Google Domains: A New $12 Domain Registration Service Google Is Testing
Google is dipping its toes into the domain registrar business. The company today announced a beta service called Google Domains that...
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Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain
Amazon’s bid to own and operate .amazon as a new, generic top-level domain (gTLD) has been rejected. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for...
.Guru(s) Galore: New Top-Level Domain Passes 50K Registrations
Nevermind that the label/title “guru” has been getting mocked for years. That’s not stopping anyone from registering domains using the...
Senator Jay Rockefeller Asks ICANN To Kill .sucks Domains
Pardon the obvious pun, but a US Senator thinks one of ICANN’s new generic top-level domains … well … sucks. West Virginia’s Jay...
200,000+ Generic TLDs Have Been Officially Registered
As of last night, the 200,000 mark has been broken in Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). According to Domain Incite the number hit...
KPMG Says It’s Leaving .Com For .KPMG Domain, Wrongly Cites SEO As A Reason
David Green, KPMG’s chief of digital marketing, revealed the company’s plans in a recent interview with World Intellectual Property...
Yahoo Is About To Do A Garage Sale For 100+ Unused Domains
Yahoo found some unwanted and unused goods, and is putting them up for auction. The big difference in Yahoo’s garage sale is that it’s...
GoDaddy Opens Pre-Registration On 4 New TLDs, Including .Luxury At $1,200
GoDaddy has announced that it’s taking pre-registrations for four new TLDs: .uno .menu .build .luxury For each domain, GoDaddy is...
Microsoft Wins 13 Bing-Related Domains From Squatter
In a decision announced last week, Microsoft won 13 domains from a cybersquatter based in Taiwan. It was a quick case. Microsoft...
Pinterest Gets Control Of 100 Domains, Wins $7.2 Million In Cybersquatting Case
A federal judge ruled in Pinterest’s favor this week, granting the company $7.2 million in damages and the control of 100 domains that...
Google Job Postings Offer Insight On Company’s Future Top Level Domain Program
job postings that offer evidence supporting the company’s plans to grow its top level domain name program. The job postings are both for...
ICANN Rejects Google’s Plan For Dotless Search Top-Level Domain
ICANN ruled this week that dotless domains are prohibited, citing “the current security and stability risks” that have been identified in...
Amazon Beats Pinterest In Fight Over .Pin Domain
In a decision issued this week, a World Intellectual Property Organization mediator rejected Pinterest’s objection to Amazon’s...
Why Are Banner Ads Showing Up On Popular Websites Like Apple.com & Bing.com?
article, two CMA Communications customers have reported banner ads being injected directly into webpages on popular websites, and they...
Pinterest Takes On Two Domain Fights: Pinterest.info & Amazon’s .pin Request
Firstly, Pinterest has formally objected to Amazon’s request to own a new .pin domain. That’s one of 75 new domains that Amazon applied...
FairSearch Objects To Google’s “Top-Domain Name Land Grab”
The organization — which is backed by the likes of Microsoft, TripAdvisor, Nokia and other Google competitors — announced today that it...
Foes Line Up Against Amazon’s Domain Desires [Report]
Wall Street Journal report. The paper says the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Barnes & Noble have all told the...
ICANN Aims To Help Brands With Domain Trademark Clearinghouse
According to ICANN’s announcement, the clearinghouse will open on March 26th at trademark-clearinghouse.com. Rights owners will be able...
U.S., Euro Governments Seize 132 Domain Names Selling Counterfeit Goods
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that 132 domain names have been seized this year in two campaigns...
GoDaddy DNS Hack That Took Down Millions Of Sites Allegedly Came From Member Of Anonymous
Anonymous” took claim to the outages as his own doing. The Twitter account AnonymousOwn3r has confessed to the alleged attack saying:...
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