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• .US Domains Are Subject To Being Suspended Under The URS

  .US domain names have became subject to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy. Actually ICANN site on the URS specifically says that .US domain names are no... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Wedding Winds Up With 1,254 Domain Registrations After It’s First Day Of Genera...

  Minds + Machines launched .Wedding into general availability yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Facebook Acquires Single Letter I.org Domain Name

  

  Facebook Inc. has acquired the single letter domain name i.org according to whois records! Facebook owns the domain name Internet.org and is leading the effort... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Study of 10K People: 49% of Consumers Are Uncomfortable With Vising A Site...

  Global information assurance firm, NCC Group released the results of The New Internet Study, today of 10,000 people. NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers acros... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Nevada Would Like To Regulate Internet Traffic

  

  Nevada wants to be the first state to regulate Internet traffic, in an article on USA TODAY, Anjeanette Damon, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal gave the details. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Pure Drop PDM.com Sells for $30,470 on DropCatch

  

  The domain name PDM.com actually dropped and was caught by DropCatch, the domain sold for $30,470. There were 125 bidders and 297 bids. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Flowers Gets 24K+ Registrations; But Over 98% Are Registered By North Sound...

  Uniregistry launched .Flowers into general availability yesterday and ended the day with 24,194 registrations according to ntldstats. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club

  Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.8 Million Led By Mercari.com at 100,000 Euros

  Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Bitcoin Foundation is “effectively Bankrupt” According to One Board Member

  

  Ars Technica published an article that the Bitcoin Foundation according to one board member, is bankrupt. The organization was created a couple of years ago to... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Removes Images To Avoid Being Banned in Turkey

  

  According to BBC.com, Turkey had threatened to ban Google unless it removed links to images of a an Istanbul courthouse where a Turkish prosecutor was taken... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Neustar Files Suit Against the FCC

  

  Neustar (NSR) is suing the FCC over the loss of the Local Number Portability contract which it held for 18 years. Neustar which has watched the price of its... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• EnCirca Announces $39 Price For Matching .XXX, .Porn & .Adult Domains

  The domain registrar EnCirca just published a press release with a very catchy title; “Here Comes More X-Rated Domains” EnCirca announced during the month of... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Publishes Its Tax Return; Spends $46M In Salaries; $17M In Travel; Has...

  ICANN just published its tax return, Form 990, for the year ending June 30, 2014. ICANN Revenue decreased from the year earlier to $127 Million from $236... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Skechers Loses URS Bid To Have The Domain SKX.science Suspended

  Skechers just lost its bid to have the domain name skx.science suspended in a Uniform Resolution Proceeding (URS) and the domain holder a Joel Williams did not... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• SEO Benefits Between .Com and Everything Else

  

  This will probably be a controversial post as the topic has certainly been controversial. SearchMetrics.com published an article that took a look at the SEO... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Namejet Reports Over 640K in Domain Name Sales In March Led By Vvv.com for $136K

  Namejet.com reported its domain name sales that closed in March for those domains selling ofr $2,000 or more. All sales were led by the rare three letter .com... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dot Website Hits 50,000 Registrations

  Dot Webstie hits the 50,000 registration mark Radix released some stats about one of their strings today, Dot Website went over 50,000 regs, they did actually... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Returns.com, PMG.com And More Domain Name Movers

  In this series of Domain Name Movers I discover several new domain name registrations by large companies, acquisitions of some already owned domains and some... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Do Domain Extensions Matter ? One Study Says If It is .Com, You Betcha

  

  Website Magazine asked the question: “Do Domain Extensions Matter ?” They went on to cite a recent study from Interbrand that stated 94 percent of consumers... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BUSINESS, TECH