Monthly Archives: November 2013

Wed 27th November 2013
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Minnie’s Roundup: London’s Domain and the Coca-Cola Sweater Generator - Published: 27th November 2013 Written by: Minnie London lands its own domain London has landed firmly on the digital map with its successful bid to have a generic top level domain (TLD) it can call its very own. Approval of the .london suffix by ICANN, the domain name governing body, means some of the capital’s leading names and landmarks will be able to use the web to capitalise ... read more ...
 
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Sibername.com signs domain names agreement with Donuts - Sibername Canadian Domain name Registration and Website Hosting and Builder With this agreement, Sibername.com is able to take pre-registrations for Donuts domains, and in time provide all TLDs offered by the registry to its customers, giving businesses an opportunity to further develop their online branding. ... read more ...
 
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Nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, .clothing up for grabs - Nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, .clothing up for grabs Nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, .clothing up for grabs Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the availability of nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, and .clothing. To be made available from January 2014 publicly, the new gTLDs are currently available to all those organizations and ... Read More Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By 3dPrinter.net during $60K, Routes.com during $50K & Mozart.co At $21K - Over the past week, 650 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. This amounts to $60,. Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: routes.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: mozart.co at 21,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: 3dprinter.net at 60,000 USD The most interesting sale of the week might be 87777.com which ... read more ...
 
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Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute - Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark for GTA, but it was unable to persuade a World Intellectual Property Organization panel that the owner was trying to take advantage of Take-Two’s mark. iCity Corp, which owns GTA.tv, argued that the unused domain stood ... read more ...
Tue 26th November 2013
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New gTLD .LUXURY Offered to Public by Luxury Partners, LLC with NameJet … – Virtual - NameJet.com and Afternic, a GoDaddy company, are partnering to bring the new gTLD .LUXURY to the domain name marketplace. NameJet will oversee the Sunrise and Landrush phases of launch, while Afternic will assist with Premium Name selection and sales. Kirkland WA (PRWEB) November 26, 2013 Luxury Partners, LLC, awarded the .LUXURY generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) by ICANN, has selected NameJet and Afternic to manage the Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Name selection and sales phases of the .LUXURY ... read more ...
 
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First Big Wave of New gTLDs Arrives with Donuts Opening Sunrise for 7 … - After years of talk new gTLDs have finally started arriving at participating registrars in significant numbers. Donuts, one of the biggest new gTLD registry operators, opened sunrise today ... read more ...
 
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.Luxury Selects Namejet.com/Afternic.com For Sunrise Landrush Auctions & Premium Name Sales - Luxury Partners, LLC, which own the new gTLD .LUXURY has selected NameJet and Afternic to manage the Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Name selection and sales. Godaddy.com which recently purchased Afternic.com, is currently taking pre-registrations of .Luxury domain names starting at $799.99 a year. Here is the rest of the press release: “The .LUXURY gTLD provides a brandable platform to meet the unique needs of the luxury market. Businesses in the luxury industry will have the opportunity to strengthen ... read more ...
 
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Conflict in ICANN Dot-Radio Selection Process - As Internet traffic cop ICANN slowly but surely draws closer to the conclusion of its top level domain selection process, George Bundy, CEO of BRS Inc., one of four applicants for the dot-radio TLD, is highlighting a potential issue of concern for those in the radio industry via his website. It can be seen here. Recently, Radio World chatted with Bundy. He commented that he was concerned about restrictions that EBU would impose on dot-radio, should it be granted the position. Their “community” ... read more ...
 
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.DE Registry to add Redemption Grace Period (DENIC) - 11|26|2013 02:49 pm EDT .DE Registry to add Redemption Grace Period (DENIC) by Frank Michlick in Categories: ccTLDs, Up to the Minute As of December 3rd, 2013, DENIC, the operator of the .DE ccTLD will also introduce a Redemption Grace Period (RGP) that allows the original domain owner to recover ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schillings Name Administration Sells 88888.com For $245,000 - DomainNameSales.com has brokered the sale of the domain name 88888.com for $245,000 The domain name was owned by Frank Schillings Name Administration. This domain was suppose to be included in the DomainNameSales.com report we posted earlier, but they mistakenly left it out of the report. That would bring up DomainNameSales.com for the week of Nov. 13th to Nov. 26th up to $800K At $245,000 88888.com has to be the largest reported sale of a NNNNN.com domain name and it should be as most buyers of ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy/Afternic Sell $1,685,659 In DomainNames Led By HeritageHome.com For $25K - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reported weekly domain sales for the week of 11/18/13 – 11/24/13 of $1,685,659 All sales were led by HertiageHome.com which was sold for $25K by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration who also had the 2nd highest sale of the week with RealEstateSecrets.com which sold for $17,500. TheKingdom.com a nice “the” domain sold for $11,610 A few product domains like GlassPartitions.com and DeckTiles.com each sold for $9,999 which appears to be Buy It Now Sales I counted at ... read more ...
 
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Conflict in ICANN .RADIO Selection Process - As Internet traffic cop ICANN slowly but surely draws closer to the conclusion of its top level domain selection process, George Bundy, CEO of BRS Inc., one of four applicants for the .RADIO TLD, is highlighting a potential issue of concern for those in the radio industry via his website. It can be seen here. Recently, Radio World chatted with Bundy. He commented that he was concerned about restrictions that EBU would impose on dot-radio, should it be granted the position. Their “community” ... read more ...
 
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Seven new gTLDs open to brand owners - 26 November 2013   |   James Nurton, London The 60-day sunrise periods for seven new gTLDs operated by Donuts launched today ... read more ...
 
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Yeni domain uzantıları kullanıma açıldı - Com ve net gibi en çok kullanılan internet sayfası uzantılarına yenileri eklenmeye devam ediyor. gTLD olarak adlandırılan uzantılar arasında .bike, .clothing, .singles, .guru bulunmakta. Bu uzantıların sadece alanda çalışan firmalara verileceği açıklanırken 2014 yılının Ocak ayında ise herkese açılacağı belirtildi. Yeni isimlerin haftada 10'ar 10'ar kullanıma ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales.com Reports $555K In Sales For Last Two Weeks Led By Novio.com For $45K - DomainNamesSales.com reported $555,582 in reportable sales handled by the brokerage team for the two week period ending today. DomainNameSales.com  does not track or report on  “self brokered” sales made by their customers without the help of the brokerage team. Here are the sales from November sales from Nov. 13th to Nov. 26th All sales were led by  Novio.com which was owned by Frank Schillings Name Administration. Novio is Spanish for boyfriend. Name Administration also sold the 2nd and ... read more ...
 
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Donuts’ First New gTLD Sunrise Begins - As of 8am PST, our first sunrise has commenced @DonutsInc — Paul Stahura (@stahura) November 26, 2013   Donuts is one of the largest new gTLD applicants, and this morning, the sunrise period for seven of its new gTLD extensions has opened. Beginning today, trademark owners are able to register domain names that match their trademark(s) at a domain registrar like 101 Domain (visit their website for pricing and other important details). According to the Donuts website, the following new ... read more ...
 
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Federal Judge Rules Domain Names Are Not Property Under Virgina Law - A Virgina federal judge has ruled that domain names are not property under Virgina Law. The case is ALEXANDRIA SURVEYS, LLC, , v. ALEXANDRIA CONSULTING GROUP, LLC, (ACG)  Civil Action No. 1:13-CV-00891, United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division and was handed down by District Judge LIAM O’GRADY The case was an appeal from a Bankruptcy court decision, which involved a lot of issues, but we are going to limit our review of the case only as it applied to disucssion related ... read more ...
 
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9 New gTLDs Including .bike Hit the Web - November 26th, 2013 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – New domain suffixes approved through ICANN’s groundbreaking gTLD expansion are beginning to hit the web. According to a BBC report on Tuesday, nine new TLDs including the likes of .guru, .bike, .singles are all online. The initial availability is ... read more ...
 
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The new gTLDs are here. Are you ready? - While you are reading this, the Internet is changing. Over the past several years, you may (or may not) have heard that the number of Top Level Domains (such as .com, .net, .eu, etc.) was going to grow exponentially at some point in the future. Well, the future is here. The first of the “new gTLDs” opened for registrations October 31 for a trademark “Sunrise” – dotShabaka, an Arabic domain (technically, ????.) – which is the generic name in Arabic for the Internet. ... read more ...
 
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Los 10 dominios gTLD más deseados por las empresas - ICANN ya está lanzando los nuevos nombres de dominios genéricos (gTLD). Con ellos, se abre un mundo de oportunidades de negocio para grandes y medianas empresas, autónomos y cualquier persona que tenga o quiera montar un negocio en la web. Hoy, 26 de noviembre, empieza el registro en Fase Sunrise de las extensiones de dominio .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles y .ventures. Sin embargo, el top 10 de dominios más demandados (véase la infografía adjunta) es, de acuerdo con ... read more ...
 
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If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins In May 2012 His … - Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would have that $185,000 investment be worth today? Just about $30,000,000. So why would I tie new gTLD’s and Bitcoin’s together? Last week while I was in Argentina on ... read more ...
 
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If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins Instead His Investment Would be Worth $30 Million - Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would have that $185,000 investment be worth today? Just about $30,000,000. So why would I tie new gTLD’s and Bitcoin’s together? Last week while I was in Argentina on a Saturday ... read more ...
 
 
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21 village objections have been decided. So distant it’s unpredictable. - It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applicants to rejoice? Hardly. Much like string confusion objections, community objection decisions and how panelists arrive at their decisions are proving to be inconsistent. Community objections are certainly more complicated ... read more ...