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This Tea Party Rocks! and Wants to Cash in
January 5, 2012 @ 4:58 AMA Canadian rock band named The Tea Party has owned the domain name TeaParty.com since the early 1990s. Now, with seemingly no shortage of would-be buyers, the band has decided to sell to the highest bidder. Between its traffic numbers and its search value — it could be worth more than a million dollars.
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Ray Ozzie is $33,000 Cocomo.com Buyer
January 5, 2012 @ 4:33 AMFormer Microsoft CTO and Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie bought Cocomo.com for $33,000.
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Non-latin Top Level Domain Names Grew in 2011
January 5, 2012 @ 2:12 AMThe number of country code Top Level Domains using non-Latin scripts and alphabets rose with the addition of 26 to 30 names in the last year.
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Social Network Buys Dudu.com Domain Name for $1 Million
January 4, 2012 @ 11:18 PMDudu.com sells for an incredible $1 million. Wow. Social network DUDU has paid a whopping $1 million for the domain name Dudu.com, upgrading its domain
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.CO Internet Recognized as World Finance 100 Business Leader
January 4, 2012 @ 11:10 PM.CO Internet S.A.S. today was recognized in the World Finance 100 listing, alongside industry heavyweights 3M, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others. Spanning multiple industries and covering a breadth of global markets, the World Finance 100 recognizes “the very finest businesses and business leaders over the past year,” focusing on companies and individuals who have outperformed the competition, made great strides in innovative techniques, and helped to redefine the business landscape.
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Linkdin.com Cyber-squatter Throws Away $22K, Domain Now Belongs to LinkedIn
January 4, 2012 @ 7:01 PMBack in December, LinkedIn filed a complaint (Case No. 1417534) with the National Arbitration Forum over the typo domain LinkdIn.com (missing an ‘e’). The web address redirected consumers to an online scam that asked a handful of questions and attempted to gather personal information by promising free gifts like a $1,000 Walmart gift card, to anyone who finished filling out the survey.
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.aeDA Continues Its Efforts in Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Related to Domain Names
January 4, 2012 @ 1:33 PMAs part of its commitment toward the local internet community in the UAE, the .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA) of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) continues to implement the best international practices in protecting Intellectual Property Rights for its registrants. This comes in line with its mandate to enforce all policies related to the operation of the .ae country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as well as overseeing the operation of the registry system.
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Commerce Department Urges Changes to Domain Name Expansion
January 4, 2012 @ 5:53 AMLawrence Strickling, the Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for communications and information, urged the Internet Corporation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to rethink its plan to allow for new domain-name endings in a letter on Tuesday. In meetings we have held with industry over the past weeks, we have learned that there is tremendous concern about specifics of the program that may lead to a number of unintended and unforeseen consequences and could jeopardize its success, Strickling, who heads Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), wrote in the letter to Stephen Crocker, chairman of ICANN’s board of directors.
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ICANN Chairman Sees Little Value in Delaying New Domain-name Program
January 4, 2012 @ 12:31 AMWith a week to go before his group rolls out a program that could dramatically increase the number of Internet addresses available to the public, the chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says he sees no reason to delay the program despite growing calls to slow down the process.
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.AEDA Continues Its Efforts in Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Related ...
January 4, 2012 @ 12:15 AMAs part of its commitment toward the local internet community in the UAE, the .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA) of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) continues to implement the best international practices in protecting Intellectual Property Rights for its registrants. This comes in line with its mandate to enforce all policies related to the operation of the .ae country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as well as overseeing the operation of the registry system.
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