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We’re attending the Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA); the largest gathering of trademark professionals in the world. More than 8,000 attendees will be keeping up to date on worldwide trends and new trademark developments.

We’ll be presenting the Namesco Partner Program developed specifically to meet the needs of legal firms offering their clients a complete and customisable online protection program without the burden of managing the technical, bureaucratic and administrative aspects related to it.

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Do you know if someone else is using your brand to trade on the Internet? If your company name is well known or popular, someone may be using it to do business on the Internet without your knowledge.

We can help identify if your trademark or brand is being used as a keyword for a pay per click campaign, if it appears on unauthorised pages, or as a part of a Domain name you don’t own. As well as identifying potential infringement, we can also advise about the best way to protect your brand online.

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.CO (Colombia’s Domain extension) is set to take the Domain industry by storm and it’s now in the Global Sunrise period so contact Namesco to pre-register your desired .CO Domain if you’re an existing International Trademark holder (Pre July 30th 2008 Trademark registrations only).

Why .CO ?

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The Sunrise Period dedicated to Chinese-characters .SG domains has now closed and from 10th of June 2010 the 'first come first served' period will open. A .SG domain name can be registered by any local or international entity, and is a great way to market your business in Singapore and abroad – an important gateway to the Asian market.

A Chinese Domain Name (CDN) is a domain name that contains one or more Chinese characters. Presently, domain names have been in Latin characters like abc.com.sg. CDNs allow for Chinese characters to be used within domain names.

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At the end of the Sunrise and Landrush Period, the .TN Registry reintroduced a requirement that had been previously been abolished.

Those who wish to register a domain name in Tunisia, but who do not have an office in this country, will be required to provide evidence of their registration mark in Tunisia and will only be eligible to apply for a domain name similar or corresponding to that trademark.

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ICANN has published information regarding the addition of IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLDs to the root zone meaning non Latin characters will be available for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in Arabic as well as the Russian extension in Cirillic. It is also unknown at this time, how Registries will launch the registration process. ICANN’s official announcement stated:-

“For the first time in the history of the Internet, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains. The first IDN country-code top-level domains were inserted in the DNS root zone earlier today. The associated countries and their respective IDN ccTLDs are, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

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With massive savings of up to 50% on international Domains, now’s the perfect time to jump in and secure new Domain extensions that will put you ahead of the game.

By securing the 4 key Domain extensions we’ve selected (.COM, .INFO, .EU and .IN), you could increase the chances of customers finding you online. Adding new Domains to your existing portfolio is simple and you can manage them all in your Online Control Panel.

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When selecting a web hosting plan for your website, one of the first decisions you need to make, is whether a Windows or Linux platform will be best suited for your needs. In this article, we promise not to use any jargon.

If you haven’t yet started your research for the perfect hosting plan you better get used to the ubiquitous icons indicating a Windows hosting or Linux hosting platform.

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At Namesco we are offering all our customer the ability to make use of special offers from our partner Network. We’ve negotiated 50% off the RRP on this unique product designed with two things in mind – to recover files when Windows completely fails and to easily “lift & shift” your files from one computer to another. As Namesco customers you get an exclusive discount. We at Namesco have trialed and tested this powerful device and within in a short span of time were able make great use of it.

Keygold Recovery rescues your documents, photographs, videos, music, contacts, emails and other key files using Smart File Finding.

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How to earn online (a series of ‘How to’ articles from Simply.com)

You will have probably read articles online about becoming a publisher of ads, and how with the simple addition of some code to your site pages you can have banner ads showing on your site and earning you significant amounts of revenue.

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