Monthly Archives: June 2013

Thu 13th June 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
DotHealth, LLC Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation for the .HEALTH New Top … - Ridgewood, NJ (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Reaching a critical milestone in the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) approval process, the DotHealth, LLC (“DotHealth”) application to operate the .HEALTH new top level domain registry has passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) initial evaluation. DotHealth plans to enable a safer online namespace for global health and which also enhances ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Q1 Results: Revenue Up 26% - Web.com Group, Inc. released its Q1 results for 2013. Revenue was up 26% year-over-year to $115.5 million. Web.com is the company that owns two top ten domain registrars – Network Solutions and Register.com. Operating loss was $2.5MM from $18.5MM in last year’s Q1. Net loss from continuing operations was $46.5MM compared to $29.8MM in 2012. Web.com’s Chairman CEO, David Brown, said: “Web.com delivered a strong performance to start 2013, with first quarter revenue and profitability exceeding ... read more ...
 
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New Dots® Domain Pre-Registration Watchlist Service Launched - NewDots.net, New domain registration superportal has launched the New Dots® Watchlist, a pre- registration service for new top level domain extensions. Provo, UT (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Later this year hundreds of new domain extensions will be introduced that can be used as viable website name addresses on the world wide web through the ICANN New gTLD Program. Until now, generic web address endings have been limited to scant few including 'com', 'net', 'org' and some others. In ... read more ...
 
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Poll on New TLDs Shows Value of Brand Loyalty, Willingness to Try New … - Internet users are willing to navigate to, use, and trust new web addresses that will be flooding the Internet later this year, and brand name websites will carry more weight with Internet users than generic sites. These are among the results of a public opinion survey commissioned by FairWinds Partners, a consultancy that specializes in domain name strategy. The poll also found that the owners and operators of these new addresses should be technically prepared or risk driving away or losing ... read more ...
 
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International – Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues - As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs and continue to default to ‘.com’ when searching for goods, services and information? Or will the reality be somewhere in the middle, with ‘.brands’ ... read more ...
 
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So, Your gTLD was Approved – What Now? - The world is just waking up to the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been accepting applications for new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, since 2012 and that hundreds of these gTLDs have already been approved through Initial Evaluation, with more being approved every week. It is expected that the new extensions will begin appearing online in the second half of 2013, and over 1,000 new extensions will likely be added to the Internet by 2014. But ... read more ...
 
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STRAAT/.Co Registry Buys 16,000 Sq Ft Building In Miami For HQ - According to Florida Trend a popular business publication in the State of Florida, CO Internet’s parent company, STRAAT Investments, purchased a 16,000-sq.-ft. building in Miami’s Brickell area to house its growing headquarters which is named Building.Co It expects to move in by the end of this year and will devote part of the building to space for entrepreneurs. STRAAT also applied for 13 new gTLD applications, recently dropping one application for .Book to work with another one of the applicants. Congrats ... read more ...
 
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Domini registrati nel mondo: quale estensione è la più richiesta? - DomainTools ha riportato sulle pagine del proprio blog un interessante rapporto sul numero di domini registrati, suddivisi per singolo TLD. Come ci si poteva facilmente aspettare, l'estensione .COM risulta in prima posizione per numero di domini ad essa associati, con oltre 107 milioni di registrazioni, ognuna ... read more ...
 
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Predicting gTLD take-up: survey provides clues - As gTLDs move ever closer to launch, the one unknowable for applicants and non-applicants alike is the likely uptake in terms of internet user behaviour. Once live, will non-applicants rue their decision to not apply as they watch internet users migrate to ‘.brands’? Will consumers prove sceptical of the introduction of hundreds of new TLDs and continue to default to ‘.com’ when searching for goods, services and information? Or will the reality be somewhere in the middle, with ‘.brands’ ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Loses 2 More Private Auctions As .Red Becomes 1st New gTLD To Be Withdrawn After IE - According to the ICANN website tonight Donuts has withdrawn two more applications as a result of the private auctions held last week Donuts withdrew both its new gTLD applications for .Red and .Luxury Donuts application for .Red was filed under Steel Keep, LLC had a prioritization number of 332 and had already passed ICANN Initial Evaluation, meaning that Donuts application for .Red is the first to be withdrawn after passing IE and is eligible for only a 35% refund of its application fee. Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Donuts explains auction formula to date - Andrew you have done a great job of reporting on the new TLDs and private auction status. As you have reported, apparently revealing open auction details has been important to some of the participants in the last round of auctions. However, complete confidentiality and privacy is also as or more important to the majority of the applicants in contention sets yet to commit to an auction provider. So far we have heard a lot of open details about this first auction set – such as total ... read more ...
 
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Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000 - Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer. I was right. The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 and Kim Dotcom is now the owner listed in whois. The domain is registered at Instra, which is one of his key partners for the new Mega. With a name like Kim Dotcom, you’d think he’d be a .com only kind of guy. He does, ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers domains to frustrate botnets - Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited with over a half billion dollars in financial fraud. The action aims to thwart Citadel malware, which installs keyloggers on users’ machines. The malware and crime ring had over 1,000 botnets. Although Microsoft’s press release about its actions against Citadel doesn’t mention domains, an attachment to the lawsuit ... read more ...
 
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.Co is not only for tech startups - A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just tech companies that have taken an eye to the domain. On the way to work yesterday I passed a lawn company truck with the domain name Mow.co on the back. I reached out to Cutting Edge Lawn Care to ask about the domain, and they sent me a picture of one of their trailers with the Mow.co web address on it. Jerry Tindel, business ... read more ...
Wed 12th June 2013
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Google Issues Recommendations For Sites To Rank On Smartphone Search - According to a post on Google published their recommendations and the most common configuration mistakes for websites looking to engage smartphone users and benefit from mobile search results “Avoiding these mistakes helps your smartphone users engage with your site fully and helps searchers find what they’re looking for faster.” To improve the search experience for smartphone users and address their pain points, we plan to roll out several ranking changes in the near future that address sites ... read more ...
 
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Another Nicecar.com? UDRP Filed On GoodTherapy.com - A UDRP has just been filed on another descriptive generic domain name GoodTherapy.com It’s the type of domain name that reminds me of the NiceCar.com UDRP a descriptive two word domain that is used together in a very generic sense in normal language. The domain name is parked and is currently returning results for rehab centers and doctors. The domain name has been under privacy since at least 2007 until privacy was lifted in November 2012 only to be  recently placed back under privacy in March ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Update: Initial Evaluation and First Private Auctions - Highlights All TLDH applications reviewed to date by ICANN's evaluation panels have passed; Company confident all 88 applications should pass; .london on course for delegation and launch from early 2014; and TLDH to compete in all relevant private auctions. The directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to report that all of the gTLD applications submitted by TLDH on behalf of itself and its clients which have been reviewed to date by ICANN's seven evaluation panels ... read more ...
 
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Comme la France avant elle, la Belgique nationalise la gestion du .be - Vu l'importance du ccTLD pour l'économie nationale, la Belgique crée un cadre juridique qui lui permet de reprendre la main sur la gestion du .be. Une entité privée est chargée de gérer le domaine .be conformément à la loi et sous la supervision de l'autorité de régulation des télécoms. C'est une première dans un pays habitué depuis 20 ans à une gestion privée du domaine national. Pourquoi, dans un pays habitué à une gestion purement ... read more ...
 
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TOP LEVEL DOMAIN HLDG LTD : ICANN update: Initial evaluation and first … – 4 - ICANN update: Initial evaluation and first private auctions June 11, 2013 Highlights All TLDH applications reviewed to date by ICANN's evaluation panels have passed; Company confident all 88 applications should pass; .london on course for delegation and launch from early 2014; and TLDH to compete in all relevant private auctions. ... read more ...
 
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Company systematic to compensate $5,000 after retreat domain name hijacking charge - Panel believe complainant was trying to use arbitration as a “short cut” to acquire domain. Domain name attorney Zak Muscovitch has helped the owner of ClevelandCyclewerks.ca save his domain name in a cybersquatting arbitration case. Not only that, but the arbitration panel found the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacking and ordered it to pay $5,000. .ca disputes are subject to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Domain Name Dispute Resolution ... read more ...
 
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Yu have one engaging UDRP… - The case for Yu.com was much more complicated than it should have been. All the facts of the UDRP for Yu.com point to an slam dunk, open-and-shut victory for the respondent. Yet getting to that determination – a win for the respondent – was apparently anything but simple. Michael has opined a bit on the case, and I’m going to share my analysis. First, let’s discuss how this was a dead-on-arrival case. The complainant, Two Way NV/SA, stated that it had plans ... read more ...
 
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Marchex releases some-more sum about Archeo spinoff - SEC filing details plans for spin-off of domain business. Later this year, Marchex hopes to spin off its pay-per-click and domain name business into a new publicly traded business called Archeo. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker ACHX. It released more information about Archeo in a June 7 SEC filing. On the domain name side of the business, Archeo will work to sell domains from its portfolio of 200,000+ domains, “opportunistically” acquire new domains, ... read more ...
 
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Wanna lawsuit? WannaDo battles WannaDo in court, claims cybersquatting - App creator sues event ticketing site over Wannado name and domain name. Two businesses offer relatively similar services at a about the same time and use the same name: WannaDo. One secures the best domain name for the service. Wanna bet that results in a lawsuit? Yep. Wannado, Inc. has sued The Active Network, Inc over its use of the Wannado name and Wannado.com. The plaintiff is a Tennessee corporation that offers an app on the iTunes store. The Wannado app provides ... read more ...
Tue 11th June 2013
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‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain - ‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain Details WhaTech Channel: Domain Names Published: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 23:51 Submitted by Jonathan Dolby Press Release from: Famous Four Media Read: 8 times Stakeholders in the Health Industry Invited to Advise on Internet Best Practices 11 June 2013 –Dot Health Limited, ... read more ...
 
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YU.Com Saved In One Of The Strangest & Longest UDRP Rulings Of All Time - We finally have a decision on the UDRP for the domain YU.com, as the majority of a three member UDRP panel rejected the claim of the Two Way NV/SA of Waregem, Belgium. We already know the UDRP Panel took what maybe the longest time to ever decide a URDP,  nearly six months since it was filed. Actually its one of the few things the panel may have agreed on as the decision starts off with this wording: “The decision has taken too long”. In what is certainly one of the strangest UDRP decisions ... read more ...