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• The App Market is Slowing Down

  

  comScore published a study that showed we might be reaching the peak for app downloads. The report showed that 49% of all smartphone users don’t download any... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry...

  On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2016 BUSINESS

• Every Vote Counts: Former Godaddy Counsel Christine Jones Loses Election For...

  Christine Jones the former chief counsel for Godaddy has lost her bid to become the Republican nominee for the US Congress by just 27 votes. After the election... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2016 POLITICS

• GOP Senators Issue Statement Against ICANN October 1 Oversight Transition

  U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .SHOP Grossed Over $2 Million With 2K Domain Registrations 1/2 Way Through EAP

  GMO Registry, Inc. the registry operator for .Shop, announced today that new top level domain has already grossed over $2 million dollars in revenue with close... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9%...

  VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix Launches Startup League to Help Startups Launch Their Ideas

  

  The Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix’s TLDs to launch... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not...

  Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds +... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Conspiracies May Have Finally Jumped the Shark

  

  There is a new thread on Namepros that may have taken the new gtld discussion to another level, a weird level. Although anything is possible it is the Internet. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 BUSINESS

• Minds + Machines Extension Having A Really Bad Day Losing 30% Of Registrations...

  Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is having a bad day as many of its new gTLD’s have come up for renewal and many lost a substantial percentage of its registrations... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google May Have To Pay European Publishers For Showing News Clips

  

  The E.U. just wants to keep pushing Google’s buttons Bloomberg is out this morning with a news item that the E.U. is drafting new copyright rules. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Led by WLF.com

  Sedo reported their weekly sales and WLF.com was the top sale at $35,000. SelfEmployed.com looks to be a solid buy at $18,000 in my opinion. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Can Posting a Link Be a Copyright Violation ?

  There was a very interesting article published by Maud Sacquet of Project Disco on how Europe is viewing links with relation to copyright law. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Forget Naming Companies – One Teen Is Getting Paid to Name Babies

  There was a really cool story on BBC.co.uk that was sent to me by Adam Yamada from Yamada Media. Domain investors and branding firms spend most of their time... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• No UDRP on This One, TM Holder Brings Lawsuit Instead

  There was a post recently on Namepros that a member was not sure what to do about a demand for a domain name they owned. Some of the comments felt the person... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Drop Catchers Beware: Domain RaiseMe.com Lost in UDRP Despite Lack of...

  Raise Labs, Inc (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name RaisemMe.com in a UDRP/ The US-based company did not have an US federally registered... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Las Vegas NHL Owner Playing a Domain Name Game of Misdirection

  Las Vegas is getting an NHL (National Hockey League) team, the approval came a few months back but owner Bill Foley still can’t come up with a name. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• CentralNic Shares Hits 52 Week Low on More Than 10x Avg Daily Volume

  

  Shares of CentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), sank after releasing its financial results for the six months ending June 30, 2016. After hitting a 52 week low of... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• CentralNic Revenue up 100% & Gross Profit Up 19% in 1st Six Months of 2016

  

  Centralnic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), today announced its half year results for the six months ended June 30th 2016. For the six months to June 30, the company... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Daily Roundup for 9/6/16

  Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 6, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @namefind: Nyboats.com... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 BUSINESS, TECH