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ICANN and VeriSign Reach Deal for Ten Year .Com Agreement Extension
February 12, 2016 @ 11:17 PMOn February 11th VeriSign held its Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2015 Earnings Call with stock analysts. In the course of the call VeriSign revealed that it had reached tentative agreement with ICANN to extend the .Com Registry Agreement (RA) by ten years, with the extension’s start coinciding with the effective date of the IANA contract transition.
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Student.com Bags $60M To Grow The Reach Of Its Student Digs Marketplace
February 12, 2016 @ 2:11 PMStudent.com, an accommodation marketplace founded back in 2011 (as ‘Overseas Student Living’ before rebranding last year) to focus specifically on the needs of international students, is announcing a $60 million combined Series B and C round today, led by global investment firm VY Capital. Horizons Ventures, Expa, Spotify founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and Hugo Barra from Xiaomi also participated in the round.
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Intellectual Property attorney John Berryhill joins eNaming’s Advisory Board
February 12, 2016 @ 2:11 PMeNaming, a domain name brokerage firm creating liquidity in the domain name marketplace, welcomes domain name attorney and industry veteran John Berryhill to its advisory board.
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Verisign: What Goes Up Might Come Down
February 12, 2016 @ 7:06 AMStrong end of 2015 could make for a challenging end to 2016. .Com domain name registry Verisign reported Q4 results after the bell yesterday. Thanks to Chinese domain name investors, the company had 12.2 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net last quarter, as compared to 8.2 million for the same quarter in…
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.com & .net Domains Ended 2015 at 139.8 Million Registrations (6.3% Increase & 71.9% Renewal Rate)
February 12, 2016 @ 6:50 AMVeriSign reported domain name business and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2015. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 4.6 million net new names during the fourth quarter, ending with 139.8 million .com and .net domain…
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Halle Berry Wants Her Domain Name
February 11, 2016 @ 3:13 PMActress files complaint against owner of HalleBerry.com. Actress Halle Berry has filed a cybersquatting complaint in order to obtain the domain name HalleBerry.com. The case was filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name is owned by Alberta Hod Rods, a company that has registered…
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Carman's Fine Foods is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
February 11, 2016 @ 10:59 AMAustralian company nailed for abusing cybersquatting dispute policy proceedings. An Australian seller of cereals and granola has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a .au Dispute Resolution Policy dispute. Carman’s Fine Foods went after the owner of Carmans.com, whose name is Ross Wayne Carman. Mr. Carmen used the domain name…
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Two Interesting GoDaddy Patent Applications
February 11, 2016 @ 9:52 AMApplications describe system for recommending different domain names for a website, and making it easy to transition. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two interesting patent applications from GoDaddy related to search engine optimization and localization. Applications number 14/453415 and 14/453418 (pdf) are for “Optimized domain names and websites based on incoming traffic”…
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DotMusic Fails The "Not Gay Enough" Community Test
February 11, 2016 @ 3:06 AMDotMusic’s Community Priority Evaluation for the .music gTLD has failed, after the CPE panel decided the company was just trying to exploit ICANN rules to get its hands on a valuable string. In a decision (pdf) published last night, the company score 10 of the available 16 points, four points shy of a passing score…
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.music Domain Name Applicant Fails in Community Bid
February 10, 2016 @ 5:47 PMA second applicant fails to get community status for .music top level domain name. DotMusic Limited, an applicant for the .music top level domain name, has failed to pass its Community Priority Evaluation. Had it passed, the group would have automatically been awarded .music. Now an auction will be held to determine who gets to…
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