Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) is gong to be Ringing The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell tomorrow. Rightside Groupwill visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The Company will host its first Investor & Analyst Day event from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm ET featuring presentations by key members of Rightside’s management team. In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is … [Read more...]
Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term "Bitcoin"? In its blog post entitled "Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream" Verisign says: "Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear … [Read more...]
Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn't have much information as to what … [Read more...]
Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000
According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don't know what the string sold for. In … [Read more...]
Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru, could have just bought the domain name which was … [Read more...]