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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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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 -
Philly Bike Share Program Picks A Name Already Trademarked
In my local news it seems that the city of Philadelphia may be infringing on a trademark. The city is rolling out a bike share program and named it Indego, the... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790
Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Here Is The GAC Advice to ICANN from The GAC Communique-Singapore
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued its Communique from the ICANN Singapore... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
To The CEO Of ICANN Fadi Chehade: Do You Think Vodafone Is The Biggest Domain...
Two weeks ago we called out the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade, for some remarks he made in a story published by the HuffingtonPost. Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The New gTLD .Forum
Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal’s company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts ... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Major League Baseball in Trademark Battle Over the Letter W
Not sure what is going on over at the corporate offices of Major League Baseball, The Washington Post published an article on the trademark battle between Walle... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Work 3,833; .Casa 1,235; .LGBT 404
Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday and here are the number of domains registered under each extension after the first day... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
HomeAway Files UDRP On HolidayRentals.com 36K Most Visited Site On The Internet...
HomeAway, Inc. has just filed a UDRP on the domain name HolidayRentals.com. As a domain it’s about as generic as you can get. However HolidayRentals. Read more
Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
