Monthly Archives: April 2013

Wed 3rd April 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The .Domain Change Is Weeks Away; How Marketers Should Prepare - custom_html We are just weeks away from a new internet era, when there will be a 6,000% expansion of website domains available for internet users. While this level of growth sounds exciting, it may hold more threat than promise for marketers. Over the past year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted applications from companies seeking brand-centric generic top-level domains, such as .netflix or .microsoft, as well as more broad-reaching gTLDs ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Clearinghouse and the new gTLDs - The new Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) expansion program developed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) includes a Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), which was set to go into effect beginning March 26, 2013. The TMCH will serve as a central registry of nationally or regionally registered trademarks, court-validated marks, and marks protected by statute or treaty. As a repository, the TMCH functions (1) to authenticate contact information and verify mark ownership rights; ... read more ...
 
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NameJet and Afternic Selected to Launch New Top Level Domain .BUILD – Virtual - Plan Bee LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .BUILD, has selected NameJet, the leading domain name auction platform, and Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, to operate its sunrise and landrush auctions, and to offer premium name distribution for the .BUILD top level domain (TLD). Working together, NameJet and Afternic will provide .BUILD with a complete solution for the technical and ... read more ...
 
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Marchex May Hit The Domain Lottery As Apple Considers The iRing -       (iRing concept from 2007 by Yanko Design.) According to Appleinsider.com, Apply is considering a product called the iRing. “The iRing will act as a “navigation pointer” for the television, and will allow the TV set to enhance motion detection and replace some of the functionality found in a remote.” According to the report “Apple’s rumored smart watch accessory tying in to the “iTV” ecosystem and complementing the “iRing.” Together, he believes an “iWatch” and an ... read more ...
 
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VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space … - VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD,  Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Push Digital. “As Africa continues to come online, it is likely to follow the trends seen in the early 90s in the developed world. ” “A quick look at Sedo and it seems that some enterprising entrepreneurs who have already bought and listed sex.co.za ... read more ...
 
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VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space, The ccTLD For South Africa - VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD,  Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Push Digital. “As Africa continues to come online, it is likely to follow the trends seen in the early 90s in the developed world. ” “A quick look at Sedo and it seems that some enterprising entrepreneurs who have already bought and listed sex.co.za on Sedo, ... read more ...
 
 
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Las pymes desconocen los nuevos dominios de Internet - Flash Pymes y Emprendedores Seleccion eE Tecnología Internet Flash Emprendedores Emprendedores-Pymes Enlaces relacionados 275.000 euros por el dominio hoteles.es Enviar por e-mail Suscribirse al boletín Imprimir Aumentar texto Reducir texto Haga doble click sobre una palabra para ver su signifcado Sudoku: Juega cada día a uno nuevo El tiempo: Consulta la previsión para tu ciudad EcoTablet - ¡Gratis en App Store! La plataforma más completa de información ... read more ...
 
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Las pymes desconocen los nuevos dominios de Internet - Flash Pymes y Emprendedores Seleccion eE Tecnología Internet Flash Emprendedores Emprendedores-Pymes Enlaces relacionados 275.000 euros por el dominio hoteles.es Enviar por e-mail Suscribirse al boletín Imprimir Aumentar texto Reducir texto Haga doble click sobre una palabra para ver su signifcado Sudoku: Juega cada día a uno nuevo El tiempo: Consulta la previsión para tu ciudad EcoTablet - ¡Gratis en App Store! La plataforma más completa de información ... read more ...
 
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ICANN top level domain launch risks Net says Verisign - The delegation of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is premature and could cause risks to the security and stability of the Domain Name System (DNS) and affect the working of the whole Internet, Verisign has warned. As ICANN pushes for an April 23 launch of the first new gTLDs, Verisign has raised concerns in a report outlining new gTLD security and stability issues, sent to ICANN and filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ... read more ...
 
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Los nuevos dominios (.app, .music o .google), "ese gran desconocido" para las … - MADRID, 3 (Portaltic/EP) Un estudio realizado en Estados Unidos ha revelado la falta de conocimiento y la gran confusión que existe entre las pequeñas y mediantas empresas hacia los nuevos dominios genéricos de nivel superior (gTLD) de Internet, que permiten terminar una web con .music, .cine o .google. De hecho, la gran mayoría de los encuestados (un 94%) ha asegurado que no planean comprar un nuevo dominio de esta clase. Un gTLD (Generic Top Level domain) es un sufijo al final ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Names Back-up Registry Operators for New gTLDs – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. According to ICANN, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, Inc. and Nominet were selected to guarantee domain names within a new gTLD continue to resolve in the event of a failure by a new TLD operator. Emergency back-end registry operators are activated ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP on WebAnywhere.com - A UDRP has just been filed against Marchex Sales, LLC  on the domain name WebAnywhere.com The domain name has been owned by Marchex since at least 2008. There is a trademark filed with the USPTO in February 2010 for the term Webanywhere by a Delaware company by the name of WebAnywhere, Inc. which was granted in Feburary 2011 for “website design for others, namely, educational institutions and business entities; providing computer programming services for others, namely, educational institutions ... read more ...
 
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4 More New gTLD’s Withdrawn: L’Oréal, American Heart Association & .Buy - 4 more new gTLD’s applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L’Oréal with prioritization number of 72. This is an interesing one as it was expected to be in intital Evaluation with this Friday’s ICANN release and therefore the applicant elected to take the 70% refund just days before that amount dropped to 35%. .Stroke filed by the American Heart Association, ... read more ...
 
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4 More New gTLD’s Withdrawn: L’Oréal, American Heart Association & .Buy - 4 more new gTLD’s applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L’Oréal with prioritization number of 72. This is an interesing one as it was expected to be in intital Evaluation with this Friday’s ICANN release and therefore the applicant elected to take the 70% refund just days before that amount dropped to 35%. .Stroke filed by the American Heart Association, ... read more ...
 
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dot Brand or dot What? Consumers unaware of new Top-Level Domains … - DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afilias Limited, a global provider of domain registry services, today announced the results of research on consumer attitudes towards the hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) that will launch beginning in 2013. The results? At this moment, the major online initiative where companies like Google, Microsoft, Nike and Amazon will create and use their own “dot Brand” domains to promote their websites has fallen ... read more ...
 
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ICANN buscará proteger marcas frente al aumento de nuevos dominios - La Corporación de Internet para la Asignación de Nombres y Números (ICANN, por su sigla en inglés) inició el pasado 26 de marzo un procedimiento con el que buscará resguardar las marcas y la propiedad intelectual de cara a numerosa gestación de nuevos dominios de nivel alto genéricos (gTLD) que aparecerán en los próximos meses. Los gTLD se refieren a las terminaciones de las direcciones web como .com, .name, .net, .org y .info, entre otras, los cuales son regulados por ... read more ...
 
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34 intelligent finish user domain buys - 34 companies add to their online presence with aftermarket domain purchases. Afternic had a better-than-usual sales week last week with close to $1.5 million in sales. Here are 34 end user domain sales I found on its list. American Association of Young People was back to buy YoungPeople.org for $2,488. AV India in Delhi bought AVIndia.com for $1,800. Financial Marketing Solutions, which use the dismal domain name FMS4Banks.com, bought “its name” FinancialMarketingSolutions.com ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 contingency review domain articles from March - Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month. March saw the first batch of new TLD objections, a warning from Verisign, and a high profile company found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. 1. United States Postal Services just wasted your money objecting to .mail top level domain – apparently the USPS believes it has some legal right to the term “mail”. 2. New expired domain rules go into effect in August – a new Expired Registration ... read more ...
 
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The Verisign raise on effect - Last week Verisign dropped a bomb on ICANN by releasing a report that said that ICANN was not yet ready for the rollout of new top level domains. Critics have suggested that Verisign has financial motives for slowing out the rollout of new TLDs, and they’re likely correct. Regardless of what Verisign’s motives are, and even regardless of the merit of its concerns, the report causes significant damage to ICANN. Call it the “pile on” effect. Because Verisign ... read more ...
 
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What domains DropBox and 15 other companies bought final week - Dropbox buys an India ccTLD and other end user domain sales. Sedo sold 704 domains for over $1.25 million last week. I’ve identified 16 of the publicly reported sales as end user sale. There are certainly more, but these are the ones that stood out to me. Webbs Garden Centres bought webbs.co.uk for 995 GBP. It now forwards to WebbsDirect.co.uk. pair Networks, Inc., a frequent aftermarket domain buyer, bought PairMail.com for $800. Jackpot Gaming Limited in London ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By WaitTime.com For $20K - Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 3/25/13 – 3/31/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,483,223. The highest sale was a domain owned by us, WaitTime.com, that sold for $20,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were gfa.com referencebank.com, each separate transactions at $15K. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Announces $460K in Sales In March - Namejet.com just announced its published sales for March totaling  $460,000 <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Over $1.25MM In Domains Led By elend.com for $140K - Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending April 1st, 2013. In all over $1.25MM domains were sold. The top seller was elend.com at $140,000 followed by schokolade.de for 63,000 EUR. In all, 704 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Qatar Telecom and etisalat clear first hurdle - Home Telecoms IT News Article Apr 01 2013 more articles from Monday, Apr 01, 2013Dubai: Etisalat and Qatar Telecom have passed the initial stages of a procedure to get its own top-level domains (TLDs) as part of a revolutionary shake-up in way people search the internet. TLDs are the letters after the final dot of a domain name and the approval could pave the way for etisalat to use ‘etisalat’ in Arabic letters as its domain extension and Qatar ... read more ...