Monthly Archives: November 2013

Fri 8th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Part Series On Why Domain Blocking Of New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA in ... read more ...
 
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NaturallyBorn.com Saved In UDRP - The domain name NaturallyBorn.com was saved in a UDRP today The domain holder was represented by John Berryhill Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: Complainant made the following contentions. 1.    Complainant established the website naturallyborn.net in December 2010.  This website provides information about natural methods of child birthing and breastfeeding, as well as online reviews of natural childbirth and breastfeeding support providers. 2.    Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Way beyond dot-com: New era begins with orders for .menu, .luxury and other … - Can’t get your favorite dot-com address? GoDaddy announced today that it will start taking pre-registrations for a quartet of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will become available early next year. GoDaddy says it’s the first domain registrar to offer pre-registration for gTLDs — launching the market for what amounts to new real estate on the Internet. Users will be able to pre-register for domains that end in .build, .uno, .menu and .luxury at GoDaddy’s new TLD site. ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: NamesCon Conference Selects The The Tropicana Hotel In Vegas & Rooms Start At $79 - NamesCon.com a new domain conference being held in Las Vegas On January 13th-15th has selected the The Tropicana Hotel as the venue for its first conference and has secured a ridiculously low rate of $79 per night (plus a $10 “resort fee” — that includes guestroom WiFi). for attendees. To make a reservation for a hotel room: You can begin by calling 1-800-634-4000 and reference NamesCon or the group code SNC14. According to Richard, who also considered Flamingo, Monte Carlo, Rio , the Tropicana ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy abre pre registro para nuevos dominios TLD - Los planes para extender la cantidad de terminaciones para el registro de dominios lleva tiempo gestándose y después de tanta espera por fin GoDaddy anuncia que abre el pre registro para quienes quieran registrar algún dominio con las extensiones .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD y .LUXURY. En la página se puede ver que además pronto habrá otras extensiones disponibles, 897 para ser un poco más exactos, todos divididos en 17 categorías. Negocios (49) Comercio (85) Educación (19) Comidas y bebidas (29) Genericos ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Starts Registering gTLDs - Scottsdale, Arizona-based domain registrar GoDaddy said this morning that it has begun to sell pre-registration on the ICANN's new domain name extensions, the broad extension of global top level domains (gTLDs) that the Internet domain industry has been working on for the last few years. According to GoDaddy, it has started launching pre-registration of .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD and .LUXURY, the first of what GoDaddy says are 700 additional domain name extension expected to be available over the next ... read more ...
 
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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To … - Here we go, boys and girls. What is the explanation for the variation in renewal fees on the so-called, Premium, domains: PurelyPurses.com $14.99 LeatherPurses.net $16.99 vs. $9.99 on a newly-registered dot com, and $8.99 for dot net? “Premium Domain Names are more valuable than other domains because they are based on common words or phrases people often use in their online searches. While GoDaddy does not own these domains names, we are one of a select group ... read more ...
 
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NCSG: ICANN Board-Staff Violated Its Own Corporate Bylaws By Unilaterally Imposing “TM+50 Policy” - The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) says ICANN Board-staff violated ICANN Bylaws by adopting the Trademark+50 policy without following the proper policy modification process The specific policy at issue in this CEP is ICANN staff’s unilateral decision to grant trademark holders significantly greater rights via its “trademark plus 50” (“TM+50”) policy in contradiction to the GNSO Council’s policy recommendations and implementation guidance and the process described in ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com To Auction .XYZ & .College Domain Names Starting This Month - NameJet and XYZ.COM announced they  have partnered  “in a groundbreaking advanced auction format prior to the release of the TLD to the open market in 2014.” “Forty premium .XYZ and .COLLEGE domain names will be offered in this first-of-its-kind advance auction, where  the highest bidder purchases an option to acquire the domain at the winning price, taking possession of the domain when it becomes available at the registry.” “As more gTLDs become available, individuals and organizations ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com To Auction .XYZ & .College Domain Names Starting This Month - NameJet and XYZ.COM announced they  have partnered  “in a groundbreaking advanced auction format prior to the release of the TLD to the open market in 2014.” “Forty premium .XYZ and .COLLEGE domain names will be offered in this first-of-its-kind advance auction, where  the highest bidder purchases an option to acquire the domain at the winning price, taking possession of the domain when it becomes available at the registry.” “As more gTLDs become available, individuals and organizations ... read more ...
 
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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To Preregistrations A New gTLD - With Godaddy taking paid preregistrations on four new gTLD’s today, .Luxury, .Build, .Menu and .Uno, your chances of selling your premium domain name may increase if its listed in Godaddy resale channel. As people search to preregister a new gTLD domain,  if that domain isn’t available because its  already preregistered or reserved by the registry (Godaddy doesn’t distinguish) they are showing alternative domain names and all of the alternatives as of now, are either unregistered .org .net ... read more ...
 
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NameJet to Offer New .XYZ and .COLLEGE Generic Top Level Domain Names … – Virtual - NameJet and the XYZ.COM LLC Registry are offering 40 never before released domain names under the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) .XYZ and .COLLEGE in a group of advance auctions. Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) November 08, 2013 As leaders in innovating the domain name space, NameJet and XYZ.COM have partnered to offer some of the very first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the public this month. These never before released domain names are being offered by the new Top Level Domain Registry ... read more ...
 
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Nuove estensioni dominio 1&1: un importante accordo - Nuove estensioni dominio e prenotazione: 11 annuncia un'importante novità, nell'attesa che l'ICANN renda disponibili i nuovi gTLD Più volte, su queste pagine, ci siamo occupati delle nuove estensioni dominio e delle iniziative di alcuni provider come 11 riguardanti questo argomento. Il nostro obiettivo è sempre stato quello di erudire i lettori riguardo alle reali opportunità offerte dalle prenotazioni ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Adds Seven Generic Top-Level Domains To The Internet, Signs 13 … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), took major strides this week toward broadening choices in the domain name system (DNS) and will introduce seven gTLDs. Further, Donuts now has received signed Registry-Registrar Agreements (RRAs) from some of the world's largest registrars, dramatically expanding registration availability.  The Internet's addressing ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping … - Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can’t find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of consonants and vowels because that’s all that’s available in dot com. So they end up with newyork35avepizza.com ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy starts usurpation pre-registrations for new TLDs for adult to $1,200 each - Pre-registrations now accepted for fees of up to $1,200 per domain. Overnight GoDaddy started accepting paid pre-registrations for four new top level domain names: .uno, .menu, .build, .luxury. While many registrars have offered some sort of pre-reservation or pre-registration service that did not require any firm commitment by the customer, GoDaddy is the first major registrar I’m aware of to actually charge an upfront fee. And the fees are steep. Prices to pre-register ... read more ...
 
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How we use amicable networking for Domain Name Wire - I use social networking to increase traffic and find good story ideas. Last week my Twitter account passed 10,000 followers. I thought I’d use the occasion to discuss how I use Twitter and Facebook in conjunction with Domain Name Wire. Twitter I have about 10,000 followers on Domain Name Wire, and I follow about 200 people. Why only 200? It’s because I use Twitter to find new and interesting stories, and I’ve found that following too many people makes it difficult ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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ICANN: No New gTLD’s Last Resort Auctions Until Early Mar 2014 - In a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention,  ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle ... read more ...
 
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Demand Reports: Media business Negatively Impacted by Declines in Search Referral Traffic & Advertising Demand -  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), reported its earnings after the market closed today. Demand’s earnings were in line with estimates, but revenue was above estimates. However it seems like Demand is fighting a losing battle on the eHow front as changes in Google search algorithm is negatively effecting that part of the business. For Demand in My opinion the spin off of the domain service business can’t happen soon enough “This quarter, our media business was negatively impacted by declines in search ... read more ...
 
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Why The New gTLDs Matter to Me - As someone who runs a website in the domain investing space, the new gTLD domain names will likely lead to advertising revenue opportunities. I don’t have any open banner spots nor do I have plans to add banner space, but at some point in the future, I  assume there will be new gTLD advertising inquiries. That aside, new gTLDs matter to me as a domain investor, and I want to discuss why that’s the case. In the next year or two, we are going to see most major domain registrars marketing ... read more ...
 
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Owner Of CarCovers.com Claims They Bought The Domain For Over $310,000 In 2012 - According to a press release out today the owners of CarCovers.com claim they paid an amount for the domain name in 2012 which would have placed it the top 10 most expensive domain names in 2012 According to DnJournal.com for 2012 the 11th most expensive domain reported that year was 60.com which was $310,000 Tied for number 9 on the 2012 reported domain name sales was Bj.com and Vi.com which both sold for $325,000 So to make the top 10 list the domain name CarCovers.com would have had to sell for ... read more ...
 
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Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) - Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, represented by McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Australia has been found GUILTY of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on two domain names owned by two different owners; cairnsairportparking.com.au (first domain name) and airportparkingcairns.net.au (second domain name) “Paragraph 15(e) of the Rules provides that, if “after considering the submissions the Panel finds that the complaint was brought in bad faith, for example in an attempt at Reverse ... read more ...
 
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KK.com Sells For $2.4 Million Dollars In A Deal Brokered By Moniker.com/SnapNames - The domain name KK.com just sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. brokered by Moniker.com /Snapnames.com The news was posted on the company’s Facebook pages “Congratulations to the Moniker SnapNames Brokerage Team, and Brokers Kevin Kopas and John Mauriello for the sale of KK.com. The domain sold at a price of $2,400,000.00. Great work!” The domain name is now in the name of Liang Zeng of Zijin Digital Plaza in Bejing China according to DomainTools.com The domain name was owned under privacy for ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On … - The  New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night, while punting on reconsideration requests Amazon on .Amazon. The NGPC denied the requests for reconsideration of Hotel Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l’s (“dotHotel”) of the 8 August 2013 Expert Determination from a dispute resolution panel established by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) dismissing dotHotel’s objection ... read more ...