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• Express. LLC Really Screwed Up By Not Spending $185K To File For .Express;...

  Donuts  defeated an objection by Express, LLC brought under WIPO to the new gTLD string .Express in a case published yesterday I started to write about the... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Suit Filed Over Non-Payment of MD.Org Namejet Record Setting $555,650 Auction

  On April 12, 2012, the domain name MD.org sold at a record setting NameJet.com auction for $555,650.00 to the high bidder ID of ‘Winters” Today the seller of th... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breaking: Suit Filed Against Scott Ross & Others Over Non-Payment of MD.Org...

  On April 12, 2012, the domain name MD.org sold at a record setting NameJet.com auction for $555,650.00 to the high bidder ID of ‘Winters” Today the seller of th... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Body.com Sells On Godaddy.com For $380,000

  The domain name Body.com just sold on GoDaddy’s aftermarket for $380,000. This was listed via Godaddy’s partnership with Sedo and sold from GoDaddy.com as a mak... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Internet Architecture Board: Dotless Domains May “Cause Significant Harm To The...

  The Internet Architecture Board, has come out strongly against Dotless Domains as proposed by Google to operate the .Search new gTLD. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Complainant Agrees To Buy Quirk.com For $85K; Backs Out: Now Loses UDRP

  Quirk Productions, Inc. (“Complainant”), which owns QuirkBooks.com  lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Quirk.com The domain holder officially was... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Dan Warner Picks The Winners & Losers: New gTLD’s In The Sports Category

  Dan Warner, who many in the domain industry know is a numbers/stats guy, has some interesting thoughts on winners and losers of the new gTLD’s in the “sports”... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• RKG Digital Marketing Report: Google Search Spend Up 18%: 26% Of Organic Searche...

  RKG, a leading full-service digital marketing agency, released its Digital Marketing Report (full report .pdf) covering the second quarter of 2013 today. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Key-Systems To Offer .HIV Domain At Below Cost To Its Customers & Free To Some...

  The German based domain registrar Key-Systems today announced that they will support the charitable work of the dotHIV association within the field of HIV/AIDS... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Patagonia, Inc. Withdraws Its Application For New gTLD .PATAGONIA

  In what I would say is not great shock, Patagonia, Inc, has withdrawn its application to operate the .Patagonia new gTLD. Patagonia, Inc. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy Drops .TV Domain Extension From Registration Drop Down Menu

  Godaddy.com has removed the .TV extension from its drop down menu of domain name extensions you can choose from when trying to register a domain name. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $697K In Domains Led By Exb.com For $25K

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

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.04M Led By LiveSafe.com For $65K

  

  Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/01/13 – 07/07/13 totaling $1.04M. The highest priced transaction was LiveSafe.com at $65,000... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• CBS News Covers The Domain Aftermarket & Puts DomainAgency.com In The Spotlight

  CBS News just published a story on the domain name aftermarket getting all their information from the story from husband and wife team Brian and Meghan Berke... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Asia Passes 500,000 Registrations Relaunches Redesigned Site Dot.Asia

  DotAsia announce today that the “.Asia” gTLD has reached over 500,000 domain names under management. “Since the successful Sunrise launch in 2007 the “.Asia”... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Rabbi’s Say ICANN Unequal Treatment Of .Halal Is Not .Kosher

  In a letter to ICANN, several Kosher certification organizations, responsible for certification of approximately 63% of kosher ingredients worldwide, objected t... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• IFFOR Publishes Two Years Of Tax Returns Showing 85% Of .XXX Domains Don’t...

  The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) a not-for-profit organization which was set up as part of ICM application to operate the . Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google’s .App Draws Fire From The Association for Competitive Technology

  Google’s new gTLD application to operate the .APP new gTLD come under fire yesterday by the The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). In a  a letter to... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Demand Media Withdraws 1st New gTLD Application: .Bar

  

  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) withdrew its first new gTLD application,  .Bar. The application had a prioritization  number of 1,689. According to the ICANN website,... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Comcast / NBC Sports Sells Versus.com For Six Figures to Startup Versus.io

  

  The domain name Versus.com the former name of the NBC Sports Network has been sold by Comcast/NBC Sports for a “six figure sum” According to a story in... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 BUSINESS, TECH