A Frenchman is suing his home country after it seized France.com, the web domain he owned for over two decades.
Jean-Noel Frydman, who was born in France but lives in New York, registered the France.com domain name back in February 1994 before launch…
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Presidents Trump and Macron dug a tree and somehow that became a meme
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