20 November 2012

Domain Name Seizures - Feds shut down more than 700 websites

Adweek
"While I do not support copyright infringement, these domain name seizures have resulted in the removal of websites containing lawful content, without notice or a hearing for the website owner," Lofgren said in a statement. In two instances, against the hip-hop blog Dajaz1 and sports Streaming siteRojadirecta, the government was forced to drop its case after it realized it lacked evidence to support a charge of copyright infringement ...

Nets-related domain name redirects users to Knicks homepage
New York Post
The owner of the domain name remains unclear, but several months back, the URL brought you to the homepage of Cyber Mesa, a telecommunications company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Deadspin reported. Speculation arose online that the true ...

New York Post

How to Go About Domain Name Registration
PRWire
Most companies that offer hosting also provide domain name registration and web designing services. So you do not need to go anywhere else once you reach them. Some of them also offer free registration of domain names if you take the entire package.

At Formula 1 race, a brilliant use of a domain name
Domain Name Wire
Formula 1 racing returned to United States' soil yesterday with a race at the new Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Living in Austin, I've heard quite a bit about the race, the investors, and the building of the track over the past couple years. It's ...

Cupid in legal fight for French domain name
Herald Scotland
According to legal papers seen by The Herald, Cupid has been challenged by continental rival Cupidon over the Scottish company's use of the Cupidon.com domain name it bought 18 months ago. The result of the case, which is being heard by the Tribunal ...

.CO Internet Offers Perks to Startups With a .CO Domain
Web Host Industry Review
Net sponsored a Startup Weekend in Orlando. To sign up, members enter their email address and existing .co domain name. If they don't have a .co domain, they can register through the i.go.cosite. The membership program is in beta, and is available to ...

New Model for Monetizing/Leasing Long Tail Domains?
Domain Name News
If the client buys a package that costs $29.99 monthly, the domain seller will throw in the domain name. The terms and conditions don't appear to show if the buyer gets ownership of the domain name at all or is just subscribing for a perpetual lease.

Domain Name News

Reading Phillies get a name change
Bizjournals.com
The big reveal was usurped by published reports earlier in the week that the franchise had registered the “www.readingfightinphils.com” domain name along with other variations of the new moniker. The team also announced its new name will be highlighted ...

Google Takes on Tiny Doogle
ABC News (blog)
He is so encouraged by the show of interest to persevere in a potential legal battle to save his business and domain name, www.doogle.co.za. Van Der Merwe said he received a letter last month from attorneys at Google threatening to sue him for ...

ABC News (blog)

How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service
Ars Technica
"I bought the Goatse domain from Sedo.com," Bob told Ars when asked how he came to possess the name. It was a late-night purchase, and the desire to own the site stemmed from repeated exposure to it years earlier in university computer labs. The cost ...

Court: 1st Amendment Protects Domain Names
Opposing Views
As with many new issues involving the Internet, the proper method of analysis to determine whether a domain name is commercial speech or a more vigorously protected form of speech is res nova. A domain name, which in itself could qualify as ordinary ...

6 Ways Amazon Cloud Helped Obama Win
InformationWeek
The long list of Amazon cloud services the Obama team tapped into included compute power and storage, Domain Name Service, distributed queue messaging, NoSQL and relational database services, bulk emailer services, virtual private cloud services, ...

Brunei: a majestic kingdom of rich experiences
eTurboNews
When asked about the benefits of marketing with .travel, a Brunei Tourism representative stated, “Having a .travel domain represents a convenient and easy way to identify genuine travel entities. It should be a must for those in the industry to adopt...

eTurboNews

Taking the 'Co' Out of .Co.Uk - Nominet's High-Risk Plan to Rebrand UK Domains
Business 2 Community
Consumers are why the internet makes up a massive 8.3% of the UK's GDP, and 93% of all UK domain names (.org.uk, .me.uk etc) use .co.uk. The .co.uk name is internationally recognised, it's Europe's second most popular extension behind Germany's .de ...

Modria's Fairness Engine: Justice On Demand
InformationWeek
Rule compares Modria to the dispute resolution service providers that hear domain name complaints under ICANN's rules. The way ICANN has resolved domain name disputes, however, has not been without criticism. ICANN's process allows complainants to ...

Italian ISP Aruba.it Prepares For European Expansion
TechWeekEurope UK
At the turn of the millennium, the company expanded its offering to include dial-up Internet, domain name registration, web hosting and email accounts under the newname – Aruba.it. In 2003, Aruba opened its first data centre in Arezzo. Shortly after ...
 
TechWeekEurope UK

TripAdvisor: Helping travelers plan
CBS News
RJ: How did you choose the name "TripAdvisor?" What were some of the other names you considered? SK: We wanted something descriptive, but all the interesting domainnames were taken. We started life as TripResearch.com, but changed to the friendlier...

CBS News

Using your real name for your domain name for SEO
By Outside Source Design
Until recently, if your domain name contained the keywords people searched for for your type of business—e.g., washingmachinerepair.com—you were almost guaranteed to be on the first page of Google search results. However, Google no ...
Outside Source Design

Change default language depending domain name | CodeIgniter ...
Hi, I have 1 hosting and 2 domains. Depending the domain name I want to load a default language but I can't. When I enter with the 2 differents domains CI load the same default language. Is there a way to change de default language?
CodeIgniter Forums

Domaining MBA Monday: Selling Domains To End-Users, Part Two ...
By Morgan
An inbound inquiry takes place when an end-user wants to buy your domain name and contacts you directly typically through the email located in your WHOIS information or on any contact form located on the site itself. Before going-into detail ...
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Weather Site Gets $3.5M Judgment: Defendants Sued for ...
By admin
Under the 13-year-old ACPA, a company or individual can face statutory penalties of $1,000 to $100,000 per violation if a domain name is registered, used or trafficked in bad faith, and is confusingly similar with someone else's trademark.
Rader Fishman & Grauer - Intellectual...

Give the Gift of Premium Web Services
By Whitson Gordon
They may not know it, but a personalized domain name can come in extremely handy, and will only get more important as time goes on. They can post their online CV or resume there, redirect it to their Twitter or Facebook page, and further ...
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DomainSherpa

Similarities between a Good Bloggers and Mothers
By Joe Clark
So should you when it comes to choosing a domain name for your blog. Choose the domain namewisely because you can not rename your website later. Make sure that your domain name should be related to the stuff you are going to place ...
The ComLuv Network

Home.Co Sells On Sedo For $24,999 | TheDomains.com – Domain ...
By Michael Berkens
The domain name Home.Co just sold on on Sedo.com for $24999 The domain was part of the .Co auction for Start ups There are 11 applications for the new gTLD .home including by Godaddy.com, Google, Frank Schillings Uniregistry and ...
TheDomains.com - Domain Blog

Cannot use my domain name in a new web hosting account ...
Hello. I am trying to delete my domain name from one of my web hosting accounts but the delete option is not enabled for the domain in the hosted sites list. I.
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Cannot register custom domain name to blogger. Error 14 - Google ...
Cannot register custom domain name to blogger. Error 14, Typijay, 11/18/12 1:29 PM, "We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 14.
productforums.google.com/d/topic/blogger/86Ldrox_Yzk

How to change domain name - Web Hosting Hub
How to change domain name. ... Hi, Yesterday I bought a domain name, but i need to change itsname, is it possible without any extra charge ? thank you. Inés ...
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