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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Hershey’s Files UDRP On 16 Year Old ChocolateWorld.com; 17 Year Old NewBody.com...
A couple of interesting UDRP filings today Hershey’s filed a UDRP on the domain name ChocolateWorld.com The domain name was registered in back in 1997 however i... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.06 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 4/7/14 – 4/13/14. All sales for the week totalled $2,065,279. The top .com sale was lead by NGSN.com... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led By Gab.com For $200K
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Can New gTLDs Save Demand Media ?
Scott Hopkins wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha today stating that the new gtlds were the last chance for Demand Media. Demand Media has been languishing in the... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Buzz May Have The Strangest List Of 100 Reserved Domains Of All New gTLD’s
.Buzz goes live today and like all new gTLD registries they are entitled to keep 100 domains for their own use for marketing and other purposes, but going... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Going To Court in India Over Copyright/Trademark Infringement
Go Daddy is going to have to go to court in India regarding a claim by the National Stock Exchange and their online trading platform. It is hard to see how Go... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Y8.net Lost in UDRP
Web Entertainment, LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada, just won a UDRP on the domain name y8.net The Respondent did not reply to the UDRP The complainant has a trademark... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Explains How It Reads Your Email
Google has changed its terms of service when it comes to Gmail. Reuters is out with the news, (Reuters) – Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday,... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
25 Plaintiffs Filed Federal Suit Over 231 Domains; 26 of Which Are No Longer...
A federal lawsuit was filed last week in the New Jersey District Court for trademark infringement against the owners of 231 domain names some of which are... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Sale of .Co To Neustar Closed Today; Offices To Stay In Miami
Although it was announced a few weeks ago, the sale of the .CO Internet S.A.S to Neustar for $109 million dollars actually just closed today. According to the... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
The ICA Comments on ICANN Preliminary Issue Report on IGOs and INGOs
Phil Corwin of the ICA has sent a comment to ICANN regarding the Preliminary Issue Report on Access by IGOs and INGOs to the Curative Rights Protections of the... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Neustar – 80 % of Local Searches on Mobile Phones Convert
Neustar put out a study and an infographic on the high conversion rates experienced in local search by those using mobile phones. Jessica Lee covered this on... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Big Week For New gTLD’s Including .Buzz, .Link, .Pics & 1st Singular/Plural...
Its a big week in new gTLD world as 14 new domain name extensions go live, as they become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Guru Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 50,000 Registrations
.Guru has just become the first new gTLD to pass 50,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com .Berlin is firmly in the number 2 spot and might pass .Guru... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
U.S. Internet Advertising Surpasses Broadcast TV For the First Time Ever
For the first time, U.S. Internet advertising revenue has surpassed that of broadcast television due to sharp growth in mobile and digital video ads. Read more
Posted on 13 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Luxury Brands Get Their .Luxury Domains: Bugatti; Cartier; Prada; Chopard; Dior ...
I just reviewed the zone file for .Luxury, which appears to have gotten over 400 sunrise registrations by trademark holders and many of the top luxury brands... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google: Anyone In The US Can Purchase Google Glass On Tax Day April 15th
Google.com has just announced that anyone in the United States can buy Google Glass on Tuesday April 15th.Up to now to purchase Google Glass you needed an... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
EURid Gets 5 More Years To Run The .EU Registry
EURid which has been operating the .EU domain name extension since it was launched, has been confirmed as the registry manager of the .EU top-level domain for... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Heartbleed.com Regged a Week Ago Already a US Top 5000 Alexa Ranking
Finnish security firm Codenomicon is the company that registered Heartbleed.com on April 5, 2014.Headquartered in Oulu, Finland and Silicon Valley, with... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Off The Hook in Revenge Porn Case
So back in January of 2013 a class action suit was filed against the revenge porn website Texxxan.com, GoDaddy who hosted the website, its uploaders and its... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2014 BUSINESS, TECH