Monthly Archives: October 2013

Wed 23rd October 2013
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New top-level web domains announced by Icann - 23 October 2013 Last updated at 18:09 GMT Hundreds of new generic top-level domains may be created as part of the programme Four new generic top-level domains - the letters that appear at the end of web addresses, such as .com - have been announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is expected to roll out the new names within weeks. They are: شبكة, the Arabic ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains Sells JHAH.com For $3,888 To The #1 World’s Oil Producer Saudi Arabian Oil Company - The domain name JHAH.com was sold by BuyDomains.com, in June on Afternic.com for 3,888 probably on a Buy It Now basis. Today the whois on the domain name updated and the buyer is the world’s #1 oil producer, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. Saudi Arabian Oil Company according to  Hoovers.com, is “the king of oil, and the world’s #1 oil producer, supplying more than 10% of global oil demand. “In 2012 the company had oil reserves of 260 billion barrels (the world’s largest); it also owned 283 ... read more ...
 
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16 Year Old Domain RelianceGroup.com Saved In UDRP - Reliance Telecom Limited of Mumbai, just lost a UDRP on the domain name RelianceGroup.com which was registered on September 21, 1997. The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP but won any way. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: Reliance uses the domain name relianceadagroup.com for its main website but owns some 500 domain names with the word Reliance in the domain. The Complainant is an Indian corporation with its principal office in Mumbai, India. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Politico.com Covers .GOP Without Talking About .Republican - Politico.com just covered the .Gop new gTLD which is being run by the Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that focuses on electing Republicans to state-level offices (RSLC) “At the RSLC, we do pride ourselves on trying to look a little further down the road and take a longer view of things,” Chairman Ed Gillespie said in an interview, citing work the committee already does to recruit local candidates who may rise into the ranks of the national party one day. “I think we’re well ... read more ...
 
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The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress Returns To New York In March … - Momentum events which held its 2nd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress, just a few weeks ago in London, will again bring together the leaders of the brand and domain community this coming March in New York for two days of advanced learning and real-world launch case studies timed to coincide with the anticipated delegation and launch of the initial wave of new TLDs. The 3rd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress which will focus on launch strategies for brands and generics as the first ... read more ...
 
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Liste d’extensions - 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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Afternic/Godaddy Sales Total $1,625,000 - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 10/14/13 – 10/20/13 attached. Total domain sales for the week summed to  $1,625,205. Here are the reportable sales for the week     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN approves Arabic, Russian and Chinese global domain spaces - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally shown the green light to the first ever generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), and they’re all international strings written in Arabic, Russian and Chinese.The road to gTLD approval has been a long and tortuous one for many in the industry, but at least the process appears to be working – the three companies named by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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At TRAFFIC East, domainers finally incited a corner - Conference chatter changed from looking backward to looking forward. I was rather bummed after both of the major U.S. domain name conferences that took place in the first half of this year. I was bummed because people were just talking about the past. They were talking about the same stuff they’ve been talking about for the past three years. About falling parking revenues. About developing domains. Same old, same old. So that’s why this week at TRAFFIC in Ft. ... read more ...
 
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It’s Official: initial 4 new TLDs have been delegated - Four new top level domain names delegated. It’s October 23, 2013, and a few new top level domain name applicants can finally see the fruits of their many, many years of labor. ICANN announced today that four new top level domain names have been delegated. The four domains are شبكة. (web), .游戏 (games), .сайт (site), and .онлайн (online). The registry operators for these domains will soon put up a second level domain or two, which will be another ... read more ...
 
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Shares of Top Level Domain Holdings spike - TLDH shares almost double in price. Shares in new top level domain name applicant Top Level Domain Holdings have double in recent days. The stock is currently trading on the London Stock Exchange for 10.25p. Shares were trading for less than 6.00p last Friday. It’s not immediately clear to me why the shares have jumped. It could be because a couple research reports for the stock came out this week. It could also be because new top level domain names, TLDH’s business, ... read more ...
 
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3 things that provoke me about domain sales emails - Selling domain names via email is OK. Doing the following three things is not. If you own a handful of domains, you’ve surely received an email from someone offering to sell a domain name that is similar to one in your portfolio. This isn’t a problem in and of itself. I’ve occasionally done it. Elliot does a great job sending highly targeted emails. That said, there are three mistakes I think some people make when sending domain name sales emails. 1. Sending ... read more ...
Tue 22nd October 2013
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Escrow.com: We Close Domain Sales For More Money In a Week Than What Others Are Reporting For The Year - In the final session from the TRAFFIC Conference  some blockbuster statements which indicate a huge amount of big dollar domain sales have gone unreported and the total amount of domain sales are way under-reported. Andee Hill from Escrow.com had a pretty eye opening statement at the Meeting of the Chiefs. The Must-Attend T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Seminar, that the  total dollar volume of domain sales that get processed through Escrow.com,  greatly exceed the amount that gets reported saying; “we close ... read more ...
 
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The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress Returns To New York In Mar 2014 - Momentum events which held its 2nd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress, just a few weeks ago in London, will again bring together the leaders of the brand and domain community this coming March in New York for two days of advanced learning and real-world launch case studies timed to coincide with the anticipated delegation and launch of the initial wave of new TLDs. The 3rd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress which will focus on launch strategies for brands and generics as the first wave ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6MM - Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 684 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6MM. This amounts to $54,7m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: igarden.com at 37,990 USD · Top ccTLD: schiffssuche.de at 17,780 EUR · Top “other” TLD: cloudit.net at 28,750 USD Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo to Auction Rare & Never Before Released .Asia Domain Names Including … - Sedo.com announced today a strategic partnership with DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .Asia top-level domain (TLD) and RightOfTheDot.com, a leading domain industry consultancy, to auction a series of rare and never-before-released domain names. Through these auctions, approximately 1,300 one and two character domain names such as 8.asia, 28.asia, and X.asia will be offered to the public for the first time. For more information on the pending auctions, visit sedo.com/us/asia. The ... read more ...
 
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Avalanche preparedness: blocking service now available for many new generic … - In the coming months, the first of more than 1,000 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names, ranging from .beer to .phd, will be launched. Some new gTLDs will be restricted to certain brand owners or have other eligibility requirements, but about 600 will be open to the public. With so many new “lands” in which to stake a claim, brand owners are anxious to learn the rules that will establish law and order. While several mechanisms exist to protect trademark rights, many brand owners remain ... read more ...
 
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Sedo to Auction Rare & Never Before Released .Asia Domain Names Including 1 & 2 Letter/Number Domains - Sedo.com announced today a strategic partnership with DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .Asia top-level domain (TLD) and RightOfTheDot.com, a leading domain industry consultancy, to auction a series of rare and never-before-released domain names. Through these auctions, approximately 1,300 one and two character domain names such as 8.asia, 28.asia, and X.asia will be offered to the public for the first time. For more information on the pending auctions, visit sedo.com/us/asia. The ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Vs ICANN Round 3 - In a letter sent to ICANN yesterday by Verisign’s Chuck Gomes,  Vice President, Policy of VeriSign, Inc. responded to the response he received from his initil letter to ICANN seeking to “set the record straight” As the previous two letters its worth a read: Dear Cyrus, I was disappointed by your October 3, 2013, response to my August 30 letter to Fadi. But before I tell you why, let me start by saying that I am not interested in starting an unending chain of correspondence. That said, I do ... read more ...
 
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PPA Media Services / Ryan G Foo Loses 3 Separate UDRP’s In One Day & His 56th Overall - PPA Media Services / Ryan G Foo lost three separate UDRP decisions with three separate complainants all handed down yesterday. In the 1st case brought by Sirius XM Radio Inc., the domain at issue as the typo Sriusxm.com amazingly it took the trademark holder 7 years to being the UDRP: “Complainant argues that Respondent registered the sriusxm.com domain name on July 29, 2008, one day after the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Inc” In the second case brought by fashion ... read more ...
 
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BrandShelter bietet die komplette Verwaltung für .MARKE TLDs aus einer Hand - BrandShelter, das Corporate-Domain Portal des international tätigen Domain-Registrars Key-Systems, bietet Unternehmen, die sich in der zurzeit stattfindenden Bewerbungsrunde der ICANN um eine .MARKE TLD beworben haben und nun mit der baldigen Zuteilung rechnen dürfen, eine Komplettlösung für deren Betrieb. BrandShelter erlaubt die Verwaltung der .MARKE Endung(en) zusammen mit allen existierenden Domainnamen und Registrierungen neuer TLDs in einem Interface. Der Service zum Domain-Management ... read more ...
 
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BrandShelter bietet die komplette Verwaltung für .MARKE TLDs aus einer Hand - ');event.preventDefault();});})();(function(){if(!FN.getData('artikel_data','aufklappen'))return;$(".aufklappen .shape").click(function(){var title;var text=$(this).parents(".inhalte-text");var cont=$(this).parent();if(text.css("width")=="747px"){if($.browser.msieparseInt($.browser.version,10)');$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseover(function(){$("#artikelBewertet").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").hide();$("#artikelBewerten").show();});$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseout(function(){$("#artikelBewerten").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").show();$("#artikelBewertet").show();});$("#artikelBewertung").children().not("select, ... read more ...
 
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Anti-Consumer ICANN Can Not be Trusted To Protect Domain Registrants … - Domain name registrants who purchase a name in any of the present or pending generic (gTLD) top level domains should think twice before entrusting a domain name property interest to ICANN, even though ICANN levies a money tariff on each domain registration. ICANN has no policy language that indemnifies domain name registrants. ICANN language does not even contemplate the possibility of domain theft by an ICANN registrar. When a domain name is stolen from its registrant, especially when the ... read more ...
 
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First 4 New gTLD’s (ALL IDN’s) Cleared By ICANN To Go To Delegation - According to an announcement by ICANN, today, the first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program were cleared to proceed to delegation. These first new gTLDs, or strings, are: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – the Arabic word for “Web” or “Network” Registry : International Domain Registry Pty. Ltd. онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Russian for “Online” Registry: Core Association сайт (xn--80aswg) – Russian for “Web site” Registry: Core Association 游戏 (xn--unup4y) ... read more ...
 
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UDRP: FlowGuard.com Barred By Laches To Get 17 Year Old Domain Name Flow-Guard.com - CoorsTek, Inc. which owns the domain name FlowGuard.com lost its bid to grab the domain name flow-guard.com with the majority of the panel finding that the trademark holder waited to long and was barred by the doctrine of latches from making the complaint. FlowGuard.com was registered on March 24, 1998. Flow-Guard.com was registered on August 15th, 1996 The domain holder was represented by Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com. Complainant is the owner of trademark registrations for FLOWGUARD and FLOWGUARD ... read more ...