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 Domain Name Wire: Over 100 million will watch GoDaddy Super Bowl commercials tonight. The world’s largest registrar along with the .co top level domain will get a lot of attention today. That’s because GoDaddy will air two Super Bowl ads today, including one about the .co domain name. The first half commercial stars lingerie model Natalia …

 Domain Name Wire: Domain has new owner but identity is unknown. Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold. It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois. But the buyer definitely wants to capitalize on the movement. It started a logo design contest on

 Domain Name Wire: Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company. Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500. Stone and his co-founders wanted a name that showed “urgency”. They came up with Jitter, but thought that sounded negative. One of his p…

 Domain Name Wire: Tucows branches out, enters mobile phone business. Tucows, which owns one of the world’s largest domain registrars, officially launched mobile phone service Ting today. In a press release, Tucows CEO Elliot Noss said: “What people are forced to put up with from mobile service providers just doesn’t make sense. It…

 Domain Name Wire: Godfather of Soul’s domain name can stay with management company. The estate of James Brown has lost a domain arbitration case for the domain name JamesBrown.com. The domain is owned by LAC Management, Inc., which manages “RJ & The James Brown Band”. LAC argued that James Brown gave at least his tacit consent for it

 Domain Name Wire: Oversee.net sells off domain marketplace, expiring domain, and registrar companies. KeyDrive, which owns domain name registrar Key-Systems as well as NameDrive, has acquired SnapNames and Moniker from Oversee.net. Combined, KeyDrive says it is now the sixth largest ICANN accredited registrar. Rumors about the acquisition have been sw…

 Domain Name Wire: Car rental company demands typo of National.com, a domain it doesn’t even own. Vanguard Trademark Holdings, which owns the National car rental brand, has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name Natiional.com. The company filed a UDRP against the domain name already. It lost that case in June. On the same da…

 Domain Name Wire: 12 hours left to take this year’s domain industry survey. Time is running out to take the seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey. The survey, which asks users to answer questions about domain name registrars, domain parking, and expired domains, concludes January 31. Results will be published in February. Participants from 47 c…

 Domain Name Wire: ICANN wants to open another new TLD application round early next year. Is this plausible? A lot of companies are applying for dot brand top level domains not because they want to right now, but because they think it might be their only chance. At least for the foreseeable future. But is this the case?

 Domain Name Wire: A Shuzi bracelet is supposed to work miracles, but it doesn’t have powers to “steal” domain names. ShuziQi, which sells “Shuzi” bracelets, has lost a domain dispute over the domain Shuzi.com. The details of the case aren’t as entertaining as what Shuzi is, so I’ll be brief on the case. Basica…