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Snapchat's First Investor Connected With It Through WHOIS Search
February 3, 2017 @ 6:17 AMInvestor used Whois search to connect the dots. Snapchat (or just Snap) has filed to go public and its IPO is sure to make its early investors a nice return. Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in the company. And how the firm was able to track down Snapchat founder Evan…
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NameJet and RightOfTheDot Drive $1.2M in Sales at NamesCon 2017 Live Auction
February 2, 2017 @ 6:41 PMWith a record breaking 75% close rate and $1.2M in sales, NameJet and RightOfTheDot have achieved another successful live auction at NamesCon. The extended auction continues until February 9, 2017. “Together, we provided the right teamwork, leadership and technology to…
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Did Snap Pay $5 Million for Snap.com ?
February 2, 2017 @ 4:29 PMSnapchat now know as Snap Inc is going public. George Kirikos tweeted out a few minutes ago the following: Did @Snap pay USD $5 million to @Idealab for the <a href="https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx</a> domain name? See page F-21 of SEC filing <a href="https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw</a> — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) February 2, 2017 I went to page F-21 and you can see…
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Company Lets Domain Name Expire, Files UDRP 10 Years Later
February 2, 2017 @ 8:05 AMYo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, it filed a UDRP against Ashantiplc (domain investor Sahar…
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Complaints About Registrars Dip in 2016
February 2, 2017 @ 6:21 AMThere were slightly fewer complaints about domain name registrars in 2016, compared to 2015, according to newly published ICANN data, but complaints still run into the tens of thousands. There were 43,156 complaints about registrars to ICANN Compliance in 2016, compared to 45,926 in 2015, according to the data (pdf). That’s a dip of about…
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Thick WHOIS Policy for .com is Now Live
February 2, 2017 @ 6:00 AMThe domain name industry is kicking off one of its most fundamental shifts in its plumbing this week. Over the next two years, Verisign and every registrar that sells .com domains will have to rejigger their systems to convert .com from a “thin” to “thick” Whois. This means that by February 1, 2019, Verisign will…
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ICANN Feeds Troll, Refuses to Censor "Rip-off" Web Site
February 2, 2017 @ 4:56 AMICANN’s board has rejected a formal demand that it “take down” the web site RipoffReport.com in what is possibly the strangest Request for Reconsideration case it has considered to date. The almost 20-year-old site hosts reports from consumers about what they consider to be “rip-offs”. It’s seen its fair share of controversy and legal action…
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ICANN Loses Another IRP -- .sport gTLD Fight Reopens As Panel Finds "Apparent Bias"
February 2, 2017 @ 4:00 AMThe future of the .sport gTLD was cast into turmoil this week after an independent panel ruled that there was “apparent bias” in the decision that awarded the string to a group linked to the Olympics. The new Independent Review Panel ruling found that ICANN broke its own bylaws by refusing to allow Famous Four…
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The Trademark Clearinghouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 New gTLD Using The Famous Trademark "The"
February 1, 2017 @ 7:20 PMThe Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new gTLD domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead…
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Video: GoDaddy 2017 Super Bowl Commercial
February 1, 2017 @ 6:04 AMHere’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy debuted its 2017 Super Bowl ad last night on CBS’s Greatest Super Bowl Commercials Ever. Here it is: The Super Bowl commercial promotes GoDaddy’s new site builder called GoCentral. According to the company, the mobile website builder makes it possible to build a web presence in under an hour…
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