Gregory Ferenstein wrote a post on Tech Crunch about the director of ideas from Google and his belief that crypto currencies are going to be a mainstay as we move forward. Google…
20 Year Old Graceland.com Lost In UDRP
Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) was awarded the 20 year old domain name graceland.com by three member UDRP panel. Its an interesting set of facts. The domain was not parked but contained…
ICANN Publishes Its Financials For The Six Months Ending December 2013
ICANN published its financials last night for six months ending in December 2013. Here are some of the highlights. You can see the entire results here Here they are: Executive Summary For…
‘Domains by Proxy’ Hands Over Personal Details of “Pirate” Site Owner
Torrent Freak reported that Domains By Proxy, the privacy service from Go Daddy, turned over the personal details of one of their customers. The majority of the 83 comments are taking a…
Yesterday Vine bans Porn, Today VinePorn.com sells for $9,900 on Sedo
Last January someone registered the domain VinePorn.com, yesterday Vine banned porn on their service, today VinePorn.com sold for $9,900 on Sedo. Vine posted: A change to Vine content rules We introduced Vine…
FT.com Covers Frank Schilling
One of the most prestigious publications in the world, the Financial Times out of London just published a huge cover story on Frank Schilling “Tucked inside a nondescript building on Seven Mile…
14K of Enom’s 23K new gTLD Registrations Are From NameCheap
Yesterday we reported on the top 20 domain name registrars in terms of new gTLD domain name registrations. The domain name registrar in second place on the list was Enom with 23,167…