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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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First 4 New gTLD’s (ALL IDN’s) Cleared By ICANN To Go To Delegation
According to an announcement by ICANN, today, the first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program were cleared to proceed to delegation. Read more
Posted on 22 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
DrugMaker Loses UDRP On Domain Name Diet-Xenical.com
Drug manufacturer Hoffmann-La Roche just lost a UDRP on the domain name diet-xenical.com. Its a pretty amazing decision considering that Xenical is a... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Starting Today, Twitter Allows You To Schedule Your Tweets For Publication Up...
According to a blog post on Twtter.com, starting today, all marketers using Twitter’s Ad Products can schedule organic or Promoted Tweets for specific dates... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Launches Site In Chinese: Sedo.cn
Sedo, unveiled a new Chinese website today, according to a press release we just received, “expanding its international reach to serve China’s 591 million... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Catching Up With SnapNames.com & The $380K of Sales I Tracked From 2013
While Sedo, Afternic, Godaddy and NameJet.com all now self report its sales/auctions of domain names that sell through their platforms, one service that does no... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Guest Post: Newcomer Stymied By ICANN and ICC’s Process
This is a guest post by Christopher R Barron, who is the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of GOProud. “GOProud is a national organization of gay and straight... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Roy Messer Sells BigBreakfast.com To IAC/InterActiveCorp
Domain investor Roy Messer’s Nett Corp, which sold Vodka.com for $3 million dollars a few years back, just sold the domain name BigBreakfast.Com to a public... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Launches of DomainScope: Domain Discovery Tool To Find Available .Com....
Verisign launched DomainScope, today which they say “a new domain name discovery tool designed to enhance the search for unique, relevant domain name choices... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Key-Systems Celebrates 15th Birthday
In A press release today Key-Systems is celebrating its 15 Birthday Key-Systems, which currently manages more than 3 million web addresses (domains) for more... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Up.Co Hits Times Square In A BIG Way
The .Co registry just published a pretty impressive picture of a billboard in Time Square right above the NASDAQ sign for Up.co “There’s nothing we love more... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Reports Paid Clicks Up 26%; Cost Per Click Down: Has $56 Billion In The...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. The market loved the news sending Google shares up over 7... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Another Domain Sale We Never Heard About: Buyer Of Personal.com Gets $4.5 Millio...
According to the Term Sheet today “Personal, a Washington, D.C.-based digital vault and private network for people to store and manage important information... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Buyer Beware: New Alt Root Domain Name Registration Service Launches Promise...
In an apparent attempt to grab a market share with the new gTLD s coming out, “AnyExtension.com launched today according to a press release that promissing the... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN: Implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan
On 7 October 2013 the ICANN Board’s New gTLD Program Committee approved resolutions directing staff to implement the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
OMG: .XYZ Hits Top 5 Pre-Registered New gTLD’s at 1and1.com
Tonight 1and1.com top 5 new gTLD pre-reservation list changed and amazingly .XYZ is now sitting at number 5 with over 45,000 pre-reservations. The top five are... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Report: Chase To Limit Cash WIthdrawals, Deposits & Prohibits Outgoing...
So this is well beyond the domain industry and bordering on disastrous if true. Let me be clear that I’m not a customer of Chase and have no independent... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
What Is The Matching .Com Domain Of Twitter’s Stock Symbol Worth: TWTR.com
Now that Twitter has selected to go public on the New York Stock Exchange and has picked the stock symbol TWTR to be traded under, the questions becomes what... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Moniker.com Sends Out Emails Promoting .Biz Registrations; You Have To See This...
Moniker.com is sending out emails to customer promoting .Biz domain name registrations. Fair enough. The ad is promoting a 35% savings off the list price of... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sold For $2,500 On Afternic, FundAnything.com Co-Owner Is Trump & Offers $1M To...
If your the guy who sold the domain name FundAnything.com on Afternic.com for $2,500 year ago in October 2012, you might not to read any further. The domain... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
SLY.com Gets $50,000 Bid At SnapNames.com & Yes It Hits Reserve
The domain name Sly.com is part of the SnapNames.com Premium End of Year Showcase Auction and has gotten a $50,000 bid The auction which just started yesterday... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BUSINESS, TECH