Monthly Archives: November 2013

Fri 22nd November 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domains that were theme to fibre difficulty objections could be on reason for a while… - Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results were mostly dependent on who the panelist was, not the merits of the case. As a result, both objectors and applicants have filed reconsideration requests with ICANN’s board. The board governance committee has summarily rejected ... read more ...
Thu 21st November 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Namecheap to join the new TLD initiative - “Being a domain name registrar means creating opportunities to create amazing domain names,” Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap, said. “The new TLD initiative will make it easier than ever to buy just about any domain you could dream about.” New York, NY (PRWEB) November 21, 2013 Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar, ... read more ...
 
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L’actualité des nouvelles extensions (New gTLDs) numéro 17 -   Partager cet article :Afin de répondre à vos besoins d’information sur le monde gravitant autour des nouvelles extensions (New gTLDs) de l’ICANN, nous avons décidé de créer une newsletter hebdomadaire spécifique à l’actualité des nouvelles extensions.De nombreuses évolutions, rebondissements, annonces en rapport avec le programme des nouvelles extensions ont lieu sans que vous n’en soyez forcément informés.En vous inscrivant à notre lettre d’information hebdomadaire, vous ... read more ...
 
 
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TLDH Launches Registrar Business and Priority Reservations Platform - Minds + Machines makes Official Priority Reservations available for .best, .casa, .ceo, .cooking and .horse. (Visit Website)Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) announces a major expansion of the Group's activities with the launch of a Priority Reservation service available to consumers through its wholly-owned registrar business, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. It is the first consumer-focused initiative undertaken by the Group and lets Internet users for the first time make a nominal ... read more ...
 
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Conclusion: SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback (Part 4 of 4) - ICANN's second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause "severe harm," and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which that provision would need to be exercised remains to be determined. However, given the concerns outlined in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, it seems likely that there could be many additions (and deletions!) from the blocked list given ... read more ...
 
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GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention” - The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and “requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding auctions to resolve string contention (including community applications)”. The GAC considers that new gTLD registry operators should be made aware of the importance of protecting children and their rights consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD … - Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled  “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback” - Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled  “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which that ... read more ...
 
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Tasty: Yahoo Sells Sandwich.com For $137,500 On Sedo - Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich for $137,500 on Sedo today as part of its themed auction. Only a handful of domains seemed to hit reserve and sell with Sandwich.com being highest sale by far. Sandwich.com has a reserve range of $50,000-$99,999 The domain name was first registered on July 3rd, 1997. The most active domain name in the auction was PostAJob.com had over125 bids and sold for $13,500. PostAJob.com has a reserve range of $500-$999   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .UNO Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains -   Dot Latin LLC  who is the registry for the new gTLD .Uno has selected Sedo, to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premium domains. Godaddy.com is already accepting pre-registrations for .Uno domain names starting  at $39.99 a year Dot Latin established .UNO to provide a domain extension that will globally connect and unite Hispanic and Latino communities, businesses, individuals ... read more ...
 
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Londres : Première ville du monde à avoir son gTLD en 2014 - Sans doute, l’acquisition d’une extension de nom de domaine propre à une ville pourrait par donner naissance à une visibilité plus ciblée dans un rayon géographique définit au bien de l'organisme en question. Après la ville de Bruxelles qui dispose déjà de son .be.brussels, L’ICANN a declaré dasn un communiqué avoir autorisé la capitale britannique de se démarquer en proposant son propre TDL. Ainsi, Londres sera la première ville au monde à disposer de son propre extension ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Media Selects Sedo For Auctions & Brokerage of Premium Domains -     Famous Four Media (FFM), today announced its has selected Sedo.com to conduct auctions, privately broker premium names and promote the different extensions under FFM’s management. FFM was one of the most active participants in the program, applying to manage 57 new gTLDs. I n the coming months, FFM will begin making 12 of these extensions available to the public, beginning with .BID and rapidly followed by .WEBCAM, .TRADE, .ACCOUNTANT and .REVIEW. The remaining extensions will be released ... read more ...
 
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15 Year Old Wolfpack.com “One of The Best Domains on The Internet” For Sale For $60K Hit With UDRP - A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name Wolfpack.com. Wolfpack.com is a dictionary term which means “a group of wolves that live, feed, and travel as a family group” The domain is going to a for sale page which says: “One of the Best domains on the Internet Wolfpack is for sale for purchase $60,000 O.B.O. The domain is owned by The Ascot Group, Inc of California which according to DomainTools.com has owned the domain since at least 2002. The domain was registered in 1997. According ... read more ...
 
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Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead. - The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. The case got off to a bizarre start, with Donuts calling into question Pellet’s impartiality and independence. Donuts pointed out that Pellet has a bias to the medical community and that Donuts’ TLDs make up a large part of ... read more ...
 
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CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but we can’t have it - CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you’ll find out the domain isn’t available for registration. Despite being registered from 1997 until at least the middle of 2013, CM.com has been sent to purgatory. The domain name was apparently deleted by the registrar ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s a story behind 9 other domain names it sole during auction today. - Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. Yahoo! picked up Sandwich.com and CyberJokes.com with its Broadcast.com acquisition.I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memories of flipping through The Industry Standard while updating bids on GoTo.com. (Yeah, I know most of these Yahoo! acquisitions happened after ... read more ...
 
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Sedo gets disdainful understanding with Famous Four Media for new TLDs - Famous Four to handle sunrise, landrush, and premium sales through Sedo. Sedo has announced its second big new top level domain name deal this week. The company has signed an agreement with Famous Four Media, applicant for 57 new top level domain names, to help the company sell its domain names. Sedo tells me this is an exclusive deal for all of Famous Four Media’s top level domains. It will include Sunrise and Landrush Auctions, as well as premium auctions and ... read more ...
 
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Animation.com and XZ.com accommodate reserves, will sell in Heritage Auctions domain name auction tonight - Two six figure sales already for domain name auction taking place tonight. The official live auction for Heritage Auctions’ domain name auction, the first ever domain auction by a major auction house, is tonight in New York City. But early internet bidding has already guaranteed a couple notable sales. Animation.com, which I listed on my picks for the auction, has met its reserve with a $95,000 bid. The two letter XZ.com domain name has also met its reserve after ... read more ...
 
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Get a hide look of a new ICANN.org website - A beta of the new ICANN.org website is now live. ICANN is finally getting a new website, not just the minor facelifts it has received in recent years. ICANN Labs is working on a new ICANN.org website and hopes to launch it publicly in February. It is currently running the site in parallel to the existing one at new.icann.org. ICANN Labs is the same group working on experimental projects to help with community participation. Its test projects include ICANN Passport, ... read more ...
Wed 20th November 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Tres detenidos en Albacete como presuntos autores de una estafa … - Agentes de la Comisaría de Albacete han detenido a D. T. C., 48 años, con antecedentes, y un matrimonio búlgaro, I. S. D., 51 años y T. L. D., 47 años, como presuntos autores de un delito contra el patrimonio por estafar mediante el uso fraudulento de tarjeta bancaria ajena.   La víctima denunció en mayo de 2011en Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña), que habían efectuado pagos con su tarjeta bancaria. Se inició la investigación para comprobar los hechos denunciados, que se alargó en ... read more ...
 
 
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Nominet To Finally Introduce Shorter ‘.uk’ Domain In 2014 - Nominet, the non-profit registry responsible for managing the UK domain name space, has announced plans to introduce a shorter ‘.uk’ country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) next summer. The new ccTLD will allow businesses and individuals to register shorter website addresses, which will cost as much as the current ‘.co.uk’ names - £3.50 for a single year and £2.50 when registered for several years. The change to the British domains is coming as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... read more ...
 
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FinanceIt.ca Raises $13 Million & Looks To Expand Into US Market - According to a press release out today FinanceIt, has raised a $13 million Series A financing. The company owns the domain name Financeit.ca “which is today a Canada-only play”. The domain name Financeit.com is owned by a US company evenmoney.com The press release goes on to say that they money will help the company expand to the United States, starting in 2014. I guess they are going to go with the .Ca to do business in the United States. As a company, FinanceIt offers a very interesting service: ... read more ...
 
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Nominate Approves .Uk Domain Names; .co.uk Holders to Get 1st Shot - Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD’s most notably .London,  but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie) Nominet  existing .uk customers will be offered first refusal of the shorter equivalent of their current address, ... read more ...