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30.5% of TLDs are business websites – 27.8% a holding page – 0.9% pornography

EURid, the .eu registry, made a report called “Website usage trends among top-level domains 2014″. 37.8% of .eu websites are used for business purposes, compared with an average of 30.5% of websites under gTLDs like …

IAB.com sold for $75,000 (to Google and Yahoo) and donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau

The domain name IAB.com was donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that was using iab.net as it’s official website up until now. Leading digital advertising and technology companies BrightRoll, Collective, Google, MediaMath, Rubicon Project, sovrn …

Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Radiant.org $23,000, Spiritual.guru $2,107 (2-3-14 to 2-9-14)

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-3-14 to 2-9-14 were $1.965.670. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Afternic alienating international sellers with new payment policy

I got an email today from Afternic about some changes in payment policies. Afternic domain sales earnings can be paid via international wire, check, Paypal or direct deposit. Afternic’s domain sales minimum payout for international …

Apple is going after misspellings of Apple.com with UDRP

Apple is going after misspellings of its official website Apple.com using UDRP complaints. Apple, Inc filed 2 UDRP complaints for the domain names appke.com (k is next l in qwerty keyboards) and applw.com (w is …

Deals.xyz auction ends at $8,100 at Namejet but no one has to pay – #bullshit

An auction for the domain Deals.xyz that has been running for god knows how many months ended today and it ended at $8,100. Conveniently no one has to pay for the domain because these were …

Sunrise registration results for .technology, .construction,etc(Johnson&Johnson buys 81 .technology domains)

I checked out the zone files from 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability yesterday (Early Access Program (EAP)) and here are the results. I must say that zone files only …

.Build Registry Using Questionable Swiss Trademark Registration To Grab “Build” Domains In Sunrise

Plan Bee, LLC, the .build registry, is using a valid, but probably based on fake evidence or no evidence at all, trademark from Switzerland to register domain names in the New gTLD sunrise phase. Plan …

.London Launches April 29 – 200,000 London businesses likely to claim new .london web address

More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small …

Tucows 2013 Q4 Report: Hover grows 20%+ year-over-year

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “In the …

.CLUB is Platinum Sponsor of DOMAINfest Hollywood; Launches Landrush at DOMAINfest Conference

DomainSponsor®, the online monetization business of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINFest® series of conferences, announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 …