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Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark domain names in my name it found in my account shopping cart. I repeat: I didn’t buy these 2 domains. Go Daddy bought them and charged my credit card …

In the past week (Feb 3 to Feb 9), 793 (728 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.1 last week). Only 264 (260 last week) domains from …

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 …

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 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …