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Chinese “Investors” Are Going Crazy For Short Domain Names In Effort To Evade Capital Controls
January 13, 2016 @ 11:04 PMFacing economic uncertainties and concerned about declining stock markets, many Chinese investors are looking to short domain names in the hopes of reselling them for a profit.
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Escrow.com Reveals New Website & Announces Many Changes Coming Soon
January 13, 2016 @ 4:53 PMMatt Barrie, President, Escrow.com & CEO of Freelancer.com delivered the keynote address today at NamesCon 2016 in Las Vegas. Matt Barrie is the CEO of Freelancer.com, the world’s leading freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace with more than 17 million users. Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the…
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Google & Apple Buy 45+ .cars, .car & .auto Domain Names (Selfdriving .cars, Alphabet .car, Apple .car)
January 13, 2016 @ 12:37 PMSunrise for .cars, .car and .auto ended a few days back and a few of the biggest companies in the world bought domain names. The domains were not necessarily bought by car manufacturers (Open, Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Mercedes, BMW, Maybach…
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Wolfram Alpha Owner Loses UDRP to Grab The Domain WolframVentures.com
January 13, 2016 @ 11:20 AMWolfram Group LLC has lost its attempt to grab the domain name wolframventures.com Here are the highlights: The Complainant is a provider of computational knowledge and mathematical software with offices in Paris, Tokyo, Lima, Linkoping, Bangalore, Boston and Champaign (Illinois). It has been operating under the name “Wolfram” since 1987. Perhaps, its most well-known service…
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.auto .car, .cars Get 1st Day Registrations at $60k Per Domain
January 13, 2016 @ 10:25 AMThe 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD’s .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car…
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GoDaddy Launches Domain Investor App
January 13, 2016 @ 10:03 AMApp makes on-the-go bidding easier, even if you use two-factor authentication. GoDaddy has launched a new domain name investor app for the iPhone and Android, making it easier to watch and bid on domain names at GoDaddy Auctions. Mike McLaughlin, GM for Domains at the company, announced the app release during his keynote address at…
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How Big is China? Big.
January 12, 2016 @ 12:59 PM57% of Domain Name Sales’ revenue coming from China. This morning at NamesCon, Domain Name Sales VP of Sales Jeffrey Gabriel showed a slide with sales data from the past year: Wow. 2% of leads generating 57% of the dollar volume of sales. That’s amazing. Gabriel compared this to leads from other countries. The U.S…
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Uniregistry Digs Into Details of New Market
January 12, 2016 @ 12:28 PMUniregistry team explains how the new Market system will work. This morning at NamesCon in Las Vegas, Uniregistry unveiled more details about its new marketplace that will be integrated with the Uniregistry registrar. John Smrekar, VP of Product of Uniregistry, explained that there are some issues with the existing Domain Name Sales (DNS) platform that…
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Lighting Company Interlight is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
January 12, 2016 @ 11:48 AMPoorly formed case was dead on arrival. Indiana company International Lighting Corporation has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Interlight.com. The company uses the domain Interlight.biz, and wanted to upgrade to the .com. However, its case was extremely poorly formed and it was dead on arrival: The owner of…
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M+M Acquires .boston From Boston Globe
January 12, 2016 @ 8:52 AMMinds + Machines has added .boston to its stable of geo-gTLDs, buying the contract from the publisher of the Boston Globe newspaper. The company said today that it has acquired 99% of Boston TLD Management, a new company into which the Globe plans to sign over its .boston ICANN contract. The deal is contingent on…
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