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• EURid Second Quarter Progress Report – Registrations Increase 0.9 %

  

  Eurid released its second quarter report. You can download the pdf which gives a complete breakdown of stats and graphs. During Q2 2014, the number of .eu... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• China.info Dropped Yesterday & None Of The Big Drop Catchers Got It: Hexonet Did

  The domain name China.info, arugably one of the better .info’s you can get dropped yesterday and none of the big drop catchers got the domain. The domain was... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Attorney & .Lawyer Launch Wed & Each Have Only 140 Sunrise/Early Registrations

  .Attorney a .Lawyer both launch into general availability (GA) where domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis by Rightside (Name). Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .NYC Adds 1,147 Landrush Domains & Now Sits 4,549: Here Are The More...

  Yesterday we wrote about, .NYC have some registered 2,949 domain names in their Landrush period but also mentioned we knew of more .NYC landrush registrations... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• How Optimistic Are You About Your Current Domain Portfolio Compared To The...

  

  Our poll question for October is,How Optimistic Are You About Your Current Domain Portfolio Compared To The Start of The Year ? Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD’s Domain Registrations Top 2.5 Million As .NYC Sets New gTLD...

  The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday as .NYC reported awarding over 2,900 registered in lan... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .NYC Gets Almost 3K Land Rush Domains & Sits at 3,441 Before Next Weeks Launch

  .NYC the top level extension for New York now had 3,441 domain name registrations after awarding landrush domain names that received only 1 land rush... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fertility App Glow Raises Another $17 Million – Should They Acquire Glow.com ?

  Glow is an app that allows women to track their fertility cycles, they received another $17 million in funding bringing their total up to $23 million. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Filed on C-A.com and MySchool.com Gets Saved for the Second Time

  Back on 9/13 we wrote about MySchool.com getting hit with a UDRP for the second time in four years. We published the article as soon as the UDRP was filed, so w... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Organic Click Rates – A Case Study

  

  Philip Petrescu posted an interesting article on Moz.com that is worth checking out for those who build out websites and are looking for more organic traffic. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2 Texas DUI Lawyers Battle Over Trademarked Domains: DontBlow.com Vs....

  TexasLawyer.com reported on a dispute between Tyler Flood, a Houston DUI lawyer who filed a lawsuit against The Law Offices of Mark Hull, based in Austin for... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Without Filing A Response:...

  PFIP, LLC (“Complainant”), represented by Teresa C. Tucker of Grossman, Tucker, Perreault Pfleger PLLC, New Hampshire, has been found guilty of Reverse... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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