Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have exceeded 550 with over 15 days to go. The .Online Sunrise period for trademark holders ends on 17th August, and will be followed by an Early Access Phase from 19th to 26th Aug. General Availability starts on August 26th, 2015. The … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Sells MafiaGame.com To Maker of Grand Theft Auto For Launch This Week
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (2K Games) TTWO (NASDAQ) has purchased the domain name MafiaGame.com which was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. and has put up a website to launch its new Mafia III game, which is set for "worldwide reveal" on August 5, 2015 according to the new site. I had reported several Mafia 3 domain registrations by Take-Two in early July 2015, which … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports Over $1 Million In Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com just reported over $1 Million in domain name sales in July led by SX.com which sold for $555,050 As usual, only sales of $2,000 or more are included in the report and only those domain names that were paid for by the end of … [Read more...]
Trump Trademarked “Make America Great Again” in 2012 but Missed The .Com When Dropped in 2014
Its pretty hard to find a picture of Donald Trump in the last few weeks not wearing a baseball cap with his now famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run of "Make America Great Again' You might be surprised to find out that The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012. However the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th … [Read more...]
Mobile Now Accounts for Close to Half of China’s Retail eCommerce Sales
A new report from eMarketer.com shows that China is far more mobile than the U.S. when it comes to ecommerce. Over 87% of all users in China regularly access the Internet with a mobile phone vs 74.6% in the U.S. From the report: This estimate puts retail mcommerce sales in China at nearly 450% of those in the US, where such sales are expected to rise 32.2% in 2015. Even more striking, in the … [Read more...]
Tokyo Police Arrest Mark Karpeles of Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox
Mark Karpeles the former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been arrested in Tokyo. In a statement, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said that they believed 30-year-old French national Karpeles had “unjustly inflated the balance” of an account in his name by manipulating Mt. Gox transaction records. “He created false information that $1 million had been transferred into the account, when in fact … [Read more...]
Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal Of Name.Space’s Claim Against ICANN’s New gTlD Program
The United States' Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name.space, related to ICANN's new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program, in an opinion published today In 2013, a federal district court dismissed all of name.space's claims, and today the Ninth Circuit affirmed that dismissal in all respects. … [Read more...]