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My last experience with Namejet support was smooth and most importantly pretty fast considering the timing of my support ticket. I contacted support a few hours before 2013 and I got a reply almost immediately …

Target had it’s UDRP complaint denied for the domain name TargetApplication.com. Panel said that a website with advertising links, can be a legitimate use, and that the presence of pay-per-click links on its site does …

If you need some inspiration to start off this year you need to watch this. Olympiacos Piraeus from Greece came back from 19 points behind, with 12 minutes to go, to win 62-61 the 2012 …

I am starting 2013 with some hope that things will be better than the past 2 years. 2011 and 2012 were pretty rough years on my family. These were the 2 worst years of my …

I have setup my own sales landers for about 5000 of my domain names. (more on this at a forthcoming article) I did that a couple of months back when I started leaving Sedo. At …

I just got an email from Namejet informing me that I entered a private auction for the domain name pack.org. The domain dropped on the 28th of November and it was caught by Namejet. The …

Helion.com got a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum a month after it was sold at Snapnames for $9,445. The domain was caught by Snapnames on the 7th  of October 2012 and the auction …

This could have been a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) case but it seems that John Berryhill didn’t ask for a RDNH finding. He might have thought that the two pending CTM applications that were …

Bloomberg reported today that Fresh Direct that is an online grocer that operates in New York City and surrounding areas, had a website outage after failing to renew its domain name FreshDirect.com. The domain expired …

Tomorrow it is 2 weeks after the auction ended at Go Daddy. Afilias ran an exclusive .info auction at Go Daddy for 106 domains that had been reserved since 2001. These .info sunrise domains had …

The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and .eu registry EURid have been running a special fee reduction to make the .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process more affordable. The cost of a basic proceeding has been cut …

ICANN’s last “new gTLD” Weekly Update for 2012 took a look back at everything that was accomplished this year. A significant progress moving the New gTLD Program forward was achieved. In 2013 New gTLD applications …

ICANN has collected approximately US$355 million of application fees from applicants for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the New gTLD Program (net from pre-reveal withdrawals). The purpose of these application fees is to cover the …

ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …