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• Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours

  Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In...

  VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Looks Like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants...

  The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• It is All About the Eights – 8888828.com Sells for $5,103

  The Sedo auction for 8888828.com was paid and hit the Sedo sales wire, the name sold for $5,103, yes a 7N.com. The seller is local to me actually about 30... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• DNF.com Has Sold

  the domain which forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China. The domain recently stopped forwarding to the forum and was parked at SEDO.... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com

  Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are “Invented Names”

  

  A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com

  

  There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Australia’s Domain Administration (auDA) Proposes To Allow Direct .au...

  According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain, Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA),... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD

  

  The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7million Led by Oka.com at $60,000

  624 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• MyRescue.Dog Awards A Total of $100,000 to 16 Local Dog Shelters

  Petfinder Foundation announced the winners of the MyRescue.dog fundraising campaign, a month-long effort to celebrate rescue dogs and raise funds for the... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Lucky 8’s: Rick Schwartz Tops $10.5M in Sales For 2015: Sells 989.com For...

  Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King just sold the domain name 989.com for $818,181.81, topping $10.5 Million in domain name sales in 2015. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Another Great One Word .Com Domain Name; Raisin.com Sells

  

  The domain name Raisin.com just sold for what is as of now, an undisclosed amount. The domain which had an original creation date of 1995 was owned by a “T... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sometimes Shorter Is Not Better: StreetHub.com Rebrands to Trouva.com

  

  TechCrunch.com published a post about a UK startup, Streethub.com raising another $2.4 Million in funding. StreetHub.com “helps independent shops and boutiques... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars

  

  During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah, the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that ther... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• HopScotch.com Hit With UDRP By Owner of HopScotch.fr

  

  This is a weird one for sure. A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Hopscotch.com The Complainant is listed as the Hopscotch Group, which is a french... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• IAC To Spin Off Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid.com + 42 More To IPO Of The Match...

  IAC/Interactive (IACI) is spinning off 45 sites including Match.com, Okcupid.com and Tinder into a new public company called the The Match Group which filed... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A...

  This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) in 2014. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Unblock.com Saved In UDRP But Panelist Should Have Found Reverse Domain Hijacking

  NetProtect, Inc. just lost its attempt to grab the domain name unblock.com in a UDRP in a silly case that should have resulted in a finding of Reverse Domain... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH