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• Verisign: We Will Delegate New gTLD’s To The Root If The NTIA Tells Us To

  Some bloggers here and here, have raised the alarm that Verisign may not Delegate new gTLD’s based on a letter Verisign send to the U.S. National... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Demand Media Reports: Revenue Up 9%; Registrar Revenue Up 4% Without Name.com +...

  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD),reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013 Financial Summary: Content & Media revenue ex-TAC... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Opens Comment Period On Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements

  ICANN has opened the comment period for  “Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements” The operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex Up Over 20% to New 52 Week High

  After reporting earnings last night Marchex (MCHX) is up just over 20% in trading today to a 52 week high of $7.30 a share. Marchex has now more than doubled of... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• AOL Buys Adap.tv For $405 Million

  We have agreed to acquire Adap.tv for $405 MM, here is what Adap.tv brings AOL: The only complete global programmatic video stack for publishers and... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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