Tag: Domains

ICANN Delays Deadline For gTLD Applications
Were you one of many potential domain owners trying to hurry the submission of your gTLD application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers by...
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Google To Get gTLDs, Report Says
ICANN will release its full list of applications for the new generic top-lev...
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gTLD Applicants To Be Listed By ICANN At Month’s End
ICANN plans to release a full list of applications for the new generic top-level domains on April 30. The list will specify who all applied for which domains. That should be intere...
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ICANN Closes gTLD Registration
You can no longer register for the new gTLDs with ICANN. Registration closed on Thursday, March 29. ICANN says there were only 839 registered users in the application system on Mar...
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Will Google Rank New TLDs Better Than .com Domains?
Google's head of web spam, Matt Cutts, took to...
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Google Play Domain Issues Causing Headache For Google
Earlier this month, ahead of Google's launch of Google Play (which is essentially a rebranding of Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore) Google...
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Wikimedia Foundation Now Officially Off Of GoDaddy
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that all of its sites have been migrated away from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The transition was completed on Friday, and the foundation it was done...
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ICANN CEO Should Be Chosen By April
Back in August, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom announced that he would be stepping down at the end of his term....
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Google Speaks Out Against Righthaven In Court
The last time we checked in with the Righthaven saga, righthaven.com had just been sold in a domai...
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ICANN Starts Accepting Applications For gTLDs
ICANN began accepting applications for the new generic top-level domains (gtLDs) today. Applicants are directed to use the TLD Application System (TAS) to submit their application....
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Wolfram Proposes .data TLD
Stephen Wolfram, the scientist behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, says he’s been involved with the worldwide data community in coordinating the creation of a .data top-level Int...
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Righthaven Domain Sold In Auction
We recently reported that Righthaven.com was up for auction on Snapnames, and it has now s...
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Righthaven Domain Now Being Auctioned
Righthaven, which is commonly referred to as a “copyright troll,” is now having its domain name RightHaven.com...
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GoDaddy Tries To Reverse The SOPA Exodus
After dealing with backlash of the worst kind -- the kind that makes you lose customers, fast -- GoDaddy withdrew their support for SOPA with press releases and Twitter announcemen...
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GoDaddy Experiences Massive SOPA Backlash
So, what's worse? Bad PR due to the perhaps unnecessary killing of a wild elephant or a mass exodu...
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