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.blog Reaches 100,000 Registered .blog Domains
July 26, 2017 @ 3:11 AMEarlier this morning, WordPress and the .blog registry announced they reached 100,000 registered domain names. They reached this milestone when the domain kitchenmagic.blog was registered. It has been eight months ago that .blog domains became available to the general public. The launch was far from smooth but the registry is slowly building its wordpress reputation…
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Shills, Insiders, & Front Runners - 5 Bidding Scandals From the Past
July 25, 2017 @ 9:22 AMJoseph Peterson reviews domain industry auction bidding scandals to bring context to the NameJet issue that blew up last week. Recently, the domain auction platform NameJet found itself embroiled in a controversy involving “shill” bids. This is by no means the first such scandal to plague our little industry. In fact, at least 4 major…
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Net Donuts Purchase Price for Rightside and Details of Their Registry Agreement
July 25, 2017 @ 7:26 AMSEC filings show valuation of Rightside business and disclose deal value of registry services. There are a couple interesting tidbits in SEC filings for Donuts acquisition of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) that are worth sharing as they could be important to companies in the domain name industry. The first involves how much Donuts is actually paying for…
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Attendance Dips for ICANN in Johannesburg
July 25, 2017 @ 6:14 AMThe number of people showing up for ICANN’s latest meeting was down compared to previous meetings, just-released statistics show. The organization reported today that there were 1,353 attendees at the ICANN 59 meeting in Johannesburg last month, down from 1,436 at the comparable Helsinki meeting a year ago. It was also down from the 2,089…
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Rufino.com UDRP: Parking is "Passive?"
July 24, 2017 @ 7:50 AMI want to share an excerpt from a concerning UDRP decision involving the Rufino.com domain name. The UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) by Constellation Brands, Inc. (which owns a subsidiary called Ruffino). The three-person panel ruled in favor of the complainant in this UDRP, and the domain name will be transferred unless the domain owner opts to litigate…
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Empowered Community Makes First Symbolic Exercise of Power
July 24, 2017 @ 3:33 AMThe new “Empowered Community” of ICANN has exercised its power for the first time. The EC on Friday told ICANN that it has approved the ICANN board of directors’ recent resolution to create a new committee tasked with handling various oversight processes. It’s of largely symbolic importance, the first test of whether the EC process…
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CentralNic Brings Back Old CFO
July 24, 2017 @ 3:10 AMCentralNic has swapped its currently chief financial officer for his immediate predecessor. Glenn Hayward has left the company after three and a half years “to pursue other opportunities”, the company said in a statement to the markets today. He has been replaced by Don Baladasan, who was CFO of the company between 2010 and 2014…
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Short .vegas Domains Go On Sale
July 24, 2017 @ 2:51 AMDot Vegas has made one and two-character .vegas domain names available to register on a first-come, first-served basis. Single-character domains such as a.vegas and 7.vegas and two-character names such as 77.vegas and bj.vegas all appear to be available, including domains that match country-code TLDs. Prices seem to be around the $2,750 to $3,299 mark for…
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Is a Big TV Network About to Troll Donald Trump With a New Cartoon?
July 21, 2017 @ 6:45 AMGet ready for The Bigly Adventures of Donald Trump. A client of corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor registered a lot of domain name yesterday that suggest a new Donald Trump cartoon is in the works. The full list is below. MarkMonitor has a lot of entertainment companies as clients. It’s not clear which client registered…
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Here's a Good Non-response UDRP Decision: OpusGroup.com
July 21, 2017 @ 5:40 AMPanelist correctly denies complaint despite no response from domain name owner. Yesterday I wrote about a a no good, very bad UDRP decision in which the domain owner didn’t respond but the panelist still shouldn’t have awarded the domain name to the complainant, Virgin. Today comes a World Intellectual Property Organization decision with a non-response…
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