The Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix's TLDs to launch their idea or company. This initiative will support startups across several key areas like marketing, event sponsorships, and PR. In the first few days of the outreach itself Radix incubated 15+ startups including Kika.tech, Devteam.space … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations in 13 of its new gTLD's due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds + Machines that the deleted domain names were not the result of non-renewals; but was the result of Minds + Machines "unwinding its Emerald Names initiative and moving premium inventory back into the retail channel that … [Read more...]
New gTLD conspiracies may have finally jumped the shark
There is a new thread on Namepros that may have taken the new gtld discussion to another level, a weird level. Although anything is possible it is the Internet. Namepros member GarpTrader posted: How new TLDs could be used to launder drug trafficking proceeds One-word and hyper short LL .Com domains are rare and already in the hands of well-established domainers or corporations. Such domains … [Read more...]
Google May Have To Pay European Publishers For Showing News Clips
The E.U. just wants to keep pushing Google's buttons Bloomberg is out this morning with a news item that the E.U. is drafting new copyright rules. Publishers would have the right to demand payment for their content being published on sites like Google News. Google shut its news portal in Spain in 2014 after copyright legislation allowed publishers charge for content used by other … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Sales Led by WLF.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and WLF.com was the top sale at $35,000. SelfEmployed.com looks to be a solid buy at $18,000 in my opinion. With more and more people working for themselves the name has a lot of possibilities. There was a .forex sale this week, NCL.forex for $2,250, this was the first one I have seen Sedo report. .COMs wlf.com 35,000 USD selfemployed.com … [Read more...]
Can posting a link be a copyright violation ?
There was a very interesting article published by Maud Sacquet of Project Disco on how Europe is viewing links with relation to copyright law. That's right links, the driving force of the Internet, I don't think I have ever spoken with anyone that thinks they should have copyright protection. Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has made a ruling that … [Read more...]
Forget Naming Companies – One Teen Is Getting Paid to Name Babies
There was a really cool story on BBC.co.uk that was sent to me by Adam Yamada from Yamada Media. Domain investors and branding firms spend most of their time selling names or creating names for business, but there is a 16 year old Brit that is making money naming babies. Beau Jessup is a 16 year old from Gloucestershire who created a website called Special Name, the service helps give … [Read more...]