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UDRP Filed On Blackjack.com
August 10, 2015 @ 2:04 PMA UDRP has been filed on the domain name Blackjack.com According to the whois record the domain name backjack.com is owned by “Private Individual” of the UK. The Complainant in the UDRP is not listed. The domain name Blackjack.com is being used as a directory site for playing blackjack online along with other information about…
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Google is Now Part of Alphabet, Uses Abc.xyz
August 10, 2015 @ 1:17 PMAlphabet uses .xyz domain name. Google announced a new holding company called Alphabet today, and it’s using the domain name ABC.xyz. This is a huge win for Daniel Negari’s .xyz, and new top level domains in general. Google will be part of Alphabet, but some of the company’s more long term bets will be separate…
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.law Expects 100k Domain Registration in 12-24 Months at $200 Per
August 10, 2015 @ 11:24 AMAccording to a story in the abajournal.com, the .Law registry which is owned by Minds + Machines expects to sell 100,000 domain names in 12-24 months after launching . .Law will only be opened to licensed lawyers. The CEO of .Law Lou Andreozzi, of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets and the former chairman of Bloomberg…
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SEO Site Toppled As Most-popular New gTLD Domain
August 10, 2015 @ 8:18 AMThere’s a new domain topping the charts as the most-visited new gTLD site. A few days ago, namu.wiki replaced searchengines.guru in the top spot, the first time the leading position has changed hands since DI PRO first started tracking daily Alexa scores in July 2014. namu.wiki appears to be a Japanese Korean wiki site dedicated…
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Domain Name Business Will Lol Tomorrow, But Facebook Says Lol is Dead
August 10, 2015 @ 7:17 AMFacebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL tomorrow. Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many registrars are offering discounted first year registrations. I’ve made it a point to…
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.music Applicant Caught Using Bogus Wikipedia Page
August 10, 2015 @ 5:50 AMDotMusic Limited, the .music applicant founded by Constantine Roussos, is using a highly suspicious Wikipedia page in its attempt to win the .music contention set. The applicant and many supporters have been citing the Wikipedia “music community” page in support of DotMusic’s ongoing Community Priority Evaluation, despite the fact that the page draws text, without…
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.club Reveals Registrar-sold Premium Domains
August 7, 2015 @ 7:28 AM.Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names through the regular registrar purchase path last month. It sold 12 premium domain names through this channel last month,…
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OpenTLD Cybersquatting Fight Escalates
August 7, 2015 @ 7:15 AMICANN has accused OpenTLD, the registrar arm of Freenom, of cybersquatting famous brands even after it was threatened with suspension. The claims may be worrying for some registrars as ICANN may in fact be holding the registrar responsible for the actions of its proxy service customers. OpenTLD was suspended by ICANN in early July, after…
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GoDaddy Customers Have Registered 850k New TLDs
August 7, 2015 @ 6:41 AMGoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of availability. GoDaddy customers have registered more new top level domain names with it than at any…
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Minds + Machines Co-founder Dumps Another 30 Million Shares
August 7, 2015 @ 5:34 AMKrueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new top level domain name company, or about 5%. When…
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