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US Feds Just Seized 307 Sports Domains

6:15PM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains in the run-up to Sunday American Football Super Bowl — nuking a total of 307 separate sites. More »


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Here’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl Commercial

2:00AM January 23, 2012 | Casey Chan

It’s about .co domain names! It has girls in it! Danica Patrick! Jillian Michaels! Bodypaint! And… it predictably teases you into going to GoDaddy’s website to “see more”. Oh yeah, and it predictably sucks. More »


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Buy Your Hot, Bulging .XXX Domains Today

6:00AM December 7, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If you’re looking to enter the nascent world of online pornography, today is your day, stud — porn domains are on sale to the public, the BBC reports. More »


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Apple Won Its iPhone Domains, But They Still Point To Porn

7:47AM November 23, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Apple has won its claim on seven iPhone-related domains that nefarious porn sites had gobbled up and pointed at, well, porn. Thing is, they sort of forgot to turn off the porn. More »


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Universities Going On .XXX Domain Shopping Spree

12:17AM November 15, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Yes, universities are snapping up .XXX Domains left and right. But no, they’re not aspiring to be future AVN award winners. Instead, schools like Missouri and Washington University are buying up domains like missouri.xxx and washu.xxx to protect their names. More »


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Apple Now Owns oiTunes.com

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2:00PM September 5, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Apple’s snapped itself up a range of iTunes.com misspellings from a single domain name holder (there are less charitable terms), according to Macrumors. More »


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Sarah Palin And Obama Won’t Get Porn .XXX Sites

11:55PM August 29, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Your wet dreams are set to suffer another setback as Sarah Palin, Barack Obama and Beyonce have been excluded from the porny .xxx domain by the registry manager, ICM Registry. The list of VIPs is long, perhaps in the thousands. More »


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About.me Website Now Offering Personal Email Addresses

9:45PM August 17, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Vanity website purveyor About.me is offering up @about.me email addresses, where your website username becomes your handle. Supporting both IMAP and POP, you can redirect your mail to your own email client, or view mail in your about.me account. [About.me via TNW]


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Why Did Apple Buy Applepico.com?

6:11AM August 6, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Apple’s bought the Applepico.com domain and, given the company’s history of purchasing domains prior to releasing new product, does this mean we’ll see an Apple-branded pico projector in the future? More details and alternative hypothesis are available at MacRumors.


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US Court: Cops Can Constitutionally Seize Your Domain

12:37AM August 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Part of ICE’s super domain snatching spree is a site called Rojadirecta.com, which streamed sports programming. The owners cried foul: there was legal content on the site, and shuttering the whole thing suppressed free speech. A US judge: nope. More »