Domain News: Weekly Digest, November 6, 2011

• 10 years of fights over .uk names - BBC News

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  10 years of fights over .uk names BBC News By Leo Kelion Business reporter Huw Marshall, a resident of Wrexham in North Wales, was pitted against Stoneygate 48, a company set up by the Manchester United player to exploit his name and image rights. Mr Marshall had registered the domain name … and more »

• Scammers bank on URL typos, steal secrets, sales - San Francisco Chronicle

  Scammers bank on URL typos, steal secrets, sales San Francisco Chronicle Sites can also submit a complaint to ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees domain names, but have to prove that squatters are using their name in "bad faith." In recent months, Google filed complaints with ICANN against two sites in the Philippines that …

• SIMMONS: Brown should be red-faced over Web link’s lapse - Washington Times

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  SIMMONS: Brown should be red-faced over Web link's lapse Washington Times If you want to see what the chairman of the DC Council is up to, your best bet is to tweet, email or reach his office the old-fashioned way because his Web domain name expired on Saturday. After making a kind of a big whoop-de-doo about the launch of …

• Internet Group Makes Way for Dot-Anything - Voice of America

  Internet Group Makes Way for Dot-Anything Voice of America BRAD WHITE: "This marks one of the biggest changes in the Internet's domain name system, the addressing system of the Internet, that has ever occurred. We want to make sure that the process of getting these gTLDs into the Internet's root is methodical, …

• StumbleUpon Buys Stumbled.com - Domain Name Wire

  StumbleUpon Buys Stumbled.com Domain Name Wire Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names. Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. Social sharing web site buys another variation of “stumble”. … and more »

• Apple Targets Porn Websites that Use the Word iPhone - ITProPortal

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  Apple Targets Porn Websites that Use the Word iPhone ITProPortal It is hard to believe that iPhones are more popular than sex, but Apple is determined to pursue adult sites that rely on the word "iPhone" in their domain name to attract visitors. Apple's people are quite fierce when protecting the company's brand and …

• Former Sedo broker Frank Aiello Joins Domain Holdings - Domain Name Wire

  Former Sedo broker Frank Aiello Joins Domain Holdings Domain Name Wire Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names. Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. Domain Name Wire has learned that former Sedo domain name broker Frank Aiello … and more »

• NASDAQ Volume Active Stocks are - VRSN, WWWW, PLAB, VPHM, GERN - Retirement Planning

  NASDAQ Volume Active Stocks are - VRSN, WWWW, PLAB, VPHM, GERN Retirement Planning It provides domain name registry services and infrastructure assurance services. Its business consists of Naming Services segment, which consists of Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability (NIA) Services. …

• Amazon hints at keyword traffic - Lost Press Marketing

  Amazon hints at keyword traffic Lost Press Marketing The crew over at Domain Name Wire have picked up on an interesting registration by Amazon of several Christmas and Black Friday related generic exact match domains. These .com domains enable Amazon to benefit globally but a number of the terms are very …

• How Occupy Duluth got here - Duluth News Tribune

  How Occupy Duluth got here Duluth News Tribune Canadian magazine “Adbusters” registers the domain name occupywallstreet.org” and by July makes a pitch in the anti-consumerism magazine calling for a peaceful demonstration at Wall Street in New York. The divisive debt-ceiling debate brings activists … and more »

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