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How .com Became a Restricted TLD
March 7, 2017 @ 2:29 AMVerisign has been given approval to start restricting who can and cannot register .com and .net domain names in various countries. Customers of Chinese registrars are the first to be affected by the change to the registry’s back-end system, which was made last year. ICANN last week gave Verisign a “free to deploy” notice for…
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Donuts' Appeal Means .web is a Long Way Off
March 6, 2017 @ 1:01 PMCourt case for .web works its way through appeals court. Question: When will .web domain names grace the internet? Answer: no time soon. In late November, Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, granted ICANN’s motion to dismiss Donuts’ lawsuit against the organization over the auction for the .web top…
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Ganjapreneur Launches Domain Market Featuring MJ.com, Strains.com, and Other High-Value Domains
March 5, 2017 @ 12:59 AMThis market is intended as a business development resource for venture capital firms, startups, advertising agencies, and anyone who is starting a company in the legal cannabis industry who plans on using the internet as a central component of their marketing strategy.
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WIPO Panelist Lets "Misconceived" Complainant Off The Hook
March 3, 2017 @ 8:03 AMWIPOs panelists are going soft on obvious cases of reverse domain name hijacking. I’ve written about a few UDRP cases this week in which panelists let the complainants off the hook for reverse domain name hijacking. A decision out today for CQC.com is the worst example yet. Clasen Quality Chocolate, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin filed…
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Tesla Registers Domain Names for UAW Union Fight
March 3, 2017 @ 6:39 AMDomain names registered as Tesla and UAW getting ready for fight in a California. A number of domain names were registered yesterday for an upcoming battle between automaker Tesla and United Auto Workers Union. 22 domain names referencing Tesla, unions and the UAW were registered at brand protection registrar MarkMonitor yesterday, including teslaunionfree.com, uawkillsjobs.com and…
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Nominet Gets New Chair
March 3, 2017 @ 12:21 AM.uk registry Nominet has appointed a new chair from the world of news media. Mark Wood will replace outgoing chair Rennie Fritchie on April 28, the company said yesterday. Wood is formerly a director of Reuters and chair/CEO of the UK television news company ITN. He’s also on the board of CityWire and the advisory…
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Verisign Report Deletes Millions of Domains From History
March 2, 2017 @ 10:14 AMVerisign has dramatically slashed its estimates for the number of domains in existence in its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports, two of which were published this week. The headline number for the end of the fourth quarter is 329.3 million, a 0.7% increase sequentially and a 6.8% increase annually. But it’s actually a lower…
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1&1 Finally Joins SedoMLS
March 2, 2017 @ 9:12 AMAt long last, two companies that are part of the same group strike a deal. Domain name registrar and hosting company 1&1 Internet has finally joined the SedoMLS program, the companies announced today. I say finally because both 1&1 and Sedo are part of the same parent company, United Internet. One of the greatest mysteries…
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Chinese Registrars Lose of Lot of .com, But Hichina Picks Up Domains From Others
March 2, 2017 @ 6:54 AMOfficial data from November show some interesting domain movement. ICANN just published data from Verisign about .com activity in November. This was right in the thick of the anniversary of the “Chinese surge” and the data show it. GoDaddy has the most expired deletions because it’s the biggest, but check out these huge deletion numbers…
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Rightside's 2016 Results: Total Domains are Up While The Renewal Rate Drops
March 1, 2017 @ 6:03 PMRightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016. “In the fourth quarter, we executed on our strategy to deliver revenue growth in our higher margin businesses – focusing on our new gTLD registry business and our retail registrar, Name.com, while optimizing for margin expansion,” said…
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