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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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.Org Opens Nominations For 7 To Serve On The .Org Advisory Council
Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, today opened the call for nominations to identify seven new members to serve on the .org... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Here Are The Winners Of $5K For The 2nd Month #Internetofficial Verisign .Com...
Verisign announced today the winners of the 2nd month of the Verisign .Com contest and has awarded $5,000 in prizes. KidsCookDinner. Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Beyonce; Britney Spears, Blake Shelton; Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez All Register...
It looks like Taylor Swift was not by far the only celebrity to register a .Porn new gTLD domain name extension in the recently concluded Sunrise period. Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Top 900,000 Registrations
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD new domain extension to have topped 900,000 registrations. According to new ntldstats.com .XYZ has 900,739, domain registered. Read more
Posted on 02 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Why Namecoin Never Took off
Namecoin has been an idea that has got some press in the past but never really totally caught on. The idea of a decentralized DNS system, kind of like domain... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marksmen and Com Laude, Launch MCL Domains To Be Based In Seattle
Marksmen and Com Laude, announce the launch of MCL Domains “offering efficient, reliable corporate domain name management services for North America. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
HolidayRentals.com Saved In UDRP For The 2nd Time
HomeAway, Inc. of Austin, Texas lost its bid to grab the generic domain name holidayrentals.com in a UDRP. The domain name HolidayRentals.com was saved in a UDR... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Bitcoin Exchange PSCoin.com ReBrands to LZF.com
According to CryptoCoinsNews.com (CCN), Bitcoin exchange PSCoin.com is re-branding to LZF.com. “The Co-founder of PS Coin Daniel Pusateri told CCN that LZF. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
RightoftheDot.com Gets Godaddy Its Stock Ticker Symbol; GDDY.com Before It Went...
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), announced today it has bought the domain name GDDY.com through RightoftheDot.com who bought the domain name on behalf of Godaddy... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Will Microsoft Buy Edge.com and Will They File A UDRP on MicrosoftEdge.com ?
Microsoft has a new browser that they are calling Microsoft Edge, Mike was talking with me and wondered aloud if they would go after Edge.com ? Three years ago... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment
The ICM registry, which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations i... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X...
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and . Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Me Passes 800K Registrations
The .Me Registry announced today that they passed the 800,000 mark in the number of registered domain names. If .Me was a new gTLD and not a ccTLD it would be... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
How One Tweet Cost Twitter $8billion in Market Cap
Twitter has been under pressure for the last couple days as a disappointing earning release caused the stock to take a dive. The dive started earlier than norma... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Registrar MAFF.com Rebrands To XZ.com That They Bought For $138K in 2013
The Chinese domain name registrar MAFF.com has re-branded to XZ.com We received an email from MAFF.com announcing the re-branding today. The domain name XZ. Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Movers: Haus.com, Gifts.com, 00.com and More Domains
In the latest Domain Movers series I detect several domain names that have been recent acquired by large companies, domain registrations and many more. Domains... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD .Science Tops 220K Registrations; Passes .Club; & Who Is AlpNames.com?
The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Fit Finishes 1st Day Of General Availability With 1,269 Domains
.Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain name... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Video Hits EAP Today & 85% Of All Premiums Are Priced at $200 Or Less
.Video is entered the Early Access Program (EAP) today (day 1) and based on the volume of Sunrise registrations and search data it would seem to be a pretty... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Fit Launches Today: Here’s Our Picks For The Best Domains But They Are Not Cheap
The new gTLD .Fit is launching into general availability today and thought I would let you know my top picks because I won’t be registering any of them. . Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
