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Bankrupted Toys ‘R’ Us Is Selling Hundreds of Kinky, Weird Domain Names

The toy retailer owns domains such as sextoysrus.com.
By Sissi Cao

18-Year-Old Who Swiped Elon Musk’s URLs Thinks Tesla CEO Is the Next Walt Disney

Elon Musk just got played by a teenager.
By John Bonazzo
GoDaddy kicked The Daily Stormer off its platform after heavy criticism.

The Daily Stormer Staged a Hack While Getting Kicked Off GoDaddy and Google

The white supremacist site found itself without a home after a controversial Charlottesville article. So it claimed Anonymous hacked it.
By John Bonazzo
The next senator from the state of Michigan?

Kid Rock’s ‘Hoax’ Senate Run Is Already Being Trolled by People Snatching His URLs

By John Bonazzo
One political operative says the fact that Donald Trump bought thousands of URLs won't be enough to save him from embarrassment online.

Presidential Candidates Must Be Masters of Their Domain Names

By John Bonazzo
Farm workers tend to the dead Dugway sheep.

This Week in Tech History: Army Sheep Massacre, First Internet Domain Name

By John Bonazzo
New .nyc domain names relating to Michael Bloomberg are quickly being snatched up (Photo by Bloomberg, courtesy Getty Images) .

Bloomberg’s Lawyers Scramble to Buy Up Negative Domain Names

By Nicole Puglise

EXCLUSIVE: Terrorism Victims Sue for ICANN to Revoke Domain Names Being Used by Iran

By Jordyn Taylor

Booting Up: Tumblr’s Traffic Might Be Declining

By Jordan Valinsky
A preview of the homepage, which is still under construction. (Via Nicholas Jackson).

The Feature Well vs. Featurewell.com

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Sorry, Facegbook: Facebook Wins Lawsuit Over Domain Squatters

By Jordan Valinsky
(gothamist.com)

.NYC Domain Names May Finally Become a Reality

By Jessica Roy

Typo Squatter About to Get $24K or More for ‘Tubmlr.com’

By Adrianne Jeffries

Meanie Registrar Gives In After Yanking Nonprofit’s Domain

By Adrianne Jeffries
TheRock.XXX

Cover Your Internets! More Than 10,000 XXX Domains Go Live Tomorrow Morning

By Nitasha Tiku

ICANN Is Playing Fast-and-Loose With Domain Names. Here Are 10 We Would Like to See

By Nitasha Tiku

Conde Nast Takes Reddit on a Shopping Spree, Buys 285 Domain Names

By Observer Staff
I'll take two of everything

Conde Nast Has Big Plans for Reddit, Goes On Domain Shopping Spree

By Ben Popper

Letter.ly Goes Down Due to Libyan Conflict

By Ben Popper

.GAY On the Way, Thanks to Joe Dolce

By Gillian Reagan
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