Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:29 Domain News
SelfEmployed.com domain name,sold for $58,000 ,through Sedo,topped Domain Name Journal weekly sales list of reported domain names in the week to August 14,2011 .
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:28 Domain News
AOL has won a dispute at the National Arbitration Forum over the domain Netscapee.com .AOL claimed the name violated the "Netscape" mark .
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:27 Domain News
Sedo is hosting its monthly GreatDomains Auction .The auction starts today,August 18,2011 and ends seven days later,on August 25,2011 .
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:59 David Goldstein
As part of the launch of the new gTLD program, ICANN’s Board of Directors mandated a communications campaign of "at least four months" to raise global awareness. Leveraging the ICANN community is a component of the draft plan to achieve that.
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Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:55 David Goldstein
ICANN invites you to participate in a webinar on changes ICANN is implementing to enhance its accountability and transparency (also known as the Accountability & Transparency Review Team recommendations). The Webinar will be held Wednesday, 31 August, 2011 from 14:00 — 15:30 UTC and is open to all.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:18 David Goldstein
A Latin American law firm has established a division for policy advice and regulation of TLDs along with domain name issues and IP numbers in general.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:52 Domain News
According to an email sent by TrafficZ,Yahoo! has recently introduced a revenue cap in five TLDs : .biz, .co, .info, .tv and .us .
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:13 Domain News
Google has recently acquired the domain name Like.org for an undisclosed sum .
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:11 Domain News
One year after the global launch,the .CO registry announced in a blog post and in its monthly newsletter,that .CO is seeing a first time renewal rate of 66% .
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:10 Domain News
SelfEmployed.com domain name topped Sedo’s weekly sales list at $58,000.Highlights also include Scan.me,leading ccTLDs at $20,000 and Rome.net,leading the other category at $30,000.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 01:34 David Goldstein
ICANN have announced that ICANN President and CEO will leave the organisation at the end of his term on 1 July 2012. Beckstrom has been considered a somewhat controversial appointment with him not seeing eye-to-eye with many people both within the organisation and in the domain name world. It was often rumoured he had a frosty relationship with several board members and senior staff.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:24 David Goldstein
The Interactive Advertising Bureau proved that they too are asleep at the wheel belatedly complaining to ICANN about its plan for new generic Top Level Domains, saying that the programme to assign hundreds of thousands of new domain names would cause incalculable financial damage to brand owners, including the hundreds of media brands in its membership.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:07 David Goldstein
The Free Speech Coalition is continuing its campaign against the new .XXX top level domain with it urging adult online business owners to send ICM Registry a letter demanding that their trademarks be protected.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:41 Domain News
Forbes Magazine named DCA’s (DotConnectAfrica) Founding Member Njeri Rionge as "Africa’s Most Successful Women".
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:22 Domain News
From now on,Happy Feet fans will be redirected to the official site of Warner Bros’ Happy Feet 2,when they type HappyFeet2.com .
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:21 Domain News
Marc Ostrofsky will be one of the keynote speakers for the Affiliate Summit East 2011 .
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:20 Domain News
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Test Track will be held this year on Monday ,October 17th at the Fort Lauderdale Beach Ritz Carlton Resort .
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:19 Domain News
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) approved at its meeting on 21 July 2011 the recommendations on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Policy Development Process . The resolution, which is pending for Board action, proposes:
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Monday, 15 August 2011 15:59 Domain News
.ORG,the Public Interest Registry (PIR) released its bi-annual domain name report .The report shows registrations up over 10 percent to over 9 million.
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Monday, 15 August 2011 06:22 Domain News
ICANN’s website has been given recently a minor face lift . ICANN’s website had come under a lot of criticism over the last years due to their design.Now,the website has a white color scheme and the new look is definitely a move in the right direction .
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