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Go Daddy Ready to Launch .CO Marketing Blitz
January 16, 2011 @ 8:33 PMWhile the .net, .org, .gov Internet domains are growing in popularity among those launching new websites, none have come close to threatening the decades-long reign of .com. But the .co domain may be the hottest new Web address, one that could be the first real .com competitor, according to some inside the domain-name industry. Scottsdale-based Go Daddy was one of a few domain providers authorized to sell that domain suffix when it when it was launched in July. Now with about 250,000 .co registrations under its cap so far, the Internet-domain registrar will use its annual Super Bowl commercial next month to draw attention to it before television’s biggest annual audience.
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Another .TV Empire is Born
January 16, 2011 @ 12:07 PMPrime.TV a company located in Oslo Norway seems to be building out a small empire of excellent .TV sites in various languages including English, German, and Norwegian and the company was just founded last year.
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Pre-register for Sedo's Premium .co Auction
January 15, 2011 @ 10:56 AMI think Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercial is going to be big for .CO domain names. It’s still speculation at this point, but I imagine it will inform a massive…
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.ORG The Public Interest Registry Names Brian Cute As Chief Executive Officer
January 14, 2011 @ 9:31 AM.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) — manager of the world’s third largest generic top-level domain — today appointed Mr. Brian Cute as chief executive officer. With more than 12 years of experience in the Internet and communications industry, Mr. Cute will assume his leadership position on February 1, 2011.
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Go Daddy Ready to Launch .CO Marketing Blitz
January 13, 2011 @ 4:27 PMGo Daddy ready to launch marketing blitz for .co domain registries with Super Bowl ad, new Go Daddy girl. Scottsdale-based Go Daddy was one of a few domain providers authorized to sell that domain suffix when it when it was launched in July.Now with about 250,000 .co registrations under its cap so far, the Internet-domain registrar will use its annual Super Bowl commercial next month to draw attention to it before television’s biggest annual audience, the company said this week.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Domain Name Registered
January 13, 2011 @ 1:42 PMCorporation Service Company has registered the Finalfantasy13-2game.com domain name, according to Superannuation. The company has previously registered domains for Nier, Mindjack, and other Square Enix games, suggesting that this is also the work of Square Enix. This domain name could simply be Square Enix grabbing related names just in case, but it could also be evidence of a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII — possibly, like Final Fantasy X-2, one built on the engine and assets from the previous, expensive game.
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Oversee.net Taps Morrow to Lead Vertical Markets Strategy
January 13, 2011 @ 11:21 AMOversee.net® has named Scott Morrow as Senior Vice President / GM of its Vertical Markets division, the company said today. Morrow will lead Oversee’s effort to rapidly build on its contextual search and comparative results capability, expanding on its success in financial services and travel to move into new marketplaces. The company, which operates well-established comparison sites like LowFares.com™ and CreditCards.org, is focusing development efforts on creating site experiences that help consumers make purchase decisions. Oversee’s performance marketing strategy—connecting consumers and advertisers—will provide consumers with immediately relevant information and move them closer to the actions they want to take.
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Internet in 2010: 107T E-mails, 255M Websites
January 13, 2011 @ 9:46 AMAs technology gets cheaper and easier to use, so it follows that more and more people will start using it. For internet users and providers, 2010 was a year of unprecedented growth, reports Royal Pingdom, a tech website. There are now almost as many individual websites as there are American citizens. Summary: 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010. 21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.
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Why I Think Groupon Needs Its Domain Names Now
January 13, 2011 @ 9:14 AMYou may have read that Groupon is fighting to get its Australian ccTLD domain name. It had offered to pay over a quarter of a million dollars for the domain name and a similar trademark filing. It seems a bit odd that a company would seemingly reward an alleged cybersquatter for this much money, but Groupon needs this (and similar) domain names ASAP.
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Google, Facebook to Trial IPv6 Access On Key Domains
January 13, 2011 @ 9:03 AMSome of the internet’s most popular domains such as Facebook and Google will enable IPv6 on their key services for 24 hours in the summer, in preparation for the transition to the new internet protocol, the Internet Society has said. Moving from the current IPv4 system to IPv6 is necessary as the IPv4 protocol is running out of internet addresses. Vint Cerf — co-inventor of TCP/IP — said in November 2010 that IPv4 addresses will run out within two years, meaning no new devices can be registered using the older system.
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