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• Afnic Takes A Look at Year Zero For The New gTLDs – What Have We Learned So Far ?

  

  Afnic published a report on the new gtlds and looked at “Year Zero” for the new extensions. The report covered, looking back at 2014, the fee or free business... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a Lot of Them Use the...

  Tech Crunch did a story on Entrepreneur First which is a European accelerator for start-ups along the lines of the popular Y Combinator. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTL...

  Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding To Its...

  L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal wa... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week?

  The new gTLD .App, which was the most applied for new gTLD, seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair

  Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application fo... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Under Armour Looking to Kick A Little Ass – Ass Armor That Is

  The Baltimore Sun’s Lorraine Mirabella published an article on local athletic apparel maker Under Armour. It seems that Under Armour has not taken kindly to a... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .College To Offer Trademark Holders & Universities Free Registrations

  XYZ.COM LLC, the company behind the .xyz domain extension, announced the global launch of the .College domain extension today offering for the first time free... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tech.Co “What’s In A Domain Name ?”

  Ann Diab wrote a piece on Tech.co that featured Howard Lefkowitz who keynoted NamesCon 2015. The article delves into the deeper meaning of a brand, that it is... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• SnapDeal Acquires Exclusively.com

  Exclusively.com Acquired Medianama.com published an article on Exclusively.com getting acquired by SnapDeal, the company was originally Exclusively.in before... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Jered Kenna The Man Who Lost The Rights To Bitcoin.com And How He Bounced Back

  Coin Desk/ ZapChain Interview with Jered Kenna Jered Kenna is someone who got into Bitcoin early and not only did he get into Bitcoin, but his company... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Yoga 1,546; .Sydney 1,508; .Party 1,105; .Vote 264:...

  Six new gTLD’s had its first day of general availability (GA) yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis and from the ... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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