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Almost a year passed since graphics card giant, Nvidia, settled a class action lawsuit against its GTX 970 product. The company reached an agreement with the class late last year, and the judge awarded damages to the class. Distribution of the settlement checks started this month, and for each Nvidia GTX 970 purchase that was […]
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Health information portal, WebMD, has agreed to a sale of its assets, valued at $2.8 billion dollars. Private equity firm, KRR, will be paying a 20.% premium on the WebMD stock price. The sale will take WebMD, which had an IPO in 2005, to the next operational level, as it manages 75 million monthly users. […]
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Malware activity monitor, SpamHaus, tracks the number of bad domains spewing out spam, for every TLD. It then calculates a “badness ratio,” based on the number of registered domains among the domains seen, and it ranks the TLDs, creating “The World’s Most Abused TLD” list. Last time we checked was in May, and dot .Science […]
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Neustar is sharing a mid-year review of dot .brands, gTLDs owned by corporations to promote their products and services. According to the report: “[…] there’s also been a greater than 23 percent increase in the number of .brands with more than 20 domain names registered – showing that there is growth at the upper end […]
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China’s “Nasdaq” index is a small-caps share gauge, and just about to become cheaper than the Nasdaq Composite Index, for the first time. After raising $21 billion dollars from share sales between 2014 – 2016, the 100 ChiNext members posted a combined profit of “only” $17 billion dollars. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, that […]
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The domain KZRA.com has been stolen from its rightful owner, Christian Calvin, founder of Plenty Of Brands. The aged four letter .com domain was moved unlawfully, away from GoDaddy to NameSilo. The Indian thief is using the email address domain9058235@gmail.com which is also matched to the domain Teenhub.com; we’d assume the latter is stolen as […]
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The poll results are in, and most domain investors whose corporate sponsors include NameJet, fully trust it as a domain auction venue. Out of 244 blogs and other content publishers in the domain and entertainment industry, NameJet advertises at 101; of that number, 95% believes NameJet is doing a great job with transparency and reliability. […]
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This story is not about NameJet, and won’t mention NameJet beyond this point. Sundays are great days for introspection, particularly by finger-pointing domainers with plenty of time on their hands. Popcorn-popping discussion threads often attract tinfoil hatters and kooks alike; whether there is a real fire or not, such events soon become eruptions of volcanic […]
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Rick Schwartz raised an interesting point about who is fit to sell his premium domains, and active brokering is not what he’s after. Responding to a tweet about commissions on a potential brokerage sale, the Domain King responded: “No. A middle man isnt out there selling. He has CONNECTIONS!! He puts worlds together. He does […]
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A group of teenagers who did not assist a domain investor fixated with Chinese domain “Chips” has been arrested. Police reports indicate that the five teenagers repeatedly failed to save a man who bid on GoDaddy auctions, for “Chinese premium letter” LLLL .com domains, taunting him instead. The man lost a fortune bidding, and eventually […]
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