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The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on January 5th
Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT which is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “s...
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The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on January 5th
Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT which is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “s...
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December 4, 2014, 4:43 pm

The Domains
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Today
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) is gong to be Ringing The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell today Rightside Groupwill visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The Company will host its first Investor & Analyst Day event from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm ET fe...
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Today
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) is gong to be Ringing The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell today Rightside Groupwill visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The Company will host its first Investor & Analyst Day event from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm ET fe...
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December 4, 2014, 4:32 pm

The Domains
Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last mo...
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Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last mo...
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December 4, 2014, 11:24 am

The Domains
Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign say...
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign say...
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December 4, 2014, 1:57 am

The Domains
Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 4 out of 5 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has...
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Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 4 out of 5 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has...
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December 3, 2014, 11:16 pm

The Domains
Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000
According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Tru...
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000
According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Tru...
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December 3, 2014, 6:00 pm

The Domains
Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .N...
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .N...
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December 3, 2014, 5:48 pm

The Domains
Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complai...
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Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complai...
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December 3, 2014, 3:26 pm

The Domains
Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school...
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school...
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December 3, 2014, 2:52 pm

The Domains
Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry
Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an int...
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry
Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an int...
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December 3, 2014, 2:45 pm