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• H2O.com/H20.com Gets A $200K Bid On Flippa

  The domain names H20.com and H2O.com (one with the zero  and the other with the letter O) are at auction at Flippa.com and  has gotten a high bid as of... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai Guilty Of RDNH On 17 Year Old Domain Croma.com

  Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand & Anand, India was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. We don’t need to bore... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong;...

  TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• TM Holder Pay Thousands Of Dollars To Get ConsumentengidsOnline2013.com In UDRP

  Trademark holders, god love them. I still have a hard time understanding how large companies think, operate and spent their money when it comes to domain name... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Sends Breach Notice To A Top 10 Domain Name Registrar, Register.com

  ICANN sent a “Breach Notice” to Register.com yesterday giving the domain name registrar until October 2nd, to provide information to ICANN and cure the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• GAC Tells ICANN It Can Proceed Normal Evalution Process On .Wine and .Vin

  The “GAC agreed in Durban to set a firm deadline for providing a potential safeguard advice regarding .wine and .vin. and in a letter to ICANN today, the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16...

  Valideus which is private company “currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications”, including Amazon’s sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Trademark Loses UDRP On Direct Match Domain Bongrille.com Used As A “Sucks” Site

  Deskan S/A of Nassau, the Bahamas, which owns a trademark to the term Bon Grille In Brazil lost a UDRP seeking 3 domain names including the direct match domain... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 9 Year Old TeleFire.com Saved In UDRP Despite Seller Asking $70K

  A Telefire Fire & Gas Detectors Ltd. of Petach Tikva, Israel just lost a one member panel UDRP decision on the domain name Telefire.com in what in my opinio... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex’s Archeo Puts Up Its Zip Code Portfolio For Sale After Selling 1 Domain...

  As I reported earlier today, Marchex’s (NASDAQ: MCHX) Archeo unit put up over 200,000 domains for sale on its new marketplace archeodomains.com. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $970K in Domains Led By HomesInc.com For $15K

  Afternic.com just reported its  weekly domain sales for the week of 9/2/13 – 9/8/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Nominet Opens Comment Period On Whether .UK Domains Should Contain “Offensive...

  Nominet which runs the .Uk domain naming system, just opened up a comment period on whether .UK domain names should be allowed to contain “offensive words or... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Roundup: Enterprise Cars Gets Enterprise.tv; Philip Morris Gets...

  A few UDRP decisions are out today worth noting. Enterprise Rental Cars won a UDRP and the rights to the domain name Enterprise. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex’s Archeo Opens Marketplace To Sell Its 200K+ Domains: Still Has 95% Of...

  “Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced the launch of the Archeo Domains Marketplace (www.archeodomains. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Endurance Files For $400M IPO: Buys Directi For $110M: Commits Up To $62...

  As reported by Domainincite.com, Endurance International Group Holdings Inc,  filed for an IPO  to $400 million in an initial public offering of its common stoc... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameJet.com Reports $281K in Reportable Sales In August 2013 Led By EPH.com At...

  Namejet.com just issued its reportable sales for August which totaled $281K eph.com $18,000.00 cloudapp.com $12,600.00 kodo.com $12,500.00 securityconsulting.co... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 6 Months After Getting 400,000 Euro Bid on Sedo, 8888.com Sells

  

  Back in March the domain name 8888.com got a bid of 400,000 Euro’s on Sedo.com but that bid was cancelled by Sedo.com Now a reader has spotted that the domain... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling...

  TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. “New top-level domains now available” “.online, .web... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Files On 11 Year Old Driveups.com; You Got To Watch Double Meanings

  

  United Parcel Service has filed a UDRP against the 11 year old domain name Driveups.com which is generic in nature, but actually has a double meaning. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Eu Issues 2nd Quarter Report & Ends Quarter with 3.7 Million Registered Domain...

  Eurid,the company behind .EU extension,released its Q2 2013 progress report tonight.(pdf) The report shows that .EU registrations increased in 13 of the 28 EU... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 BUSINESS, TECH