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Tue 23rd June 2015
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LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350% - LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. .MN is the ccTLD for the country of Mongolia LogicBoxes met Datacom’s requirement for a long-term partner that would help them achieve their business goals. It helped setup Datacom on OrderBox, including web email hosting, website builders ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350% – TheDomains.com - LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. .MN is the ccTLD for the country of Mongolia LogicBoxes met Datacom’s requirement for a long-term partner that would help them achieve their business goals. It helped setup Datacom on OrderBox, including web email hosting, website builders ... read more ...
 
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Bill Sweetman “Today, to launch a consumer-facing brand on something other … - CampaignLive.com is a community website focused on the advertising industry, they put out a piece on the new gtlds and looked at the critics and a few who are using the new gtlds. On the critic side there were comments from brands that too much of the profit seems to be coming from a shakedown of those with intellectual property interests. Dot Sucks is discussed in detail, and a mention on Taylor Swift purchasing .porn and .adult. There was upside of Lions Gate Entertainment using a .movie for the ... read more ...
 
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KSregistry shows refreshed website at ICANN Meeting - KSregistry June 22nd, 2015 By:THN News(The Hosting News) – Duly for the 53rd ICANN Meeting that takes place from June 21-25, 2015 in Buenos Aires, the KSregistry GmbH presents its new revised website with clear design, user-friendly structure and comprehensive services. KSregistry, a hundred percent subsidiary of the international registrar Key-Systems, offers customers the customized, technical operation of their registry as well as consulting services for operating of a Top Level Domain (TLD). ... read more ...
 
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TLD Reduces Shimmy Impact on E-bikes - 8:30news Sales Trends WEINSBERG, Germany – Unstable driving behaviour of e-bikes and speed pedelecs caused by the shimmy effect of the handlebar often causes accidents. The TLD inside steering damper can prevent this and ensure a trouble-free ride. Photo: The inside demper prevents shimmy effect with e-bikes. – Photo TLD The shimmy effect generally occurs when the frequencies of various components on the e-bike, like the frame, fork and tires overlay in a mutually reinforcing way. ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
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TLD Security, Spec 11 and Business Implications - After successfully securing your new TLD, launching it, and executing on your meticulously devised marketing plan, the only other concern you face is Security. Unfortunately, predicting exactly when and to what degree a security threat will occur can be difficult but you can take steps to make your new TLD a source of legitimacy and credibility. You may ask: Why security? One obvious reason: Specification 11. As part of the ICANN Registry Agreement, registry operators are required to ... read more ...
 
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Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of … - Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com’s starting  with Barclays recent announcement of the launch of branded domain names .barclays and .barclaycard. Here is the sentence that caught my eye: “There are some interesting whispers from the media and entertainment industry too: Google is ... read more ...
 
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Now You Can Register .sucks Domain Names - Phew, we made it to Monday without the entire corporate world melting down. At midnight yesterday, a new Top-Level-Domain (TLD) went live, joining the ranks of .com, .org and newer upstarts like .london. Now you can register domains with the suffix ".sucks". The TLD has big corporations terrified as it means we could soon see websites like Coke.Sucks, PlayStation.Sucks or BT.Sucks shoot up the Google rankings. According to The Register there have already been allegations that the registrar ... read more ...
 
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Vox Populi cashes in as ‘.sucks’ registration levels are revealed - Trevor Little In April we noted that brands were rushing to secure their trademark terms in the ‘.sucks’ gTLD sunrise period, despite a hefty price tag. This weekend the sunrise closed, and the string hit general availability, giving us the first opportunity to gauge how successful its sunrise period actually was. On first analysis the Vox Populi ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2015
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging  up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499,  with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price,  then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names: markzuckerberg.sucks markzuckerbergreally.sucks mzuckerberg.sucks mzuckerbergtotally.sucks zuck.sucks zuckerberg.sucks zuckerbergreally.sucks zuckerbergtotally.sucks zuckreally.sucks zucks.sucks Guess ... read more ...
Sat 20th June 2015
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What You Need To Know About .Sucks Domain Names - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like Google ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015 … - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live … - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
 
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.BANK Launches With a Bang - The 30-day .BANK Sunrise Period just concluded this week and is notable for several reasons. The .BANK TLD is highly restricted to members of the banking industry. The .BANK Registry (which also has rights to .INSURANCE, launching this fall), was founded by 24 companies and organizations from the banking and insurance industries, The Registry's founders include industry leaders such as the American Banking Association, Citigroup, Dollar Bank, Independent Community Bankers of America, JPMorgan, ... read more ...
 
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Brainstorm Domain Names Launches New Top Level Domain Social Media Sites -   View as PDF  Print View    <!-- --><!-- 'OptFor' this story -->Launch of social media sites to increase exposure of new top level domains (gTLDs) to the public. Brainstorm Domain Names offers information and free search tools to current and new customers.Cedar Rapids, IA, USA - June 19, 2015 /PressCable/ -- Small businesses, online marketers, entrepreneurs and home based businesses looking for increased exposure of new top level domains (gTLDs) to ... read more ...
 
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Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires – Lexology - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
 
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Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet | The New Age … -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Canada weighs in on .sucks debate - Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) has told the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that legal avenues exist to protect trademark owners in the new gTLD programme. Deputy minister of Industry Canada John Knubley, on behalf of the OCA, wrote to ICANN on 9 June, after the corporation’s general counsel, John Jeffrey, asked the OCA and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into .sucks operator Vox Populi Registry. Brands have complained that ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned of new .sucks domains - Imagine the website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in the wrong hands. With new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out soon, companies are advised to ensure their trade marks are adequately protected. Donvay Wegierski, trade mark specialist at Werksmans Attorneys, said .sucks, which is aimed at creating online space for consumers to share opinions about businesses and brands, creates risks for businesses ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Seven Key Topics to Track During ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires | The National Law … - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China’s Domain Name Regulation - Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy (here and here). James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical for any TLD registries that hope to have a better understand of ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .Sucks Domain Names | McGuireWoods LLP … - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like ... read more ...
 
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Jian-Chuan Chang - Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China's Domain Name Regulation Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy. James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical ... read more ...