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Dish DBS and .Hotel applicant file “appeals” to new TLD objection decisions 27 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
Two companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections. The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board...
Mex.com auction ends tomorrow 27 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
Sedo auction for Mex.com ends tomorrow and has just two bidders so far. Here’s an interesting auction for a three letter domain name at Sedo that closes tomorrow: Mex.com. Bidding is currently at 10...
planet.ECO loses objection against TLDH for .eco top level domain name 26 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
TLDH gets a victory in fight over .eco. The latest salvo in the fight for the .eco top level domain name has been successfully defended by Top Level Domain Holdings. A World Intellectual Property Or...
Nau strikes again: Google wins .tours objection against Donuts 26 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
.Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set. Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names. This time ...
Four domain name sessions pitched for SXSW 2014 26 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
Four domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6. Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I id...
Google buys AfricaConnected.com domain name from Mike Mann 26 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
Search giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks li...
Do only 4 new TLDs have a chance of going live this year? 24 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Barring a flurry of activity at ICANN or changes to the name collision mitigation plan, the launch of new TLDs won’t be a 2013 event. ICANN released updated contracting statistics for its new top lev...
GoDaddy CEO named as possible successor to Steve Ballmer at Microsoft 24 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
Wall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. ...
Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN top level domain names 23 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that ar...
How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck 23 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. The guy in the middle got the right panelist. Of the four types of objections that could be lo...
