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Tech News and Views

Uber May Have Deceived Authorities in Areas Where the Service is Not Allowed Uber had (may still have) a program called Greyball that disqualified law enforcement from hailing an Uber to avoid prosecution in places that it wasn’t allowed. The … Continue reading

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Domain News and Views

Verisign Releases Domain Name Industry Brief 2016 ended with just under 330M domain name registrations across all top level domains (TLDs). That’s about a 2.3 million name increase over the previous quarter. Domains grew at a rate of 6.8 percent … Continue reading

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Strong New gTLD Growth Rates – Infographic

The Domain Name Association (DNA) released an infographic today illustrating the rapid growth rates of new generic Top Level Domain names. The chart depicts year over year growth of total domains, country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), .com and .net, and … Continue reading

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Aftermarket Domain Sales As High as $90M – Infographic

A UK based hosting company, Nimbus Hosting, has released an interesting infographic graphing out the 500 most expensive domain names and broken it out into industry sectors such as travel, sports, and finance. They reported the most expensive domain ever … Continue reading

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