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Wed 23rd September 2015
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Minds + Machines Group insider Buys £52000 in Stock (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) insider Elliott,Guy acquired 650,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 23rd. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, for a total transaction of £52,000 ($80,732.81). Shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) traded down 2.899% on Wednesday, hitting GBX 8.375. 336,883 shares of the stock traded hands. Minds + Machines Group has a 12-month low of GBX 6.75 and a 12-month ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Group Given "corporate" Rating at N+1 Singer (MMX) - N+1 Singer reissued their corporate rating on shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday, Marketbeat reports. Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.25 on Tuesday. The firm’s market capitalization is GBX 68.94 million. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 8.13 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 8.17. Minds + Machines Group has a 52-week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52-week high of GBX 12.50. Minds + Machines ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
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Apple Uses the .NEWS TLD for Its News Platform - Apple has elected to use the .NEWS top-level domain for its new app on iOS 9. The 'apple.news' domain will also be used within the app for shortening news links. CEO of Rightside, the company that manages the TLD, says: "This is just the start, but Apple.NEWS is the most significant use of a new top-level domain (TLD) yet, and I am very excited at the promise and potential that this development signals. Whether they're used as a complementary domain, content-sharing links (bit.ly, but with ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Group Given corporate Rating at N+1 Singer (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating reissued by analysts at N+1 Singer in a research note issued on Tuesday, MarketBeat reports. Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) traded up 5.8462% during trading on Tuesday, hitting GBX 8.6000. 3,444,201 shares of the company were exchanged. The company’s market capitalization is GBX 71.89 million. Minds + Machines Group has a 12 month low of GBX 6.75 and a 12 month high of GBX 12.50. The stock’s 50-day moving ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines set for strong second half - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT COMMENTS--- Half-year results from Internet domain name specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reveal a company that is changing gear. The company has been laying the groundwork for some time, applying for the rights to generic top level domains (gTLDs) – the part of an Internet address after the final dot - in the land grab that followed the relaxation of restrictions on the range of gTLDs that are available. It is still in the running for some more domains ... read more ...
 
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Protecting Your Domain – What’s In a Name Anyway? - The start of 2015 has seen a large number of new generic top level domain names (gTLDs) created, in numbers previously unprecedented in the history of the internet. A gTLD is the suffix used in web addresses (for example .com or .co.uk). These had previously been restricted to 22 versions and the number of gTLDs is set to rise from 22 to 617 by the end of 2015.Shortly after the meteoric rise of the internet in the early nineties, domain name squatting became a serious issue. Opportunistic individuals ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
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Rio Becomes First Latin American City to Offer Its Own TLD - Rio de Janeiro has become the first Latin American city with its own dedicated top-level domain (.rio), allowing individuals and entities who want to identify themselves with the Brazilian city to register their desired domain names with the new extension. ICANN approved the .rio domain this year and it took effect on Thursday, the Rio city government said in a statement. Related topics: Top-Level Domains ... read more ...
 
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.ORG Administrator PIR Calls on Kevin Kopas to Become Their Channel Manager … - Public Interest Registry (PIR), the highly respected non-profit organization that administers the venerable .ORG TLD (as well as new extensions, .NGO and .ONG), has added a key new member to ... read more ...
 
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Troy Lee Designs 2016 Adventure Line - The new collection is the brainchild of Troy Lee himself, who wanted to develop a more technical line of off-road riding apparel for everything from adventure to dual-sport to enduro riding. TLD took more than two years to meticulously design and test the Adventure collection, ensuring fit, function and durability. In the end, TLD developed a line that is very technical and yet extremely functional, all while injecting TLD’s industry leading style into the collection. TLD has also pioneered ... read more ...
 
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PlanetHoster receives ICANN accreditation for top-level domain (TLD) name … - LAVAL, QC, Sept. 21, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - PlanetHoster®, a company providing web hosting and other related services, announces today that it has successfully achieved ICANN certification. This certification enables the company to register top-level domain names such as .com, .net, .org, etc. PlanetHoster is the first company in Quebec to become ICANN accredited.   PlanetHoster will offer very competitive rates and better protection for high value domain names, as well as direct ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 296 million domain names in Q2 2015 - Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 per cent, year over year. Two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 million domain names in 2Q15 - VeriSign, Inc., the domain names and Internet security provider, announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.Representational image. Agencies The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
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Internet Doomsday scenario: How the web could suddenly fall apart - Analysis Engineers have recommended a small but important change to the internet's underlying structure in order to avoid a possible doomsday scenario. A report [PDF] from the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) argues that a key parameter in the internet's address books – namely, how long the information should be stored – needs to be increased in order to avoid a possible shutdown of parts of the global network. ... read more ...
 
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Apple Gets Ready to Migrate to .Apple gTLD - According to an application submitted under ICANN's new gTLD program on January 31st 2015, Apple should take control of the .apple gTLD in the near future to help it better promote its products and services on the Internet. gTLD is short for Generic Top Level Domain, and it is a domain name extension with three or more characters. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the organization that manages the Internet's DNS, IP addresses, and ASNs. As spotted by The Domains' ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 million domain names in the Q2 2015 - VeriSign has announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year ... read more ...
 
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Global Domain Registrations Edge Closer to 300M: Verisign - The number of domain names registered around the world grew by 2.2 million, or 0.8 percent, to 296 million at the end of June according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. With similar growth, the 300 million mark should be reached around the end of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year over year. The growth, the envy of many industries, was a marked slowdown from the first quarter when six million domains were added to the ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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City of Miami 3rd in US to Launch Dedicated TLD - Miami to become third city in the United States to launch dedicated top-level domain – General Availability for public to purchase .MIAMI domains commences Oct. 2 (Click to Visit)Today, City of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado announced that starting Oct. 2, Miami will become the third city in the U.S. to have a dedicated top-level Internet domain name. .MIAMI will join New York (.nyc) and Las Vegas (.vegas) in creating a global Internet identity through which the city's businesses, communities ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names in Q2 2015 - Domain Name Industry BriefClick to DownloadWe have released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief reporting that the Internet grew by two million domain names in the second quarter of 2015 and closed with a base of 296 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs). This is a 0.8 percent increase over the first quarter of 2015.[1] .com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 133.5 million ... read more ...
 
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Dot dot dot… Observations from the first two years of ICANN’s new gTLD programme - It's been about two years since the first of hundreds of new gTLDs began trickling out. New Sunrise Periods continue to open, and new registries are still being delegated by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). To date, more than 300 alternatives to .com have launched. It's fair to say new gTLDs have not displaced .com as the top-level domain of choice. Uptake has been patchy, especially for some of the more 'niche' extensions like .tattoo and .coupons. Many registries ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 mln domain names in Q2 – VeriSign - A total of two million domain names were added to the internet in the second quarter of the year, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 June, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. The increase equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015, significantly below previously quarterly growth rates of 1.9 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent. Worldwide ... read more ...
 
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Huge Number of TLDs Used to Support Malicious Web Practices – Blue Coat - Security vendor Blue Coat carried out research for months and then revealed that a number of TLDs (top-level domains) are used almost fully to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing.Blue Coat noted that domains are no more restricted to .com, .org and nation of origin; instead, operators of websites can select from a wide range including .edu, .link, .review, .mil and .work amongst others.However, the employment of several TLDs is far from genuine; instead, the researchers say that more than ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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The new TLD era: status update – what have we seen and what should we expect? - As we have previously reported, the internet is in the process of expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs), the management of which is delegated to the internet's governing body, ICANN.  Examples of TLDs (as we are likely most familiar with) include .com, .net, and .org - i.e. the term that is to the right of the "dot."  We are now more than halfway through the new TLD launch and many are still left to wonder:  Where is this vast new world of information exchange we had been ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #21: Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto & more - In this episode, Diego and I deliver our Floyd Mayweather–Andre Berto postmortem, including a detailed look at the excellent undercard. We reserve a judgement of Mayweather’s legacy for a later date, but there’s still plenty to discuss about the event itself. Adonis Stevenson-Tommy Karpency is also on deck, as well as a slew of Premier Boxing Champions fights. If this was indeed Floyd Mayweather’s farewell fight, you could argue that he went out with a whimper. In winning a predictable ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Results of New gTLD Universal Acceptance Analysis - ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced this week the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. The study focuses on the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. "These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's ... read more ...