Monthly Archives: June 2013

Wed 26th June 2013
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Team TLD saddling up for round three of road series - Topics:  cycling, queensland road team series, team tld racing Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet Team TLD hitting the road again this weekend at Boonah. Kevin Farmer TOOWOOMBA'S Team TLD will be out to build on its sound start to this year's Queensland Road Teams Cycling Series during round three this weekend. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN working group seeks to kill WHOIS - An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) working group is seeking public input on a successor to the current WHOIS system used to retrieve domain name information.The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) has issued a report (PDF) that recommends a radical change from WHOIS. The working group, which had a clean-slate approach to a new domain name information, was formed "to help resolve the nearly ... read more ...
 
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24 finish user domain name sales adult to $28,000 - Raw materials company paid $28,000 for shorter domain name. Afternic had another good sales week. Here are 24 end user domain sales the company facilitated. Emeraude International, a plastics raw materials company, shortened its domain name to merely Emeraude.com for $28,000. Luxury retailer Paris Gallery (which is actually located in the Middle East) bought LuxuryClub.com for $25,000. Pharma company Pro Medico bought Promedico.net for $1,188. It uses Promedico.at, ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames gets Japan Registry, Afternic and NameJet get .buzz business - Domain marketplaces get a couple notable client wins. There were a couple unrelated “client win” announcements this morning coming from major domain name marketplaces. First, SnapNames announced that it has inked Japan Registry to an expired domain deal. Japan Registry, part of GMO Internet Group, will send its expired domain stream to SnapNames in an exclusive deal. GMO holds a 90% share of the gTLD market in Japan. Second, Afternic and NameJet announced a deal ... read more ...
 
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TLDH and Famous Four strike understanding to solve 3 new TLD row sets - Deal resolves contention sets for .fit, .review, and .science. Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) and Famous Four Media (and associated companies) have made a deal to resolve three contention sets. Under the terms of the deal, Famous Four has withdrawn its application for .fit, leaving TLDH as the only applicant for the string. In return, TLDH has withdrawn its applications for .review and .science. Famous Four will pay a royalty to TLDH on .review revenue. This ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball buys an “outstanding” domain name - MLB among companies buying domain names last week. Major League Baseball turned to Sedo last week to buy the domain Outstandings.com. I’m not sure what it plans to do with it, although it does award a lot of “outstanding” player awards. Details on that purchase (and other end user domain name purchases on Sedo) are below. Osa Family Clothing Co. Ltd. went global with OSA.com at $20,000. It had been using OSA.hk. Agni Travel Ltd in the UK bought BeachVillas.com ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Fact Book 2013: Everything You Wanted to Know About Canada’s .CA ccTLD - CIRA said a survey of the Canadian market revealed that "Canadian Internet users strongly prefer .CA when it comes to either business (49% for .CA versus 17% for .COM) or personal use (54% for .CA versus 10% for .COM), particularly for such activities as banking, shopping ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells $1.6 Million In Domains Led By Emeraude.com $28K/ LuxuryClub.com $25K -   Afternic.com reportable weekly domain sales report for the week of 6/17/13 – 6/23/13 is out total sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,157,605. All sales were led by Emeraude.com which is the French word for Emerald and yes I had to look it up. The seller of the domain was Tucows. The second highest sale of the week was LuxuryClub.com, which was sold by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings. In non-.com sales Jasmin.Tv led the way at $12,000 I have an email out ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.57M Led By OffMarket.com For $41K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/16/13 – 06/23/13 totaling $1.57M. The highest priced transaction was offmarket.com at $41,000 followed by meaning.com and OSA.com which sold  for $20,000 each. OffMarket.com was sold by Garry Chernoff. In all, 829 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 35% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: offmarket.com at ... read more ...
 
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Digital Brand Strategist Jennifer Wolfe Advises Marketers to Consider … - Brand Marketers Should Prepare to Evaluate Soon-to-be-Launched Generics List Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) June 25, 2013 As the list of hundreds of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) will soon begin rolling out, Jennifer Wolfe, president of leading gTLD digital brand strategy firm Wolfe Domain, is advising marketers to perform a thorough evaluation of the new generics to capture competitive advantage. “Marketers are in the unique position of being ahead of a significant monetization ... read more ...
 
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6 Arbitration Providers Win 18 of 19 Arbitration Domains in One UDRP - Six Arbitration Panels brought a single UDRP seeking  19 domain names all owned by ICSID Lawyers, LLC and collectively won 18 of the domains. The Complainants are London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“United Kingdom”); International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) of Paris, France; Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) of Singapore; Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) of Stockholm, ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Shares Sink over 20% To 52 Week Low On Yesterday’s News - Shares of Demand Media, Inc (DMD) have hit a 52 week low, dropping over 20% in trading today. As of publication shares of Demand Media, Inc. are trading at $6.21 down $1.96 or 24% off of yesterday’s closing price. Yesterday after the market closed, Demand reported that is was spending $75 million in cash and $19 million in stock to acquired Society6, an e-commerce marketplace for artwork and related merchandise. As of March 30, Demand Media, Inc only had  $109.4M in cash meaning it spent some ... read more ...
 
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eco veröffentlicht Registrar-Atlas 2013 – domain - Eco, der Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft eV, hat den Registrar-Atlas zum dritten Mal neu aufgelegt. Im Mittelpunkt stand diesmal die Frage, welche Erfolgschancen die Registrare den potentiellen neuen Domain-Endungen wie .web, .blog oder .mail einräumen. Auf 53 Seiten, so umfangreich wie nie zuvor, weiss die Neuauflage des Registrar-Atlas vollgepackt mit Zahlen und Statistiken zu glänzen. Untersucht wurden acht Märkte, nämlich Bulgarien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, die Niederlande, ... read more ...
 
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Biba.com Purchased for 57,400 Euros, Launches With $15 Million More In Funding - TechCrunch.com this morning covered “Biba, a new company coming out of stealth, has spent more than a year and $5 million in a Series A investment to quietly build a service that offers a lightweight way to use your iPhone, iPad or Android device to participate in conference calls or message people in your network.” “Today the service is launching with $15 million in a Series B round led by InterWest Partners, with participation from previous investors Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs: The Future of Domain Names - Have you ever tried buying a domain name? If yes, then you know the pain that comes along with it. Everytime you think of a name and assume that it can’t be taken, you end up being wrong. Almost anything imaginable has been taken by someone and some of them are just hoarding it. They buy the Top Level Domains and hold on to it like their life depended on it. So with the popular TLDs almost impossible to acquire, what new extensions will make an appearance in this field? Let’s have a look.Click ... read more ...
 
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Protecting your trademarks as ICANN launches new generic top level domains - Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received over 1,900 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), including multiple applications for popular domains like .app, .inc, .art, .shop and .music. More than seven hundred applications have now passed an initial evaluation. If no further issues arise for those applications, ICANN anticipates that some of the new gTLDs could go live in the next few months. Although the new gTLD program will provide ... read more ...
 
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Domainia Inc Announces the Launch of Storedomainia.com, a Pre-registration … - Domainia Inc announces the launch of StoreDomainia.com, a pre-registration and awareness solution that introduces .STORE to businesses and consumers worldwide. Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) June 25, 2013 Within the next year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will introduce hundreds of new, industry-specific Top Level Domains (TLD), such as .STORE, to the Internet. The .STORE domain extension will act as an alternative option to .COM or .NET, designed specifically ... read more ...
 
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NCC Group passes ICANN’s evaluation process - StockMarketWire.com - NCC Group, the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, said subsidiary Artemis Internet Inc's .secure bid has passed ICANN's evaluation process. "This is a key milestone towards gaining ownership of the .secure generic top level domain (gTLD), following ICANN's decision to extend gTLDs to increase competition and choice in the domain name space," the company said. The evaluation included background screening, technical and financial capability testing ... read more ...
 
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (New gTLDs) - Some companies sell bags, some sell guitars, some sell phones, some sell shoes, and others sell everything from antiques to zippers. Just about all companies today sell “something” – and themselves — online.As the Internet has grown over the past two decades we’ve seen more and more participation by businesses online to the point of ubiquity. Businesses that started small, perhaps with a simple, one-page website have expanded their online presence to hundreds of sites with many thousands ... read more ...
 
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Do We Have Our 1st New gTLD Application Trade? 4 More Applications Withdrawn - Do we have our first new gTLD application trade? Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) withdrew two applications tonight one for .Review which had a prioritization number of 492 and its application for .Science which had a prioritization number of 924, leaving Famous Four as the sole remaining applicant for each of those extensions. Famous Four withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Fit leaving Top Level Domain Holdings as the sole applicant. Was it a trade or just a coincidence? We have reached out ... read more ...
 
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Web developer systematic to give domain name behind to client - Web developer trying to hold domain name as lien against unpaid bills. It’s something we see time and time again…a business lets a web developer register their domain name, and then refuses to give it back. In the case of a UDRP between Alaska Health Fair, Inc. and Chris Jacobson, there was an added twist: Alaska Health Fair transferred its existing domain name alaskahealthfair.org to Jacobson, apparently thinking this was required for him to perform services. According ... read more ...
 
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The genuine .ninja business devise is exposed - Laugh at .ninja no more…it will be a big business. One of the top level domain applications that had a lot of people scratching their heads was United TLD’s application for .ninja. And while the company’s .ninja web site suggests that you might register a .ninja domain to show you’re an seo.ninja or html5.ninja, the true business plan is slowly coming out. Take a look at the .ninja mousepad. As Name.com’s Caroline Temple mused on Facebook today: Well, the ... read more ...
 
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ZeroPark revs adult zero-click monetization for domainers - ZeroPark formally unveiled itself in a big way to the domain community during Webfest in February. Although the zero-click domain monetization company is relatively new, it has some familiar faces. You may recognize ZeroPark Director of Business Development Mateusz Drela from previous domain conferences, when he worked for Elephant Traffic. Elephant Traffic’s customer base was later acquired by Team Internet AG, which rolled it into its DNTX platform. Drela then ... read more ...
 
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DENIC doesn’t see most hazard from new TLDs - DENIC downplays threat of new TLDs against .de, citing latest eco survey. eco – the Association of the German Internet Industry released its third Registrar Atlas this week. The Registrar Atlas is a survey of businesses that offer domain names. The non-scientific survey targets mostly Germany, but includes respondents from eight countries primarily in Europe. .De registry DENIC sponsors the survey, along with a number of other registries such as Verisign. DENIC ... read more ...
 
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What a provocative WHOIS news means for domain investors - Sweeping changes to registrant data could have major impact on domain name investors. ICANN’s working group on gTLD Directory Services released its initial report overnight. If I were to use one word to describe the report, it would be “provocative”. I just finished reading the 49 page report that describes a way to upend WHOIS as we know it and replace it with an Aggregated Registration Data Service (ARDS). Calling it something completely different than the ... read more ...