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Court Weighing Eminent Domain Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
NY's highest court is hearing a case involving the limits of Eminent Domain. Until recently eminent domain was used for the good of the public, building roads, airports, etc. Now governments are using to make private contractors a lot of money not to mention making them very grateful.
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Fast-Fingered Domain Squatters Flip Bush Library URL For $35K Posted: 12 months ago by suebe
Doh. Domain squatters snatched away the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com and made an easy $34,990 profit on promptly selling it to back to Yuma Solutions, the web development company that let it expire.
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Eminent Domain - A womans fight to keep her property. Posted: 2 years ago by TraumaMamma
Avon Schools: Progress yes. Eminent domain no.
That's the slogan used by Avon Citizens for Change. The group has registered as a political action committee with the Lorain County Board of Elections and started a legal defense fund to help Mary Jane Wolfe in her fight to keep her property.
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10 Worst Domain Names Posted: 3 years ago by RTCA
This is old, but still funny. Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as others see it and not just as you think it looks.
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The Untold Story of the Domain Name Business, and the Rise of the Web Posted: 4 months ago by 2manyusernames
It's hard to believe that for most of the 90s, a single company, Network Solutions, had a government-issued monopoly on registering domain names. It's surprising how little of the company's back story — how it got into the domain name business, or who owned it — has been told. Part 2
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First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft Posted: 4 months ago by 2manyusernames
"Until recently, there hasn't been a case of a domain theft where the thief was caught and arrested. However, on July 30th, Daniel Goncalves was arrested at his home in Union, New Jersey and charged in a landmark case.
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Holdout house loses the battle. Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Authorities tore down a stubborn couple's house after a three-year standoff in China that hindered a construction project and captivated the nation.
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American man sells domain name for $2.6m Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
Wow - now what name can I register.....
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The Ten Worst Domain Names Posted: 3 years ago by ogri2003
Want to check out Pen Island? Then go visit www.penisland.net
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Public Domain Children's Literature Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. Really a huge collection of children stories and poems
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ICANN Approves non-Latin Characters for use in Domain Names Posted: 4 weeks ago by Moogle
You may soon be seeing Chinese, Japanese, Arabic & Cyrillic domain names.
еибЮЫШШµ.com to become a valid website.
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The Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Posted: 9 months ago by Bornbad
How much is the word "toys" worth on the Internet? Hundreds? Thousands?
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Internet.org paves the way for new domain names Posted: 1 year ago by Moe
Now there will be able to be sites like www.Visit.Paris or www.drink.coke or even www.meditateabout.佛 <-- Buddha written in Chinese.
But don't think you can go out and grab .coke or .!!! or .sex to score some quick cash. It will cost at least $100,000 and you will need to prove a business plan and show technical hardware to support the new domain.
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300 domain names a day cash in on new iPhone craze Posted: 2 years ago by pjanaway
As hundreds of people queued up around the US to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone, dozens of entrepreneurs were at home on their computers hoping to cash in on the hype - by registering internet sites incorporating the iPhone name.
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McAfee names the riskiest domains Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
Romania (.ro) is the riskiest of large country domains, but Finland (.fi) has the least riskiest domain.
Now if McAfee could get back to protecting your computer...
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128 free movies? How about 1000's of free movies?! Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Anabole's post made me think of the king of public domain offerings with 10's of 1000's of free movies, cartoons, audio, and much more. All easily available for online viewing or download in differnt quality formats
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Double Byte “Internationalized Domain Names”: A Superficial Alternative Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
Internationalized Domain Names, heard of them? Double byte web addresses. You know the ones - the 日本.jps and the 価格.coms - you must have seen them lurking somewhere? Yes, these are called IDNs, or Internationalized Domain Names.
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Hear A Good Book Lately? Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Free Audiobooks: Podcasts, download, mp3 ogg
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
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In the light of current events... Posted: 1 year ago by suckersklub
...a song.
*wipes tear*
Yes, it's just a single video. I don't care.
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Internet body says no to .xxx domain Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
The proposal to create an adult-only portion of the Internet, with a .xxx domain, has been rejected by the Internet Governing Body.
Comments: 9 Score: [-] 111 [+].
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