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• After Selling The Dodgers For $2.1 Billion, Frank McCourt’s Company Quitely...

  It appears the McCourt Group purchased the two letter domain name MG.com in August 2012. The current registered owner of the domain name is Peter Wilhelm of... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Moniker.com & SnapNames.com Are Down

  Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are down and have been down for a while. I tried accessing SnapNames.com at different times throughout the day. I did get to... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Kevin.Murphy Looks Like A New gTLD Brand

  

  I was at an opening of a hair salon the other night and saw a bunch of new products that look to be branded like new gTLD’s. All of the products carried the nam... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Twitter Goes With A .CO For New Mobile Video Creation Service: Vine.Co

  The Tech World has been reporting on Twitter’s new mobile video creation service, Vine. The service, allows users to create and share looping videos. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Blacknight Asks ICANN Whether They Will Allow Non-TM Generic TLDs To Be Closed

  Blacknight an ICANN accredited registrar, sent a second letter to ICANN urging the organization to formally clarify its position on Generic Key Word TLDs. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• GameTruck.com Just Bought in 2012 For A Significant Sum” Saved In UDRP

  Game Truck Licensing, LLC, of Tempe, Arizona, just lost a UDRP on the domain name GameTruck.com in a decision handed down by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Age Old Question Is Answered: Sin.net Sells For More Than PointSpreads.com

  For thousands of years people have argued about things like, Sin and gambling? Now at least in domain name terms we have an answer, not as to which is worse, bu... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• The .Co Super Bowl Ad Is Very Much About Being A Domainer: Here You Go

  The .Co Superbowl has been sneaked released and the tag line is not doubt “Sky Waitress” Someone registered the .com and .co of the term and no it wasn’t me. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Publishes “Thought Paper” On Domain Seizures Without Discussing...

  ICANN just issued a “thought paper“” entitled “Guidance for Preparing Domain Name Orders, Seizures & Takedowns” According to ICANN this  “thought paper”... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: Revenue Up 13%; 121 Million .Com/Net’s; Profit Margin 59%; $1.6 Billio...

  VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and year ended Dec. 31, 2012 today after the market closed and had ... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tucows.com Tops $2 A Share

  Share of Tucows.com (TCX) topped $2 a share in intraday trading for the first time since 2001. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.05 before falling back... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Back To The Future: Namesco Rebrands Back To Its URL Names.co.uk

  Namesco, “one of the UK’s top domain name, web hosting and website builder providers” has going back to its registered .co.uk roots and rebranded the company... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainMarket’s SnapNames Auction Ends Today & All That Is Missing Are Bidders

  Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com is holding an auction of some really good domains over at SnapNames.com, including HappyBirthday.com, Bailout.com, Crime.org and... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Oversee Should Have Secured The Domain Webfest.com Before Changing The Name Of...

  When Oversee.net announced a few months ago it was changing its name from Domainfest to Webfest you would have thought they would have at least secured the righ... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• What? Kim Kardashian Is The KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global

  Kim Kardashian has been named as the KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global. Yes I have the same look on my face when I got the email from Oversee this evening. “‘A... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 BUSINESS, CELEB, TECH

• Register.com Is Offering $.50 New Domains Registrations On .Com, .Net .Org +

  Register.com is offering new registrations for just $.50 for any .com, .net., .org, .info .biz or .us domain name. The offer is being advertised on Google.... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Panama.com Hits The Market With A $1.6 Million Asking Price

  TobyClements.com just sent out his daily domain newsletter and topping the list today is the domain name Panama.com The asking price is $1,600,000. Panama. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• DomainMongrel.com Launches New Domain Appraisal Tool: Here’s Some Comparisons

  If your a frequent reader of TheDomains.com you know we are not great fans on domain name appraisal tools so we might be surprised to see us announce yet anothe... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Yahoo Acquires Snip.it For The “Ten’s of Millions of Dollars”

  According to a post on the company blog, Snip.it has been acquired by Yahoo for what Cnet.com is reporting to be in the “ten’s of millions of dollars” Here is... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Capitol Music Wins UDRP & Gets Back The Domain It Lost in 2010:...

  Complainant Capitol Records, LLC d/b/a Capitol Music Group (“Complainant”),  gained control of the domain name capitolmusicgroup.com in a UDRP that is owned... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH