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DOMAINfest Barcelona Registration Opens and TRAFFIC Price Increase Imminent
Registration is now open for DOMAINfest’s return to Europe, and prices are about to increase on TRAFFIC. Registration for DOMAINfest Barcelona is now available for $695 through the end of April. The event takes place June 7-9 at the Pullman Bar...
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DOMAINfest Barcelona Registration Opens and TRAFFIC Price Increase Imminent
Registration is now open for DOMAINfest’s return to Europe, and prices are about to increase on TRAFFIC. Registration for DOMAINfest Barcelona is now available for $695 through the end of April. The event takes place June 7-9 at the Pullman Bar...
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April 8, 2011, 9:31 am
Domain Name Wire
TribalWars Loses Fight Against BuyDomains for TribalWars.com
Popular online game will need to pay if it wants .com domain name. MMORPG TribalWars has lost an arbitration case over the domain name TribalWars.com, which is owned by BuyDomains. InnoGames, the company behind the game, filed the dispute at World In...
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TribalWars Loses Fight Against BuyDomains for TribalWars.com
Popular online game will need to pay if it wants .com domain name. MMORPG TribalWars has lost an arbitration case over the domain name TribalWars.com, which is owned by BuyDomains. InnoGames, the company behind the game, filed the dispute at World In...
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April 7, 2011, 1:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
EFF: Certificate Authorities Signing Non Existent Top Level Domain Names
EFF says digital certificate signers aren’t doing their job. SSL certificate providers gain trust by validating the domain names they are signing. So you might be surprised that they’re signing certificates for domain names that can&rsquo...
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EFF: Certificate Authorities Signing Non Existent Top Level Domain Names
EFF says digital certificate signers aren’t doing their job. SSL certificate providers gain trust by validating the domain names they are signing. So you might be surprised that they’re signing certificates for domain names that can&rsquo...
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April 7, 2011, 1:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Elephant Shooting Kerfuffle Doesn’t Hurt Go Daddy’s Business
Controversy doesn’t have noticeable affect on domain registrar’s business. Was Bob Parson’s elephant hunting video a stealth PR move? Maybe a little bit, but given that he posted a similar video last year and nary an elephant lover ...
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Elephant Shooting Kerfuffle Doesn’t Hurt Go Daddy’s Business
Controversy doesn’t have noticeable affect on domain registrar’s business. Was Bob Parson’s elephant hunting video a stealth PR move? Maybe a little bit, but given that he posted a similar video last year and nary an elephant lover ...
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April 7, 2011, 11:37 am
Domain Name Wire
National Arbitration Forum Gets The Headline Right
UDRP filings up. That doesn’t mean cybersquatting is increasing. Today National Arbitration Forum released statistics about its UDRP caseload from 2010. It was up 24% from 2009 to 2,177 cases. The group’s press release headline is: Nation...
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National Arbitration Forum Gets The Headline Right
UDRP filings up. That doesn’t mean cybersquatting is increasing. Today National Arbitration Forum released statistics about its UDRP caseload from 2010. It was up 24% from 2009 to 2,177 cases. The group’s press release headline is: Nation...
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April 7, 2011, 10:34 am
Domain Name Wire
PLA.com Lawsuit Against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Dismissed
Project Leadership Associates drops case over PLA.com. In September Project Leadership Associates Inc. sued Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. in an effort to get the domain name PLA.com. After many months of back and forth, including counterclaims by...
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PLA.com Lawsuit Against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Dismissed
Project Leadership Associates drops case over PLA.com. In September Project Leadership Associates Inc. sued Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. in an effort to get the domain name PLA.com. After many months of back and forth, including counterclaims by...
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April 6, 2011, 9:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
5,800 New .Jobs Sites Created for Veterans
Group activates 5,800 second level domains to target jobs to U.S. veterans. DirectEmployers Association and .jobs registry Employ Media need to do something to bolster a “do-good” status, and they may have found something: use .jobs domai...
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5,800 New .Jobs Sites Created for Veterans
Group activates 5,800 second level domains to target jobs to U.S. veterans. DirectEmployers Association and .jobs registry Employ Media need to do something to bolster a “do-good” status, and they may have found something: use .jobs domai...
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April 6, 2011, 3:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Time Warner Cybersquatter Uses the “I Could Have Been Worse” Defense
Guys actually tries to defend himself in no-brainer cybersquatting case. Last month I wrote about how Time Warner filed a UDRP to get 41 domain names including its brands and “3D”. It just won the case, which comes as no surprise. But it&...
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Time Warner Cybersquatter Uses the “I Could Have Been Worse” Defense
Guys actually tries to defend himself in no-brainer cybersquatting case. Last month I wrote about how Time Warner filed a UDRP to get 41 domain names including its brands and “3D”. It just won the case, which comes as no surprise. But it&...
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April 6, 2011, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sahar Sarid’s Conceptualist.com Goes Dark
Blog turns into a parked page. Is this the end of blogging for domain name investor Sahar Sarid? A reader tipped me off today that Conceptualist.com no longer resolves to his blog. Instead it points to a DomainSponsor parked page. The page has one of...
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Sahar Sarid’s Conceptualist.com Goes Dark
Blog turns into a parked page. Is this the end of blogging for domain name investor Sahar Sarid? A reader tipped me off today that Conceptualist.com no longer resolves to his blog. Instead it points to a DomainSponsor parked page. The page has one of...
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April 6, 2011, 11:03 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Suspended 150,000 Websites in 2010
Go Daddy took down 150,000 sites last year for illegal or malicious activity. In February Go Daddy told a congressional committee that it took down a whopping 36,000 rogue pharamcy websites last year. Today in a hearing on “Promoting Investment...
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Go Daddy Suspended 150,000 Websites in 2010
Go Daddy took down 150,000 sites last year for illegal or malicious activity. In February Go Daddy told a congressional committee that it took down a whopping 36,000 rogue pharamcy websites last year. Today in a hearing on “Promoting Investment...
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April 6, 2011, 10:48 am
