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• With 565 Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP .Services Appears To Be A Winner

  The new gTLD .Services launches tomorrow. Taking into account all Sunrise applications and Early Access Program Registrations, there are 565 domain names... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Club Leads All New gTLD’s Again On Sedo’s List Selling English.Club For $17,500...

  Over the past week, 564 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 Million 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Founder of Mt. Gox To Sell BitCoins.com In HA.com Domain Auction On July 24th

  The URL Bitcoins.com will hit the auction block on July 24, 2014, as Part of Heritage Auctions’ Domain Names Intellectual Property Auction. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Christmas & .Blackfriday Just Launched & The Extensions Seem To Be Very...

  Unregistry just launched .Christmas .Blackfriday and the registry seems to have reserved a very small amount of domains. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Co.Com Enters “General Availability” Phase At Noon EST Today!

  

  According to a Press Release we just received the Co.Com registry will enter the live General Availability (GA) registration phase today, Tuesday, July 8th at... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .GOP Registry/Registrar is Live At Join.GOP & Domains Are $20.16

  I just checked on the .GOP registry and both the registry and registrar are operational. To register a .GOP domain name visit Join.GOP Domain names are priced a... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .GOP Was Suppose To Go Live Today But You Can’t Register One

  

  The new gTLD extension .GOP was suppose to go live today July 7th for general availability but as far as I can tell you can’t register one. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Namejet .Global Domain Auction Closes In 48 Hours & Reserves Have Been...

  Following on the heels of the highly successful Live .Global auction held in London during ICANN where over $63,000 in .Global domain names sold, the remaining... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Updates New gTLD Collision Auction Schedule; Here Is The New 2014 Schedule

  

  ICANN has published an updated schedule of the ICANN Last Resort Auction for those new gTLD in Collision. ICANN will hold a Last Resort Auction for new gTLD... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Will This Domain Portfolio Owned By The Castello’s Be The 1st To Sell For Over $...

  

  Last week I received a tweet to @thedomains, asking the question: “Is any domain name portfolio worth over $1 Billion Dollars? We are about to find out. Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• TMZ.com: Lil Wayne Spent $600,000 To Buy The Domain YoungMoney.com & Is In...

  

  According to TMZ.com, hip hop artist Lil Wayne purchased the domain name YoungMoney.com which matches the name of his record label which has signed artists... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Napster.FM Hit With a UDRP by Rhapsody

  

  A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A...

  CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.London A “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .London domain names” CentralNic is taking ai... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Who is the Greatest Domain Investor of All Time ?

  

  There have been many fortunes made and a few lost in the domain world over the last 20 years or so, some were there early and some made a big splash when most... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were...

  Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Company That Bought Mi.com for $3.6m Sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 Minutes

  

  Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website:... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin

  Tech Crunch covered the .Wine and .Vin extensions and the resistance from politicians in California. Apparently many vineyards and wineries are fearful of... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• The 1st Installment of Things You Can’t Believe People Did This Week In The...

  I spotted a few hard to believe things that happened in the domain world this week and I thought I would put them into one post. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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