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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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.Online Tops 550 Sunrise Registrations With 15 Days To Go
Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling Sells MafiaGame.com To Maker of Grand Theft Auto For Launch...
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (2K Games) TTWO (NASDAQ) has purchased the domain name MafiaGame.com which was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administratio... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namejet.com Reports Over $1 Million In Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com just reported over $1 Million in domain name sales in July led by SX.com which sold for $555,050 As usual, only sales of $2,000 or more are... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Trump Trademarked “Make America Great Again” in 2012 but Missed The .Com When...
Its pretty hard to find a picture of Donald Trump in the last few weeks not wearing a baseball cap with his now famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mobile Now Accounts for Close to Half of China’s Retail eCommerce Sales
A new report from eMarketer.com shows that China is far more mobile than the U.S. when it comes to ecommerce. Over 87% of all users in China regularly access th... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tokyo Police Arrest Mark Karpeles of Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox
Mark Karpeles the former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been arrested in Tokyo. In a statement, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said that they believed... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal Of Name.Space’s Claim Against ICANN’s New...
The United States’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name. Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Founder Bob Parson’s Son Arrested on Domestic Violence
In what is a very disturbing story the son of Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons was arrested on domestic violence charges. Fox10Phoenix reported: The son of GoDaddy... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
A Look at China’s Internet – 668 Million Users
CFR.org published an article on the size and characteristics of the Internet in China. Citing data from CNNIC, the article gives some great insight into the... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
KraftHeinz.com Registered The Same Day the Merger Was Announced Lost in UDRP
A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name kraftheinz.com was registered on March 25, 2015, the same day the merger between Kraft Foods Group, and H.J.... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Day New gTLD Totals .Team 2,643 .Show 1,310; .Jewelry 961
Three new gTLD’s went into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and domain... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Trust Announces Advisory Board
NCC Group has announced the line-up of its new .trust Advisory Board, “an elite panel of renowned security experts responsible for supporting NCC Group’s . Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Willing.com, Evolve.com, Zeros.com And More Domain Movers
In today's Domain Movers series we detected that Gap Appear purchased the domain name WinningTalent.com. Independent Journal Review purchased ij.com, Paypal... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Minds + Machines To Register Up To 30K New gTLD Premium Domains Under Emerald...
Minds + Machines announced they are going through the process of registering up to 30,000 Premium Names from across its wholly-owned portfolio of TLDs through... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Report Shows 15% of America is Still Not Using the Internet
BizReport.com broke down some stats that came out of the Pew Research Center that looked at Internet usage in the U.S. The research showed that Asian – American... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
18 Year Old Generic Domain eWomen.com Saved in UDRP
eWomenNetwork, Inc. lost its bid to grab the 18 year old domain eWomen.com in a UDRP The three member panel of the Honorable Richard DiSalle, the Honorable... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD .Tech Enters Early Access Period (EAP) Today With 40+ Pioneers
Radix announced today that .Tech has entered the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) Unlike other Radix new gTLD extensions that previously launched . Read more
Posted on 29 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Loses 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension on...
Frank Schilling North Sound Names has lost its first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name eos.blackfriday. North Sound Names registered almost... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million – Float.com Sells for $50,000
Sedo saw 495 transactions over the last week on their marketplace and via SedoMLS. Sales totaled $1m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Give.com Sold for $500,000
Dave Evanson super broker at Sedo tweeted he just sold Give.com for $500,000 Just sold Give(.)com for $500,000. Congrats to seller and buyer!! Read more
Posted on 28 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
