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The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup
Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a change to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC w...
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The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup
Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a change to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC w...
Discussion
June 15, 2014, 10:47 pm
The Domains
WordPress has had it with bogus DMCA Takedown Requests
Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved Oliver Hotham who wrote an article about “...
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WordPress has had it with bogus DMCA Takedown Requests
Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved Oliver Hotham who wrote an article about “...
Discussion
June 15, 2014, 8:51 pm
The Domains
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of Man government announced that it would be monitoring and assessing ...
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Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of Man government announced that it would be monitoring and assessing ...
Discussion
June 14, 2014, 10:12 pm
The Domains
.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published
ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their info will be published. From the article: Nominet, the company which man...
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.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published
ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their info will be published. From the article: Nominet, the company which man...
Discussion
June 14, 2014, 8:01 pm
The Domains
Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share of $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby The Pric...
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Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share of $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby The Pric...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 8:09 pm
The Domains
ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains
ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts...
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains
ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 3:48 pm
The Domains
Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org
I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new...
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Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org
I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 2:39 pm
The Domains
Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
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Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 3:59 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:57 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
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UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:26 pm
