According to a report on ESPN this afternoon, the Alliance of American Football (AAF) filed a petition for bankruptcy in Texas. The AAF was a professional football league in the US that played its games during the NFL’s off-season. Unfortunately for its players and fans, the AAF did not make it a full season before [...] Continue reading →

Tax time is always a stressful time. It takes quite a bit of time and energy getting paperwork prepared for the accountant, and of course there are financial considerations as well. Our tax returns and estimates have been filed, and it feels good to get that out of the way! I am sure some of [...] Continue reading →

A Chinese Agri-tech company called XAG announced that it acquired the XA.com domain name and has rebranded its website. From what I can tell, the company had previously used the ccTLD domain name, XAG.cn. The news was announced this morning in a tweet: We are excited to announce that XAG has claimed a new domain [...] Continue reading →

Clarivate Analytics, the company that operates MarkMonitor, posted a job opportunity for a ccTLD Specialist. The job appears to be based out of the company’s Meridian, Idaho office. This job might be of interest to a reader looking to find a corporate job in the domain name space. Here’s what the job entails, according to [...] Continue reading →

If you watched the Masters golf tournament over the past several days, you may have noticed Phil Mickelson sporting a KPMG hat. Viewers who decided to check out KPMG.com would notice something that a few domain investors emailed me about during the prior few days. KPMG, one of the largest management consulting and accounting firms, [...] Continue reading →

A UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) against the Micro.Center domain name. The complainant in the UDRP is Micro Electronics, Inc., the company that operates on the MicroCenter.com domain name. The UDRP decision was published this morning, and the complainant won. The domain name will be transferred to the complainant unless the [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday morning, Kevin Murphy from Domain Incite predicted that Constantine Roussos’ company (DotMusic) would prevail in the application to operate the .Music domain registry. “it seems to me the balance of evidence right now is strongly pointing to a win for DotMusic over sole remaining rival bidder MMX,” Kevin wrote yesterday. It looks like Kevin’s [...] Continue reading →