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Twitter is Interested in the Second Round of New Gtld Applications
TrademarksandBrandsOnline.com published an article that Twitter plans to participate in the second round of new gtld expansion. Read more
Posted on 16 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Blackstone’s B2R Holdings Rebrands As Lending.com
B2R Holdings, a portfolio company of a Blackstone Group (LPBX ) , announced today that B2R rebranded itself as Lending.com and said it hoped to extend $10... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tim Schoon Auctioned off 118 Four Letter.coms on 4.cn
Tim Schoon of PEJ.com auctioned off 118 four letter .com domains on 4.CN. The auction ended yesterday, some wondered why Tim auctioned them all off on the same... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter .Com Domain Sale Today
The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold
The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2%
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In...
Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Netflix Finally Wins A URS on Netflix.pics; The Difference?; The Domain Was...
Netflix finally won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case on the domain name Netflix.pics Netflix recently lost two URS cases on the domain names Netflix.news... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led by SkinWellness.com @ $15K & 0702.com At...
Sedo.com published its transactions for the week. Lots of LLLL.com continue to sell in the low $x,xxx range In all 631 transactions took place on Sedo’s... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
WIPO Publishes 2014 UDRP Figures & 2015 YTD: 14% of WIPO’s 2015 Cases Are New...
WIPO released it annual report yesterday for 2014 and Year to Date numbers through September 2015. Cases filed ins 2014 were up only 2% from 2013, with 2,634... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Famous Four Media Becomes 3rd New gTLD Registry To Pass 1 Million Domains
According to a Press Release out today, Famous Four Media has become the 3rd new gTLD registry to pass one million domain names. Read more
Posted on 13 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Quick Poll: What Will Be The High Bid On Health.Org
Earlier today we posted about a Godaddy.com expired domain name auction underway for health.org. The auction still has over 9 days to go as of publication. Read more
Posted on 12 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD’s: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign “Doesn’t Have Much To Worry About”
Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled “The New Domain Name Game” and concluded when it comes to new gTLD’s (new... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction
.Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go. According to the stats shown on the... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates
The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures
.Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd. .Miami did not have a... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Better Pay Attention As ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Changes To UDRP & URS
ICANN has opened the comment period Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) implemented for both existing and new gTLDs, including but not limited to the Uniform... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List
.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved bu... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700
A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. Read more
Posted on 09 October 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
