Monthly Archives: September 2013

Tue 10th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Archeo rigourously launches domain name marketplace - Marchex spin-off is open for business. Archeo, which is being spun off from Marchex, formally launched its domain name marketplace to the public today. The site went live last month. The marketplace at ArcheoDomains.com features over 200,000 domain names, many of which were part of the $164 million acquisition of Yun Ye’s portfolio in 2005. Last week I had a chance to visit Archeo’s office in Seattle and meet some of the people that will drive the spin-off. The ... read more ...
 
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Companies censor their identities in genuine estate transactions, too - Companies don’t want property sellers to know who they are – both online and offline. When a domain investor receives an offer, they usually try to figure out who is making it. A big company might be able to pay more. That’s why companies often try to shield themselves using a third party broker or shell company. This game of shielding your identity didn’t start with domain names. It has long been common in physical real estate transactions. I was reminded ... read more ...
Mon 9th September 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NameJet.com Reports $281K in Reportable Sales In Aug 2013 Led By EPH.com At $18K - Namejet.com just issued its reportable sales for August which totaled over $281K. To be clear not all sales are reportable only sales of $2K or more are included and only sales that were paid for by August 31, 2013 are included in the total. Leading the way was EPH.com which sold for $18,000 and CloudApp.com which sold for $12,600 I wonder how much cloud.app is worth?     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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6 Months After Getting 400,000 Euro Bid on Sedo, 8888.com Sells - Back in March the domain name 8888.com got a bid of 400,000 Euro’s on Sedo.com but that bid was cancelled by Sedo.com Now a reader has spotted that the domain name 8888.com has transferred ownership. Back in March the domain name was owned by Guo Xiaosong of  Nanjing, Jiangsu China and was going to a Sedo for sale page. It looks like the domain ownership changed back in August to Dongliang Chen of hangzhou, Zhejiang China. Of course we have no idea of what the domain name sold for but it does ... read more ...
 
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Internet: Mehr als 1.400 neue Top-Level-Domains - News - CHIP Business 12.04.2012 Letzte Frist: Anmeldeschluss für neue Domains .mueller, .meier und .schulze sind sicher schon weg: Wer eine eigene Top Level Domain haben will, hat sich bestimmt rechtzeitig bei der ICANN registriert. Wenn nicht, dann nicht. Heute ist aber die absolute Deadline. ... read more ...
 
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TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling … - TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. “New top-level domains now available” “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog just some of the suffixes available” The publication clearly has confused a pre-registration that many registrars and back order providers are offering with a domain registration. Of course none of the string mentioned by TechRadar; “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog are available for registration. Matter ... read more ...
 
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TechRadar Confuses A Pre-Reservation With An Actual Registration; Telling People new gTLD’s Can Be Registered Today - TechRadar.com covered the new gTLD program telling people that new gTLD are available to be registered now. “New top-level domains now available” “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog just some of the suffixes available” The publication clearly has confused a pre-registration that many registrars and back order providers are offering with a domain registration. Of course none of the string mentioned by TechRadar; “.online, .web, .ltd, .website, and .blog are available for registration. Matter ... read more ...
 
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New top-level domains now available – but some aren’t without controversy - Microsoft, Nokia and others object to Google's domain-name 'land grab' Fight breaks out over Amazon's .book domain name plan ICANN tells Google 'YOU CAN'T' over dot-less domain plans Does you or your business have a great domain name? If not, you're about to get another chance to name your online home, with the introduction of hundreds of new top level domains (TLDs for short). If you couldn't get the .com or the .co.uk domain for your company name, how about . online, .web, .ltd, .website, .blog ... read more ...
 
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Keep an eye on top level domain name chancers - Did you know that 50% of SMEs still don’t have a web presence? And of the other half, most of them have a site that’s effectively useless, as it’s a static affair that’s little more than an online brochure. I’m indebted to hosting giants 11 for this information. The organisation has just launched a range of new initiatives to get more businesses online and to help the channel to take care of the day to day running of their customers’ web presence. 11’s UK division, Fasthosts, is ... read more ...
 
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New domains get launch date - By mid-July 2014, South Africans will be able to register for four new domains, .africa, .joburg, .capetown and .durban. By Craig Wilson. Added by Craig Wilson on 9 September 2013.Saved under A, News, TopTags: Icann, Neil Dundas, ZA Central Registry, ZACR Tweet Neil Dundas The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which administers the .co.za domain and will soon oversee four new geographic generic top-level domains (gTLDs), says the ... read more ...
 
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Internet – Riesige Erweiterung der Domain-Endungen steht bevor - Internet - Riesige Erweiterung der Domain-Endungen steht bevor Das Internet wird um mehr als 1.400 Top-Level-Domains erweitert und mehr als 700 davon stehen auch der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung. Von Georg Wieselsberger | Datum: 09.09.2013 ; 08:26 Uhr Das Internet wird um über 1.400 Top-Level-Domains erweitert. Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) wird gegen Ende Oktober damit beginnen, die ersten neuen Top-Level-Domains für das Internet freizuschalten. ... read more ...
 
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IG.com domain name partial of £4.0 million spending spree - Company bought IG.com and multiple ccTLDs. In May Domain Name Wire reported that financial firm and new top level domain name applicant IG Group had purchased the domain name IG.com. The purchase price was recently revealed (pdf) in the company’s annual report: £4.0 million. The report says that figure includes a number of domain names, including IG.co.uk and IG.de. DNJournal is reporting that the IG.com deal was co-brokered by Marcus Kocak and Tessa Holcomb of ... read more ...
 
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Merck KGaA sues Merk & Co. over .merck tip turn domain name - Company files two lawsuits in .merck dispute. Merck KGaA, one of the applicants for the .merck top level domain names, has filed two lawsuits against competing applicant Merck Co. According to a reconsideration request (pdf) Merck KGaA filed with ICANN, it has filed suit in District Court in Hamburg, Germany as well as in the United Kingdom. Merck Co was formerly a U.S. subsidiary of Merck KGaA that was confiscated by the US government during World War I and then ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com appeals stupid IDN fibre difficulty objection - Amazon asks ICANN to ignore bad string confusion objection decision. Amazon.com has appealed to ICANN’s board to overrule a decision in a string confusion objection that placed its new TLD application for .通販 in a contention set with .shop. Panelist Robert Nau ruled that .通販, which loosely translates to “online shopping”, would cause confusion amongst internet users when compared to .shop. It was truly an awful decision, and I can understand Amazon’s ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories - The New York Times nameserver hijacking dominated last month’s news. Each month I post a list of the top news stories from the prior month. I’m a bit behind for August thanks to the U.S. holiday last week and a trip to visit domain companies in Seattle (more on that later). Here’s a list of the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. ICANN officially kills Google’s plan for dotless .search top level domain name – Google’s hope for a dotless ... read more ...
 
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Is a subsequent Microsoft Surface a Remix? - Microsoft registers Surface Remix domain names. I have to admit I haven’t paid much attention to Microsoft’s tablets. I always see the name Microsoft Surface RT and think “ReTweet”. But Microsoft registered a few domain names last week that might tip off the name of its next Surface tablet – or at least something related to it. The company registered SurfaceRemix.com and .net/.org as well as SurfaceRemixProject.com and .net/.org. Had the company just registered ... read more ...
Sun 8th September 2013
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New gTLDs: The Registry Lock - Last week, The New York Times website domain was hacked by "the Syrian Electronic Army". Other famous websites faced the same attack in 2012 by the Hacker group "UGNazi" and, in 2011 by Turkish hackers. Basically, it seems that no Registrar on the Internet is safe from attack, but the launching of new gTLDs can offer new ways to mitigate these attacks. Back-end Registries play an important role supporting new-to-be Registry Operators The back-end Registry provider is the technical partner ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Runs New gTLD Commercial - If you’re watching the NFL today, you may have seen one of (if not the) first new gTLD television commercials. Domain registrar 11 ran the commercial I embedded above. It’s all about notifying the general public about the new gTLDs that are coming, and it implores people to pre-reserve a new domain name now. It’s interesting that the company has already started marketing the new gTLDs to the general public. I would assume other registrars are going to have to follow suit to make ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Files On 11 Year Old Driveups.com; You Got To Watch Double Meanings - United Parcel Service has filed a UDRP against the 11 year old domain name Driveups.com which is generic in nature, but actually has a double meaning. While the term Drive up can refer to a any business that serves their “customers  while they remain in their motor vehicles while being accommodated”  like a fast food joint like Sonic or a bank’s drive up windown it can also mean someone who drives for United Parcel Service (UPS) in drive for UPS or UPS drivers which is what UPS is objecting ... read more ...
 
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Selection of Integration Panel for the IDN Root Zone Label Generation Rules … – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Variant Top Level Domain (TLD) Program has completed the selection of the Integration Panel for the IDN Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR). We received many applications from well-qualified individuals and we thank all the applicants for their interest in the IDN Variant TLD Program. The Integration Panel is a vital component in the implementation ... read more ...
Sat 7th September 2013
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Mali .ml Domain Phishiest TLD of Any Country in the World: Netcraft - According to Netcraft, Mali now has the most phishy top-level domain of any country in the world After offering free .ml domains in July, Mali seems to have a huge phishing problem with its ccTLD, according to a report on Thursday by Netcraft.  According to Netcraft, Mali now has the most phishy top-level domain of any country in the world. Nearly six percent of the .ml domains in Netcraft’s survey are currently blocked for hosting phishing sites. Netcraft says the second most phishy ... read more ...
 
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Etisalat to use etisalat as domain extension - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global regulator of web addresses has approved Etisalat to use etisalat as domain extension. Etisalat has become one of the first companies in the world to pass the initial stages of a procedure to get its own Top-Level Domain (TLD) as part of a revolutionary shake-up in way we search the World Wide Web. TLDs are the letters after the final dot of a domain name. The approval could pave the way ... read more ...
Fri 6th September 2013
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DotConnectAfrica Refuses to Withdraw its Application for .Africa before … - Sophia Bekele – Refusing to Withdraw before Accountability HearingIn a summary analysis, The Reporter Daily provided an upto date investigative report on the status of the dotafrica (.africa) project and the complicated issues that DCA has been subjected to in its application regarding Governmental Support. A delayed evaluation "pass" score for .Africa competition, as DotConnectAfrica refuses to withdraw before Accountability Hearing. The fight for .africa web domain continues as ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Ein Meilenstein in der Domain-Geschichte: Die ersten neuen gTLDs - CORE bringt zwei der ersten drei neuen Domains ins Internet Nach siebenjähriger Vorbereitungszeit ist es endlich so weit. Die ersten drei TLD-Bewerber haben die Phase des Predelegation-Tests (PDT), und somit die finale Prüfung für die neuen Registries, erfolgreich abgeschlossen. In intensiven, von der Internetverwaltung ICANN durchgeführten Tests, haben die Bewerber gezeigt, dass sie die hohen technischen und fachlichen Anforderungen, die erforderlich sind um eine TLD stabil und sicher zu betreiben, ... read more ...
 
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ZONER nabízí na CZECHIA.COM nejlevnější registraci domén gTLD - Za pouhých 170 Kč bez DPH si nyní zákazníci mohou zaregistrovat nové domény. Navíc, při objednání některého z webhostingových programů, získají zákazníci čtvrt roku provozu ZDARMA. Nabídku webhostingu zdarma mohou využít také stávající zákazníci, kteří mají domény pouze zaparkované.   Tato akční nabídka je platná až do 20. 6. 2004. Více informací na http://www.czechia.com       O společnosti ZONER software   Společnost ZONER software, ... read more ...