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The Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) released the 2017-2019 U.S. Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement titled “Supporting Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise: Charting a Path Ahead.” The US government plans …

Luis Carlos Sarmiento, the wealthiest man in Colombia with a net worth of USD$11.6 billion as of 2016, won a UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) complaint today for the domain name luiscarlossarmiento.com. Complainants were two of his …

.CLUB Domains announced today that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has granted a license to .CLUB’s Beijing based wholly foreign-owned entity (WFOE) company, making it among the very first foreign registries of a …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that it has today received official approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) of the People’s Republic of China for MMX’s dot VIP top-level domain. …

.Blog domain names entered General Availability yesterday, November 21, at 15:00 UTC and a few hours later the total number of registered .blog domains was 16,430*. This number includes the domains registered by the registry …

Radix announced today that it recently acquired exclusive rights for the new domain extension, .FUN. The transfer was finalized last month. .FUN’s main competition will probably be Uniregistry’s .LOL extension. Radix now owns 9 strings …

Nominet today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2016. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is …

Dietmar Stefitz, the Domaining Europe founder and event organizer, announced today that the 9th Domaining Europe Conference will take place from the 14th to 16th of May in Berlin. The event venue is going to …

.Blog domains completed landrush on Wednesday and the registry announced the results and they don’t look too good. The landrush resulted in 1000+ registered domains the 7 days of the landrush. Just 36 of these …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of October 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. There are no common keywords in the .com …

.Blog domain names are currently in the Landrush phase but it seems that thousands of domains have been reserved by the registry including ALL 1, 2 and 3 character domain names. Per ICANN (Internet Corporation …

Looking to buy the domain name fashion.blog, music.blog or news.blog? You are out of luck… The .blog domain name registry has registered for itself and its partners about 90 .blog domains. 27 of the domains correspond …

The .Blog registry (owned by WordPress) launched the Landrush Phase for purchasing .blog web addresses. This phase marks the first time non-trademark owners can apply for early access to a .blog domain name. That means anyone …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. GoDaddy reported that overall revenue grew by 15% while domains revenue of $236.6 million, is up 10.0% year over year. 1 …