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Fred Krueger Drops Lawsuit Against MMX
May 19, 2016 @ 5:22 AMCo-founder claimed he was owed five million shares. Fred Krueger has dismissed his lawsuit against MMX (Minds + Machines). Krueger sued MMX earlier this year, claiming he was owed five million shares in the new top level domain name company he co-founded. The parties did not settle but agreed to a tolling agreement under which…
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Rightside Investor Tells Shareholders to Vote "No"
May 18, 2016 @ 8:22 AMInvestor continues to push for change at Rightside. J. Carlo Cannell, whose clients at Cannell Capital LLC own about 7% of outstanding shares of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME), is asking other shareholders to vote against the board at its annual meeting June 2. Cannell sent a letter to the company earlier this year, demanding that Rightside: (i)…
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.vip Breaks New TLD Launch Records
May 18, 2016 @ 5:14 AMnTLDStats says it has a new leader for results out of the gate. .VIP has set new records for a top level domain name launch under the new TLD program, according to stacks tracker nTLDStats. The group tweeted that the domain is the new record holder for registrations 1 hour, 12 hours and 24 hours…
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GoDaddy And Shopclues To Enter A Strategic Partnership
May 18, 2016 @ 2:20 AMHaving listed over 400,000 merchants or small businesses on its marketplace, Shopclues ships more than 3.5 million items every month across all product categories. With domains from GoDaddy, ShopClues merchants can now drive potential customer web traffic directly to their page listed on ShopClues and at the same time, building their online identity and brand with a distinct domain name from GoDaddy.
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.top Blows Past .biz to Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
May 17, 2016 @ 1:43 PMThe new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered. The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain…
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Twist! ICANN Moves Fall Meeting to Hyderabad, India
May 17, 2016 @ 1:43 PMVegas? Nah, let’s go to India. Last month, ICANN VP of Meetings Nicholas Tomasso told community leaders that this October’s meeting in Puerto Rico might be moved to Las Vegas due to Zika virus concerns. Barring that, the only other venues ICANN had identified were in Orlando and Macau. Apparently they kept looking and have…
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ICANN Diverts From Puerto Rico to India to Avoid Zika
May 17, 2016 @ 12:20 PMICANN has confirmed that its 57th public meeting will not be held, as originally planned, in Puerto Rico. Instead, it is asking community members to instead head to Hyderabad, India, this November. Those Las Vegas rumors turned out not to be true. However, on the up-side, those Las Vegas rumors turned out not to be…
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ICANN Pimps New Sexual Harassment Rules
May 17, 2016 @ 7:44 AMICANN has proposed new anti-harassment guidelines for its community that would ban “unwelcome hostile or intimidating behavior”. It wants your comments on the changes to its longstanding “Expected Standards of Behavior” document, which applies to both its in-person meetings and online discussions and mailing lists. The proposed addition to the document reads like this: Respect…
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Automattic to Offer .blog Domain Names, WordPress Not Required
May 13, 2016 @ 10:25 PMAutomattic, the parent company of WordPress, will begin offering .blog domains later this year. And while you can use them with a WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress website, you don’t have to.
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Donuts Quietly Buys .shopping From Uniregistry (And .jetzt)
May 13, 2016 @ 10:20 AMJust a few months after Uniregistry bought out Donuts to win .shopping, Donuts has bought the pre-launch gTLD back. Donuts has also bought live gTLD .jetzt from a Swedish company. The .shopping deal is a weird one. Uniregistry and Donuts were the only two applicants for .shopping, until Uniregistry paid Donuts to withdraw its application…
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