Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that "following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry
Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal's Fegistry and Frank Schilling's Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry
Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and Jay Westerdal's Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football
Donuts which lost the new gTLD .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN's Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: ".Football is a generic term and its second level names will be … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140
Three new gTLD's had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued … [Read more...]
Australia Denies Apple’s Bid To Trademark “App Store” In Australia
Jenni Ryall reported for Mashable that Australia has said no go to Apple trademarking the term "App Store" in Australia. This latest ruling was an appeal of their 2013 trademark attempt. The judge did not see app store as distinguishing itself to be Apple centric. From the story: Apple can not exclusively use the term "app store" in Australia after a ruling in the Federal Court on … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com
I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it's $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code "SAS149COM". An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That's the best … [Read more...]