Monthly Archives: October 2013

Thu 31st October 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Domain Horror Story: Company Spends Money On PR To Promote Its New Domain W3ddingDJ.com - You might put your little one’s safety to sleep before reading this ghostly  tale of a company that just spend cold hard cash to promote its new domain name W3ddingDJ.com A Press Release was put out by Seward Park Tech, “a DJ and Lighting company servicing the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut otherwise known as the Tri-State area” or otherwise know as the number one media market in the  US. So what did this company acquire to make their mark on the Internet in the biggest media market ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Part One of Rousing Schwartz vs. Schilling New gTLD Debate Video is Here … - Their press released added, "The Domain Name Association will educate Internet users around the world about the benefits of domain names, with a specific focus on the imminent introduction of new Top-Level Domains," The DNA ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Runnable.com Raises $2 Million After Buying It’s Domain For $2,500 On Sedo - According to Term Sheet, Runnable, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based “centralized location for finding code,”  raised $2 million in seed funding. Sierra Ventures led the round, and was joined by Resolute.VC and individual angels. The domain name Runnable.com was acquired for a whopping 2,000 Euros, a year ago through Sedo.com which equates to less than $2,500. I have said it before but do NOT sell your brandable domains cheap. This is another is what is becoming an endless amount of posts talking about ... read more ...
 
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Fantastic .voyage: the launch of first 9 new gTLDs - The first nine new generic top-level domain name spaces (gTLDs) in English1 are expected to go live on or around October 29, 2013.  These first nine domain spaces to join existing gTLDs like .com and .net are: .camera, .clothing, .equipment, .guru, .holdings, .lighting, .singles, .ventures and .voyage.  Up to a thousand more new gTLDs are expected to launch in the following months. One of the most thorough lists of estimated launch dates is maintained here, and a searchable list of all gTLD applications ... read more ...
 
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Info about New Domains for Your Online Success - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - The introduction of the new top-level domains is in full swing! In the near future we will be informing you every month about the latest news and special features when it comes to gTLDs. Of course, once the exact conditions for your chosen domain names are known and they are available to order, we will inform you immediately. .tour, .tours or .vacations – who’s first? During ICANN’s application phase to introduce the new top-level ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues … - Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to “rigorously pursue  all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, and reversed.” We found the decision pretty shocking ourselves; to find the one group which ... read more ...
 
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Be careful while online shopping this Diwali - India has come of age when it comes to online shopping. Many Indians are turning towards this easier mode of purchase which is less time consuming and comes with better bargains. However, it is also turning out to be an easy hunting ground for opportunistic cybercriminals. Scammers and fraudsters are once again doing the rounds with out-of-the-world offers and speedy deliveries to users’ doorstep. According to computer security software corporation Symantec, third-party mailers and spammy ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Is Back For The 10th Consecutive Super Bowl With Two Ads; No Word On .Co - “For a 10th year-in-a-row, GoDaddy is going to be in the Super Bowl commercial line-up according to a press release it issued today. Godaddy  has purchased two thirty-second spots, one in each half of the game to be broadcast on FOX February 2. “At least one of the two spots will feature Danica Patrick, who has already been in more Super Bowl commercials than any other celebrity.” “GoDaddy is confirming what won’t be in the new commercials — risqué innuendo. GoDaddy’s marketing has ... read more ...
 
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WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s … - The ICC has Upheld the Community Objection of SportAccord against the application of Famous Four for the new gTLD .Sport SportAccord is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Sport, actually the only other applicant for .Sport so what this ruling means if it stands, is that Famous Four’s application for .Sport will be rejected and SportAccord will wind up with the new gTLD .Sport. The ICC panel found that SportAccord represented the community of Sports. There is also a new gTLD application .Sports ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; & Acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc For $119 Million - Neustar, Inc. (NSR), the back end provider of  the ccTLD’s, .Us .Co and the TLD of .Biz and for hundreds of new gTLD applicants today announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, and in a separate release stated that it has acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc., a leading campaign and predictive analytics platform, for approximately $119 million in cash consideration. Results for Third Quarter 2013 Compared to Third Quarter 2012   Revenue increased 8% to $227.6 million Non-NPAC ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues To Have It Reversed” - Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to “rigorously pursue  all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, and reversed.” We found the decision pretty shocking ourselves; to find the one group which i would ... read more ...
 
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Technical Viability of Dotless Domain Names - It was never obvious at the outset of this grand Internet experiment that the one aspect of the network's infrastructure that would truly prove to be the most fascinating, intriguing, painful, lucrative and just plain confusing, would be the Internet's Domain Name System. After all, it all seemed so simple to start with: network applications rendezvous with their counterparts using protocol-level addresses, but we users prefer to use "natural" identifiers that act as aliases for these addresses. ... read more ...
 
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Here They Come - Something has shifted. I think it might be the end of the holding pattern we as new gTLD applicants/followers/enthusiasts and generally speaking, the entire community, have been caught up in. We´re all looking forward to ushering in the next generation of the Internet. Someone press start please. Several major milestones have been reached. Multiple new gTLD registries have passed initial technical testing and the first batch of new gTLD contracts have been signed. One might even say that ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
DL.com sells for $210,689, Twitter batch pitch domain doesn’t sell - Two letter domain sells for big bucks, but three letter domain and Tweeter brands fail to sell. A domain name and intellectual property auction held by Hilco Streambank has concluded with a big two letter domain name sale. Bidding for DL.com ended at 210,689, which was above the reserve price for the domain name. 7 bids were placed in the auction. Also selling in the Hilco auction was the domain name FireDog.com and some associated intellectual property. I believe ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ING Direct Canada to turn Tangerine? They bought Tangerine.com for $100k. - Odds are that ING Direct Canada will soon by called Tangerine. David and Michael Castello recently sold Tangerine.com for $100,000, as reported on DNJournal this week. The buyer? ING Direct Canada. George Kirikos, a Canadian domain name investor, just tweeted out that he believes ING Direct Canada is about to change its name to Tangerine: Scotiabank announced a deal about a year ago to acquire the company, and time is running out for it to change the bank’s name. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy to run dual Super Bowl commercials, sans passionate innuendo - Company will continue to advertise in Super Bowl but take a different tack. GoDaddy has announced that it will run Super Bowl ads for the tenth year in a row. The company will again have two 30 second ad spots in the 2014 Super Bowl. One of them will, once again, feature race car driver Danica Patrick. But the similarities between 2014 and the company’s previous Super Bowl commercials will end there: the company will skip sexual innuendo in the new commercials. GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Famous Four issues matter about .Sport decision - Famous Four questions panelists decision in .sport community objection. In case you haven’t heard yet, SportAccord won a community objection against Famous Four Media’s application for the .sport top level domain name. It was a surprising decision, as it’s pretty hard to argue that “sport” is a clearly delineated community. I personally don’t know anyone who has never participated in a sport or watched a sport. It seems like anyone who breathes is a member ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Release of new gTLDs - Sun about to rise on new gTLDs The release of the first new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) is imminent. Applications to register and operate the new gTLDs opened in the first quarter of 2012. After many months of evaluation by ICANN and public consultations, the first batch of new gTLD registries will soon begin accepting domain name registrations from the public after the initial sunrise period has closed. ICANN received 1930 applications for new gTLDs. The applications cover a mix of generic ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Signs Its First Registry-Registrar Agreement with Dot Latin’s TLD, .UNO - KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses, consumers and individuals online. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131030/PH07247LOGO ) .UNO is an excellent choice for Hispanics ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Neue Top Level Domains Verdienen mit Heimat und Identität im Netz - Vergangene Woche wurden die ersten vier der neuen Top Level Domains in die Root Zone des Internets integriert: Der arabische Begriff für "Netz", die kyrillischen Wörter für "Online" und "Site" sowie der chinesische Ausdruck für "Spiel". In einigen Wochen werden die ersten Websites mit den neuen Adressendungen im Netz stehen. Rund 1.400 weitere TLDs werden bis vermutlich Ende 2014 folgen - solche mit vorrangig kommerziellem Bezug wie .shop oder .hotel., mit Interessen- und Lifestylebezug wie ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Trademark owners – protect yourselves NOW as the new gTLDs are finally … - The first wave of the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (the “new gTLDs”) were just approved to go live a few days ago, and cybersquatters and speculators may already be pre-registering your brand as one of these new domain names. The remaining 900 or so expected new gTLDs, such as .shop and .online, will go live on a rolling basis with little advance warning. Accordingly, it is time for trademark owners to review their domain name enforcement strategies and scale them appropriately to meet ... read more ...
 
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Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is … - The Online Trust Alliance‘s (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what “many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of “domain collisions” occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD’s The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a long-standing practice of network administrators setting up intranets (internal networks) using ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is Like Y2K - The Online Trust Alliance‘s (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what “many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of “domain collisions” occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD’s The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a long-standing practice of network administrators setting up intranets (internal networks) using top ... read more ...
 
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Testes da Petrobras em Sergipe começam até fim de 2015 - O diretor de Exploração e Produção da Petrobras, José Miranda Formigli, afirmou nesta quarta-feira, 30, que a empresa dará início aos testes de longa duração (TLD) na Bacia Sergipe-Alagoas até o final de 2015. A expectativa do diretor é de que a produção tenha início até 2018, com produção inicial de 100 mil barris. "Já estamos modelando o sistema, mas o TLD calibra o sistema definitivamente. Estamos trabalhando para ter uma unidade de 100 mil para 2018. Isso está firme e forte ... read more ...