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• VisitLasVegas.com Becomes LasVegas.com & Fails To Register The Domain Of Its...

  According to a story in AdAge.com today, The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has launched a $20 million ad campaign rebranding its former... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NameCheap.com Teams Up Onepager To “Reduce The Number Of Parked Pages”

  According to a press release just out, Namecheap.com has chosen Onepager as its exclusive website builder for its nearly 1 million customer accounts and over 3... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• And Now IFFOR Is Going Into The New gTLD Business

  Yesterday We wrote about IFFOR, the over $1.4 Million it should have raised from .XXX registrations and renewals and the $10K in grants it Awarded. Today comes... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Collecting At Least $1.4 Million, IFFOR Funded By .XXX Finally Gives 2...

  According to xBiz.com, IFFOR the non-profit which receives $1o from each registered .XXX domain name, has issued its first two grants, in the amount of  $5,000... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Nerw Study: European Business Is Way Behind US In Getting Online

  According to database and marketing firm Email-Brokers, European businesses are way behind the US in getting online. After looking at 13 million sites the... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NTAG Comments On RPM’s & Strawman Proposal

  The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) submitted comments today regarding ICANN staff’s “strawman proposal,” made in response to the IPC/BC quest for additional ne... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Citing New gTLD’s Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com?

  Forbes.com just published an article asking “Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?” “All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex is Hit With Another UDRP; This Time On uHealth.com

  Marchex (MCHX) has been hit with its 11th UDRP since 2011. This time the domain at issue is uHealth.com The complainant is not listed but the domain name... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $900K In Domains

  Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/31/12 – 1/6/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Off To A Slow Start in 2013 With Only 870K in Transactions

  Sedo.com started off 2013 with a slow holiday week with only 670 transactions taking place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $870,000. Over... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Guest Post: Promoting The New Top Level Domains – No Time For Napping

  This is a guest post by Jennie-Marie Larsen, Chief Executive Officer of DomainDiction.com Jennie-Marie has an extensive marketing, PR & business... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex & Berryhill Win Another UDRP This Time On Guarani.com

  The Complainant Guarani S.A. of Sao Paolo, Brazil brought this UDRP against Marchex Sales, Inc, who as usual was represented by John Berryhill, Ph.D. Esq. on th... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Despite TM Going Back To 1998 & Parked Page UDRP Rejected on In-Case.com

  The Complainant Incase Designs Corp. of Chino, California, lost a UDRP to get the domain name In-Case.com, despite the fact that complainant had a trademark in... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Discover Card Buys Discoverit.com

  

  Discover Credit Card which already owns Discover.com, quietly acquired the domain name Discoverit.com back in July of last year. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Name.com Screws Up On Promo Code & Gives “Thousands” Of Free .Com/Net’s

  Prior to the announced sale of Name.com to Demand Media, Inc, it appears Name.com had an issue with a promo code which allowed “thousands” of .com and . Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Despite Attempted Sale For $57K, General Motors Loses UDRP Bid To Get...

  General Motors just lost a UDRP on the domain name mycadillac.com desipte the domain holder offering to sell the domain to GM for as much as almost $57,000... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Purchased for Less Than $5K In May, SnapChat.com Is The “2013′s Billion Dollar...

  BusinessInsider.comjust covered SnapChat.com which it just called  “2013′s Billion Dollar Startup” What the article didn’t tell you is that the domain nam... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• IAC Acquires Tutor.com

  IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) today announced the company has completed the acquisition of Tutor.com, an online tutoring solution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breaking: Demand Media Acquires Name.com

  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) , announced the acquisition of Denver-based Name.com an ICANN accredited registrar with almost 1.5 Million domains under registration... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Tucows Spends Over $6.1M Buying Over 4 Million Of Its Owns Shares At $1.50

  Tucows, Inc., (AMEX: TCX) (TSX:TC), announced today the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 BUSINESS, TECH