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ICANN Wants to Make Millions From SF Meeting

ICANN hopes to sign millions of dollars in sponsorship deals for its San Francisco meeting in March. The organization has revamped its sponsorship options, adding new Diamond and Platinum Elite tiers (together worth up to $1.5 million) and doubling the price of its existing opportunities. ICANN is looking for two companies to act as Diamond sponsors, paying $500,000 each, and two more to sign up for the Platinum Elite deal, each paying $250,000.

Previously Chatty Homeland Security Clams Up After Errors in Domain Seizures ... - Techdirt

As you’re probably aware, we’ve been covering the many serious legal questions raised by Homeland Security’s decision to use its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group to seize a bunch of domain names.

For Lorillard, The Best Defense is a Handful of Domain Names

The maker of the minority-targeted cigarette brand Newport shrewdly anticipates an Internet-based battle over menthol cigarettes.

Domain Name Gambling.com Goes On The Market for $9 Million

Gambling dot com has been placed on the market and is reportedly attracting interest from a number of betting companies…

About 4,000 Domain Names Registered in Azerbaijan Over The Last Year

According to <a href="http://www.whois.az" rel="nofollow">http://www.whois.az</a> statistics for the present the number of active domain names operating in the national segment of Internet global network makes 10887. Over the last month their number increased by 335 domains.

Verizon Seeks iPhone Related Domain Names - Wireless Federation

If reports are to be believed, Verizon Wireless has been buying up website domain names containing variations of its brand name and Apple’s iPhone, although it later emerged that rather than being a recent move to herald the launch of a CDMA iPhone, the purchases had actually taken place back in late 2008.

Go Daddy Explains WHOIS Blocking

Company explains access restrictions on third party sites. Users of third party whois search tools have been frustrated in the past few days whenever they look up a domain name registered at Go Daddy. Instead of seeing who owns the domain name, they are given a URL to look up the whois information directly at Go Daddy. Here’s an example from …

Groupon Claims Australian Rival Scoopon Reneged On Deal to Sell Domain Name

Groupon slams local rival, Scoopon, accusing the site of cyber squatting on the Groupon.com.au domain name and then rejecting an offer from Groupon to buy it for $286,000.

Groupon Files Lawsuit Against Australian Clone Scoopon

An interesting post just went up on the Groupon blog announcing a lawsuit filed against Australian Groupon clone Scoopon. The post explains the unprecedented move of taking legal action against a Groupon clone, which apparently is squatting on the Groupon.com.au domain name

Yes, The Legal & Technical Errors in Homeland Security's Domain Seizure