Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having "Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City." "Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Google in New York City." Bidding is underway at CharityBuzz.com, where there are currently 4 bidders with a high bid of $8,000. There are 15 days left in the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
More from ICANN Court Filing: Not Only Are ccTLD’s Not Property But They Don’t Belong To The Country
Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD's are not considered property and therefore it can’t be attached by plaintiffs. We read through some more of the 289 page … [Read more...]
ICANN Responds To Seizure Order of The .IR Registry, saying ccTLD’s Are Not Property
A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran to help satisfy a judgement the victims held against the republic of Iran. As first reported by webpronews.com, (The … [Read more...]
HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are the first .Rocks Registrations
.Rocks which goes live into general availability on August 6th, has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a higher fee for early access to domain registrations The cost of a non-premium .Rocks registration is at $14.99 at Godaddy A lot of the registrations are company.rocks or … [Read more...]
Flipkart Raises $1billion in funding – Largest ever for an Indian Internet Company
You may recall a little while back there were all those Flipkart domain purchases in various cctlds, well the company certainly could afford it as they have just completed the largest funding ever by an Indian Internet company. flipkart.ca May 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.cn April 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.co.za May 2014 5,000.00 … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Operator of .XXX Wins Rights to The New gTLD .Sex
ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM's the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD's .adult and .porn The only caveat on the new gTLD's .Sex, .Adult and .Porn is that just a few weeks ago, … [Read more...]
Founder of Diapers.com Buys Jet.com From Chernoff, Backed By $55 Million To Take On Amazon
Recode.net, just published a post entitled "The CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again" Marc Lore, the former CEO and founder of Diapers.com, which the parent company Quidsi, was sold to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million, has raised $55 million to build out a new e-commerce company called … [Read more...]