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Parking Dooms Owner of F5.net in UDRP
June 24, 2016 @ 7:28 AMWhy would you park a domain like this one? There are several reasons that the Chinese owner of F5.net just lost the domain name in a UDRP to F5 Networks, Inc. But one of them should be a warning for owners of short domains: the ads on the parked page were related to the complainant’s…
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Donuts Makes $70 Million Unsolicited Offer for Rightside's New TLD Business
June 24, 2016 @ 6:37 AMPublic offer comes after Rightside declined earlier offers. Donuts announced today that it’s making a $70 million offer to acquire Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) new top level domain name business. The company is making the offer public after “Rightside has repeatedly disregarded” Donuts’ previous overtures, Donuts said in a press release. The goal of making the offer…
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Report: 92% of NGOs Have a Website (70% .org, 9% .com, 18% ccTLDs & Others)
June 23, 2016 @ 10:32 AMThe Public Interest Registry and the Nonprofit Tech for Good published the report of a research project: “2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report”. This is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology…
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Lawsuit Ensnares Innocent Domain Name Investors
June 23, 2016 @ 7:19 AMValuable domain names are at stake. A lawsuit related to one of the longest running and most expensive legal battles in the history of domain names has now ensnared some well-known domain name investors. Their alleged fault: buying domain names from a court-appointed receiver. The case is complicated, but I’ll do my best to summarize…
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Tucows Files Ontario Lawsuit to Halt Transfer of The Domain Name Hayter.com
June 23, 2016 @ 6:44 AMTucows filed an Ontario lawsuit to halt the transfer of the domain name Hayter.com and to stop the UDRP proceedings. Tucows, an ICANN accredited registrar, is also the owner of a big portfolio of domain names mainly consisting of surnames. A Uniform Domain-name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaint was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF)…
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Norway Bans The Dutch From Using Dormant .bv
June 23, 2016 @ 3:04 AMThe Norwegian government has intervened to prevent a deal that would have allowed the sale of .bv domain names in the Netherlands. Norwegian ccTLD registry Norid and Dutch counterpart SIDN said a deal to start using the dormant ccTLD fell apart after the government exercised its right of veto under Norway’s domain regulations. .bv represents…
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Enom Releases New Website, Logo & Blog
June 22, 2016 @ 12:39 PMeNom, an ICANN accredited registrar that is part of Rightside, released its new website and logo today as well as a new blog. Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside, announced the new site: Fresh new @enom site is up and running! Congrats to the team on a job well done. New site is going to be…
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Judge Hands DotConnectAfrica Another Bizarre Win
June 22, 2016 @ 8:16 AMA California judge just handed ICANN another upset in the interminable legal battle waged against it by unsuccessful .africa applicant DotConnectAfrica. Gary Klausner yesterday admitted he made a mistake when he earlier slapped ICANN with a preliminary injunction preventing .africa being delegated to DCA rival ZA Central Registry, but said his error did not have…
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Google Offers Reseller Widget, Signs First Partners
June 22, 2016 @ 8:03 AMGoogle’s registrar, Google Domains, has started offering a widget to make it easier to become a reseller. The Google Domains widget has already been deployed by five web site builders — Big Cartel, Duda, Selz, Square and Webflow — the company said. These companies have evidently embedded the software — a chunk of Javascript –…
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Updated Enom Goes Live Today
June 22, 2016 @ 4:44 AMEnom is getting a refresh and the building blocks for a better domain control panel are being put in place. Domain name registrar Enom will look different when you visit it later today. The site is undergoing a refresh to make it easier for resellers to integrate, and in preparation for bigger changes coming soon…
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