Google is acquiring Deep Mind for reportedly $400 million although some are reporting it may have been as high as $500 million. Deep Mind is involved in the field of artificial intelligence. The news came out on a Sunday and many publications are covering the story. Recode.net posted that, DeepMind has only a landing page for a website where it describes its business as building learning … [Read more...]
Has Frank Schilling been the inspiration behind one company’s XXX spending spree ?
Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn. Really Useful launched … [Read more...]
Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We Know It’
In an article in the Huffington Post, the CEO of ICANN said that fragmentation of the Internet was a primary concern. From the article: Fadi Chehadé, CEO Of ICANN, told HuffPost Live at Davos he thinks the "biggest threat" to innovation is a fragmented Internet. "The biggest threat is to start building walls that create frictions. Frictionless Internet, where innovation is permissionless... … [Read more...]
Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds”
This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of this number is most likely including the DPML product that Donuts is offering trademark holders. The DPML works like this: (Courtesy of … [Read more...]
There are 700,000 daily reasons why King.com is trying to Crush other game developers
King.com tries to explain they are not really looking to crush the competition but rather make sure they are protected. Over the last couple days stories have come out about the maker of the famous Candy Crush Saga game trademarking the word "Candy" for video games and clothing, and they are also looking to trademark the word "Saga". King made a statement about the Saga situation, King has not … [Read more...]
Justin Bieber Arrest Inspires Over 55 Domain Registrations From Funny To Scary
As most of you know 19 year old pop sensation Justin Bieber was arrested down here in South Florida yesterday for DUI and some other charges related to allegedly drag racing down South Beach The arrest has led to over 55 .com and .net domain registrations in just about 24 hours. Some of the domain names are one's that naturally fit the situation such as BieberArrest.com, BieberArrested.com, … [Read more...]
Registered In 1994 Graceland.com Hit With UDRP
Someone, presumably the Elvis Presley Estate just filed a UDRP on the domain name Graceland.com The domain name Graceland.com has an original registration date of December 23rd 1994. The domain is owned by a Simon Higgs of Burbank California who has seemed to have owned the domain name continuously since at least the earliest Domaintools.com entry which is from 2004. The domain names … [Read more...]