27,000. I was correct that the uLive.tv buyer is the same company that paid $75,000 for uLive.com last month. But my guess as to who that ...
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Online video company paid over $100,000 for uLive domains
Real Gravity is mystery buyer of uLive.com and uLive.tv. Last week Afternic reported that it sold uLive.tv for $27,000. I was correct that the uLive.tv buyer is the same company that paid $75,000 for uLive.com last month. But my guess as to who that ...
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March 29, 2013, 2:42 pm
