BitCoin has certainly had a tumultuous week, from exchange problems and transfers frozen to a $2.7 million theft, this caused Venture Beat to ask if the end was near for Bitcoin. Silk Road 2.0, a black market drug-trading site based on untraceable Bitcoins, reports that 4,474 Bitcoins, valued at about $2.7 million, have been stolen from the site. The virtual currency is encrypted computer code … [Read more...]
The Russians Are Forwarding The Official Site of The Olympics Sochi.Ru To a .Com Sochi2014.com
If you have watched any part of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, and I know you have, you have undoubted sighted a Sochi.ru domain name banner that is flying across the the venues. One of the readers of thedomains.com points out that although the Sochi.ru domain name is being displayed hundreds of times each day on television stations all around the world, if you type the domain in it forwards … [Read more...]
Domainfest To Feature Private Concert With Stone Temple Pilots
DomainSponsor has just updated the Domainfest site and the on Tuesday night party will be held in a top secret location but will feature a private concert with legendary, Grammy award winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! "It wouldn’t be Hollywood without a VIP event." "That’s why we’re treating DomainFest full conference attendees to a … [Read more...]
Deals.XYZ Sells For $8,100 On NameJet.com
In a Namejet.com auction which just closed today the domain name Deals.xyz just sold for $8,100. The price marks the highest amount paid for a .xyz domain name, a new gTLD extension which hasn't even been delegated yet. If should be noted that the application fee for .XYZ was $185,000 so this one domain name repays the registry 4% of the application fee. We have already heard of … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Allow New gTLD Registries To Register Domains To Non-Trademark Holders In Sunrise
ICANN opened up a comment period yesterday to allow new gTLD registries to allocate the 100 domain names it is allowed to allocate to itself to other than trademark holders during sunrise under certain conditions. The comment period closed on February 28th ""Section 4.5.1 of the Trademark Clearinghouse Rights Protection Mechanism Requirements (the "TMCH Requirements") contemplated the … [Read more...]
.London Launches April 29, Predicts Over 218K Registrations Just From Small Business
Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has today announced that .LONDON will begin taking registrations on 29 April 2014, marking the formal launch of the .LONDON domain. More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small businesses in London found that more … [Read more...]
Lush Cosmetics Wins Trademark Battle With Amazon
Lush Cosmetics has won its high-profile trademark battle with Amazon, with the High Court ruling against the retail giant's use of the word 'lush' in its search marketing. Insider Media covered the story, The cosmetics business, which is headquartered in Poole, took legal action against Amazon.co.uk and Amazon EU after complaining that the retailer was infringing its trademark. Lush does … [Read more...]