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• Money Wasted All Around

  A very easy UDRP decision came down on Spiriva.top. I see this name a lot because my Father uses it for C.O.P.D. The tm holder BOEHRINGER Ingelheim Pharma GmbH ... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%

  CentralNic PLC (AIM: CNIC) reported its financial results for 2015 recording pretax profit of GBP 1.5 million for 2015, nearly tripled from the GBP 520,000 it... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.8million Led by FFG.com

  Over the past week, 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Another Chance to Win Some Cash – Where Will 13.Co Close ?

  A couple of weeks ago we gave you a chance to make your best guess on where 27.com would close with the closest guess winning $50. We are giving you another... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Schilling’s North Sound Names Is No Longer The Top Registrant of New gTLD’s

  Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• AQM.com Reported Stolen

  Namepros member Fattee77 posted a few minutes ago that AQM.com has been stolen from their Enom account. Looking at Whois History it looks like Faith Turna had... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• DNForum is Now Parked on Sedo

  

  Theo at Domain Gang reported yesterday that Adam Dicker posted on Facebook about DNForum returning on June 1. Today it looks like the site is now parked on Sedo. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• First Ever .VIP Auction Closes – Approx $146,000 in Sales

  There was a tweet about an hour ago from Minds + Machines @ntlds on the first ever .VIP auction results. First-ever .vip auction on Alibaba Taobao just closed;... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Source: .VIP Sold 30,000 Premium Domains Including Google’s Reg of Alphabet.VIP...

  A source who has access to such information, has informed TheDomains.com that .VIP sold approximately 30,000 in premium domain names totaling around $1. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million Led by Boardroom.com

  Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain

  The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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