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• ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names

  ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Hand Registering Its Domain For $10, Quandl Raises $5.4 Million

  The Wall Street Journal just covered the story of a startup Quandl.com which has 30,000 registered users, and just raised $5.4 million to expand. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2,518: .Restaurant 2,389; .Gifts 1,010; .Sar...

  4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tucows Reports & Plans Repurchase $8 Million in Shares

  Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the third quarter of 2014 after the market closed. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afnic Study Looks At Who Are The New G’s Affecting Most ?

  

  Afnic.fr the registry for domain names in .fr put out a study that took a look at how is the proliferation of new gtlds affecting the existing gtld and cctlds... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1-800Flowers Gets Birthday.gifts, Anniversary.gifts, Flowers.gifts,...

  Today two new gTLD’s from Donuts go into General Availability today .Gifts and .Restaurant. Both of the strings have around 330 domain name registered in the... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Internet.bs Releasing 9.5 Million Available .Com Registered in Other Extensions

  The domain name registrar, Internet.bs is “releasing a list of 9.5 million .COM names which are currently registered under other TLD spaces yet remain... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino

  Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .NYC Domain Helps UCONN Basketball Troll Syracuse

  

  The Sporting News reported on a .NYC domain being used to troll one of its best collegiate basketball teams by a rival. It appears defending NCAA national champ... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Domain Transactions Total $1.1 Led By EasyBet.com For 35K Euro’s

  Over the past week, 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 50% of total sales were the result of Buy... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On...

  Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Withdraws Another New gTLD Application: .Earth Won By Interlink Co., Ltd

  Google has given up on another new gTLD extension. Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• NamesCon is Donating 100% of Registration Revenue Received on Veteran’s Day To...

  

  NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue received today Veteran’s Day to Veteran’s Village Las Vegas managed by SHARE, a 501(c)3 Registered Charity. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Panel Rules That The Word “Club” Is Generic

  A one member UDRP panel has found that the word “club” is generic The disputed domain names were clubsail.com; clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org however in... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too

  Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book

  Amazon now owns the new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and...

  

  Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November

  A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the followin... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding

  ICANN and Power Auctions made some changes in the Last Resort Auction rules starting with auction scheduled for November all seeming to quicking up the auction... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction

  A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for . Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH