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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Beer 2,078; .Surf 635; Here Are The More Interesting Registrations
Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability on Thursday by Minds + Machines and including Sunrise Registrations by trademark holders the number of domain names according to nTLDstats.com are .Beer 2,078 .Surf 635 .Beer marks the best firs...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Beer 2,078; .Surf 635; Here Are The More Interesting Registrations
Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability on Thursday by Minds + Machines and including Sunrise Registrations by trademark holders the number of domain names according to nTLDstats.com are .Beer 2,078 .Surf 635 .Beer marks the best firs...
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September 27, 2014, 6:36 am

The Domains
Mark Cuban Does Not See Long Term Future for Bitcoin as a Currency
Mark Cuban does not see Bitcoin being a long term play as far as being a currency. Cuban told Entrepreneur that if ever got into Bitcoin it would be purely for the entertainment value, kind of like buying and selling baseball cards. This is not the f...
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Mark Cuban Does Not See Long Term Future for Bitcoin as a Currency
Mark Cuban does not see Bitcoin being a long term play as far as being a currency. Cuban told Entrepreneur that if ever got into Bitcoin it would be purely for the entertainment value, kind of like buying and selling baseball cards. This is not the f...
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September 27, 2014, 1:44 am

The Domains
Iron Man Star; Actor Robert Downey Jr Files UDRP on The Domain RobertDowneyjr.actor
The star of the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movie series, Robert Downey, Jr has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor. The domain was registered less than a month ago on August 31st by a Shashank Agarwal of India ...
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Iron Man Star; Actor Robert Downey Jr Files UDRP on The Domain RobertDowneyjr.actor
The star of the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movie series, Robert Downey, Jr has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name RobertDowneyjr.actor. The domain was registered less than a month ago on August 31st by a Shashank Agarwal of India ...
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September 26, 2014, 10:50 pm

The Domains
CENTR Domain Report: There Are Over 282.5 Million Domain Registered As Of August 1
CENTR’s just published its quarterly publication covering worldwide domain name statistics. As of August 1, 2014 there are 282,525,140 CENTR is the European ccTLD not for profit association dedicated to supporting the interest of c...
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CENTR Domain Report: There Are Over 282.5 Million Domain Registered As Of August 1
CENTR’s just published its quarterly publication covering worldwide domain name statistics. As of August 1, 2014 there are 282,525,140 CENTR is the European ccTLD not for profit association dedicated to supporting the interest of c...
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September 26, 2014, 4:16 pm

The Domains
SeekingAlpha: Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense
In very interesting post was just published on SeekingAlpha.com, entitled “Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense” The author of the post is Alex Cho who is according to his bio a “top contributor on Seeking Alpha in b...
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SeekingAlpha: Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense
In very interesting post was just published on SeekingAlpha.com, entitled “Facebook May Become Bigger Than Google AdSense” The author of the post is Alex Cho who is according to his bio a “top contributor on Seeking Alpha in b...
Discussion
September 26, 2014, 3:45 pm

The Domains
Escrow.com Buys Agreed.com
Escrow.com, today announced the acquisition of Agreed.com, from Thought Convergence, Inc. This acquisition brings together the only two licensed escrow companies in the United States that have products, services, and systems specifically design...
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Escrow.com Buys Agreed.com
Escrow.com, today announced the acquisition of Agreed.com, from Thought Convergence, Inc. This acquisition brings together the only two licensed escrow companies in the United States that have products, services, and systems specifically design...
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September 25, 2014, 6:36 pm

The Domains
We Told You .Com Was Rocking: Passes 114.5 Million Registered Domain Names
Last week we told you that .Com is Rocking. It continues to rock and now has passes the 114,500,0000 mark for the first time. The actual number today is 114,540,697 according to Verisign ...
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We Told You .Com Was Rocking: Passes 114.5 Million Registered Domain Names
Last week we told you that .Com is Rocking. It continues to rock and now has passes the 114,500,0000 mark for the first time. The actual number today is 114,540,697 according to Verisign ...
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September 25, 2014, 1:58 pm

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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Direct 1,710 & .Place 769
Donuts launched two new gTLD’s into general availability (GA) yesterday for .Direct and .Place where the domain names are available on first come, first served basis and wound up with less than 2,500 registrations After the 1st day of GA includ...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Direct 1,710 & .Place 769
Donuts launched two new gTLD’s into general availability (GA) yesterday for .Direct and .Place where the domain names are available on first come, first served basis and wound up with less than 2,500 registrations After the 1st day of GA includ...
Discussion
September 25, 2014, 1:49 pm

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LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money”
Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket” So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of the any new gTLD or the p...
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LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money”
Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket” So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of the any new gTLD or the p...
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September 24, 2014, 11:38 pm

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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 10,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .BlackFriday
Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names i...
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 10,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .BlackFriday
Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names i...
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September 24, 2014, 1:41 pm