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The Domains
Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the auctions for .Law and for .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and had a pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million)...
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Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the auctions for .Law and for .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and had a pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million)...
Discussion
September 24, 2014, 9:33 am
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: cabs.com at 50,000 US...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: cabs.com at 50,000 US...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 10:09 pm
The Domains
Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds 4K Registered in First Hour
More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.sc...
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Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds 4K Registered in First Hour
More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.sc...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 7:36 pm
The Domains
.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes
LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gT...
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.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes
LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gT...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 6:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sun City Casino Gambles On UDRP And Loses
A confusing set of circumstance, but panel rules it certainly isn’t cybersquatting. Sun International Limited, operator of hotels and casinos in Africa and Latin America, has lost a UDRP for SunBet.com. The company failed to prove that the resp...
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Sun City Casino Gambles On UDRP And Loses
A confusing set of circumstance, but panel rules it certainly isn’t cybersquatting. Sun International Limited, operator of hotels and casinos in Africa and Latin America, has lost a UDRP for SunBet.com. The company failed to prove that the resp...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 5:18 pm
The Domains
Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains registered outside of the UK; US & Germany Are 8%
According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent w...
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Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains registered outside of the UK; US & Germany Are 8%
According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent w...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 4:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest domain name scam spoofs ICANN, worse than domain renewal scam
Scammer send fake renewal notices with goal of getting your credit card information. ICANN may have shut down Domain Registry of America for now, but new scams pop up just about every day. Joseph Peterson sent one example to me today that I haven&rsq...
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Latest domain name scam spoofs ICANN, worse than domain renewal scam
Scammer send fake renewal notices with goal of getting your credit card information. ICANN may have shut down Domain Registry of America for now, but new scams pop up just about every day. Joseph Peterson sent one example to me today that I haven&rsq...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 3:39 pm
The Domains
Registry Of New gTLD .000 Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months
The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Tripple O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which “is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names ...
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Registry Of New gTLD .000 Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months
The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Tripple O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which “is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names ...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 3:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLD rollout to slow down as Donuts runs low on domains
Boxes of uncontested Donuts running low. The number of new top level domain names hitting the market each week is about to slow down. Every week since the beginning of February, Donuts has released at least one top level domain name. Most weeks it ha...
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New TLD rollout to slow down as Donuts runs low on domains
Boxes of uncontested Donuts running low. The number of new top level domain names hitting the market each week is about to slow down. Every week since the beginning of February, Donuts has released at least one top level domain name. Most weeks it ha...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic: Early new TLD demand below industry expectations
Company says its registry operations are showing steady growth despite delays and low demand for new TLDs. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) issued its interim financial report for the first half of 2014 today. The company, which is the backend registry operato...
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CentralNic: Early new TLD demand below industry expectations
Company says its registry operations are showing steady growth despite delays and low demand for new TLDs. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) issued its interim financial report for the first half of 2014 today. The company, which is the backend registry operato...
Discussion
September 23, 2014, 1:31 pm
