domains
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Twitter Just Won Twitter.com.au Off An Aussie Domain Squatter
Popular microblogging social network Twitter operates from a single Web address, but has to be constantly aware of imitators or competitors using its trade marks to confuse or misdirect users. A man from Cessnock in New South Wales, who bought the Twitter.com.au domain just after Twitter’s online debut, has lost the right to hold the…
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Amazon Owns Amazonsucks.com (And Plenty Worse Than That)
If you’re a huge commercial organisation, it pays to not have too many random people on the internet making cheap jokes at your expense. Which is, presumably, why Amazon owns a slew of silly and offensive domains that include its name.
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.CHEAP .SEXY .WANG: The Best New Domains Going Up For Grabs Tomorrow
The internet as you know it might seem infinite, but according to ICANN, it’s still not quite infinite enough. Soon, a whole new world of internet real estate is coming your way in the form of 122 brand new domain names. That’s right, you can finally make YourNameHere.SEXY all your very own.
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Should The .Amazon Domain Belong To The Company Or The River?
Amazon is busy trying to gobble up all kinds of top-level domains — .book, .read, you name it — but it also has its eye on .amazon too. Turns out that the Brazilian and Peruvian governments have something to say about that though and would rather snag it for the famous river.