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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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The Biggest Registrant of .Bar Domain Names So Far Is .Bar
Earlier today we published the 1st day results for .Bar and .Rest. Using ntldstats.com, we had .Bar with 2,464 while other domain blogs had the number just... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1.5 Million Highest Reportable .Com Sale Was $11K
Over the past week, 570 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 million dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Largest Russian Search Engine Yandex Preparing To Launch .Yandex
According to a press release out today Russia’s largest search engine, Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced it will be launching its new Brand gTLD .Yandex shortly o... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
SeekingAlpha Issues Brutal Opinion On Demand Media/Rightside: “Titanic Will Hit...
SeekingAlpha.com published what can only be described as a brutal assessment on shares of Demand Media, Inc last yesterday after Demand said it would spin off... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Bar Ends 1st Day Of General Avalibity With 2,464; .Rest 307
According to ntldstats.com, .Bar had a respectable showing ended its first day of General Availability, with 2,464 .Rest not so much ending with 307 domain... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
USPTO Refuses Apple Trademark Application on Touch ID
Patently Apple posted a piece about the USPTO refusing the trademark application of Apple for the term “Touch ID.” Apparently the application was denied over... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Argentina and France Looking to Require Identity Verification for Bitcoin Users
There was an interesing article on Coin Buzz written by Andrew Moran, the article is about governments looking to find new ways and rules to regulate Bitcoin an... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Secret.ly Bought For $3,500 On Sedo 9 Months Ago Raises $25 Million At $100M...
It was just back in March that the New York Times chatted about, what was at that time, a 5 week old app called Secret which uses the domain name Secret. Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
ItsMillerTime.Bar; JackDaniels.Bar; Skyy.Bar: Best of .Bar Sunrise Domain...
Today .Bar went into general availability. Although we have noted before that brand holder by in large are not participating in new gTLD Sunrise periods it is... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Minds + Machines Issues 740K Shares + $138K To Antony Van Couvering
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today that it has issued 738,299 new ordinary shares to Antony Van Couvering and made a payment of US$138,06... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
BleachStain.com Loses Bid To Grab 8 Year Old Bleachstains.com In UDRP Without A...
Jerry G. Roper of Payson, of Utah just lost his attempt to grab two domain names about a generic as they get; Bleachstains.com and Carpetbleachstains.com... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Nylonmag.com Upgrades To NYLON.com
NYLON Media Inc. which was founded in 1999 and was using Nylonmag.com,announced today it acquired and switched its website to NYLON.com Owning NYLON. Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Bar & .Rest Are Live: Priced At $70 & $35 At Godaddy
.REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) “a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars have gone live into General Availability... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Bar & .Rest Are Live: Priced At $99.99 & $49.99 At Godaddy
.REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) “a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars have gone live into General Availability... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.GOP Has About 1,900 Registrations; ClayAiken.GOP; SaraPalin.Gop; Trump.GOP
The zone file for new .GOP domain extension finally had domains added it to today and we some 1.900 domain names. Some of the domain included are part of the 10... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
Cin.com Purchased for $55,000 Has Been Around the Globe This Year
Cin.com was registered in 1997 and the first screenshot that comes up for CIN.com is back in 2000, the domain was owned by the Christian Interactive Network, th... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XYZ Debuts on RegstrarStats.com As The 8th Most Registered Top Level Domain...
.XYZ has become the 8th most registered Top Level Domain according to RegistrarStats.com. .XYZ domain registrations are only surpassed by .Com, .Net, .Org,... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
State of Bitcoin Q2 2014
Coin Desk put together a very nice presentation that took a look at the year over year growth of Bitcoin From the article: In April we announced that CoinDesk... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
From A UDRP to a $238,000 Sale, Mobile.Co Has Apparently Sold
Mike wrote yesterday about the owner of Mobile.pro losing its UDRP attempt for the domain Mobile.co. Mobile.co was purchased back in 2010 for $15,000 and today... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD Domain Registrations Pass 1.5 Million
The total number of new gTLD registrations just passed 1.5 Million according to ntldstats.com The official count is 1,510,985. .XYZ is still leading with... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH
