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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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Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign
Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represente... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Bill Sweetman Consulting Firm Name Ninja Launches
After resigning from his vice president’s role at Tucows to pursue his passion for domain name strategy, respected domain name expert Bill Sweetman has... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Veko.com Lost In UDRP: Domain Was Parked, For Sale & Owner Was Domainer
Veko Lightsystems International B.V. was awarded the domain name Veko.com by a one member UDRP panel The Complainant won the case based off of a Benelux... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Over 30 Domains Related To Oklahoma Tornado The Good, Bad & Ugly
Just about 48 hours after one of the worst Tornado’s in US history hit the ground in Moore Oklahoma killing children, adults and causing over $1 Billion in... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Chrome Now Allows For Voice Search On Laptops & Desktops
Google updated its Chrome Web browser today to include voice search, a feature that lets you speak naturally to your computer to get search results. Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Reserve Price Ranges For TRAFFIC Auction Released
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference which will be held in Las Vegas next week just published the reserve price ranges for the domain names at the TRAFFIC... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google Loses UDRP On Play-Gogles.com; Not Confusing To TM On Google Play
In a case that is sure to drive the trademark holders crazy, Google Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name play-gogles.com which was registered in February... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Approves The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) As A UDRP Provider
The ICANN Board approved the Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) as an UDRP provider. The approval of ACDR as the first UDRP provider located in the... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Fall 2014 Meeting Heading Back To The US To Los Angeles
The ICANN Board announced tonight that is has selected Los Angeles California as its location for its third Meeting for 2014 The ICANN 2014 North America... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
UDRP Roundup: DomainTools; Bed Bath & Beyond; Home Depot
A few cases either filed or decided today in UDRP world, DomainTools.com filed a UDRP on 10 typo domain names The UDRP from Domaintools.com is on the following... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Pam Anderson Official Site Drops & Is At Auction At NameJet.com; PamAnderson.com
The domain name of actress Pam Anderson official site PamAnderson.com dropped todayand was picked up by one of the registrars that works with NameJet.com... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
TextAlerts.com On Sale At BuyDomains For $250 Sells Instead On Snap For $3,500
The domain name TextAlerts.com was on sale at BuyDomains.com just a week ago with a buy it now price of $250. There were no takers. Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo’s Great Domain Auction Ends Thursday; 345.com; Mph.com, Telephones.com
Sedo.com Great Domain Auction for May ends this Thursday at Noon EST. As of time of publication, over 70 domain names in the auction have bids led by 345. Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Did Google Just Kill Off Selling SubDomains?
On Friday Matt Cutts announced that Google would soon be imposing a change in the search algorithm that would limit the number of search results coming from... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
NFL’s ReggieBush.com Official Site’s Domain Name Drops
The domain name ReggieBush.com dropped today and was picked up by NameJet.com where it currently at auction. The domain name had 61 backorders placed on it,... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”
According to Techcrunch, Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s”
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. Some of the highlights of those applications passing IE are Google’s applications... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resor... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH -
Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of...
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH