Thu 7th August 2014
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WADE PARK GROUNDBREAKING MARKS START OF MAJOR FRISCO MIXED … - ~ Newly Acquired Land Expands Development Plans to 175 Acres ~Upcoming Fall Event to Give Community a First Taste of What’s to Come FRISCO, Texas – August 7, 2014 – (RealEstateRama) — Today marks the beginning of Wade Park, a major mixed-use destination center in Frisco. Community leaders and partners joined developer Thomas Land Development (TLD) in breaking ground on the newly expanded 175-acre project, conveniently located along the Dallas North Tollway. Plans for Wade Park feature ... read more ...
 
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Treat.co Bought For $1,050 in 2011 Just Flipped For $19K - The domain name Treat.co just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $19,000. The domain was bought by the Seller also from Sedo, back in December 2011 for $1,050. So its a 19X return in about 30 months. Not bad. The domain name is already active and appears to be a new Pet site, that will be coming soon. Congrats to the buyer and seller. ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Astro Gaming - Même si elle est très peu connue en France, nous venons tout de même de référencer sur TLD la marque Astro Gaming qui propose des casques audio de qualité pour joueurs. Les dernières mises à jour des firmwares des casques audio Astro A50 ont été ajoutées pour l'occasion tout comme le dernier firmware de l'égaliseur MixAmp Pro. Ces mises à jour sont notamment obligatoires pour assurer la compatibilité avec la console Sony PlayStation 4. Firmwares pour les casques audio Astro Gaming ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Adopts Compensation “Restricted Stock Unit Plan” For Up To 12.5% Of Its Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today “that it has adopted a new share incentive scheme”. “As set out in the Company’s Readmission document published earlier this year, the Company has been considering implementing a replacement incentive compensation scheme across the Group for its directors and employees to better attract, retain and reward employees. Employee attraction and retention are key factors for MMX as it continues to build its operations and launch gTLDs, ... read more ...
 
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Very Troubling: 19 Year Old SouthPaw.com Lost in UDRP - Southpaw Enterprises, Inc. just won the rights to the domain name southpaw.com in a UDRP As a term, Southpaw refers to someone who is left handed. The domain name was registered on April 18, 1995. The Respondent bought the domain name in 2002. The Complainant federal trademark registration is dated March 8, 1983 Despite the domain being 19 years old and owned by the current registrant for 12 years, The one member panel of Debrett G. Lyons explicitly considered and rejected the concept of Laches finding ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Summer time, sand in our hair, gTLDs in the air -

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Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru - Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expect that to go any better for Principal than this URS. The record shows Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name was to host a webpage containing an HTML link that reads, “This domain name is for sale!” along with a stock image. Complainant contends ... read more ...
 
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.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1100; .WTF 973 … - .Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with  5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it first day with 1,101 according to the Zone file which I pulled this morning .WTF had 973 domain names registered after its first day of GA The new gTLD .Financial wound up with just over 750 registrations including Sunrise and EAP. .Reise ended up its first day ... read more ...
 
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.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1,100; .WTF 973; .Financial 751 - .Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with  5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it first day with 1,101 according to the Zone file which I pulled this morning .WTF had 973 domain names registered after its first day of GA The new gTLD .Financial wound up with just over 750 registrations including Sunrise and EAP. .Reise ended up its first day ... read more ...
 
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Would .Mtl Be a Mistake? - Rumour has it that Montreal wants their dot city TLD…But they want .mtl instead of .montreal ! Huge, huge mistake #newgtlds — Christopher Hofman (@HofmanLaursen) August 7, 2014   The Gazette, a Montreal-based newspaper, published an article about the possibility that the city of Montreal would apply for its own new gTLD extension. The article indicates that .Mtl would be the extension the city would apply for, and I tend to agree with Christopher Hofman Laursen of the European Domain ... read more ...
 
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Noch 90 Tage Quarantäne für blockierte Domains: "Ihr DNS bedarf dringender … - Registries sollen die 10 Millionen Namen in den brandneuen TLD noch drei Monate lang wegen möglicher Kollisionsgefahr blockieren. Rund 10 Millionen Domains in den brandneuen Top Level Domains hatte die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) bislang blockiert, da sie möglicherweise mit Domain-ähnlichen Varianten dieser Namen innerhalb privater, nicht öffentlich gerouteter Netze kollidieren. Große Registries und kleine neue Betreiber ächzten unter ... read more ...
 
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When Searches for Bitcoin Go Up, The Price Goes Down according to a new study - A group of Swiss computer scientists conducted a study that took a look at web activity and social media chat around Bitcoin. They concluded when there is a surge in chatter around Bitcoin that the cryptocurrency is bound for a fall. The BBC took a look at the study: Key variable Bitcoin was a great candidate for research because so much of the activity surrounding it takes place online, wrote the team in a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society. Bitcoins are a virtual currency which ... read more ...
 
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Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc. | Further protection against cybersquatters -

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My takeaways from Rightside’s initial financier call - Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the time explaining Rightside’s market position to help frame the conversation with analysts. That market position is largely betting on the success of new top level domain names. The company explained how its margins as a registry ... read more ...
 
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Rightside only expelled the initial gain report - Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, posted total revenue of $46.7 million and a net loss of ($3.5) million. Both revenue and earnings were lower than what the group grossed in the second quarter of 2013, due to a sharp drop in its “Aftermarket” revenue. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 51 site shows humorous twitter from satire Chehade account - Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all tweets with the hashtag #icann51. The conference is still a couple months away, so you won’t find many relevant tweets about the event. It’s also an unfiltered feed. Which is what makes it funny. There are a bunch ... read more ...
 
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This week .Rocks, really not a .Fail week - .Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definition, it .rocks. Here’s a look at the total registration numbers as of the overnight zone files for domains that launched this week: .rocks 5191 .网址 1,565 .limited 1098 .wtf 977 .reise 892 .financial 758 .fail 634 .actor 572 .网址 ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor - Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for governor of Arizona. Parsons said he has already spent $1M funding Better Leaders for Arizona, which is running attack ads against competitor Doug Ducey. He might spend more. Parsons’ role in the ads was suspected after one of ... read more ...
 
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Picking a baby name formed on domain name availability - Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby. A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years about parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies. I have one matching my daughter’s name, and even registered them up for my nieces and nephews should they ever want to use them. A new site aims to help parents name their baby by telling them what domain names are available. Call it crazy, but it’s kind of fun. Just ... read more ...
 
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Use HTTPS? Google will give we a strike in hunt rankings. - Search ranking change should be good news for domain name registrars. Google announced this morning that it’s starting to give extra credit in search results to companies offering websites secured by SSL. That means sites where you see httpS:// might show up higher in search results than those without added encryption. Google explains the added ranking factor in a post on its blog: …over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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Hong Kong Court Rules Entertainment Tycoon Can Sue Google Over Autocomplete Suggestions - We all start searches at Google and get the autocomplete function going into full effect, giving us suggestions as we type each letter. Apparently one Hong Kong tycoon did not like the results the autocomplete suggested when it came to him. He wants to sue Google for defamation and a Hong Kong court has ruled he can go right ahead and do just that. The South China Morning Post wrote: A Hong Kong court has ruled that a local entertainment tycoon can go ahead with his defamation lawsuit against Google, ... read more ...
 
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Montreal Looks Like The Next City That Wants To Apply For Its Own New gTLD … - According to the MontrealGazette.com, the city of Montreal seems to be the next city expressing Interest in applying for its own new gTLD, of .MTL “It’s an interesting possibility for Montreal,” said city councillor Harout Chitilian, the vice chairperson of the city executive committee. “We have to be creative to promote Montreal, and it’s a tool that we’ll take a serious look at.” But that gives Montreal time to plan a .mtl initiative, if and when an opportunity comes around again. A ... read more ...
 
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Montreal Looks Like The Next City That Wants To Apply For Its Own New gTLD; .MTL - According to the MontrealGazette.com, the city of Montreal seems to be the next city expressing Interest in applying for its own new gTLD, of .MTL “It’s an interesting possibility for Montreal,” said city councillor Harout Chitilian, the vice chairperson of the city executive committee. “We have to be creative to promote Montreal, and it’s a tool that we’ll take a serious look at.” But that gives Montreal time to plan a .mtl initiative, if and when an opportunity comes around again. A ... read more ...
 
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Russian Hackers Steal 1.2 Billion Internet Passwords & 500 Million Email Addresses - According to a blog post on Hold Security company blog, which conducted an 18-month investigation finding that a Russian hacking gang stoled 1.2 billion username and password combos, as well as more than 500 million email addresses. According to Hold Security the hackers pulled off the heist, using unsuspecting systems of botnet network victims (in this case, computers with viruses that allowed a single operator to control a large group of affected systems) to test websites for SQL vulnerabilities. ... read more ...
 
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Porn.com Stolen? UDRP Filed By Company That Paid $9.5 Million For It -       A UDRP has been filed on the grandfather of adult generic domain names, Porn.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The company filing the complaint, MXN Limited bought the domain name back in 2007 for more than $9.5 Million dollars. The domain name Porn.com was registered at Moniker.com for a many years until just a week ago or so when it was transferred to the Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER (.RU) under privacy. We have not been able to confirm ... read more ...