A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc….
CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year
CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.London A “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .London domain names” taking aim “at the “75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs…
Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s
Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on…
Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes
Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad…
California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin
Tech Crunch covered the .Wine and .Vin extensions and the resistance from politicians in California. Apparently many vineyards and wineries are fearful of someone scooping up their name in .wine and .vin….
The 1st Installment of Things You Can’t Believe People Did This Week In The Domain World
I spotted a few hard to believe things that happened in the domain world this week and I thought I would put them into one post. I’m thinking about making this a…
After 2 Years .Sex, .Porn & .Adult Become “Sensitive Strings” To The New gTLD Committee
After 2 year years The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has decided that .Sex, .Porn and .Adult are Sensitive Strings according to the minutes of the new gTLD committee to ICANN which…