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• .Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K

  .Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of 3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Not Spending $20 To Register His Domains, Attorney Sues WordPress, Google...

  Jeffrey Wilens D/B/A Lakeshore Law Center filed a federal lawsuit today against Google, the parent company of Word Press Automatic, Inc, and the registrar TLDS... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week

  Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names

  Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,618,097. The top .com sale was lead by... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After...

  

  Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Panel Spilts On 20 Domains; Domain Holder Keeps Developed Domains Loses...

  A UDRP panel just awarded several domains to the trademark holder while denying the transfer of others. The only difference to the panel is what the domain owne... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .CLub Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD

  .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Gur... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General...

  

  “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”

  USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy

  Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Bitcoin Set to Overtake Paypal

  

  The IB Times did a piece on Bitcoin surpassing Paypal in terms of USD transactions. From the article: Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone

  .Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions.... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja &...

  I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these domain name... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• PVP.com Sells for $70,000 on Afternic, A Look Back at the History of the Domain

  PVP.com sold for $70,000 on Afternic. The domain currently is under Afternic escrow for whois, and does not propagate properly and timing out. The domain has a... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Interpol Takes Down Over 10,000 Websites and Targets Rogue Registrars

  Interpol takes down over 10,000 websites and targets rogue domain name registrars. In what was the largest global operation ever for taking down bad... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mail.Ru Quietly Buys My.com

  Internet giant Mail.Ru Group bought the domain name My.com very quietly sometime between October 2012 and April 2013. The domain was registered under privacy... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainIndex Is Holding Virtual WebFair 2014, the 1st Virtual Show of Its Kind &...

  Virtual WebFair 2014 is the first conference of its kind for the domain, hosting, and SEO industries which offers participation in an event without the delegate... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• RetailMeNot Sees It Stock Get Whacked By Google Algorithm Update

  

  RetailMeNot is see its stock get hit hard by the recent Google algorithm change. Barry Schwartz wrote on Search Engine Land: On Tuesday, Google pushed out... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 50 Cent Is Offically In The .Club As His Site, 50inDa.Club Goes Live

  

  50 Cent’s .Club Fan site just went live minutes ago. The Site, 50inDa.Club, now combines all of his fan sites, a store where you can buy merchandise, watch... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 50 Cent Is Officially In The .Club As His Site, 50inDa.Club Goes Live

  

  50 Cent’s .Club Fan site just went live minutes ago. The Site, 50inDa.Club, now combines all of his fan sites, a store where you can buy merchandise, watch... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH