I just found out that a dumbass from Canada is selling the New gTLD domain name Lenovo.Solutions on eBay for $6 million dollars. If you are not familiar with the Lenovo brand you can visit …
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Trademark Submissions At TMCH Are NOT Slowing Down: 32,993 Marks So Far
So far 32,993 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 16th of September 2014. The number of marks was 31,866 on the 28th of July. So the Trademark Clearinghouse added 1,127 trademarks …
Read More ».London Priority Domain Auctions Start But Can Last Forever!
.London priority program auctions will be starting in about 2 weeks from now. Only problem is that according to the rules, the domain name auctions can last forever! Yes, you read that right! Here is …
Read More ».Scot Gets 4,509 Domain Names Registrations On Day 1
.Scot, the New gTLD for Scotland, launched yesterday 23rd of September. As I don’t have access to the .scot zone files I asked the .scot registry on Twitter how many .scot domains have been registered …
Read More »IDN ccTLD عراق from the Republic of Iraq Passes String Evaluation
ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string (xn--mgbtx2b عراق) for the Republic of Iraq. Iraq’s latin ccTLD is .IQ. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was …
Read More »NEUSTAR Requests The Release Of Country And Territory Names For .NEUSTAR
NEUSTAR requested from ICANN the release of all reserved country and territory names for .NEUSTAR. I really don’t get how ICANN works sometimes. They first decided to reserve all country names for all New gTLDs …
Read More »Minds + Machines Report: £2,924,000 Profit From gTLD Auctions, Has £20 Million Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced its unaudited interim results for the 6 month period ended 30 June 2014. During the period, total sales in H1 2014 increased 4114% to £295,000 primarily as a result …
Read More »Minds + Machines Wins .VIP And .Law (It lost .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate, .video)
Minds + Machines Group Limited announced today that it has won the auctions for .law and for .vip. The Group has also gained in aggregate cash of approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million) from withdrawing its …
Read More ».OOO Should Rename It’s New gTLD To .LOL
“Over the next 6-12 months we expect to get about 1-2 million domain registrations under .ooo”. All I can say is: lol. Maybe they should rename their New gTLD from .ooo to .lol. They will …
Read More »Next New gTLD Program Probably Coming in Late 2016 or 2017
ICANN published a draft Work Plan to describe the set of community reviews and activities underway and planned to support consideration of an additional application process for the next round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) …
Read More ».Scot Launched Today – Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram Bought Domains
Scotland’s own domain .scot went live from 2pm (GMT+1) today (September 23) giving Scots, businesses and relevant parties the chance to own their own Scottish part of the internet. It puts Scotland on parity with …
Read More »What Areas Of London Registered The Most .London Domain Names?
1&1 and Fasthosts registrars have produced an interesting heatmap of successful .London registrations and found that the City of Westminster, is the no.1 London borough for successful .London domain registrations (14 per cent). Home to …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Scot, .Deals, .Beer, .Surf, .Direct, .Place
This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 4 enter the landrush phase. .Scot, under the shadow of the 55% ‘NO’ poll vote, is launching …
Read More »Sedo and .Club at DMEXCO 2014 (video)
The .CLUB team joined the SEDO team at the huge DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany to introduce new domain names to leading digital marketers and brands from all over Europe. .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass had …
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