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Breaking: .Com Domain Name Registrations Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
For the first time in the history of the Internet there are no more than 110,000,000 .com domain names registered according to Verisign. As of 8:36:10 AM UTC there are now over 110,024,017 active .c...
ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included 27 Aug 2013 | 09:52 am
According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board, ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the...
Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters over 68 Domain Names 27 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the...
ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation 27 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligible for Extended Evaluation. ...
Pew Research: In US 70% Have A BroadBand Connection At Home; 20% Don’t Have Broadband Nor Smartphone 26 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Pew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013″ and found that in the United States 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartpho...
FairWinds Tells Fortune 500 Clients To Pay Attention to Domain Hacks: Only 3 Out Of 500 Own Them 26 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
Brand Protection company Fairwinds in a blog post today, told it big brands clients, the Fortune 500 companies they represent to pay attention to and try to acquire domain hacks. For those that don...
Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let Drop & Get Registered By Others 25 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Once again these are the same type of...
ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members 24 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICAN...
12 Year Old Dictionary Word, Domain Name, Parlance.com Saved In UDRP 24 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
Parlance Corporation lost a UDRP against Dynamo.com on the domain name parlance.com Of course the domain name is also a dictionary word and the panel found “the Complaint fails to establish either ...
85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 7 Go To Extended Evaluation; 1 Fails: Passing .Rio; .NetFlix; .Ping; .Lamborghini .Tiffany 23 Aug 2013 | 11:08 pm
85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application proce...
