Monthly Archives: September 2013

Mon 30th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain parking association named to bad hosts list, but… - Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows up ranked #2 for phishing sites. Now, you may be scratching your head and asking “how does a domain parking service get nailed for phishing?”. It’s most likely due to old data. Parking companies get ensnared in this report because ... read more ...
Sun 29th September 2013
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The new gTLDs – if you think managing your domains is difficult now… - The domain world as we know it is about to change.  Currently, there are about 24 top-level domains  (tld).  These are the portion of a web address that appears after the "dot" such as .com or .org.  However, there are 1,409 new possibilities on the horizon and an infinite number of future tlds. In January of 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that is charged with stabilizing and unifying the global internet, began accepting applications ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Will There Be A Super Bowl Commercial For Legalized Marijuana? - Two different Commercials promoting  Legalized Marijuana have made it o the second round in the Intuit small business competition for a Super Bowl commercials. According to a press release,  MarijuanaDoctors.com,  which bills it self as the “The nation’s first online search-and-booking platform:” has made it to the second round of the Intuit Small Business Competition. Also an television commercial for NORML an organization who has been lobbying for the legalization of Marijuana for over ... read more ...
Sat 28th September 2013
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CPA Global Takes a Lead in Helping Clients Protect and Develop Their Brands … – PR - CPA Global, the world's leading intellectual property (IP) management and software specialist, announced today that it will be providing a range of support services to help clients protect and develop their brands online as the Internet domain space expands significantly through the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) programme. Services include support for new gTLD launches, monitoring gTLD applications by other parties that might impact on a client's brand or trademark, and managing Trademark ... read more ...
 
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Is the Risk Real With the New gTLD Program? (An Interview with Verisign) - It's late in the new gTLD day and the program looks to be inching ever closer to the finish line. Yet last minute hiccups seem to be a recurring theme for this ambitious project to expand the Internet namespace far beyond the 300 odd active TLDs in existence today (counting generics and country codes). A drive for growth which is already underway, with 63 gTLD contracts now signed as of mid September. The list includes incumbents like .COM, of course, but also a spate of the first of the new ... read more ...
 
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As The London Conference Closes Frank Schilling Responds To The 65 Comments On TheDomains.com - As the The Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress Conference wrapped up yesterday in London Frank Schilling founder of Uniregistry an applicant for more than 50 new gTLD’s, posted a comment to our post to his opening remarks from the conference,  in response to over 65 comments made by readers on the original post the following: “””” this.stuff is.not that.hard There are only so many ways you can say things and language will not change. Only the location of the dot will change. It.seems.confusing today.but itwont.tomorrow Laugh.now but.this will.look normal.one.day Just ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines - ICANN published final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE)  Guidelines last night,  in advance to the  (CPE) commencing. The “Guidelines are to ensure quality, consistency and transparency in the evaluation process. ” “The CPE Guidelines are an accompanying document to the Applicant Guidebook, and are meant to provide additional clarity around the process and scoring principles outlined in the AGB. ” “The Guidelines do not modify the framework or standards laid out in the AGB.” View ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Finally Completes Acquisition Of NetworkSolutions.com - According to an email we received tonight it looks like Web.com (WWWW) has finally completed the acquisition of NetworkSolutions.com Here is the email we got tonight: “I have great news for you! Network Solutions is now a Web.com company, and with that everything just got easier. Not only will you still have access to the Network Solutions products and services you currently enjoy but you will now be able to take advantage of Web.com’s acclaimed Build-it-for-Me products too! Web.com is focused ... read more ...
Fri 27th September 2013
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New gTLD Registration Strategies: Preparing for the Inevitable - As we draw closer to the first new gTLD registry launch, many companies are beginning the arduous task of developing their new gTLD registration and blocking strategies. And after speaking with dozens of clients, I can tell you that the planned approaches are ranging from very minimal registration and blocking strategies for one or two core brands, all the way through to registrations of multiple brands in every single new gTLD registry. Generally speaking, we are recommending that companies ... read more ...
 
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Brand Protection: Importance of Registering Multiple TLDs - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – As most business owners understand, one of the first steps to establishing an online presence for a company is the selection of a domain name. As one of the most important elements of your website, the domain name is what your current and potential customers use to find your website on the internet. One part of this element that might not be as obvious to small business owners is the need to register your domain under multiple top-level ... read more ...
 
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Can gTLD / nTLD Pre Registration Lists Help You Find Good Domain Names? - With the new TLDs coming soon(ish), domain registrars like 101 Domain, 11, Name.com, and others have been taking pre-reservations. While these are non-binding, it gives the registrars and TLD applicants some decent data about what the demand will be like when these TLDs come on the market. I wonder if this data would be helpful to domain investors today who want to find domain names that will be in demand in the future. Rick Schwartz posted an article today that got me thinking about ... read more ...
 
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ANA Sounds The Alarm: US Tax Proposals Could Kill The Ad Industry & Domain Monetization - Under US tax law, advertisers are allowed to deduct 100% of the amount they spend on advertising on their tax returns. However according to The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), several pieces of legislation are expected to be introduced by House Ways and Means Committee which would require advertising costs to be amortized over three years, rather than deducted in the year the funds are spent or limit the amount of tax deductions for advertising to a percentage of the amount spent in any ... read more ...
 
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With launches looming, gTLD applicants expand on their plans - For a long time, gTLD applicants have kept their cards close to their chest, with application documents providing the sole clue as to their intentions. Over the past week, applicants have been more forthcoming about their motivations for applying and how they will position their new online offerings. Google was one of the key players in the first round of gTLD applications, bidding for 98 strings. Speaking at the Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress, currently taking place in London, ... read more ...
 
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Non-Brokered MLS & BIN Sales Aren’t All Low Priced Sales; Here Are The Top 10 Highest Sedo MLS Sales - I was under the mistaken perception that those MLS sales and BIN sales we see every week reported in the marketplaces are all low dollar sales. However I just got some information from Sedo that shows some domain sold through the  MLS channel, even domain sold with BIN priced domains are fetching some excellent prices. MLS is the registrar distribution product of Sedo and one in which in which automated offers and counter offers are handled all online without the need  or participation of a live ... read more ...
 
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I nuovi domini generici di primo livello si apre una nuova e audace era con i … - Share and Enjoy Guest Post di Jerome Sicard, Regional Manager, Southern Europe di MarkMonitor ® La prossima pietra miliare nell’espansione dello spazio dei nomi di dominio è rappresentata dal tanto atteso arrivo dei domini generici di primo livello (gTLD). I domini di primo livello (TLD) costituiscono la parte del nome di dominio che si trova a destra del punto -. com, .net, ecc. Attualmente vi sono 22 domini di primo livello, ma con l’introduzione ... read more ...
 
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Call to Action: Prepare for New gTLDs - You know how your mother doesn’t understand this business about new top-level domains? Now is the time to explain it to her carefully because the web is about to get a major upgrade.After months of delay, applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – the text to the right of the dot in a web address – are now signing contracts in rapid succession. To date, applicants have signed registry agreements for 45 gTLDs with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which ... read more ...
 
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Is the Risk Real With the New gTLD Program? - It's late in the new gTLD day and the program looks to be inching ever closer to the finish line. Yet last minute hiccups seem to be a recurring theme for this ambitious project to expand the Internet namespace far beyond the 300 odd active TLDs in existence today (counting generics and country codes). A drive for growth which is already underway, with 63 gTLD contracts now signed as of mid September. The list includes incumbents like .COM, of course, but also a spate of the first of the new ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
According To New Domain Name Registrations Enterprise Is Rolling Out My13days.com On Oct 10th - A bunch of new registrations by Enterprise Rental Car indicates the company is about to roll out a new advertising campaign using the domain name My13Days.com The company recently registered the domain names: My13Days.com MyThirteenDays.com 13LongDays.com Which all go to the domain name My13Days.com which has a picture of someone who looks like Kevin Spacey with the tag line: The Madness starts on October 10th. The domain name 13days.com seems to be owned by Vertical Axis. Guess we will have to wait ... read more ...
 
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Apple drops .com symbol in iOS7 - Shortcut to .com websites not as prominent in latest operating system. The only device my daughter has used to visit a website is the iPad. So when I let her use my laptop one day, she looked at the keyboard with a puzzled look. “Where’s the dot com key, daddy?” she asked. A lot of people are now asking that same question as Apple has ditched the button in the new iOS7 operating system update. That’s a pretty big deal for the domain name industry. .Com is ... read more ...
 
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Claiming heading to a tenure “women”, association files UDRP opposite women-asia.com - Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Property Management B.V. of Amsterdam, which is affiliated with modeling agency Women Management, filed the complaint against a domain owner from Thailand. The complainant actually has some stylized trademarks for the term “women” in various ... read more ...
 
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Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and a options will stink - Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve another mystery, I saw the future of new top level domain names according to Scooby Doo. It wasn’t pretty. Fred’s father bought an amusement park attraction on the site “Haunted Attractions For Sale dot Scare”, ... read more ...
Thu 26th September 2013
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LogicBoxes to Host Webinar for New gTLD Applicants on Vertical Integration - LogicBoxes, the leader in providing Business Automation Solution for companies in the Domain and Hosting Industry, will be conducting a webinar on the 3rd of October, 2013, for all New gTLD Applicants. The Webinar would give valuable insights to New gTLD Applicants on the various TLD Distribution models, including a Vertically Integrated model which ICANN has only recently lifted a restriction on. In 2014, we will see 1000+ new gTLDs hitting the market and with only 500+ active Registrars ... read more ...
 
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How fashion brands can stay on trend with the internet’s new top-level domain … - Even in the current Internet landscape of only 23 generic top-level domains (gTLDs)—including .com, .net, .org and a handful of others—many organizations find that protecting against domain name infringement is quite a challenge. To make the challenge even more formidable, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently considering applications to add up to 1,400 new gTLDs to the Internet landscape, with some gTLDs opening for domain name registrations beginning ... read more ...
 
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The Maturing Domain Industry - Day one of the Digital Marketing and gTLD Strategy congress is happening in London today. As we inch ever closer to new gTLDs actually launching on the Internet, business models and marketing approaches are becoming clearer and better defined. This was evident in today's presentations and workshops, with applicants and current TLD operators alike showing much greater depth of thought into how these namespaces might actually be of use to Internet users. That's often been missing from new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Welcomes Claire Carroll as Head of Marketing for United TLD – 4 - Digital Industry Strategist Will Spearhead Efforts for Historic New gTLD Launch Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Claire Carroll, who joins the team in Dublin, Ireland as Head of Marketing for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing to become a world-class registry and leader in new generic Top Level ... read more ...