Monthly Archives: June 2013

Fri 21st June 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Benefits of registering your brands with the Trademark Clearinghouse - In our March 2013 IP Focus on Protecting Trade-marks in the New gTLDs, we reported that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had created a centralized trade-mark rights repository to assist trade-mark owners in protecting their marks in the many new gTLDs that will be available beginning later this year. This centralized repository is called the “Trademark Clearinghouse,” and it opened for business ona March 26, 2013. Brand owners must now consider which marks, if ... read more ...
 
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The First Wave of gTLDs Are Coming – Are You Ready? - Tweet Buffer In this continuing series on the launch of the new generic top-level domains (gTLD) for brands, I've covered the many strategies that brands may use to evolve and strengthen the Internet consumer experience. While half of the world's biggest brands applied for a gTLD, many did not and the millions of mid-market and smaller businesses will need a strategy to respond. While most companies are still largely unaware of the coming paradigm ... read more ...
 
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Registrar Atlas 2013 bestätigt fortdauernden Erfolg der deutschen Top Level … - Die Ergebnisse der von DENIC als Sponsoring Partner unterstützten größten internationalen Studie der Domainindustrie, dem vom  Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft eco herausgegebenen Registrar Atlas 2013, wurden diese Woche offiziell veröffentlicht. An der dritten Auflage der Untersuchung beteiligten sich knapp 300 domainanbietende Unternehmen aus acht Ländern. Angesichts der kurz bevorstehenden Einführung neuer Adressendungen (Top Level Domains) im Internet liefert die Erhebung interessante ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs will require skill and strategy to manage - Top-level domains are the suffixes at the end of web addresses that we are all familiar with, such as .com, .co.uk and .org. The Internet Corporation for the Assigning of Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for operating the generic top-level domain (gTLD) system is now allowing the registration of new gTLDs, which can be any combination of letters and numbers including various characters of local languages such as Arabic and Chinese, provided they ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Guida Domini – Lezione 9: SEO e domini, come scegliere il nome … - Quando si è alle prese con la registrazione di un nome a dominio, è bene tenere presente alcuni piccoli trucchi che possono aiutare notevolmente nel posizionamento del sito Internet. Affinchè si generi un prodotto Web valido e ben indicizzato dai motori di ricerca, è necessario, infatti, attuare le tecniche ... read more ...
 
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Nutzer begrüßen neue Domain-Endungen – domain - Die Internet-Nutzer sind neuen Domain-Endungen gegenüber grundsätzlich positiv aufgeschlossen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Umfrage unter 1.000 Personen von »InsightsNow«, in Auftrag gegeben vom Domain-Beratungsunternehmen Fairwinds Partners. Hunderte von neuen Domain-Endungen rollen auf die Internet-Nutzer zu. In weniger als einem Jahr bietet sich ihnen eine ungeahnte Auswahl an Top Level Domains – doch sind sie daran überhaupt interessiert? Dieser Frage ist Fairwinds Partners nachgegangen ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application - Frank Schilling Uniregistry withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Marketing The application had a prioritization number of 826, with ICANN getting ready to release Initial Evaluations for applications with a prioritization number of 801-900, by withdrawing the application tonight Uniregistry saved itself $65,000 the difference between a 70% refund and a 35% refund. There are two other applications for .marketing one by Tucows and one by Donuts. Uniregistry applied for 54 new gTLD’s so now ... read more ...
 
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People who paid a lot for one minute .uk domains could remove out underneath new plan - If priority is given to first registration, many .me.uk registrants will be big winners. Registrants paid big bucks for one and two character .co.uk and .org.uk domain names when .uk registry Nominet auctioned them off a couple years ago. Bidders paid £3m in total. Under the proposed plan for allocating second level .uk domain names, they could get screwed. Nominet’s latest plan to release domains such as example.co.uk instead of example.uk would give a first right ... read more ...
 
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31 finish user domain domain sales during Afternic - Afternic sells $1.2 million in domains including a number to end users. What do a natural gas fracking company, an asphalt layer, and a company that cleans portable tanks all have in common? They bought domain names on Afternic last week. Here’s the list. The site Auctionet.com bought AuctionNet.com (two n’s) for $6,000. Building materials company CRH paid $3,000 for CRH.net to go along with its CRH.com domain name. Asphalt company Lakeside Industries Inc bought ... read more ...
Thu 20th June 2013
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Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to … - Speaking from a personal perspective here, folks know I am a big proponent of the new gTLDs, and I have to say that the reporting on the WP seemed a bit ham-fisted and inaccurate about the value of domain names. Thinking it through, I had a college professor describe user behavior and habit in a real simple manner with the following saying, “22 days to make a habit, 22 days to break it”. That would put many of existing users at 5-15 years of habit in slapping ... read more ...
 
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Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains - Austin, TX, June 20, 2013 –(PR.com)– Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Once active, .host aims to be the preferred domain extension for web hosts, ASPs, ISVs, cloud service providers, data centers and other entities within the web hosting industry. .host domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to Almost Nothing - A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. The article cites the growing inventory of domain names from new gTLD;’s  saying the parking and type in traffic will be gone and value of any one domain ” down to almost nothing“. The article was chatting about the new gTLD’s and domain investing which they still refer to as cybersquatting  saying: “It wouldn’t have been too hard to buy up most ... read more ...
 
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Radix Registry Announces Launch Of Pre-Registration For .host Domains - Share |Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Once active, .host aims to be the preferred domain extension for web hosts, ASPs, ISVs, cloud service providers, data centers and other entities within the web hosting industry. .host domains ... read more ...
 
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Our News on your Mobile – ag-IP - By Ibtisam Awadat AMMAN - ag-IP-news Agency conducted an interview with Mr. Akram Atallah, President of the Generic Domains Division, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) raising a number of issues regarding the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD), ICANN’s role in maintain security during the development of these gTLDs in addition to Arab Center for Dispute Resolution. Excerpts of the interview are as follows: With the expansion to new top level domains, what’s the ... read more ...
 
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DENIC unterstützt größte internationale Studie der Domainbranche - Die Ergebnisse der von DENIC als Sponsoring Partner unterstützten größten internationalen Studie der Domainindustrie, dem vom Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft eco herausgegebenen Registrar Atlas 2013, wurden diese Woche offiziell veröffentlicht. An der dritten Auflage der Untersuchung beteiligten sich knapp 300 domainanbietende Unternehmen aus acht Ländern - neben der D-A-CH-Region und den Niederlanden erstmals auch Frankreich, Großbritannien, Bulgarien und Russland. Angesichts ... read more ...
 
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Domain-Studie: .Berlin ist prima, .Apple nicht - Domain-Studie: .Berlin ist prima, .Apple nicht 20.06.13 Bei den generischen Toplevel-Domains (gTLD) liegen Licht und Schatten dicht beieinander, so die Studie des Registrar Atlas 2013 des ECO. ... read more ...
 
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Testfout ICANN bestookt gTLD-aanvragers met mail - 20 jun. 2013 door Jasper Bakker 20 jun. 2013 door Jasper Bakker Nieuws - Domeinautoriteit ICANN heeft per ongeluk automatisch mails verstuurd over de nieuwe, omstreden topdomeinen (gTLD's). Deze melding dat vragen of problemen zijn opgelost, is het resultaat van een recente test, meldt de klantenservice. "Negeer deze mail aub", stelt ... read more ...
 
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Virgilio Almeida e Benedicto Fonseca Filho: A geografia da internet - A expansão da internet e, por consequência, das fronteiras virtuais diante dos limites geográficos estáticos dos países trazem desafios para a governança da web. O gerenciamento do sistema de nomes de domínio da internet é responsabilidade da Icann, empresa estabelecida na Califórnia e, por tanto, sob sua legislação. Sempre que um usuário, em qualquer lugar do mundo, digita o endereço de um sítio, está de alguma forma usando os serviços da Icann, que traduz o nome digitado ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Moniker Does System-Wide Password Reset Effecting Every Account - According to an email sent to all of its clients tonight, the domain name registrar Moniker.com notified its client they did a “system-wide password reset” tonight that will require ALL Clients to reset their passwords. Here is the email Moniker.com send out tonight: “”Moniker’s Operations Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Moniker network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access a number of Moniker user accounts. “”As a precaution ... read more ...
 
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tom embrescia - tom embrescia 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 are .com, .net, or .org. The company has tens of ... read more ...
 
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Registrar Atlas 2013: Nicht alle TLDs werden erfolgreich sein - Der in Köln ansässige Verband der Internetwirtschaft eco hat am gestrigen Dienstag eine neue Stuie vorgestellt. Mit dem Registrar Atlas 2013 liegt nun die bisher größte eco-Studie zum internationalen Domainmarkt vor, wie die Verantwortlichen betonten. Die Studie steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Start neuer generischer Top-Level-Domains, so genannter gTLDs. In der dritten Auflage der größten ... read more ...
 
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What domains Hallmark, Swarovski, and Sapient bought final week - Sedo has big sales week for large end user buyers. This week’s end user report for Sedo sales it full of big name companies. In addition to those in the headline, you’ll see purchased by Philips, Genentech, Intel, and Fujifilm Australia. Chocolate seller 5th Avenue Chocolatiere bought ChocolateWorks.com for $19,000. Analytics company Blue Yonder bought Blue-Yonder.co.uk for 3,000 GBP. The non-hyphenated version belongs to Virgin Media. Geotraccking company GeoTrack ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy uses discerning consult to shred customers - GoDaddy segments its customers using quick survey. When I logged in to my GoDaddy account this morning I was greeted by a friendly blonde asking me what I was up to. “We’re working on new ways to give you a more personalized experience,” a pop-up survey proclaimed. Indeed, GoDaddy is working to customize what you see — and surely what the company tries to sell you — based on the type of business you run. The first question reads “Which best describes you?”, ... read more ...
 
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After questionable activity yesterday, Moniker asks users to reset passwords - Company says it has no evidence that domain names were stolen. Domain name registrar Moniker discovered suspicious activity on its network, and as a precaution is asking all account holders to reset their passwords today. The suspicious activity occurred yesterday. There’s no notice on the site about the password change requirement, and if you try to log in you’ll just get a message that your password is invalid. However, the company sent an email to all account ... read more ...
 
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ICANN explains because it didn’t tell Verisign’s letters - Group it doesn’t usually publish counsel-to-counsel letters. Verisign sent several letters to ICANN earlier this year highlighting concerns about the new registry agreement. ICANN never posted those letters, and they only came to light when Verisign posted a message in a comment period. Verisign said there was lack of transparency in ICANN’s correspondence posting policies, and that “we are left to conclude that ICANN posts only those letters it believes will ... read more ...