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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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1st URS Denied: Panel Gets It Right & Denies URS on Branson.Guru
For the first time a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) complaint has been denied. URS panelist Douglas M. Isenberg Denied Virgin Enterprises URS on the domain... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.CO Internet S.A.S Acquired for $109 Million
Neustar traded on the NYSE under the symbol NSR has a market cap of roughly $2.16 billion, today after the close they announced the acquistion of the company... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Disturbing: 12 Year Old Hobbex.com Registered 4 Years Before Trademark Lost In...
Hobbex AB of Borås, Sweden, just won a UDRP on the domain name Hobbex.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc.The case is disturbing because the domain holder... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Another Banner Day For Domains As Total Adds is Almost 65,000; 35K From .Com
Domain name registrations continue to grow with a bunch of new gTLD going live and as people continue to register more of the orginal TLD’s .com, .net and . Read more
Posted on 20 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Be Careful of Phishing Attack to Gain Google Credentials
Be careful using Google Docs and Google Drive as Symantec discovered a new phishing attack that is looking to get your Google log in credientials.Afterdawn. Read more
Posted on 20 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling’s Registrar Is Live; The Good & The Bad
Frank Schilling just rolled out Version 1 of his long anticipated registrar under Uniregistry as it went live today.Uniregistrar. Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
15 Year Old Quebec.com Owned By Anything.com Saved In UDRP
The government of Quebec just lost its bid to grab the domain name Quebec.com, but the domain owner failed to get a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling. Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Last Resort Contention Auctions Look Like a Go With 1st Planned For June...
ICANN just published a schedule of contention resolution Last Resort Auction and they start on June 4th with a goal of having 20 a month and resolving all of... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
One of The Worlds Best Domain; Chat.com Is Sold By CBS Interactive
One of the great domain names in the world, Chat.com was just sold.The domain name was owned by CBS Interactive, Inc. which acquired the domain it when it... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Record Number of Companies Sponsor DomainFest2014
The organizers of Domain Fest which is being held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, California. Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Strickling Refines Last Weeks Announcement On ICANN: No Government-Led Solution...
Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator seems to have backed off the statement he made last... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex, Endurance Added To NASDAQ Internet Index
NASDAQ (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the addition and deletion of companies to the NASDAQ Internet Index速 (Nasdaq:QNET), which will become effective prior to market... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Well We Just Told You These IDN’s Are Hot: Chinese Goverment Buys 20,500 Domains
We published a post earlier this morning about the TLD Registry Ltd, and its two new Chinese IDN new gTLD’s Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game
Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrationsGerman based... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old Domain HoldOn.com By Owners Of Holdon.Info
A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name HoldOn.comThe domain name has an original registration according DomainTools.com of March 18th 1997 making th... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Berlin Does Over 31,000 Registration In 1st Day
The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations..Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s & How You Ca...
Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in Macau... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Ladas Domains Selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®)
HEXONET today announced that Ladas Domains LLC (Ladas) has selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®) as the domain name service platfor... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling Gets Hit With UDRP On the Domain Name ClearCare.com
One of Frank Schilling Name Administration domain names has been hit with a UDRP.The domain name ClearCare.com has been owned by Name Administration since at... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
QY.com Sell For $100K: Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy weekly sales sales report for domain names for the week of March 10, 2104 â March 16th, 2014 totaled $2.1 MillionAccording to the report the... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH