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August 12th, 2008

Brussels, 12 August 2008 - On 15 August, EURid’s Belgian and Italian offices will be closed due to a public holiday. While our other offices will be …

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VeriSign Reports $68 Million Loss; 87.3 Million .com/.net Domains

August 8th, 2008

VeriSign reported a US$68 million loss this week that was made worse by the costs involved in restructuring and selling off non-core businesses. The report also noted there were approximately 87.3 million active domain names.
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Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank

August 4th, 2008

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.

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Second .sport gTLD Proposal Launched

August 4th, 2008

ICANN’s recent announcement they will begin a process to approve more gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains) has generated significant interest with a number of proposals mooted. One TLD that seems to be popular is .sport with two proposals …

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Google makes a 5 Figure Offer for KNOL.com

July 31st, 2008

The family Knol have been the owner of the domain name knol.com for many years and it looks like Google is interested in purchasing the domain! Google has reportedly offered a sum of five zeros. That is what owner Hilco Knol reported in …
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ICANN Publishes 2008 Semi-Annual Contractual Compliance Audit Report

July 30th, 2008

ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Department publishes its second semi-annual Registrar and Registry Contractual Compliance Audit Report. This report summarizes ICANN’s audit activities from October 2007 through June 2008. …
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Red Cross Society of China Launches Official Mobile Site

July 29th, 2008

BEIJING, China, DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, DC – July 29, 2008 – In response to …

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Villas.com Sells for €305000

July 24th, 2008

The Sedo auction for Villas.com has just closed with the name selling for €305000, making it the eighth biggest sale to date in 2008 according to Domain Name Journal’s Year to Date sales chart, assuming money changes hand. …
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Scottish family lose Narnia.mobi

July 23rd, 2008

The dispute that arose a couple of months ago of the Estate of CS Lewis challenging the Scottish family that bought the domain name narnia.mobi for their eleven year old boy has been resolved with the estate winning the domain name.

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.GP Two-letter Domain Names Half Price in July

July 22nd, 2008

Throughout the month of July, two-letter .gp (the Guadeloupe ccTLD) domain names can be purchased for the same price as a regular .gp domain name.
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