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Domain Name Wire
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News and Views for the Domain Name Industry
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GoDaddy and .Co take center stage with Super Bowl Commercials
Over 100 million will watch GoDaddy Super Bowl commercials tonight. The world’s largest registrar along with the .co top level domain will get a lot of attention today. That’s because GoDaddy will air two Super Bowl ads today, including one about the .co domain name. The first half commercial stars lingerie model Natalia Velez getting [...]
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Occupy.com domain name sells
Domain has new owner but identity is unknown. Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold. It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois privacy. But the buyer definitely wants to capitalize on the movement. It started a logo design contest [...]
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How Twitter was named and bought Twitter.com for $7,500
Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company. Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500. Stone and his co-founders wanted a name that showed “urgency”. They came up with Jitter, but thought that sounded negative. One of his partners [...]
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Tucows launches Ting mobile phone service
Tucows branches out, enters mobile phone business. Tucows, which owns one of the world’s largest domain registrars, officially launched mobile phone service Ting today. In a press release, Tucows CEO Elliot Noss said: “What people are forced to put up with from mobile service providers just doesn’t make sense. It’s too complicated, too opaque, too [...]
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James Brown estate doesn’t “feel good” after domain dispute
Godfather of Soul’s domain name can stay with management company. The estate of James Brown has lost a domain arbitration case for the domain name JamesBrown.com. The domain is owned by LAC Management, Inc., which manages “RJ & The James Brown Band”. LAC argued that James Brown gave at least his tacit consent for it [...]
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