Monthly Archives: June 2013

Thu 27th June 2013
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Would you use a new .Wales or .Cymru website extension or email address? - We're all used to websites with .co.uk and .com at the end of the title, the .com TLD (Top Level Domain) extension is as old as the idea of a domain extension itself, but we will soon see the introduction of .Wales and .Cymru TLDs. So you could soon be logging onto www.google.cymru, and searching for websites in Wales (and beyond). It could see a big change in the way things work online, Wales is not seen as being any different to the rest of the UK by many internet services. In fact, in 2009, ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Media Receives a Great .REVIEW - Famous Four Media is set to operate the .REVIEW Top Level Domain Thursday, 27 June 2013, Gibraltar:nbsp; Nobody likes a bad review right? Not necessarily! Recent statistics from Reevoo suggest that the presence of bad reviews actually improves sales conversions by 67%. All reviews are valuable, and a mix of positive and negative reviews actually helps to improve consumer trust in the opinions they read. This is why it is so significant that Famous Four Media, a global leader in ... read more ...
 
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Tom Embrescia, founder of Second Generation, Ltd. and .JOBS. - Tom Embrescia, founder of Second Generation, Ltd. and .JOBS. Meet Tom Embrescia, founder of Second Generation, Ltd., a family-owned investment firm focused on investing in well-managed companies and uncovering unique business opportunities. One of the businesses Second Generation owns is .JOBS, one of 22 currently existing Top Level Domains (TLD) in the world. Others include ... read more ...
 
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New domain marketplace DNX.com rigourously launches - DNX.com facilitates reverse domain name auctions. DNX.com (Domain Name Exchange) has formally launched in beta. The domain marketplace is a joint venture between Media Options and Internet Media Pty. DNX runs reverse domain name auctions, meaning the asking price for the domain name continually drops until someone buys it (or it hits the reserve). Media Options is using DNX to help sell domains that it can’t sell through its normal channels. Here’s how the company ... read more ...
 
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It’s time to direct additional confidence from your domain registrar - Latest security lapses are another reminder of why we need added security. We are constantly reminded that thieves want to hack into our domain registrar accounts and steal our domains. Security has always been a concern for domain registrants and is frequently cited in the Domain Name Wire survey near the top of the list as to what’s important in a domain registrar. I think it’s time registrants demand better security from their registrar, or threaten to move ... read more ...
 
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VC changes name to Upfront with a assistance of dual domain name companies - DigiMedia and Name Ninja help Upfront Ventures get Upfront.com domain name. TechCrunch is reporting today about venture capital firm GRP Partners raising a fresh $200 million round and changed its name to Upfront Ventures. Smartly, the VC firm also picked up the domain name Upfront.com as part of the rebrand. I hadn’t heard about the domain name changing hands, so I started digging into DomainTools’ historical whois records to find out the backstory. It turns ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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ICANN puts Whois on end-of-life list - 7 shortcuts to losing your data (and probably your job!) ICANN is proposing a goodbye to Whois, saying that data is often inaccurate and suggesting that some search fields should be restricted to “authenticated requestors”. Its discussion paper, here, says Whois is “broken”. The paper seems to suggest that one of the things that's “broken” the Whois system is the proliferation of new gTLDs, which is making the “Internet ecosystem … more complex”. The report notes that ... read more ...
 
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Customised domain names get greenlight - Previously, the endings of top-level domain names were limited to a limited group of generic top level domains such as .com, .net, .org, as well as individual country code domain names such as .ca for Canada or .uk for the United Kingdom.   New names won't start appearing until at least next year, and ICANN won't be deciding on specific ones quite yet. The organization still must work out many details, including fees for obtaining new names, expected to exceed $100,000 apiece to help ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Afternic and NameJet to Offer Auctions and Premium Domain Sales for New Top … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), having just passed ICANN Initial Evaluation. Afternic has been tapped to define and value the .BUZZ reserve auction list, and to provide marketing and sales support for premium domain names. .BUZZ premium ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Expert Working Group Recommends WHOIS Replacement - Aims for Innovative, Effective Balance Between Accuracy, Access and Privacy of Registration Data for Generic Domain Names Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 26, 2013 ICANN’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is recommending major changes to the way registrant data is provided to users. The “Next Generation gTLD Directory Services Model” is intended to streamline the way data is retrieved and validated, and will restrict its disclosure to what it considers permissible ... read more ...
 
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TOP LEVEL DOMAIN HLDG LTD : gTLD portfolio update: Uncontested … – 4 - gTLD portfolio update: Uncontested applications increase to 23 June 26, 2013 The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to announce that the Company has resolved the contention for three of its gTLD applications - .fit, .science, and .review -following an agreement with gTLD investor Domain Venture Partners PCC Limited and its associates Platinum Registry Limited, dot Science Limited, dot Review Limited and Famous ... read more ...
 
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Revisiting generic top-level domains - As expected, there has been great initial interest in generating the new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, that are poised to add variety to the conventional .com, .org, and .net domains that have dominated the Internet for decades. ICANN, the agency architecting the domain system, reports that as of June 7, 2013, it had approved 638 of the new gTLDs. Yet, at the same time, some companies are choosing to abandon their gTLD applications rather than pioneer this new area. While some might cite ... read more ...
 
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Internet Infrastructure: Stability at the Core, Innovation at the Edge (Part 2 of 5) - For nearly all communications on today's Internet, domain names play a crucial role in providing stable navigation anchors for accessing information in a predictable and safe manner, irrespective of where you're located or the type of device or network connection you're using. Over the past 15 years hundreds of millions of domain names have been added to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), and well over two billion (that's Billion!) new users, some ~34 percent of the global population, ... read more ...
 
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The ICANN’s and CANT’s of new gTLDs - A domain name offers a business an address in the global marketplace known as the internet. It is not surprising that the limited options available in existing top level domains (TLDs), has grown increasingly problematic. For example, should a leading intellectual property firm wish to register its name, ADAMS ADAMS, as a domain name in the .com top level domain, the fact that auctioneers trading in Iowa Falls, Unites States of America had already legitimately registered the domain name adamsandadams.com, ... read more ...
 
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Brit.Co Bought For $4,750, Gets $6.3 Million In Funding Including Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer - Another .Co domain name is in the news today as Brit + Co., a San Francisco-based media company focused on DIY ideas for “creative living in the digital age,” has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding according to The Term Sheet. Oak Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by Index Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Cowboy Ventures and returning angel investors like Marissa Mayer who is the CEO and President of Yahoo The companies website is www.brit.co. The domain name Brit.co was sold on ... read more ...
 
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Afternic and NameJet to Offer Auctions and Premium Domain Sales for New Top … - WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), having just passed ICANN Initial Evaluation. “Leveraging the expertise of Afternic and NameJet is a crucial component of our go-to-market strategy. Not only do we benefit from their proven technology platforms, we will be reliant ... read more ...
 
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Riding the new gTLD-go-round: Revisiting the Past- Embracing the Future - Riding the new gTLD-go-round: Revisiting the Past- Embracing the Future June 2013 Trademarks Sally Abel, Fenwick West LLP Closing in on nearly three decades of trademark practice, I am struck by just how far technology has advanced the practice since that bemusing day years ago when a potential client expressed surprise that I was able to file applications with the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) from the West ... read more ...
 
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Japan’s Largest Registrar GMO To Use SnapNames Exclusively To Send All Dropping Domains - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S.A. company announced today that GMO Internet Group, the largest domain registrar in Japan, entered into an exclusive partnership to provide all non-renewed domain names on the SnapNames marketplace for purchase on an exclusive basis. GMO Internet has over 90% share of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) in the Japanese domain name market. “We are pleased to announce that Japan Registry has chosen SnapNames as a strategic partner to market and sell their non-renewed domains,” ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Goes With Afternic/NameJet - Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, announced today have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), which has just passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Afternic has been tapped to define and value the .BUZZ reserve auction list, and to provide marketing and sales support for premium domain names. .BUZZ premium domains will be sold through the Afternic marketplace. NameJet will be the exclusive auction ... read more ...
 
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names - DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending on which applicant wins the .insurance new gTLD) at $125,000 All other new gTLD domain names are apprised ... read more ...
 
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New generic top level domains and the Trademark Clearinghouse – what you … - As readers of Knowledge Bytes will know from our June 2011 edition, the world is entering into a period of great change in the internet domain name space. Background Approximately 1,400 new generic (and not so generic) top level domains ("gTLDs") will soon be coming online. For trademark owners, this will create potential new opportunities for increasing the scope of their internet presence. However, it will also almost inevitably lead to increased costs and headaches for brand owners in terms ... read more ...
 
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BigRock pushes $4 .biz domain deal to get Indian SMBs online - After Google's India Get Your Business Online program and GoDaddy’s Cup of Coffee campaign, BigRock joins the bandwagon by rolling out an integrated media campaign to build awareness about getting businesses online. Big Rock, one of India's leading domain registrars and Web hosting companies, wants to promote .biz as a preferred domain for small businesses in India. For the campaign, BigRock has joined hands with Neustar, the registry operator for the .biz TLD, and offers a complete ... read more ...
 
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BigRock pushes $4 .biz domain deal to get Indian SMBs online - After Google's India Get Your Business Online program and GoDaddy’s Cup of Coffee campaign, BigRock joins the bandwagon by rolling out an integrated media campaign to build awareness about getting businesses online. Big Rock, one of India's leading domain registrars and Web hosting companies, wants to promote .biz as a preferred domain for small businesses in India. For the campaign, BigRock has joined hands with Neustar, the registry operator for the .biz TLD, and offers a complete ... read more ...
 
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ICANN wants to kill off WHOIS - An ICANN working group wants to replace the current WHOIS system for retrieving details of domain name registrations. The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is calling for public input  on a successor to the current WHOIS system used to retrieve domain name information. This will mean a radical change from WHOIS as it will help resolve the nearly decade-long deadlock within the ICANN community on how to replace the current WHOIS system. WHOIS is widely regarded as "broken", ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Expert Working Group Recommends WHOIS Replacement – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is recommending major changes to the way registrant data is provided to users. According to the Corporation, the “Next Generation gTLD Directory Services Model” is intended to streamline the way data is retrieved and validated, and will restrict its disclosure to what it considers permissible purposes. The system could replace the WHOIS domain name registration system ... read more ...