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Go Daddy Unveils its Take on Cloud Computing
June 16, 2011 @ 7:42 PMAccording to a marketing brochure for the service, GoDaddy plans to offer three options for users. However, all three levels provide fixed resource amounts for a monthly fee, with additional resources available “a la carte.” This is a deviation from the standard infrastructure as a service model of charging for resources on an hourly basis and allowing for the number of servers to be spun up or down on demand.
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BMW Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit
June 16, 2011 @ 10:59 AMCompany files federal court case over BMWrewards.com BMW has filed a lawsuit against Illinois company Prime Market Targeting, Inc. and Scott Duff for trademark infringement, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, and unfair competition over the domain name BMWREwards.com. The automaker is asking for the domain name, attorneys fees…
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Bit.ly Offers Customized Url Shortening for Free
June 16, 2011 @ 3:54 AMAnd now for another announcement in the white-hot world of….URL shortening? Yep. In the second URL shortener announcement this week, bit.ly (news, site) is announcing that its bit.ly Pro service, which lets organizations set up custom short domains, is now going to be free.
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Could Google Be Getting Into The SSL Certificate Business?
June 15, 2011 @ 11:45 PMCompany could dominate by offering in-search seals. Earlier this week Google registered the domain name GoogleCert.com. The company could have many uses for this domain name, but one possibility is SSL certificates. This got me thinking – Google is the perfect player to capitalize on SSL certificates as well as various trust…
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Go Daddy Sued Over Email Alerts
June 14, 2011 @ 10:53 PMGo Daddy has been sued for allegedly infringing two patents when it sends email alerts to customers whose domain names and web hosting accounts are about to expire.
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Biden Oversimplifies and Confuses Top Level Domains and Websites
June 14, 2011 @ 4:41 AMIn announcing a campaign to cut unneeded websites, Joe Biden and others may have lost some precision. Did Vice President Joe Biden – or his staff – botch a statement regarding a new effort to eliminate unneeded federal government websites? While 2,000 top level domains exist, under many of these top level domains are smaller sub-sites and microsites resulting in an estimated 24,000 websites of varying purpose.
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Expired Domain Rule Changes Closer to Reality
June 14, 2011 @ 3:30 AMGroup issues final report with recommended changes to how registrars handle expired domain names. ICANN’s Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has issued its final report with 18 recommendations for handling expired domain names.
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Saunders Now Being Sued By Elliman Over Domain Names
June 13, 2011 @ 11:12 PMSaunders Real Estate was discovered last month to be the owner of SusanBreitenbach.com, which happens to be the name of one of Corcoran’s top Hamptons brokers. Until Corcoran’s lawyers got involved, if a visitor typed this URL into their browser, they would have been automatically redirected to SaundersRE.com. Clever! Corcoran was, understandably, not pleased. But now the saga continues! Prudential Douglas Elliman – the largest firm in the Hamptons – has now just filed a lawsuit against Saunders for the same issue.
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New Web Domains: a Compelling .brand Opportunity - or an Online .mess?
June 13, 2011 @ 12:45 PMYou may not be aware that the biggest change to the Internet domain naming system in 25 years could be given the green light in June – a decision that will change domain names forever.
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Linux.conf.au Finally Controls Domain Name
June 13, 2011 @ 11:32 AMIt’s taken several years, quite a lot of negotiation and the use of alternatives to get it through an uncertain period. But Australian open source conference Linux.conf.au has finally permanently secure the rights to its own domain name.
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