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• .Club Offering Free Domains & $10K In Prizes At LAUNCH Hackathon in San Francisco

  .Club announced today that they will be is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year’s LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27- March 1, 2015 in... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free

  

  .Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertisin... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn Free

  

  Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found th... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Endurance International Reports That Revenue From Directi & BuyDomains Higher...

  Endurance International (EIGI) reported its earnings last night after the market closed In its earnings call, Endurance said that its acquisition of both Direct... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark

  According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered . Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private...

  

  Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, “saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marijuana Now Legal In Alaska – A Few Related Domains Registered – Good Ones Lon...

  Huffington Post along with several other news outlets covered the legalization of Marijuana in Alaska. From the article: Marijuana is now legal for adults in... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Filed Again The Domain Name Major.com Bought For € 48,000.00 EUR In 2010

  

  Major Wire Industries Limited has filed a UDRP on the domain name Major.com. The domain name Major.com is owned by DigitalOne AG and seems to have bought the... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Operators of NameBright.com & HugeDomains.com Launch Expire.com Domain Auction...

  According to a press release out today, TurnCommerce Inc., operators of NameBright.com (an ICANN accredited domain name registrar), HugeDomains.com (a domain... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainHoldings Sells Almost $31 Million In Domains In 2014; Over $8M In 4Q

  Domainholdings.com in a company blog post today, said they brokered almost $31 Million dollars in domain names in 2014 Domain Holdings issued its combined Q4 an... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• CargoWiz.com Registered 2 Years Before Trademark Saved in UDRP

  Brian Rayle of Apollo Beach, Florida, who was self-represented lost his attempt to grab the domain name CargoWiz.com which is owned by Portmedia Holdings Ltd... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Different Spin on the Appraisal Scam – The Domain Tools Certification

  A bit of a new spin on the old appraisal scam, a reader sent us an email he received, for a law related domain, three word.com that makes sense, has value.... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fast Company: Rips .Green Calling It “An Idea Whose Time Has Passed”

  

  Over the years I have read a ton of stories on new gTLD program and certainly some particular new gTLD’s, but few have gone as far as FastCompany just... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Media Company Awarded $7million in Online Piracy Case

  

  Torrent Freak reported that the largest media company in the Philippines was awarded $7million in damages and that several domains were forfeited in the process. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• More Big Brand Fails; As Bang On Trademarked Domains Continue To Drop To Third...

  This is another post in a continuing series on how big brands are missing and allowing third parties the opportunity to register domain names that are bang on... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Government Set To Auction Another 50,000 Bitcoins Seized from Silk Road Bust

  

  Joel Dalais reported on BitcoinMagazine.com that the third government auction of Bitcoins that were seized during the Silk Road bust will take place March 5,... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• For the 3rd Time This Week UDRP Panel Awards Domain To Company That Dropped It

  For the third time this week a UDRP panel has awarded a domain to the company that previously owned the domain and allowed ti to drop. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Del Monte Foods Loses UDRP ON Delmontefarm.com, Delmontefarms.com &...

  Del Monte Foods, Inc. just lost a UDRP on three domain names delmonteexpress.com, delmontefarm.com and delmontefarms.com The three member UDRP panel of Robert A... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Coca-Cola Puts Smiley Face Emojis Into Web Address Using .WS Domains

  

  Ad week is reporting that Coca-Cola Puerto Rico that puts smiley-face emojis right in the brand’s web addresses. The brand registered URLs for every emoji that... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• MediaOptions Brokers Sales Of 50.com After Being Listed In Newsletter For $3.5...

  The domain name 50.com has been purchased and the domain transferred to its new owner, Wang Yi of China. The domain was brokered by MediaOptions.com under a NDA. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH