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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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Bloomberg Files UDRP To Gain Control Of The Domain That Caused The Twitter...
Bloomberg filed a UDRP to take control of the domain name Bloomberg.Market the domain that caused shares of Twitter to rise 8% when it published a fake report... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rightside Appoints Jason Silverstein as Vice President of Product and Engineering
Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME),today announced that it has appointed Jason Silverstein as Vice President of Product and Engineering. “A veteran digital executive who... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million, Led by Newy.com
Over the past week Sedo had 499 transactions take place on the marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Brand Blunders: Domino’s Files UDRP To Get The Domain Dominos.Pizza: Wynn On...
Domino’s pizza has filed a UDRP to gain control of the new gTLD domain name Dominos .Pizza. For me its another huge brand failure to protect a brand, on a bang... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No...
Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD’s. “”With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we’d like to give some insigh... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Owner of E-renter.com Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on...
E-Renter USA Ltd. of Bellingham, Washington, represented by Brownlie Evans Wolf Lee, LLP, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Sucks Tops 6,000 Registrations: Will It Be The Most Profitable New gTLD?
.Sucks has now passed 6,000 registered domain names. According to ntldstats.com .Sucks has 6,153 domain name registered. We know that around 3,400 domain names... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google May Offer Custom Gmail Addresses for as Low as $2 A Month
Kishalaya Kundu wrote on AndroidHeadlines.com that Google may start offering custom Gmail addresses for as low as $2 a month. Kundu referenced a report from... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
XR.com Hits The Auction Block on NameJet – Will It Go Higher Than SX.com ?
On the heels of the biggest auction ever on NameJet, SX.com, XR.com will now be hitting the aution block. The domain has been registered since 1999 and the... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Want TO Be The Next CEO Of ICANN? Here’s How To Apply
ICANN just published details regarding how to apply to become the next CEO of ICANN. The CEO of ICANN is currently making close to $900K in Salary and Bonus plu... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP’s and Fan Sites: Outcome is a Roll of the Dice
Like with most gambling, Bally Gaming, Inc. just won a few and lost a couple in a UDRP it filed over 8 gambling related domain names winning the rights to:... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Las Vegas Sun Covers .Vegas In A Largely Negative Story On “Lagging Numbers”
The LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is “lagging” behind other City new gTLD’s The... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Catch.com, RF.com and More Domain Movers
In today's domain mover series, large companies continue securing a vast mix of domain names by acquiring them and registering them. Apple Inc. secured Catch.co... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in...
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XYZ’s Daniel Negari Is So Done With .Com He Put His Own Last Name Up For Sale:...
It’s no secret that the Founder of .XYZ Daniel Negari has gone all in on being a new gTLD registry operator as he continues to shed his .Com holdings. Just to... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rick Schwartz Sells The Domain 9595.com for $180K: Highest Reported 4 Number...
Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again, setting yet another record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000. This is the highest reported... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rick Schwartz Sells 9595.com for $180K Setting Record For Highest Reported...
Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again setting yet another domain name sales record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000. This is the... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations
The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Loser on the Thesis.com UDRP Give His Story – MUST Read
Last week Michael wrote about the UDRP on Thesis.com. In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
UK Creative Ideas Limited; Wins Rights To .Art New gTLD
The new gTLD .Art has been settled by private auction. The string was schedule to go to an ICANN Last Resort later this month. UK Creative Ideas Limited has... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
