Category Archives: legal

German Company Sues Facebook Over Page Name

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Katharine

Domain name squabbles aren’t just restricted to .coms, it seems. A German pharmaceutical company doing business as Merck evidently entered into an agreement with Facebook in March of last year to hold rights to the page at www.facebook.com/merck. However, the … Continue reading →

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Should You Worry About UDRP?

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Katharine

The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a policy established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to put some order to disputes between people who have purchased certain domain names and people who want the rights to those … Continue reading →

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Directory Listing for SEO: Good or Bad?

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Emmanuel Dato

Is adding the domain name of your website in directory listing sites a bad practice? Is it a black hat or white hat or something in between? They always say that the proof of the pudding is on the eating … Continue reading →

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Tucows Wins on Appeal and Domains Ruled Property

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Julie

Let’s set the stage and here is the background. Always start with the facts. Tucows bought the business Mailbank and in that acquisition they obtained the domain name Renner.com. A company named Lojas Renner S.A. (which is a subsidiary of … Continue reading →

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Great Hosting Review

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Alex

Hey I wanted to share this GoDaddy Hosting Review and Coupon Code with you guys, it’s 20% off yearly hosting accounts. This coupon never expires. If you are starting a new site or if your hosting contract is ending soon, … Continue reading →

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Running Low On Ink

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Alex

Maintaining this website requires a lot of printing. Although I try and take care of everything online these days, there are still plenty of things that need to be printed onto paper. Documents that people need to sign, letters that … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Unlimited Services

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Emmanuel Dato

I am sure you encountered the word “unlimited” in web hosting and domain providers. Of course, it is the best marketing strategy and it always works. Since web hosting is about bytes and bandwidths, we are always attracted to the … Continue reading →

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An All-In-One Website Tool

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Alex

As you might assume from the name, register.com is a place where you can register domains for your website. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Register.com also has all the tools you need to create and manage your … Continue reading →

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SiteSoftware in cPanel no more!

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Emmanuel Dato

cPanel and all its features really made webmasters and web developers job easy and fast. With autoinstall software such as Fantastico and QuickInstall and other scripting engines making a functional and robust website is now as easy as 1 – … Continue reading →

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Domain Hosting and Social Media

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Domain Man

Domains are now becoming even more important as creating a blog with a unique name and domain needs to be done first. Generating links to a blog only to later change the name is a waste of time. Also what … Continue reading →

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