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• Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By LightArt.com For $32K

  Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/15/13 – 7/21/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed t... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• WordPress.com Adds .CO As Only The 5th TLD For Custom Domain Name Option For...

  Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced today on the company blog, that it has added .CO domain names as a custom domain name option for fully... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• People Are Trying To Cash In By Registering Domains Of The Royal Baby:...

  The story of the day yesterday and again today is  the birth of the  Royal Baby who although doesn’t have a name yet, does have a title, the Prince of Cambridge... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fox Sports 1 Network Launches Next Month; Files UDRP Seeking 22 Domains Includin...

  Fox Sports is launching a new sports network called Fox Sports 1 next month and today filed a UDRP seeking control over 22 domain names, including FoxSports1.co... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• SnapNames.com Is Down

  SnapNames.com appears to be down at the moment. The site is returning all sort of Apache Errors. I certainly hope its not due to the overwhelming response to... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Over $53,000 In Bids As Moniker Premium Summer Auction Closes Thursday

  The Moniker Premium Summer domain name Auction closes at 3:15pm EST on Thursday on SnapNames,  and as time of publication there are over $53,000 in bids. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down...

  Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just  published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainSponsor Vs.InternetTraffic.com Our Two Month Test Yields Shocking...

  Back in April we were approached by DomainSponsor.com to do a test on their parking system.  DomainSponsor.com said they had spent a lot of time and money on... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 14 Year Old Domain Wala.com Saved In UDRP Desipte Trademarks & A $5 Million...

  A three member UDRP panel just rejected the attempt of WALA-Heilmittel GmbH of Bad Boll, Germany, to grab the domain name Wala. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• FreshDrop’s Pheenix Changes On Aug 1 To Accept Multiple Back Orders & Provide Fo...

  Freshdrop which officially rolled out their back order program out of Beta on April 23rd under the name of Pheenix, announced today that it will be changing... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Shop.Org Study: U.S. Companies To Spend 40% Of Marketing Budget On Paid Search...

  As study cited by MediaPost.com conducted by Shop.org and Forrester Research entitled: State Of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing &; Merchandising, found tha... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Apple Files 2 UDRP Seeking 28 Domains Including FindMyiPad.com & Macbook7.com

  Apple Computers filed two UDRP’s today seeking 28 domain names in total with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Some of the domain names sort... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• The ICA Forces ICANN To Issue A “Status Report on UDRP/URS Providers & Uniformit...

  ICANN issued a Status Report on UDRP Providers and Uniformity of Process, last night and the timing of it makes it look as a direct result of the criticism of... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Shocker? Publisher Of Vogue Loses UDRP ON The Domain Name VogueFashionModels.com

  In one of the more interesting UDRP decision of the year the publisher of Vogue Magazine, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. of New York, lost a UDRP on the domai... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Christmas Comes Early As 89 New gTLD Pass IE: .Madrid; .Nokia; .Audi;...

  Christmas came early for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE)... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• RSS.COM Sold For $135,000

  Ron Sheridan just informed TheDomains.com that he has sold the domain name RSS.com for $135,000. Ron acquired the domain from Sedo.com in 2009 for $125,000.... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2 Weeks After Seizing 46 Domains, Feds Allow Domains To Expire & Can They Can...

  On July 5th we told you that some agency of the federal government seized 46 domain names. We noted at the time all 46 were very close to expiration. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Losing UDRP For WIIU.com, Nintendo Allows Domain Like Wiisport.com...

  After losing a well publicized UDRP decision on WiiU.com, Nintendo allowed other bang on Wii domain names to drop this week only to sit by and watch them be... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• HuntingMoon Updates Its Site To Allows Domains To Be Listed For Sale For Free &...

  With over ten million dollars of domains and developed sites sales since 2006, HuntingMoon.com has made a dramatic update to its selling policies, enabling... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• BXSP.com Sold By BuyDomains Days Ago On Afternic For $2K Winds Up WIth Blackston...

  The domain name BXSP.com which sold just a few days ago and was listed on Afternic weekly report we published on Tuesday, wound up in the hands of one of the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH