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Domain registry failures ahead (and Verisign would like a patent on recovering them)
Largest domain registry applies for patent on recovering failed registries. With hundreds of new top level domains coming online in the next couple years, we’re going to see a lot of failed top level domains. Many of these TLDs will be backed b...
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Domain registry failures ahead (and Verisign would like a patent on recovering them)
Largest domain registry applies for patent on recovering failed registries. With hundreds of new top level domains coming online in the next couple years, we’re going to see a lot of failed top level domains. Many of these TLDs will be backed b...
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November 29, 2012, 11:56 am
Domain Name Wire
Will .website domains give .ws a boost?
Contrary to government’s opinion, .website domains will give a boost to .ws. The government of the State of Somoa submitted early warnings on top level domain applications for the .website string. So what’s Somoa upset about? The country ...
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Will .website domains give .ws a boost?
Contrary to government’s opinion, .website domains will give a boost to .ws. The government of the State of Somoa submitted early warnings on top level domain applications for the .website string. So what’s Somoa upset about? The country ...
Discussion
November 29, 2012, 9:37 am
Domain Name Wire
Announcement on tap about which new TLDs will get priority treatment in ICANN’s Powerball
Which new TLDs will get to skip to the front of the queue? We’ll find out soon. Fortunately for new top level domain applicants, the chances of getting a top spot in December’s top level domain “prioritization draw” are much b...
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Announcement on tap about which new TLDs will get priority treatment in ICANN’s Powerball
Which new TLDs will get to skip to the front of the queue? We’ll find out soon. Fortunately for new top level domain applicants, the chances of getting a top spot in December’s top level domain “prioritization draw” are much b...
Discussion
November 28, 2012, 5:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN extends protections to Red Cross, Olympics, and IGOs
Board approves two measures designed to protect big non-profit brands. ICANN’s board has approved two resolutions granting added domain name protections at the second level to special interests the Red Cross, Red Crescent, and the International...
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ICANN extends protections to Red Cross, Olympics, and IGOs
Board approves two measures designed to protect big non-profit brands. ICANN’s board has approved two resolutions granting added domain name protections at the second level to special interests the Red Cross, Red Crescent, and the International...
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November 28, 2012, 4:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy to auction .info “sunrise pending reallocation” domains
Auction features domains originally reserved during 2001 sunrise. Domain name registry Afilias is working with Go daddy to auction off over 100 domain names claimed in the .info sunrise that were later deemed ineligible. The 106 domain auction runs D...
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Go Daddy to auction .info “sunrise pending reallocation” domains
Auction features domains originally reserved during 2001 sunrise. Domain name registry Afilias is working with Go daddy to auction off over 100 domain names claimed in the .info sunrise that were later deemed ineligible. The 106 domain auction runs D...
Discussion
November 28, 2012, 12:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
27 end user domain sales, including a buy from the Data.com seller
A report on 27 end user domain name sales made last week. This week’s end user domain sales report includes a small purchase by the company that sold Data.com from Salesforce.com for $4.5 million. Afternic New York City bakery City Cakes shorte...
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27 end user domain sales, including a buy from the Data.com seller
A report on 27 end user domain name sales made last week. This week’s end user domain sales report includes a small purchase by the company that sold Data.com from Salesforce.com for $4.5 million. Afternic New York City bakery City Cakes shorte...
Discussion
November 28, 2012, 11:54 am
Domain Name Wire
Noss: use new TLD auction proceeds to bring more internet to Africa
Elliot Noss argues that auction proceeds should be used to fun wireless internet in Africa. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, along with “internet in a suitcase” advocate Sascha Meinrath, have penned an op-ed for Slate arguing that new TLD auction ...
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Noss: use new TLD auction proceeds to bring more internet to Africa
Elliot Noss argues that auction proceeds should be used to fun wireless internet in Africa. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, along with “internet in a suitcase” advocate Sascha Meinrath, have penned an op-ed for Slate arguing that new TLD auction ...
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November 28, 2012, 9:25 am
Domain Name Wire
800.com “sells” again
The domain name 800.com has changed hands…sort of. The world of penny stocks has always been a bit odd to me. Such is the case with Quamtel, Inc., which recently sold the domain name 800.com to its former sole shareholder, Steven Ivester. Geor...
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800.com “sells” again
The domain name 800.com has changed hands…sort of. The world of penny stocks has always been a bit odd to me. Such is the case with Quamtel, Inc., which recently sold the domain name 800.com to its former sole shareholder, Steven Ivester. Geor...
Discussion
November 27, 2012, 4:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Book review: Domain Names Rewired
New book discusses the potential of more top level domain names. Before reading Domain Names Rewired, a new book by Jennifer Wolfe and Anne Chasser, I knew I was going to have two challenges with the book. First, I knew I’d disagree with many o...
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Book review: Domain Names Rewired
New book discusses the potential of more top level domain names. Before reading Domain Names Rewired, a new book by Jennifer Wolfe and Anne Chasser, I knew I was going to have two challenges with the book. First, I knew I’d disagree with many o...
Discussion
November 27, 2012, 12:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Have you enabled two-factor authentication on GoDaddy.com yet?
Two-factor authentication reduces changes of being phished. Last week a “small number” of Go Daddy customers were affected by a DNS attack. The company suspects the affected accounts were subject to phishing accounts or the users’ c...
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Have you enabled two-factor authentication on GoDaddy.com yet?
Two-factor authentication reduces changes of being phished. Last week a “small number” of Go Daddy customers were affected by a DNS attack. The company suspects the affected accounts were subject to phishing accounts or the users’ c...
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November 27, 2012, 10:22 am
