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GNSO Faces Off With Governments Over IGO Cybersquatting
January 27, 2017 @ 2:53 AMA defiant ICANN working group looking at cybersquatting rules for intergovernmental organizations is sticking to its guns in an ongoing face-off with the Governmental Advisory Committee. In a report published for public comment this week, the GNSO working group recommended that IGOs should be given the right to use the UDRP and URS rights protection…
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ICANN Joins Anti-phishing Group Board
January 27, 2017 @ 1:16 AMICANN’s VP of security has joined the board of directors of the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Dave Piscitello is one of three new APWG board members, arriving as the group expands its board from two people to five. APWG said the expansion “is recognition of the growing complexity and scale of Internet crime today and the…
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Nigeria: NIRA Moves to Deepen Domain Name Registration
January 26, 2017 @ 10:18 PMWorried about the low rate of domain name registration in Nigeria, which stood at less than 100,000 registrations as at December 2016, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association, the body managing the country’s domain name registration, is considering new strategies in 2017 that will raise the consciousness of Nigerians to register with the country code Top Level Domain name, (ccTLD), the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria’s identity in cyberspace.
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New Fashion Inspired .nyc Premium Domain Names Released to Kickoff Fashion Week
January 26, 2017 @ 12:18 PMNeustar, Inc. (NSR) today announced that the City of New York will open access to a second round of .nyc premium domain names with the auction of fashion inspired web addresses, such as couture.nyc, designer.nyc and fashion.nyc.
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GoDaddy Releases Super Bowl Teaser
January 25, 2017 @ 11:25 AMCats on roombas. What color is the dress? Internet memes to feature in GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial. After skipping the Super Bowl last year, GoDaddy will return for its 12th Super Bowl campaign next month. GoDaddy released a teaser (embedded below) for its upcoming Super Bowl commercial this morning. The commercial, called “Good Morning”, will…
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Radix to "Rent" Some Premium Domains By The Month Through Undeveloped
January 25, 2017 @ 10:06 AMUndeveloped tests domain leasing offering. New top level domain name company Radix has teamed up with domain marketplace Undeveloped to sell some of its premium domain inventory by the month. Called “Domain Rental Market”, some of the domains Radix reserved from registration are now available to rent by the month. It’s a lot cheaper than…
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Celebrity Cybersquatting to Feature in Super Bowl Commercial [Video]
January 25, 2017 @ 9:05 AMActor turned fashion designer John Malkovich is to feature in a Super Bowl commercial themed on cybersquatting. The ad, for web host Squarespace, sees Malkovich complaining about the domain johnmalkovich.com belonging to some other guy by the same name. In a roundabout way, this is also a commercial for Tucows, the newly-crowned second-largest domain registrar,…
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MMX Reports $15.8 Million Billings in 2016
January 25, 2017 @ 7:23 AMCompany doubles billings in 2016. In a business update posted today, top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX) reported $15.8 million in billings for 2016. That’s double the billings the company reported for 2015. Renewal billings increased year-over-year by 116% to $3.8 million. The company has a goal of getting to a point…
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Mmx Billings Double Even As Some Volumes Slide
January 25, 2017 @ 2:24 AMMMX has reported a 100% increase in billings for 2016, despite its number of domains under management dropping in some TLDs. The company, until recently known as Minds + Machines, said billing were $15.8 million in the year to December 31, compared to $7.9 million for in 2015. Billings is an up-front measure of sales…
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Matt Mullenweg: "The Folks Here in This Room are Perhaps More Important Than You Realize"
January 24, 2017 @ 10:57 AM“The folks here in this room are perhaps more important than you realize.” That’s how Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg opened up a chat at NamesCon 2017, an event for the domain name industry, here in Las Vegas Today. Echoing comments he made on Domain Name Wire Podcast #91, the WordPress creator and CEO of Automattic…
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