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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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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 -
ICANN New gTLD Committee Kills Off Dotless Domains
The new gTLD Committee of ICANN just killed off Dotless Domains according to a resolution published last night. Google notified ICANN that it modified its... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
8 New gTLD Private Auctions Produce $9.65 Million
Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction. Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses &...
It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of...
A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
13 Year Old Domain Togu.com Saved IN UDRP Panel Cites Delay In Bringing Case
TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asse...
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP’s today against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk”...
In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle, the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compellin... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICC Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too...
One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICC) based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to the... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Troubling: Domain Awarded By UDRP With No Trademark Based On $1K Bank Account,...
In what I consider a very troubling and horrible decision, A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain names welldonebbqs.com and welldonebbqcleaning. Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index
Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rocket Internet Incubator & Accelerator Company Raised $500 Million Since 2012
In a press release just out today Rocket Internet announced “that it has raised a total of USD $500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Publicly Traded Ceat Mahal Of India Files UDRP Against BuyDomains.com On Ceat.org
Ceat Mahal a tire manufacturer located in India, filed a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Ceat.org Buydomains.com appears to have picked up the... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Finalist For Britain’s Million Pound Startup Competition Buys FaceBuy.com For...
The domain name FaceBuy.com just sold on Sedo for $10,000 and I think the seller may not be thrilled when they realize the buyer is a App developer from... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Looker.com Sold On Godaddy For $50K in 2012 Gets $16 Milion In Series A Funding
The Term Sheet is reporting that Looker.coma Santa Cruz, Calif.-based business intelligence startup, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Secretaries of All 50 States Tells ICANN To Follow GAC Advice On INC, .LLC, .COR...
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Xylem.com For $47K and...
Afternic.com just published its domain sales for the week of 8/5/13 – 8/11/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH