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Pinterest Wins Control PinSex.com With 49 Million Visitors Based On Common Law TM of “Pin”
Pinterest, Inc. just won control over two domain names PinSex.com and PinGay.com which are active sites driving a huge numbers of members and traffic based off a finding that Pinterest had common law rights to the word “pin” The disputed ...
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Pinterest Wins Control PinSex.com With 49 Million Visitors Based On Common Law TM of “Pin”
Pinterest, Inc. just won control over two domain names PinSex.com and PinGay.com which are active sites driving a huge numbers of members and traffic based off a finding that Pinterest had common law rights to the word “pin” The disputed ...
Discussion
September 1, 2014, 7:39 pm

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NameCheap Finds & Issues Urgent Security Warning That May Affect All Internet Users
In a post on its corporate blog, NameCheap.com, announced it found an attack overnight and blocked over 30,000 IP’s that were attempting to gather the “username and password data gathered from third party sites, likely the data iden...
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NameCheap Finds & Issues Urgent Security Warning That May Affect All Internet Users
In a post on its corporate blog, NameCheap.com, announced it found an attack overnight and blocked over 30,000 IP’s that were attempting to gather the “username and password data gathered from third party sites, likely the data iden...
Discussion
September 1, 2014, 5:57 pm

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1st Asset Backed Crypto Currency: Sync Coin Secured By Domains Trading At Same Price As Bitcoin
Sync coin is the first asset-backed, profit-sharing currency and the asset the currency is back by is domain names. According to a press release, Sync Foundation and SyncFund.com co-founder, Mike Fiol, who has been in the domain industr...
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1st Asset Backed Crypto Currency: Sync Coin Secured By Domains Trading At Same Price As Bitcoin
Sync coin is the first asset-backed, profit-sharing currency and the asset the currency is back by is domain names. According to a press release, Sync Foundation and SyncFund.com co-founder, Mike Fiol, who has been in the domain industr...
Discussion
September 1, 2014, 3:57 pm

The Domains
Sedo Numeric Auction Starts Wednesday 49 extensions represented
On Wednesday Sedo will start its numeric auction of 265 domain names that run the gamut of super quality to wait what ? There will be 49 different extensions represented including .mobi, .enterprises and .name. Here is the list of extensions: asia be...
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Sedo Numeric Auction Starts Wednesday 49 extensions represented
On Wednesday Sedo will start its numeric auction of 265 domain names that run the gamut of super quality to wait what ? There will be 49 different extensions represented including .mobi, .enterprises and .name. Here is the list of extensions: asia be...
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September 1, 2014, 9:40 am

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So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ?
Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and t...
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So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ?
Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and t...
Discussion
August 31, 2014, 11:34 pm

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It’s David Vs Goliaths For Control of .Music
Harley Brown wrote an article for Billboard.com about the upcoming battle for .music. The indies vs Google and Amazon. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its support for the music industry to control .music. A2IM...
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It’s David Vs Goliaths For Control of .Music
Harley Brown wrote an article for Billboard.com about the upcoming battle for .music. The indies vs Google and Amazon. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its support for the music industry to control .music. A2IM...
Discussion
August 31, 2014, 8:42 am

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Where Do You See The Value of Numeric.com Domains Going ?
Our latest poll takes a look at Numeric.com values. Numerics have continued to be one of the strongest categories for domain investors, fetching excellent prices and also being a very liquid category within the space. Top 5 reported to DN Journal in ...
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Where Do You See The Value of Numeric.com Domains Going ?
Our latest poll takes a look at Numeric.com values. Numerics have continued to be one of the strongest categories for domain investors, fetching excellent prices and also being a very liquid category within the space. Top 5 reported to DN Journal in ...
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August 30, 2014, 7:13 pm

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.Bio Generates $250K in Revenue In Its First Week
Starting Dot Ltd. the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, , put out a press release today announcing that over 4,100 .BIO domain names have been registered at the end of the first week generating ov...
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.Bio Generates $250K in Revenue In Its First Week
Starting Dot Ltd. the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, , put out a press release today announcing that over 4,100 .BIO domain names have been registered at the end of the first week generating ov...
Discussion
August 30, 2014, 2:26 pm

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Bitcoin Could Become Legal Tender in Australia According To Official
Australian official suggests making Bitcoin legal tender in Australia. In a talk earlier in the week Chris Jordan, the Australian tax commissioner said some would like to see Bitcoin as legal tender. Currently Bitcoin does not meet the definition und...
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Bitcoin Could Become Legal Tender in Australia According To Official
Australian official suggests making Bitcoin legal tender in Australia. In a talk earlier in the week Chris Jordan, the Australian tax commissioner said some would like to see Bitcoin as legal tender. Currently Bitcoin does not meet the definition und...
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August 29, 2014, 6:46 pm

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Breaking; HitFarm.com Closing Up On October 1st
HitFarm.com is closing up its operations effective October 1, 2014 Here is an email we just received: “We regret to inform you that Hitfarm will no longer be in service effectively from October 1st, 2014.” “Accordingly, you will nee...
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Breaking; HitFarm.com Closing Up On October 1st
HitFarm.com is closing up its operations effective October 1, 2014 Here is an email we just received: “We regret to inform you that Hitfarm will no longer be in service effectively from October 1st, 2014.” “Accordingly, you will nee...
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August 29, 2014, 2:12 pm