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• .US Extension Tops 2 Million Registered Domains For 1st Time After 31 Years

  .US has passed two million domain names for the first time since the extension was unched 31 years ago. Yes .US was launched on February 15, 1985; 31 years ago... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mason Zhang Joins .XYZ As Director of Business Development For Beijing XYZ’s...

  

  Beijing XYZ Technology Co. LTD, the Chinese business entity and registry operator of the popular .xyz domain extension, announced today that Mason Zhang has... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy/ NameFind Sells Over 45 Three Character .Com’s

  Godaddy/ Namefind.com continues to move a lot of inventory out of its three portfolio purchases. Yesterday we tracked over 45 three character .Com domain... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tech Crunch Publishes a Great Story On The Domain Industry

  TechCrunch.com published a great story about the money floating around in the domain industry entitled “”The silent evolution of domain names””. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breitbart/Gravis Poll: 71% Of US Registered Voters Oppose Obama’s Surrender of...

  In a poll just out tonight by Breitbart/Gravis 71% of US registered voters are opposed to the transition in which the US gave up oversight over ICANN. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Guide to Boosting Organic Click Through Rates

  

  Larry Kim from WordStream and Brian Dean from Backlinko.com produced one hell of an infographic for those interested in boosting organic traffic. The infographi... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .US Gains Over 100K Domains On 1st Day of $.10 Registration Promotion

  The .US domain name extension gained over 100,000 domains yesterday. The domain name registrar, Uniregistry started a promotion of .US registrations for only $. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 10 Takeaways from the Rick Schwartz Interview

  Once again I would like to thank Rick Schwartz for taking the time to do an interview that read more like a domain guidebook. The interview was long and some... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Payoneer Raises $180 Million

  

  Payoneer recently got into the escrow business to challenge front runner Escrow.com. Elliot did an interview with Scott Reynolds, President, Payoneer Escrow. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Ouch: Land Rover Loses UDRP on RangeRoverChauffeur.com Losing All Three Elements

  LAND ROVER just lost a UDRP on the domain name RangeRoverChauffeur.com in a one member panel decision of Houston Putnam Lowry, and the domain owner did not... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domain Owned by “World’s Largest International TV & Broadband Company” Hit With...

  

  The domain name LGI.com has been hit with a UDRP. The domain is owned and forwards to the website of Libertyglobal.com which according to its site is the World’... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Chart Led by HotBot.com at $155,000

  Sedo reported their weekly sales and the top sale was HotBot.com for $155,000. The domain was registered back in 1996. The domain was owned by Lycos an old... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rick Schwartz Talks to Us About China,.Web and Much Much More

  

  It’s been over 10 months since Rick Schwartz has sat down and written his thoughts on domaining. I contacted Rick to ask him if he was up for an interview and h... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameJet.com Announces $655K In Sales In September

  Namejet.com has released over $655,000 in domain sales for the month of September 2016. Only domain names that sold and were paid for by September 30th, are... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• The EFF Finally Weights In On The ICANN Transition & So Do We

  

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.com) has finally weighted in on the ICANN transition in a story entitled “Oversight Transition Isn’t Giving Away the... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look Back at Some 2009 Predictions

  With the U.S. giving up control to ICANN I thought it might be fun to take a look back to predictions for 2009. Michael mentioned the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• What Do You Have for $100 ?

  Over the summer we did a couple of posts that allowed readers to post their best name and what they had for sale for $2,500 or less. Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dot Club Will No Longer Recapture Deleting Names as the Registry

  

  Dot Club wrote on their blog today that they will no longer scoop up deleting .club names that they deem as valuable. The only exception being registry... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2016 Could Be a Record Year for Domain Disputes at the WIPO

  Doug Isenberg, Attorney Founder of The GigaLaw Firm published an article today on Circle ID with regard to UDRP disputes at the WIPO. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• An Illustrated Look at the .Shop Launch

  

  The folks over at NtldStats.com published an infographic on InfoGr.Am that delves into the numbers on .Shop. Some of the numbers include: 19,291 people... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH