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• Domain Holder Beats Back UDRP On ManhattanCenter.com, Without An Attorney

  A one member UDRP panel rejected the claim of Manhattan Center Studios, Inc. on the domain manhattancenter.com The domain name is owned by James Lawson who won... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Pool Shutting Down Registrar Threads: Switching From Drop Catching To New gTLD’s

  We just got this email from Pool.com this morning: “The impending launch of new gTLDs has led Pool.com to refocus its business away from an emphasis on the... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Co Domains Under Management Grows 24% In 2012

  According to blog post on the .Co blog this morning the registrar is reporting that domains under management grew 24% from 2011-2012 “The .Co blended renewal... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 TECH

• Casino War 3X As SHFL Files 3 Separate UDRP’s Against Holder of the .com, .net...

  Here something you don’t see everyday a company filing three separate UDRP’s against the same domain name in the .com, .net and .org versions. Today SHFL... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Verisign Increase .Net Prices 10%, Adding $7.5 Million To Verisign’s Revenue

  After the market closed today, VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced, effective July 1, 2013, an increase in the registry domain name fee for . Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Lands DomainInvest’s 70,000 Domain Names For Monetization & Sales

  Sedo, announced today that DomainInvest  which was co-founded by industry veterans Frederick Schiwek and Markus Schnermann, who are both managing directors of... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Top Level Domain Holdings: Pleased With ICANN Drawning & Announces Results

  In a press release today, The Directors Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) the holding company of  Minds + Machines “are delighted to announce the results of... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Co Registry Announces It’s 3rd Super Bowl With Godaddy.com

  For the third year in a row, Go Daddy is teaming up with the .CO domain to create a 2013 Super Bowl commercial. The 30-second ad is set to feature Go Daddy... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Afternic Sells $1.1 Million In Domains

  Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/10/12 – 12/16/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Posts $1.5 Million In Transactions

  Sedo just issued its weekly report and in all 945 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million. Over 39% of total... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Leads Those Applicants Not Pulling Paid Tickets At 24: Here’s The Full...

  After ICANN drew all the tickets that were purchased for the new gTLD prioritization draw last night, ICANN drew the rest of the applications, again those not... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Contention Sets: Winners .Tickets & .Green Losers .Soccer & Everyone...

  I went through the new gTLD  contention sets, those new gTLD extensions applied for two or more parties, to figure out based on the draw which ones would be don... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Unofficial Results From The ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for New gTLD’s

  After over 13 hours the final ticket of the 1,766 purchased was drawn in the ICANN Priority Numbers Draw for new gTLD’s and the unlucky winner was .finance. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN New gTLD Draw Through #150 Most Applied For Strings Get No Love

  Through the 1st 150 non-IDN strings, some of the most applied for new gTLD’s extensions didn’t have one pick. Unofficially I didn’t hear any applications... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• VentureBeat Covers See.Me A Online Community Of Over 580,000 Artists

  VentureBeat.com just covered another site built around a great .me domain name this time, See.me “See.me is online community of 580,247 artists. ” “After a... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• As Soon As The ICANN New gTLD Draw Starts, The Live Feed Goes Out

  Almost on Cue as soon as the  ICANN Priority Numbers Drawn for New gTLD Applications was starting the  live Audio/Video stream went out. When it was last workin... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Getty Images Loses Bid To Trademark Photos.com In The EU, Again

  In a long running battle Getty Images just lost its bid to trademark the term Photos.com with the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Withdraws Notice Of Breach Against .Jobs Registry

  

  ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced today that its has formal withdrawn the February 2011 Notice of Breach against Employ... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Draw Starts in 2 Hours: What Will We Know Today?

  The ICANN Priority Numbers Drawn for New gTLD Applications starts today at 4PM EST, 1PST local time The question is what will we know by the end of today? Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH

• Forbes: “Directed Browsing And The Death Of The URL”

  Forbes.com published a story yesterday entitled “Directed Browsing And The Death Of The URL” The story chats about the increase use of social networks, apps... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 BUSINESS, TECH