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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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Breaking: Verisign To Hold Conference & Live Webcast Friday Morning At 8:30 AM O...
Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN )just announced they will be holding a conference call tomorrow morning, Friday November 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM EST, “to provide a status... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Conference On Who Should Govern The Internet Is On For Tomorrow In Washington &...
The ITU meeting is next month and with countries like Russia, China and India all wanting a a bigger say in the governance of the Internet, there is a conferenc... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Liao.com Sells For $118,888 On NameJet.com
The domain name Liao.com just sold for $118,888 on Namejet.com The auction had 224 bidders and 8 that bid $50,000 or more and 3 bid $75,000 or more. Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Offers New US Advertisers On AdWords Express Free Ads In January Equal...
According to a blog post by Google issued today, they are offering new customers for its AdWords Express service free advertising in January in the same about... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
MarkMonitor.com Registers A Bunch Of Defensive Registrations For Clients:...
MarkMonitor.com registered a bunch of defensive domain name registrations for Bell Media yesterday, including the words suck, hate and even the F-Bomb Bell Medi... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Everything.Me Gets Another $25 Million In Funding
TechCrunch.com is reporting on another startup .Me site, Everything.Me just got $25 Million in additional funding: “”Everything. Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Announces First New gTLD Client .HIV
Sedo announced this morning that is partnership with dotHIV, the future nonprofit registry behind the new .hiv generic top-level domain (gTLD) is based in... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Afternic.com Sells $825,000 In Domain Names Led By Styles.com For $60,000
Afternic.com just released its weekly sales list for the short holiday week (in the US) and sold almost $825,000 in domain names The sales were led by Styles.co... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex Files Federal Lawsuit Over PriceShoes.com UDRP Decision
Marchex (MRCX) just filed a federal lawsuit over the UDRP decision in PriceShoes.com. You might recall a three member panel awarded the domain name to the... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To...
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ),... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 & Limit...
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice urges that... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page
A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GED.net, by the American Council on Education GED Testing Service LLC whose official site is Acenet.edu. Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICE Seizes 132 Domains & This Time Its Global, Not Just .Com & .Net
ICE today announced that 132 domain names were seized for selling counterfeit products. However not only were .com’s and .net’s targeted this time. Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
DotFood Starts Its Own Pre-Registration Site For .Food: FoodDomainia.com
According to a press release we received, Dot Food, LLC an applicant for the new gTLD .Food, launched “FoodDomainia.com, a pre- registration and awareness... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Audi Loses UDRP On AudiCity.com
A one person UDRP panel just ruled against Audi AG of Germany on the domain name audicity.com The case seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name was... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Biggest Domain Sale Of The Year? 25.Com Gets A $1.5 Million Dollar Bid At...
The domain name 25.com in auction at CAX.com has a $1.5 Million dollar bid and has met reserve. I wrote to Francois Carrillo who owns and operates CAX.com who... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Single Letter & Number Registry Owned .Tk Domain Names Hit SnapNames.com Startin...
The fast growing ccTLD is .Tk which is also according to the latest Verisign Report is the second largest ccTLD in the world in terms of numbers of registration... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
G.Co Hits Times Square By Letting You Put Your Pictures & Message In Times Square
G.co has hit New York’s Times Square and now so can your pictures. The campaign is called “For Everyone” and is part of their ad campaign for Google’s Chrome... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean Th...
This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH -
How Many New gTLDs Applications Will Not Be Approved? Dirk Krischenowski of...
In a story posted by Netnames.com, DotBerlin promoter Dirk Krischenowski gave his analysis on how many gTLD applications might not make it. Read more
Posted on 23 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH