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• Purva.com Bought In May 2012 Saved in UDRP: Godaddy Placeholder May Have Saved It

  The Complainant is Puravankara Projects Limited of Bangalore, Karnataka, India,  just lost a UDRP on the domain name purva.com which turns out to be a pretty... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Starts “Public Conversation” On ICANN’s Future & Wants Your Input

  As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, that ICANN has launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN has posted on its... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XXX Paid Search Engine Is Now Live

  We just got an email from the ICM Registry that the .XXX paid Search Engine is now Live. Search.XXX is a search engine for just sites using a .XXX domains and... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, LOVE & SEX, TECH

• NiceCar.com Owned For 13 Years Lost in Horrible UDRP Decision

  In another horribly lazy opinion, the domain name NiceCar.com was just awarded to NICE CAR, INC. by a one member UDRP panelist Sandra J. Franklin to a... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Monaco Wins Rights To MonteCarloVodka.com In UDRP

  In January we told you that  the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco filed a UDRP... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s

  The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD

  In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Secures Additional New gTLD Funding For Auctions

  Donuts Inc., the applicant for the largest number of new gTLD strings, announced tonight that is has closed on  “Series B equity investment which was... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Horizon Publishing Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Opulence.com

  Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley

  Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations,  the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In...

  George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services,  (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org

  Twitter has won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org The UDRP complaint was decided by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UPDATED: WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org

  A few days ago we let you know that Twitter won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net

  VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 million domain names were added to the Interne... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August

  ICANN now says they will  be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Internet In China By The Numbers

  

  Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Following On Success of .TK, .ML To Offer Free Domains

  Following on its highly successful management of the .TK registry Freedom Registry announced today its going to ‘Power” the  Dot ML,  the Mali domain name, .ML . Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Escrow.com Re-Designs & Launches New Updated Site

  

  Escrow.com just launched its re-designed site. Its not only the design that has changed but more information and features are now available. Andee Hill of... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous”

  A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Guest Post By Bill Sweetman “Why I Support The ICA”

  This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar,  that allows marketers,... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH