Tue 28th April 2015
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NoMoreRack.com rebrands to Choxi.com - Internet retailer NoMoreRack.com has rebranded, the name they chose is Choxi, according to the company it is hybrid of “Chock Full” and Choice. I can say I don’t get it. I don’t think the name is easily spelled when one customer may tell a potential new shopper. On top of that Target used to sell a brand of chocolates called Choxie. InternetRetailer.com reports that the move was partially due to a lawsuit (which was dismissed) filed by Nordstrom 3 years ago. In the article the Chief Marketing ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2015
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New .vote TLD Used for Arizona Voters - Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan and the .VOTE registry are pleased to announce two new and simple web addresses have been launched for Arizona voters — www.arizona.vote and www.arizona.voto. These two new online destinations make it easier for people to locate information related to voter registration and election information. The new domains of .VOTE and its Spanish/Italian/Portuguese counterpart .VOTO were designed to help elected officials, governments, candidates and organizations ... read more ...
 
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Pax.com Sells on Sedo.com For $200,000 - The three letter .com market has been on fire this year and today the domain name Pax.com sold for $200,000 on Sedo. The domain name has been under privacy at Moniker since at least 2006. The last listed owner before the domain went under privacy was Kim Site-Development Enterprises of Beverly Hills, CA in 2006. The domain name is still under escrow at Sedo. I’m going to take a wild guess and say the buyer is the maker of popular Vapor devises which have the brand name of PAX Pax’s website is ... read more ...
 
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Even during Grassroots Level Trademark Disputes Can Get Ugly - Mama, a charismatic woman with colorful Mexican dresses and braided hair, became an anchor in the neighborhood, and her cafe was ground zero for activists, academics, politicians and police who were pushing to improve the area. Today, Romero lives just blocks away, but won’t go near the little restaurant with the blue awning. She hardly looks in that direction, just across the street from the park. She’s also careful to never use the Mama’s Hot Tamales name — on her Facebook, email or business ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Video, .Fit and .Sale - Minds + Machines and Rightside introduce new domain names this week. A few domain names hit general availability or Early Access this Wednesday. Minds + Machines will launch .Fit with retail pricing of about $25 or so. .Fit is one of the company’s wholly owned domain names, and is the last domain name the group has scheduled to launch until Q3. Rightside starts the Early Access phase for two domain names on Wednesday: .Video and .Sale. If you can wait one week until general availability you’ll ... read more ...
 
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Costa Rica: The New Home for Controversial Torrent Websites - Screenshot of KAT.cr A website that has often come under fire for allegedly facilitating online piracy of copyrighted content is currently hosted in Costa Rica. After trying their luck at retaining a Top Level Domain (TLD) in the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Isle of Man, a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, the administrators of the polemic website Kickass Torrents (KAT) have settled for the relative safety of Costa Rica. According to TorrentFreak.com, a website dedicated to covering ... read more ...
 
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Widerstand gegen Mist-Domains ist möglich - Die neue Internetadresse .sucks sorgt für Unmut bei Unternehmen und Prominenten. In Österreich kann man sich gegen eine Herabsetzung gut wehrenWien - "domain.sucks" - werden sich viele Marketingverantwortliche gerade denken. Wie mit der neuen Top-Level-Domain .sucks umzugehen ist, müssen sich Unternehmen und Celebritys jetzt überlegen. Die Vielfalt an neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLD) hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit schon unzählige Fragen aufgeworfen, etwa ob Inhaber von .com- oder .at-Domains ... read more ...
 
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Responding to Domain Name Offers with Bill Sweetman – DNW Podcast #30 - Name Ninja Bill Sweetman talks about his role as a domain buyer broker, and how domain name owners should respond to offers to buy their domain names. Domain name consultant Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja helps companies find and buy the right domain name for their business. In this episode, he discusses how he helps companies and provides tips for domain name owners about how to respond to an inquiry to purchase one of their domain names. Also: Analyzing GoDaddy’s $28.1 million purchase of Marchex’s ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Game.com, Meetings.com, Say.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or are simply moving, mainly all by large corporations. These domain movers are often very early finds and often lead to new brands, services, products and more. Here we go with the latest domain movers, which is STACKED with great domain names! Say.com has been sold by FUTURE MEDIA ARCHITECTS, INC. to a Carl Ng / Stripes39 according to whois records. Carl owns several other great domain ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during Escrow.com's income growth - Company’s topline is up over 50% in past five years. Australian company Freelancer.com has acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5M. This is 6.25x Escrow.com’s 2014 EBITDA. The transaction reveals, for the first time, Escrow.com’s growth in recent years. The company’s 2014 revenue was nearly 55% higher than 2010, representing a 9.1% CAGR since then. 2010: $3.269 million 2011: $4.125 million 2012: $4.646 million 2013: $4.798 million 2014: $5.048 million Keep in mind this only represents Escrow.com’s ... read more ...
 
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What is Freelancer.com and because did it buy Escrow.com? - Publicly traded freelance marketplace owns a number of businesses, including a website and domain name marketplace. Yesterday (United States time), Freelancer.com announced that it acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5 million. Freelancer.com is a publicly traded company in Australia with a market cap of about $450 million, but many people probably aren’t familiar with it. The company is similar to oDesk/eLance, where people post jobs they need done and freelancers bid to complete the work. Freelancer.com ... read more ...
Sun 26th April 2015
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Escrow.com Purchased for $7.5million - Freelancer.com announces the acquisition of Escrow.com and completion of capital raising Some big news for a Sunday night, Escrow.com getting acquired by Freelancer.com. Back in September of 2014, Escrow.com purchased Agreed.com. SYDNEY, April 27, 2015: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace,today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for US$7.5 million in cash, and completed a AUD$10 million ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million - Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company. Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Escrow.com is a popular service among domain name investors and has handled over $2.2 billion worth of transactions to date. Margins for escrow services are slim, and today’s acquisition announcement puts it in perspective: Escrow.com handled $220 million transactions last year, generating $5 ... read more ...
 
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Majority of the check respondents see new gtld registrations finale 2015 on a green note - We started a poll two months ago that asked, “How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There Be By The End of 2015?” Currently there are over 5 million new gtld registrations according to multiple sources such as ntldstats.com. The majority of respondents see the numbers going down. 27% of readers who participated see 2015 ending with 2 million or less registrations. Thanks for voting and here are the results: 2 million or less (27%, 93 Votes) 8,000,000-10 Million (13%, 45 Votes) Over 20 Million ... read more ...
 
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.sucks For Trademark Owners … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Aus „Le Monde diplomatique“: Die digitale Landreform - Aus „Le Monde diplomatique“Darf es .edeka, .gay oder .kosher sein? URL-Endungen stehen zum Verkauf. Vor allem Industrieländer und Konzerne können sich die Gebühren leisten. Welche .sollsdennsein? Auf der Konferenz der Internet Society sind TDLs ein heißes Thema.  Bild: reuters Eine Webadresse endet auf einer Länderendung wie .de oder .ch und manchmal auch auf .com. Mit dieser Gewissheit ist es seit Ende 2013 vorbei. Seitdem sind geografische Endungen wie .berlin ... read more ...
Sat 25th April 2015
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German Court Rules in Favor of AdBlock Plus - A German Court has determined AdBlock Plus is not illegal. AdBlock Plus – which is owned by the Cologne-based firm Eyeo – faces three separate but related cases involving the media groups, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Interactive and Axel Springer. The publishers plan to appeal the ruling. AdBlock Plus does allow for publishers to get their ads white listed if they meet certain requirements. Some have called this a racket, as they claim they were asked to pay a certain percentage of increased advertising ... read more ...
 
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Associations not authorised to arrangement listings underneath .realtor domain - There is a rift between Move Inc. and the National Association of Realtors, Inman.com reports that associations will not be able to display or even link to property listings on a .Realtor domain. So far there are about 96,000 .Realtor registrations. From the article: Come May 7, U.S. and Canadian brokerages and associations who want to make sure their home on the Web reflects their Realtor affiliation will be able to claim their own .realtor URL. But associations won’t be able to link to or display ... read more ...
 
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52.com sells for $1.775 Million - According to a post on Namepros by member Vicho, The Second Beijing Domain Auction was successfully held in Beijing, China on April 24, 2015. The auction resulted in seven figures worth of domain sales. He included some pics in his post which you can check them out on Namepros 52.com was the star of the show selling for $1,775,400. 32.cn was not too shabby at $274,380. 52.com has been registered since 1998, the current owner Guangdong cotson software co. looks to have gotten the name around May of ... read more ...
Fri 24th April 2015
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ICANN Runs Last Resort Auction for Contentious New gTLDs, Raises $59M - With the sale of .stream to Famous Four Media, ICANN has completed the sale of rights to new dot-word TLDs, The Register reports. Four other new gTLDs were resolved in the past week, all through private auctions as .stream was, however ICANN completes the process having raised $59 million from the 13 domains that sold through its public process. According to a report by CircleID, “ICANN’s new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants ... read more ...
 
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KickassTorrents New Domain Goes Down Within 24 Hours, Shifts To .CR Domain - KickassTorrents is the next target for anti-piracy authorities as the website has become bigger than the Pirate Bay. Yesterday, the KAT team shifted its website to Isle of Man .im domain but the domain was seized after few hours, forcing the team to look for another domain. The KAT team is now looking to get their website hosted at Costa Rican .cr TLD. “We have been seized by the Isle of Man domain registry. The ... read more ...
 
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TLD’s McElrath set for first Supercross on live TV on Fox Sports (Saturday, 3 pm … - April 24, 2015 Filed under News, Top Stories, Uncategorized News release On Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shane McElrath will make not only his debut aboard the KTM 450 SX-F but also will do so in front of the largest TV audience to date as the race will be broadcast on live network television on FOX (3pm EST / Noon PST) for the first time ever. McElrath just completed the ... read more ...
 
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Activist Buys Up Domain Names of Politicians who voted for Indiana's Anti-Gay Law - PinkNews.com reported that an activist Konrad Juengling bought up domains related to politicians who voted for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana, the law caught a lot of heat during the NCAA Tournament as the final four was held in Indianapolis. Lawmakers in Indiana scrambled to amend the bill which many saw as a right to discriminate against gay people. Mr. Juengling has said he purchased these domains to help educate these politicians and that if they pass a non-discrimination bill, ... read more ...
 
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How a blockchain could change a domain business - Mike Ward wrote a very interesting piece on Coin Telegraph with regards to the Blockchain and domain names. Ward takes a look at how the DNS can run on a decentralized platform, he talks about the flexibility this would provide and how it would create greater freedom, reduce costs and provide less exposure to risk. I thought the most interesting part of his article was talking about how some see domains as becoming obsolete. He points out, “Despite the claims from many that a perfect storm of factors ... read more ...