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Poll Results: “What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch?”
The results from our latest poll question are out and most don’t think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and...
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Poll Results: “What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch?”
The results from our latest poll question are out and most don’t think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and...
Discussion
July 20, 2014, 7:04 pm

The Domains
Dell To Accept Bitcoin
Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). Fro...
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Dell To Accept Bitcoin
Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). Fro...
Discussion
July 20, 2014, 5:33 pm

The Domains
Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations
We haven’t heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of br...
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Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations
We haven’t heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of br...
Discussion
July 19, 2014, 3:57 pm

The Domains
Businessweek: Pitbull Looking at Domainer Merlin Kauffman $7.5 Million Bitcoin Fund
Bloomberg/Businessweek.comm, just published a piece on the hip-hop artist known as Pitbull, one of our South Florida celebs and his business ventures outside of the music world. According to the article Pitbull’s attorney is trying ...
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Businessweek: Pitbull Looking at Domainer Merlin Kauffman $7.5 Million Bitcoin Fund
Bloomberg/Businessweek.comm, just published a piece on the hip-hop artist known as Pitbull, one of our South Florida celebs and his business ventures outside of the music world. According to the article Pitbull’s attorney is trying ...
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July 18, 2014, 11:36 pm

The Domains
Yahoo’s Share of Search Is Under 10% For 1st Time Ever & All Time Low
SearchEngineLand.com, is reporting that Yahoo’s share of search traffic has fallen below 10% for the first time and marks an all time low. “”Yahoo’s share has now fallen below 10 percent. “This is an “all-time low....
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Yahoo’s Share of Search Is Under 10% For 1st Time Ever & All Time Low
SearchEngineLand.com, is reporting that Yahoo’s share of search traffic has fallen below 10% for the first time and marks an all time low. “”Yahoo’s share has now fallen below 10 percent. “This is an “all-time low....
Discussion
July 18, 2014, 9:29 pm

The Domains
Did Lebron James Lease or Buy Lebron.com? After 6 Years Domain Points To LebronJames.com
CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story, which in a very positive light, chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle...
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Did Lebron James Lease or Buy Lebron.com? After 6 Years Domain Points To LebronJames.com
CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story, which in a very positive light, chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle...
Discussion
July 18, 2014, 3:53 pm

The Domains
Arena Football’s OrlandoPredators.com Gets Lost In Sale & Now Points To Sexual Offenders
The arena Football team the Orlando Predators was recently sold and the one thing that seem to have gotten lost in the sale is its domain name. According to a story in the orlandosentinel.com, the domain which served as the previous official site of ...
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Arena Football’s OrlandoPredators.com Gets Lost In Sale & Now Points To Sexual Offenders
The arena Football team the Orlando Predators was recently sold and the one thing that seem to have gotten lost in the sale is its domain name. According to a story in the orlandosentinel.com, the domain which served as the previous official site of ...
Discussion
July 18, 2014, 3:21 pm

The Domains
ICANN Publishes “Five Things to Know About ICANN’s 2015 Budget”
In a blog post ICANN Published “Five things to Know About ICANN’s 2015 Budget” Typically ICANN just releases its draft budget and then lets the domain blogs and other during and through the comment period rip into the budget & d...
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ICANN Publishes “Five Things to Know About ICANN’s 2015 Budget”
In a blog post ICANN Published “Five things to Know About ICANN’s 2015 Budget” Typically ICANN just releases its draft budget and then lets the domain blogs and other during and through the comment period rip into the budget & d...
Discussion
July 18, 2014, 10:37 am

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After Losing MyArt.com in UDRP, Fed Court Awards Owner Domain + Damages + Attorney Fees
According to a post on the site of the law firm Lewis & Lin, the domain owner of MyArt.com who lost a UDRP in April, filed a lawsuit in federal court and not only stopped the transfer of the domain name but got an award of statutory damages, atto...
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After Losing MyArt.com in UDRP, Fed Court Awards Owner Domain + Damages + Attorney Fees
According to a post on the site of the law firm Lewis & Lin, the domain owner of MyArt.com who lost a UDRP in April, filed a lawsuit in federal court and not only stopped the transfer of the domain name but got an award of statutory damages, atto...
Discussion
July 17, 2014, 11:21 pm

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CEO of .In (India) Alleges 40% of ccTLD’s Left Out Of IANA Transition Coordination Group
According to a press release we received today from Dr Govin who is the CEO of the .IN ccTLD Registry which is the ccTLD for India is claiming that about 40% of all ccTLD’s are being left out of the IANA Transition Coordination Group as part of...
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CEO of .In (India) Alleges 40% of ccTLD’s Left Out Of IANA Transition Coordination Group
According to a press release we received today from Dr Govin who is the CEO of the .IN ccTLD Registry which is the ccTLD for India is claiming that about 40% of all ccTLD’s are being left out of the IANA Transition Coordination Group as part of...
Discussion
July 17, 2014, 10:17 pm