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Dnw's Thoughts On The Moniker WHOIS Privacy Incident
January 4, 2011 @ 11:24 AMIt’s an unfortunate incident. Not a scandal. I’ve waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt in a few days. But I still feel the same way. What happened I really don’t know all the details…
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Web Host Hostgator Exceeds 4 Million Hosted Domain Names
January 4, 2011 @ 11:07 AMWeb host HostGator recently reached over 4 million domain names for shared, reseller and dedicated hosting. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, HostGator has more than 225,000 shared, reseller and dedicated customers.
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Linking to Copyrighted Material Enough for Domain Seizure
January 4, 2011 @ 10:31 AMComplaint for Forfeiture filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveals that many are merely sites that link to copyrighted material hosted elsewhere, yet…
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So You Just Bought Sex.com for $13 Million – Now What?
January 4, 2011 @ 9:05 AMSex.com. It’s a domain name with quite a history – heck, it was rocky enough for a book to be written solely about it. TechCrunch had an exclusive interview with the guy who currently owns the valuable domain name…
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Lazy Complainants Lose Two Cases to Serial Cybersquatter in One Week
January 4, 2011 @ 7:13 AMIf domain name is registered before a trademark is filed, complainants need to provide good evidence of common law rights. So you’re legal counsel for a company that feels that someone is cybersquatting on your trademark. That someone is "Purple Bucquet" of Panama, which has lost twenty-six UDRP cases since April 2010 to companies as…
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Sedo Ups Personal Brokerage Fee to 15%
January 4, 2011 @ 6:57 AMFees increase today, but only for small subset of sales. Today Sedo will increase its fee on personally brokered domain name sales to 15% from 10%. This fee increase only applies to sales that involve a human broker and does not apply to self-serve sales in which buyers and sellers transact on Sedo.com. I had a feeling this change was in …
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North Korea Domain Name Restored After Server Problem
January 4, 2011 @ 6:13 AMThe dot kp domain name of North Korea has been restored after server problems…
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Gambling.com Domain Name On Market for $10 Million
January 3, 2011 @ 11:01 PMMedia Corp., a closely held U.K. online casino and advertising company, hopes to make more than $10 million when it puts the Internet domain name <a href="http://www.gambling.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gambling.com</a> up for sale, the London-based Times reported.
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The Name of The Game: Verizon's iPhone Domain Name Buying Spree
January 3, 2011 @ 12:34 PMVerizon is quietly buying up iPhone-related URLs — and, as it turns out, has been for some time now.
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Is Godaddy Spurning Domaintools On WHOIS Lookups to Sell Domain Names?
January 3, 2011 @ 11:59 AMI’ve noticed something when performing Whois lookups at DomainTools for domain names registered at Godaddy, and I believe it is a fairly recent change.
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