Wednesday, 07 September 2011 10:39 Domain News
The Sunrise Period A opened today,September 7,2011.As of today businesses and website operators will have the opportunity to register domain names under the new .XXX suffix.
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 06:11 Domain News
Social.com,the largest reported domain name sale of 2011 has been sold in late June for $2,6 Million .However no one knew who the buyer was .
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 06:11 Domain News
The 2011 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Ganesh Kumar as a member of the ALAC from the North American region.
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 06:09 Domain News
EURID launched a new magazine in which they showcased Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with .eu websites .
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 06:08 Domain News
Sedo announced recently the relaunch of the "Domain Parking" section of their user account,called now Parking Reports .This section will provide from now on an easy and transparent way to see the overall performance of parked domains.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 18:56 Domain News
ICANN has issued a letter to Samjung Data Service indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar .
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 11:45 David Goldstein
The Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC, the representative body of French Champagne producers), a body established by statute under the laws of France, recently lost a Complaint filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Complaint concerned the domain name (the Domain Name), and was denied on the grounds that the CIVC (the Complainant) failed to prove that the Domain Name was identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark or service mark in which it had rights as per Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the UDRP.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 11:35 David Goldstein
Last month, cybercriminal Daniel Goncalves had the dubious honour of becoming the first person to receive a prison term for domain name theft. On 22 July 2011, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the New Jersey state Superior Court after pleading guilty in a plea bargain arrangement that spared him a possible 15 year sentence. Goncalves had stolen the domain name , estimated to be worth between $160,000 and $200,000 at the time of the theft, and sold it via eBay for over $100,000 in a plot worthy of an airport novel involving multi-millionaire Internet investors, an unsuspecting Mormon NBA basket ball player and a sleuthing nurse.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 11:01 David Goldstein
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre is holding a workshop that will focus on the numerous developments in relation to UDRP decision precedent and process, including the 2011-launched WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions at WIPO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday and Wednesday, 11 and 12 October, 2011.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 10:47 Domain News
2011 biggest ccTLD deal is Aktien.de,sold for through the Sedo domain name marketplace for $725,000 .
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 10:44 Domain News
DotConnectAfrica (DCA) contends that three companies (dotafrica.org ,AfTLD and ARC) are trying to undermine their Yes to DotAfrica campaign.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 10:17 Domain News
As of September 7,businesses and website operators will have the opportunity to register domain names under the new .XXX sufix .
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 06:11 Domain News
DNCruise conference started yesterday and will end on Saturday morning,September 10,2011 .This year the attendees will have two days at sea .
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 06:11 Domain News
The Coordination Center for TLD .RU,responsible dor the administration fo .RU extension,is approaching 3.5 million domain name registrations under .RU .
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 06:10 Domain News
Sedo is hosting a No Reserve domain name auction .The auction closes today .Only 41 domain names received bids so far.
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Monday, 05 September 2011 12:03 David Goldstein
Nominet is seeking feedback from stakeholders on how the registry should deal with domain names used in connection with criminal activity.
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:49 David Goldstein
US educational institutions have begun discussing among themselves the limits of the .EDU domain, reserved for American educational facilities, even branching out to .COM domains and considering the possibility of applying for their own generic Top Level Domains.
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:24 David Goldstein
Registrar certification is being introduced by the registry for .CZ domain names to help give registrants greater confidence when registering domain names.
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:05 Domain News
Even though 2010 will probably go down in history books as the year when many domains were acquired at high prices,it seems that 2011 is also a good year for domain holders .
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Monday, 05 September 2011 10:04 Domain News
Yahoo!,the American public corporation that provides Internet services worldwide has submitted a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name RemoveYahoo.com .
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