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Google announces top level domain applications including .lol, .docs
Vint Cerf releases some details about company’s new TLD strategy. Google today announced limited details about some of its top level domain applications. The announcement fittingly came from former ICANN Chairman and current Google Chief Intern...
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Google announces top level domain applications including .lol, .docs
Vint Cerf releases some details about company’s new TLD strategy. Google today announced limited details about some of its top level domain applications. The announcement fittingly came from former ICANN Chairman and current Google Chief Intern...
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May 31, 2012, 2:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
College Hunks and Strong Students fight in court after UDRP
A muscular lawsuit. This lawsuit creates and amusing visual. Strong Students Moving, Inc. has sued (pdf) College Hunks Hauling Junk after the former lost a domain to the latter through a UDRP case. Shaun Robinson of Strong Students Moving, Inc. alleg...
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College Hunks and Strong Students fight in court after UDRP
A muscular lawsuit. This lawsuit creates and amusing visual. Strong Students Moving, Inc. has sued (pdf) College Hunks Hauling Junk after the former lost a domain to the latter through a UDRP case. Shaun Robinson of Strong Students Moving, Inc. alleg...
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May 31, 2012, 12:16 pm
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Something tells me the intellectual property constituency won’t like .sucks
.Sucks will be the new TLD opponents’ case-in-point. When I saw Michael Berkens’ post this morning about the four top level domains Momentous Corp is applying for, I did a double take. .Sucks? Yep. It’s no joke. The applicant descri...
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Something tells me the intellectual property constituency won’t like .sucks
.Sucks will be the new TLD opponents’ case-in-point. When I saw Michael Berkens’ post this morning about the four top level domains Momentous Corp is applying for, I did a double take. .Sucks? Yep. It’s no joke. The applicant descri...
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May 31, 2012, 10:28 am
Domain Name Wire
What do you think about this Vevo.xxx decision?
Vevo snags triple xxx domain nam. Vevo.com, a music video site backed by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media, ust won a UDRP case for the domain name Vevo.xxx. But I find the facts of the case troubling, because it&rs...
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What do you think about this Vevo.xxx decision?
Vevo snags triple xxx domain nam. Vevo.com, a music video site backed by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media, ust won a UDRP case for the domain name Vevo.xxx. But I find the facts of the case troubling, because it&rs...
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May 31, 2012, 10:15 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy applies for .home and .casa top level domains
Go Daddy applies for .home, .casa, and .godaddy top level domains. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has applied for the .home and .casa top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman disclosed to Domain Name Wire. These two domains are in addition to .GoDaddy. ...
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Go Daddy applies for .home and .casa top level domains
Go Daddy applies for .home, .casa, and .godaddy top level domains. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has applied for the .home and .casa top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman disclosed to Domain Name Wire. These two domains are in addition to .GoDaddy. ...
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May 30, 2012, 8:26 pm
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Web.com formally announces bid for .web
Web.com formally announced .web application. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, formally announced its bid for the .web top level domain today. Of course, we’ve known about the company’s plans since at least Oc...
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Web.com formally announces bid for .web
Web.com formally announced .web application. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, formally announced its bid for the .web top level domain today. Of course, we’ve known about the company’s plans since at least Oc...
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May 30, 2012, 5:42 pm
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John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory
Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote abou...
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John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory
Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote abou...
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May 30, 2012, 4:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oversee.net’s fifth employee returns to DomainSponsor role
Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held pos...
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Oversee.net’s fifth employee returns to DomainSponsor role
Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held pos...
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May 30, 2012, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week
Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so ...
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What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week
Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so ...
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May 30, 2012, 1:45 pm
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Domain stocks doing very well this year
Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled t...
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Domain stocks doing very well this year
Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled t...
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May 30, 2012, 10:22 am
