In attempting to pre-order some new gTLD’s I have had to review trademarks filed with the Mark: hosting Jurisdiction: Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) Goods: Rubber, guttapercha, gummi, asbest, mica en…
German Discount Clothing Company Spends 178,500 Euros to Upgrade to KiK.de
German discount clothing company KiK Textilien which operates at Kik-Textilien.de and .com has stepped up the quality of their domain name and purchased Kik.de for 178,500 Euros ($246,223) The domain did belong…
Apple, Yahoo and Google All Reserve The Right To Read Your Email
So there was a story out this week that Microsoft had read the emails of a French blogger who had received code from a former Microsoft employee, the employee has been arrested…
Top Level Domain Holdings Starts Trading Under Minds + Machines Today
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (“TLDH”) has officially changed its name to and started trading today under Minds + Machines Group Limited From today, the Company’s shares will trade uwith the EPIC…
Sedo Macau Auction Concludes With Close to $200,000 in Sales
In what was an interesting way to follow an auction, Sedo concluded their Macau auction this morning and they were updating people on Twitter as the auction ran. They actually set up…
Mt. Gox May Have Found 200,000 Bitcoins
There was a report out last night that bankrupt Bicoin exchange Mt. Gox may have found 200,000 Bitcoins in a forgotten wallet. Pete Rizzo of Coindesk wrote: A new report suggests that…
ICANN: Important Corrections To Inaccuracies and Misconceptions Regarding U.S. Announcement
ICANN in a blog post today, entitled Important Corrections to General Inaccuracies and Misconceptions Regarding U.S. Announcement and IANA Functions tries to quite the outrage coming from many in the domain community…