Monthly Archives: May 2013

Mon 20th May 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Pam Anderson Official Site Drops & Is At Auction At NameJet.com; PamAnderson.com - The domain name of actress Pam Anderson official site  PamAnderson.com dropped todayand was picked up by one of the registrars that works with NameJet.com where it is currently at auction. According to Screenshots.com,   PamAnderson.com was updated in just this past January. The domain name was acquired by and owned by CMG Worldwide, Inc. in 2010, through a UDRP. CMG Worldwide according to its site “represents the intellectual property of celebratory individuals from then, now and forever” Well ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
TextAlerts.com On Sale At BuyDomains For $250 Sells Instead On Snap For $3,500 - The domain name TextAlerts.com was on sale at BuyDomains.com just a week ago with a buy it now price of $250. There were no takers. Instead the domain name which was owned by Domainbox Limited of the UK, when it was listed at Afternic.com/BuyDomains.com,  expired, dropped and went into a SnapNames.com auction where it sold on Friday for $3,505!!! In the drop auction there were 63 people who back ordered the domain, including myself and  there were 4 bidders willing to pay $1,000 or more for the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Onshore Web Hosting is a Hit Where?! - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Call it national pride, maybe, but South Koreans really love onshore web hosting, statistics from analytics firm Pingdom recently revealed. According to the report, the country domestically hosted 97% of its ccTLDs – aka the .KR domain suffix. That’s despite 42% of the world’s top websites relying on server hosting in the United States. Meanwhile, domestic hosting of ccTLDs was found to be popular elsewhere for other locations including ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo’s Great Domain Auction Ends Thursday; 345.com; mph.com, Telephones.com - Sedo.com Great Domain Auction for May ends this Thursday at Noon EST. As of time of publication, over 70 domain names in the auction have bids led by 345.com with a high bid of $25,000 (that is owned by the same company that publishes TheDomains) mph.com is the domain with the second highest bid at $24,999. Telephones.com is sitting at just $99 a long way from its reserve price but is a great domain. In all there are 6 LLL.com domain names, a two letter .tv and .nl domain and a really good .co.uk ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
TLD : .paris & .bzh, la ville Paris et la bretagne servies - Il y a plusieurs années déjà, de nombreuses mégalopoles à travers la planète se regroupaient pour peser plus lourd dans les négociations avec la célèbre société pour l’attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Just How Popular is Onshore Web Hosting? - May 20th, 2013 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – Just how popular is onshore web hosting compared to those who tend to outsource their needs overseas? A recent study from Pingdom gauged the area, finding that ccTLDs (country-specific domains) tend to be hosted out of the countries they’re actually registered ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Did Google Just Kill Off Selling SubDomains? - On Friday Matt Cutts announced that Google would soon be imposing a change in the search algorithm that would limit the number of search results coming from one domain. The news was broke by SearchEngineLand.com, which said it will make it less “likely to see results from the same domain name, if you already have been shown that domain name in previous results three or four times before”. “Matt explained that once you’ve seen a cluster of about four results from a specific domain name, the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Amazon May Not Get Its .Amazon Domain-Name Extension After All - Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and more than a dozen other retailers who applied for their own top-level domains (TLDs) were expecting to see them rolled out starting this year. But the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is running into more delays in approving the vanity domains, and some—including .amazon—look like they may not be available to retailers at all.The problem comes down to the fact that anyone can object to a TLD that has special significance ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The new generic top-level domains and the new Trademark Clearinghouse … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide.  It recently began accepting new applications for expanding the number of generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) on the Internet. The most popular gTLDs until now have included .com, .info, .org, and .net. With the approval of applications for new gTLDs will come an unlimited number of new opportunities on the Internet for entrepreneurs of all types, including trademark ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Verisign questions ICANN’s minute posting policies - Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But Verisign says ICANN hasn’t published three prior letters the company sent regarding the proposed new domain registry agreement. The company says it is aware of other ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
K.im domain name gets $20,000 bid during Sedo - One letter Isle of Man domain may sell for $20,000 at Sedo. The domain name K.im has a $20,000 offer at Sedo, and an “auction” for the domain name ends tomorrow. .IM is the country code top level domain for Isle of Man. According to DNSalePrice, a handful of .im domain names have sold over the years, with the top reported sale being Mobile.im for $7,000 back in 2008. If that’s the case, then this would be the largest public .im sale of all time. That assumes ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Every grill should get one of these websites - A mobile friendly website for restaurants that doesn’t have any of my pet peeves. On Friday I received a press release from GoDaddy about how its website builder had new functionality and specific templates for restaurants. It was Friday afternoon and I generally don’t care much about small business website builders. The combination of these two led me to click the “delete” button. But then I quickly hit “undo”. Wait? Did that say specialized websites ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Google protects WithGoogle.com third turn domains with second turn domains - Subdomains are great, but beware the typos. Want to calculate the “full value of mobile” for your business? Google has a microsite at FVM.withgoogle.com. It also protected itself by registering FVMwithgoogle.com.Have you ever come across a Google information page that’s a subdomain of WithGoogle.com? If you just go to Withgoogle.com you’ll be forwarded to Google.com. But type in certain third level domains, often referred to as subdomains, of WithGoogle.com ... read more ...
Sun 19th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Les Bretons à l’assaut d’Internet avec le TLD .bzh – Réseaux - Inscrivez-vous Edition du 20/05/2013 - par Bertrand LEMAIRE La validation du TLD .bzh par l'ICANN, le 10 mai 2013, ouvre la voie à des sites web estampillés bretons. Le 10 mai 2013, l'ICANN a validé plusieurs nouveaux TLD dont, pour la France, le .paris et le .bzh. L'association WWW.BZH, promotrice du projet de TLD soutenu par une pétition de 21 000 personnes, a présenté les prochaines étapes du lancement du TLD breton. La mise en oeuvre technique du TLD sera réalisée par l'AFNIC ... read more ...
Sat 18th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Minds + Machines: Neue Preise fürg TLD-Backend- Registrierungsdienste … - Singapur (ots/PRNewswire) – Minds + Machines, ein Tochterunternehmen im Vollbesitz der Top Level Domain Holdings , kündigte heute neue Preise für Backend-Registrierungsdienste für Top-Level-Domains an. Für einen Pauschalpreis von 100.000 US-Dollar jährlich bietet das Unternehmen unbegrenzte Registrierungen für neue TLDs über die Registrierungsplattform Espresso an. Für die meisten neuen TLDs wird keine Extragebühr pro Domainnamen ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
NFL’s ReggieBush.com Official Site’s Domain Name Drops - The domain name ReggieBush.com dropped today and was picked up by NameJet.com where it currently at auction. The domain name had 61 backorders placed on it, and as usual in the cases where famous entertainer or athletes domains drop, we do not report on it until the backorder time closes. The domain name was the official site of Reggie Bush according to Screenshots.com as recently as 2010. If you don’t know who Reggie Bush is he is a former Heisman Trophy winner, who later voluntarily forfeited ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
DotConnectAfrica Trust Responds to ICANN GAC Objection Advice on Its .Africa … - In its response to the ICANN Board, DCA Trust disagreed with the GAC Objection Advice. DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust), the contending applicant that submitted an independent bid for the .Africa new generic Top-Level Domain name, recently submitted another fulsome response to the ICANN Board of Directors to defend the GAC Objection Advice that was issued against its .Africa new gTLD application by the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) body within ICANN. It may be recalled that ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends” - According to Techcrunch,  Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gems With Friends™ and Games With Friends®, told the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks. CupidwithFriends.com gave the C D letter from Zynga to TechCrunch who published it as ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Donuts Commits 63 Strings to First gTLD Applicant Auction - Private Auction Among Applicants for New Generic Top-Level Domains Will Resolve Contention Between Competing Applications Bellevue, Wash. (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for participation in the auction, which will be held on June ... read more ...
Fri 17th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Donuts offers to participate in private auction for 63 new TLDs – Domain Name … - Largest new TLD applicant commits to resolve up to 63 new TLD contention sets through first private auction. Donuts, the company that applied for the most top level domain names, announced today that it will commit to private auctions for 63 of the 307 strings that it applied for in the first auction to be held by Applicant Auction .Private auctions allow new TLD applicants to settle contention sets faster than waiting for ICANN’s “auction of last resort”. They also allow the proceeds to be ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s” - On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced that it would push back the date of the rollout of as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes. It did so to address the numerous concerns raised by many organizations, including law enforcement agencies and its own Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s” - On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced that it would push back the date of the rollout of as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes. It did so to address the numerous concerns raised by many organizations, including law enforcement agencies and its own Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
MDFBNkFFRjQ1OUJBRThCNURFNUM6NzRjNTBhZmQ0ZDQ0ZTc3ZTM0YzE2YmRlODA2MGU0OTQ6Ojo6M2ZjNDZlMGQtNjVhNy00YTIzLTk4YzYtZTM1MmE3NGY3ODIyLnBuZw==_resized_x0_y0_h450_w600.jpg - May 17, 2013 by Michael Berkens Leave a Comment Filed Under: ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads - ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. Some of the highlights of those applications passing IE are Google’s applications for .Chrome, .Soy, .How, and .Ads; The British Broadcasting Corporation application for .BBC; Top Level Domain Holdings first new gTLD application that was not an IDN passed today with the passage of its application for .Blog. With these results ICANN has gone through new gTLD application with a prioritization number of 400 with a total ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The New Generic Top-Level Domains and the New Trademark Clearinghouse … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide.  It recently began accepting new applications for expanding the number of generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) on the Internet. The most popular gTLDs until now have included .com, .info, .org, and .net. With the approval of applications for new gTLDs will come an unlimited number of new opportunities on the Internet for entrepreneurs of all types, including trademark ... read more ...