Typosquatting May Earn Google $500 million per year

Researchers at Harvard University have discovered that Google may be
making around half a billion dollars per year via typosquatting, says a
NewScientist report.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

ICANN CEO to Visit China

ICANN logoICANN’s CEO, Rod Beckstrom, will visit China en route to Nairobi this
week, reports IDG. Discussions due to take place are expected to
include talks on China’s application to ICANN “for the globally
supported use of domain names that end in “dot-China,” with the word
“China” written in Chinese script,” a source said.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

Nominet holds event on Securing the domain name system

Nominet,the national registry for .uk domain names,will hold an event on Securing the domain name system.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

Registration for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Milan opened

Registration for the second T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference for 2010 opened recently.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

DOMAINfest Europe will be held in Prague

Oversee.net recently announced that the second DOMAINfest conference for 2010 will be hold in Prague from October 6-7th.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

Metal.com at $165,000 leads Sedo’s weekly sales list

Metal.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $165,000.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

DENIC Enabled Registration of DNSSEC Key Material

The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” entered the decisive phase: From 2 March 2010 DENIC gives also second level domains under .de the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record the related key material.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 3, 2010

Kravmaga.tel named the .tel of the week

Telnic,the registry operator for .tel,selected Kravmaga.tel to be the .tel of the week.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 2, 2010

“Dots for Your Trademarks” – Learn about the new Internet Extensions at ICT Spring 2010!

Luxembourg, March 2nd 2010 – Panelist on ICT Spring’s Intellectual Property workshop, EuroDNS will talk on “Dots for Your trademarks” to unveil the opportunities new Internet extensions represent for brand owners.

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This post was written by Andrew on March 2, 2010

Tracker.de sells for 11,500 EUR

Tracker.de domain name was recently sold through Sedo for 11,500 EUR.
Another interesting sale is ipad.in .This domain name was sold for $899,even though the domain itself is a trademark infringement.
Here are other domain names recemtly sold through Sedo you may find interesting :

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This post was written by Andrew on March 2, 2010