13 November 2012

Kim DotCom finally gets it right

Kim DotCom finally gets it right--gets a New Zealand domain name--http://mega.co.nz/

Kim DotCom: New Zealand will host new MegaUpload site
CNET (blog)
DotCom announced on Twitter that his new cloud-storage service will use a New Zealand-baseddomain: Mega.co.nz. DotCom attempted to use a domain name from the West African country of Gabon, but that country's administration last week ordered that ...

Why Should I Change My Exact Match Domain?
Search Engine Roundtable
There is a fun thread at Google Webmaster Help where a site owner is asking why should he change his exact match domain to something else when the exact match domain is the official name of his business. Remember, Google launched an exact match ...

The End of .Com Hegemony and the Coming URL Gold Rush
New Republic (blog)
(The Libyan government makes roughly $350,000 a year from the TLD.) And Tuvalu, blessed with the TLD .tv, partnered up with domain name giant Verisign to market themselves to video sites. (Its treasury rakes in considerably more.) Other countries that ...

New Republic (blog)

Aussie Webhost Offering Domain Name Registration Bonanza
PRWire
A premier web hosting and domain name registration provider in Australia, Aussie Webhost is offering all the TDLs registrations at the lowest price of $11 per year plus GST. Domain buyers can purchase domain extensions like .com, .net, .org, .biz, and ...

Kim Dotcom finalises new Mega domain name
ITProPortal
The mega.co.nz domain was introduced on social media with the slogan “powered by legality and protected by the law,” which likely refers to the various difficulties faced by both Kim Dotcom's new online service and its predecessor. Mega has been met ...

Who controls your Domain name?
Business2.com.au
Recently, I read an article on Tech Crunch about a Domain name hijacking that made me think about some of the problems my clients had experienced in the past with similar issues. Diigo a social booking marking site with over 5 million registered users ...

EA Bought Battlefield Domain for $80K, Acquires All Battlefield Sites Up to ...
Gameranx
Domain name tracker and specialist Fusbile has uncovered how much EA ponied up for the "Battlefield.com" domain. Archeo, which focuses on premium domain and advertising marketplace, has revealed its Top 500 Domain Sales (PDF) and one of those ...

Gameranx

Kim Dotcom's Mega gets another domain name
Inquirer
FILE STORAGE MILLIONAIRE Kim Dotcom has found another domain name for his Mega website after it lost its ".ga" domain name suffix last week. Mega, which was to be Me.ga, is now Mega.co.nz. This has an unfortunate connotation, that it is a mega con, ...

Inquirer

ICAP Patent Brokerage to Auction LAWYER.NET, LAWYERS.NET, LAWYER ...
Sacramento Bee
12, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for auction the valuable and historic key word domain name portfolio for "lawyer" and "lawyers" on the Internet. This portfolio includes LAWYER.NET, LAWYERS.NET, LAWYER.ORG, and ...

Coming soon: trademark applications tip off new products
Domain Name Wire
The goods and services mentioned in the application are “Providing non-downloadable software tools for domain name and website research, provision of domain name and website data, domain name and website data analytics.” Just because a company ...

Court says domain name can be seized
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
The domain name of a money-making website was frozen after the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court learned about its ties to the debtor, officials said. Yesterday, a cultural company linked to the debtor came forward and paid the money owed.

Recent Acquistions
Elliot's Blog (blog)
From time to time, I like to share some of my recent domain name acquisitions. I have not really done much hand registering lately, but I have acquired a number of domain names in private and via auction. Listed below are several of my recent acquisitions.

Long Island Exchange Acquires Long Island Real Estate Domain LIRealEstate.net
PR Web (press release)
Real estate agents are often consulted to incorporate the name of their market into their domain name, keeping in mind that domain names with large cities have likely been taken already. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on...

PR Web (press release)

Kenneth Wisnefski Guest Post: Brand Identity through Online Initiatives
Elliot's Blog (blog)
From basic fundamentals of a domain name and brand management, the identity that business owners create for themselves are meant to be impactful, lasting and speak to the organization. Each year, there is a tremendous amount of research conducted to ...

Enforcement Issues In The New gTLD Program – Post-Toronto Update
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
During last month's Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Toronto, various Internet policy stakeholders, including brand owners, came together to discuss the impact of these changes on the domain name system (DNS ...

EuroDNS announces: French Court of Appeal confirms registrars' neutrality
PR Web (press release)
The Court of Appeal however had to rule on claims that would have been tremendously detrimental for the whole domain name industry. The claim of the appellants consisted in asking the Court to impose obligations on registrars that would have required ...

Universal Life Church World Headquarters Takes over the Official ULC Minister ...
SBWire (press release)
The Universal Life Church World Headquarters announces the takeover of the ULCministernetwork.com domain name, wherefore the official ULC Ministers Network is now in the control, where it belongs with the Universal Life Church World Headquarters, ...

Amazon Expands Cloud to AsiaPac With Sydney Site
Data Center Knowledge (blog)
AWS also has an exisiting edge location in Sydney for Route 53, a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, and CloudFront, a web service for content delivery. The new region provides low latency access to AWS services for ...

Data Center Knowledge (blog)

Hill Dickinson LLP | Are domain name squatters a threat to your business?
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
According to recent figures published by the legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell, disputes over internet domain names hit a record high between July 2011 and July 2012. During that period, the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) (which ...

6 Things You Must Do To Get Your First Job After College
Forbes
According to the survey, only one in nine students has a presence on WordPress, which Schawbel says is the best site to put together a personal blog. He also advocates buying your own domain name through a service like GoDaddy.com, and then installing ...

Forbes

WordPress Vanity Email Plugin Provides New Path to Domain Name ...
By Michael Cyger
Ian Clark, author of the WordPress Vanity Email Plugin, talks about an easy new way to generate revenue – by using a WordPress plugin to sell email addresses on a domain name.
DomainSherpa

Domaining MBA Monday: Selling Domains To End-Users, Part One ...
By Morgan
I find that many new Domainers will buy a domain with one specific end-user buyer in mind, but it's often a name that would only be interesting to that one buyer. Then, if that buyer doesn't bite, they're out of options. There's an easy way to ...
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Conquer Europe with .eu domain name | Easyspace Blog |
By Easyspace
With the EU being the biggest trade zone, businesses can reach customers in countries such as Germany, Netherlands, Estonia etc. with only one domain name. Instead of targeting European countries with various Country code TLD's (.co.uk, ...
Easyspace Blog |

The Business Value in Your Organization's Name | SoJo | Ideas into ...
By SoJo
Have you also taken steps to protect your organization's name? Your trade name, the name of your products and services, and even your domain name are all tied to your brand equity or value. That value can be compromised if you ...
SoJo | Ideas into Action

ICANN Develops New Working Partnerships - Domain and ...
By admin
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN <https://www.cscglobal.com/global/web/csc/domain-name-management.html> ) has announced a number of new working partnerships. It comes as the organisation ...
Domain and Trademark Blog

Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance ...
By Kara Swisher
At the time, Demand struck a four-year exclusive deal with Livestrong to create a health and wellness site, and also got a perpetual license to the Livestrong.com domain name. But Armstrong — despite appearing at the Web 2.0 conference in ...
AllThingsD

Billionaire Stephen Mandel is Betting Big On This Stock - Insider ...
By Marshall Hargrave
Verisign is the leading provider of Internet domain name registry services for .com and .net domains, with over 105 million .com domains and 5 million .net domains. The registry operator is currently able to bring in $7.95 per year per domain ...
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Need help with linking blogger blog to domain name - Google ...
Need help with linking blogger blog to domain name, Aanika Milne, 11/8/12 9:40 PM, Hi, I purchased a domain name at Crazy Domains and although I've ...

Canadian Domain Name registration- .CA and .Com
Canadian Domain Name Registrations of Canadian domains, providing .ca Domain nameregistration, renewals, and transfers.

The Latest Scam on Your Domain Name
This latest scam is about DNS service and it comes from a company named DNS Services out of Vancouver, Washington.

Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP WG ...
Home » Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP WG Transcript ...Filename: transcript-locking-domain-name-08nov12-en.pdf. Locking of ...



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