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Minds + Machines Has Completed 1/3 of Planned £15 Share Buyback
December 17, 2015 @ 6:44 AMCompany purchased another two million shares yesterday, bringing total to 59 million. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines bought another two million of its own shares for cancellation yesterday, pushing its total buybacks to £5.1 million to date. The company announced an up-to £15 million share buyback program in September, and has…
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Google Buys The Domain Abcdefghijk.com
December 17, 2015 @ 6:39 AMGoogle love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring…
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SEC Investigating Endurance International Group
December 17, 2015 @ 6:28 AMWebhosting and domain name company reveals SEC investigation. Endurance International Group, a rollup of domain name and webhosting companies, announced today that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed: Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance”) received a subpoena dated December 10, 2015 from the Boston Regional Office…
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.club Has Sold 2,000 Premium Domain Name So Far Today
December 16, 2015 @ 12:27 PM.Club registry gets solid results from release of 13,000 premium names. .Club has sold 2,000 premium domains in less than a day through its registrar channel. This morning, the company started offering 13,000 domain names through its premium program that were previously registry reserved. This means the names are available at participating registrars with a…
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Escrow.com Wants to Keep Trust While Improving The Service
December 16, 2015 @ 6:37 AMGM Jackson Elsegood says support and usability enhancements are key initiatives for leading escrow service. Escrow.com is under new ownership. With a change at the top, there’s been a bit of concern over making sure the core escrow product remains intact. Yesterday I spoke with Jackson Elsegood, the new General Manager for Escrow.com. His message…
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Radiohead Backs .music Community Bid
December 15, 2015 @ 2:00 PMEd O’Brien, guitarist with the band Radiohead, has become the latest musician to throw his support behind DotMusic’s community-based application for the new gTLD .music. In a letter to ICANN today (pdf), O’Brien said that if DotMusic loses its ongoing Community Priority Evaluation, it will “be setting back the world’s chances of a Fair Trade…
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Twitter and Justin Timberlake Targeted By This.sucks
December 15, 2015 @ 5:52 AMThis.sucks, a company with close ties to .sucks registry Vox Populi, has started registering domain names matching famous brands to itself. Twitter, along with singer Justin Timberlake, software maker Adobe and investment bank Goldman Sachs all saw their matching .sucks domains registered by This.sucks on Friday, according to the .sucks zone file and Whois queries…
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DNPric.es Database of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion
December 14, 2015 @ 11:20 AMDNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider.
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.eco Loser Files Trademark Application for .eco
December 14, 2015 @ 10:05 AMWhat is planet.ECO up to with its latest trademark filing? A company that appears to be out of the running for the .Eco top level domain name has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “.Eco”. planet.ECO LLC was one of four applicants for the .Eco top level domain name. Rival applicant Big Room won a…
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China is Making Domain Name History - Techcrunch
December 12, 2015 @ 8:01 AMShort domains have always been valuable, but if you’re a company today and want to own a short domain name, your price just became a lot higher. And I mean..
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