Posts Tagged ‘New York’

Busta Rhymes Becomes Latest Celeb To Let His Domain Name Expire As BustaRhymes.com Drops Today

A few months ago we wrote how a famous athlete, Michael Vick, had just allowed his two domain names to expire and drop. Today another Celeb’s domain name is facing deletion as BustaRhymes.com has expired and is deleting today. The domain name BustaRhymes.com has been registered to: Flip Mode Licensing, LLC c/o Pryor Cashman LLP [...]

gTLDs Opponents Create the Very Confusion They Decry

It’s ironic and amusing that while a few well-connected opponents of the new gTLD program were testifying before the U.S. Senate committee, I was asked to help educate top executives of one of the largest global ad agencies and their major clients on t…

Organization overseeing Internet domain names Chinese scholar as VP for Asia – Minneapolis Star Tribune

NEW YORK – The organization in charge of Internet domain names has selected a Chinese scholar as vice president for Asia. The appointment of Xiaodong Lee was announced in Beijing on Thursday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …
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CADNA Hosts "What’s at Stake" Conference to Discuss New gTLDs with Brands, will Submit Proposal to ICANN

Over 85 representatives from global brands joined The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) for its “What’s at Stake: The Reality of ICANN’s New gTLD Program for Brands” conference at the Institute of International Education’s Edgar J. Kaufman Co…

New gTLDs Posing Opportunity and Challenge to Banks

Source:CircleID: Domain Names

While a more secure online banking may be offered should banks choose to take advantage of ICANN’s recently liberalized generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) application process, some banks may have difficulty taking advantage of their new domain-name libe…

It’s Time for a National Discussion on Sales Tax

Amazon cans its California affiliates. California loses, affiliates lose. It’s time for a bigger discussion. Yesterday a couple California readers forwarded a message from Amazon.com saying that, should their governor sign in to law a new so-called “affiliate tax”, their participation in the Amazon Associated program would be terminated. Hours later they received a message [...]

Afilias and Crowell & Moring to Collaborate on Supporting New Top-Level Domains

Source:CircleID: Domain Names

Afilias Limited, a global provider of Internet domain name registry and Domain Name System (DNS) services, today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Crowell & Moring LLP. Under this MoU, Afilias and Crowell &…