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.XYZ Buys The New gTLD .Security From Symantec
According to a post on its Corporate blog last night .XYZ announced that it acquired the new gTLD .Security “Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would lik...
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.XYZ Buys The New gTLD .Security From Symantec
According to a post on its Corporate blog last night .XYZ announced that it acquired the new gTLD .Security “Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would lik...
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June 23, 2015, 11:42 am
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Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of The Year
Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com&rs...
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Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of The Year
Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com&rs...
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June 22, 2015, 6:28 pm
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Domain Movers: ContentID.com, NNNN.com and More Domains
In today's Domain Movers series, we detect recently registered and acquired domain names from Virgin Enterprises, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel, Hasbro and many more large companies.
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Domain Movers: ContentID.com, NNNN.com and More Domains
In today's Domain Movers series, we detect recently registered and acquired domain names from Virgin Enterprises, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel, Hasbro and many more large companies.
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June 22, 2015, 2:12 pm
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Big Misses? There is No Comcast.sucks; KimKardashian.sucks; JustinBieber.sucks; Twitter.sucks or FoxNews.sucks
While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 .sucks domain names in the Sunrise period for up to $2,499 for each domain, there were some glaring misses of some of th...
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Big Misses? There is No Comcast.sucks; KimKardashian.sucks; JustinBieber.sucks; Twitter.sucks or FoxNews.sucks
While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 .sucks domain names in the Sunrise period for up to $2,499 for each domain, there were some glaring misses of some of th...
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June 21, 2015, 2:16 pm
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.Sunrise Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise
The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499 which at a wholesale cost of $2,000 by the re...
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.Sunrise Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise
The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499 which at a wholesale cost of $2,000 by the re...
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June 21, 2015, 7:59 am
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Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com ...
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Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com ...
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June 20, 2015, 6:54 pm
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Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for ...
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Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for ...
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June 19, 2015, 10:24 pm
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Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abus...
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Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abus...
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June 19, 2015, 7:36 pm
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on June 24th
fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD ....
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on June 24th
fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD ....
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June 19, 2015, 3:43 pm
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
American Express acquired Sometrics for $30 million and the most popular site, GameCoins.com has been allowed to expire and dropped by the company.
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
American Express acquired Sometrics for $30 million and the most popular site, GameCoins.com has been allowed to expire and dropped by the company.
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June 19, 2015, 3:36 pm
