Monthly Archives: July 2013

Wed 3rd July 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
38 some-more finish user domain sales including some tangible brands - 20th Century Fox among domain name buyers. Some recognizable brands made domain name purchases at Afternic last week. Here’s the end user sales list. IMF.com sold for $27,000. Although the whois is protected by a privacy service, the domain now forwards to imf-formacion.com, the web site of Instituto Madrileo de Formacin. PayHere Payment Services Ltd bought PayHere.net for $3,900. The domain was sold by Tucows’ YummyNames. Marchex owns the .com version. A guy ... read more ...
 
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A BIG finish user domain name sale during Sedo - A company who’s initials are BIG paid $22,500 for a domain last week at Sedo. Sedo’s public sales list from last week was led by a domain purchased by a new personal care products company. Here are details on that sale and other end user sales at Sedo. A new personal care company called Beauty Innovations Group LLC (BIG for short) bought BIGBeauty.com for $22,500. Sprinkler Warehouse, Inc. in Houston bought DripStore.com for $9,900. Imagings Solutions AG in Switzerland ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board approves new TLD registry agreement - Board approves agreement that will govern new top level domain operators. The New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors has approved the registry agreement that will be signed by most new TLD operators. The 93 page agreement governs how top level domain operators must manage their namespaces, fees they’ll pay ICANN, and under what conditions ICANN can terminate the registry relationship. Not all registry operators will be pleased with the agreement, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Afternic.com Sells $1.1M In Domains Led By imf.com For $27K - Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 6/22/13 – 6/30/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,131,989. The highest sale was imf.com which sold for $27,000, followed by ufun.com for $24,500. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Launches New gTLD Pre-Reservation Portal - 11 Internet, Inc., a global leader among Web hosting providers, today launched a new portal offering pre-reservation for the latest generation of Internet addresses or ‘new gTLDs’. The new wave of domains will see many attractive new endings to be launched such as .tech, .shop, .blog, .music and .web. 11’s portal offers the chance to express interest in registering such domains and provides a range of informative advice and news on the subject. The new domains will play ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.19M In Led By One Of Ours BigBeauty.com For $22.5K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/23/13 – 06/30/13 totalling $1.19M. The highest priced transaction was one of our domain names bigbeauty.com which sold for 22,500 followed by kortingen.nl for $16,000. In all, 814 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: bigbeauty.com at 22,500 USD · Top ccTLD: kortingen.nl at 16,000 ... read more ...
 
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New York City Finally Gets the .nyc Domain - Good news, Gotham residents: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just approved New York City's bid for a .nyc web domain. ICANN is the body overseeing the rollout of new top-level domains (TLDs), which can replace the more common .com, .net and so on. New York officials filed for .nyc soon after ICANN announced it would make new TLDs available, which are also being scooped up by other cities, businesses and organizations. Microsoft filed for .Xbox and .Windows, while Amazon ... read more ...
 
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Dollars From Donuts: New gTLD Registry Operator Invests in More People and … - Those joining Donuts in the new Calabasas office are: Bob Samuelson – Vice President Sales Marketing – Most recently with Adobe Systems, Samuelson brings more than a decade of experience in the Internet and ... read more ...
 
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New York City Heralds Approval of .NYC gTLD in Press Release - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (who is running for Mayor) issued a press release today heralding the approval of the .NYC gTLD, which had received support from the City. I don’t know how much NYC will help promote .NYC, but it’s clear from the press release, the plan is to target local businesses. “Having our own unique, top-level domain – .nyc – puts New York City at the forefront of the digital landscape and creates new opportunities ... read more ...
 
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Protecting Your Trademarks As ICANN Launches New Generic Top-Level … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Trademark hilt Since 1997 Loses UDRP To Domain “Registered on Aug 23, 2013″ - In a decision sure to drive the trademark groups crazy, a one member UDRP panel reject the trademark holders claim to the domain name Segis.com The panel held for the domain holder, despite the complainant having bang on trademark registrations going back as far as 2007. The panel says the Respondent is a college graduate in Republic of Korea and that the disputed domain name was created on August 23, 2013 which of course is impossible since its only July 2, 2013. According to DomainTools.com the ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Internet Launches New TLD Portal, Dynamic Cloud Server - 11 Internet has launched a new portal offering pre-reservation for the new gTLDs, along with its new cloud server package Web hosting provider 11 Internet announced on Monday it has launched a new portal offering pre-reservation for the new gTLDs, along with its new cloud server package, 11 Dynamic Cloud Server. The move comes a couple of months after 11 Internet made enhancements to 11 Dynamic Cloud Server, making the solution more scalable and cost efficient in real terms. The new domains ... read more ...
 
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LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co -   LauchRock.co which bills itself as “A Platform For New Startups” has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: “”” From: LaunchRock hello@launchrock.com Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello LaunchRocker, On Monday, July 15th, 2013 at 12:00 PM PST, LaunchRock will be retiring our Legacy platform. If you do not migrate your account ... read more ...
 
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OIC: Counter Use Of Domains Under Names Of Islam, Halal - KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 (Bernama) -- The Muslim world should work together to counter the use of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) under the names of Islam and halal, said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). He said this measure should be taken to avoid any complication that might cause disputes or result in the misuse of domains such as .islam and .halal. Ihsanoglu said currently, there was a lack of support to counter the use of new TLDs by the ... read more ...
 
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Domainia Inc Announces the Launch of Casinodomainia.com, a Pre-registration … -  News    Images Domainia Inc Announces the Launch of Casinodomainia.com, a Pre-registration and Awareness Solution for the New .CASINO gTLD PRWEB.COM Newswire (PRWEB) July 02, 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 .CASINO, to the Internet. The .CASINO domain extension will act as an alternative option to .COM or .NET, designed ... read more ...
 
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Wichtige Ankündigung – Änderung unserer Nutzungsbedingungen und neue … - Im Dezember 2012 hat ICANN, die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, eine neue Richtlinie für Registrare verabschiedet, die ERRP (Expired Registration Recovery Policy). Registrare und Reseller müssen die neue ERRP Richtlinie nicht nur kennen, es sind auch Anpassungen seitens Registraren und Resellern notwendig, um diese zu erfüllen. AUCH DIE HEXONET GMBH MUSS IHRE NUTZUNGSBEDINGUNGEN ÄNDERN, UM DIE NEUE RICHTLINIE ZU ERFÜLLEN, DA AUCH DIE 1API GMBH, IHR ICANN AKKREDITIERER ... read more ...
 
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GMO Registry Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation for New gTLDs, .tokyo, .osaka … -  News    Images GMO Registry Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation for New gTLDs, .tokyo, .osaka, and .nagoya PRWEB.COM Newswire Tokyo, Japan (PRWEB) July 02, 2013 GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. today announces that its applications to operate new generic Top Level Domains, .tokyo, .osaka, and .nagoya have passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers initial evaluation process. GMO Registry was first selected by the Tokyo Metropolitan ... read more ...
 
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4 more New gTLD Apps Withdrawn Including Dish Networks Application For … - Four more New gTLD applications have  been withdrawn today on ICANN website. All four were either brand or closed generic applications. Dish Network dropped its closed application for the new gTLD .Movie Dish was to operate .movie “gTLD as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD and as such, will not be commercially offered for registration by the general public.” Afterdot LLC applications to run closed new gTLD’s of .CHESAPEAKE and .CHK for Chesapeake Energy Corporation with a prioritization ... read more ...
 
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4 some-more New gTLD Apps Withdrawn Including Dish Networks Application For .Movie - Four more New gTLD applications have  been withdrawn today on ICANN website. All four were either brand or closed generic applications. Dish Network dropped its closed application for the new gTLD .Movie Dish was to operate .movie “gTLD as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD and as such, will not be commercially offered for registration by the general public.” Afterdot LLC applications to run closed new gTLD’s of .CHESAPEAKE and .CHK for Chesapeake Energy Corporation with a prioritization ... read more ...
 
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Ingenious? Network Solution offers Expiration Protection. - Company charges $9.99 to renew your domain name for another year in case you forget. As Web.com points out frequently on its investor conference calls, it believes that it has room to grow its cross selling activities to existing customers. This latest sales pitch gave me a good laugh. Network Solutions (owned by Web.com) is offering its customers “Domain Expiration Protection”, which makes sure your domain doesn’t expire for a least a year if they can’t auto ... read more ...
Mon 1st July 2013
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ICANN suspends closed generic top level domain bids - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) has put on hold a controversial decision to allot closed generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) to applicants. Governments and activists had feared that allotting such generic domains would lead to a global corporate monopoly over the World Wide Web, by claiming exclusive rights for domains such as .book or .beauty.“Hopefully this is the end for closed generic Top Level Domains applications and it is a victory for those who have raised ... read more ...
 
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DomainsBot Announce Release of TLD Relevancy Suggestion Engine – Virtual - Top registrars are among the early adopters of new recommendation tool. San Francisco, CA and Rome, Italy (PRWEB) July 01, 2013 DomainsBot, the provider of leading domain suggestion technology, proudly launches TLD Recommendation Engine, the first Top Level Domain recommendation service. DomainsBot, which currently services the world’s largest registrars, has created a program that replaces the current static domain search process with one that services multiple relevant TLDs. This new ... read more ...
 
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Decision Is Published: Nintendo Loses UDRP on 10 Year Old Wiiu.com - The UDRP decision on the domain name Wiiu.com has been published by WIPO. It appears the three member panel was very close to  find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)  had the domain not been owned under privacy. The domain holder was represented by Steven Rinehart of Salt Lake City After all Nintendo didn’t file its trademark for Wii until two years after the domain name was registered and not until 2011 some 7 years after the domain name was registered, for the term Wii U. The domain name ... read more ...
 
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1 & 1 Jumps Into The New gTLD “Pre-Order” Game - 11 Internet Ltd, become the latest registrar to start accepting “pre-orders” or expressions of interest in new gTLDs. In a press release 1 1 says: “The new wave of domains will see scores of attractive new endings to be launched such as .london, .restaurant, .rugby, .shop and .web. 11’s portal offers the chance to express interest in registering such domains, and provides a range of informative advice and news on the subject. ” “Over the next 3 years, the creation of more than 1000 ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX Wins The Eco Internet Award With DomainShop - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... (Cologne – Regensburg, July 01, 2013) – DomainShop from InterNetX was distinguished with the eco Internet Award in the category “Domain DNS” at the eco Gala 2013 in Cologne. The gala took place in the congress center KölnSKY. The expert IT jury honored DomainShop as the best-developed solution for the introduction of new gTLDs in 2013/2014, stating, “DomainShop is the most comprehensive e-commerce solution on the market for domain resellers ... read more ...