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• Firefox Surpasses Microsoft For First Time in Browser Usage

  

  While Chrome continues to be the number one browser worldwide, StatCounter reported that Firefox surpassed Microsoft for the first time ever. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against...

  

  A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: Landrush for the 1st Internationalized Version of .Com in Japanese...

  Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Unveils GBoard

  

  , a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. The company blogged about their new app... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• How Much of What You Read Do You Believe ?

  There is a lot of information disseminated daily in the domain business. Talk of sales, auction reports, past successes, etc… Sorting through the 95,000 plus... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 CULTURE

• 27.CN Sells for Seven Figures CNY

  27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay Domains Back to the Government

  So last week we wrote about another game of whack – a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time

  

  According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th, 2016 that the number of .Com registrations... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• How Will Google Banning Payday Loan Ads Affect Domain Owners ?

  Google dealt a blow to Payday lenders and domain investors who have invested in payday loan type domains. A few years back I knew some people getting big parkin... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 27.com Ends at $1,510,702 Unsold – One Reader Did Win $50

  27.com closed today at $1,510,702 on NameJet. The domain was unsold. NameJet user First kept fishing for the reserve price but they were not successful. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• iCANN Named Berkeley’s CA 4th Medical Cannabis Dispensary.

  No it’s not April Fools day but “Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council unanimously named the iCANN Health Center on Sacramento Street as the city’s fourth... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million Led by Uncle.Co

  Over the past week, 465 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Top 10 Trending Keywords For .Com & .Net in April; Trump is Out;...

  

  Verisign the registry for .com and .net released it he top 10 keywords in registered in .com and .net for the month of April In the last three months Trump... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rightside Explains Premium Domains & How They Sold 675+ @ $1K a Year; & $5M+

  Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various level... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Who Has The Most Valuable Search Traffic ?

  

  Kyle Floyd published an article on SiegeMedia.com that looked at who had the most valuable search traffic ? By taking data from WordStream on highest paying... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainX 2016 Selects India Shangri-La’s; Eros Hotel & We Have a 40% Discount...

  DomainX 2016 announced that they hare holding their “massive event” at Shangri-La’s – Eros Hotel, on New Delhi to be held on August 5th, 6th and 7th, 2016! and... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 TECH

• 1 & 2 Character Domain for .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading .CFD, and...

  

  “IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD’s) which... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fox Registers Feud.tv for Upcoming Series

  The domain name Feud.tv was registered at Mark Monitor by Twentieth Century Fox for their upcoming series Feud. The series will look at famous feuds throughout... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Finally Acquires the Domain AndroidTV.com

  

  Google has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Paypal Updates TOS: No Refunds For Gift Cards, Crowdfunding & Gaming Sites Like...

  Paypal chose Mother’s Day to update it’s User Agreement which will go into effect on June 25, 2016. The new terms exclude certain items from its Seller... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH