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Sony Creates New Sites On .sony Top Level Domain Name
January 12, 2017 @ 8:09 AMThree. brand websites promote various projects. Back in 2015, Sony created a site to promote some of the technology in the James Bond Film Spectre. It chose to create the site at AssistMoneyPenny.SONY, using its .brand top level domain name. That site has since been shuttered, but Sony is spinning up a few new sites…
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Lawsuit Filed to Recover Stolen GMF.com Domain, and Here are Two Warnings
January 12, 2017 @ 6:48 AMA stolen domain name can reveal sensitive business information to the thief. Lots of three letter domain names have been stolen over the past few years. A stolen domain lawsuit (pdf) filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Tuesday should provide warnings to all companies that use a domain name, as well as domain…
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Bluehost Teams With Google Domains for WordPress Hosting
January 11, 2017 @ 6:42 AMLeading WordPress hosting site, Powered by Endurance, offers fast, simple and secure managed platform for optimized performance.
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DCA Files for Another .africa Injunction
January 11, 2017 @ 12:22 AMDotConnectAfrica is continuing its legal attempt to prevent the .africa gTLD from being delegated to a competitor supported by African governments. The recalcitrant applicant has filed for another temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would prevent ICANN handing .africa to the successful applicant, ZA Central Registry, according to ZACR. DCA’s last application for an…
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Rightside Cuts Super-premium Fees in Half, Drops Premium Renewals
January 11, 2017 @ 12:08 AMNew gTLD registry RightSide has slashed the minimum price of its so-called “Platinum” tier premium domains and dropped renewal fees for these domains down to an affordable level. The price changes come as part of two new marketing initiatives designed to start shifting more of its 14,000-strong portfolio of super-premiums through brokers and registrar partners…
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Rightside Opens Platinum Domains to Brokers and Registrars
January 10, 2017 @ 6:15 AMBrokers and registrars can now more easily access Rightside’s Platinum domain inventory. Rightside is changing up its Platinum Domains program for new top level domain names and inviting domain brokers and sellers to get a cut of the action. Platinum domain names typically have asking prices between $25,000-$200,000. They also previously had high renewal prices…
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ICANN Retires Affirmation of Commitments With US Gov
January 9, 2017 @ 1:20 PMICANN has terminated its last formal oversight link with the US government. Late last week, ICANN chair Steve Crocker and Larry Strickling, assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration mutually agreed to retire the seven-year-old Affirmation of Commitments. The AoC, negotiated during the tail end of Paul Twomey’s leadership of ICANN and…
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Termination On The .orientexpress
January 6, 2017 @ 4:30 AMThe dot-brand .orientexpress has derailed. That’s a train pun, expect more. The gTLD operator has become the latest to signal (like a railway signal) to ICANN that it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand, this week asking for a contract cancellation (like a train cancellation). Despite having left the station (like a train station)…
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NCC Sells Open Registry at Huge Discount
January 6, 2017 @ 2:58 AMNCC Group has followed through on its promise to divest parts of its domain business, selling the Open Registry collection of companies at a huge discount to the original purchase price. KeyDrive and a mysterious entity called Terrain.com SA have together acquired the companies for €3.75 million ($3.97 million). That’s compared to the minimum of…
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Curt Schilling Files UDRP On Matching Domain CurtSchilling.com
January 5, 2017 @ 8:42 AMBoston pitching legend Curt Schilling has filed a UDRP on his Matching .Com domain name CurtSchilling.com Mr. Schilling has also spoken about political ambitions running for Senator against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts’ 2018 Senate race. It appears the domain names has been owned by third parties since at least 2002. The domain name CurtSchilling.com…
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