JD.com Inc.'s IPO priced above expectations Wednesday selling 93.7 million American depositary shares for $19 a piece, raising $1.8 billion. JD.com is set to open on the Nasdaq Stock Market Thursday under the symbol "JD." JD.com starts off life as U.S. stock amid strong investor skepticism when it comes to shares of fast-growing technology companies. The Nasdaq Internet Index has tumbled … [Read more...]

Famous Four Media (FFM) an application for more than 50 new gTLD's just published a blog post entitled "Why domain name investors should embrace new gTLDs today" The post was written by Rob McCrea Head of Account Management at Famous Four Media I will publish a part of it here and have some comments after: "Much of what those who “know what they are doing” in the domain name industry are … [Read more...]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), and possibly Apple (APPL), maybe both are planning to launch an all in one 3D printer according to Trip Chowdry of Global Equities Research Chowdry wrote recently that “Google is secretly working on building the next generation of 3-D printers called Google Project Tango.” There is similar speculation that Apple is doing the same thing utilizing its PrimeSense … [Read more...]

BLUE SPHERE, INC., a California Corporation doing business as LUCKY 13 and who is the owner of the trademark LUCKY 13®, filed suit in Federal Court in California today against Taylor Swift and and bunch of companies owned or controlled by here. According to the lawsuit the company which operates under the domain name Lucky13.com, has used their trademark of Lucky 13, in connection with the … [Read more...]

Esitbot has launched a free App (now in the Apple/iTunes store) Here is the email we just received: "Just a quick heads up that we've launched an iPhone app to make your EstiBot usage more efficient on portable devices. Here is just a highlight of the features the app offers: Instants appraisals with full analytics Lead research tool, research end-user leads and brainstorm domain ideas … [Read more...]

The new gTLD political race is about to start to being The first political extension to roll out will be .Democrat which is launching into general availability on Wednesday May 21st. The extension is owned by Rightside part of  Demand Media, Inc (DMD), a publicly held company  not affiliated with any political party. The retail price, depending on registrar is expected to be under … [Read more...]

                ICANN published last night the minutes of the New gTLD Program Committee (NTAG) which following numerous GAC advice and voted down Amazon's Application for .Amazon. Here is the resolution: ""Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban and issued a Communiqué on 18 July 2013 ("Durban … [Read more...]