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After analyzing 3101 newly funded start-ups that raised a combined 11.2+ billion dollars in funding during 2015, I’m back with a Q1 report for the new year which is based on 1085 newly funded startups who raised a whopping 5.1 billion dollars in funding during the first 3 months of 2016...

The Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) website moved today from mindsandmachines.com to www.mmx.co. Minds + Machines announced today that it has reached an agreement for Nominet to take over the technical back-end registry functions for up to 28 top level domains within the Group’s...

With more than 900 million monthly active users already and millions of new ones signing up each day, Facebook’s messaging app is on its way to surpassing the popular social network regarding popularity. With today’s launch of M.Me Messenger Links, Facebook’s popular communication tool just...

.ME reached 1 million milestone under management. Yes, we have over a million domains in the registry. Yay! But, at the same time, some new domain extensions have already reached that magic number. So we thought, “Hmmm…Maybe a million domains is not really showing who we are. We are much more...

Company that uses a confusing .me domain name wants a better .me. The owner of ApproveMe.me has lost a cybersquatting complaint if filed against the owner of Approve.me. A single-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that Approve.me has legitimate rights and interests in...

Company returns to Austin for sixth year. The .Co registry, now part of Neustar, is returning to Austin for its sixth straight appearance during SXSW. It all kicks off with the .CO official SXSW happy hour this Friday night at The Backspace from 5-7. .Co-ers are also invited to the Tech.CO...

Mike has sold his portfolio to Go Daddy (except for new gtlds and adult names). There was a report on Ename.cn that an investor Sheng Wang has purchased the domain in the high six figure CNY range. 1 CNY = .1533 USD so if high six figures is 700,000 for example then the name cleared $100,000. Of...

The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains. .Me is the country code or ccTLD for Montenegro. According to the Ministry for the Information Society and Telecommunications, the total number of registered domains...

The latest progress report from the .eu registry, EURid, is out and is showing that during Q4 2015, the number of .eu registrations increased by 7 937 domain names, a net increase of 0.2%, to 3.87 million. During the last quarter of 2015, the total number of .eu registrations increased in 25 of...