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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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Cisco Offering $300,000 Prize to Secure The Internet of Things
We have written in the past about all the money flowing into the Internet of Things and the projected revenue companies like Cisco are forecasting. We broke... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Cybersquatter Now Owes Donald Trump $32K Due To 4 Domain Registrations
According to an article just posted by the NYpost.com, A “”Canarsie cybersquatter who registered domain names related to Donald Trump and used them to skewer th... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s
A Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed today on the domain name Branson.GuruThis is the first URS that has been filed which in my opinion should not be... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
NiceNic Releases February Chinese Auction Results – 126.CN Sells for $110,432
Nicenic.net put out a post today about some recent Chinese names that sold at auction. These were names that were not reserved by CNNIC. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Wiki Will Be CentralNic 1st New gTLD Lanched; .XYZ Its Second
CentralNic’s first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mt. Gox Files For Bankrutcy Protection
Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection Loses 850,000 Bitcoins, 750,000 Of...
Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales
Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K...
Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was acquired by the... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names
The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million
The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
While Most of the Domain Industry Debates New Gtlds, 4.CN is Lighting It up...
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is alread... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment...
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameCheap.com Says Its Has 20% Of All .Sexy & .Tattoo Registrations
NameCheap.com has around 20% of all .Sexy and .Tattoo registrations. Based on the last zone file update, .Sexy and .Tattoo has around 2,700 domain name... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10%
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
30 Minutes To Go & 9 Domain Reach Reserve In Sedo .Club Auction
The Sedo auction of .Club new gTLD domain names closes at noon EST about 30 minutes from time of publication and 10 domains have hit reserve. Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH