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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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Scottish Government Jumps on the New Gtld Train
Scottish Government switches to a .Scot domain Herald Scotland published an article that the Scottish government is switching to a .Scot domain with the older... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Canada’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Shutting Down After Security Breach
The hits just keep coming in the exciting world of cryptocurrency, The Next Web is reporting thatCavirtex, the largest Canadian Bitcoin exchange is shutting dow... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Channel 4 U.K. “roughly One in Every Thousand Tweets is a Pornographic Image”
AVN.com published an article that dealt with Twitter and porn. The article focused on a recent investigation into Twitter and pornography conducted by Channel... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Sells $1.2million in Domains for the Week Led by Shein.com at $95,000
Over the past week, 538 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
How Committed Is Google To The New gTLD Program? Applied For 101; Now Lost 29 Ou...
Google was the 2nd largest applicants of New gTLD’s applying for 101 of them and spending $18.6 Million dollars in application fees catching the eye of many... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Dropping In October 2013 & Sold On Namejet, StormGuard.com Hit With UDRP
The domain name StormGuard.com has been hit with a UDRP filing by Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC. The domain name went into pending delete in October 2013... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola...
Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XYZ Passes .Mobi in Domain Registrations As It Closes In On 800K
According to ntldstats.com, the new gTLD .XYZ has passed .Mobi in the number of registered domain names. The .Mobi registry which went live on September 26, 200... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
DirtySpokes.com Returned To Co. That Let It Drop 1 Week Earlier W/O Registered...
A one member UDRP panel has ordered the domain name dirtyspokes.com returned to the company that allowed the doamin to drop drop in late December 2014,... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Memex Provides Law Enforcement A Better Way To Surf the Dark Web
Mark Stockley wrote an interesting article that took a look at Memex. Memex is brought to you by the people that built the original ARPANET. Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts Beats Google, Uniregistry and Afilias to Operate The New Domain...
Donuts has won another private auction beating Uniregistry and Afilias to operate the new gTLD extension .Team. Unlike many other new gTLD’s I’m not sure there... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Radix Wins Rights To New Domain Extension .Store Beating Amazon & Google + 4 More
Radix has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Store, beating 6 other applicants including Amazon and Google. The other 4 applications for . Read more
Posted on 15 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
The .Show Goes On As Donuts Wins Rights to New gTLD Beating Google & Amazon
The old saying is the .show must go on and Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Show beating out Google and Amazon. The fourth applicant, Zodiac... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Facebook Reveals Relevance Scores To Improve Ad Quality
Facebook is now going to reveal relevance scores to marketers in the hopes it will improve ad quality. Google has been using a quality score for years. Read more
Posted on 15 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Domain Names Are Property
Cincinnati.com published an article on a Minnesota court case that declared domain names are property and subject to garnishment. Read more
Posted on 14 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Larry Page and Sergey Brin To Sell $4.4Billion Worth of Google Shares
Business Insider published a piece tonight that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to be selling $4.4billion worth of their holdings in Google. Read more
Posted on 14 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Publishes Its Biggest Public Sales Of 2014
Sedo just sent out an press release announcing its Top 10 Highest Domain Name Sales in 2014 that were not under privacy Leading the list is mm.com, which... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Minds + Machines Pockets $3.5+ Million By Losing .Blog & .Store: Now Has $48...
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) announced today that it added £2.3 Million, which is over $3.5 Million In USD, by withdrawing its applications for .Blog and . Read more
Posted on 13 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Danica Patrick Not Happy That Go Daddy Ad Got Pulled
Webpronews ran a story on Danica Patrick talked about being upset that her Super Bowl ad got pulled, the ad which Michael published when it was first released,... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Jet.com Raises $140 Million to Take on Amazon
Forbes did an article on Jet.com and them raising $140million for the launch of their ecommerce website. The company has been touted as a rival to Amazon. Jet. Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
