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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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Marchex Details Spin Off Archeo Business: Buying & Selling & Developing...
The Marchex earnings call yesterday reveal some interesting facts about Archeo the business that Marchex is looking to spin off to a separate public company... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Publishes “New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update:...
Verisign issued its fifth and last chapter in its five part series “New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis”;... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marchex’s Archeo Sells 70 Domains For $1.3 Million & Spinoff Is Set For 4th Q
Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), a leader in mobile performance advertising, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo.com Transactions Total Over $1MM Led By WaterTreatment.com For $30K
Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/29/13 – 08/04/13 totaling over $1MM. The highest priced transaction was watertreatment.com at... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Breaking: WIPO Upholds 1st Legal Rights Objection On .Delmonte
A WIPO panel has just upheld its first Legal Rights Objection (LRO) after rejecting the first 29 cases it decided. A three member WIPO panel upheld the objectio... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings
ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed and that... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516
Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer
Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ThePrive.com Files UDRP On The Generic Prive.com
The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com Prive is... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach...
The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in “2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Mov...
In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD’s asking whether . Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Publishes Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report &...
ICANN released the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (pdf) tonight which was prepared by Carve Systems. Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
First .Now Legal Rights Objection Rejected By WIPO
Another day another losing Legal Rights Objection (LRO) but the first case to be decided on the new gTLD .Now The Objector/Complainant Starbucks (HK) Limited... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Panel Rejects Attempt To Grab SM.Net
The complaint was brought by Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM, against the domain holder M.A. Stenzel. The one member UDRP panel rejected complainant... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Walmart, Sony, CBS, Microsoft, Google, Disney Still Allowing TM Drop Domains To...
As we have chatted about before, some of the biggest companies in the world which are quick to file a UDRP with filing fees at $1,500 a pop are allowing droppin... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Veterinarians.com Sold as Felix Upgrades Its Domain LocalVets.com
It appears the domain name Veterinarians.com has been sold to Felix, a leading local advertising company, which announced today that is has launched... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
If Google Wants To UDRP This Domain, They Will Have To Name Bill Gates
The domain name Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com has a most interesting whois record. The domain which was registered back in 2005 ... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Panel Awards Bodvbuildinq.com To BodyBuilding.com Finding Common Law TM...
A one member UDRP panel awarded Bodybuilding.com, LLC the domain name bodvbuildinq.com The interesting part of the case is that the panel found that... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
After Winning A UDRP On GED.net, GED Testing Service LLC Files UDRP On GED.Org
American Council on Education (“ACE”) GED Testing Service LLC (“GEDTS”) which won a UDRP on the domain name GED.net back in February has now filed a UDRP on... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UPDATE 2: Its Time To Name Names: We Call Out Dead Beat Buyers, Game Players,...
Dead Beat Buyers, I hate them. From those agreeing in an email to buy a domain for a set price then to just refuse to follow through, to those that actually... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH