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The auction for RightHaven.com domain name is live on SnapNames . There are only 13 hours left until the auction will close . According to Compete,RightHaven.com domain name had 600 visitors in November and it has an Alexa Ranking of 3.3 million .

As part of its commitment toward the local internet community in the UAE, the .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA) of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) continues to implement the best international practices in protecting Intellectual Property Rights for its registrants. This comes in line with its mandate to enforce all policies related to the operation of the .ae country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as well as overseeing the operation of the registry system.

With more than five billion additional people to connect to the internet in the next 20 years, and most of the newcomers not speaking English, free speech online will be hindered if new generic Top Level Domains are not approved argues Susan Crawford in an article for Bloomberg.

The domain name dudu.com was sold for $1 million to Dubai-based social media network DUDU in a sale negotiated over three months by Sedo to close out 2011. The sale was Sedo's second largest public sale in 2011, topped only by gambling.com, which sold for $2.5 million.

Online pre-bidding for the DOMAINfest domain name auction is now underway.The auction will be held on February 2,2012 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time .

Various arms of the US government have been asking ICANN to reconsider and even delay the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains, however the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has been reticent to criticise the organisation and has generally offered ICANN support. Until now.

An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded Google the domain name Gmiail.com . Google submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on November 4,2011,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain name .

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) reported a 12.9% net growth in .IE domain name registration for 2011 .According to data available on IEDR's website,more .ie domain names have been registered in the first five months of 2011 than during the same same periods over the past nine years .

45.com domain name recently sold for a whopping $280,000 .The deal was brokered by eName and completed through Moniker's escrow service .

.CO Internet S.A.S. ,the company behind .CO domain names was recognized in the World Finance 100 listing,along with companies suh as Apple,Facebook,Google,Microsoft and others .