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• Internet.org Acquired By Zuckberberg From Domain Investor After He Owned It For...

  Domain name investor Daniel Thralow may have made one of the great flips of all time on the domain name Internet.org which Facebook Founder Mark Zuckberberg... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Update: Internet.org Acquired By Zuckberberg From Domain Investor After He Owed...

  Domain name investor Daniel Thralow may have made one of the great flips of all time on the domain name Internet.org which Facebook Founder Mark Zuckberberg... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Facebook’s Zuckberberg Plans To Connect The World Using Internet.Org; Owned By...

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook  page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm  Ericsson,... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $1.425 Million In Domains Including A $500K Sale

  Afternic’s published its  reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 8/12/13 – 8/18/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Namejet Announces Auction of Top Tier Afternic.com Domain Names

  Namejet.com just announced it was holding an domain name auction of some of Afternic.com “top tier” domain names: “Afternic and NameJet have partnered together... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under ACPA

  Sports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com’s, .net’s .org’s .info’s .biz and... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High

  Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector...

  Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com

  For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million

  

  GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To New gTLD .Academy

  Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD . Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTL...

  Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue

  Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by th... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Car Maker Land Rover Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

  The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was  owned... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search

  Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domainer Marc Ostrofsky Author Of Get Rich Click, New Book: Word of Mouse: 101+...

  Domain inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value”

  The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD’s and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from ... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Vice.com Sold By Anything.com In 2010 Gets $70 Million Dollar Investment From...

  According to a report in the Financial Times, Century Fox has invested $70 million in media company Vice Media, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Brand Protection Fail: This Weeks TM Domains Brands Let Drop & Get Registered...

  We have written over the years about brands, brand protection companies and dropping domain names which both brands and brand protection companies continue to... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 95 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE: .Visa; .College; .Casino; .Poker; .Hamburg; . Cologne...

  95 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. Two Geographic applications passed today both a large German cities; .Cologne and .Hamburg Some generic... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH