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.ME Domain Name Registry Holds Social Media Contest
The .ME domain name registry, .ME Registry, is holding a social media contest. There are prizes for everyone who participates during this social media contest, and three grand prize winners will receive a Canon EOS Rebel T3 Camera. [Read more…]
Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk Hacked, Hosting Malware on Site
It looks like Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk, the search engine for domain names, has been hacked, and apparently is hosting malware on their web site. These messages started appearing to visitors of both Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk within the past 24 hours, and I have verified that users are still getting these messages. [Read more…]
Was Godaddy Caught Registering Domains Names After Availability Lookup?
Godaddy, the domain name registrar, has apparently been caught registering domain names after someone has looked up the availability of a domain name. This guy claims that he looked up a domain name to see if that domain name was available. The domain name was available, but apparently he did not register the domain name that day. He came back a few days later to find that the domain name had been registered by, low and behold: Godaddy themselves. [Read more…]
Microsoft Registers Outlook Domain Names: A Lesson In Protecting Your Brand
Microsoft recently launched Outlook.com as a new online email service, to rival Google’s Gmail. Hotmail.com will be replaced by Outlook.com. On the same day that Microsoft rebooted Outlook.com, they registered a whole slew of similar domain names–in a move that looks like it’s mainly to protect the Outlook brand. [Read more…]
Thomson Reuters Agrees to Acquire MarkMonitor
Thomson Reuters has signed an agreement to purchase MarkMonitor. This acquisition of MarkMonitor, based in San Francisco, California, is said to “strengthen the broad portfolio of intellectual property solutions from Thomson Reuters”. The completion of the acquisition is, of course, subject to standard regulatory approvals, and the actual terms of the transaction were not disclosed publicly. [Read more…]
Microsoft Registers 43 Microsoft Surface Domain Names
In the past 24 hours, Microsoft has registered 43 new domain names–all related to their new Microsoft Surface tablet. These new domain registrations were done a day after their announcement of this new product. [Read more…]
Wikipedia Registers 11 New Domain Names
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has just registered 11 new domain names in the past 24 hours. Usually moves like this indicate upcoming projects, especially because Wikipedia does not have a history of regularly registering new domain names. [Read more…]
Intellectual Property Domain Name Scam Still Running Rampant
There is what I would call an intellectual property domain name scam that companies are still falling for–and the individuals behind the scam have been successfully running it for over 10 years now. If you are a domain name owner (and most likely you do own a domain name), then you may at some point receive an email from someone in China telling you that someone is trying to register a domain name that is similar to your intellectual property. They want you to reply to them, so you can then pay them ridiculous fees to register useless domain names. [Read more…]
Apple Reveals iPhone4N Via Domain Name Registration?
Did Apple just reveal the name of the next Apple iPhone, the iPhone 4N via a new domain name registration? Based on whois records, Apple has apparently purchased the domain name iPhone4n.com: [Read more…]