Monthly Archives: October 2013

Wed 30th October 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
As new gTLDs near launch, what’s happening and how can you protect yourself? - 30 October 2013 By Bobby Ghajar and Robert B BurlingameWhile much of the world is finally getting a handle on the .com, .net and .org domains, we are on the brink of an explosion of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In fact, if things go as planned, we will soon grow from the 22 current gTLDs to nearly 2,000 gTLDs.Although exciting and intriguing, particularly ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
PhoneTracker.com Sells For $50K & GiveSmart.com For $40K on Sedo - A couple of  domain name sales hit the Sedo.com wire today. PhoneTracker.com just sold to Spy Phone Labs LLC. According to Estibot the domain name PhoneTracker.com last sold in 2008 for $5,877 The domain name was previously held at Moniker under privacy. The domain name GiveSmart.com was just sold to GiveSmart US, Inc. for $40.000 The domain was formerly owned by of Brian Carrozzi of California. Two nice sales.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Bittorrent-Index Isohunt zwei Wochen nach der Schließung wieder da - Der Bittorrent-Index Isohunt ist knapp zwei Wochen nach der Schließung wieder online. Laut einem Bericht des Onlinemagazins Torrentfreak hat ein neues Team den Betrieb unter einer neuen TLD übernommen. Das wiederbelebte Isohunt sieht genauso aus wie die bisherige Version. "Isohunt war seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt ein wichtiger Teil der Torrent-Welt. Die Schließung ist ein großer Verlust für alle, die es im Laufe der Jahre genutzt haben. Medienkonzerne mögen Innovationen und Wettbewerb, und ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top Level Domains: Wie Google seine neuen Namen im DNS nutzen will - Den eigenen Internet-Namensraum fest im Blick: Google Bild: dpa, Friso Gentsch/Archiv Insgesamt 97 neue Top Level Domains (TLDs) hat Google bei der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) im Rahmen deren Öffnung des Internet-Namensraums beantragt. Darunter befinden sich nicht nur die Namen eigener Dienste, sondern auch eine lange Liste allgemeiner Begriffe. Die Aussicht, ... read more ...
 
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Domény s diakritikou tvoří 2 % světově zaregistrovaných TLD - Většina, ne-li všechny případy zavádění IDN, mají horší výsledky, a to údajně v důsledku nízké informovanosti a malé zkušenosti uživatelů, což vede k nízké úrovni využívání.Kde jsou však IDNs používána, tam má docházet k k 99% korelaci mezi jazykem či písmem doménového jména a jazykem souvisejícího webového obsahu, což je jasným znamením toho, že IDNs mají zásadní roli v rozvoji mnohojazyčného internetu.„Jazyky jsou tím, kým ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy sends out the initial large email blast about new TLDs - Registrar invites customers to follow their favorite top level domains. GoDaddy has featured new top level domain names on its website for a while now. But it appears the company just sent out its first big email promotion to inform its customer base about the coming avalanche of top level domain options. The email (pictured) invites customers to follow top level domain names that interest them. GoDaddy will later allow customers to pre-register domain names, and ... read more ...
 
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Google creates it easier to redeem from site hacks - Updates make it easier to pinpoint hacks and recover from them. Google released improvements to its Webmaster console today that will make it easier to recover from a site hack. As someone who has had his site hacked before, I can attest that it is a miserable experience. Not only do many visitors not come to your site due to browser notifications, but your site can also temporarily loses its indexing. Worse, a lot of times you’ll feel helpless as you try to identify ... read more ...
 
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21 some-more finish user domain name sales - Sedo sells domain names to a window company, a music school chain, and an office furniture maker. Sedo sold $1.3 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 21 that were to end users. YorkshireWindows.co.uk 2,399 GBP – UK window company Yorkshire Windows HomeWizard.co.uk 950 GBP – Home automation company HomeWizard B.V., which uses the domain name HomeWizard.nl AirCar.co.uk 750 GBP – Airlink Limited in the UK FWG.ch 700 EUR – Fredy Wiesner Gastronomie ... read more ...
 
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Typical name collision retard list for Donuts’ TLDs underneath 1,000 names (so far) - Registry won’t have to block many names per TLD, but some of them are good ones. Yesterday ICANN issued the “Alternate Path to Delegation” reports for nine of Donuts’ English language top level domain names. If Donuts chooses to take the alternate path option to speed up delegation of these nine domain names, it will have to initially block anywhere from 194 to 5,184 second level domains. It may be able to unblock many of these after receiving a mitigation ... read more ...
 
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What domains Exxon and other finish users bought final week - Exxon among companies that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy/Afternic sold about $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 15 of the sales that were to end users. Suvidhaa.com $28,000 – Suvidhaa Infoserve P. Ltd., a technology company that uses the domain MySuvidhaa.com. SeeItVideo.com $3,000 – a CSC client ElKitab.com $1,999 – communications company Vodafone. It’s possible an employee bought this for his own use, although it’s registered ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
GoDaddy Signs its First Registry-Registrar Agreement with Dot Latin’s TLD, .UNO – Virtual - UNO will hold a launch party in Buenos Aires, Argentina to officially kick-start pre-registrations which will serve and support the Internet´s fastest growing market. Kansas City (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 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 ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led By Frank Schilling’s Sale Of Baristas.com For $45K - Over the past week, 705 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. This amounts to $56m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by Baristas.com which sold for $45,000 through  SedoMLS that came through GoDaddy. The domain was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Highlights of public sales include: · ·         Top ccTLD: xocial.co.uk at 14,900 USD ·         Top ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy/Afternic Weekly Sales Total $1.7 Million - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 10/21/13 – 10/27/13 summed to  $1,696,432. All sales were led by suvidhaa.com for $28K The buyer appears to be Suvidhaa.in out of Mumbai. I really like thediary.com at $1,300     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Calzone, the Free Cloud-Based Calendar for the Domain Name Industry … - BOSTON, Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Calzone (www.Calzone.org ), a free cloud-based calendar for the domain name industry, announced today that it is enrolling TLD applicants for its Beta test period.  The Internet is about to undergo a sea change as new top-level domain (TLDs) extensions start rolling out. ICANN, the group responsible for approving these new extensions, has a backlog of over 1,200 new extensions ready to introduce ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
TLD ".wien": Vergabe ab März 2014 - Die neue Domainendlung .wien kommt, ein diesbezüglicher Vertrag wurde im Rahmen einer europäischen Konferenz unterzeichnet. Die Vergabe von .wien soll ab März 2014 erfolgen. Das berichtete kürzlich der Verwalter und Vermarkter der Domain, die punkt.wien GmbH. Die Vergabe soll ab März 2014 erfolgen. Geplant, aber noch nicht vertraglich bestätigt ist die Domain .tirol, hieß es auf Anfrage.Da auch für den Eigenbetrieb ... read more ...
 
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WOW: ICC Upholds Community Objection Of SportsAccord To Famous Four’s App For New gTLD .Sport - 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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GoDaddy signs the 1st Registry-Registrar Agreement with New gTLD .UNO: Paid Pre-Registrations Start In Nov -                   According to a press release we just received, 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. GoDaddy will be the first domain registrar to offer .UNO pre-registrations for ... read more ...
 
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Google a dépensé plus de 10,5 millions de dollars pour acquérir les nouvelles … - Google a dépensé plus de 10,5 millions de dollars pour acquérir les nouvelles gTLDs Ajouter un commentaire » Nom de domaine Selon le site américain Ad Age Digital, citant une source proche de la direction de l'ICANN, la societé Google aurait déposé au total plus de 50 demandes pour l'acquisitions des extensions de noms de domaine génériques de premier niveau.A 185.000 dollars le coût du depos d'un seul dossier, plus 25.000 dollars de frais de renouvellement ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: Samsung Rolls Out Ad Campaign On TogetherWeRise.co With Lebron As Part Of $100M NBA Deal - Samsung has rolled out a new Ad campaign to celebrate the start of the NBA season on the domain name TogetherWeRise.co With Matching Twitter Hash Tag The features Lebron James as the Miami Heat are seeking a three-peat as NBA champs. The site allows you to upload a selfie on ToghetherWeRise.co and the site has pictures of people that have already uploaded pictures. Pictures can also be send via Twitter or Instagram. Pictures will be also displayed on the outdoor screen at American Airlines Arena ... read more ...
 
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Handlungsbedarf für die Registrierung der neuen Top-Level-Domains - Die ICANN hat am 26 Juni 2008 beschlossen, eine Lockerung der Regeln für neue gesponserte Domains, sogenannte generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), zuzulassen.Sachverhalt: Die ICANN hat am 26 Juni 2008 beschlossen, eine Lockerung der Regeln für neue gesponserte Domains, sogenannte generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), zuzulassen. In der Zeit von Januar bis Mai 2012 hatten Interessenten die Möglichkeit, sich als Inhaber dieser Top-Level-Domains zu bewerben. Seitens der ICANN ist eine weitere schrittweise ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Registrar Namecheap Now Offers .IO Top Level Domain - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 29, 2013 - Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar, is now offering the .IO top level domain. .IO is one of the most popular domains for entrepreneurs and startups especially, and requests have been pouring in for Namecheap to support .IO. "It is with much excitement that we now support the .IO TLD," said Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap. ".IO is one of the most popular domains for sites that support innovation ... read more ...
 
 
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SlamStrategy: Risk Vs Reward of Owning A New gTLD - In a blog post written by Lauren Pitman for slamstrategy.com.au, looks at the perception that all new gTLD applicants that they will be profitable, its an very interesting post and though its worth a read: “It’s estimated that you would need about $50,000 a year to cover your costs of running a new gTLD. So as long as the applicants felt that they could cover those costs with a minimum number of registrations based on their business plan, they felt that the upside was well worth the risk. “The ... read more ...
 
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SlamStrategy: Risk Vs Reward of Owning A New gTLD - In a blog post written by Lauren Pitman for slamstrategy.com.au, looks at the perception that all new gTLD applicants that they will be profitable, its an very interesting post and though its worth a read: “It’s estimated that you would need about $50,000 a year to cover your costs of running a new gTLD. So as long as the applicants felt that they could cover those costs with a minimum number of registrations based on their business plan, they felt that the upside was well worth the risk. “The ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Neue Top Level Domains: Wie Google seine neuen Namen im DNS nutzen will - Den eigenen Internet-Namensraum fest im Blick: Google Bild: dpa, Friso Gentsch/Archiv Insgesamt 97 neue Top Level Domains (TLDs) hat Google bei der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) im Rahmen deren Öffnung des Internet-Namensraums beantragt. Darunter befinden sich nicht nur die Namen eigener Dienste, sondern auch eine lange Liste allgemeiner Begriffe. Die Aussicht, ... read more ...