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

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.


August 17, 2011
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About.me Website Now Offering Personal Email Addresses

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]


August 6, 2011
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Why Did Apple Buy Applepico.com?

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

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.


June 20, 2011
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The Internet’s Allowed To Use ‘Generic Top-Level Domains’

ICANN’s signed its name on the dotted line for the proposal to create new domain suffixes in the style of their last decision, .xxx. As CNET reports, there are only 22 GTLDs in existence today (.org, .edu and so on), but with this decision we could expect to see specific endings for companies, categories or self-promoting individuals.


March 29, 2011
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India Becomes First Country To Ban .XXX Domains

We knew there’d be trouble once ICANN approved the use of .XXX domain suffixes. India will block all URLs ending in .XXX, and plenty more are expected to follow suit. This is exactly why the pornstars didn’t want the domain to be approved! [TechSpot via TechRadar]


March 25, 2011
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Color App Paid $US350,000 For Color.com URL

Buzz app of the week Color received a whopping $US41m in investment. You’ve probably already heard – it’s all anyone seems to be talking about today. But did you know that they spent $US350,000 of that money on just the color.com URL? [dnCrunch]


March 19, 2011
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ICANN Approves .XXX Domains

ICANN, the de facto parent of domain names, has disregarded the advice of its Government Advisory Committee and approved the use of .XXX domains, which has caused turmoil among established adult entertainment brands over the cost of repurchasing domains. [Xbiz]


March 10, 2011
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If You Want To See Porn Stars Protesting The .xxx Domain Names…

…I’d suggest hanging around the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, during your lunch break on March 17.


February 3, 2011
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Auschwitz Must Change Domain Suffix To Avoid Blaming The Polish

“Hang on a minute,” you cry, “Auschwitz has its own website?!” Well, naturally – it may have once been a concentration camp, but now millions visit it every year, and no doubt visit the Auschwitz.pl website for information.