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Pritz Joins Allegravita and Other Industry Movements
February 5, 2016 @ 1:44 AM
It’s been a busy week in the domain industry for executive changes. Today, we hear that senior ICANN alum Kurt Pritz has joined Chinese domain marketing specialist Allegravita as a “new partner”. Allegravita is the PR consultancy that’s made a bit of a splash in the industry over the last couple of years shepherding Western…
Escrow.com: Redesigned Website Launched
February 4, 2016 @ 11:55 PM
Escrow.com has now completely launched its redesigned public-facing website.
Uniregistry Adds Domain Name Industry Veterans to Registrar Team
February 4, 2016 @ 7:25 PM
Uniregistry, a domain name registrar, is proud to announce the hiring of two domain name industry veterans to its team. Effective immediately, Sam Tseng and Alan Crowe are joining Uniregistry’s registrar team as account executives, where they will have a key role in growing the company’s registrar business.
Kurt Pritz Joins Allegravita
February 4, 2016 @ 2:59 PM
Former ICANN executive teams up with China consultancy. Kurt Pritz has joined Allegravita, a consulting firm led by Simon Cousins that helps companies in the Chinese market. Pritz held a number of positions at ICANN from 2003-2013, including overseeing the new top level domain name program. After leaving ICANN, he was executive director of the…
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Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio Get "Domain Name Bump" After Iowa
February 4, 2016 @ 11:23 AM
Interest in domain names related to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio increase after vote in Iowa. Trump domain names are so last year. Following Ted Cruz’s win in the Iowa caucuses and Marco Rubio’s strong finish, both became popular names in newly-registered .com and .net domain names. The graph below (from Verisign DomainView) shows registrations…
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Company Sues Vox Media, Demands TheVerge.com Domain Name
February 4, 2016 @ 5:09 AM
Indiana company that started as a meetup group says popular media site infringes its trademarks. An Indiana company has sued (pdf) Vox Media, publisher of the popular websites The Verge and Re/Code, claiming that the company is infringing its trademark for the term “Verge”. Indy Founders, LLC started a meetup group for entrepreneurs in 2011…
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What’s coming to Efty in 2016
February 3, 2016 @ 11:59 PM
Revamped Efty marketplace, new statistics and improved insights, a redesign and much more are coming in 2016, as told by Efty’s chief technologies, Lionel Petitiaux.
.gay Domain Name Applicant Denied Again
February 3, 2016 @ 1:14 PM
ICANN Board Governance Committee denies one .gay applicant’s request for reconsideration. dotgay LLC has lost again in its attempt to get community status for its .Gay top level domain name application. The company lost its first bid for community status, and then got a second crack at the Community Priority Evaluation process because of a…
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"We're Not Homophobic!" ICANN Pleads As It Throws Out .gay Appeal
February 3, 2016 @ 12:44 PM
ICANN has refused dotgay LLC’s latest appeal against adverse .gay decisions, and has taken the unusual step of preemptively defending itself against probably inevitable accusations from gay right groups. On Monday, the Board Governance Committee threw out dotgay’s Request for Reconsideration, in which the company had asked for a third crack at the Community Priority…
Big Changes at Sedo Bring Promotions for Two Top Managers - Dima Beitzke Becomes Global CSO, Christian Voss Now CMO - New CFO Also Comes Onboard
February 2, 2016 @ 5:00 PM
Domain industry giant Sedo announced some major structural changes to the company’s management team this morning – changes that bring promotions to two well-known managers as well as a key addition to the leadership team.