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• 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

• 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