According to a story in The Hill today, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly contacted a top dealmaker in the media industry within the past couple of months about creating a Trump television network. According to the story Trump is mulling the idea of creating a cable channel as his personal media company. The publication said Trump had talked about a "mini-media … [Read more...]
Epik Starts To Accept Bitcoin For Payment & Disbursement
Epik.com, a full-service, all-inclusive domain name and operator of a commission-free marketplace announced effective immediately, customers may pay for domain registrations, marketplace purchases, escrow, SSL certificates, web development, hosting and other services using Bitcoin, in addition to credit card, Paypal, Masterbucks and bank transfer. Customers may also disburse proceeds to … [Read more...]
Mason Zhang Joins .XYZ As Director of Business Development For Beijing XYZ’s Expansion in China
Beijing XYZ Technology Co. LTD, the Chinese business entity and registry operator of the popular .xyz domain extension, announced today that Mason Zhang has joined the company as its first employee in China. Formerly the Chief Marketing Officer of a Chinese domain registry, Zhang now oversees Beijing XYZ’s strategic partnerships, marketing campaigns, and expansion plans in China. As the most … [Read more...]
Tech Crunch Publishes a Great Story On The Domain Industry
TechCrunch.com published a great story about the money floating around in the domain industry entitled ""The silent evolution of domain names"". People in the domain space are mentioned include Rob Grant as the father of Lana Del Rey, Kevin Ham, and Thunayan K. AL-Ghanim. The story covers Godaddy's purchase of our portfolio saying they spend over $100 million in domains. The story quotes … [Read more...]
The EFF Finally Weights In On The ICANN Transition & So Do We
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.com) has finally weighted in on the ICANN transition in a story entitled "Oversight Transition Isn't Giving Away the Internet, But Won't Fix ICANN's Problems" It's probably one of the better articles I have read on the story. "Despite several weeks of heated discussion within the United States, we haven't commented much … [Read more...]
2016 Could be a record year for domain disputes at the WIPO
Doug Isenberg, Attorney & Founder of The GigaLaw Firm published an article today on Circle ID with regard to UDRP disputes at the WIPO. Doug noted,"WIPO statistics do not represent all of the complaints filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) (since there are four other service providers), but WIPO traditionally has been the most popular provider and, in any event, … [Read more...]
Donuts Launches DPML Plus To Protect Trademarks & 3 Typos for $9,999 For 10 Yrs
The largest new gTLD operator in terms of number of new domain extensions, Donuts Inc. today announced DPML Plus, an enhancement to its existing Domains Protected Marks List product that it developed in partnership with the IP community. Donuts already has the DPML which allows brand owners to protect their marks across all of Donuts’ current 197 domain name extensions at a fraction of what it … [Read more...]