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• PokerStars Settes With Kentucky Over Domain Seizure Case By Paying $6 Million

  PokerStars  has agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle the claims of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the domain name seizure case. In September 2008 the... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application

  Frank Schilling Uniregistry withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Marketing The application had a prioritization number of 826, with ICANN getting ready... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to...

  A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Moniker Does System-Wide Password Reset Effecting Every Account

  According to an email sent to all of its clients tonight, the domain name registrar Moniker.com notified its client they did a “system-wide password reset”... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Buyer Beware: On Bodis.com a $100 Domain Turns Into A $1M Domain After Its Bought

  

  Yesterday we wrote about domain names related to Kim Kardashian and Kayne West’s rumored  baby’s name and pointed out some recently registered domain names,... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google AdSense Is 10 Years Old

  Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Adsense program. Here is what Google had to say about the 10 year anniversary: “Ten years ago we launched... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NewDomains Conference Is Back In October In Munich & CEO OF ICANN Is Keynote

  The NewDomains.org conference is coming back to Munich on October 27th-29th and the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé is going to be the headline speaker. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainIndex.com Tracks Seasonal Fluctuations in Parking Revenues

  In a blog post, DomainIndex.com looked at  seasonality in parking revenues and concluded what most of us long time domainers already knew. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Roundup: Oprah Gets Control Over 2 Domains & Walmart Gets 53 Domains

  There were several interesting UDRP  results today as Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo, Inc./Oprah’s Farm, LLC won a UDRP to the right to the domain names oprahsfarm.com... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Is Kayne West & Kim Kardashian Baby’s Name Already Registered, Parked & For Sale?

  According to Inquisitr.com, Kayne West and Kim Kardashian have named their new baby Kaidence Donda West. The domain name KaidenceDondaWest.com was registered... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains

  According to press release, Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. . Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Withdraws New gTLD Application For Contested Application .Goo

  Google has withdrawn its first application since ICANN started releasing Initial Evaluations (IE) dropping its application for .Goo. Google’s  application  had ... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Microsoft Gets Control of 7 XboxOne Domains & Files UDRP On Another

  Microsoft got control of 7  Xbox One domain names after filing a UDRP with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) a couple of weeks ago: xboxone.co xboxone.me... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Demand Media Rolls Out Designs.com For New gTLD’s

  According to a press release just out, Demand Media(R) (NYSE: DMD), announced the debut of Designs.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• KeySystems’ DomainDiscount24 Releases Top 15 New gTLD Pre-Orders

  DomainDiscount24 a registrar owned by KeySystems which is the parent company of SnapNames.com and Moniker has released its top 15 new gTLD pre-orders. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Launches Find Your Custom Domain Tool/App: Domaininspiration.com

  Verisign released a new Tool called the Custom Domain Tool at Domaininspiration.com to help people find the perfect unregistered domain name. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Highest Sign In Times Square Goes With A .Tv For Advertising 7TS.TV

  

  If you happen to be wandering in New York’s Time Square be sure to check out the highest sign which is available for rent, they are using a . Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING, TECH

• 92 New gTLD Apps Pass ICANN: .Capetown; .Lexus; .Toyota; .Macys; .Calvinklein;...

  92 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday while 4 went to the dreaded extended evaluation. Some of the bigger gTLD names passing... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fairwinds New Poll Shows Half Of Internet Users Are Willing To Try A New gTLD

  According to a public opinion poll of 1,000 Internet users, commissioned in part by Fairwinds Partners, and conducted by InsightsNow! Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Microsoft & Yahoo Tells ICANN Not To Allow Google’s Dotless .Search App

  In its eight part comment to ICANN, Microsoft gave plenty of reasons, actually 7 points, why Google should not be allowed to amend its application to run the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 BUSINESS, TECH