MySpace wins UK domain name that pre-dated its service
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Myspace.co.uk was registered 'abusively' Social networking company MySpace has won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it despite the fact that it was registered six years before MySpace was founded.â¦
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Prompts rebrand Bastille Linux was forced to switch domain this week after a cybersquatter took control of the Bastille-Linux.org website.â¦
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Universal Music Group sues MySpace - claiming the site is encouraging users to illegally share copyrighted material.
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According to Heather Hopkins at Hitwise, more people in the UK are interested in Facebook than MySpace which may lead to the toppling of MySpace and Bebo as the most popular social networks in the UK. This week, Facebook continued to climb and so overtook MySpace. This means that the volume of UK searches for &#8220;facebook&#8221; [...]
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Social slump If all goes according to plan then MySpace will finally open its platform to developers on Tuesday, in keeping with plans announced last October. Details are vague but the youf social networking arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire has at least confirmed the platform will support Google's OpenSocial interface.â¦
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Warning over 'gazzumping' ruse Domain name scammers are once again targeting UK firms.â¦
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Your opinions solicited The Register started out as a UK operation with a UK addressed web site, but accidentally and against our expectations became a pretty successful international operation. In deference to marketing we should point out that in recent years the international success has been both planned and deliberate, but that certainly isn't what we were thinking about back in the mid-90s when we set up theregister.co.uk. And that is, sort of, what we feel the need to ask you about today - the .co.uk was at first an obstacle to be overcome, then arguably became an important component of The Register's branding, but how important is it to you, and in what ways?â¦
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By Nic Fildes  Last.FM, the London-based music-recommendation internet site, has been snapped up by the US media giant CBS for [pound]140m in cash, the largest-ever acquisition of a UK social networking company.
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What's in a name? A company which claimed a right to the domain name sex.eu under an unusual legal interpretation of the rules has lost its case. It has emerged that the firm behind the attempt had failed in a previous attempt to win casino.eu on the same basis.â¦
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News Corp's MySpace, the world's  largest online social network, said on Wednesday it will allow  outside developers further access to its service to counter the  growth of smaller rival Facebook.
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British mobile phone company Vodafone  Group Plc unveiled a deal with News Corp's MySpace on Wednesday  that will allow its customers to access the popular web-based  social network using cell phones.
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The company that controls domain names ending in .name charges for registration details that are publicly available for other top level domains. Security researchers charge the policy will create a haven for hackers.
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ICANN officially retires the .yu domain and assigns .rs to Serbia and .me to Montenegro. In this case the delay was political, not technical.
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Direct selling to cut out record companies MySpace is to start selling some of its music content, the Murdoch-owned social networking site said on Friday.â¦
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Domains, Branding &#038; Web 2.0 If you&#8217;re a traditional (offline) company you can create a domain name that doesn&#8217;t identically match your company name. For example, if your &#8220;Widgets R Us&#8221; you could be WidgetsRUSonline.com or GetWidgets.com, and so on. Your offline brand and online presence don&#8217;t need to match 100%, although it&#8217;s desirable if they [...]
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MySpace has made an interesting move by protecting the branded MySpace.com domains which have been registered by MySpace users.  MySpace is not letting corporations take over the profiles of users who have selected such personalized extensions as myspace.com/google, myspace.com/mcdonalds or myspace.com/pepsi. In terms of social media marketing, having such a branded MySpace domain could mean enhanced [...]
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The British music industry won an important High Court decision Thursday that would force Internet service providers to hand over the identity of Britons accused of using the Internet to swap free songs.