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• On Eve Of Start of The ITU Meeting In Dubai, The US Makes Issues A Statement In...

  The ITU meeting gets underway in Dubai tomorrow and the United States has issued the following statement in support of the ICANN multistakeholder holder model o... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On “Strawman” Rights Protections For New gTLD’s

  ICANN just opened up the comment period on a the IPC/BC proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs [PDF, 68 KB]. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• UPDATED: Mike Mann Just Saved Almost $2 Million Dollars With Verisign’s No Rate...

  (George Kirikos just pointed out that I did not take into account the compouding of the Verisign rate increase and he is correct so I have correct the math and... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mike Mann Just Saved Over $800,000 With Verisign’s No Rate Increase .Com Contract

  Mike Mann owns around 330,000 domain names. Based on Verisign’s contract  renewal to operate the .Com registry over the next six years, without being able to... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: If New gTLD’s Are Successful We Might Be Able To Lift All Price Caps O...

  Coming out of the Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) conference call this morning announcing that the contract to operate the .com contract had been renewed for six... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign: .Com Contract Renewed For 6 Years With NO Automatic Price Increases

  In what domain holder have to consider a victory, Verisign, Inc.  ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) was granted an six year renewal of the .Com registry but losses the ability... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Did A Federal Appeals Court Just Block The $5.2 Million Dollar Bankruptcy Auctio...

  Last week DomainNameWire.com, reported that the domain name portfolio owned by Jeff Baron had been sold for $5.2 Million dollars in a bankruptcy auction. The... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Quick Poll: Will Verisign Gets The .Com Contract Renewed?

  We are going to run a poll for just tonight on whether Verisign is going to get its contract  to operate the .Com registry renewed. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Breaking: Verisign To Hold Conference & Live Webcast Friday Morning At 8:30 AM O...

  Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN )just announced they will be holding a conference call tomorrow morning, Friday November 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM EST, “to provide a status... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Conference On Who Should Govern The Internet Is On For Tomorrow In Washington &...

  The ITU meeting is next month and with countries like Russia, China and India all wanting a a bigger say in the governance of the Internet, there is a conferenc... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Liao.com Sells For $118,888 On NameJet.com

  The domain name Liao.com just sold for $118,888 on Namejet.com The auction had 224 bidders and 8 that bid $50,000 or more and 3 bid $75,000 or more. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Offers New US Advertisers On AdWords Express Free Ads In January Equal...

  According to a blog post by Google issued today, they are offering new customers for its AdWords Express service free advertising in January in the same about... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• MarkMonitor.com Registers A Bunch Of Defensive Registrations For Clients:...

  MarkMonitor.com registered a bunch of defensive domain name registrations for Bell Media yesterday, including the words suck, hate and even the F-Bomb Bell Medi... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Everything.Me Gets Another $25 Million In Funding

  TechCrunch.com is reporting on another startup .Me site, Everything.Me just got $25 Million in additional funding: “”Everything. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Announces First New gTLD Client .HIV

  Sedo announced this morning that is partnership with dotHIV, the future nonprofit registry behind the new .hiv generic top-level domain (gTLD) is  based in... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic.com Sells $825,000 In Domain Names Led By Styles.com For $60,000

  Afternic.com just released its weekly sales list for the short holiday week (in the US) and sold almost $825,000 in domain names The sales were led by Styles.co... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Marchex Files Federal Lawsuit Over PriceShoes.com UDRP Decision

  Marchex (MRCX) just filed a federal lawsuit over the UDRP decision in PriceShoes.com. You might recall a three member panel awarded the domain name to the... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 & Limit...

  In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin  the Internet Commerce Association (ICA)  to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice urges that... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To...

  In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin  the Internet Commerce Association (ICA)  to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ),... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page

  A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GED.net, by the  American Council on Education GED Testing Service LLC whose official site is Acenet.edu. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 BUSINESS, TECH