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The EPA Let NoAttacks.org Expire, Then Blames The New Owner for Cybersquatting.
April 28, 2017 @ 5:14 AMYour tax dollars at work. Here’s a good example if you want to get a feel for how the federal government can work. For about 15 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used the domain name NoAttacks.org for an anti-asthma campaign. In late 2015 it inadvertently let the domain name expire. The domain name was…
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The Domain Name Fly.com Sold for $2.89 Million By Travelzoo
April 27, 2017 @ 8:04 PMThe domain name Fly.com sold for $2.89 million by Travelzoo according to SEC filings. The sale price was for the domain name only and not any other assets. Following the Company’s strategic decision to focus on its global Travelzoo® brand, Fly.com and SuperSearch were discontinued. So the company decided that the domain name Fly.com with an…
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Sevan Derderian to Lead New Above.com Domain Brokerage
April 27, 2017 @ 12:29 PMNew service will be integrated with Above’s domain management system. Above.com, a domain monetization and sales platform for domain name investors, announced today that it’s getting into the domain brokerage business. The new service will be led by Sevan Derderian. Derderian was previously director of sales for Uniregistry’s registrar business. He also worked for Thought…
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.art Will Have 3.5 Million Premium Domain Names
April 27, 2017 @ 12:18 PMGood luck finding a new .art domain at “regular” registration prices. This headline is not a typo. The .art domain name, which will enter general availability on May 10, will have a staggering 3.5 million domain names that will be available for registration at prices higher than standard. Standard retail prices should be about $15-$20…
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Second Emergency Registry Tested With Dead Dot-brand
April 27, 2017 @ 7:57 AMICANN is running its second test of the Emergency Back-End Registry Operator system, designed as a failover for bankrupt gTLDs. This time, the EBERO under the microscope is CORE Association, one of the three approved providers. It this week took over operation of .mtpc, a dot-brand gTLD that Mitsubishi applied for, was delegated, never used,…
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Gleissner's UDRP Filings Just an R&D Project?
April 26, 2017 @ 7:59 AMWell, that would be an abuse of UDRP. World Trademark Review talked with an unnamed source “related to one of [Michael] Gleissner’s businesses” about what the heck he’s up to with his trademark filings, UDRPs and more. The anonymous source told World Trademark Review that the allegation that the trademark filings are part of a…
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Phishing Scam Targets USAA
April 26, 2017 @ 5:44 AMLast Saturday, I received a phishing email targeting members of USAA, which is a bank extensively used by active-duty military members, veterans, and their family members. See for yourself: Subject: Important Message From: USAA Message: Dear valued USAA member: Thank you for your support, At USAA we are updating our server for security reasons…
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MMX Stung for $7.7 Million By Crappy .london Contract?
April 26, 2017 @ 3:23 AMDid MMX take a $7.7 million accounting hit to renegotiate a crappy .london gTLD contract? It looks a bit like that to me. Found in the company’s full-year 2016 financial results yesterday is the disclosure that it had to pay off an undisclosed gTLD partner after originally making “overly ambitious” predictions about its likely popularity…
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Hey, You! Listen to The ICANN Board Webcast More Private Sessions
April 26, 2017 @ 12:10 AMICANN’s board of directors is to live stream two sessions during an upcoming retreat, and if you’re at all interested in ICANN you really ought to tune in. The webcasts are part of an ongoing pilot program designed to increase transparency at the very top of ICANN’s policy-making reverse-hierarchy. The public, listen-only sessions seem to…
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MMX Annual Shareholder Letter Gives a Great Overview of New TLD Business
April 25, 2017 @ 10:10 AMDeep insight into the past and present of the new TLD business. Minds + Machines Group Limited, aka MMX, released its final results for 2016 today. I found the shareholder letter particularly interesting. MMX’s current management is not the group that founded the company. A lot has happened with new top level domain names (expectations…
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