Monthly Archives: June 2013

Tue 11th June 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.1M In Domains Led By thecompany.com For $37.5K -

Afternic.com only expelled a domain sales for a week 6/3/13 – 6/9/13.

Total domain sales, including trusted purchases and sales underneath $1,000 summed to $1,103,800.

The top sale was thecompany.com that sole for $37,500, followed by melvyn.com for $26,000.

Here is a full list of reportable sales:

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN
Sedo.com Sells $1.3M In Domains Led By littlefox.com For $45K -

Sedo.com only expelled their domain exchange for a week 06/03/13 – 06/09/13 totalling $1.3M.

The top labelled transaction was littlefox.com during $45,000 followed by girl.me for $30,000.

In all, 746  exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS.

Just underneath under 43% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Below is a whole list of publicly reportable sales in their particular currencies:

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain - 11 June 2013 – Dot Health Limited, the Gibraltar-based organisation seeking to operate a new .Health top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the creation of a Governance Council that will allow the world health community to provide input on the .Health TLD. The Governance Council will be called upon to monitor, advise, and recommend best practices for the .Health gTLD. The announcement comes during the application process for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs). Nearly two thousand ... read more ...
 
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‘Governance Council’ Announced for .Health Top-Level Domain - 11 June 2013 – Dot Health Limited, the Gibraltar-based organisation seeking to operate a new .Health top-level domain (gTLD), today announced the creation of a Governance Council that will allow the world health community to provide input on the .Health TLD. The Governance Council will be called upon to monitor, advise, and recommend best practices for the .Health gTLD. The announcement comes during the application process for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs). Nearly two thousand ... read more ...
 
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Brand owners should consider registering with the Trademark Clearinghouse - The generic top-level domain (gTLD) initiative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is well under way. This initiative will soon unleash hundreds of new domain name extensions on the Internet, including .tech, .music, .app, .news and many more. Brand owners should consider registering their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse, which is collecting information to be used for sunrise periods and the trademark claims service. These programs aim to help brand owners ... read more ...
 
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Insane in the do-main: the new gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse - ICANN (the entity that essentially controls the worldwide domain name system) is in the final stages of processing approximately 1,900 applications for new gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains – like ".com") many of which are expected to come online in 2013. Some of these applications are private brands, like .ford and .audi, while some generic gTLDs will likely only be used only by the owner – e.g. Safeway and Walmart have both applied to own .grocery. Many are also non-english names, and/or in ... read more ...
 
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.Africa domain battle win for SA - The ZA Central Registry’s (ZACR‘s) bid to administer the .africa generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) received a major boost after a competing bid by DotConnectAfrica was rejected. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) objected to the application from DotConnectAfrica, and the New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) invited the bidder to withdraw. ZACR’s bid to manage the .africa gTLD was always seen as the frontrunner, especially after it was has selected by the African Union as ... read more ...
 
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How Can It Take Over 6 Months For A UDRP Decision? YU.com Is Still Pending - Last month we asked how could it take over 5 months for a  UDRP decision. We were talking about the UDRP case for the highly valuable  two letter domain name YU.com. The UDRP was on December 11, 2012 with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Today is June 11th 2013 and there has not been a decision in this case. We wrote about the UDRP when it was filed back in December noting that it seemed like an attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) situation. The domain name is still ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
86 polite liberties organisation and internet companies launch StopWatching.US in arise of NSA revelations - Group chooses .us domain name to launch campaign against government surveillance. 86 civil liberties organizations and internet companies today launched a campaign to demand congress to act in light of recent National Security Administration spying program revelations. The coalition decided to launch its campaign on the web on a .us domain, StopWatching.us. Although .us can have catchy uses like .me domain names, I don’t see them often used this way. StopWatching.us ... read more ...
 
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Registrar might remove accreditation for unwell to yield send authorisation code - PacNames didn’t provide AuthInfo code within 5 days, according to breach notice. ICANN is threatening to cancel accreditation of New Zealand domain name registrar PacNames Ltd for the registrar’s failure to provide a domain transfer out code. In a breach notice dated June 10 (pdf), ICANN says PacNames has repeatedly failed to provide copies of written communications between the registrar and the registrant of AnimeInfo.net. It appears that the domain registrant ... read more ...
 
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How to fast arrange by crappy domains on domain name forums - New site extracts domain listings from forums. Back in the good ole days, domain sales threads on domain forums were full of great domains and big transactions got done. Business still gets done on domain forums, but you have to weed through a lot of crap to find anything worthwhile. Enter dnDigger, a site that collates domain listings from forums and lets you quickly sort through them: It’s an automated system, and it’s not perfect. A number of the domains currently ... read more ...
 
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Domain attention heads to Austin for HostingCon - Ten Eleven Twelve domain name companies are exhibiting at HostingCon 2013, and many of them will be pitching new TLDs. Next week a number of domain name companies are headed to Austin for HostinCon. Whereas in previous years most of the companies were reseller registrars and the like, there’s a bit of a shift this year as new top level domains creep toward reality. Exhibit A: Minds + Machines, a pureplay top level domain applicant, has a booth. Web hosting companies ... read more ...
Mon 10th June 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Feds Seize 10 More Domain Names - Homeland Security seized 10 domain names today, however did not make any announcement yet about if it was part of an investigation. Many of the domain seemed to be registered back in June of last year and are coming up for renewal, and its uncertain whether the domains would have just dropped in a  few days. By tomorrow all of these domains should have the familiar this domain has been seized sticker on the sites. Today all of the domains do not resolve. None of these domains seem related to the ... read more ...
 
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Donald Trump’s Miss Universe Wins Rights To The Domain MissUniversCanada.com - Miss Universe L.P., LLLP which is owned by Donald Trump just won the rights to the domain name MissUniversCanada.com, in a one member UDRP decision. “These proceedings are between two parties who organize what are referred to as beauty pageants where female participants compete to be judged on their appearance. “The Complainant or its predecessors in title have for many years organized what is known as the “Miss Universe” beauty pageant which involves competitors from over eighty countries ... read more ...
 
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Anticipating the threat from domain name squatters – the Trademark … - The new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program, which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is due to launch in the second half of 2013, has been created to increase competition and choice in the domain name space. It will allow domain names to be registered which do not relate to a specific geographic location or country (e.g. .com.au), but to specific keywords (e.g. .music) or even specific brands (e.g. .amazon). The expansion of the domain name space means that trade ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
If You Like XXX.com You Love The Dropping Domain: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com - Can get enough XXX in your life? Well there is a 13 year old domain name dropping today: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com Yes its the letter X 50 times over with a .com on the end. If you wondering, the .com domain name with 49 X’s is also registered as is the .com domain name with 51 X’s,  so you will risk some brand confusion if you pick this one up. In case your wondering, 50X.com is registered which would actually be a good pickup for them. Anyway if you like XXX this ... read more ...
 
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Don’t Dial A Phone Number Dial A Domain Instead - Dialing a phone number is so 1950′s. Not you don’t have to dial a phone number you can just dial a domain thanks to an app named Siter. Siter is a new concept, you make a phone call, but instead of dialing phone numbers you dial a domain or an e-mail address. Of course as the website owner you have to download the free App and put the phone number you want your site associated with first but I did it today and it was a very quick any easy process. Once you establish the free account people can ... read more ...
 
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Kevin Murphy discovers type-in traffic - Murphy registers domain name related to PRISM scandal. It gets traffic. Domain Incite author Kevin Murphy is a lot of things. He’s a great writer, an expert in all things ICANN… What he’s not is a domainer. But he “dabbled” in it yesterday with his registration of TurnkeyTyranny.com. The term was uttered by Edward Snowden, who leaked the NSA Prism documents. Murphy tweeted this afternoon that the domain has received 130 hit in the past 12 hours. But, in ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
7 reasons we should repel your .brand application - If you’re rethinking your .brand top level domain strategy, here are some things to think about. A relatively small number of .brand new TLD applicants have abandoned the process so far. Some of them are big, such as GM, which withdrew all of its applications. Others have only dropped one or two of their applications. As a .brand applicant yourself, you may be reconsidering your new TLD plans. If you withdraw your application before it passes initial evaluation, ... read more ...
 
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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats (Part 2) - 5 more tips to protect your domain names. [In the first part of this article, Bill Sweetman gave five tips for protecting your domain names from bogus legal threats. Here are five more. 6. Insist that all complaints be put in writing This is really a follow-on to point #5 from my first post. If someone has a beef about one of your domain names, make them put it in writing. You’d be amazed at how many bogus complaints simply disappear forever when you do this. The ... read more ...
Sun 9th June 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Fadi Chehade: The internet has become the most powerful tool for freedom - The internet's global big daddy, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), oversees the allocation of domain names and IP addresses. Its new CEO, Fadi Chehade, spoke with Robin David at the Stockholm Internet Forum about ICANN changing the online world by introducing 1,000 new top level domains (TLDs), becoming less American and more global — and how, as controversy rages over Barack Obama's administration allegedly surveying people online, the internet is the most powerful ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales New Platform Lets Buyers Finance Domains & Pick The Terms - Part of the roll out of the new updated DomainNameSales.com platform we told you about last night is that it now includes the option for buyers to pay for the domain over time with a down payment of the buyers choice. As a buyer you can always elect to pay cash but you can now select to pay for the domain over as many months as you want, up to 60 months, and adjust the amount of the down payment as well. You can see the new process from the following screen shots I took of Domain Name Sales: This ... read more ...
 
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Read More > - ICANN Accepts Some Government Advice On New TLDs Published on 9 June 2013 @ 5:04 pm  Print This Post Intellectual Property Watch By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week accepted another set of advice from its Government Advisory Committee (GAC) with regard to new top-level domain applications. The ICANN document is available here [pdf]. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Accepts Some Government Advice On New TLDs - ICANN Accepts Some Government Advice On New TLDs Published on 9 June 2013 @ 5:04 pm  Print This Post Intellectual Property Watch By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week accepted another set of advice from its Government Advisory Committee (GAC) with regard to new top-level domain applications. The ICANN document is available here [pdf]. ... read more ...
 
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How many new domain names will the explosion in gTLDs really produce? - Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mark Kychma, who is a partner at London based MAKTIG VC, a company behind numerious online projects such as Links2.Me, Sincere.ly and That-Is.Me. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit body that oversees the structure of the Internet, is about to multiply number of top level domain names (TLDs) by a factor of ten. Will that mean that there will be ten times more domain names in use? Do we really need that many? Today ... read more ...