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I've just learnt that Tom Cruise – you know, the Scientologist nut what does movies – has gone to WIPO to win back TomCruise.com.
The complaint – D2006-0560 – was put in yesterday and is pending a compliance review. Tom Cruise – or more likely his minions – have been very, very slow in noticing this [...]
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Well, I was sceptical that people would want .eu domains. What's the point? Do people really feel that European? If they want a domain, why not just buy a .com or their own country's domain. Apart from Germany and the UK, most other European countries have surprisingly few domains registered.
But boy was I wrong. By [...]
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If you feel the need to buy your own piece of the Internet today, then you're luck is in.
It is the first day that the new .eu domains are open to the general public – so get stuck in. Previously, there have been two “sunrise” periods where companies, organisations and other such creations have been [...]
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I did a news story yesterday for The Times on the new .eu domain, and it proved to be more interesting than I thought.
The new domain – which shouldn't actually exist under the ICANN rules for top-level domains, but when the EU's 29 countries are breathing down you're neck… – is due to be opened [...]
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