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Go Daddy Veep Loses ICANN Election to "None of The Above"
October 22, 2015 @ 3:12 AMICANN’s multistakeholder GNSO Council has been left embarrassingly rudderless after its members failed to elect a new chair. The unprecedented result saw Go Daddy VP of policy James Bladel lose an election to “none of the above” yesterday. Under GNSO rules, there are two candidates for chair. One is nominated by the Contracted Parties House…
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Dnf.com Has Sold
October 21, 2015 @ 7:59 AMDNF.com has sold the domain which forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China. The domain recently stopped forwarding to the forum and was parked at SEDO. The amount is undisclosed. The domain name was registered in 1996. The domain is now registered at the Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com Registrant Contact…
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After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP to Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com
October 21, 2015 @ 7:45 AMBrian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant…
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New Study: 88% of Startups Have .com Domain Names: 41% are "Invented Names"
October 21, 2015 @ 6:53 AMA new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. “The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for…
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New Lender for Domain Names: Lendvo.com
October 21, 2015 @ 6:28 AMThere is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how…
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Does Something Suck About This.sucks?
October 21, 2015 @ 6:16 AMVox Populi helped This.sucks get off the ground. Is there more to it than that? A couple weeks ago, a new company popped up on the scene called This.Sucks. The business model is remarkably similar to one that .Sucks registry Vox Populi hoped would be created, offering .sucks domain names to users at a reduced…
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Company Bringing Multi-level Marketing to Domain Names
October 21, 2015 @ 5:21 AMTrademark filing reveals plans for RealDomains. Do multi-level marketing and domain names mix? A California company has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “RealDomains”, and the description of services is interesting. Multilevel marketing services, namely, providing marketing and income opportunities to others through the monetization of domain names and brand, logo, and trademark development and…
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Australia's Domain Administration (Auda) Proposes to Allow Direct .au Registrations
October 21, 2015 @ 4:12 AMAccording to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain, Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example <a href="http://www.abc.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.au</a> in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains…
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Should Brands Get a New gTLD Round to Themselves? Twitter Thinks So
October 20, 2015 @ 9:22 AMTwitter wants to get its hands on some new gTLDs but doesn’t want to wait. Having missed the first round of new gTLD applications back in 2012, the company is now keen on getting .twitter and other strings both branded and generic. “We’re interest in round two,” Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates said as ICANN’s…
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Verizon Wins First .porn Domain Name Dispute
October 20, 2015 @ 6:00 AMVerizon.porn, for all of your telecom porn needs. Verizon has won a cybersquatting dispute with the registrant of Verizon.porn, the first such dispute to be resolved since the .Porn domain name became available in June. A New York real estate agent registered the domain name on June 4, the day both .Porn and .Adult were…
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