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Must read domain articles from March — Top 5

Here are the top five stories from Reglike last month.

March saw the first batch of fresh TLD objections, a warning from Verisign, and a high profile firm found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking.

1. United States Postal Services just wasted your money objecting to .mail top level domain – apparently the USPS believes it has some legal right to the term “mail”.

2. Fresh expired domain rules go into effect in August – a fresh Expired Registration Recovery Policy will regulate some aspects of domain expiration.

3. Verisign to ICANN: not ready for fresh TLDs – there will be a lot of talk regarding this at ICANN Beijing.

4. Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking – for some reason, P&G decided to try to steal domain rather than buy it.

5. Candy.com hurt by Google penalty – Candy.com has had to lay off employees following it got slapped with a Google search penalty for buying links.

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