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Domain Name Journal

• For the 1st Time Digital Advertising To Outstrip Print in 2010 + .CO Launch Plan Unveiled
  A major new market survey of American advertisers and marketers says this will be the year when digital advertising finally passes print media in ad revenue for the first time. Also today, the .CO registry announces its upcoming launch plan including a new Founders Program for early adopters that opened today.

The Domains

• GoDaddy.com Passes 40 Million Domain Mark & Has 50% Market Share Of All New Domain Registrations
  Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names. Godaddy said it typically registers a million domain names per month. Godaddy also says they have a 50% market share of all active new domains registered in the world and is more than three times the size of its closest competitor. Go Daddy CEO [...]

Domain Bits

• TBR Over the Holiday Season
  Just a quick note for the Canadian domainers out there – the TBR sessions scheduled for Wednesday December 23 and 30 will go ahead as normal.  There will be no changes due to the holiday season.

Domain Name Wire

• Typo? CanadaDrugs.com vs. CanadaRugs.com
  Online pharmacy argues “Rugs” is merely a typo of “Drugs”. Take two of these andfire your lawyer in the morning. Here’s an interesting UDRP case from National Arbitration Forum. The company that runs CanadaDrugs.com, a popular online pharmacy, filed a complaint against the owner of CanadaRugs.com, which is a parked page featuring links for rugs. CanadaDrugs.com tried [...]

Domain Name Expert

• Nominet To Release Two Letter, One Character and Other Reserved .uk Domain Names
  <p>Hot on the heels of other ccTld and gTld registries that recently announced/released their previously reserved short domain names (.de and .pro registries for examile), Nominet, the .uk registry has <a rel="bookmark" class="moreLink" href="http://www.dnxpert.com/2010/03/09/nominet-to-release-two-letter-one-character-and-other-reserved-uk-domain-names/">Read more »</a>

Domainer Income

• Poker.org Sells For $1 Million
  Its been reported that Sedo has brokered a deal selling poker.org to PokerCompany.com for the sum of $1 million. Other .org auctions include engineering.org for $198k which happened in 2003 and date.org for $150k in 2006.