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Rightside Offers $10 Renewals On Premium Names
April 6, 2016 @ 2:30 AMRightside is to run a promotion that will discount renewals on premium names down to .com prices. From May 16 to June 30, if you buy any of the domains that Rightside has marked as premium — except the super-premium “Platinum” names — the wholesale renewal fee will be just $10. Registrars will mark this…
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National Hockey League Gets Nhl.net in Cybersquatting Dispute
April 5, 2016 @ 7:58 AMNHL gets NHL.net in time for the playoffs. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ordered the domain name NHL.net be transferred to the National Hockey League. The NHL filed a cybersquatting complaint against the domain’s owner, who may have registered it as early as 1999. Although the domain name hasn’t been parked or used…
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Owner of HighbrowMagazine.com Demands Highbrow.com Domain Name
March 31, 2016 @ 6:41 AMCompany that owns Highbrow.com paid about $20,000 for the domain name. The owner of an online publication at HighbrowMagazine.com has threatened the owners of Highbrow.com, demanding that they turn the domain name over to her. Highbrow.com’s owner has filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking declaratory judgment that their use of the domain name…
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Over 20 Companies Fighting for .org Contract
March 31, 2016 @ 5:44 AMMore than 20 companies want to take over the back-end registry for the .org gTLD, according to Public Interest Registry. PIR put the contract, currently held by Afilias, up for bidding with a formal Request For Information in February. It’s believed to be worth north of $33 million to Afilias per year. PIR told DI…
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Over 53% of New gTLD are Registered in China: Just Over 10% By Those in US
March 31, 2016 @ 5:04 AMOver 53% of all new gTLD’s are registered to domain holders in China. Only 10.8% of all new gTLD’s are registered to Domain holders in the United States. According to stats newly complied by ntldstats.com, who has now broken down new gTLD registrants by the country where the domain name is registered, China accounts for…
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Xyz\'s Win-win $5 Million Proposition for 4 Rightside TLDs
March 30, 2016 @ 1:53 PMNegari wins even if Rightside doesn’t take the deal. New TLD company XYZ offered $5 million for four of Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) new top level domain names today. Whether Rightside accepts the offer or not, its CEO Daniel Negari will walk away a winner. Negari made the offer for .army, .dance, .dentist and .vet in a…
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"Cheese Sandwich" Comment Blamed for Sexual Harassment Complaint
March 30, 2016 @ 6:42 AMICANN’s first formal case of sexual harassment has been closed with no official finding by the Ombudsman. Ombudsman Chris LaHatte today said he was unable to establish the facts of the alleged incident, which is said to have taken place during a coffee break at the ICANN 55 meeting in Marrkech, March 6. LaHatte said…
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Google Registrar Dumps .com for Dot-brand
March 30, 2016 @ 3:04 AMGoogle has started using its primary dot-brand gTLD for its registrar business. The URL domains.google.com now bounces users to domains.google. The site sells domains from $12 a year with free Whois privacy. Is this move a big deal for improving new gTLD awareness? I don’t think so. Anyone visiting any major registrar’s storefront is likely…
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China Floats Domain Crackdown Plans
March 30, 2016 @ 1:53 AMThe Chinese government is planning a crackdown on internet domains that could see mass censorship of non-Chinese names. Draft rules floated for public comment this week are being widely reported as potentially blocking any domain that is not registered via a registry or registrar with a government license. There are more than 50 provisions in…
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Google Begins Using Domains.google Domain Name
March 29, 2016 @ 9:33 AMCompany shifts registrar landing pages to .google domain name. Google has begun using a domain name under its .brand top level domain name, .google, for its domain name registrar. The company announced today that you can find its registrar at domains.google. Its original domains for the service, domains.google.com and google.com/domains, now forward to domains.google. However…
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