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• 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• Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of...

  In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545.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

• ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014

  According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 i... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play?

  According to a Press Release just out, Donuts Inc., the largest applicant in the new gTLD’s program has committed to participate in the first online applicant... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day

  Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Straat Withdraws Application For .Book In Favor Of Deal With Another Applicant

  NU DOTCO LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn its application for the  new gTLD .Book which had a prioritization number of 357.... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fiji Moves It Offical Tourism Site To Fiji.Travel

  Tourism Fiji, the official travel and tourism agency of the government of Fiji, has registered the name Fiji.travel and has now launched www.Fiji.travel as its... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Filed On The Domain Name Quirk.com

  The domain name Quirk.com just got his with a UDRP. The domain name is registered to TobyClements.com, LLC however according to the company they don’t own the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tucows Reports: Revenue Increases 9% But Domain Sales Slow To $1.1M

  Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 after the market closed today According to report... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Top $900 For 1st Time & Market Cap Breaks $300 Billion

  Shares of Google (GOOG) are currently trading above $900 a share an all time high for the company. It was only 3 months ago that shares of Google hit $800 a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NetNames: 33% Have No Idea What A New gTLD Is; 62% Have No Plans To Register One

  NetNames, a online brand protection and domain name management specialist, released the results of a poll of 100 business directors in UK enterprises (minimum... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domaindiscount24 Puts .EU Domain Registrations On Sale For 80% Off

  domaindiscount24 (dd24) just put one-year .EU domain registrations on sale for the special price of only 0.14 EUR / 0.17 EUR incl. VAT per month in May, which... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Tax Return: Ends With $440 Million In Cash & Securities

  ICANN has published it’s Federal tax return form 990 for the tax year ending on June 30, 2012 all 68 pages of it. According to the filing,  ICANN ended its... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 3 More New gTLD Withdraw; .Inc, .Ltd and .Mail

  3 More new gTLD applications have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. C.V. TLDcare out of the Netherlands  withdrew its two new gTLD applications for  .Ltd and . Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• United Press UDRP For UpiPhoto.com Denied Based On Laches

  United Press International, Inc. attempt to grab the domain name upiphoto.com from the United Photographers Internationals of Greece was just denied by a one... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Guy Registers TM Infringing Domain At The Same Registrar The Domain Infringes On

  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD)  just won a UDRP on the domain name TheBulkRegister.com against The Bulk Register of Ontario, Canada and we have our first nominee for... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP Challenge On WebAnywhere.com

  Marchex Sales, LLC  (“Respondent”), represented by John Berryhill just beat back a UDRP on the domain name WebAnywhere.com that was brought by Webanywhere Ltd o... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• How Can It Take Over 5 Months For A UDRP Decision?

  Its over 5 months now since a UDRP was filed on the two letter domain name, YU.com. The complaint which was filed on December 11, 2012 with the World... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Lu (Luxembourg) Domain Names Subject To A 1 Year Freeze Upon Complaint

  According to Lexology.com, starting on June 11,  2013, the .Lu registry will “freeze” a .lu domain name, preventing it from being transferred, sold or traded... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BUSINESS, TECH