Monthly Archives: May 2013

Sat 11th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016? - I would estimate between 300 to 400 million. Although new registrations may maintain the current growth levels, there will be lot of drops as well and no takers on the drop, as the SEO and parking sectors crumble further. Also, keep in view the machinations of certain big brothers to dismantle (or make irrelevant) the domain name system itself. Just yesterday, I was talking to a decently-enough published writer and asked him for his domain name. He didn’t ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016? - Yesterday we published a blog post about Pinky Brand’s prediction for how many domain names will be in existence by the end of 2016 Pinky’s prediction was 408.5 Million domain names in the zone files by the end of 2016 including 73.6 million from new gTLD’s Current there are 252 million domain names in existence including all the TLD’s and ccTLD’s but obviously the new gTLD’s are yet to launch. So the question we have for today is how many domain names will be in existence by the end ... read more ...
 
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Internet Governance and ICANN: Reflections from Beijing - The original version of this post appeared on the Association for Progressive Communications’ website. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) self-described role is: To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer — a name or a number. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination, we wouldn't have one global Internet. ... read more ...
 
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Panel Hands Over Stolen Domain GVP.com In UDRP To Global Village Publishing - Global Village Publishing, Inc. just won the rights to the three letter domain name gvp.com, in a one member panel UDRP decision, a domain which is owned for many years until their Godaddy account was hacked and the domain transferred. Here is what the Complainant had to say: Complainant has for many years owned the gvp.com domain name, and has continuously conducted business and advertised its services through that site. GLOBAL VILLAGE PUBLISHING and GVPI are famous trademarks associated with Complainant’s ... read more ...
 
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Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Office of Medical Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptruth.com and hivinnocenceprojecttruth.com by a one member National Arbitration Forum UDRP decision. The one member panel in finding RDNH said: “The Panel finds Complainant has engaged in reverse domain name hijacking because it was clear Respondent was legitimately ... read more ...
Fri 10th May 2013
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What New gTLD Applicants Need Is a Quick, Lightweight Answer to the World’s … - It's safe to say that with just a week to go before ICANN intended to sign the first contract for a new gTLD, the last thing anyone wanted was a 12-page document from the world's governments with 16 new "safeguards", six of which it wants to see applied to every new extension. But what the industry shouldn't overlook, especially in the face of the expected critical responses this week and next, is that the Governmental Advisory Committee's (GAC's) formal advice from the ICANN Beijing meeting ... read more ...
 
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A look at micro TLDs – Domain Name Wire - The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January.There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. What I find particularly interesting is looking at ... read more ...
 
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A look at micro TLDs – Domain Name Wire – Bayoubuzz.com - The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January.There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. What I find particularly interesting is looking at ... read more ...
 
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38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne - 38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo’s of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn)  .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon’s (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google’s (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and .Cpa Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for .Airforce. ICANN has now evaluated all applications with a priority number of 350 passing 301 of them.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People - Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: “”Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat abuse in their pending .sexy TLD. ” “The new eligibility requirements will restrict registration in .sexy to registrants who are actually sexy. ” “Upon applying to register for a .sexy domain, registrants will be required to affirmatively answer the certified ... read more ...
 
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Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s - Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD’s. For those that don’t know, Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is “today ranked in the top 30 off the roughly 268 existing TLDs worldwide with nearly 1.1 million active domains in the zone.” “So what kind of market share can we expect by the end of—say 2016—from the new gTLDs? What kind of monthly ‘net new create’ numbers are needed ... read more ...
 
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TLD Displays TaxiBot At Dubai Airport Show - Dubai, May 9 -- A reduction of fuel consumption by over 50 percent, along with the environment protection and boosting profitability of operations, have been on the wish list of airlines worldwide since a long time, but it will soon become a reality. Unveiling the revolutionary TaxiBOT Operational Towing Concept at the opening of the 13th Airport Show taking place in Dubai, Mr. Valentin Schmitt, Chief Executive Officer, TLD Europe, said TaxiBOT was a semi-robotic towbarless tractor designed for Dispatch ... read more ...
 
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Mali to follow in Tokelau’s footsteps - <![CDATA[ ]]> Please complete the form below to receive a free trial of WTR magazine and daily email updates. The personal details provided by you will be held on a database and may be shared with Globe Business Publishing Ltd's associated companies. The details provided will not be passed to any other company. Please view our Terms Conditions. ... read more ...
 
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Solicitud de extensión web “Amazon” genera rechazo de gobiernos amazónicos - Los gobiernos de Brasil y Perú hayan expresado su rechazo a que la compañía Amazon obtenga los derechos para el uso de la extensión web que lleva ese nombre ya que consideran que la concesión de la extensión .amazon a una empresa privada priva al conjunto de los pueblos de la Amazonía de su derecho a usar esa denominación. “Los dominios de internet deben respetar sensibilidades relacionadas al uso de términos con connotaciones geográficas, religiosas, culturales y nacionales”, ... read more ...
 
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An reason of Demand Media’s understanding with Donuts - SEC filing sheds (some) light on relationship for new top level domains. A lot of fuss has been made about the connection between Demand Media and Donuts and the new TLD program. What exactly is the relationship between the two companies? Demand Media’s latest 10-Q, filed today, explains the terms of the agreement: As part of its initiative to pursue the acquisition of gTLD operator rights, the Company has entered into a gTLD acquisition agreement (“gTLD Agreement”) ... read more ...
 
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WaterNight becomes central TRAFFIC party - Party moved back one night and becomes official sponsored event. The WaterNight event to take place in Las Vegas during this month’s TRAFFIC show is now the conference’s official Thursday night party. The event was going to be held on Wednesday night and open to everyone. The event was pushed back one evening and is now open to TRAFFIC attendees and non-domain industry supporters. TRAFFIC organizers are donating $50 for each conference goer to attend the event ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
A demeanour during micro TLDs - The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains.ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January. There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. What I find particularly ... read more ...
Thu 9th May 2013
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Amazon.com and South American countries clash over new internet proposal - Amazon.com and South American countries clash over new internet proposal Posted on May 9, 2013 By Wilton Vargas Technology Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock) Think about a natural resource of great importance. Grand Canyon? Central Park? How about the Everglades? Let’s go with that one. What would you think if, for example, a private company wanted to apply for the establishment of an internet address that instead of being ... read more ...
 
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İnternetin dev adımları - Verisign tarafından yayınlanan son Alan Adı Endüstrisi Özeti'ne göre; yılın son çeyreğinde altı milyondan fazla alan adı internete eklendi ve böylece 31 Aralık 2012 tarihi itibariyle toplam kayıtlı alan adı sayısı, dünya çapındaki tüm Üst Seviye Alan Adları (Top-Level Domains - TLDs) bazında 252 milyonu aştı. Küresel çaptaki 6,1 milyonluk alan adı artışı, 2012 yılının üçüncü çeyreğine kıyasla  yüzde 2,5'lik bir büyüme oranı anlamına geliyor ... read more ...
 
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Mashable Covers Startup Good.Co - Mashable.com published a nice feature story on Good.co last night as part of its Launchpad series. The site Good.co launched in Beta last month classifies job hunters and companies into different personality types based on a proprietary algorithm and provides a score that shows how well the two match up. The goal is to help job hunters better understand their own strengths and improve the odds that businesses, employees and teams will be well matched for one another, and thrive together as a result.” “Good.co ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Wants Out Of Its Bing Deal & Move To Google & Why That’s Bad News For Domainers - According several sources, Yahoo would like to get out of its deal with Microsoft and let Google Monetize their search results. Yahoo entered into a 10 year search deal in 2010 and uses Bing search engine to power search results on Yahoo sites. Microsoft just extended the revenue guarantee associated with the partnership, the second such extension since the 10-year pact took effect in 2010. Under the deal, Microsoft gets 12% of the revenue Yahoo generates from search ads that appear next to search ... read more ...
 
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Zynga Launches Its Newest Game “Running With Friends” Without The Domain - Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) newest game is Running With Friends. The domain name RunningwithFriends.com is owned by a charity out of Arizona. The domain is owned under privacy at Godaddy.com but forwards to UnitedFriendsSchool.org The United Friends School (UFS) “is a preschool through eighth grade coeducational, independent Quaker day school in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.  Established in 1983, UFS serves and buses students in the Upper Bucks and Lehigh Valley regions. UFS has a progressive, exciting ... read more ...
 
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İnternetin dev adımları - Verisign tarafından yayınlanan son Alan Adı Endüstrisi Özeti'ne göre; yılın son çeyreğinde altı milyondan fazla alan adı internete eklendi ve böylece 31 Aralık 2012 tarihi itibariyle toplam kayıtlı alan adı sayısı, dünya çapındaki tüm Üst Seviye Alan Adları (Top-Level Domains - TLDs) bazında 252 milyonu aştı.Küresel çaptaki 6,1 milyonluk alan adı artışı, 2012 yılının üçüncü çeyreğine kıyasla  yüzde 2,5'lik bir büyüme oranı anlamına geliyor ve ... read more ...
 
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ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Super Binoculars - May 9, 2013: The U.S. Army is spending $16 million to get a new hand-held, binocular-like device (TLDS or Target Location Designation System) that combines day/night digital viewer, with zoom and a laser range finder, and target designating laser. The TLDS takes several separate bits of equipment and combines them into one unit. In addition, a small computer is built in that takes care of identifying the user and passing target information onto artillery and air units. This makes it easy for ... read more ...
 
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Radix Registry Passes 4 New gTLD Initial Evaluations – Virtual - Radix Registry, the new TLD Company of Directi, has passed the initial evaluation stage on 4 of its TLD applications, .blog, .hotel, .online and .insurance. Duvai, United Arab Emirates, May 09, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Directi, a global leader in Internet products and Web services, under its new brand Radix had applied for 31 strings comprising several generic and mass market names. A month back, it was announced that Directi, Tucows and Namecheap will join forces to manage the .online registry, ... read more ...