CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic said it will pay $5.2 million when the deal closes, with $2.7 million…
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Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.
WordPress has had it with bogus DMCA Takedown Requests
Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved…
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d
Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of…
.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published
ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their…
Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share or $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby…
Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com
Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian…
Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa
There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale as the 240 .ly portfolio closed not meeting the reserve. Description:…