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circleid.com
- 2011 UDRP Filings Up at WIPO, Down at NAF - And Still Infinitesimal
  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently issued a detailed press release regardi…
- Call for Nominations to the Public Interest Registry .ORG Advisory Council
  The .ORG Advisory Council has been a valuable global resource for the Public Interest Registry (PIR)…
- Wall Street and Virtual Space Data: Internet Domain Name Index (IDNX) Listed on Bloomberg, Reuters
  The financial industry is all about pinstripe suits, excessive Excel sheets and boring data. Or is i…
- 2100 New gTLD Applications. What Does It Mean?
  Over the course of the last week, ICANN has released several pieces of information that taken togeth…
- Oman Relaunches .om with the Support of ARI Registry Services
  The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Sultanate of Oman, with the support of ARI…
- Implementing a Cyber-Security Code of Conduct: Real-Life Lessons From Australia (Webinar)
  Presented by Peter Coroneos – Former CEO of the Internet Association of AustraliaThe US Federal Co…
- Domains Ending With .JP.NET Now Available to the General Public at Bargain Prices
  Domains ending with .JP.NET are released this week to the general public, just days after auctions f…
- Minds+Machines Wins Back-End Registry Services Contract For .BASKETBALL
  Minds + Machines, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L) has…
- .US Celebrates American Small Business, Surprises Unsuspecting Small Business Owner
  Tom, a small business owner of Bike Works in Fredericksburg, Virginia gets a surprise visit form the…
- Architelos Introduces 'Velocity' to Help TLDs Market in Evolving Domain Name Industry
  With top-level domains (TLDs) about to enter unchartered territory, Architelos today introduced Velo…
- Africa Infrastructure Growth Supporting ccTLDs and New gTLD Growth
  African Undersea Cables – 2014 (Click to Enlarge)This month, France Telecom's Lower Indian Ocean N…
- Minds + Machines Will Host New dot Rugby gTLD
  Minds + Machines was chosen by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to be the registry services provi…
- Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (APWG) In Prague Next Week
  The sixth annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI) will engage questions of operational ch…
- PIR Launches First-Ever .ORG Television Commercial In India
- Neustar Launches KickStart America Campaign with .US Domain
  Neustar, Inc. begins a Kick-start America” campaign for the .US Top-Level Domain. Companies of all…
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blog.icann.org
- National Physical Laboratory of the UK Selected to Conduct a gTLD Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study
  I am delighted to report that ICANN has engaged the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the United…
- ICANN to Convene North America Regional Registry/Registrar Event
  On 17-18 May 2012, ICANN and its gTLD registration services providers will meet in Los Angeles, USA.…
- More Number Scarcity
  Last year ICANN allocated the last five IPv4 blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Sinc…
- Meet LACTLD: Coordinating Internet Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
  (Oscar Robles, LACTLD Chair) Last week at my first ICANN meeting as regional Vice President for Lati…
- Ten Million DNS Resolvers on the Internet
  Resolvers are servers on the Internet which use the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol [TXT, 120 KB]…
- ICANN and LACNIC Agree to Enhance DNS Reliability in Latin America, Caribbean
  As Latin American Internet users look on, Raul Echeberria (left), Executive Director of LACNIC, and…
- ICANN Hosts Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative Workshop
  Offers to Assist in Securing DNS 14 March — ICANN welcomed members of the Commonwealth Cybercrime…
- L-Root in your Pocket
  OK, so not quite in your pocket. But near your pocket. ICANN operates L-Root, one of the 13 Domain N…
- Thought Paper on Domain Seizures and Takedowns
  Recent legal actions (Rustock, Coreflood and Kelihos, among others) resulting in disrupting or disma…
- Measuring Worldwide Growth in IPv6 Deployments
  This is a guest post by Mirjam Kühne, Labs Community Builder at the RIPE NCC. RIPE Labs is a platfo…

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techcrunch.com
- Facebook Keeps Shipping. Now You Can Silence Spammy Apps And More With New Notification Controls
  If there's something on Facebook that won't stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up…
- Kleiner Perkins Closes On $525 Million For Its 15th Venture Fund, ‘KPCB 15′
  Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is announcing this evening…
- Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion
  Facebook's $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from t…
- Gasp! Thanks To These Startups, Teachers Are Making Money On The Web
  On the whole, teacher compensation in the U.S. is embarrassing. To pick on marketers, some might see…
- The Smart Si Thermostat Aims To Upset The Nest
  This is the age of thinking thermostats and, not to be outdone by a well-known circular model, hardw…
- Pulse Is Getting Ready To Make Money, Looks To Hire Its First Sales Executive
  Pulse, the popular free mobile news reader for iPhone, iPad and Android, could soon get ads. Until n…
- Hey Bike Owners: Spinlister Can Make You Up To $100 A Week
  It's been about a month and a half since peer-to-peer bike rental service launched in San Francisco…
- Facebook Credits About to Grow Up…. Fast
  Although introduced in 2009, we’ve only seen glimpses of what Facebook Credits will become when it…
- FastCustomer Unleashes Telephone Call Concierge Service
  People are sick of shitty customer service, said FastCustomer co-founder, Stephanie Hay. And she and…
- How High Will Facebook Stock Go Tomorrow? Place Your Bet At FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com
  Angel investor and all-around web magnate Chris Sacca wrote a quick tweet early yesterday about how…
- Twitter Wants An Interest Graph: Now Tracking Your Browsing To Make Follow Suggestions
  Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into…
- Verizon: If You Want To Keep Your Unlimited Data, Pay Full Price For Your Next Smartphone
  Verizon CFO Fran Shammo ruffled a few feathers yesterday when he mentioned at an investor conference…
- Salesforce.com: Q1 Net Loss Of $19.5M On Sales Of $695M. Benioff Says It’ll Have Its First $3B Year FY2013
  The ongoing interest and use of cloud-based services has brought a generally good set of results to…
- Vizibility Launches Its NFC-Enabled Business Cards
  Love'em or hate'em, despite the best efforts of Bump and others, traditional business cards aren't g…
- Facebook Will Have The Biggest Tech IPO Ever, Raising $16 Billion With $38 Share Price
  Facebook shares will start trading at $38 tomorrow, the company confirmed in a release, giving it a…
- We Talk To Two Exciting New NYC Startups: Fancy Hands And Stamped [TCTV]
  Last night, Time Inc. threw a pretty badass party in Manhattan to celebrate Ten NYC Startups To Watc…
- Freshdesk Launches $10M “Future Fund” To Bring Free Help Desk Support To 500+ Startups
  Freshdesk, the makers of cloud-based help desk software that allows companies to support their custo…
- The Google AdSense Killer And 3 Other Ways Facebook Could Make A Lot More Money
  Tiny sidebar and news feed ads aren't going to cut it. If Facebook wants to live up to a $104 billio…
- HP’s Stock Price Is Climbing Amid Massive Layoff Rumors
  HP is reportedly going to be announcing massive layoffs next Wednesday. Conflicting reports state so…
- Everyme Adds Android, A Web App, and Instagram Integration
  Everyme, the Y Combinator-backed mobile startup that helps users create groups for private sharing,…
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webguild.org
- Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship
  Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before…
- IBM Patents A Way To Help People Lose Weight (IBM)
  IBM has been awarded a patent for a game that will pay rewards to people who eat right. IBM research…
- Apple Maps To Replace Google Maps. Major Revenue Hit For Google
  It is now widely know that Apple plans to replace Google maps on iPhones, iPads and iPods with the r…
- Yahoo CEO Thompson Out For Lying On Resume
  Yahoo CEO (YHOO), Scott Thompson is out. The official statement simply says, Scott Thompson has lef…
- Meet Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo’s Sixth CEO In Five Years
  UPDATE: It's official. Ross Levinsohn is Yahoo's interim CEO. EARLIER: It's the most thankless job…
- One Theory On Why The iPhone Is Dominating Flash Sales Site Traffic
  At Fab.com, a flash sales site, 95 percent of its mobile visits (which make up a third of its overal…
- How To Build Apps For Facebook’s Timeline
  Facebook is one of the largest platforms in the world, with more than 900 million members. The point…
- Here’s Why Apple Needs Wal-Mart More Than It Needs Target (AAPL)
  Apple is widely expected to launch more stores-within-stores in partnership with both Wal-Mart and T…
- The Kindle Fire Is The Fruitcake Of Tablets (AMZN, AAPL)
  This morning, this headline came via Bloomberg (via @Jackbeckman): Amazon Tablet Share Fell to Just…
- Google Plus Is Backfiring Badly. Time To Quit.
  We've written many times about how Google is turning into Microsoft. Here's another example. Recentl…

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venturebeat.com
- 6 reasons E3 might suck this year
  This year's E3 is looking more notable for what we won't be seeing.
- Mobile startup Fun Machine believes games can do social good
  New mobile entertainment software company Fun Machine likes its games to have a positive message.
- Forget the iTV, Steve Jobs wanted to make an iCar
  Steve Jobs evidently thought about disrupting everything. From computers, to phones, to televisions…
- Kleiner Perkins closes its fifteenth venture fund with $525M
  Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, ha…
- Why Facebook’s GM ad drama won’t impact this IPO
  The timing couldn’t have been worse. On the week of its IPO, Facebook saw one of its largest adve…
- Twitter uses millions of embedded Tweet buttons to customize your Who-to-Follow experience
  Twitter is experimenting with personalized lists of Who to Follow accounts. Interestingly, the compa…
- Funding daily: Pin a few millions to your Pinterest board
  Happy Facebook IPO eve! Check out the companies getting funded today below. Click the links in each…
- Comcast rejiggers its 250GB monthly data cap policy
  Cable TV and Internet service provider Comcast is revising its policy on data caps, the company ann…
- Watch Facebook’s historic IPO live on the NASDAQ’s website
  Facebook has priced its shares at $38 and will raise up to $18.4 billion in the largest technology…
- White House cyber security coordinator stepping down
  The White House is losing its cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt to retirement this year aft…
- Kayak likely to ride Facebook wave with IPO in coming weeks
  Travel search site Kayak will likely time its IPO in the next few weeks to capitalize on the record…
- Twitter continues to be the anti-Facebook with Do Not Track support
  While privacy seems like a concept lost on Facebook, Twitter is showing that it understands its use…
- Confirmed: Facebook sets $38 share price for largest tech IPO in U.S. history
  Editor's Pick Status update: Facebook has priced its shares at $38 apiece and will raise $16 billion…
- HP planning to slash at least 25,000 jobs, say reports
  Hewlett-Packard plans to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs next week in a move to restructure the…
- Everyme, the truly private social network, arrives on Android and the web
  Sitting at the intersection of group messaging and social networking is Everyme, a startup so zeroe…
- Facebook to reengineer the IPO with all-night hackathon
  To prove that the “Hacker Way” is alive and well at Facebook, the social network will be hostin…
- 6 multibillion dollar businesses Facebook would do really well at
  Guest Post With Facebook’s IPO less than 24 hours away, I remain very bullish about the company. (…
- Spotify is pressing play on a new $220M round at a $4B valuation
  Streaming music service Spotify is currently seeking a new mega-round of funding that could more th…
- Epic unveils Unreal Engine 4 for eye-popping next-generation game graphics
  Epic Games revealed today its foundation for the next decade of graphics technology in video games.…
- Why IT pros need to understand risk management
  Sponsored Post Risk management, at its core, is a simple concept that is often extremely difficult t…
- T-Mobile to offer new contract-free mobile data plans May 20th
  Wireless carrier T-Mobile will soon offer new contract-free mobile broadband plans, which are desig…
- Check out Foodspotting’s new personalized picture menus for every restaurant
  Foodspotting, once a repository for food porn, is branching out today with a new launch. The mobile…
- 5 ways to keep in touch while traveling for business
  Sponsored Post It’s said that with all of our technological advancements, the world is getting sma…
- Rogue Anonymous hacker ‘Nyre’ takes responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack
  Eager content-deprived pirates were flummoxed on Wednesday by the news that The Pirate Bay had be…
- Facebook Pages Manager: Now you can manage your pages from a new iPhone app
  [Update: This appears to be a very soft launch. The app is available in the Canadian iTunes store,…
- Senators want to block Facebook’s Saverin from reentering the U.S (update)
  Sparked by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s renouncement of citizenship, two U.S. Senators a…
- Facebook’s world takeover by the numbers
  With eight years, $2.2 billion in funding, and 901 million users under its belt, Facebook is set to…
- Research: 44% of Facebook users will ‘never’ click sponsored ads
  Turns out GM might have been on to something. New research from marketing agency Greenlight shows 4…
- Pinterest joins the billion dollar club: Gets $100M in round led by Rakuten
  After Facebook’s surprising Instagram buy, it now seems like every hot startup needs to reach a bi…
- Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture
  We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you. Click each link below to learn more about the d…
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internetinc.com
- Turning my office into a video studio
  As I watched online video taking over the Internet, my video lust grew stronger every year. Finally…
- Inspirational family meeting videos
  We try to hold a family meeting on the weekend as often as we can. I’ve covered topics such as lis…
- Our first blade server
  Yes, I know we should be on the cloud floating around in heaven with everyone else! But we have a br…
- Rob Symington on Escape the City
  If you’ve ever taken the road less traveled or dreamed about it, you’ll appreciate what partners…
- Need a vacation!
  I read almost every book that Verne Harnish recommends so when I saw this in his recent newsletter,…
- Top 100 job search websites and categories
  This is the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job search categories. For each top employment category it…
- Barefoot in Boulder
  A solution for everything (or almost). After struggling with foot pain for 7 years, I read Born to R…
- How to Become King
  I love to teach. As obsessed as I’ve been with learning business for the past 14 years, it’s o…
- Job boards will lead the next productivity boom
  I’m as disappointed as anyone about the weak economic recovery we have experienced in 2010. And…
- Lesson from Boulder’s Four Mile Fire
  Get the real facts. On the second day of the Four Mile Canyon fire, we knew that a good number of ho…

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wired.com
- The Pics the NYSE Doesn't Want You to See
  The New York Stock Exchange sent a legal nastygram Thursday to the news site Talking Points Memo, de…
- Why Liberty Media Bid $1 Billion for Barnes & Noble
  John Malone's surprise $1 billion offer to buy Barnes & Noble has left a lot of people scratching th…
- New Condé Nast HQ Will Be High-Tech, Green, Ultrasafe
  One World Trade Center, slated to become the new headquarters of Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Th…
- Next Issue Media Joins Digital Race With New Yorker, Time, Esquire
  Next Issue Media, billed as the magazine industry's digital newsstand, launched a preview of its off…
- Bot-Breakdown: Deconstructing a Twitter-Spam Marketing Campaign
  What do Jill Dawnsoll, Kerry Ohnes, Dakota Baylie, Ellanah Cailn, Heidi Illems, Mirinda Latel and Pa…
- Facebook PR Firm Deletes Google 'Smears,' But Heads Don't Roll
  Just when it looked like the Facebook Burson-Marsteller block-ops anti-Google smear scandal couldn't…
- Netflix App Released for Android Phones, Sorta
  Netflix is coming to Android! Or well, to a select few Android devices. Blame the sheer number of ha…
- BOOM! Goes Facebook's Google Smear Campaign
  In the annals of shady public relations stunts, Facebook’s attempt to surreptitiously plant negati…
- CNNMoney Relaunches Website, Adds StockTwits for Wall Street Chatter
  Financial news heavyweight CNNMoney unveiled its newly redesigned website Monday and announced that…
- Report: Condé Nast Leapfrogs Hearst With iPad Subscription Pact
  Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of a…

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news.netcraft.com
- Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in April 2012
  Rank Company site OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS [...]
- May 2012 Web Server Survey
  In the May 2012 survey we received responses from 662,959,946 sites, a decrease of 14M hostnames com…
- April 2012 Web Server Survey
  In the April 2012 survey we received responses from 676,919,707 sites, giving a rise of 32.6M hostna…
- Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2012
  Rank Company site OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS [...]
- Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in February 2012
  Rank Company site OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 Codero Linux 0:00:00…
- March 2012 Web Server Survey
  In the March 2012 survey we received responses from 644,275,754 sites, giving a rise of 31.4M hostna…
- Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2012
  Rank Company site OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS [...]
- February 2012 Web Server Survey
  In the February 2012 survey we received responses from 612,843,429 sites. Compared to January, this…
- Citrix NetScaler Serves More Than Ten Million Sites
  Netcraft has been tracking Citrix NetScaler in the Web Server Survey for more than a year. In the la…
- Bebo outage causes shutdown rumours
  Social network Bebo is still inaccessible after an apparent technical error took the site offline ye…

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blog.compete.com
- April 2012 Fast Movers
  Image from: Baseball Image / Shutterstock Below are 10 sites that saw rapid monthly growth in Unique…
- Socialcam vs Viddy
  If you’re ever on Facebook (and who isn’t?), you’ve probably noticed new social video applic…
- Solar Eclipse: Getting Ready for the “Ring of Fire”
  Image from: Mother Nature Network Prepare your eye-wear, because this Sunday the annular solar ecli…
- Mandles?! Can Yankee Candle Get More Men to Burn Candles?
  Image from: Yankee Candle Looking to get a jump on Father’s Day Shopping? Why not get Dad a candle…
- What’s In A Name: Are We Really Naming Our Kids After Celebs?
  Image from: Baby Name Image / Shutterstock Yesterday, the U.S. Social Security Administration rele…
- Publishers Clearing House: Giving away money to make money?!
  Image from: PCH We’ve all seen the videos online, where a TV crew pulls up to some lucky, unsuspec…
- April 2012 US Search Market Share Report: Bing up, Google up, Yahoo down
  For the first time in months, the usual market share trends changed for Google and for Yahoo!. Googl…
- 10 Photos from the DCMO Summit!
  This time last week we were kicking off the 2012 Digital CMO Summit in Beverly Hills. Between speake…
- Sunday Series: Restaurants and Dining
  Image from: My Pizza Brothers Our Sunday Series this week we are features 10 website with a large mo…
- The Weekly Pulse
  This week, our Digital CMO Summit was held in Beverly Hills. For a snapshot of the content that we c…