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Aftermarket Survey Users

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Aftermarket.com are currently conducting a survey of their users. If you complete it (and it really does take about 10 minutes) you can enter for a draw to win $500 of credit, which isn't bad.A lot of the questions relate to how you would like to buy and sell domains via an aftermarket provider, but what makes this survey different is that there are no compulsory questions that … [Read more...] about Aftermarket Survey Users

Mexican Registry Announces Grandfather Option For .mx

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The Mexican domain registry recently announced that they would be making available domain registrations in the top level ie. directly under .mx. At present most domains are registered under a second level, so people end up with company.co.mxThe ability to register directly under .mx should make for some interesting development in the MX namespace when it becomes available later … [Read more...] about Mexican Registry Announces Grandfather Option For .mx

Bido Spam DNForum Users

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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWhile I've mentioned Bido in the past, as I thought it was a cool idea, I won't be in the future.Why not?Because they seem to think it's ok to send spam to members of DNForum. If you want to market your website spamming people about it is NOT the way to do it.Bido claim to be "revolutionary", but spam is hardly a revolution and sending a mass PM … [Read more...] about Bido Spam DNForum Users

Bido To Relaunch Next Week

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Domain auction site Bido.com, which was forced to close last year due to technical issues, is relaunching next week.The first auction is scheduled for February 19th, with the inventory for upcoming auctions being made available on February 16th.What makes Bido that bit different is their approach.Unlike Sedo and other auction sites which offer thousands of domains at any given … [Read more...] about Bido To Relaunch Next Week

Fatboy.ie WIPO Case

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While the number of WIPO UDRP cases involving IE domains is not that big, there are still more than enough to show that trademark holders should pay attention to the IE namespace.The most recent decision involved the domain "fatboy.ie".If you are familiar with them Fatboys are a sort of beanbag. (You can find out more about them here)In this case the domain fatboy.ie was being … [Read more...] about Fatboy.ie WIPO Case

Blackberry WIPO Case

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Image via CrunchBaseResearch In Motion (RIM) are best known as the makers of the Blackberry. In the run up to Christmas last year there was quite a bit of interest shown in two things:The Blackberry StormThe Blackberry Application StoreBoth developments were seen as RIM's attempt to regain market share against Apple and its iPhone and App store.So it's hardly surprising to see … [Read more...] about Blackberry WIPO Case

Namedrive In Security Hell

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I'd hate to be an employee of Namedrive this week.Earlier today word started spreading across multiple fora and blogs that Namedrive had suffered a security breach resulting in user logins being leaked. This supposedly only affected about 1% of their user accounts, but it's obviously highly embarassing for Namedrive.More details over on DomainNameNews … [Read more...] about Namedrive In Security Hell

Dublin.tel Grabbed By Lantec

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During the sunrise period for .eu domains there was quite a bit of controversy, as a number of high profile names were grabbed by companies that had no legitimate right to them.One of the domains that caught my attention at the time was dublin.eu (see Irish Times article).So what about the .tel sunrise?Were companies like Lantec, who grabbed the dublin.eu domain, actively … [Read more...] about Dublin.tel Grabbed By Lantec