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Auto.Ru Bought By Russian Search Engine Yandex For $175 Million
According to TechCrunch.com, Yandex, the search engine often called the Google of Russia, announced they are buying Auto.ru, for $175 million in cash. Auto.Ru is a site not just a domain name. Auto.ru has been around since 1996 and currently has some...
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Auto.Ru Bought By Russian Search Engine Yandex For $175 Million
According to TechCrunch.com, Yandex, the search engine often called the Google of Russia, announced they are buying Auto.ru, for $175 million in cash. Auto.Ru is a site not just a domain name. Auto.ru has been around since 1996 and currently has some...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 1:31 pm
The Domains
This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS
Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carri...
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This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS
Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carri...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 1:24 pm
The Domains
Francois Launces Lend.me Putting Borrowers & Lenders Together At 12% Interest
Francois Carrillo who is the Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which also publishes domaining.com has rolled out his newest site, Lend.me. The site puts together lenders and borrowers together which are willing to lend and borrow using domain nam...
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Francois Launces Lend.me Putting Borrowers & Lenders Together At 12% Interest
Francois Carrillo who is the Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which also publishes domaining.com has rolled out his newest site, Lend.me. The site puts together lenders and borrowers together which are willing to lend and borrow using domain nam...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 12:49 pm
The Domains
The Removed ICA Post on XYZ: My Thoughts, What Mr. Corwin Has To Say, & The Missing Emails
Ron Jackson wrote two stories at DnJournal.com, over the weekend covering a post written by Phil Corwin, published on Circle ID and on the ICA website on Friday entitled ICANN is MIA on .XYZ, and its subsequent removal on Saturday from the ICA websit...
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The Removed ICA Post on XYZ: My Thoughts, What Mr. Corwin Has To Say, & The Missing Emails
Ron Jackson wrote two stories at DnJournal.com, over the weekend covering a post written by Phil Corwin, published on Circle ID and on the ICA website on Friday entitled ICANN is MIA on .XYZ, and its subsequent removal on Saturday from the ICA websit...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 1:22 am
The Domains
The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup
Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a change to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC w...
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The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup
Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a change to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC w...
Discussion
June 15, 2014, 10:47 pm
The Domains
WordPress has had it with bogus DMCA Takedown Requests
Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved Oliver Hotham who wrote an article about “...
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WordPress has had it with bogus DMCA Takedown Requests
Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved Oliver Hotham who wrote an article about “...
Discussion
June 15, 2014, 8:51 pm
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Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of Man government announced that it would be monitoring and assessing ...
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Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of Man government announced that it would be monitoring and assessing ...
Discussion
June 14, 2014, 10:12 pm
The Domains
.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published
ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their info will be published. From the article: Nominet, the company which man...
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.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published
ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their info will be published. From the article: Nominet, the company which man...
Discussion
June 14, 2014, 8:01 pm
The Domains
Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share of $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby The Pric...
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Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share of $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby The Pric...
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June 13, 2014, 8:09 pm
The Domains
ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains
ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts...
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Allowing Two Character New gTLD Domains
ICANN has just opened up a comment period on whether new gTLD strings should be allowed to register, sell and allocate two character new gTLD domain names i.e (LL, NN, NL, LN) This exact comment period concerns those registries including Donuts...
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June 13, 2014, 3:48 pm
