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Enom Wins Enoms.com. Registrant Tried to Send a Message Through WHOIS.
July 14, 2015 @ 5:59 AMAn amusing whois record for eNoms.com. Domain name registrar eNom has won a UDRP for eNoms.com. According to the decision, the owner of the domain name tried to sell the domain name to eNom for $1,500. That’s about the cost of filing a UDRP, but eNom probably didn’t want to set a precedent. What I…
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Former GoDaddy Employees Say They're Owed Overtime
July 13, 2015 @ 10:08 AMPlaintiffs say they shouldn’t have been categorized as exempt and are owed overtime. Three former* GoDaddy employees have sued the company, saying they should be paid overtime for work in excess of 40 hours per week. Sal Careaga, Joshua Berry and Amanda Collins each worked in the Website Design Department, which designs websites for GoDaddy…
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.xyz Issues The Challenge: Giving Away $2k for The Best New .com & .xyz Domain Name
July 13, 2015 @ 7:51 AMThe .XYZ registry has issued The Challenge “Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name?” “Submit yours, along with a short survey, for your chance to win $1,000! “2 winners will be announced on August 10th and 2 more on September 7th” Here is how TheChallenge.xyz as explained on the .XYZ site: “.COM…
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DotConnectAfrica Still Barking Mad After IRP Win
July 13, 2015 @ 4:56 AMDotConnectAfrica thinks it is going to get the .africa gTLD, following its successful Independent Review Process case against ICANN. In a press release today, the company hailed last week’s ruling as a “resounding victory”. DCA CEO Sophia Bekele is quoted as saying: Going forward, we now expect ICANN to accept the binding IRP outcome, refrain…
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New gTLD Program Thrown Into Chaos As ICANN Loses .africa Case
July 11, 2015 @ 3:54 AMICANN has been opened up to a world of hurt after an independent panel of judges ruled that the organization broke its own bylaws when it kicked DotConnectAfrica’s .africa bid out of the new gTLD program. The what-the-fuck ruling cuts to the very heart of how ICANN deals with advice from its Governmental Advisory Committee,…
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Reliance Industries of India to Move From Its .com (Ril.com) to Its Own New gTLD .jio
July 10, 2015 @ 7:26 AMMukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the…
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Happy Birthday .org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate
July 10, 2015 @ 5:39 AMToday marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org, launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how…
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.news Gets at Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 of EAP at $10k+
July 9, 2015 @ 8:41 AMLooks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus…
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.cruise Heading to Auction Despite "Closed Generic" Protest
July 9, 2015 @ 5:26 AMOwnership of the contested gTLD .cruise will be resolved by auction, despite protests from one applicant that the other left it too late to drop its “closed generic” plans. Applications from Cruise Lines International Association and Viking River Cruises were both placed in “In Auction” status by ICANN overnight. Both original applications had been to…
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .golf 1,778; .tours 1,693; .plus 899; .gold 768
July 9, 2015 @ 5:04 AM4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP), here are the number of registrations for each after the first day of GA:…
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