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• How Whoosh Inc. Bought Whoosh.com from Directv

  

  I noticed Whoosh.com changed ownership very recently and I reached out to the buyers Whoosh Inc. and interviewed them on how they bought the domain name... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000

  Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sold the domain Fun.co for $70,000 The domain name was “purchased a while back” according to Mike Mann. This .co... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television’s Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv

  Fashion Television International Limited has lost it’s attempt to grab the domain name Fashiontv.com in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong at $2.2million Led by NKB.com

  Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation

  Two researchers from AT T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD

  On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domain Movers: LeapButton.com, Bra.com and More Domains

  Domain Movers is a series where Jamie Zoch detects recently registered domain names, acquired domain names and simply moving domain names by some of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• DOMAINfest is Coming to South Florida As Part Of THE Domain Conference

  The organizers of THE Domain Conference announced today that DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th as part of its conference, from Saturday,... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Some of Kim Dotcom’s Mega Domains Expired and Are up for Sale

  According to TorrentFreak.com some of the domains belonging to Kim Dotcom have expired and are now listed for sale. Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak the domains wer... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP’s Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com; Unbiased.com; AENA.com

  UDRP’s have been filed on Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com, Unbiased.com and AENA.com ewomen.com has an original registration date of 1997 and is currently... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• France Tells Google To Expand “Right To Be Forgotten” Or There Will Be Sanctions

  It was a little over a year ago when a European court decided Google had to grant its citizens the right to be forgotten. As a refresher this is what the court... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion

  

  Apple Inc. has acquired 170 iCloud related domain names from the company it reportedly paid $4.5 Million to for the iCloud.com domain, Xcerion. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Canadian Court Rules It Can Order Google To Block A Website Globally

  

  TechDirt.com published an article this morning that deals with what has been a growing trend around the world. Countries wanting to dictate terms to Google. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far

  .Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy’s Ad For .Show Might Lead To A Lot Of Cybersquatting

  

  Godaddy has a webpage dedicated to the upcoming new gTLD .show Here is what Godaddy has to say about the extension: Everything from feature films to television... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Downgraded By Zacks Partially Based on the New gTLD Program

  Zacks, a publication that tracks the stock market and covers many public companies has downgraded shares of Verisign to a sell, partially based on the new gTLD... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domain Movers: FrozenVillage.com, TotallyLegit.com and More Domains

  In the latest corporate domain movers series on TheDomains.com, Jamie Zoch detects interesting domain name acquisitions from Google Inc., Starbucks, MLB, Time... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Overstock Buys 3 Domains & 3 Social Net Handles For 150 Bitcoins

  

  Exclusive to TheDomains.com: Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoins, in December 2014, which at the time were value... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit – Adblocking is Coming to the iPhone wit...

  Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, “Mobile is growing faster... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BUSINESS, TECH