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MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: ICANN’s Boondoggle
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” t...
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MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: ICANN’s Boondoggle
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” t...
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August 21, 2012, 4:59 pm
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million in Domain Names
Afternic.com just reported it sales for the week ending August 19th 2012 and recorded sales of $1,072.90 Sales were led by medilert.com for $15,800 .com Sales medilert.com $15,800.00 southernrecycling.com $13,100.00 goodgift...
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million in Domain Names
Afternic.com just reported it sales for the week ending August 19th 2012 and recorded sales of $1,072.90 Sales were led by medilert.com for $15,800 .com Sales medilert.com $15,800.00 southernrecycling.com $13,100.00 goodgift...
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August 21, 2012, 4:44 pm
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Sedo.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Work.org for $55K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending July 20th, 2012. In all over $1.2MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Work.org at $55,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were metformina.it for €14,900 and hypnob...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Work.org for $55K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending July 20th, 2012. In all over $1.2MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Work.org at $55,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were metformina.it for €14,900 and hypnob...
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August 21, 2012, 3:59 pm
The Domains
TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co
According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Te...
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TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co
According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Te...
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August 20, 2012, 8:41 pm
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Melbourne IT Suggests Special Domain Protections For “High At-Risk Marks” In New gTLD’s
Melbourne IT the registrar/brand protection company published a paper that “makes the case that, despite the current protections ICANN has put in place, there is still a set of High At-Risk Marks (HARM) that remain particularly attractive to un...
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Melbourne IT Suggests Special Domain Protections For “High At-Risk Marks” In New gTLD’s
Melbourne IT the registrar/brand protection company published a paper that “makes the case that, despite the current protections ICANN has put in place, there is still a set of High At-Risk Marks (HARM) that remain particularly attractive to un...
Discussion
August 20, 2012, 6:26 pm
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Directi Looking To Raise $50 Million-$100 Million For New gTLD’s Auctions
According to a story in Vccircle.com, Directi Internet Solutions Pvt Ltd (Directi) is seeking to “secure a hefty sum between US$ 50 – 100 Million to fund its subsidiary Radix FZC“. Directi through its Radix subsidiary has already al...
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Directi Looking To Raise $50 Million-$100 Million For New gTLD’s Auctions
According to a story in Vccircle.com, Directi Internet Solutions Pvt Ltd (Directi) is seeking to “secure a hefty sum between US$ 50 – 100 Million to fund its subsidiary Radix FZC“. Directi through its Radix subsidiary has already al...
Discussion
August 20, 2012, 10:11 am
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ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request August 2013.
ICANN published a “Roadmap” for new gTLD’s which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn’t get early GA...
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ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request August 2013.
ICANN published a “Roadmap” for new gTLD’s which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn’t get early GA...
Discussion
August 20, 2012, 8:13 am
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RomneyRyan.com Hits The Auction Block at Flippa With A BIN of $100K
The domain name RomneyRyan.com has hit the auction block at Flippa.com. The domain was registered in 2010 and is the subject of numerous stories since Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan his running mate. The auction, which as of publication still has over t...
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RomneyRyan.com Hits The Auction Block at Flippa With A BIN of $100K
The domain name RomneyRyan.com has hit the auction block at Flippa.com. The domain was registered in 2010 and is the subject of numerous stories since Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan his running mate. The auction, which as of publication still has over t...
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August 19, 2012, 4:34 pm
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China: “US Must Hand Over Internet Control to the World
The Government of China said today that the US must hand over control of the Internet to the world. The Government’s position was made in today daily newspaper, The People’s Daily which “provides direct information on the policies a...
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China: “US Must Hand Over Internet Control to the World
The Government of China said today that the US must hand over control of the Internet to the world. The Government’s position was made in today daily newspaper, The People’s Daily which “provides direct information on the policies a...
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August 19, 2012, 8:28 am
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Orgainzation That Run Thailand’s ccTLD (.Th) Objects To new the gTLD .Thai
Thai Network Information Center Foundation the organization which runs the ccTLD of .Th on behalf of the government of Thailand just filed an objection with ICANN to the new gTLD application of Better Living Management Company Limited (BLM) to operat...
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Orgainzation That Run Thailand’s ccTLD (.Th) Objects To new the gTLD .Thai
Thai Network Information Center Foundation the organization which runs the ccTLD of .Th on behalf of the government of Thailand just filed an objection with ICANN to the new gTLD application of Better Living Management Company Limited (BLM) to operat...
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August 18, 2012, 12:09 pm
