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Putting the Horse Before the Cart

Josh Bourne ⬥ 29 April Since ICANN set an updated timeline for the new gTLD program at the close of the public meeting in San Francisco, many in ...
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A Little Patch of Green on Earth Day

Josh Bourne ⬥ 22 April The South End, MA edition of Patch.com ran a story earlier this week about a new company called Swap.com that recently won Boston’s ...
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Vocabulary Lesson – What it Means When U.S. Law Enforcement “Seizes” a Domain Name

Josh Bourne ⬥ 21 April Over the past few months, various instances of “domain name seizures” have been making news. But what exactly does it mean when the ...
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When a Company Need Not Apply for a gTLD

Josh Bourne ⬥ 20 April With ICANN’s publication of the latest draft of the Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs (the April 2011 Discussion Draft) on Friday, conversation within ...
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Smokey Says, “Only You Can Prevent Username Squatting”

Steve Levy ⬥ 15 April Here on the FairWinds blog, we have written extensively about social media username squatting, and the importance of companies securing the proper usernames ...
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Learning to Play your Cards Right

Josh Bourne ⬥ 31 March Domain Name Wire recently reported that Digimedia, who according to its website “owns and maintains one of the highest-regarded domain name portfolios in ...
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Rocking the Boat

FairWinds Partners ⬥ 30 March We are very proud to have two aspiring Olympic athletes as part of our team here at FairWinds. Both Morgan Wimberley, who works ...
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DC’s Very Own Cupcake War

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 24 March After penning yesterday’s blog post, I was tempted to do exactly two things: one, buy and consume an entire dozen cupcakes by myself; ...
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The Not So Sweet Side of Cupcakes

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 23 March In my opinion, the worst thing that can happen to a cupcake is its frosting falling off. But after reading this article in ...
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.XXX – The Unpopular Vote

Josh Bourne ⬥ 22 March The day no one has been waiting for has finally arrived: last Friday, during the last day of the public meeting in San ...
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Time Marches On

Josh Bourne ⬥ 28 February Loyal DomainNameStrategy.com readers will recognize the clock in the photograph below.  It is the Clock of Citizens in Brussels, Belgium, so named because ...
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GAC – ICANN Meeting: First-Day Recap

Josh Bourne ⬥ 28 February The first day of the GAC-ICANN Board meeting was very encouraging. Governments appear to be aware of the difficulties that businesses and consumers ...
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