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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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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 -
.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration
The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD’s is nothing new the fact that this is being done... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
CentralNic Formally Announces September IPO
Today CentralNic, formally announced its plans for a September IPO on the AIM Market (“AIM”) of the London Stock Exchange. “CentralNic is a registry service... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo’s 2Q Domain Report: 9,589 Transactions; 53% of Sales $500 Or Under; 95%...
Sedo, issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013 today. Sedo reported that domain name sales below $500, accounted for 53% of sales. Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
TechCrunch Covers Launch Of Pop.co Brought To You By The Founders of .Co
TechCrunch.com, just covered the launch of Juan Calle latest venture Pop.co “Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services” “You just pick the . Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a Trademark For ...
Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will hav... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
USPTO Opens Up Comment Period On Examation Guide For New gTLD’s Trademarks
The USPTO has just opened up a comment period for an Examination Guide on trademark applications for new gTLD’s. The comment period closes on September 8th... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
CentralNic Planning September IPO On London Stock Exchange With a Valuation of...
According to telegraph.co.uk CentralNic will announce its intention to go public tomorrow on the London Stock Exchange CentralNic is the backend provider for “a... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
BulletproofVest.com Acquired By End User For $7,500
PriveCo Inc. a company that makes Bullet Proof Vest a product called Bullsafe announced today that they have acquired the domain name BulletproofVest.com “for... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Lisa Box Formerly Of Moniker Becomes Senior Director of Domains For Endurance...
Endurance International Group announced today that Lisa Box formerly of Moniker, SnapNames, a member of the KeyDrive Group, has become the Senior Director of... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Scripps Loses Legal Rights Objection To Google’s New gTLD App For .DIY
A WIPO panel has rejected Scripps Networks Legal Rights Objection to Google’s New gTLD application of .diy Legal Rights Objection to Google's Charleston Road... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
13 Year Old Purchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchase.com Dropping
Since publishing thedomains.com for what will soon be our 6th anniversary we have published posts about some very strange old domain names as they drop. Add... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Onions.com After Selling At NameJet A 4 Days Ago For $19K Put Up For Sale For...
The domain name Onions.com sold on Namejet.com last week for $19,100. There were 289 bidders in the domain auction of those only 4 bid $10,000 or more. The... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo .Eu Domain Auction Ends Thursday 13.Eu Highest Bidded Domain
Sedo.com is holding a domain name auction of some good .EU domain names which ends at Thursday Noon EST. There are 71 domain names in the auction and of... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Next Round Of New gTLD Private Auctions Take Place This Week TLDH Is in 4 Of Them
The 2nd round of the private new gTLD auctions to resolve contention being run by Applicant Auction takes place this week starting Tuesday and a second... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
105 New gTLD Pass ICANN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish...
105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayer... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
105 New gTLD Pass ICAAN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish...
105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayer... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
xBiz: Morality in Media Asks The Feds To Probe ICM Registry Over .XXX .Porn
According to xBiz.com, Morality in Media has called on federal authorities to probe ICM Registry after the operator of the .XXX TLD received initial approval... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH