Monthly Archives: October 2013

Fri 25th October 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural … - In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD’s of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. “As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of the same string. “We believe that allowing singular and plural versions of the same TLD string ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse: protecting your brand in the impending … - Over the next two years, the Internet domain landscape will change drastically. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has already begun the process of introducing 1,400 new top-level domains (TLDs) to the .com, .net, .org landscape, with the first new TLDs slated to go live by the end of the year. The new TLDs, such as .discount and .cheap, will create greater choices for consumers and new business opportunities for brand owners, but also bring with them potentially negative ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight Announces Arrival of New TDLs - October 25th, 2013 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – Blacknight, Ireland’s leading domain registrar and hosting company are happy to announce the addition of the first of many New Top-Level domains. It has been a long process, but ICANN has finally given the green light to four new domain extensions. ... read more ...
 
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Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level … - Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said  by losing the  private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in the auction for 4 string auctioned, telling theDomains.com that they would not be furnishing a total ... read more ...
 
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We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural New gTLD’s Are A Bad Idea - In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD’s of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. “As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of the same string. “We believe that allowing singular and plural versions of the same TLD string will ... read more ...
 
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TOP LEVEL DOMAIN HLDG LTD : Private Auction and gTLD Program Update – 4 - Company well positioned for growth and acquisition of further gTLDs The directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions for .websiteand .lawyer, which concluded late on 23 October 2013, the Company will add £2.97 million (US$4.81 million) to its cash reserves. The amount includes proceeds from the two private auctions, net of commissions payable to the auctioneer, and refunds due from ICANN in relation ... read more ...
 
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Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level Domain Holdings $4.8 Million - Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said  by losing the  private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in the auction for 4 string auctioned, telling theDomains.com that they would not be furnishing a total this ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top-Level-Domains bis 2018 marktrelevant - http://: Neue Domains etablieren sich (Foto: pixelio.de, Markus Wegner) Köln (pte016/25.10.2013/13:30) - Die bereits in den kommenden Wochen sich anbahnenden generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) werden bereits in fünf Jahren einen signifikanten Anteil am gesamten Domain-Markt einnehmen. Zu dieser Markteinschätzung gelangt der Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft (eco) http://eco.de in seiner neuesten Erhebung. ... read more ...
 
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Die Auswirkungen der neuen Top-Level-Domains - In den kommenden Wochen beginnt die Einführung hunderter neuer generischer Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs) wie zum Beispiel ".web." oder ".blog". Ihr Anteil am gesamten Domainmarkt wird bereits in fünf Jahren signifikant sein, schätzen Domainanbieter. Zu einem Rückgang der länderspezifischen Domainregistrierungen wird es jedoch nicht kommen. Ein Fünftel der Domainanbieter in Deutschland, nämlich 21 Prozent, geht davon aus, dass der Anteil der neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) in den nächsten fünf ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight Announce The Arrival Of The First New Top-Level Domains - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Expansion of domain names underway with launch of first four new domains.Carlow, Ireland (PRWEB) - Blacknight, Ireland’s leading domain registrar and hosting company are happy to announce the addition of the first of many New Top-Level domains. It has been a long process, but ICANN has finally given the green light to four new domain extensions. These are the first of several hundred new domain extensions that will be available for registration by ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX stellt den DomainShop auf Europas wichtigster Konferenz für new … - Auf der newdomains in München diskutieren Branchenexperten verschiedene Geschäftsstrategien für den Start der neuen Endungen. Markus Galler, Director of Sales bei InterNetX, stellt unterschiedliche Wege vor, um erfolgreich eine TLD zu betreiben - zum Beispiel mit dem DomainShop. Das Domain-Business bereitet sich auf den Start der neuen Top-Level-Domains (new gTLDs) vor: Vom 27. bis 29. Oktober treffen sich Branchen-Experten aus aller Welt auf der newdomains Konferenz in München, um Strategien ... read more ...
 
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Brand owner prevails in first ever URS decision - Details have emerged of the first example of the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) in action, with Facebook successful in its effort to suspend the ‘.facebok.pw’ domain name. While a straightforward decision for the examiner, the news rounds off a significant week in the expanded gTLD environment. The URS is a rights protection mechanism for new gTLDs intended to facilitate the rapid suspension of domain names in clear-cut cases of trademark infringement. Designed to complement the Uniform ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX stellt den DomainShop auf Europas wichtigster Konferenz für new … - (PresseBox) (Regensburg/München, 25.10.2013) Auf der newdomains in München diskutieren Branchenexperten verschiedene Geschäftsstrategien für den Start der neuen Endungen. Markus Galler, Director of Sales bei InterNetX, stellt unterschiedliche Wege vor, um erfolgreich eine TLD zu betreiben - zum Beispiel mit dem DomainShop. Das Domain-Business bereitet sich auf den Start der neuen Top-Level-Domains (new gTLDs) vor: Vom ... read more ...
 
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Internet lance le plus gros chantier de son histoire - De nouveaux gTLD (generic top level domains), ou nom de domaines génériques de premier niveau, seront ouverts dans les jours à venir. Ainsi, aux côtés des traditionnels .com, .org ou .net, les internautes verront également fleurir de nouvelles extensions comme .download ou .mail. Un marché juteux et qui sera expliqué aux entreprises ce mercredi à la Chambre de commerce. Depuis le 8 août 2012, un nouveau gTLD a déjà conquis de nombreuses sociétés: le .post, dédié aux services ... read more ...
 
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Eerste gTLD’s in Chinees, Arabisch en Cyrillisch - Karina Ahles-Frijtersis uitgever bij Settembrini Publishers BV en blogt bij DutchCowboys over technologie en internet en heeft speciale interesse in onderwerpen die over wiskunde, gezondheid, ruimtevaart of kinderen gaan, daarnaast schrijft ze ook voor TEDxAmsterdamED. Je kan haar volgen via LinkedIn. ... read more ...
 
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India’s Radix to offer .website ‘top level domain’ by Q1, 2014! -

Discussion in ‘Engineering Technology News’ started by Kaustubh Katdare, Oct 25, 2013 during 9:53 AM.

Via: crazyengineers.com

 
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Get Ready for a New Digital Land Grab - "Today marks an historic moment, not only for the New gTLD Program, but for the Internet as a whole," wrote Akram Atallah of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in a blog post last night. ICANN is a body that oversees the domain naming system that enables navigation around the web -- it's how computers know where to go when you type in qz.com. ICANN is not an organisation given to hyperbole. But Atallah is right to be excited: yesterday, four new ... read more ...
 
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Traffic steam alert: Healthcare.gov seekers group to Healthcare.com - Healthcare.com highlights a big challenge to developing a site on something other than .com. What’s one of the biggest challenges to creating a website on a non .com domain, at least in the United States? Many people looking for your site will inevitably type in .com instead. VentureBeat just wrote about the owners of HealthCare.com, who have been laughing all the way to the bank ever since the healthcare exchange launched on Healthcare.gov a few weeks ago. “We ... read more ...
 
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Australian appetite association files UDRP opposite AGL.com - Company that uses AGL.com.au wants AGL.com. Australian natural gas and electricity company AGL Energy Limited has filed a UDRP against the three letter domain name AGL.com. The company uses the Australian country code domain name AGL.com.au for its website. AGL.com was originally registered in 1999. The current whois record has privacy, but taking a look at historical whois records from DomainTools, it is possible that the current owner acquired the domain name in ... read more ...
 
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Verisign creates obvious website, still doesn’t divulge the IP plans - Domain name registry shows off its patent portfolio, but still won’t say how it plans to make money from it. Verisign has created a website dedicated to its patents and released a whitepaper about its intellectual property – but still won’t say how it plans to monetize its IP portfolio. Yesterday the company formally unveiled VerisignPatents.com, a sort of patent marking site that lists all of its patents. For example, under the header “Domain Registry Services”, ... read more ...
 
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TLDH scores scarcely $5 million by losing dual domain name auctions - TLDH grows its cash pile thanks to losing two private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings will add $4.81 million to its cash reserves as a result of losing private auctions for .website and .lawyer, the company announced today. $130,000 is from refunds for withdrawing its two applications, bringing the total auction proceeds down to $4.68 million. This doesn’t tell us too much about the winning bids for .website and .lawyer. There were three competitors for .website, ... read more ...
 
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Binary options site spends $99,000 to rebrand as Binary.com - Site spends nearly six figures to rebrand with better domain name. The binary options website formerly known as BetOnMarkets.com has purchased the domain name Binary.com and rebranded to the new domain name. The company’s CEO disclosed to Domain Name Wire that the purchase price was $99,000. The Binary.com domain name was previously owned by a technology company called Binary Systems. “After 14 years in business we decided to re-brand and acquire a category defining ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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ICANN starts rolling out new generic top-level domains - The 'delegation' (introduction) into the Internet's root zone of four new gTLDs starts a Sunrise period to give trademark holders an opportunity to register second-level domains corresponding to their marks, wrote Akram Atallah, president of ICANN's Generic Domains Division in a blog post.Following the mandatory 30-day Sunrise period, operators are free to make their domains available to the public; a period called General Availability.ICANN said in July it had passed a registry agreement for new ... read more ...
 
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"The biggest change to the Internet since its inception": Massive domain name … - After years of preparation, the rollout of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) is finally underway, with the Internet's governing body today delegating the first new domains. They are in Arabic, Chinese, and Cyrillic scripts, including Arabic for "web/network," Cyrillic for "online" and "site," and Chinese for "game(s)," the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced. "It's happening – the biggest change to the Internet ... read more ...
 
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Internet non parla solo inglese - Roma - Arabo, russo, cinese: da oggi il Web è scritto anche in questi tre alfabeti. ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ovvero l'ente che sovrintende le questioni onomastiche su Internet, ha dato il via al nuovo corso dei gTLD: i generic top level domain serviranno a scavalcare l'attuale limitata scelta di desinenze tra com, org, edu e i domini nazionali, e il primo passo per mostrare la nuova apertura è volto a comprendere anche nuove lingue e alfabeti nel novero delle possibilità ... read more ...