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Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: “New gTLD program is a Money Grab & Mistake”
Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie r...
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Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: “New gTLD program is a Money Grab & Mistake”
Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie r...
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October 26, 2015, 12:58 pm
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Registering Any Available LLLLL.com Domains? TM Holders Are Filing UDRP’s On Them
It’s no big secret that many domainers have been registered any and all available LLLLL.com domain names, (Even LLLLLL.com domains), especially in the past month or two. While I noticed a big uptick on the registration of ...
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Registering Any Available LLLLL.com Domains? TM Holders Are Filing UDRP’s On Them
It’s no big secret that many domainers have been registered any and all available LLLLL.com domain names, (Even LLLLLL.com domains), especially in the past month or two. While I noticed a big uptick on the registration of ...
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October 26, 2015, 12:20 pm
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Looks Like Sony Is Planning On A Sequel To Bad Teacher: “Another Bad Teacher” Based on Domains
It Looks like Sony Is planning on A Sequel to the 2011 hit Bad Teacher that starred Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. According to Wikipedia.org, Bad Teacher had a box office of over $216 Million Yesterday Sony registered several domain names...
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Looks Like Sony Is Planning On A Sequel To Bad Teacher: “Another Bad Teacher” Based on Domains
It Looks like Sony Is planning on A Sequel to the 2011 hit Bad Teacher that starred Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. According to Wikipedia.org, Bad Teacher had a box office of over $216 Million Yesterday Sony registered several domain names...
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October 25, 2015, 12:50 pm
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Here Are The 1st Domains In The New Domain Extension .NRA: ColdDeadHands.NRA
The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NR, registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, “All domains...
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Here Are The 1st Domains In The New Domain Extension .NRA: ColdDeadHands.NRA
The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NR, registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, “All domains...
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October 24, 2015, 12:35 pm
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free
The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis ...
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free
The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis ...
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October 23, 2015, 8:40 pm
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36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name
fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program fr...
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36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name
fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program fr...
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October 23, 2015, 6:13 pm
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Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit
The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant fo...
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Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit
The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant fo...
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October 23, 2015, 3:01 pm
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours
Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainan...
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours
Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainan...
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October 22, 2015, 9:43 pm
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2...
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2...
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October 22, 2015, 9:21 pm
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Apps For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers
The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period...
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Apps For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers
The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period...
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October 22, 2015, 1:06 pm
