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A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (...
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A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 11:41 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain horse trading event in Prague next week
You can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN’s “big reveal” news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an em...
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Domain horse trading event in Prague next week
You can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN’s “big reveal” news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an em...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 11:22 am
Domain Name Wire
Paul Keating somehow wins Taget.com UDRP
Shoddy work by Target’s lawyers may have let domain owner off the hook. Domain attorney Paul Keating has successfully defended Quinv S.A. against Target Brands and a UDRP it filed over Taget.com. Now, first things first: Taget.com isn’t n...
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Paul Keating somehow wins Taget.com UDRP
Shoddy work by Target’s lawyers may have let domain owner off the hook. Domain attorney Paul Keating has successfully defended Quinv S.A. against Target Brands and a UDRP it filed over Taget.com. Now, first things first: Taget.com isn’t n...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 11:12 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft’s Generation App: F’ it, it blows (so say domain names)
Microsoft registers dirty names related to its new Generation App. Microsoft is releasing its Generation App (Or Gen App), which is a suite of tools to help you build an app for Microsoft platforms within 30 days. The web sites for the initiative are...
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Microsoft’s Generation App: F’ it, it blows (so say domain names)
Microsoft registers dirty names related to its new Generation App. Microsoft is releasing its Generation App (Or Gen App), which is a suite of tools to help you build an app for Microsoft platforms within 30 days. The web sites for the initiative are...
Discussion
June 16, 2012, 1:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Honey, I screwed up on my $185,000 new TLD application
Several new top level domain applicants make errors in their applications — including a misspelling of the word “logistics”. I’ve found three instances of typo’s or errors in new top level domain applicants’ string...
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Honey, I screwed up on my $185,000 new TLD application
Several new top level domain applicants make errors in their applications — including a misspelling of the word “logistics”. I’ve found three instances of typo’s or errors in new top level domain applicants’ string...
Discussion
June 15, 2012, 4:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy eyes one month registrations for .home and .casa domains
Company may offer short term registrations if awarded domain names. Go Daddy is proposing a couple twists in its plan to offer .home and .casa domain names to the public. A big one: registrations as short as one month. “Why pay for a year if th...
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Go Daddy eyes one month registrations for .home and .casa domains
Company may offer short term registrations if awarded domain names. Go Daddy is proposing a couple twists in its plan to offer .home and .casa domain names to the public. A big one: registrations as short as one month. “Why pay for a year if th...
Discussion
June 15, 2012, 2:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Catholics won’t be able to register .Catholic domain names
No personal second level domains will be allowed for .catholic. If you’re a follower of the Catholic faith and can’t wait to get your hands on yourname.catholic, I’ve got disappointing news for you: it’s not going to happen. T...
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Catholics won’t be able to register .Catholic domain names
No personal second level domains will be allowed for .catholic. If you’re a follower of the Catholic faith and can’t wait to get your hands on yourname.catholic, I’ve got disappointing news for you: it’s not going to happen. T...
Discussion
June 15, 2012, 12:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Guy files cybersquatting complaint against a page on Blogger
Apparently blogger.com followed by a bunch of numbers infringes this guy’s trademarks. From the WTF category… Nevada resident Steven Barket has filed a federal lawsuit against Google and a John Doe, claiming violations of the Anticybersq...
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Guy files cybersquatting complaint against a page on Blogger
Apparently blogger.com followed by a bunch of numbers infringes this guy’s trademarks. From the WTF category… Nevada resident Steven Barket has filed a federal lawsuit against Google and a John Doe, claiming violations of the Anticybersq...
Discussion
June 15, 2012, 12:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
About 100 ANA members apply for new top level domains
Around 20% of Association of National Advertisers members applied for new TLDs, but many may have been defensive. One of the most outspoken — and tardy — groups to lobby against ICANN’s expansion of the internet namespace was Associ...
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About 100 ANA members apply for new top level domains
Around 20% of Association of National Advertisers members applied for new TLDs, but many may have been defensive. One of the most outspoken — and tardy — groups to lobby against ICANN’s expansion of the internet namespace was Associ...
Discussion
June 15, 2012, 10:36 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN: .WeScrewedUpAgain
Group publishes private details of new top level domain applicants. During the ICANN press conference on Wednesday a reporter stood up and asked if ICANN had told applicants that their email addresses and phone numbers would be published. Yes, was th...
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ICANN: .WeScrewedUpAgain
Group publishes private details of new top level domain applicants. During the ICANN press conference on Wednesday a reporter stood up and asked if ICANN had told applicants that their email addresses and phone numbers would be published. Yes, was th...
Discussion
June 14, 2012, 10:44 pm
