Monthly Archives: July 2013

Mon 22nd July 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market” - Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just  published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. In the past we had taken more of a shot-gun approach to generating awareness ... read more ...
 
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DomainSponsor Vs.InternetTraffic.com Our Two Month Test Yields Shocking Results: DS Wins - Back in April we were approached by DomainSponsor.com to do a test on their parking system.  DomainSponsor.com said they had spent a lot of time and money on revamping their parking system, had all new people working for them and wanted to know how their new and improved system would stack up against Frank Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com I agreed to do a test with about 19,000 domain names I had parked over at InternetTraffic.com (IT) with two conditions; one, they had to guarantee me the earnings ... read more ...
 
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14 Year Old Domain Wala.com Saved In UDRP Desipte Trademarks & A $5 Million Dollar Price Tag - A three member UDRP panel just rejected the attempt of WALA-Heilmittel GmbH of Bad Boll, Germany, to grab the domain name Wala.com This is another UDRP with an interesting set of facts which was first registered in 1999 and for a time had on its homepage a message that the domain was for sale for $5,000,000. Here are the revelant facts and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant is incorporated in Germany. Since the 1930s, it has developed, produced and marketed natural and homeopathic ... read more ...
 
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FreshDrop’s Pheenix Changes On Aug 1 To Accept Multiple Back orders & Provide For Drop Auctions - Freshdrop which officially rolled out their back order program out of Beta on April 23rd under the name of Pheenix, announced today that it will be changing their back order system effective August 1st from a one domain per back order system to one which will accept multiple back orders on the same dropping domain. Those dropping domains with multiple back orders will go into auction like they do on NameJet.com and SnapNames.com Here is the official announcement” “”I am pleased to announce ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
nTLD-Kongress im September – domain - Unter dem Titel »Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress London« lädt die »monumentum event group« mit Afilias als Gründungssponsor Ende September zu einem Kongress, der den neuen Domain-Endungen gewidmet ist. Zahlreiche Brancheninsider werden erwartet. Der »Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress London« richtet sich an nTLD-Bewerber der ersten wie der zu erwartenden zweiten nTLD-Bewerbungsrunde und deren Berater. Zielpublikum für die Konferenz sind unter anderem Markenmanager und -juristen, ... read more ...
 
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La reserva de los nuevos dominios TLD, más fácil con 1&1 - http://domainhack.ing.me/wp-content/images/cache/0/36/42/1559b_1foto1750.jpg 11 Internet España ha lanzado un portal que ofrece la posibilidad de realizar reservas gratis y sin compromiso para los nuevas direcciones de Internet, los denominados “TLDâ€�, que incluirán nuevas extensiones como .online, .shop, .madrid, .bar, .abogado, etc. Este nuevo site ofrece información ... read more ...
 
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Navigating the internet’s domain big bang – Campaign Asia - With the launch of hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs), there is a great opportunity for brands to take advantage of the expanded domain-name universe. The expansion is significant and includes branded, generic, and geographic domain spaces such as .microsoft, .beauty and .nyc, all ... ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy lets business “watch” new TLDs - Domain registrar creates watchlist for new domain names. GoDaddy is now allowing customers to add particular new top level domain names to a “watchlist”. The company’s updated new TLD landing page includes 700 categorized to level domain names. A blog post announcing the new watchlist feature was careful not to call it pre-registration, or even expressions of interest: NOTE: Keep in mind, we might not sell all of the gTLDs listed on the landing page. The “watch” ... read more ...
 
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The value of a initial name domain name - How can you calculate the value of a first name .com? DNMedia published a quick look at the value of first name domain names over the weekend. I own one such domain (Cathleen.com), so I found the data interesting. DNMedia took 5,000 common first names and found sales records for 103 of them, ranging from $500 up. It calculated that the typical first name domain name sells for about $.80 to $1.25 times the number of people who have that name in the United States. As ... read more ...
 
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Interesting: How Parse.ly got a name, and because it bought a .com - The mind of an entrepreneur naming his business. There have been a couple more mainstream stories lately about how startups are using domain hacks and country code domain names because they can’t find a good .com domain available. Content analytics company Parse.ly has responded by explaining how it originally came up with its name, and when it decided to buy the “matching” .com. It’s a must read for domain name investors because, regardless of whether you ... read more ...
 
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Google drops hints in domain name registry heading filing - Trademark application includes domain escrow and domain valuation . Google has filed a trademark application for “Charleston Road Registry”, the name of its subsidiary that is applying for nearly 100 top level domain names. The filing (pdf) may include subtle clues as to what Google’s plans are for domain names such as .fun, .play, and .shop. There are six “goods and services” classifications for Charleston Road Registry. Most of them relate to the technical ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Ombudsman LaHatte reappointed to second term - Chris LaHatte appointed to second term. ICANN’s Board of Directors has reappointed Chris LaHatte as Ombudsman to another two year term. The ombudsman serves as an intermediary between ICANN and its constituents on matters related to things done by ICANN, its board, its staff, and constituent bodies. Some of LaHatte’s recent decisions have been about late objections to new top level domains and a complaint by DotAfrica Connect. LaHatte has proven less controversial ... read more ...
Sun 21st July 2013
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Shop.Org Study: U.S. Companies To Spend 40% Of Marketing Budget On Paid Search & 14% On SEO - As study cited by MediaPost.com conducted by Shop.org and Forrester Research entitled: State Of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing ; Merchandising, found that “U.S. companies will invest about 40% of their $7.6 million aggregate marketing budget in paid search and 14% to organic search.” Some 80% of the survey participants in the “” report admit they will spend more on paid search about 71% said they will spend more on product listing ads (PLAs), 63% on re-marketing and re-targeting, and 55% ... read more ...
 
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Apple Files 2 UDRP Seeking 28 Domains Including FindMyiPad.com & Macbook7.com - Apple Computers filed two UDRP’s today seeking 28 domain names in total with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Some of the domain names sort are typo’s like apole.com,appestore.com, applesore.com, applestpre.com, applestroe.com and appllestore.com while others are product domains or variations on of Apple’s products like ipodtouch5.com, FindMyiPad.com Macbook7.com The domain names listed in the first UDRP with case number D2013-1313 appear to have different owners. All the ... read more ...
 
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Amazon clashes with Latin American countries over domain names - In 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to open up the Internet's generic top-level domain (gTLD) system to a wide range of new applicants, which could change the very face of the web for decades to come. This week, the first of the gTLDs were revealed, and the new entrants into the architecture of the web are breaking new ground by becoming the first non-Latin character gTLDs ever to be approved. Of note ... read more ...
 
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What New gTLD’s Can Learn From Namejet .PW Auctions & Godaddy’s .LA … - Over this past week both Namejet.com and Godaddy.com ran auctions of re-branded ccTLD's and I think the results are a preview of what's to come for new gTLD's that attempt the same strategy. Namejet.com ran an auction of .PW single character domain names; single letter domains and single numbered domain names. Arguably single letter and single numbered domains such as; o.co, 8.asia, and z.com, are some of the most valuable inventory any registry will ever have, especially in the new gTLD ... read more ...
Sat 20th July 2013
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Four New Generic Top Level Domains - At its meeting in Durban, ICANN signed contracts with the applicants for four new top level domains. The new domains are شبكة, which means "web" in Arabic, онлайн and сайт, which mean "online" and "site" in Russian, and 游戏, which means "game" in Chinese. They should give us an interesting hint about the future of the new TLDs, because all four are utterly, totally, generic. If you read the applications, you will find that after you skip over the blather about innovation and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon muss auf .amazon-Domain verzichten – Einspruch der … - Amazon muss auf .amazon-Domain verzichten - Einspruch der südamerikanischen Länder Amazon hatte eine eigene .amazon-Top-Level-Domain beantragt, wird darauf aber wohl verzichten müssen Von Georg Wieselsberger | Datum: 20.07.2013 ; 17:51 Uhr Amazon wird die .amazon-TLD wohl nicht zugesprochen werden. Ein für die Prüfung neuer Top-Level-Domains (TLD) eingerichtetes Komitee der Internet Corporation für Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), hat empfohlen, Amazon nicht die .amazon-TLD ... read more ...
 
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The ICA Forces ICANN To Issue A “Status Report on UDRP/URS Providers & Uniformity of Process” - ICANN issued a Status Report on UDRP Providers and Uniformity of Process, last night and the timing of it makes it look as a direct result of the criticism of Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) made public during the ICANN meeting that concluded on Thursday. First for the report, then some comments will follow: “”Issues relating to Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) and uniformity of providers started to arise within ICANN in 2010. Commenters raised ... read more ...
 
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47e session de l’Icann à Durban : Activation prochaine de nouveaux noms de … - Written by Maurice Lors de la 47e réunion publique de l’Icann, du 14 au 18 juillet à Durban (Afrique du Sud), le premier groupe de registres et bureaux d'enregistrement d'Internet a signé de nouveaux accords avec l'Icann, propulsant de nouveaux noms de domaine génériques ... read more ...
 
 
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Steering clear of online brand protection issues in the world of new gTLDs - INTERNETBy BiztechAfrica - July 18, 2013, 11:37 a.m.With online influencers from around the world in Durban for ICANN 47, Jan Corstens, Project Owner for the Trademark Clearinghouse and partner at Deloitte, discusses one of the conference’s major talking points: online brand protection in the era of new web extensions. The global Internet community has moved to South African as the latest ICANN conference takes place in Durban this week. ICANN meetings have a heritage of hosting historic changes ... read more ...
 
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The Internet Better Beware: Change is Coming - .com, .org, .gov, .xxx? It’s been over two years since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, voted to expand the number of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) from the traditional twenty-two (.com, .org, .gov, etc.).  At the close of the application period in June of 2012, ICANN revealed a total of 1,930 new gTLD applications.  Brand owners and trademark attorneys face new challenges in monitoring their trademarks, ... read more ...
 
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5 Things to Know About Engaging With gTLDs: Generics Preparing to Launch - ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jennifer Wolfe is founder and president of Wolfe Domain, a gTLD digital brand strategy advisory firm providing comprehensive guidance to global brands, interactive agencies, domain registrars, and legal counsel representatives on establishing a holistic gTLD name-anchored brand strategy for the next generation of the Internet. As a forward-thinking, accomplished, award-winning attorney and executive leader, she also serves as managing partner of ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
gTLD, ICANN fa i primi nomi - Roma - Primo giro di assegnazioni dei nuovi domini generici di primo livello (gTLD) da parte dell'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Il registrar statunitense ha ratificato i primi quattro accordi (registry agreements) dopo le quasi 2mila richieste pervenute nel corso della storica apertura agli stessi gTLD nell'estate dello scorso anno.I primi domini generici di primo livello saranno così attivati nel mondo islamico - la parola in arabo che sta per Web o rete - mentre ... read more ...