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A Small Preview of The Uniregistry Market Coming This Month

The Uniregistry Market is right around the corner. The closed beta is in full swing. Uniregistry is furiously testing all the nuts and bolts to ensure easy sailing for you when they launch later this month. You will be able…

ICA Now Offering Less Expensive Individual Memberships

Participation in the Internet Commerce Association should be accessible and affordable to all who have an interest in joining. The ICA is a member-led organization that advocates on behalf of the domain industry. The greater the participation and involvement of members of the domain industry in the ICA, the more effective we can be. With the aim of making the ICA more accessible to all members of the domain industry, during the “ICA Live” session at NamesCon the ICA announced a new membership level for Individual Members. The Individual Membership level is $50 per month or $600 per year. Those ��’ Read More

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Domain Name Investor Wins Domain On Namejet, Then Wins UDRP

DiamondTrust.com was hit with a UDRP just after selling on NameJet. A domain name investor has successfully defended the domain name DiamondTrust.com in a UDRP filed just after he won the domain name on NameJet. James Kim of South Korea won an auction for DiamondTrust.com for $1,319 at NameJet in October last year. Diamond Trust…
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.club Reappoints Allegravita for Their 2016 China Campaign

Allegravita announced that .Club ,one of their most successful domain name sector clients, has reappointed them for their China campaign in 2016. Since 2014, .CLUB Domains and Allegravita have worked closely to bring .CLUB’s brilliantly marketed and well-positioned domain names to Chinese markets in China and…

Bazaarvoice Founder Launching New Company On .world Domain Name

Startup chooses data.world domain name. Austin entrepreneur Brett Hurt, who founded Bazaarvoice and later took it public, is launching a new startup on a new top level domain name. Hurt announced that he has joined up with a number of former Bazaarvoice execs who later went to HomeAway to found data.world. (HomeAway, another Austin company,…
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Minds + Machines Reports Q4 Data

Billings surge in Q4. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has released some of its Q4 and full year 2015 results ahead of the publication of full results in April. The company generated $4.18 million in billings for domain name registrations in Q4, with $1.52 million of this from premium domain names…
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$41M Auction Loser Tries to Slam Brakes On .shop

Lawyer-happy gTLD applicant Commercial Connect has put GMO Registry’s $41 million purchase of the new gTLD .shop in jeopardy by filing an appeal with ICANN. On January 26 — the day before the .shop auction — the Connecticut-based company filed an Independent Review Process complaint with ICANN, asking a panel of judges to enjoin ICANN…

Parking Page Ads Lead to a UDRP Loss

What ads show up on a parked page make a big difference. Anyone can own the domain name MyEnterprise.com. Enterprise is a dictionary word, often referring to businesses and large organizations. But the owner of MyEnterprise.com just lost the domain name in a UDRP brought by Enterprise Rent-A-Car.com, and for good reason. It’s worth digging…
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Donuts Adds Two Millionth Domain

Donuts today said that it has added its two millionth new domain name registration. The domain in question was schedule.holiday, the company said. The number appears to refer to fresh registrations, not including renewals, across all of its TLDs. Its first batch of gTLDs launched about two years ago. The registry currently has 192 new…

Un Group Supports Community .gay Bid

An organization representing staff members of the United Nations has come out in support of dotgay LLC’s struggling community application for the .gay gTLD. UN-GLOBE comprises UN employees who identify as “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex”. Its primary goals are pushing for equal rights for these groups within the UN system. In a letter…