In a blog post ICANN Published "Five things to Know About ICANN's 2015 Budget" Typically ICANN just releases its draft budget and then lets the domain blogs and other during and through the comment period rip into the budget & dissect the numbers. The Draft 2015 CAN Operation Plan and Budget is 80 … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
After Losing MyArt.com in UDRP, Fed Court Awards Owner Domain + Damages + Attorney Fees
According to a post on the site of the law firm Lewis & Lin, the domain owner of MyArt.com who lost a UDRP in April, filed a lawsuit in federal court and not only stopped the transfer of the domain name but got an award of statutory damages, attorney’s fees and litigation costs. We wrote about the UDRP back in April of this year and noted it was the 2nd UDRP filed by the same complaint on … [Read more...]
CEO of .In (India) Alleges 40% of ccTLD’s Left Out Of IANA Transition Coordination Group
According to a press release we received today from Dr Govin who is the CEO of the .IN ccTLD Registry which is the ccTLD for India is claiming that about 40% of all ccTLD's are being left out of the IANA Transition Coordination Group as part of ICANN's plan to move away from US oversight. Basically Dr. Govin says that 104 of the 259 ccTLD are not being representative in this process. Balazs … [Read more...]
Google Reports Earnings Stock Up in After Hours Trading
Google is out with their earnings for Q2 2014 Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $15.96 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, an increase of 22% compared to the second quarter of 2013. Google Inc. reports advertising revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the second quarter of 2014, TAC totaled $3.29 billion, or … [Read more...]
New York Looking to Regulate Bitcoin Businesses
New York Looking To Regulate Bitcoin There is news out today that New York is looking to regulate Bitcoin, there is a focus on protecting the consumer, while also making sure that cybersecurity is in place along with anti money laundering compliance. Mary Beth Quirk wrote on The Consumerist: New York has taken a step in the direction of keeping consumers’ safe with a proposed plan that sets … [Read more...]
After 8 Months I Finally Get A Notice On The New gTLD Paid Orders With Minds+Machines
Back In December 2013, I placed some paid pre-orders for some .Horse domain names and wrote a blog post about it. At the time we noted that what MindsandMachines.com says about these domain name registrations which are live on their site: “This is Not an “Expression of Interest” but a real reservation. The master list of reservations is kept by the registry, the authoritative source. A … [Read more...]
New gTLD 1st Day Registration #: .Exchange 1,252; .Capital 909; .Moda 724; .Gripe 212; .Engineering 142
5 New gTLD went into their first day of general availability yesterday and combined the 5 new extension have a total of less than 2,500 registrations. After the first day of general availability, including any Sunrise registrations and registrations taken in the Early Access Program here are the totals: .Exchange 1,252 .Capital 909 .Moda 724 .Gripe 212 .Engineering 142 All … [Read more...]