Patrick Rudell Purchases ScienceFiction.com For $175,000 USD

December 25, 2010
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Patrick Rudell Purchases ScienceFiction.com For $175,000 USD

Domain Industry blogger and broker at Domain Name firm Moniker, Patrick Rudell, also known as Chef Patrick, has launched a new website at ScienceFiction.com. He purchased the domain name after previous lease owner defaulted for $175,000 USD. The whois still currently shows Domain Capital. Rudell partnered with two sci-fi geek friends, one of which...

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Dutch Anti-Piraciy Group Takes Down Download Sites

December 25, 2010
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Dutch Anti-Piraciy Group Takes Down Download Sites

After US authorities seized domain names twice earlier this year, a Dutch Anti-Piracy group  (BREIN) has now been able to follow suit and shut down 29 additional sites by working with the MPAA and the sites’ hosting providers; in this case the domain names itself were apparently not seized. The last set of seized...

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Nominet passes 9 Million Domain Mark

December 25, 2010
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Nominet passes 9 Million Domain Mark

This week the .uk register passed nine million registrations. The 9 millionth domain name, active2011.co.uk, was registered by the Nirvana Spa and Pulse 8 Health & Fitness Club based in Wokingham. 2010 has the .uk registry operator, has seen a net increase of one million domains registered in the last year. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com...

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Afternic DLS Enables New Partners for Premium Promotion Level

December 25, 2010
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Afternic DLS Enables New Partners for Premium Promotion Level

What some Afternic members may have already noticed yesterday, when they logged into their interfaces and were prompted to enable some domains registered at the newly supported registrars for the highest promotion level, has become official today: Moniker and eNom can now fully integrated, meaning that you can now list domains registered there on...

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InternetBrandAuction to Hold Live Domain Auction in Los Angeles

December 25, 2010
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InternetBrandAuction to Hold Live Domain Auction in Los Angeles

InternetBrandAuction is holding a live domain auction in Los Angeles tomorrow in the Downtown LA Ritz Carlton, starting at 9am PST (12 noon EST). The auction, which is scheduled for a total time frame of 2 hours with 31 domains. The auction features a broad range of domain names covering a large span of...

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Domain Naming Reaches New Heights

December 25, 2010
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It’s a boom time for domain names as more people and more marketers flock to the Internet. Domain names have grown 7% in one year, with more than 41,000 new ones added each day, on average, last quarter. Online ad revenue in the U.S. is expected to reach $25 billion this year, according to...

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YouNews.com sells for $40,000

December 12, 2010
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YouNews.com sells for $40,000

YouNews.com domain name was sold through the Sedo domain name marketplace for $40,000 .According to whois records the domain name was first registered 11 years ago,in 1999 .

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ICANN Board Plans Consultation with Government Representatives on New Generic Top-Level Domains and .XXX Top-Level Domain

December 12, 2010
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ICANN Board Plans Consultation with Government Representatives on New Generic Top-Level Domains and .XXX Top-Level Domain

ICANN’s Board of Directors plans an extended meeting with its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to resolve the remaining concerns of the committee’s members over ICANN’s plans to expand the current number of 21 generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as .com, .net and .gov.

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VeriSign Deploys DNS Security Extensions in .net Zone

December 12, 2010
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VeriSign Deploys DNS Security Extensions in .net Zone

VeriSign, the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world announced it has deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .net zone.

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ICANN intends to contract with ICM Registry for the use of .XXX

December 12, 2010
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ICANN intends to contract with ICM Registry for the use of .XXX

ICANN board intends to contract with the ICM Registry for the use of .XXX as TLD (Top-Level domain name).ICM Registry said that the .XXX TLD will have the same rights as .COM , .NET and other TLDs.

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