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• As Many As 5K .Com’s Taken Away By Sealed Court Order By Verisign Including...

  Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Freenom Operator of 2nd Largest Domain Extension .TK; To Launch .GQ; Yes It...

  Freenom which operates the .tk registry which is the world’s 2nd largest domain extension in terms of registration, has partnered with GETESA, the largest... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For...

  Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Public Company (CHGG) Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock

  Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximatel... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396

  One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com

  

  David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Results of Our Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll

  

  Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By...

  We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and.or controlled by Frank Schilling registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owne... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• SimpleBank.com Lost in UDRP To Common Law Trademark Holder of The Word “Simple”

  Simple Finance Technology Corp (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name SimpleBank.com which is owned by CDN Properties Incorporated. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP On Tasers.com Is Dropped, As Domain Name Is Now Owed By Tasers International

  

  A UDRP was filed on the domain name Tasers.com with WIPO, last month is showing as having been terminated. That means the Complainant of the UDRP, TASER... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• TheHill.com: Post On 2016 Presidental Domain Names Doesn’t Even Mention New...

  TheHill.com just published a post entitled “ElectHillary.com? RandPaul.com? Betting on 2016’s hottest Web address” the artcile goes on to chat about... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million

  Sedo reported 571 transactions that took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• TeleSign Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking As Esqwire.com...

  TeleSign Corporation, of California was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name PhoneId.com which is owned by Vertical... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Rick Schwartz Roast: Here is Your Chance To Get Your Material Into My...

  As the TRAFFIC organizers announced today, there will be a once in a lifetime roast of Rick Schwartz at the TRAFFIC conference that will be held in Miami Beach... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Deals Has 400+ Registrations; Launches Tomorrow; Here Are The More Interesting...

  .Deals which launches into general availability tomorrow has over 400 registrations including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and those who paid an... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• News Corp Acquires Publicly Traded Move.com For $950M

  News Corp has agreed to acquire Move, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE) “a leading online real estate business that brings consumers and Realtors® together to facilitate... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Berryhill: “Were Taking This to Court” As UDRP Rules Against Marchex’s Generic...

  Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil, just was awarded the generic domain names banco24horas.com and banco24horas. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Law Enforcement Is Not Happy With Apple’s New Privacy Policy

  

  Apple changed its privacy policy with iOS 8 and it has many in law enforcement up in arms. In an article on Mashable written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai,... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Bash Bug Has No Easy Fix and Could Be More Problematic Than Heartbleed

  Earlier in the year it was Heartbleed and now there is another bug that has been uncovered, Shell Shock, which could be even more problematic. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st Day New gTLD Totals .Beer 2,078; .Surf 635; Here Are The More Interesting...

  Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability on Thursday by Minds + Machines and including Sunrise Registrations by trademark holders the number of domain... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 BUSINESS, TECH