Afternic.com just posted its sales for the week selling just short of $1.1 Million Afternic.com changed its report of reportable sales this week and broke out the sales of the domains owned by its parent company NameMedia, which they refer to as owned and operated domains, from those domain owned by third parties which were [...]
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Namecheap Announces Move Your Domain Day With Donation to EFF – PRWeb
Domain name registrar Namecheap will be spearheading a domain transfer initiative on December 29th to stand up against SOPA with $1 for every transfer going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We’re proud to have the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
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Massachusetts man puts ‘icl0ud.com’ domain up for bid – MacNN
Hoping to cash in on the similarity to Apple’s cloud-services suite, a North Attleboro man has put up the domain name icl0ud.com for auction on Ebay, asking a minimum bid of $7,000. The domain currently points to a generic business site called …
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The gTLD Opera
The curtain rises on January 12th 2012 but key players are still singing different tunes. Let’s peek into their performance as they start taking center stage.
FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, has sent a letter to ICANN on December 16th 2011.
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ICANN Pressured to Reserve Names: "We don’t accept any more reservations!"
It is not a secret that I have been (and I continue to be) against the requests made to ICANN by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Red Cross for special protection of their names and their variations. I am mainly against it because of t…
Southern Illinois buys .xxx domain names; officials: $5,000 small price to protect school – WQAD
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois University is joining colleges across the country in trying to buy Internet domain names with the suffix “.xxx” before they end up in the hands of pornographers. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisian …
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RickPerry.com now forwards to RonPaul2012.com
Right wingers may end up on libertarian’s web site. As if Rick Perry doesn’t have enough problems in his quest for the white house: RickPerry.com has recently started forwarding to RonPaul2012.com. Rick Perry’s official web site is RickPerry.org. The sad thing for the Perry campaign is that Rick Perry could have easily acquired the .com [...]
