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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Jennifer Wolfe: “Your .Com Won’t Be Worth Much Anymore”
Jennifer Wolfe is a digital strategy advisor and executive leader. She is nationally accredited in public relations and the Co-author of Brand Rewired and... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
New gTLD Price Wars As United Domains Under Cuts Godaddy
United Domains sent out an email making customers aware that they were now taking binding pre-orders on some new gTLD domain names. Interestedly Go Daddy which... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Georgia Mega Millions Winner Ira Curry’s Name Could Mean Big Bucks For...
IBTimes.com has a story on a lottey winner’s name being used by someone else looking to cash in. From the article: In the digital age, teenagers in their... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google+ Profile Links Work with Bunch of Google Domains Like Google.me
Google has been rolling out the availability of vanity urls for a little while now. One thing that was picked up by Search Engine Roundtable back in October... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
.BUZZ Rolls Out Gift Cards In Time For The Holidays: “Give the Gift of .Buzz”
We knew that the new gTLD registries would come up with some creative marketing ideas. Today we got an email from the upcoming .buzz registry who is selling . Read more
Posted on 21 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Internet is About to Experience One of Its Greatest Changes: ICANN
The Times of India sat down with Fadi Chehade of ICANN and conducted a small interview. Fadi Chehade is the president and CEO of the International Corporation o... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Well Here’s The 1st: KPMG To Replace Its .Com With Its New gTLD
I know a lot of people in the domain industry have put the eventual success on the new gTLD program on whether big brands would actually switch from their .com... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) UDRP Panel Awards Hijacked Domain
Virtually all UDRP panels in the past have refused to return an allegedly stolen domain name back to the original registrant, generally finding such a matter t... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mr. Schwartz I’m Not Going To Let Readers Tell Me What To Write, But I’ll...
Rich Schwartz challenged me to repeat the poll he ran on RicksBlog.com last week after I called the results of the poll Bull Shit. I have no problem with runnin... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Releases Their Transparency Report
Google reported today on their blog that requests from governments to remove content continues to rise. When you read the actual report, Google actually shows... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
You Got To Be Kidding: $25K For A .Sucks Domain Name Registration
One of the new gTLD applicants for .sucksopened up Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain and Trademark Priority Registrations of... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
You’ve Got To Be Kidding: $25K For A .Sucks Domain Name Registration
One of the new gTLD applicants for .sucksopened up Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain and Trademark Priority Registrations of... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Asking For $40K To Sell; 14 Year Old Privata.com Lost In UDRP
BARBET of Spain, ust grabbed the domain privata.com which was registered and has been owned by the domain holder since 1999. The Complainant didn’t register... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Indonesia Will Roll out Shorter .id Domains Next Year
TechInAsia.com reported that the country code for Indonesia will be getting shorter. From the article: Next year, Indonesians will have to get used to a... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UK Bans 1and1.com New gTLD Commercials As Being “Misleading”
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) which is the independent regulator of advertising across all media the United Kingdom has just banned 1and1.com new... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Fail! ChicagoGrid.com Says Berryhill Runs the Domains & .Chicago, .Jeans &...
An Epic fail by a business publication covering the new gTLD’s, the Chicago Grid posted a story entitled “Will the switch from .com to .Chicago benefit... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
The Ship is on the Move Again, The Pirate Bay Leaves Peru and Docks in Guyana
We reported on December 12th that The Pirate Bay had moved to the country code of Peru (pe) well now they have moved to the country code of Guyana (gy).... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Is .Quebec The Motivation For The UDRP on Quebec.com?
We broke the news this morning that an agency of the Provence of Quebec filed a UDRP on the domain name Quebec.com. Anything.com has owned the domain since at... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Domain Hall Of Fame Member’s House Is Subject Of Huffington Post Story
The HuffingtonPost.com just covered the Indianapolis house of Domain Hall Of Fame member Chad Folkening. According to the HuffingtonPost.com, the 26,000 squar... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
12 Registrar Signup With TLDH; 7 With Minds + Machines; 25 New gTLD To Launch 1Q
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) announced the company has Registry-Registrar Agreements (“RRA’s”) with an initial twelve ICANN-accredite... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2013 BUSINESS, TECH