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• Top10.com Purchased in 2010 for $1million in Cash and Equity, Receives $8 Millio...

  Tech Crunch reported about an hour ago that Top10.com received $8 million in Series B funding. The article also touched upon when the domain Top10.com was... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• 15 Year Old AGL.com Saved In UDRP; But 1 Panelist Wanted To Give It To The TM...

  AGL Energy Limited of Melbourne, Australia just lost its attempt to grab the 15 year old domain name AGL.com.ESQwire.com represented the domain owner John M. Va... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Guru Tops 40,000 Registrations; Not Bad For A TLD Donuts Did Not Have In Its To...

  

  The new gTLD .Guru just topped 40,000 registrations making it the most successful new gTLD to launch..Photography is the second most popular new gTLD with almos... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Starting To Show Full Restaurant Menu in Search Results

  

  Another potential risk with very specific niche gtlds is that something can come along and change the game. Something that has nothing to do with domain names... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Uno Reserved Domains & Rackspace, Microsoft, Google, Fox, Univision & Amazon...

  .Uno is now in Sunrise and the zone file reflects a list of over 100 domain names that have either been reserved by the registry or taken already in Sunrise. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Cisco Offering $300,000 Prize to Secure The Internet of Things

  

  We have written in the past about all the money flowing into the Internet of Things and the projected revenue companies like Cisco are forecasting. We broke... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Cybersquatter Now Owes Donald Trump $32K Due To 4 Domain Registrations

  According to an article just posted by the NYpost.com, A “”Canarsie cybersquatter who registered domain names related to Donald Trump and used them to skewer th... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s

  A Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed today on the domain name Branson.GuruThis is the first URS that has been filed which in my opinion should not be... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• NiceNic Releases February Chinese Auction Results – 126.CN Sells for $110,432

  

  Nicenic.net put out a post today about some recent Chinese names that sold at auction. These were names that were not reserved by CNNIC. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Wiki Will Be CentralNic 1st New gTLD Lanched; .XYZ Its Second

  

  CentralNic’s first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mt. Gox Files For Bankrutcy Protection

  

  Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection Loses 850,000 Bitcoins, 750,000 Of...

  

  Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales

  

  Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K...

  Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was acquired by the... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names

  

  The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million

  The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• While Most of the Domain Industry Debates New Gtlds, 4.CN is Lighting It up...

  

  While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations

  .Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is alread... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV

  About a month ago we interviewed  Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post

  Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign  published an answer... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, TECH