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Fri 10th July 2015
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new … - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain | ET Telecom - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1,000 • The … - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
Thu 9th July 2015
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Merchant Law Group | Businesses love .LOVE – CNW Group - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Businesses love .LOVE - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Lack of ccTLD Growth in Africa Only Partially Due to Internet Penetration - ICANN says that, "the lack of ccTLD growth in africa is due to Internet penetration". However, Gideon Rop of DotConnectAfrica and an Internet Governance expert in the African landscape, expressed a different opinion during the Africa DNS forum in Nairobi: "The Internet penetration in Africa is listed as among the highest rising in the world, especially if you factor in the mobile phone penetration, which loosely translates to internet connectivity. The broadband pricing may still be higher ... read more ...
 
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RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore. Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ... read more ...
 
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN suspends Freenom for cybersquatting competitors’ brands – Update … -

Freenom.com, a provider of registry services that has built a business indication on partnering with little or building countries such as Tokelau (‘.tk’), Mali (‘.ml’), Gabon (‘.ga’), a Central African Republic (‘.cf’) and Equatorial Guinea (‘.gq’) and charity mostly giveaway domain name registrations, has had a registrar…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Wed 8th July 2015
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NetNames has a pop at Vox Populi | IPPro The Internet news | ipprotheinternet … - A third competition regulator has been brought into the dispute over Vox Populi Registry’s pricing strategy for the .sucks gTLD. Online brand protection company NetNames has filed a complaint with the European Commission, arguing that charging brand owners $1,999 per year while others pay just $10 is unfair. Vox Populi demanded $1,999 from brands during sunrise, with yearly renewals charged at the same rate. But during general availability, which opened in late June, consumers only had to part ... read more ...
 
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NetNames has a pop at Vox Populi - A third competition regulator has been brought into the dispute over Vox Populi Registry’s pricing strategy for the .sucks gTLD. Online brand protection company NetNames has filed a complaint with the European Commission, arguing that charging brand owners $1,999 per year while others pay just $10 is unfair. Vox Populi demanded $1,999 from brands during sunrise, with yearly renewals charged at the same rate. But during general availability, which opened in late June, consumers only had to part ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2015
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Afilias Adds .PROMO To Its Expanding List of Top Level Domains – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> Global domain registry operator Afilias announced today they are expanding their new top level domain (TLD) portfolio to include dotPROMO (.PROMO), the new home of promotional offers on the web. Promotions have become an integral part of almost every sales process worldwide, especially branded products. According Razorfish’s 2015 Global Digital Marketing Report, ... read more ...
 
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NetNames files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox … - NetNames.com has filed a  complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10 According to NetNames.com which is a brand protection company representing many trademark holders, Vox Populi created an uneven pricing structure that effectively charges brands a premium fee irrespective of when they applied to register a .SUCKS new gTLD domain ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames opens its premium domain store - AlpNames targets high-value, prestige domain customers with its new AlpNames Premium brand.Tuesday 7th July 2015, Gibraltar: AlpNames, now the world's second largest new gTLD registrar, is continuing its growth plans with the opening of its AlpNames Premium virtual store which markets highly valuable domain names.The company, which already manages over 500,000 domain names on behalf of its customers, is broadening its range of products to include highly sought after 'premium names'. Premium domain ... read more ...
 
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European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld - Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain” takes a look at several businesses that have ditched their .com or country code in favor of a new gtld. AnimalHealthAssociates.org switched to AHA.vet, I get that one a short easy to remember name where the extension represents your profession. AHA.com would not be attainable so this is not bad imo. Bresse.Fr switched ... read more ...
Mon 6th July 2015
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Africa’s participation in ICANN worrying - Africa's participation in ICANN worrying Africa's participation in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) is worrying with very few countries registering and adopting local domain names. This is according to Pierre Dandjinou, the vice president of Stakeholder Engagement for ICANN in Africa, most countries average around 500 local domain registrations. Kenya has an average of 40,000 .ke domains registered to date. Nigeria is said ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Latest State of Abuse Report Shows .Science leads New G’s when it … - Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May, Ten New gTLDs comprised 77% of the 143 new phishing reports in May 2015. This equates to 24 phishing reports per million new gTLD domains under management. The .xyz TLD had the highest number of phishing reports with 42 followed by .science with 22 and .club with 9. When it comes to spam .Science leads the way, not a ... read more ...
Sun 5th July 2015
 
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Aplican evaluación docente para nivel medio superior - Este domingo continúa la aplicación de las evaluaciones para el ingreso de maestros y promoción a cargos de director, supervisor y asesores técnicos pedagógicos en la educación media superior, indicó la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) . A través de su cuenta de Twitter, @SEP_mx, la dependencia federal recordó que este 5 de julio concursan 21 mil 596 aspirantes en las evaluaciones para el ingreso y la promoción en el citado nivel educativo. Detalló que en las evaluaciones ... read more ...
 
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Potencial de lluvias en todo el país -   México, DF.- El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) advirtió que el potencial de lluvias de variada intensidad afectará este domingo a todo el país, debido a los efectos de dos ondas tropicales y tres canales de baja presión, en interacción con la entrada de humedad.   Pronostican precipitaciones muy fuertes acompañadas de tormentas eléctricas, posible caída de granizo y viento fuerte en Sonora y Chihuahua, fuertes en Sinaloa, Jalisco, ... read more ...
 
 
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¿Cómo se accede a la eutanasia en Colombia? – El Universal - El pasado viernes 3 de julio, a las 9:32 a.m., el fallecimiento del señor Ovidio González, padre del reconocido caricaturista Julio César González, ‘Matador’, se convirtió en el primer caso de muerte digna en Colombia, desde que se reglamentó la sentencia de la Corte Constitucional, con la resolución 1216 del 20 de abril del 2015, expedida por el Ministerio de Salud, que da luz verde a la eutanasia. Las inconsistencias que se presentaron en el procedimiento de solicitud que realizó el ... read more ...