There was an interesing article on Coin Buzz written by Andrew Moran, the article is about governments looking to find new ways and rules to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Argentina and France will both be requiring identity verification. This may make an alt crypto currency like Dark Coin more desirable going forward. Dark Coin has stressed the need for an anonymous digital … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Secret.ly Bought For $3,500 On Sedo 9 Months Ago Raises $25 Million At $100M Valuation
It was just back in March that the New York Times chatted about, what was at that time, a 5 week old app called Secret which uses the domain name Secret.ly Today the company announced it has raised an additional $25 Million dollars, on top of the $8.6 million the company announced it raised in March from a number of well-known investors, including Alexis … [Read more...]
ItsMillerTime.Bar; JackDaniels.Bar; Skyy.Bar: Best of .Bar Sunrise Domain Registrations
Today .Bar went into general availability. Although we have noted before that brand holder by in large are not participating in new gTLD Sunrise periods it is interesting to see who is. Generally there were not a ton of Sunrise applications for .Bar. According to ntldstats.com, there are some 110 Sunrise domain registrations. In general it was mostly few liquor brands that applied during … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Issues 740K Shares + $138K To Antony Van Couvering
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today that it has issued 738,299 new ordinary shares to Antony Van Couvering and made a payment of US$138,062 in respect of the cancellation of options held by him over in aggregate 9,626,347 ordinary shares. "Antony Van Couvering held options to subscribe for 2,626,347 new ordinary shares at an exercise price of 4p and 7,000,000 new ordinary … [Read more...]
BleachStain.com Loses Bid To Grab 8 Year Old Bleachstains.com In UDRP Without A Trademark
Jerry G. Roper of Payson, of Utah just lost his attempt to grab two domain names about a generic as they get; Bleachstains.com and Carpetbleachstains.com BleachStains.com was registered in 2006 The domain owner was Dave Chretien and Color Spot Carpet of Torrance, California, US. The Complainant which didn't have a trademark but a patent In October 2000, Complainant began selling a … [Read more...]
Nylonmag.com Upgrades To NYLON.com For $225,000
NYLON Media Inc. which was founded in 1999 and was using Nylonmag.com,announced today it acquired and switched its website to NYLON.com after purchasing the domain name for $225,000 According to a press release out today, "Owning NYLON.com is the … [Read more...]
.Bar & .Rest Are Live: Priced At $99.99 & $49.99 At Godaddy
.REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) "a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars have gone live into General Availability today. Godaddy.com is charging $49.99 for a .Rest domain and $99.99 for a .Bar domain registration. We received a press release on these two new extensions and here is a part of it: ".BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, … [Read more...]