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• eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s

  According to enom.com its “New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs,... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To 3 Domain Registrars

  ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s

  ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on a portion of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K

  Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google

  Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com

  Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks

  According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP

  Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• FreshDrop Rolls Out Drop Catching/Backorder Program With Prices @ $18.95

  FreshDrop Inc.,  today announces their new domain backordering service which has been opened in beta, is now open to the public and goes by the name... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NAF Sets URS Fees $375-$500 Per Complaint & $400 For Domain Holder

  The National Arbitration Forum, (NAF) has just released its proposed Supplemental Rules for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) , including complainant fees that... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .An Domains To Be Removed From The Root Server by October 2014

  According to BrandShelter.com, the .An registry is being phased out with the the .An ccTLD being removed from the root server by October 2014. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• CEO of the .Me Registry, Predrag Lešić, Interviewed In Branding Magazine

  Brandingmagazine.com, published an interview with the CEO of the .Me Registry Predrag Lešić , which is worth a read. Frequent readers to TheDomains.com know we... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• TRAFFIC Changing Venues In Florida & Returns To Vegas in 2014

  The organizers of the TRAFFIC Conference sent out an email today saying that it would be changing its Venue in Florida in 2014 & 2015. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Homeland Security Issues Bulletin Using TheDomains.com List Of Boston Domains

  It was  a pretty busy week for us at TheDomains.com. Our stories on the registration of domain names here and here, was picked up by news outlets all around... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Fits.me Raises Another €2.5 Million & A Total of €5.5 Million

  According to Arcticstartup.com, Fits.me which had previously raised €3 million announced a Series A round from an existing investor SmartCap and also new... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Hiv. .Eco, .Green. .Wiki, .Coupon

  38 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today in results released by ICANN. Those passing today includes an .Eco application by Donuts,... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Chicago.com Announces Strategic Marketing Partnership with Chicago Tribune...

  We have been covering the story of Chicago.com sale of subdomains and email addresses for over a year. Chicagobusiness.com,  did a very nice story yesterday on... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Being Named Suspect In Boston Bombing Dzhokhartsarnaev.com Domain & Site...

  Within minutes of authorities releasing the name of the remaining suspect in the Boston bombings Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the domain name DzhokharTsarnaev. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Reports: Revenue Up 31%; Paid Clicks Up 20%; Cost Per Click Down 4%

  Google Inc. its earnings after the market closed today, reporting a first-quarter profit of $3.35 billion, or $9.94 a share, compared with a profit of $2.89... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Here We Go Again: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explodes; Domains Registered

  Again we have another tragic situation in west Texas near Waco where a fertilizer plant exploded causing many death and injuries in and around the plant. CNN... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH