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09|01|2010 2:28 pm EDT Breaking: Buyers of DomainName.com Registrar Revealed by Frank Michlick in Categories: News – 9 Comments Share Tags: Tags: DomainManager.com , DomainName.com , namecheap.com , richard kirkendall , Richard Lau . 9 Comments Frank Michlick September 1, 2010 @ 2:28 pm EDT Maybe they bought it because it uses a word from each of their main sites?

Responding to a Domain Name Wire article on whether there is “policy overload” at ICANN and whether they are “handling too many policy efforts at once”, David Olive responds on the ICANN Blog saying the answer with a definitive “no”. Olive writes that “Public Comment periods are vital in satisfying ICANN’s goal to be a bottom-up multi-stakeholder policy making body and to provide openness and transparency in its policy development processes.” “An ICANN policy development process takes time to gather all viewpoints.

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08|31|2010 5:11 pm EDT DomainName.com Registrar Sold by DomainConsultant by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 1 Comment Share Tags: Tags: domainconsultant , DomainName.com , registrar for sale .

Web Hosting News – Scottsdale, AZ -  High visibility companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, Overstock “O.co” and Twitter “T.co” have registered .CO domain names. Overstock.com spent $350,000 for O.co and Twitter took T.co for its shortened URL.

ISOC-IL, the registry for .IL (Israel), has announced they will soon be making available domain names containing Hebrew characters, like איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il. Prior to general availability, ISOC-IL is launching a Sunrise process. There will be four phases in the lead up to making Hebrew .IL domain names available to the general public

New York, NY (Vocus) August 31, 2010 Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar and web hosting provider , will be hosting its first “Back to School” riddles trivia contest on Twitter, featuring thousands of dollars in prizes that include domain name credits and grand prizes of a 16GB WiFi iPad or the all new Amazon Kindle. The contest is scheduled to begin on September 1st and will run through September 7th. “We love building up a strong community around the Namecheap brand, and we’ve found that our trivia contests bring our valued customers together,” says Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap.

The Obama administration has issued a request for domain name registrars to attend a meeting at the White House in late September to look at voluntary ways to crack down on online pharmacies that sell counterfeit prescription medications. The request was sent by White House Senior Adviser for Intellectual Property Enforcement Andrew J.

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