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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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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 -
Former AFRINIC CEO Adiel Akplogan Joins ICANN to Aid Global Outreach
ICANN has selected the former CEO of AFRINIC (Africa’s Regional Internet Registry) Adiel Akplogan as its vice president for technical engagement, a newly create... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Flippa Domain Sales for The Past Week Led by Pharmaceuticals.com at $50,000
Flippa had a nice week and they released their sales numbers on their blog and Pharmaceuticals.com was the top sale. Pharmaceuticals gets 6600 exact searches a... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex Hit with a UDRP on The Domain eBottle.com By Owner of eBottles.com
Marchex has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name eBottle.com The Complaint was filed by Lerman Container Corporation. Marchex has owned the domain name... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Filed on 15 Year Old Domain GreatRun.com By Owner Of GreatRun.org
A UDRP has been filed on what seems to be a very generic term GreatRun.com which was has been owned by the same owner, Product Reports, Inc which has owned the... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Com Top 116 Million Active Domain Names For The 1st Time & Is Up 600K...
The number of active .Com domain names has passed the 116 million mark for the firs time in history. At the end of 2014 there were 15.3 million .Com domain... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Vs the Mississippi A.G. Could Set A Precedent for a State’s Right to...
Matt Schruers wrote an article yesterday on an upcoming legal battle that could set a precedent for content censorship. This is Google going up against the... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Do Cheap Domain Names Fuel The eCrime Economy ?
It looks like the business of cheap domain names will be getting its own track at a security conference. RSA Conference draws nearly 30,000 attendees per year,... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Which Brands Got The Biggest Brand Lift From The Super Bowl ? That Little...
AdWeek published an article that looked at what brands won the Super Bowl. The survey conducted by Bully Pulpit Interactive surveyed 700 people before the... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
