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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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Well At Least Microsoft Is Happy About The US Giving Up Oversight of ICANN
In a statement issued by Microsoft today they “applaud The US NTIA’s transition of key Internet domain name functions”The statement was made on behalf of... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Holdings Reports: Revenue Up 5.5%; Domain Parking Down; 16.5 Million Domain...
Sedo Holding AG just issued its Annual Report for 2013 and revenues overall were up by 5.5% to €140.0 million (previous year: €132.7 million). Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Twitter Files UDRP On Twıtter.com (Its An IDN)
Twitter.com filed a UDRP on the domain name twıtter.comTwıtter.com is an IDN; xn--twtter-4ja12b.com and goes to a page that has a picture of what appears to be... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Panel Punts Denying Google’s UDRP On Androidtv.com
Google Inc. (“Complainant”) just lost a UDRP on the domain anem androidtv.com and xbmcandroidtv.comIts a pretty interesting case in which the Panel winds up... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Acts: .VG; .ZM; Collision Issue, Approves Studies For 2 Round; Get’s...
ICANN Board passed some resolutions last night on the last day of the ICANN Meeting in Singapore:1. ICANN re-delegate the .VG country-code top-level domain to... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
After 1st Day Of Availability .Email Has12K Registrations & Becomes 7th Most...
.Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability.According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
King.com Opens to Stock Crush Saga – Dropping 16% on First Day of Trading
King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could have titled their first day of trading as Stock Crush Saga. The stock had a very poor performance on its first day... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Who Should Oversee The Web ?
PBS covered the topic of just who should oversee ICANN and what part government should have in that role. Host Judy Woodruff sat down with Vint Cerf from... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Hey Registries, Registrars This Is The Way To Sell A Domain
Over the years we have pointed out a bunch of ridiculous emails we get from registries and registrars trying to get people to buy a unregistered domain names. Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Confirmed: Credits.com Sold For $100K Net To Buyer
A few days ago we noticed that the domain name Credits.com came through on the Sedo sales wire selling for $30,000.Today we have been able to confirm with the... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Whibse.com New Bulk Domain Lookup Tool
Domain name intelligence service Whibse.com has released an update to its bulk Whois tool that “quickly and accurately retrieves and fully parses all fields in... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ZeptoLab Seeking to Cancel King.com EU Trademark on Candy
We have written before how King.com the makers of the wildly popular Candy Crush Saga were seeking to trademark Candy for video games and clothing. Last month... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1.7M Led By Ntent.com for $25K; Nm.org $35K
Sedo just reported that over the past week, 692 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million48% of total sales were the... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Some Interesting .Email Domain Registrations & The Dallas Cowboys Miss Again
As we said in an earlier post today we went through the zone file for .Email to see what people have been registering.We noticed some interesting registrations. Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Breaking: IRS Rules Bitcoin (virtual Currency) Will Be Treated As Property Not...
The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it will treat Bitcoin and other virtual currencies like property, like stock or other intangible property rather... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.9 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of March 17th – March 23rd 2014All sales for the week totaled $1,904,435.The top .com sale was... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Meet The 1st .Email Cybersquatter Grabs Up ESPN, Pepsi, Starbucks, Chevrolet, NF...
We just went through the zone file for the .email new gTLD to see what interesting new domain registrations I found.I couldn’t help miss the registrations by a... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
TMCH Has Caused More People Not To Register 450K Domains, As New gTLD’s Pass 350K
The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) said today that is has delivered 500,000 Claims Notices (CNIS) of which 95% of the queries for trademark terms are not being... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling Sells iAcademy.com for $55,000
Last week it was iMeeting.com selling for $47,000 and today Afternic reported on their website the sale of iAcademy.com for $55,000. The domain was sold by Fran... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Bad Decision: HugeDomains.com Turns Down $6K & Now Loses Generic Domain In UDRP
Austin Pain Association (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name AustinPain.com which was owned by HugeDomains.comAs someone who is the subject of... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH