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• 1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768

  4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Site Now In Early Access: Here Are Some Non-Premium & Low Premium Domain Names

  .Site a new gTLD that is being launched by Radix and is in the Early Access Period (EAP) where for any extra fee you can register a .site domain ahead of Genera... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Average Pay Per Staff Member at ICANN in 2014 Was Over $187,000

  Ion Mag did an article that broke down the money that ICANN is making and the kind of salaries being paid out. It is a pretty thorough look at what goes on... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Thesis.com Purchased For $100K By Parent Co. Of WordPress Saved In UDRP

  In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab the domain name Thesis.com from the parent company that... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Playa Games, Maker of Online SFGame Played By 40M: Found Guilty Of Reverse Domai...

  Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Revers... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Qatar Airways Loses 2nd UDRP in a Month On 15 Year Old DiscoverQatar.com

  Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C. of Doha, Qatar, just lost a second UDRP in a month, its attempt to grab the domain name DiscoverQatar.com Last month the state owned... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From TM Holder of G-SUS

  G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com issued phonetically and slang fo... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com

  

  Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it’s #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• BlackBerry Limited Registers Android Domain Names

  

  BlackBerry Limited has registered the domain name AndroidSecured.com adding to recent rumors that they may have a device called BlackBerry Venice that will... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Paul Allen Decides To Go With .Fish Instead of Buying the .com from Most Wanted...

  Jay Westerdal blogged on Tuesday about Microsoft co – founder and billionaire Paul Allen going with a .Fish domain. Allen chose to go with SmartCatch.fish... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Look at Dot Luxury One Year In To The Process

  Tony Kirsch of ARI Registry Services posted an interview with Monica Kirchner of Dot Luxury. Tony was looking to get some perspective on how things are going on... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Hates ICANN’s Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling It “Impractical ...

  

  Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domai... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise...

  The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Transactions Total $1m for the Week Led by Vigia.com

  There were 501 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• NetNames Files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s...

  NetNames.com has filed a complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Andee Hill Joins Donuts As Director of Business Development

  Andee Hill has joined Donuts,as Director of Business Development with specific responsibility for relationships with the domain investor community. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Carlsberg Group Joins Minds + Machines Pioneer Program For .Beer; Gets 150...

  Minds + Machines, (LSE:MMX), announced today that Carlsberg, “the world-renowned brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program“. Carlsberg has... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix and .Site Want To Give You a Chance to Win a Free Apple Watch

  EAP starts tomorrow for .Site, EAP starts on the 8th of July at 1600 UTC and the GA starts on the 15th of July. So with the launch of one of the more highly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Amazon’s Prime Day Is July 15th But The Domain PrimeDay.com May Sell Today

  Amazon announced yesterday that its “Prime Day” sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of Amazon’s 20th birthday will “Bury Black Friday”... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a New Gtld

  Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their . Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BUSINESS, TECH