According to the Term Sheet today "Personal, a Washington, D.C.-based digital vault and private network for people to store and manage important information and documents, has raised $4.5 million in new VC funding led by Bill Miller of Legg Mason." The company owns the domain name Personal.com The domain was owned by Yahoo! in 2009 In 2010 it went under the control of Brand protection … [Read more...]
Apple Wins Control Of 11 Domains: Macbook7.com; Findmyipad.com; Jailbreakmyipad.com
A WIPO UDRP panel awarded Apple Computers 11 domain names. Some of the domains awarded today deal with products of Apple and some are just typos. Here is a list of the 11 domain names: apole.com findmyipad.com freeiphonesoft.com hackmyipod.com ipa-iphone.net iphonefc.com iphonelyrics.com ipodcleaner.com ipodtouch5.com jailbreakmyipad.com macbook7.com … [Read more...]
Buyer Beware: New Alt Root Domain Name Registration Service Launches Promise Any Domain Name For Free
In an apparent attempt to grab a market share with the new gTLD s coming out, "AnyExtension.com launched today according to a press release that promissing the users can "submit any domain name and extension that one wishes and that too for free." "With the help of this service, one can use domain names like www.power.boat, www.used.machines, www.paris.france or www.amy.smith." "The project … [Read more...]
ICANN: Implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan
On 7 October 2013 the ICANN Board's New gTLD Program Committee approved resolutions directing staff to implement the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan ("The Plan") Tonight ICANN released details on how it will be implementing the New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan. For those Registries that have already signed a Registry Agreement the contract have been notified that … [Read more...]
OMG: .XYZ Hits Top 5 Pre-Registered New gTLD’s at 1and1.com
Tonight 1and1.com top 5 new gTLD pre-reservation list changed and amazingly .XYZ is now sitting at number 5 with over 45,000 pre-reservations. The top five are now pre-reserved domain names in the new gTLD's are: .Web .Online .Shop .App .XYZ Total number of … [Read more...]
Report: Chase To Limit Cash WIthdrawals, Deposits & Prohibits Outgoing International Wire Transfers Nov 17th
So this is well beyond the domain industry and bordering on disastrous if true. Let me be clear that I'm not a customer of Chase and have no independent verification if any of this is true and lets hope its not. The Drudge Report has a link to this report on its front page as well but has such widespread impact I figured it would be better if you were aware than unaware. Infowars.com is … [Read more...]
What Is The Matching .Com Domain Of Twitter’s Stock Symbol Worth: TWTR.com
Now that Twitter has selected to go public on the New York Stock Exchange and has picked the stock symbol TWTR to be traded under, the questions becomes what is the value of TWTR.com What was the value of the domain name before the announcement and what is the value now?? The domain is for sale on Sedo.com with a Make Offer The domain is going to a landing page and the first link of the … [Read more...]