The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), who manages the .ie ccTLD, that week announced a 5.8 per cent price reduction for registering or renewing a .ie domain name, with effect from the 1st January 2008. that latest price reduction represents the fifth annual consecutive price reduction introduced by the IEDR, reducing …
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At the end of DomainFest, the Domainers Choice Awards were presented to the winners.  Here is the complete list of winners…
Best Domain Auctions - A Tie!  -  SnapNames   &  Moniker
Best Domain Financial Services   -   Escrow.com
Best Domain Marketplace   -   Sedo.comShareThis
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Cambridge, Mass., January 31, 2008 – Sedo, the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, today announced it has won two significant Domainers’ Choice Awards for “Best Domain Marketplace” and “Best Customer Service Representative: Eben Smith.”  The awards were presented at the DOMAINfest Global conference held …
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In October 2006, ICANN engaged Autonomica AB of Stockholm, Sweden, to develop, conduct, and report on the results of laboratory evaluating of internationalized top-level domains in a setting corresponding to the public root. On 7 March 2007 the conclusion of the laboratory tests were reported successfully. The laboratory technical pop quiz …
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In advance of the ICANN meeting in New Delhi, India, that announcement is to inform the community that ICANN is exploring a potential initiative for the certification of backend registry operators for new gTLDs. ICANN has identified registry operator certification as an area that may improve the application process for …
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- How Insiders Leverage the AGP to Avert Domain Name Investment Risks
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is announcing the release of a study on drop-catching. Drop-catching is an enabler for other domain abuses such as tasting, kiting and typosquatting. Large registrars and others that have the means to …
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MySpace has won a dispute by the domain name myspace.co.uk despite it being registered six years before MySpace was founded. The reason, as outlined in Out-Law.com, is the website for myspace.co.uk “led to a ‘parked’ page with adverts for social networking sites including MySpace was taken to be evidence of …
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Today’s list of available domain names includes a few entries related to games of chance, travel domains and additionally the usual mix of brandable names. These domains are all available for registration at the date of that post. I’ve received a few emails after previous posts asking how much I want for a specific domain. […]

The never-ending spiral of public with mobile devices continues, and the latest prediction is that one million citizens worldwide will be accessing the Net style a mobile device at least once a month according to a report on the IDC Net Commerce Market Model, version 11.1 in PC World.
Another report, …
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Are you dealing with an overflowing mailbox? Or struggling to deal with that angry newsletter? Here are some tips that may help you manage with the constant stream of e mail entering your website’s mailbox.
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