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Google Reveals Its Playful Reward for Guy Who Briefly Owned Google.com

Google’s domain name was accidentally sold for one minute last year and now the search engine is revealing how much it paid to get it back.

Amazon Registers Domain With Google Trademark: AmazonAdwords.com

mazon Technologies registered two new domain names according to whois records that caught my attention on January 27, 2016: AdvertisingAmazon.com and AmazonAdwords.com

Hopscotch.com Saved in UDRP, But No RDNH

PR firm filed UDRP after failing to buy domain name. A three-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP for the domain name Hopscotch.com. It did not find the complainant to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain name, however. Joseph Lee bought the domain name for over $10,000 in…
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Terror Fears Prompt Security Crackdown for ICANN 55

ICANN is bringing in metal detectors, bag searches and ID checks at its forthcoming public meeting in Marrkech, Morocco. The measures are being introduced despite ICANN’s assurances that it considers the chance of terrorism at ICANN 55 to be “LOW”. In a statement today, ICANN meetings boss Nick Tomasso said: we are in constant and…

.shop gTLD Sells for Record $41.5 Million

The nine-way fight for the .shop gTLD has raised $41.5 million at auction. It’s the most-expensive reported new gTLD sale to date. The victor was GMO Registry of Japan, which runs a few Asian geographic gTLDs and acts as service provider for over a dozen dot-brands. GMO wanted .shop so badly it actually applied twice…

Breaking: .shop Top Level Domain Sells for Staggering $41.5 Million

$41.5 million spent for rights to a single new top level domain name. An auction to determine which company will control the .shop top level domain name has concluded with a record price of $41,501,000. GMO Registry, a Japanese domain name company, was the last bidder standing. It defeated six other bidders, including Amazon.com and…
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XYZ Launches .security, .protection, & .theatre: All Domain Including Single Character are Avail

We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical error, however we just received a note that the error has been fixed and that all domain names…
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.ws Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains

Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domain names. In December 2015, thousands of .WS domain names were registered in China. The entire…
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Lendvo Enters Domain Name Financing Business

Company offers capital to owners of domain names and online businesses. A new company has entered the domain name lending space, offering loans to domain name owners and digital businesses. Lendvo was founded by Patrick Izzo and Ben Lichtman, nephew of the late Igal Lichtman (Mrs Jello). The company has a number of creative financing…
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Donuts Promoting .golf at PGA Show

Donuts is wisely promoting its new .Golf domain name extension at the PGA Show in Orlando, Florida. According to the show’s website, “The PGA Merchandise Show gathers 40,000+ industry leaders, representing 74 countries.” Obviously this will be a good place to let people know about .Golf domain names. As you can see in the tweet below, Donuts co-founder and EVP Dan Schindler is manning the .Golf trade show booth in the exhibit area of the PGA Show. Donuts is encouraging people to visit NetworkSolutions.Golf to register their new .Golf domain names. The company is offering a discount code to save ��’ Read More

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