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• 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

• Sedo’s Transactions Total $1.2 Million Led By Response.com At $150K

  Sedo just reported that over the past week, 588 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million dollars 53% of total sales... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats

  According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC/Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of...

  

  Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner and on... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook

  

  Rediff.com published an article on using Facebook as a way to transfer money, kind of the way we currently use Paypal. The service is currently being provided b... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .LGBT Launched Today: Meet The First 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites

  Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks...

  In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations. Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com

  Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy...

  

  Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Figaro.club Saved In UDRP Against Societe Du Figaro, Which Publishes a Daily...

  A one member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel of Christopher J. Pibus has denied the attempt of the Societe du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Vice.com Covers Gary Millin of World.com “The Man Squatting on Millions of...

  

  Vice.com just did a story of about Gary Millin of World.com who has one of the great domain name Portfolio’s in the world. Unfortunately the author of the story... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Popular Torrent Site Kickass Torrents Has Its Somalian Web Address Seized.

  Kickass Torrents is a very popular torrent website, the traffic probably totals in the seven figures daily, but according to Torrent Freak they just had their... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: Web.com Largest Shareholder Could Be Activisit & Shake Up The Board

  According to TheFly.com FBR Capital says Okumus Fund Management, Web.com’s (WWWW) largest shareholder, could potentially take a more activist stance going... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH