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ICANN Ombudsman Let Go As Role Comes Up for Review
June 29, 2016 @ 12:00 AMICANN’s Ombudsman, Chris LaHatte, has been told his services are no longer needed. His current contract expires July 27, but he’s been informed that it will not be renewed. No reason has been given for the move. Herb Waye, who took the role on an interim basis in 2011 after the departure of former Ombusdman…
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Lawyer Fell for Domaingang Story About Enom Backpack Girl
June 28, 2016 @ 4:14 PMMore UDRP hilarity. Yesterday, I wrote about how an Australian company argued in a UDRP that the famous Backpack Girl was planted by the owner of Patricks.com because the complainant’s (a company called Patricks) CEO looked like Backpack Girl. It was hilarious. It gets even funnier. Once the respondent’s attorney John Berryhill explained in the…
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GoDaddy App for New Business Ideas Now Available On Android Devices
June 28, 2016 @ 11:18 AMFlare Empowers Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses to Jumpstart Ideas SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, announced today that Flare is available for download in the Google Play…
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Cybersquatting Complaints Against .com Domains are Dropping
June 28, 2016 @ 10:00 AMHere’s a story you’ve not heard told: For many years, the number of UDRPs aimed at .COM domains has been declining. Does that come as a surprise? We hear about high-profile UDRPs all the time, and the newsworthy cases usually involve some valuable domain name that has been put in jeopardy. Since .COM tends to be the most sought-after…
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FMF Launches .stream Domain This Week, and You Can Get Them Cheap
June 28, 2016 @ 6:45 AM.Stream is inexpensive if you know where to look. Famous Four Media is launching the .stream top level domain name on Wednesday. The company makes it a practice of offering domain names cheap for the first year. And indeed, 101Domain is charging only $1.32 for first year registrations. Interestingly, I’m not finding similar prices at…
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Backpack Girl Makes Appearance in Hilarious UDRP
June 27, 2016 @ 1:52 PMThis company thinks the eNom backpack girl looks similar to its CEO. At what point does a cybersquatting complaint filed under UDRP become laugh-out-loud funny? I think we have now have the answer, although the respondent in this case probably isn’t laughing. An Australian hair care company called Patricks Universal Export Pty Ltd (Patricks) filed…
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Is Sedo Slowly Dying? Let's Look at The Numbers.
June 27, 2016 @ 12:30 PMA look at Sedo’s sales, week-by-week. Today Konstantinos Zournas over at Online Domain published an article with the provocative headline “Is Sedo Dying”? Konstantinos published data from the most recent Sedo sales report and compared it to the same week the year before. Last week it was 492 domains for $1.0 million compared to 545…
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.blog Could Be a Multi $100 Million Business
June 27, 2016 @ 7:04 AMChris Sheridan shared a great Q&A video interview with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Europe 2016. At around the 20 minute mark of the video, Matt discusses the .Blog new gTLD domain extension that was acquired by WordPress earlier this year. The discussion focused around the revenue sources for Auttomatic, the parent company of WordPress….
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Ted Cruz Ups The Ante With Scary Video
June 27, 2016 @ 4:29 AMIN A WORLD…where basic facts don’t get in the way of a good narrative. Ted Cruz has been on a campaign to block the U.S. government from ending its contract related to IANA (domain names and numbers) functions. He has even introduced a bill to block the transition. Perhaps finding that his message isn’t resonating…
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Digitaltown Announces .city Domain Network - Buys 11,000 .city Domain Names
June 24, 2016 @ 1:18 PMDigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. The announcement occurs on the eve of the US Mayors conference from June 24-27 in Indianapolis, leading up to International…
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