John Biggs just posted on Tech Crunch that the second auciton of Silk Road Bitcoins. There were 50,000 BTC in this auction. Current Bitcoin pricing courtesy of CoinDesk.com $370.81 0.45% Change$1.66Market Cap$5.033BTotal BTC13,574,025Today's Open$369.15Today's High$371.35Today's Low$365.54 From Tech Crunch: The US Marshals Service has completed the second auction of Bitcoin seized from … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Mauritian Government Not Paying The Bills on Gov.mu and domain is going to be auctioned off
In what looks to be a really odd situation, the website islandcrisis.net is reporting that the government of Mauritius did not pay their bill for the domain name gov.mu. So now it is going to be auctioned off. The domain supposedly gets 500,000 to 1,100,000 queries a day. The government moved on to govmu.org. Read the full story here The Internet Direct Limited (IDL), the company that is … [Read more...]
Shopzilla Acquires Become.com Which Was Sold 10 Years By BuyDomains For $20K
Connexity, the online price comparison and shopping company formerly known as Shopzilla, has agreed to acquire e-commerce aggregator Become.com. TechCrunch reported the deal Thursday Financial terms of the acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Become-com were not disclosed. Become.com, founded by Michael Yang in 2004, had raised $37.2 million in funding from investors who include SV Angel, TPG … [Read more...]
Domaining 2015 In Valencia Spain: 1st 10 Readers That Signup Get 50% Off
The 7th Domain Conference will be hold again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. The first 10 readers of thedomains.com will get a 50% off the price using this code VIPTheDomains Some of the discussions that will be covered include: Geo Tld's How to avoid your Domain being stolen How is .com doing News on the newGTLD scene Startups and Domains Domain … [Read more...]
Fake Bitcoin Foundation sites scamming cryptocurrency users
We read about phishing emails targeted at domain name owners all the time, things from verification scams to update your payment details and so on. The world of crypto currency is seeing the same thing, with the latest scam detailed on Monday by Liam Tung on ZDnet. It seems people are getting duped into believing they are receiving emails from the Bitcoin Foundation when these are spoofed versions … [Read more...]
Domain Holdings Joins The ICA As A Silver Member
Domain Holdings, has become the latest member of The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) which is a trade group that represents and protect domain name holders and those with interests in the domain business. Domainholdings.com has entered the ICA as a silver member which requires a annual contribution of $5,000-$9,999 I reached out to Alan Dunn of DomainHoldings to ask him why the … [Read more...]
The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on January 5th
Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT which is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be … [Read more...]