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Guess The Number of .Website Registrations & Win A GoPro!

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Radix Registry, the company behind .website, .host and .press, is running a giveaway / competition for the launch of .website. The .website launch is now scheduled to take place this afternoon at 1600 UTC. If you can guess correctly the number of .website domain names that are registered during the first day of GA (general availability) you could win a Go Pro Hero 3 … [Read more...] about Guess The Number of .Website Registrations & Win A GoPro!

S4C, The National Assembly of Wales and others Back .Wales & .Cymru

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Getting "anchor tenants" for a new top level domain can be a challenge. However, in the case of .wales & .cymru it looks like the strings have hit a chord, if you'll excuse the pun. Last month during the opening ceremony of the ICANN meeting in London it was announced that the Welsh government would be switching over to the new extensions. Today comes the announcement … [Read more...] about S4C, The National Assembly of Wales and others Back .Wales & .Cymru

DotGreen Is No More

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Kevin reported on this last night. As you can see from the reactions to his post a lot of people are surprised, shocked and even quite upset that the DotGreen application has been withdrawn. It's not the only application for the string, which is why it was withdrawn, but to many people in the ICANN space it was the applicant everyone associated with the string. The … [Read more...] about DotGreen Is No More

Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division

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Melbourne IT has sold off its corporate domains business to CSC domains. They'd previously acquired the division in 2008 when they bought Verisign's DBMS business for US$50 million. The sale netted the company AU$152.5 million (approximately US$157 million, EUR120 million). Here's the full release: MELBOURNE, Australia – 12 March 2013 – Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) today … [Read more...] about Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division

ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs

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ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has announced a firm date for new TLD launch. In a video interview, with Brad White, Fadi Chehadé put April 23rd as a date when the first new TLD could be delegated. He admits, however, that the date may "slip", though this time the "slippage" should be days or weeks and not months. You can watch the full video interview below:   Kevin … [Read more...] about ICANN Sets Firm Launch Date For New TLDs

GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts

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The job vacancy may not have been announced yet, but GoDaddy will be looking for a new CEO. Warren Adelman was officially made CEO of GoDaddy back in December of last year. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire was one of the first to break the story yesterday and also managed to get GoDaddy's founder, Bob Parsons, to make a few comments on the record. Adelman has been with … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts

Irony: Centralnic Create Brand Confusion With New Company Brand Name

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I guess this was inevitable. There are a bunch of domain and internet related companies out there that have totally forgettable and unoriginal names. At some point there's going to be confusion between two or more of them. But you'd also think that any sane company would do a small bit of due diligence to avoid these kind of conflicts when registering a limited company … [Read more...] about Irony: Centralnic Create Brand Confusion With New Company Brand Name