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Sedo Introduces Domain Name "Owner Self-verification"
July 1, 2015 @ 5:41 AMSedo announced today that they launched a new feature today. With the new domain name Ownership Self-Verification, the ownership status of your domains won’t have to be checked manually anymore. This way they have eliminated the risk of domains being…
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Khloe Kardashian Demands Her .com Domain Name
July 1, 2015 @ 4:54 AMBetter late than never, a Kardashian files request for her .com domain name. Khloe Kardashian, reality TV star and sister of Kim Kardashian, has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of KhloeKardashian.com, demanding that the domain name be turned over to her. The case was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The…
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Bulgaria Looking for an IDN Registry Operator
July 1, 2015 @ 4:40 AMThe Bulgarian government is looking for a company to run the registry for its recently awarded .бг internationalized domain name. .бг is the Cyrillic equivalent of .bg, the nation’s existing ccTLD. After a tortuous battle through ICANN’s IDN ccTLD Fast Track process — where it was repeatedly rejected for looking too much like Brazil’s .br…
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CentralNic Sells $1 Million Domain Name Portfolio
July 1, 2015 @ 4:39 AMCentralNic sells more domain names from its domain trading business. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) announced today that it has sold a group of domain names for US $1 million, to be paid over the coming months. The sale comes from CentralNic’s portfolio of over 20,000 domain names. The company started buying and selling domain names in…
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Verisign Domain Report: There are Now 294 Million Domains As of March 31, 2015
June 30, 2015 @ 12:29 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today for the first quarter of 2015 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the in Q1, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015. The increase…
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Go Daddy Advertising Privacy Petition On Facebook
June 30, 2015 @ 7:28 AMGo Daddy appears to be putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to arguments about domain privacy. The company is paying for “sponsored” posts on Facebook that promote the ongoing petition against proposed changes to Whois policy at ICANN. This has been appearing on Facebook for me all day, seriously interrupting my…
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Afilias Promises Cash for LGBT Cause With .lgbt Sales
June 30, 2015 @ 6:33 AMAfilias has promised to donate a slice of .lgbt registration fees to a LGBT organization for the next few months. The company, which acts as registry for .lgbt, said it will give $20 to the It Gets Better Project for every name registered through October 11. It Gets Better is a US-based non-profit devoted to…
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First Example of .sucks Cybersquatting?
June 30, 2015 @ 1:36 AMThe .sucks domain has been generally available for a little over a week now, and I’ve found what may be the first example of somebody attempting to sell one to a brand owner. amherstcollege.sucks is one of only a handful on non-registry-owned .sucks domains to have a web site already indexed by Google. The site…
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UDRP Filed to Gain Control of The 15 Year Old Domain Name SharkTank.com
June 29, 2015 @ 1:39 PMA UDRP has been filed to gain control of the domain name SharkTank.com The domain, SharkTank.com is registered to a Jeff Thomas of North Carolina. According to DomainTools.com the domain was registered in 2000 by Legal Solutions, Inc In 2003 the domain name ownership changed to LeaveLaw.com, Inc. with Jeff Thomas showing as the contact…
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TLDoperator.help to Host Two Webinars On June 30
June 29, 2015 @ 12:11 PMThere will be two webinars tomorrow that will look to help new gtld applicants and registries to find ways to spread the word on the new gtlds. Registering for the webinars takes place at TldOperator.help Speakers have just been added Ingrid Baele (Head of Operations, Philips) and Ken Nishida (Manager, Internet & Domain Strategies, Hitachi)…
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