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• 51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A...

  The South by Southwest Interactive Festival announced on Friday the finalists, and alternatives for the seventh annual SXSW Accelerator competition presented... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breaking: Domaining.com Is NOT Sold, Yet

  On Friday the daily newsletter of Domaining carried this simple message: “”Game is over. Next week I will announce the new owner of Domaining.com” That one... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Beware: DefendNames.com Spamming, Trying To Sell Unregistered Domains For $39.95

  

  Over the last several days I have been receiving over 20 emails a day offering me domains for sale for $39.95 each. Until tonight I didn’t pay too much attentio... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• EZTV Packs up Its Virtual Bags and Moves to .Ch from .IT

  Just like The Pirate Bay has done several time, EZTV has had to pick up and move, leaving EZTV.it and moving to EZTV.ch. BetaNews wrote: EZTV made a quick... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Owner of Sols.co Raises $8.5 Million & Buys Sols.com

  Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• .ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way

  The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+...

  Well here is something you don’t see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn’t even... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net

  Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• A Couple Interesting Websites Getting a Lot of Attention

  

  Australia and New Zealand each have websites that our causing quite a stir, ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com which Shane wrote about last night is on Flippa. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com

  Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com

  The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Roadcam.com Saved in a Very Interesting UDRP With A Very Good Lesson In TM Law

  In a very interesting UDRP decision Roadcam, Inc. lost its bid to grab the domain roadcam.com The domain holder is Jon Smejkal of Pittsburg, California... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale

  Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I cam... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• China to Set up $6.5 Billion Government Venture Capital Fund

  China is looking to set up a $6.5 Billion venture capital fund. The Financial Times mentioned that, the launch of the government-sponsored VC fund will be... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD

  Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network. . Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million

  The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158

  Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day, including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications

  Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a presentation at NamesCon that took a look back at 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• View The Space Gets $3.3 M Investment From Blackstone & Buys/Rebrands As VTS.com

  VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sofia Vergara Wins Rights To SofiaVergara.org

  Sofia Vergara has won control of the domain name SofiaVergara.org which the domain owner alleged was a fan site for the Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 BUSINESS, TECH