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• Flippa Weekly Sales Led by Coolant.com at $8,500

  Flippa released its sales from the past week, Coolant.com led the list at $8,500. The name was listed as exclusive to Flippa and sold at the buy it now. In new... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But Just for 8 Days

  The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Reports 3Q 2014 Closed With 284 Million Domains Up 6.8%

  

  Verisign issued its Domain Name Industry Brief for the Third Quarter of 2014. The third quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 284 million domain name... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trademark Clearinghouse Releases New Numbers: 34,400 Trademarks Registered

  

  The Trademark Clearinghouse release some new numbers today. There are now 34,400 trademark submitted to the trademark clearinghouse. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Braintree Now Lets All U.S. Merchants Accept Bitcoin

  

  Braintree will now make it possible for all merchants in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin. Venture Beat is out with an article that Braintree after making partnership... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Forbes Asks “Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New...

  Forbes just published an article on the new gTLD”s and its less than glowing. Here are some of the highlights of the piece written by Roger Kay: “It’s been... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com

  Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts ” After Such a Long Run, It’s About Time to Hand .COM a Gold Watch”

  

  Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 22 Year Old Makes $85,000 in 9 Days Selling ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com

  The auction for ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com ended last night on Flippafor USD $85,000 – a mere 9 days after the site was launched on January 12th. Today there... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Vlaanderen 3,880; .Brussels 3,742; .Forsale 2,197

  Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are the totals after... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• SearchMetrics.com “The Rising and Falling Stars in Google US

  Search Metrics takes a look each year at who fell in the rankings and who saw their website rise on Google. In addition to just looking at winners and losers... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trademark Holders Make Cybersquatting Profitable By Failing To Act:...

  We have mentioned before that when it comes to the levels of cybersquatting trademark holders have to share the blame by creating the ecosystem for high... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• MaxHardcore.com Sells for $10,100 – Max Hardcore Not the Winner

  Just one bidder stepped up and outbid the $10,000 high bid placed in December, for MaxHardcore.com. The auction closed at $10,100 . Back at the end of... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Panel Decides To “Terminate” UDRP On Telepathy’s SDT.com W/Fed Case Pending + 1...

  2 members of a 3 member UDRP decided to terminate a UDRP filed by SDT International limited company of Belgium (SDT) on the three letter .com, SDT.com from Nat... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Transactions Total $1million Led by BabyCity.com at $35,000

  Over the past week, 603 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Land.com Gets A $850K Bid In RightoftheDot Extended Domain Auction: Now Over...

  The domain name Land.com has gotten a verified bid of $850,000 in the RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference running on SnapNames. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Backend Provider Open Registry Acquired For Up To $22.6 Million

  

  According to rttnews.com, NCC Group plc (NCC.L), a provider of Escrow, Assurance and Domain Services, Tuesday said it has acquired the Belgium and Luxembourg... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• “The Donald” Goes After The Domain TrumpCard.com In A UDRP

  

  Domain Trump has filed a UDRP on the domain name Trumpcard.com The domain name TrumpCard.com was first registered in 1998. While the Donald owns some casinos... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fiesta.com Hit With A UDRP

  

  The extremely generic domain name Fiesta.com has been hit with a UDRP filing. The complainant is Dean Simmons, Sàrl Heintz Van Landewyck S.à.r.l. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• MaxHardcore.com With a High Bid Of $10K Sells Tomorrow on Namejet.com

  The domain name MaxHardcore.com which we wrote about a few weeks ago is at auction at Namejet.com and will sell to the highest bidder which is at the moment... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH