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Google Decides To Reverse Ban of Sexually Explicit Material on Blogger
Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step...
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Google Decides To Reverse Ban of Sexually Explicit Material on Blogger
Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step...
Discussion
February 27, 2015, 7:34 pm

The Domains
LeatherCrown.it, Holder of Italian Trademark Awarded LeatherCrown.com In UDRP Based On Links On Parked Page
Oscar Studio di Cavallin Oscar of Veneto, Italy, which owns an Italian Trademark on the term “leather crown” just won a UDRP on matching .com LeatherCrown.com which was owned by Rob Monster of Epik who registered the domain na...
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LeatherCrown.it, Holder of Italian Trademark Awarded LeatherCrown.com In UDRP Based On Links On Parked Page
Oscar Studio di Cavallin Oscar of Veneto, Italy, which owns an Italian Trademark on the term “leather crown” just won a UDRP on matching .com LeatherCrown.com which was owned by Rob Monster of Epik who registered the domain na...
Discussion
February 27, 2015, 3:24 pm

The Domains
Meet The Man Who Just Received 100,000 Shares in Jet.com
CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is an two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin...
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Meet The Man Who Just Received 100,000 Shares in Jet.com
CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is an two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin...
Discussion
February 27, 2015, 11:35 am

The Domains
Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play
According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and...
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Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play
According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 9:54 pm

The Domains
Jennifer Wolfe Joins the DomainDiction.com Board
According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDicti...
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Jennifer Wolfe Joins the DomainDiction.com Board
According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDicti...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 9:27 pm

The Domains
Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million
The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. The previously high price paid ...
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million
The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. The previously high price paid ...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 5:51 pm

The Domains
16 Year Old Domain Alessandro.com Saved In UDRP Owned By A Guy Named Alessandro
Alessandro International GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany, just lost its bid to grab the domain name Alessandro.com from a guy named Alessandro In this case Alessandro Gualandi. The one member panel of Pablo A. Palazzi however refused to find reverse...
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16 Year Old Domain Alessandro.com Saved In UDRP Owned By A Guy Named Alessandro
Alessandro International GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany, just lost its bid to grab the domain name Alessandro.com from a guy named Alessandro In this case Alessandro Gualandi. The one member panel of Pablo A. Palazzi however refused to find reverse...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 3:47 pm

The Domains
Melbourne IT Acquires Uber Global For Over $12 Million: Australian Cloud Services Co & Domain Registrar
Melbourne IT agreed to acquire the third largest Australian based cloud services provider Uber Global for $15.5 million AU (approximately $12.2 million USD) which also owns a ICANN Accredited domain name registrar. The deal, is expected to be complet...
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Melbourne IT Acquires Uber Global For Over $12 Million: Australian Cloud Services Co & Domain Registrar
Melbourne IT agreed to acquire the third largest Australian based cloud services provider Uber Global for $15.5 million AU (approximately $12.2 million USD) which also owns a ICANN Accredited domain name registrar. The deal, is expected to be complet...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 2:47 pm

The Domains
Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD’s Top 4.5 Million Registrations
.Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost f...
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Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD’s Top 4.5 Million Registrations
.Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost f...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 2:31 pm

The Domains
.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here’s Why & What It Means
.APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are...
Discussion
.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here’s Why & What It Means
.APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 1:38 pm