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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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Famous Four Applicant for New gTLD .Rugby Launches .Rugby Council
Dot Rugby Limited, which has submitted its application to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to operate the .Rugby top-level domain... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
IAB: Internet Ad Revenue Hits All Time High Of $9.6 Billion In 1st Q
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) 1st quarter 2013 Internet Ad revenue hit an all time record with $9.6 billion in sales representing a... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Upworthy.com Buys U.pw As URL Shortener
According to a post on the company blog, Upworthy.com which bills itself as “social media with a mission” that appeals to the The Daily Show” generation”, has... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Bidding on MUI.com Hits $25K On Namejet With a Day To Go
The domain name MUI.com is at auction at NameJet.com and bidding and already has a high bid of $24,999. The auction has 265 bidders and there are 15 bidders tha... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Samsung Loses UDRP On SamsungHub.com
Sansung has just lost a UDRP on the domain name SamsungHub.com which is being used as a re-directed domain to a site that has Adwords. Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Private New gTLD Auctions Are Underway
According to ApplicantAuction.com the first private auction for new gTLD strings are underway. Although other than .Club which publicly announced it would be... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
German Court Limits Use Of Berlin.com & Requires Disclaimers On Site
A German Appellate court has ruled that World Media Group LLC (World.com) which owns the domain name Berlin.com has to cease using the domain name in... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
TLDH Raises Another $10 Million For New gTLD Auctions
Top Level Domain Holdings just annoucned they have raised an additional $10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XXX Gets Over 25,000 Domain Years Registered In May Promotion
ICM registry informed us that the final numbers are in for the May discounted .XXX promotion and saw over 25,000 domain years added to the registry. 13,400 new . Read more
Posted on 02 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Getty Images Waits 12 Years Before Going After GettyImage.com; GM 9 Years For...
Its quite amazing to me when I see a bang on trademark infringing domain allowed to be owned and monetized by someone other than the trademark owner. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
CollegeStudent.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com
The domain name CollegeStudent.com which was a dropped domain, sold this week on NameJet.com for $17,700 as three bidders battled it out bidding over $10,000 fo... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Orders Transfer Of Domains At 4 De-Accredited Registrars To Astutium
ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from four registrars, three are due to the de-accreditation of the registrars; C I Host, Inc.,... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Godaddy Sells 41,786 In May Led By Boxed.com at $35,000
Godaddy.com just posted its Domain Sales information for auctions taking place on their system for the month of May 2013. In all Godaddy.com sold 41,786 domain... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Filed on D1.com
A UDRP has just been filed on a very rare two character domain name D1.com. The domain name is owned by Dimension One Spas of Vista, CA since 2003 and forward... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents
ICANN announced today that it has selected the first two new gTLD Data escrow agents. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
80 New gTLD Pass: .Amex; .Nike; .Goog; .Fox; .Arab; .Java; .Polo; .HomeDepot
80 more new gTLD applications have passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) One application .Pay did not pass IE but was made eligible for Extended Evaluation,... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: ICANN Needs To Put Early Warning System In Place Not To Break Root
In the second part 2 of a 5 part series of articles released by Verisign on its blog was written by Danny McPherson on the possible dangers of the impending... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
NetNames.com Brokered The Sale Of IG.com for “50% off Asking Price”
According to a story in the retail-digital.com, it was the the online brand protection and domain name management company NetNames.com that brokered the deal fo... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
68th New gTLD Application Is Withdrawn
The 68th new gTLD application has been withdrawn today. The new gTLD application was for an IDN: 广东 Which was applied for by the Xinhua News Agency and had a... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Filed On NJturnpike.com & GardenStateParkway.com, Registered in 1998
A UDRP has just been filed on the matching domain names of the two major highways in New Jersey. The UDRP was filed on the domain names NJturnpike.com &... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH