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News > July 2011

25-Jul-2011

Domain Name Thief Finally Sentenced

Last week history was made when the first individual was sentenced, following being found guilty of domain theft. Although there have bee...

19-Jul-2011

Domainmonster.com to treat .CO Domains as premium back orders

Domainmonster.com today announce comprehensive support for customers to secure expiring .CO domain name back orders, using its domain bac...

15-Jul-2011

Domainmonster awarded 1st .CO Domain Accreditation for the UK

Mesh Digital’s Domainmonster.com and Domainbox.com domain name registrar brands, today announced their accreditation as the 1st .CO accre...

14-Jul-2011

What's a Typo Domain Worth?

We all know how important it is to protect your brand when you’re registering your domain names, and getting your company or brand name i...

13-Jul-2011

Citrix Purchase Cloud.com Domain

It has been reported on several technology blogs that Citrix Systems has purchased cloud.com for a somewhere between $200 and $250 millio...

12-Jul-2011

Google continue Design Overhaul

Google recently posted on their Gmail blog letting the world now that Gmail was getting an overhaul. Jason Cornwell, a User Experience De...

08-Jul-2011

Google Remove 11 Million .co.cc Domains

It was reported yesterday that Google has taken the decision to delete around 11 million .co.cc sub domains from its search index, meanin...

07-Jul-2011

ICANN Allocate $750k for Advertising New TLDs

After much deliberation ICANN finally approved the New TLD Program at a meeting in Singapore last month. The application period does not ...

06-Jul-2011

Nominet Propose Variable Registration Periods

Nominet, the organisation that oversees the .uk namespace is now considering variable registration periods, similar to other domain types...

05-Jul-2011

Domains to be Seized by US Government

Drastic new measures are being used by the US government to seize files and domains even if the guilty party is based outside of the Unit...

04-Jul-2011

SEDO to Increase Domain Selling Fees

If you need to sell a domain name the likelihood is, you will seek help from one of the big auction providers out there. One of the popul...

01-Jul-2011

ICANN Sued Over Expired Domains

A woman from Oregon has sued ICANN over a number of expired domain names, after she claims that they did not do a good enough job realloc...