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• .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 Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is...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

• Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in the Upcoming Adult New gTLDs

  

  Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many hav... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Court Orders Google To Help Marvel Discover Source of Leak

  We continue to see courts getting involved in telling registrars and search engines what they must do to comply with a growing number of complaints that arise... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• New Site Domcomp Compares Price Of 10+ Registrars Across Over 600 Extensions

  

  A new site has popped up which compares the registration, renewal and transfer prices of 10 + different registrars across over .com, .net, .org selected ccTLD... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Beat Microsoft & Google For .Live

  According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Shocker: Both Amazon & Google Lose New gTLD .Cloud Private Auction

  A private auction was held a couple of weeks ago for the new gTLD .Cloud and shockingly neither Amazon (AMZN) or Google (GOOG), which both applied for the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Wall Street Journal: The Gold Rush Is On for .NYC Domains; Some May Resell for...

  The Wall Street Journal just covered .NYC domains name in a story “The Gold Rush Is On for .NYC Domains; Some May Resell for $100,000 +” In the story The Wall... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Another Scam Email: “I’m Selling Dontnology.com: Which Sold in 2000 For $2.5...

  Another day another scammy email from [email protected] “I am writing again because I have recently been fortunate enough to acquire a very... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Shocking: Holiday.com Fails To Sell For $30 Million As Breathe Luxury Had To...

  Despite a slew of press releases touting how Holiday.com at $30 Million was the sure bet steal of a lifetime, the domain name apparently failed to sell at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 BUSINESS, TECH