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| 01.08.2025 | What Top Founders Know About Domains That Most Entrepreneurs Miss Top founders and VCs secure premium domains early to signal credibility, build trust and boost long-term brand equity and investor con... | As a founder who has invested $1 million in a domain, I can speak from experience: when a savvy founder or top-tier venture capitalist enters a boardroom, they're rarely focused first on hiring engineers or raising a round. Instead, they wa... |
| 30.01.2025 | D3 raises $25M to put internet domain names on the blockchain
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One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep,... | D3 Global, a startup working on a way to bring internet domain names onto the blockchain, said Wednesday it has raised $25 million in an early-stage financing led by venture capital firm Paradigm to make that vision a reality.
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| 22.12.2024 | Verisign получила патент на инструмент подбора доменных имён с помощью нейросети | Патентное и товарное ведомство США выдало Verisign патент под названием «Глубокая нейронная сеть для генерации доменных имен».
Патент выдан регистратуре общего домена верхнего уровня .com. Он описывает инструмент для подбора доступных для р... |
| 30.11.2024 | Verisign продлила контракт с ICANN на управление доменом .com на следующие 6 лет | Verisign объявила о продлении контракта с ICANN на эксплуатацию домена .com на следующие шесть лет. Контракт предусматривает повышение цены на домен на 7 % в последние четыре года продления контракта. Предыдущее повышение до $10,26 состояло... |
| 04.08.2024 | Цены на доменные имена .com вырастут с $9,59 до $10,26 с 1 сентября | Регистратор Verisign, управляющая реестром .com, повысит оптовые цены на доменные имена с $9,59 до $10,26 с 1 сентября.
Клиенты смогут продлить свои доменные имена на срок до 10 лет по сегодняшним ценам до конца августа.
Это уже четвёртый п... |
| 13.07.2024 | Google повышает цены на домены до 25% | Google резко повысит цены на домены из Google Registry. Их стоимость вырастет до 25%, а регистраторы могут зафиксировать нынешние цены на 10 лет, продлив домены до 1 августа.
Так, оптовая цена .page, .day, .boo и .rsvp увеличится с $8 до $1... |
| 02.07.2024 | НКО в США обвинили Verisign в монополии в регистрации доменов .com | Американский проект экономических свобод, Фонд образования Demand Progress и Revolving Door Project обратились в Национальное управление телекоммуникаций и информации (NTIA) и Министерство юстиции (DOJ) с призывом прекратить монополию Veris... |
| 18.04.2024 | Суд вернул доменные имена Nissan.com и Nissan.net наследникам выходца из Израиля | Суд штата Виргиния постановил вернуть доменные имена Nissan.com и Nissan.net наследникам выходца из Израиля Узи Ниссана. Истцы утверждали, что доменные имена похитили из аккаунта и переместили на другую учётную запись регистрации.
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| 27.02.2024 | Why the ENS Battle Over Eth.Link Matters | ENS Labs, the team behind the critical piece of wallet linking infrastructure Ethereum Name Service, has finally settled with its would-be challenger Manifold Finance over access to the all important eth.link domain name.
As part of the set... |
| 22.02.2024 | Новый фронт войны New York Times с чат-ботами: теперь за размытый бренд | Знаменитая американская газета продолжает свою вендетту против ChatGPT и генеративных нейросетей вообще. После январского иска о защите авторских прав с требованием уничтожить ChatGPT она нашла ещё одну линию атаки. Чатботы размывают торгов... |
| 12.02.2024 | Verisign объявила о повышении оптовых цен на домены в зоне .COM c 1 сентября 2024 года | Компания Verisign, управляющая общим доменом верхнего уровня .COM, объявила об очередном повышении цен на регистрацию имён в доменной зоне.
Оптовая цена регистрации доменного имени вырастет с $9,59 до $10,26. Указанные суммы не включают обя... |
| 20.09.2023 | The Salvation of Domain Ownership May Lie in Tokenization, and One Firm Is Pressing Hard to Make This a Reality | Domains, the gateway to the internet, have been a fairly lucrative source of money making for almost half a century. However, these digital assets have a big problem: their lack of liquidity, which is why one company is trying to tackle thi... |
| 25.05.2023 | HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah bought Chat.com for over $10 million and sold it for a profit 2 months later; to donate part of the profit to KhanAcademy | HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah made headlines back in March when he purchased the domain name chat.com for over $10 million. At the time, many called it a strategic move for the future after he acquired the domain Connect.com for ... |
| 08.02.2023 | Check out the bare-bones pitch deck that AI-powered text editor Macro used to raise $9.3 million from Andreessen Horowitz | Jacob Beckerman, founder and CEO of Macro. Macro This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Macro is a desktop app for editing documents using artificial intelligence.
It raised $9.3... |
| 01.07.2022 | This Week in European Tech: Entrepreneur First raises $158 million, GoCardless buys Nordigen, EU agrees on landmark crypto regulation, and more
What happened this week in European Tech? | This week, our research team tracked approximately 130 #EUtech funding deals totalling more than €2.2 billion, as well as a dozen mergers and acquisitions across Europe.
As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a list sent ... |
| 04.05.2022 | How To Establish And Protect Your Brand In The Move To Web 3.0 And The Metaverse | Tom Barrett is the president of Encirca, an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar. |
| 04.02.2022 | Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a bird.com domain name sale! MessageBird outbids micromobility company Bird | With more than $1 billion raised, Dutch cloud communications scale-up MessageBird can certainly afford to buy a domain name here and there.
But outbidding publicly-listed e-scooter and e-bike juggernaut Bird for the bird.com domain name? Th... |
| 04.10.2021 | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated] | Enlarge / Today's global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning.
Sean Gladwell via Getty Images / Jim Salter reader comments 665 ... |
| 04.10.2021 | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated] | Enlarge / Today's global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning.
Sean Gladwell via Getty Images / Jim Salter reader comments 667 ... |
| 08.07.2021 | The Rise of Clubhouse Boosted Our Business More Than 700 Percent -- Here's How We're Catching Lightning in a Bottle | July 8, 2021 7 min read
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What would you do if the next unicorn startup dropped a huge opportunity in your lap? It doesn’t happen very often, but it happened to us.
In the first h... |
| 20.11.2020 | Domains weekly: загадочная зона .SPA, выход вторичного доменного рынка из кризиса, объединение Donuts и Afilias | Представляем недельный обзор самого интересного, что произошло в доменной индустрии от REG.RU. В этом выпуске: нестандартный подход .FORUM к ценообразованию в период Sunrise, переход зоны .SPA в .XYZ, зона .TRUST нашла нового покупателя, а ... |
| 24.10.2020 | Is Google Helping End The Dominance Of .COM? | 23 January 2019, Berlin: The word ".com" is wiped away with a sponge on a blackboard written with ... [+] chalk. Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via Getty Images)picture allianc... |
| 30.07.2020 | Google Continues To Embrace “Not-Com” Domain Names, Promoting .new | Google continues to promote its .new domain name. Google |
| 12.01.2020 | Kim Dotcom’s K.im Domain Goes Up For Sale, Displays Google SEO Rant (Updated) | Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has announced the development of many projects since the destruction of his file-hosting platform in 2012.
With a stated aim of revolutionizing the file-sharing space, one of the most prominent was initially du... |
| 16.12.2019 | Controversial sale of .org domain manager faces review at ICANN | Enlarge reader comments 93 with 68 posters participating
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| 29.11.2019 | Planned .Org Registry Sale Puts The Pirate Bay at Risk | There are plenty of options for copyright holders to frustrate the operations of pirate sites, but one of the most effective is to attack their domain names.
In recent years, various entertainment industry groups have called on the domain n... |
| 26.11.2019 | The Sketchy, Sketchy Case Of ICANN Execs And Self-Dealing Regarding The .Org Domain | Earlier this month, within the domain name world, there were significant concerns raised upon the news that Internet Society (ISOC), the (perhaps formerly?) well-respected nonprofit that helps "provide leadership in Internet-related st... |
| 26.11.2019 | The Sketchy, Sketchy Case Of ICANN Execs And Self-Dealing Regarding The .Org Domain | Earlier this month, within the domain name world, there were significant concerns raised upon the news that Internet Society (ISOC), the (perhaps formerly?) well-respected nonprofit that helps “provide leadership in Internet-related standar... |
| 31.10.2019 | Facebook sues OnlineNIC for domain name fraud associated with malicious activity | Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield for registering domain names that pretend to be associated with Facebook, like www-facebook-login.com or facebook-ma... |
| 28.10.2019 | Verisign set to increase .com yearly registration fees, pending ICANN approval | Verisign, the organization that controls the .com TLD, indicated in a quarterly earnings call that “discussions with ICANN are nearly complete” on initiating price increases for yearly registration fees of .com domain names, as noted by DNW... |
| 16.08.2019 | Alibaba files patent for blockchain domain name management | Alibaba, a Chinese online retailer, has filed a patent for a blockchain domain name management system. The purpose of the system is to share information across multiple blockchains.
The system would generate a unified blockchain domain name... |
| 05.06.2018 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: GDPR and the Typhoid Marys of the Internet | GDPR has finally arrived, Maury Shenk reminds us, bringing both expected and unexpected consequences. Among the expected: New Schrems lawsuits for more money from the same old defendants; and the wasting away of the cybersecurity resource t... |
| 01.05.2018 | Google is launching .app domains, the first TLDs secured with built-in HTTPS | Over three years after Google paid $25 million to gain the exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level domain, the company is at last making .app domains available to register starting today and running through May 7, at 9 AM PDT via Google’s ... |
| 21.12.2017 | Amazon разрабатывает альтернативу YouTube? | Отдел новостей 21 декабря 2017, 13:26 Amazon разрабатывает альтернативу YouTube?
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| 20.12.2017 | Amazon filed for ‘AmazonTube’ trademark after Google pulled YouTube from the Echo Show | Google’s decision to block YouTube content was a real kick in the pants to Amazon as it got ready to launch its Echo Show device. After all, YouTube videos are the perfect content for the device and its smaller counterpart, the Echo Spot. T... |
| 20.12.2017 | Amazon is reportedly working on a YouTube service of its own | Google and Amazon are fighting a silly battle right now. Or it seems ridiculous to us, the consumers, who are affected the most. Amazon has been refusing to sell Google hardware, and Google has responded by blocking YouTube access on Amazon... |
| 22.09.2017 | Survey Says We're Getting the Worst Hangovers from Tequila | At this point, it's both anecdotally and empirically true that booze is at the root of many terrible decisions—a vast array of bad behavior spanning from sex to food to crime to tipping and beyond.
Now, we have a pretty detailed breakdown o... |
| 05.10.2016 | The silent evolution of domain names | Alan Dunn Contributor
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| 09.05.2016 | Icann set to terminate Naspers domains | - |
| 16.02.2016 | You can now buy a .cloud domain name | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The time has come. You can now have yourself a .c... |
| 16.02.2016 | You can now buy a .cloud domain name | The time has come. You can now have yourself a .cloud domain name.
You can’t get a .cloud domain name through the recently launched Google Domains site, but several other vendors already support the new top-level domain (TLD), including 1&a... |
| 03.07.2015 | Startup Sues A Domain Name Owner To Grab A 16-Year-Old URL | Jason Kneen is a programmer and happens to own about a hundred domain names picked up over a sixteen year period. One of those, workbetter.com, he purchased in 1999 and it has been available on his site for years. In late April 2014 a compa... |
| 14.04.2015 | Significant Marketing Efforts Still Needed For gTLDs | It appears that the both the domain name industry and businesses opting to use new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) may have a great deal of marketing to do to spread awareness about gTLDs. Most consumers are not familiar with the initiati... |
| 11.03.2015 | Brand.com has mysteriously disappeared | The Brand.com office was quiet.
Located toward the end of a narrow hallway on the seventh floor of the Curtis Center’s east wing, its big glass doors were locked. The lights were off. All that was left was a big white “B” cut out of a blue ... |
| 27.02.2015 | Google Pays Record $25M For The Rights To .App Web Domain | Fergal Gallagher, Tech Times 27 February 2015, 04:02 pm
Google regularly forks out millions of dollars to buy startups that it can envelop into its tech empire and now domain names are on the shopping list. The search company has paid $25 m... |
| 22.01.2014 | Domain registrar auto-enrolls customers into $1,850 security service (updated) | Thinkstock / Aurich Lawson reader comments 131 with 100 posters participating, including story author
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| 23.10.2013 | GoDaddy's Chief SOPA Supporter Now Running For Arizona Governor Highlighting Her 'Internet' Experience | As anyone who followed the SOPA fight remembers, GoDaddy was an early (and vocal) supporter of SOPA. This was mainly the work of its General Counsel, Christine Jones, who (prior to SOPA specifically being released) testified before Congress... |
| 02.10.2013 | GoDaddy Buys Ronin, Makes Inroads Into Accounting Services For Small Businesses | Another week, another acquisition for GoDaddy. The domain registration and hosting company announced today that it has bought Ronin, a company that specializes in online invoicing services to help businesses bill customers and keep track of... |
| 19.09.2013 | GoDaddy Buys Afternic To Beef Up Its Domain Registry Marketplace | GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales — that is, reselling domain names that are already owned. Afternic was owned by NameMedia, and GoDaddy says it i... |
| 29.07.2013 | JustFab Sues Fab Over Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition And More. Fab Says It Will “Aggressively Defend Our Brand” | JustFab, the shoes and apparel e-commerce site that has raised $109 million, is taking to the courts to make sure that no one steps on its feet as it expands beyond its home market of the U.S. The company has filed a lawsuit against Fab.com... |
| 24.05.2013 | Ron Paul Doesn't Win RonPaul.com And Is Guilty Of Reverse Domain Hijacking | We found it odd back in February to see Ron Paul try to use the domain dispute process to take over RonPaul.com, a domain that was held by some of his biggest supporters. The folks who had the domain had even offered Paul the RonPaul.org do... |
| 16.04.2013 | Quick-Thinking Netizen Builds Simple Site To Stop A Boston Marathon “Conspiracy Theory Kook” | Conspiracy theorists have a habit of revealing the darkest side of the Internet when they snatch up important website names after national tragedies. Slate‘s Dave Weigel highlights one quick-thinking Californian who wasn’t about to see cons... |
| 29.03.2013 | Verisign blasts ICANN for rushed generic top-level domain name rollout | reader comments 37 with 30 posters participating, including story author
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| 30.11.2012 | Flash Deals Site NoMoreRack Raises $12M, Hits 5.8M Members | Back in July, we caught up with New York-based startup NoMoreRack, a flash sales site that, unlike some of the most popular players in the space, isn’t relying on luxury products or fashion to drive traffic. Instead, the young startup offer... |
| 28.09.2012 | GoDaddy Receives Patent On 'Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website' | Another day, another crazy patent. DomainNameWire has the story that GoDaddy has successfully received a patent on “Announcing a domain name registration on a social website.” The patent, 8,276,057, was filed back in September of 2009. Take... |
| 18.05.2012 | BitTorrent Inc Takes Legal Action Against Download Scammers | Ever since the early days of peer-to-peer file-sharing clients, unscrupulous companies have tried to trade on the naivety of Internet users just beginning to engage with the P2P world.
For more than a decade the mode of operation employed b... |
| 29.04.2012 | Achievement Unlocked: Apple Wins Applecom.com And Appleprinters.com After WIPO Complaint | Apple doesn’t own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or the names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com — two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple m... |
| 30.03.2012 | Netflix Sharpens Focus On DVDs With DVD.com, But Don’t Cry Qwikster. (It’s Staying) | Netflix has been making a few moves to separate its DVD business more from its streaming operation, and today brings news of the latest move in that direction: the company has bought the domain name DVD.com, the company has confirmed to us.... |
| 02.03.2012 | Typo Squatter About to Get $24K or More for ‘Tubmlr.com’ | What, you haven’t heard of the hip media blogging service Tubmlr (pronounced “tub-em-ler”) which caters to middle-aged singles looking for mail-order brides?
Currently, Tubmlr.com serves up a wonderful collection of spammy Google ads such a... |
| 06.01.2012 | Next On Amazon’s Road To World Domination? Casa.com For Home Decor | The rights to Casa.com (Spanish for ‘house’) have been transferred to Amazon, indicating the ecommerce giant’s next dedicated vertical shop may be a home decor site. Amazon’s Quidsi network of sites already runs diapers.com for baby goods, ... |
| 13.12.2011 | Company Claims Its Software Can Magically Identify 'Rogue Sites' | A company called RogueFinder is claiming that it has automated the process for finding rogue sites: |
| 25.10.2011 | RIM hit with trademark lawsuit over BBX, name of next BlackBerry OS | reader comments 51 with 43 posters participating
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| 12.10.2011 | Google’s Fruitless Attempts To Secure Goggle.com | Last August, Google filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum to finally get a hold of the domains names goggle.com, goggle.net and goggle.org (don’t visit these). Yesterday, the organization dismissed its claims.
That doesn’t m... |
| 28.09.2011 | Amazon Tacitly Confirms The “Kindle Fire” On Their Website | It won’t be long now before Amazon kicks off their big press conference, where the much-awaited Kindle tablet is rumored to make its first public appearance. We’ve learned recently that Amazon will be calling it the Kindle Fire, and the com... |
| 22.06.2011 | Social.com Reportedly Sold For $2.6 Million. Who's The Buyer? | This was the topic du jour on some domain name industry blogs yesterday, but I haven’t seen much coverage beyond that. According to DN Journal, a contract for the sale of the domain name Social.com has been signed by both the seller (an ind... |
| 08.06.2011 | Salesforce.com Pays Over $1.5 Million for Data.com Domain Name | Salesforce.com is the new owner of the data.com domain name. Domain Name Newswire cited a press release from domain name auctioneer Moniker stating that Salesforce.com purchased the domain name “for an amount that significantly exceeds the ... |
| 03.06.2011 | Microsoft Wants To "App Your Sites" | Earlier this week, Microsoft registered a bunch of domain names, including AppYourSites.com, AppYourSites.net, AppYourSites.info and more of the same with different extensions (including some country TLDs). If you open any of the URLs in yo... |
| 10.05.2011 | IP Lobbyists Want To Require Domain Censorship Capabilities Included In .net | Via Boing Boing comes the news that the Intellectual Property Constituency has added a clause to the proposal to renew VeriSign’s management of the .net TLD that would require VeriSign to censor domains using a totally untested “rapid suspe... |
| 11.04.2011 | Copyright Fight Over GoDaddy CEO Shooting An Elephant? | You may have heard all of the hubbub about GoDaddy’s CEO Bob Parsons killing an elephant and putting the video online. Honestly, given the timing (right before April 1st), I had wondered if the whole thing wasn’t an April Fools joke. Parson... |
| 06.04.2011 | Parade Of Strawmen Dominate House Hearing About Online Infringement | We’ve already mentioned how the House’s Hearing on: “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites” turned into something of a bitchfest at Google for not waving a magic wand and stopping infringement. H... |
| 24.03.2011 | Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, That Is) | By now, everyone and their dog have been able to form and voice their opinions about the $41 million in early-stage funding raised by mobile photo sharing app developer Color.
Of course, it is a heck of a lot of money, put in ahead of the a... |
| 20.03.2011 | Adult Websites Will Soon Get Their Own .XXX Brothels, But Not All Are Excited | This is a guest post from Andrew Allemann, author of Domain Name Wire, a blog covering the business and policy of domain names. He has been active in the domain name industry as a buyer, seller, and consultant for over ten years.
A new .xxx... |
| 10.02.2011 | Online Security Company Comodo Acquires DNS.com | Internet security company Comodo has purchased DNS.com, an aptly named provider of hosted Domain Name System (DNS) services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
DNS.com no doubt benefited greatly from that three-letter domain name ... |
| 19.01.2011 | The USPTO Is Reviewing Facebook's Trademark For 'Facebook.' Wait, What? | So Facebook has been a bit aggressive with their trademarks in the past, most recently filing to trademark the word “Face.” The social network has also gone after companies that have “book” in their name. But the tables may have turned on F... |
| 04.01.2011 | So You Just Bought Sex.com For $13 Million – Now What? | Sex.com. It’s a domain name with quite a history – heck, it was rocky enough for a book to be written solely about it. I’ll spare you that story and let you discover it on your own, though.
TechCrunch had an exclusive interview with the guy... |
| 29.12.2010 | BofA Tries To Foreclose On Home Despite Not A Single Missed Payment | Perhaps rather than worrying so much about Wikileaks, or buying up hundreds of domain names involving various combinations of their top executives along with “sucks” or “blows,” Bank of America should get its actual banking house in order. ... |
| 23.12.2010 | Bank of America Vainly Tries To Head Off WikiLeaks at the URL Pass | WikiLeaks has officially confirmed that its next target is a major U.S. bank. Apparently the documents are none too flattering to executives. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview with the Times of London, "We don't wan... |
| 22.12.2010 | Is This How Bank of America Is Preparing For the Next WikiLeaks Release? | Prior to his arrest, WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange hinted that the next batch of documents released would not be secret government information, but rather would implicate a major American bank. Assange has never confirmed which bank... |
| 05.12.2010 | Twitter Goes After Twittersearch.com | Twitter late last week filed a UDRP complaint, notably its first ever since the company was founded, in an effort to obtain ownership over the (currently parked) domain name twittersearch.com – as you can see here.
Obviously, Twitter is rig... |
| 03.12.2010 | Wikileaks Now Fighting Its DNS Provider. Some Coincidence, No? | Another day, another bit of Wikileaks. It seems The Guardian slightly misunderstood the way the Internet works in claiming that Wikileaks had its domain name revoked by its hosts. Not quite. What seems to have happened is that its DNS serve... |
| 15.11.2010 | Facebook Acquired FB.com From The American Farm Bureau To Use Internally | It looks like Facebook did in fact acquire FB.com, according to CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. At the company’s messaging event today, he announced that Facebook bought FB.com from The American Farm Bureau. That organization points to FB.... |
| 15.11.2010 | Mystery solved: FB.com is Facebook’s new corporate email address | When news broke on Friday that Facebook has purchased the FB.com Web domain from the American Farm Bureau and is using it “internally“, most of the writers at VentureBeat were scratching our heads. Was this related to the upcoming announcem... |
| 12.11.2010 | Yep, Facebook Takes Control Of Fb.com Ahead Of Mail Launch | Project Titan is coming. On Monday. That’s what we’ve heard from sources with knowledge of Facebook’s secret mail project. And since we broke that news, there has been a lot of speculation about what domain Facebook might use for these new ... |
| 14.10.2010 | Entrepreneur Magazine Claiming It Owns The Word Entrepreneur? | A writer/speaker who set up a website at entrepreneurology.com apparently received a cease and desist letter from Entrepreneur Magazine, who is also opposing his attempt to trademark the term. Nice of Entrepreneur Magazine to be so supporti... |
| 28.09.2010 | TechCrunch sells to AOL (price: $25M) | The popular indie tech blog gets absorbed into AOL's expanding Web empire
As of today, TechCrunch can no longer claim establishment-flouting indie blog status. AOL announced Tuesday morning that it has agreed to acquire TechCrunch. The term... |
| 03.09.2010 | A Merger Made In High Heaven: US Cannabis To Buy WeedMaps | Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson fame may be too chicken to invest in WeedMaps (think Yelp for pot), but that isn’t stopping other companies from sniffing around the startup, looking to score.
In fact, a company called LC LUXURIES LIMI... |
| 09.07.2010 | Court denies VeriSign on .com domain dispute | VeriSign is one step closer to losing a big court case that will affect the future of dot-com domain prices.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied VeriSign’s motion for a rehearing of its case with Coalition for ICANN Transparency, wh... |
| 01.07.2010 | Bada Bing: Sex.com And Two Related Trademarks Up For Sale At Sedo | Sex.com, considered to be one of the world’s most valuable domain names for obvious reasons, is up for sale at domain broker Sedo along with two related USPTO trademark registrations.
Sedo has entered an exclusive agreement with Sex.com own... |
| 15.06.2010 | Roundup: Twitter breaks down, Kevin Costner wants to clean up the oil spill and more | Here’s the latest action:
Twitter goes down — In the wake of rolling out its new Twitter Places geolocation feature, and in the midst of World Cup excitement, the micro-blogging site went down for several hours. Visitors were either greeted... |
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| 14.06.2010 | Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr | As one of the most popular social sites on the planet, Flickr is also undoubtedly one of the most popular misspelled domains. Pronounced “Flicker,” Flickr decided to be all Web 2.0-cutesy with its name back in the day. That’s fine, except w... |
| 10.06.2010 | B52 Media, Bookmarks.com Buy Single Letter Domain E.CO For $81,000 | Moments ago, a rare single letter domain name was auctioned off live over the Internet. The domain name is E.CO, and it was sold through Sedo for $81,000, as reported by several industry blogs.
All proceeds from the first .CO domain auction... |
| 01.06.2010 | BodogBrand Bought Slots.com For About $5.8 Million, Intends To License It | BodogBrand, a venture capital and licensing organization with its head office in the Caribbeans, is the entity that successfully bid for the Slots.com domain name, the company revealed this morning.
We had earlier reported that the domain n... |
| 13.05.2010 | Slots.com Changes Hands For $5.5 Million | Big domain name sales are something we’ve reported on before, and this one belongs in the list of biggest ones ever: Slots.com has just been sold for $5.5 million, industry blog Domain Name Wire has been able to confirm.
Think about it: tha... |
| 26.03.2010 | Congress On China: Google Gets A Big Wet Kiss. Microsoft Is "Enabling Tyranny" | This is why I have a strong dislike of government and our system of lobbyists. Many people in the tech community are becoming increasingly skeptical of Google’s motives in partially pulling out of the Chinese markets and starting to suggest... |
| 14.02.2010 | Sponsor Post: Meet The New Top Level Domain: .Co | Editor’s note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write ‘Sponsor Posts’ and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope ... |
| 26.01.2010 | VC Roundup: Philly is home to 2 of the most active VC firms in U.S., DreamIt open for applications | Welcome to the VC Round-up, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to p... |
| 31.08.2009 | Call.com Rings Up $1.1 Million | We just wrote about the dominance of number of .com domains and we’ve also reported that .com domain registrations were starting to turn around again after a poor 2008. Today, another .com domain passed the million dollar mark, with Call.co... |
| 19.08.2009 | AOL Thinks It Owns All Advertising Domains | AOL, rather than fixating on building business and staying relevant post Time-Warner, is suing search and display platform provider Advertise.com for trademark infringement and unfair competition. Furthermore, the company is also partly res... |
| 10.08.2009 | OMG Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap | Yahoo has been active in the domain buying and selling space the past few months. Today, it was revealed to be the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last week for $80,000, according to Domain Name Wire.
It’s a great domain, and a really, really ... |
