According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has agreed to acquire the Weather Company's data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren't disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn't include Weather's primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. "In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group -- led … [Read more...]
CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains up 1.6%
CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was … [Read more...]
Expired Domain Drop Catcher BackorderZone.com + 42 Domain Registrars Are for Sale
Backorderzone.com is for sale. Backorderzone.com competes with Namejet.com, Snapnames.com, Pheenix.com and DropCatch.com. Last week Namejet lowered the price of a backorder on a pending delete domain, the only type of domain names BackOrderZone.com catches, to $39. Included in the sale is the BackorderZone.com website, the drop catching software and 42 ICANN Accredited Registrars in good … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com
The "Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola" just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to "Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese" yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: "Following … [Read more...]
Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: “New gTLD program is a Money Grab & Mistake”
Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it "indicates corruption." ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org, Dr. Vixie is "an Internet pioneer, the author … [Read more...]
Registering Any Available LLLLL.com Domains? TM Holders Are Filing UDRP’s On Them
It's no big secret that many domainers have been registered any and all available LLLLL.com domain names, (Even LLLLLL.com domains), especially in the past month or two. While I noticed a big uptick on the registration of LLLLL.com domains, I have also noticed a big uptick in the number of UDRP's being filed on what just seem to be a good repeater or a pronounceable short domain UDRP … [Read more...]
Looks Like Sony Is Planning On A Sequel To Bad Teacher: “Another Bad Teacher” Based on Domains
It Looks like Sony Is planning on A Sequel to the 2011 hit Bad Teacher that starred Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. According to Wikipedia.org, Bad Teacher had a box office of over $216 Million Yesterday Sony registered several domain names that seem to indicate a sequel is in the works at brand protection company … [Read more...]