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• Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied Fo...

  After reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN  how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD’s of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• comScore: Yahoo Beats Google For 1st Time In Years Becoming Most Visited Websites

  

  According to comScore, for the first time in several years, Yahoo (YHOO), web properties were the most visited in the country in July. With 196.6 million... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Looks Like A New Parking Company Just Launched & They Are Spamming The Hell Out...

  There appears to be a new parking company in town and they are spamming the hell out of me. The emails started coming in a late yesterday  and I’m already up... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• National Association Of Realtors Reminds ICANN .Realtors Is a Brand App &...

  In a letter sent to the Chair of the new gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) The National Association Of Realtors reminded ICANN that its application for the new... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Denies Booking.com Request To Reconsider String Similarity Panel Ruling;...

  In turning down Booking.com request for reconsideration the ICANN Board appears to also have bad news for those that think the Board will step into settle the... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Louis Vuitton Files Federal Cybersquatting Suit Over 98 Domain Names

  For the 2nd day in a row a trademark holder has bypassed the UDRP process and went straight to federal court to file a suit over trademarked infringing domains. 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

• 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

• 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