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WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

NameMedia, the world leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a targeted website network and domain name marketplace, today announced the promotion of Jason Miner to Chief Operating Officer.

Miner has been a key executive throughout the companys continuing growth and development. He joined the company in 2005 as the Director of Sales for the companys domain marketplace, and has since added responsibilities for business development, marketing, customer service and portfolio management. Jason has been a key leader in developing the strategy and executing the business plan for NameMedia, said Chairman and CEO Kelly Conlin. In addition, Jason has been an excellent mentor to many people across the company who join me in congratulating Jason on this well- deserved recognition.

During Miners career at NameMedia, he not only built the companys proprietary domain portfolio to one million names, but also has enabled other domain owners access to NameMedias domain monetization platforms through the expansion of Afternics Domain Listing Service (DLS)which is now the largest and most successful network for the listing and sale of premium domains in the aftermarket. DLS aggregates the supply of millions of domain names offered for sale by their owners, and then syndicates those listings to dozens of reseller sites. The network effect from aggregating both supply and demand has made Afternic the clear leader in bringing liquidity to the domain aftermarket.

I am very excited about the opportunities to continue building the company, developing our teams and satisfying customers the world over, said Miner.

The senior leadership team of the company is comprised of Miner along with colleagues Brian Lucy, Chief Financial Officer, and Mark Haseltine, Chief Technology Officer.

Jason has more than 15 years of senior management experience. Most recently, Jason served as Vice President, Sales at Reed Business, a division of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, the worlds leading publisher and information provider. Prior to Reed Business, Jason was a Vice President, Sales at Monstermoving.com the worlds largest online recruitment and relocation business. Jason was responsible for leadership and execution of Monstermovings sales strategy, building the management and sales team, launching and growing the business, and integrating the sales team into Monster.com

About NameMedia

NameMedia is the world leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The companys website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The companys marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to list their domain properties for sale, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory. Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 50 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countries. Headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at http://www.namemedia.com.

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Apple says it is buying back $10 billion in stock and launching a dividend payment to spend just under half of its cash pile on shareholders in the next three years.

While Apple has avoided big acquisitions instead favoring buying smaller companies with admired technology, that other half of the pile could still go to making some pretty big acquisitions.

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Allow Deal Journal to imagine Tim Cook is viewing his situation similarly to Richard Pryor in Brewsters Millions. In this case Uncle Steve has left him a mountain of cash, and Tim has to spend it to make even more riches for shareholders and himself.

This is what Deal Journal sees him potentially shopping for if thats the case.

NetflixIf Apple is looking for a jolt to its entertainment business, it could find a good deal in Netflix and muscle movie studios the way it muscled music studios with iTunes. An with Apple launching into the television world, a source of streaming TV could be a big help.

Research in MotionA deal would create a behemoth in smartphone technology, so much so that Google an others would likely have a good argument for antitrust authorities to put a stop to it. But if the iPhones biggest weakness is corporate concerns about email and security, the patents RIM holds would be dear to Apple.

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SamsungSee above, antitrust would be a serious headache and even Apples cash wouldnt be enough, but given that Samsung makes a lot of Apple parts. A family of iPhones on different budgets would have plenty of new demographic targets.

T-MobileMaybe Apple is content to let RIM wallow in its attempt to catch up, and would rather take to giving iPhone users the service for the device. Just like it built iTunes up to feed iPods and the App Store to sell to iPhones, Apple wants to control a users entire experience. Acquiring a cell network would do that to a new degree. (Sorry, Phil Falcone, even these money bags are unlikely to take a bet and bail you out of Lightsquared.)

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March 19, 2012 - 16:02 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A Turkish cybersquatter has registered at least a dozen variants of Pope Benedict's name as .xxx internet domains and is using them to promote Islam, The Register reports.

Cybersquatted sites including PopeBenedict.xxx currently proclaim "Everyone will find Islam" alongside pictures of the Quran and Kaaba.

Unsurprisingly, the sites also state that "This Web Site is For Sale".

PopeBenedict.xxx is registered to one Bulent Ozcan, a resident of Turkey, according to Whois records. Other domains evidently squatted by the same person include: josephaloisiusratzinger.xxx, josephaloisiusratzinger.com, benedictus.xxx, benedictxvi.xxx, ratzinger.xxx, xvibenedictus.xxx, xvibenedictus.com benedictusxvi.xxx pontificio.xxx holyfather.xxx and josephratzinger.xxx.

While the pope is not the first person to be cybersquatted in the new .xxx domain Sir Richard Branson recently recovered richardbranson.xxx from a squatter this does seem to be the most comprehensive effort to trash an individual by linking their name to .xxx porn (and to promote a "competitor").

The Vatican's quickest option for shutting down the domains might be to file a Rapid Evaluation Service complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, the U.S. body hired by .xxx manager ICM Registry to handle this kind of case.

RES complaints cost $1,300 to file, but cybersquatted domains can be permanently suspended in as little as two working days. Because the policy covers personal names, the Pope won't need to show trademark rights in his name.

However, it would probably be cheaper to file a complaint using the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, which unlike RES offers bulk discounts, instead.

The Vatican briefly got its cassocks in a twist last December when it mistakenly thought that vatican.xxx had been registered by a cybersquatter.

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Retrieving a lost domain name isn't a big deal if you know to approach the right person at the right time

BANGALORE, INDIA: The true worth of losing a website is hardly realized until you know for sure that it cannot be easily salvaged. The ensuing unstoppable freaky thoughts can sap your mind. What if a stranger is posting incongruous stuff that's a departure from your unique identity. Much worse, what if it is being owned by porn makers? OMG! You are name jacked.

Something of that sort happened to Delia Ephron, a writer. She recalls those moments in her blog: "I hadnt looked at my Web site in a while, but I figured that, with a novel coming out, I should bring it up to date. So I Googled http://www.deliaephron.com (I never had gotten around to bookmarking it) and it wasnt there. Instead there was a message: This domain is for sale."

She felt violated and was desperate to get the name back as it represented her life, her hard work, her accomplishments, point of view and more. After months of unrestrained court cases, and facing the harsh reality of the virtual world, she won in the end. She got back her identity, her website, not before going on a domain-buying frenzy. Now, she is the owner of deliaephron.net, deliaephron.name and also delia-ephron.com. Did you just think that her domains are too complicated to be taken away? Perhaps that wasn't the criteria at all.

Not everyone could be as lucky as Delia. Domain name thefts aren't uncommon in the world where every name you look for seems competitive given the rush for sensible and easily-remembered names that seamlessly associate with one's identity. However, it is not entirely impossible to get back the lost name and the website, though it rarely comes for free.

When a person registers a domain name it is mandatory to pay a yearly fee to the domain names registry just to keep the name associated with their IP address. Losing domain names could be the result of failure to renew it on time or someone fraudulently taking control of it without legally buying it.

In the first case, it is never too late to renew it with the registry of domain names, but not before checking if it's already up on sale or being auctioned. If it's on sale, most appropriate would be to bid to buy it.

But if someone has already bought the domain and using it, then it requires some really nice etiquette to get it back. Use your charm, try to convince the person why you want it back. It's highly likely that a request to the new owner works if he has bought it with the sole intention of reselling. So, just find out how much is your name worth, offer to buy it yourself, he would be more than happy to sell it. You shell out his price and own back your domain.

Apart from this, what if your domain name is stolen, I mean taken away fraudulently or if you are name-jacked? Companies losing control of their domains might face serious consequences.

In the know-all Internet age, it shouldn't be too tedious to know the hosting company of the website. Tools like Netcraft generously show up the hosting company names. For example domain name registrars Net 4 and Verisigngives you the entire details about the website-- registration date, hosting company, server etc.

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire -03/14/12)- Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX: III.TO - News) reports the resource at Ruddock Creek has increased to an Indicated Resource of 4.654 million tonnes and an Inferred Resource of 5.382 million tonnes at a 4.0% Pb+Zn cutoff. This represents an Indicated Resource tonnage increase of 99% and an Inferred Resource increase of 261% from the 43-101 compliant resource released in the July 2009 report. The combined Indicated Resource contains 695.0 million pounds zinc and 142.0 million pounds lead. An additional 794.0 million pounds zinc and 155.0 million pounds lead are contained in the combined Inferred Resource category at a 4.0% Pb+Zn cut-off.

The new mineral resource is documented in the Technical Report Ruddock Creek Lead-Zinc Project - Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia(1) dated March 1, 2012 ("2012 Technical Report"). The 2012 Technical Report was prepared by Ronald G. Simpson, P.Geo., GeoSim Services Inc. and Jim Miller-Tait, P.Geo., Imperial Metals Corporation, both Qualified Persons for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Messrs. Simpson and Miller-Tait have reviewed the contents of this release.

The Company is pleased to announce it has received confirmation from joint venture partners Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. and Itochu Corporation that they will proceed with their Year 3 option to earn an additional 15% interest in the Ruddock Creek property by spending an additional $6.0 million by March 31, 2013.

The combined Ruddock Creek mineral resources tabulated below are from the Upper E, Lower E and the Creek zones. This area covers only 2 kilometres of the known strike length from drilling, mapping and sampling of the 5 kilometre length of the Ruddock Creek Sulphide Horizon. Metal prices used in the determination of the base case cut-off grade were US$1.00/lb for zinc and US$1.00/lb for lead.

Block model grade estimation was carried out using Gemcom Surpac software. For the E zone, block grades were estimated using ordinary kriging constrained by zone domains. Three kriging passes with incremental search distances were implemented. Blocks estimated in the first two passes using a maximum anisotropic search distance of 31 metres were classified as indicated. Blocks estimated in the third pass using a maximum anisotropic search distance of 100 metres were classified as inferred. Grades for the Creek zone were estimated using the inverse distance squared method. Otherwise, all search parameters were the same as those for the Lower E zone.

The 2012 Technical Report contains tables providing the mineral resource estimates for each zone, and estimates for each resource category. The Company expects to file the 2012 Technical Report on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) within 10 days, following which the 2012 Technical Report will be available on the Company's website.

RUDDOCK CREEK EXPLORATION UPDATE

The Creek zone is located 900 metres west of the E zone surface exposure. Diamond drilling carried out on the Creek zone in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 has shown this horizon to be continuous over 600 metres down dip and 300 metres along strike from the surface showing. The mineralization dips gently to the north, plunges gently to the west and is up to 12.6 metres thick. The Creek zone appears to be a fault offset and uplift of the E zone mineralization. The strike, dip, mineralization and the presence of a barren pyrrhotite horizon located approximately 50 metres below the targeted base metal horizon are all characteristic the both the Lower E and Creek zones.

The proposed 2012 exploration program will continue to expand the Lower E zone using two underground diamond drills and utilizing the existing workings and drill bays. A bulk sample for metallurgical testing will be excavated from the Lower E zone during the 2012 underground program as well. Surface drilling will continue to expand the Creek zone west and south. A helicopter supported drill program will be designed to continue to explore and follow up on the highly successful 2011 drill program in the V zone area, located 3 kilometres west of the E zone outcrop.

Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. and Itochu Corporation have earned a 35% interest in the Ruddock Creek property by funding $14.0 million in exploration expenditures, and will earn an additional 15% working interest by funding a further $6.0 million in expenditures by March 31, 2013. At that time, the Ruddock Creek property will be held Imperial 50%, Mitsui 30% and Itochu 20%. Imperial will continue to operate the project through its wholly owned subsidiary Selkirk Metals Corp.

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