Wired is out today with an excellent piece by Robert McMillan on the Rise and Fall of Mt.Gox. For anyone interested in what happened with Mt.Gox or just Bitcoin in general, this is worth your time. The article touches upon how Karpeles was not equipped to be a CEO, insiders who knew things would go bad, and how there were a lot of controls not in place, that should have been in place. From … [Read more...]
Apple Announces Car Play Without Securing the .Com
Apple announced a new iPhone in car integration system and named it Car Play. Vlad Sanov reported for The Verge As was rumored on Friday, Apple is today finally ready to launch a new iPhone integration setup for car infotainment systems. Calling it CarPlay, the Cupertino company claims it's "designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in … [Read more...]
Afilias Wins .Green To Add To Its Collection Of New gTLD Colors
United TLD Holdco Ltd which is owned by Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Green leaving Afilias as the sole applicant for the .Green Extension. Last week it was revealed that some private auctions had been settled and Minds + Machines announced they had withdrawn their application for .Green, but we didn't know who won the .Green string until now. With … [Read more...]
20 .Guru Sites Make Alexa’s Top 1M List
Its been only a few week since .Guru fully launched and already sites built on .Guru domains have cracked the Alexa Top 1 Million domain mark. Alexa.org ranks websites based on estimated traffic each site receives. I went through the Alexa top 1,000,000 list today which ranks websites on the basis of traffic and found 20 .Guru domain names in the Alexa Top 1M list. The highest ranked … [Read more...]
Web.com Officially Announces The Acquisition of SnapNames.com
Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. Shares are down over 2% in early trading today. The questions yet to be answered is how will the acquisition effect where expiring domain names from Web.com registrars, including NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com will be going. All expired domains of Netsol where going to … [Read more...]
iSchool Will Make Their Proposal to End U.S. Control of ICANN in Brazil
It is no secret that the U.S. having full control over ICANN has rubbed a lot of foreign governments the wrong way. There have been a whole host of proposals on the table as to who and how the Internet should be managed. The latest proposal which will be submitted first in Singapore and then Brazil, comes from the School of Information Studies or iSchool. They posted their intentions tonight on … [Read more...]
Top10.com purchased in 2010 for $1million in Cash and Equity, Receives $8 Million in Funding
Tech Crunch reported about an hour ago that Top10.com received $8 million in Series B funding. The article also touched upon when the domain Top10.com was purchased back in 2010. Frank Michlick from Domain Name News had the exact facts back in 2010 on the deal. From Domain Name News: Incubator Idealab sold the domain name Top10.com for $200,000 USD in cash and a 7% equity stake in the new … [Read more...]