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The Domains
Donuts’ marketing offensive tops list of most-read stories for March on WTR
Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning ...
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Donuts’ marketing offensive tops list of most-read stories for March on WTR
Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning ...
Discussion
April 2, 2015, 10:20 am
The Domains
WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M
WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website...
Discussion
WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M
WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 6:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
March’s Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire
A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other dev...
Discussion
March’s Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire
A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other dev...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 5:15 pm
The Domains
.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent
It appears Daniel Negari of .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is ...
Discussion
.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent
It appears Daniel Negari of .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is ...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 5:14 pm
The Domains
Godaddy Is Up Over $6 a Share In Early Trading
Godaddy (GDDY) which went public today at $20 IPO price is trading as of publication at $26.30, up $6.30 Godaddy’s first trade was at $26.18 then slipped as low as $25.49 before bouncing to its inter-day high of $26.84. Over 10,500,000 shares o...
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Godaddy Is Up Over $6 a Share In Early Trading
Godaddy (GDDY) which went public today at $20 IPO price is trading as of publication at $26.30, up $6.30 Godaddy’s first trade was at $26.18 then slipped as low as $25.49 before bouncing to its inter-day high of $26.84. Over 10,500,000 shares o...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 2:42 pm
The Domains
After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD’s
After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to re...
Discussion
After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD’s
After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to re...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 2:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy shares pop 30% at open
So far, so good for GoDaddy’s IPO. It’s not an April Fool joke — GoDaddy is off to a great start in the public markets. Shares began trading at about $26 today, 30% over where the IPO priced. The $20 pricing was itself above the exp...
Discussion
GoDaddy shares pop 30% at open
So far, so good for GoDaddy’s IPO. It’s not an April Fool joke — GoDaddy is off to a great start in the public markets. Shares began trading at about $26 today, 30% over where the IPO priced. The $20 pricing was itself above the exp...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 2:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
IBM’s Softlayer hit with ICANN breach notice
Notice appears to be triggered by customer complaint. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer, citing multiple contract infractions. Softlayer was acquired by IBM in 2013. According to the most recent .com regis...
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IBM’s Softlayer hit with ICANN breach notice
Notice appears to be triggered by customer complaint. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer, citing multiple contract infractions. Softlayer was acquired by IBM in 2013. According to the most recent .com regis...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 2:01 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law
Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO...
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Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law
Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 1:58 pm
The Domains
.Club Tops 200K Domains Is Godaddy’s #1 Selling New Domain Extension
In less than a year from its launch, .CLUB has sold more than 200,000 domain names. .Club is still one of just a handful of new gTLD’s that are adding hundreds of registrations a day. According to a Press Release out today by the .Club re...
Discussion
.Club Tops 200K Domains Is Godaddy’s #1 Selling New Domain Extension
In less than a year from its launch, .CLUB has sold more than 200,000 domain names. .Club is still one of just a handful of new gTLD’s that are adding hundreds of registrations a day. According to a Press Release out today by the .Club re...
Discussion
April 1, 2015, 1:52 pm
