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Tue 14th July 2015
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.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains for their portfolios at special prices. In turn, registrants ... read more ...
 
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Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps -

Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps

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You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain - .Love which launches Thursday,  is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD’s. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices,  actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and not available. One and two character domains are also not available at this time. The normal registration ... read more ...
 
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ALM Media and ‘law’ Domain Announce Strategic Partnership - SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration Between Leading Legal Publisher and New Verified Domain Dedicated to the Legal Profession is Major Milestone on Road to Expanded, Reliable Internet Presence For The Law Community .Law Scheduled to Enter 'Sunrise' Period on July 30 and General Availability on October 12 Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2015
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Independent Review Panel Favored DotConnectAfrica Trust Against ICANN … - In a landmark decision, an Independent Review Process (IRP), at the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has ruled that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has violated its Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation following an expert determination of an IRP suit that was filed by DotConnectAfrica Trust in October 2013 to challenge an ICANN Board decision at the American Arbitration Association (AAA), New York, USA. The DCA vs. ICANN IRP decision was ... read more ...
 
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.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over … - The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the whole price of the EAP fee is $100. This means that Rightside (NAME) just made over $40,000 in just EAP fees in ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: .law partnership with ALM Media - StockMarketWire.com - Minds + Machines, a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, has announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain '.law' across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product rollouts. The announcement was made at Legaltech ... read more ...
 
 
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Nominet: the force is with Disney - A UK fancy dress retailer has been told to give up six .uk and .co.uk domains containing the famous ‘Star Wars’ movie title to The Walt Disney Company. Nominet, through its dispute resolution service covering the .uk and .co.uk TLDs, issued the order on 5 July. Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars movie franchise, which was bought by Disney for $4.06 billion in 2012, requested the transfer of the ‘Star Wars’ domains, all containing variations of the registered trademarks, ... read more ...
Sat 11th July 2015
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1000 - 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 ...
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 - 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 | 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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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…

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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 ...