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• UPDATED Orgasms.com Sells Very Quietly On SnapNames.com For $38K: Did It Drop?

  The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million

  Over the past week, 466 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million Dollars 44% of total sales were the result of Buy... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 3 Number .Asia Domains On Namejet.com Are Public Auctions: 888.Asia $2,300;...

  Namejet.com has notified us that several three numbered .Asia domain names all except one which are repeating numbers, that are in auction were incorrect labele... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool...

  .Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD’s where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Coo... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Famous Four Signs Its 100th Registrar & Now Covers 90% Of All Currently...

  

  Famous Four Media, one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s announced today they have signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Swatch Plans to Fight Apple on Trademark for “iWatch”

  

  Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac did a piece on Swiss watch maker Swatch stating that they will look to fight Apple on trademarking “iWatch”. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameJet.com Reports Over $460K In Domain Sales In April

  Namejet.com just published a list of domain name sales that closed in April which totaled over $463,000 All sales were lead by 472.com which sold for $43,700... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Qwalify Loses Bid To Grab Qualify.com In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH

  Qwalify, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, lost its bid to grab the domain name qualify.com from Gregory Ricks the domain holder who represented himself. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Acquired In 2009 As Part of $96 Million Purchase, Getty Images Launches...

  

  Getty Images officially launched Photos.com, more than five years after they acquired the domain as part of its acquisition of Jupitermedia Corporation... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Does Google Glass Really Cost Just $80 to Produce ?

  

  There seems to be some discrepancy on just how much money it costs for Google to make their Google Glass product. Sci Tech Today wrote about it Sunday, Given th... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• What Do PitBull & Juan Calle & John Ferber Have In Common? They Will All Be...

  What do Pitbull and Juan Calle of .Co and John Ferber of DomainHoldings.com have in Common? They will all be speaking this week at the eMerge Americas Techweek... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Decoding The Secret Messages in Chinese Domain Names

  

  New Republic took a look inside the meaning of Chinese numerical domains. The rise of numerical domain values over the past 8 years has intrigued many a domain... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Ebay’s Top Affiliate Gets Busted

  

  In what is really an odd case, Shawn Hogan who was the top Ebay affiliate marketer, along with being a top Google Adsense earner got nailed for defrauding Ebay. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google May Have To Pay French Government $1.3 Billion

  

  Forbes reported that Google could have to pay the French government up to $1.3 billion. The Silicon Valley Journal wrote: Mountain View-based Google said it... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Heritage Auctions Sends Out Call For Next Domain Auction To Be Held mid-July

  Heritage Auctions has just sent out an email asking for submission to its next Domain Auction which will take place mid-July and will be limited to 70 Domain... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Guest Post: An Insider’s Guide to .Wiki Landrush

  This is a Guest Post written by Andrew Merriam who is the Business Development Coordinator for Top Level Design LLC, the new TLD registry for .wiki, .ink, and a... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Publicly Held eHealth Purchases Medicare.com For $4.8 Million

  eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) announced they acquired the Medicare.com for $4.8 Million Dollars in the first Quarter of 2014. Although Medicare. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dnpric.es: Average Reported Domain Sale Soars Back To 2010 Levels After Declinin...

  According to stats release by Dnpric.es today, “After falling for three years in a row, the average price of reported domain sales soared back to 2010 levels”... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Namejet.com To Auction Of Premium .Buzz Domains

  NameJet just opened bidding on “35 premium .Buzz domain names. “One of the first pure generic strings to be launched, .BUZZ is short, edgy, fun, and globally... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• NewsRepublic.com Saved In UDRP As Complainant Doesn’t Even Allege Bad Faith

  Mobile’s Republic (MR) of Bordeaux France, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name NewsRepublic.com in a UDRP The domain holder was represented by... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 BUSINESS, TECH