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CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC), announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2018. Mike Turner, Chairman of CentralNic, commented: “Our first half results are most encouraging as CentralNic continues to …

GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business …

Buzzfeed is threatening Mike Mann and his Tasty.com. Seems like Buzzfeed, that is running Tasty.co, wants to upgrade from the .co to the .com by stealing a domain name that was registered and owned by Mike …

Morgan Freeman, the 81 year old American actor, forgot to renew his domain name morganfreeman.com. The domain name expired and now has a new owner. Morgan Freeman lost his domain name because he did not …

The arrest warrant for the 4 people (including Sahar Sarid) involved in the Mugshots.com case is circulating the internet and here are a few interesting facts and comments. You can read the first post about the …

Mugshots.com co-owner Sahar Sarid was arrested on Wednesday over extortion, money laundering, and identity theft charges. His bail was set at $1.86 million. The investigation was carried out by the Northern California Computer Crimes Task …

Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver bought 3 Rudy Giuliani domain names. Guess what he did with them! Well it is not exactly 3 Rudy Giuliani domains. It is 2 domains that include his name and …

.App domain names officially launched yesterday as the new extension, run by Google, entered the EAP phase. EAP is the early access period when anyone can register available .app domains for an extra fee. The …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) today announced that it has received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) [PDF, 400 KB] that provides guidance on the European Union’s General …

The European Commission has issued a communication concerning Brexit and the .eu TLD. The communication states that, based on the United Kingdom’s intent to withdraw from the European Union, undertakings and organisations that are established …

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) will be moving to AWS, migrating the vast majority of its infrastructure as part of a multi-year transition. GoDaddy …

Göran Marby, ICANN’s President and Chief Executive Officer, has requested guidance about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impact on the domain name system and WHOIS from the European Union. Marby sent letters (pdf) to …

Michael Castello, of Castello Brothers LLC, announced the sale of the domain name Traveler.com. The announcement came in a comment on DomainInvesting.com. Michael Castello did not disclose any more details for this sale and the domain …

The domain name Purple.com was sold for $900,000 in 2017. The sales price was reported in a SEC filing from PURPLE INNOVATION, LLC. (Note 5, Page 14) Purple Innovation is an American comfort technology company …