Monthly Archives: May 2013

Tue 14th May 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Reports: Domain Revenue Down 14%; Domains For Sale Up Tp 16.6 M - Sedo Holding AG published its consolidated financial results for first three months 2013. Although total Revenue grew of 7.3% to EUR 36.9 million, “This growth was particularly driven by the Affiliate Marketing segment.” “The Domain Marketing segment was down 14.1% , to EUR 7.3 million compared with the previous year’s EUR 8.5 million of revenue.” “The Domain Marketing segment remained confronted by the challenges of a falling market and growing competition, by contrast, as well as new ... read more ...
 
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Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in SA - The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. Over the years, the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. Despite the support, the growth and sustainability of African ccTLDs and adoption of new technologies remains very low as compared ... read more ...
 
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Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in SA – Bizcommunity - The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. Over the years, the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. Despite the support, the growth and sustainability of African ccTLDs and adoption of new technologies remains very low as compared ... read more ...
 
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Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie - Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD’s has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Famous Four, Straat Investments which is associated with the .Co registry,  Donuts and Dish Network. Radix announced a month ago that it was joining forces with two other applicants for .Online, Tucows and NameCheap both of which have since withdrawn their ... read more ...
 
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Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie - Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD’s has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Famous Four, Straat Investments which is associated with the .Co registry,  Donuts and Dish Network. Radix announced a month ago that it was joining forces with two other applicants for .Online, Tucows and NameCheap both of which have since withdrawn their ... read more ...
 
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Now we know because Levi’s purebred track names as it inks understanding with 49ers’ stadium - Company registered domains for new stadium in April. Back in March Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball picked up on Levi Strauss’ plans to buy naming rights to a stadium. But which stadium? Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball couldn’t figure that out, but reader Page Howe did. Howe suggested that the San Francisco company would buy naming rights to the 49ers new stadium in Santa Clara, and recently the naming announcement was made. The crystal ball has been hard at ... read more ...
 
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Would we like some-more Domain Name Wire enlightening videos? - Are DNW videos valuable content? Last month I posted a handful of instructional videos to Domain Name Wire and YouTube: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint How to set up and use two-factor authentication at GoDaddy.com How to learn more about your buyer on Sedo How to use Watch My Domains Pro Spend just 60 seconds and never get a $60 offer on Sedo again Each of the videos got roughly 100-200 views on YouTube. So here’s my question to you: are these videos ... read more ...
 
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Responsive pattern is another blow to .mobi - Responsive web design is a much more efficient approach to mobile browsing than a separate domain name. I really liked the idea of .mobi before it was launched. It was the only “new” top level domain that made sense to me. The idea of creating a domain solely for mobile devices made a lot of sense because it served a function; it wasn’t just a label of the site’s content like many other top level domains. In many ways .mobi was prescient; mobile browsing was ... read more ...
Mon 13th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Nouvelle extension .paris : un aménagement numérique du territoire … - Le soir du vendredi 10 mai, la Ville de Paris annonçait via Twitter avoir obtenu l'extension de nom de domaine (ou TLD, Top Level Domain, domaine de premier niveau) .paris, relevait notre blogueur Pierre Col, qui s'interrogeait sur l'utilité de l'opération.Pour la présenter et la commenter, Jean-Louis Missika, adjoint au maire de Paris chargé de l'innovation, et Mathieu Weil, directeur général de l'Afnic, ont tenu ce lundi après-midi une conférence de presse.Sur le plan financier, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN at the Inflection Point: Implications and Effects Of the GAC Beijing … - Author's Foreword Although this article was first published just a few days ago, on May 8th, there have been several important intervening developments. First, on May 10th ICANN released a News Alert on "NGPC Progress on GAC Advice" that provides a timetable for how the New gTLD program Committee will deal with the GAC Communique.iii Of particular note is that, as the last action in an initial phase consisting of "actions for soliciting input from Applicants and from the Community', the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN announces .paris & .bzh among 6 French gTLDs coming this year - Last week the ICANN announced a suite of new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) which will usher in a new era of domain extensions – I’m still holding out for .rude, but it looks like that will be awhile. The domain extensions that have passed ICANN’s rigorous examination include .PARIS, whose application was submitted by the City of Paris, as well as .BZH, which was submitted in 2004 by the www.bzh association. The new gTLDs will likely change the way the web works, further fragmenting ... read more ...
 
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Nommage Internet : « .paris » et « .bhz » bien partis dans la course aux … - L’ICANN a validé les dossiers de candidatures pour l’émergence d’extensions gTLD « .bzh » et « .paris » dont la supervision technique est assurée par l’AFNIC (qui gère la zone « .fr »). Bientôt des noms de domaine en « . bzh » et « .paris » ? Dans le cadre des nouvelles extensions gTLD, l’ICANN a validé en fin de semaine dernière deux dossiers de candidatures pris en main par l’AFNIC en tant qu’opérateur technique de registre (17 projets gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Les nouveaux TLD arrivent dont .bzh et .paris – Réseaux - Inscrivez-vous Edition du 13/05/2013 - par AFP Relaxnew Une première vague d'autorisations de nouveaux suffixes Internet a été publiée. Les Bretons et les Parisiens font partie des premiers servis. Des sites en .paris et .bzh verront bientôt le jour, après l'autorisation donnée vendredi par l'Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), l'organisme chargé notamment de réglementer les noms de domaine internet, ont annoncé la ville de Paris et la région Bretagne, qui ... read more ...
 
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Icann: gevolgen custom-tld’s niet te voorspellen - Het is niet te voorspellen of de invoering van nieuwe top-level-domeinen zal leiden tot verwarring onder gebruikers, stelt de Icann, die de root-zone van het dns-systeem beheert. De invoering van nieuwe tld's krijgt veel kritiek."De Icann kan niet voorspellen welke gevolgen dit heeft voor gebruikers en de manier waarop zij het internet gebruiken", schrijft de organisatie in antwoord op vragen die het publiek in april stelde tijdens een sessie in Beijing.De Icann schrijft dat het programma is bedoeld ... read more ...
 
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Internet Expands with New Dots as .Melbourne Approved; Will You Sign-up for a … - <!--Like us on Facebook --> Google, Amazon and Microsoft submitted several entries out of the nearly 2,000 applications received by ICANN. Google applied for 101 new TLD strings. Amazon applied for 76 new dots, and Microsoft, 11. Users are likely to type kindle.amazon or android.google when trying to directly go to a particular web page in the near future. ICANN (Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers), the nonprofit organization overseeing the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN unsure if gTLDs will make the internet more confusing - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has released its responses to questions (PDF) raised at its recent April public hearing forum held in Beijing, China, including an admission that it does not know if generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) will make the internet easier to use or just more confusing. A member from the public had asked whether the new gTLD program would have the effect of making users completely reliant on search engines as a result of ... read more ...
 
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.melbourne domain gets ICANN approval - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has signed off on the creation of a new .melbourne top-level domain, with the new TLD passing ICANN's initial evaluation process.The decision means that URLs ending with .melbourne could be available as soon as next year. The initial evaluation period assesses the financial and technical ability of an applicant to operate a TLD.The .melbourne application scored 26 during the evaluation for technical capability, ... read more ...
 
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Angry Birds builder files the initial UDRP - Company goes after site selling Angry Birds merchandise. Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the wildly popular Angry Birds franchise, has filed its first ever domain dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The company is targeting the owner of AngryBirdSite.com and AngryBirdsmart.com. As of right now, AngryBirdSite.com resolves to a web site with an AngryBirdsMart logo that sells products emblazoned with Angry Birds designs. It ... read more ...
 
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Armani loses domain brawl for EA7.com - Respondent argued EA was short for Education Assistance. Fashion brand Giorgio Armani has lost a domain name dispute with a South Korean group over the domain name EA7.com. Armani sells a line of sports clothing under the EA7 name. It appears that the EA7 brand was around prior to the domain registrant acquiring the domain name in 2010. However, the domain owner argued that it registered the domain because it stands for its business name “Education Assistance”, ... read more ...
 
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While we were induction Boston Bombings domains, intelligent people were induction internet taxation domains - Current trends can make for good domain registrations. Just not all of them. I’m always baffled by the number of people that rush to register domains related to current (and horrific) events such as the Boston marathon bombings. First, it’s tasteless. Second, it’s not like they’re ever going to sell these domains, which presumably is their reason for registering them. Yet there are current events that make it worth registering domains… Soon U.S. online retailers ... read more ...
 
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HP (sort of) protects domains for new TwoSmiles.com site - Company buys 2Smiles.com domain, but leaves some other obvious ones unregistered. Earlier this month HP launched Two Smiles, a service that combines custom greeting cards with gift cards. In advance of the launch HP bought two key domain names for the venture: TwoSmiles.com, the actual web address for the service, and 2Smiles.com, a domain that likely receives visits from visitors who remember the site name as the digit 2 instead of ‘two’ written out. Based on ... read more ...
Sun 12th May 2013
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
.bzh ou .paris : à quoi servent ces nouveaux TLD et à qui rapportent … - Vendredi soir, l'ICANN a annoncé la création de nombreux Top Level Domains dont certains ont été attribués à des collectivités territoriales, par exemple « .paris » pour notre capitale et « .bzh » pour la Bretagne. Mais à quoi cela leur sert-il et à qui cela rapporte-t-il ? l'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), est une société à but non lucratif établie aux États-Unis. C'est une des autorités de régulation de l'Internet, pour lequel elle ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net - A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of  Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but could go as far back as 1999. The domain name is parked and not surprisingly goes to a page full of adult links as S M is well known as being an abbreviation for Sadomasochism, but actually stands according to Wikipedia.org, for a ton of topics outside of the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse has launched. Have you protected your … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...