The recent acquisition of domain escrow newcomers, Agreed.com, by industry giant Escrow.com generated an interesting situation. When two escrow companies “collide”, who will manage the transaction in an expert, unbiased, and trust-worthy manner? Enter EscrowHill.com, the company formed by industry veteran, Andee Hill. Known for its environmental protection affiliation, EscrowHill managed the Escrow.com & Agreed.com [...] Continue reading →

After the botched burglary at the Watergate Apartments, every scam and scandal that hit the headlines became a 'gate' — Irangate, Contragate, you name it. The Heartbleed bug is possibly the closest thing to Watergate that this generation of computer security had seen till the past few days — an exploit in a [...] Continue reading →

China is a technological giant and a rapidly developing economy; the country is changing at unprecedented rates, unknown to most western economies. Facing this extreme financial growth, the Chinese have acquired a lethal attraction to consumerism and luxury. The ability to spend creates the desire to want and seek goods, services and digital assets, including [...] Continue reading →

A geo and an open .brand top level domain name launch this week. It’s a slow week again for new top level domain names, and that will be the case going forward for awhile. On Tuesday, the geo domain .bayern (Bavaria) launches. On Wednesday, Donuts releases .deals in general availability. .City will enter the [...] Continue reading →

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Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil, just was awarded the generic domain names banco24horas.com and banco24horas.net Banco is Spanish for the word Bank and of course, “24 horas” translated from spanish is “24 hours” so the domains transferred we’re “24 hour bank” in .com and .net Marchex Sales Inc. which was represented by John [...] Continue reading →

Some people only blog about their successes, but I have always set out to explain the ups and downs of on-line business life. So today, I am sad to say that the 7-figure disintegrated on a technicality – the two main parties involved in the contract just couldn’t agree terms and so decided to walk [...] Continue reading →