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Garry Chernoff Sells OPS.com For $100,000 On Godaddy.com
The domain name OPS.com just sold on Godaddy.com for $100,000 coming through Sedo.com system. Sedo.com announced the sale on its Facebook page just a short time ago. The owner of the domain name is long time domain investor Garry Chernoff’s com...
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Garry Chernoff Sells OPS.com For $100,000 On Godaddy.com
The domain name OPS.com just sold on Godaddy.com for $100,000 coming through Sedo.com system. Sedo.com announced the sale on its Facebook page just a short time ago. The owner of the domain name is long time domain investor Garry Chernoff’s com...
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August 27, 2013, 1:41 pm
The Domains
Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Supports NTAG Letter on Name Collision; Except For Verisign
In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) asking I...
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Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Supports NTAG Letter on Name Collision; Except For Verisign
In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) asking I...
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August 27, 2013, 1:02 pm
The Domains
Breaking: .Com Domain Name Regsitration Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time
There are now over 110,024,017 active .com domain names. According to Verisign the registry of the .com and .net domain name extensions or Top Level Domains (TLD) the number of active .com registrations passed the 110 Million Mark for the...
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Breaking: .Com Domain Name Regsitration Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time
There are now over 110,024,017 active .com domain names. According to Verisign the registry of the .com and .net domain name extensions or Top Level Domains (TLD) the number of active .com registrations passed the 110 Million Mark for the...
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August 27, 2013, 5:04 am
The Domains
ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included
According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board, ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to...
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ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included
According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board, ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to...
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August 27, 2013, 12:52 am
The Domains
Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters over 68 Domain Names
Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the ACPA seeking statutory damages of $100,00 per...
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Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters over 68 Domain Names
Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the ACPA seeking statutory damages of $100,00 per...
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August 26, 2013, 11:25 pm
The Domains
ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation
On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligble for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an e...
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ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation
On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligble for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an e...
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August 26, 2013, 3:14 pm
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Pew Research: In US 70% Have A BroadBand Connection At Home; 20% Don’t Have Broadband Nor Smartphone
Pew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013″ and found that in the United States 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access...
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Pew Research: In US 70% Have A BroadBand Connection At Home; 20% Don’t Have Broadband Nor Smartphone
Pew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013″ and found that in the United States 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access...
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August 26, 2013, 11:14 am
The Domains
FairWinds Tells Fortune 500 Clients To Pay Attention to Domain Hacks: Only 3 Out Of 500 Own Them
Brand Protection company Fairwinds in a blog post today, told it big brands clients, the Fortune 500 companies they represent to pay attention to and try to acquire domain hacks. For those that don’t know a domain hack is a domain s...
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FairWinds Tells Fortune 500 Clients To Pay Attention to Domain Hacks: Only 3 Out Of 500 Own Them
Brand Protection company Fairwinds in a blog post today, told it big brands clients, the Fortune 500 companies they represent to pay attention to and try to acquire domain hacks. For those that don’t know a domain hack is a domain s...
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August 26, 2013, 10:22 am
The Domains
Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let Drop & Get Registered By Others
Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Once again these are the same type of domains that we see Brands pending $1,500 a p...
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Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let Drop & Get Registered By Others
Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Once again these are the same type of domains that we see Brands pending $1,500 a p...
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August 25, 2013, 11:24 am
The Domains
ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members
According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICANN of course pays for its own staff’s ai...
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ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members
According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICANN of course pays for its own staff’s ai...
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August 24, 2013, 11:21 am
