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• After 2 Years .Sex, .Porn & .Adult Become “Sensitive Strings” To The New gTLD...

  After 2 year years The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has decided that .Sex, .Porn and .Adult are Sensitive Strings according to the minutes of the new gTLD... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• URDP Panel Is Not On Nationwide’s Side Denying Bid To Grab 3 Domains

  A one member UDRP panel refused Nationwide Insurance Company bid to grab three domain names containing the word “nationwide” The three domains at issues were;... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google’s Matt Cutt to Take a Break

  

  Head of Google web spam Matt Cutts said that he is taking a break and going on leave. Matt certainly does take a lot of abuse defending the Panda and the Pengui... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Adult Ad Ban Now In Effect

  CNBC is reporting that the Google Advertising Ban on Adult domain names is now in effect. We reported earlier this month that Google was going to impose new... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 250,000 Registrations

  .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to pass 250,000 registrations. The official count according to ntldstats.com, 250,731 domain names. Of that amount 217, 752. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Another Poor 1st Day For This Weeks New gTLDs: .Vision 905; .Report 845; .Fish...

  Three new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and it was another underwhelming week. The totals include Sunrise registration and... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Silicon Valley VC is the Sole Winner of Government Bitcoin Auction

  

  Last week the U.S. government held an auction for 30,000 bitcoins that were previously seized. Reuters is reporting that Tim Draper a well known Silicon Valley... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Owner Of Ruraliving.com A $7 Billion Company Loses UDRP On RuralLiving.com

  AgStar Financial Services, ACA (“Complainant”), just lost its bid to grab the domain name RuralLiving.com from Ashantiplc Ltd, who was represented by John... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• “Creator Of Bitcoin Protocol” Domain Name Satoshi.com Sells On Sedo.com For...

  According to wikipedia.org, Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• USPTO Grants Two Patents On DNS Including “Systems & Methods for Providing DNS...

  Two Patents were granted yesterday by the USPTO on DNS Nominum, Inc received a patent on Systems and methods for providing DNS services A system for providing... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP

  The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP

  A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• WSJ.com Covers New gTLD Domain Extensions Highlighting .Global: “We Spent $10M”

  

  WSJ.com Live Covered the new gTLD domain name program today on WSJ Live and the star of the 3 minute segment was .Global The segment was entitled Bye ‘Dot... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $2.3MM For The Week

  Over the past week, 614 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.3MM. 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Warning: Expired Domains Are Easy Pickings for Hackers

  

  GroovyPost.com did a piece written by Jack Busch about his experience with an expired domain and hackers. From the article: I learned a hard lesson this week. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• New Tool: How to Invest in Chinese Domains Without Knowing a Word of Chinese:...

  TLD Registry Ltd the registry for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) has released a new tool to help... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• MSC.com Purchased At Sedo Auction For $48K In December Saved In UDRP

  MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name MSC.com Its an interesting case because th... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Personal Communication Systems, Inc Gulity Of RDNH On Healthwave.com

  Personal Communication Systems, Inc. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represented by Bell, Davis Pitt, P.A. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• PIR Names Ex-Verisign VP Dave Stewart VP Of Sales And Marketing For...

  Public Interest Registry (PIR), the not-for-profit operator of the .org, named former Verisign VP, Dave Stewart As Vice President Of Sales And Marketing Industr... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Microsoft Seizes 22 Domains Of No­-IP Based Off Of SubDomain Usage & Millions...

  No­-IP a DNS service company told its customers on its company blog yesterday, that Microsoft has gotten a federal court order seizing 22 of its domain... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH