Monthly Archives: November 2013

Wed 20th November 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Should your business have more than one domain address? - What are the business benefits of more than one domain address? Most companies look for a .com or a national top-level domains (TLD) when they first start up. But should companies and organisations only look for addresses based on geography? Is there an advantage to using more than one domain address?New TLDs are on their way and will greatly increase the number of domain names available. Good news for new businesses perhaps, because companies and organisations ... read more ...
 
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Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) – online-auskunft24.com - Onine-Auskunft24.com teilt mit, dass zu den neu freigeschalteten TLDs beispielsweise ".app, .kaufen, . hotel" uvm gehören. Jedes Unternehmen hat mittlerweile eine eigene Firmenhomepage. Mit den neuen Top Level Domains (TLD) haben die Unternehmen nun die Möglichkeit zu ihrem Website Namen die Stadt, in welcher das Unternehmen seinen Sitz hat hinzuzufügen. So kann sich von den Kunden die Internetseite besser gemerkt werden. Onine-Auskunft24.com (http://online-auskunft24-blog.com/neue-top-level-domains-tlds/) ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Holdings to roll-out priority registration platform - Email To: From Email address: Name: Please send me a copy Message: Verification code Top Level Domain Holdings to roll-out priority registration platform Wednesday, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New gTLD Strings With The Smallest Number of Domains In Collision (Non-Brand, Non-IDN’s) - We have chatted about the new gTLD strings with the most number of collisions based on ICANN report  here are the 10 new gTLD’s with the smallest number of collisions, that are not Brand applications and not IDN’s: .MutualFunds 26 .CancerResearch 27 .Bargains 52 .Yachts  62 .Passagens (Portuguese for cheap) 67 .Gripe 120 .Voto (Spanish for Vote) 137 .Translations 138 .Guitars 142 .Exposed 142 .Kosher 143 Some other new gTLD strings with a low number of collisions include .Republican, .Democratic,  ... read more ...
 
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David Letterman jokes about Healthcare.xxx domain name - It works a lot better than Healthcare.gov, comedian says. If the owner of the Healthcare.xxx domain name is wondering why he got a bunch of traffic to his parked domain name last night, here’s why. On the David Letterman show last night, David Letterman joked about all of the problems with Healthcare.gov, the government’s health care shopping site. He suggested an alternative: Healthcare.xxx. The show then shows an ad for the site. Healthcare.xxx is registered ... read more ...
 
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Will NamesCon chaperon in an epoch of inexpensive domainer conferences? - NamesCon is an inexpensive alternative to most domain name conferences. NamesCon, a new domain name conference being organized by Richard Lau, will take place in Las Vegas January 13-15. Right now you can purchase a conference pass for $199. That’s not a typo. Tickets are $199, and the top ticket price for advance purchase if you wait until closer to the show is only $599. That’s much less expensive than the two big domain name shows, TRAFFIC and Webfest. Each ... read more ...
 
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Nominet to offer second turn .uk domain names, with .co.uk owners removing priority - Major shift coming to .uk namespace. Nominet has approved a controversial program to offer second level .uk domain names, but has drastically changed the program from the first draft. Under the approved plan, second level .uk domain names (e.g. example.uk) will be available for registration at a wholesale price of £3.50 for single year registrations and £2.50 for multi-year registrations. Owners of existing third level .co.uk domain names will get first rights to ... read more ...
 
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Sedo finish user domain name sales report - Sedo sold $1.4 million worth of domain names last week, which is more than its typical week. Here are some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. Holos.com $5,000 – Massie Research Labs, which offers the HOLOS IntraOp, a tool for refractive cataract surgery. Tngroup.co.uk 1,649 GBP – Thurlow Nunn Standen Ltd, an agricultural machinery dealer. Symcon.de 1,500 EUR – Symcon GmbH, which uses the domain ip-symcon.de Istanbul.at 5,000 EUR – Elite ... read more ...
 
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Did TheWire.com domain name sell for 6 figures? - The Atlantic may have paid six figures for TheWire.com for rebranding The Atlantic Wire to The Wire. Atlantic Media purchased the domain name TheWire.com to rebrand The Atlantic Wire to simply The Wire. The sale may have been for six figures, depending on how you interpret a quote in an article published yesterday on CapitalNewYork.com. The story quotes company president M. Scott Havens on how much the company paid for the domain name: “over five and less than seven ... read more ...
Tue 19th November 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy.com/Afternic.com Sells $1.67 Million In Domain names Led By ToughPad.com For $37K - Godaddy.com/Afternic.com released their weekly sales reporting $1,656,650 in domain name sales All sales were led by ToughPad.com which sold for $37K and TAMR.com which sold for $25K more than Rags.com which sold for $20K Here are the reportable sales:     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led By Outbreak.com - 640 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million dollars This amounts to $59.9 million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: outbreak.com at 73,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: publicidade.com.br at 17,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: arcadia.org at 5,500 USD Pay.La sold for $10K and Max.la sold for $4,500 Two .com.br ... read more ...
 
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Beyond .Com: The Startup Bringing You .XYZ and .College - Businesses have a new home online. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) generic top-level domains (gTLDs) program is opening a whole new world of domain extensions for businesses. Now, companies will have an even wider range of extensions they can use beyond ".com." Although the ".com" extension is the most popular, ".org," ".biz," ".co," ".me," ".ly" and other extensions have recently risen in popularity. With the new gTLD program, new extensions like ".inc," ... read more ...
 
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The use of trademark protection mechanisms under new gTLD system - 19 November 2013 By Ding XianjieGeneric top-level domain (gTLD) is one of the top-level domains (TLD) managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Under the current gTLD system, there are only 22 gTLDs available (not including the TLDs representing 200-plus countries and territories, such as the .cn). These TLDs are generic terms representing ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Picks Sedo To Run Sunrise Auctions & Run Premium Domain Name Auctions - Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to  manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are opened for public availability. In instances where there are multiple claims for the same mark, Sedo will ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs: what you need to know - The Internet landscape is set to face its “biggest change… since inception”1 with the introduction of new generic top level domains.  With more than 1,000 new “strings” likely to go live in the first round, there are new challenges for trade mark owners to ensure that their intellectual property will not be misused online. What is a top level domain? A top level domain (TLD) is that part of a domain name found at the far right, and is either a “generic” TLD (gTLD) (e.g. .com, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Donuts Announce Partnership - Sedo just announced a new partnership with Donuts, and the company was selected to help Donuts sell some of its premium new gTLD domain names. This is positive news for the company considering the number of new gTLD registries Donuts will likely operate. According to this morning’s news release, “Sedo will manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration.” The sunrise auctions ... read more ...
 
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Shaul Jolles And Efi Gershom Stake Their Claim On The World Domain Stage - Shaul Jolles And Efi Gershom Stake Their Claim On The World Domain Stage - Jolles and Gershom are the powers behind the latest .uno domain extension pointing exclusively towards the Spanish speaking world. - - There’s no better way of measuring the  explosive growth of the Internet than by taking into account that since the first domains were registered way back in 1985, more than 250 million of them now exist, with over 100 million of them having ... read more ...
 
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TLDH: Major Expansion of Group’s Activities – Registrar Business and Priority … - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, November 18, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ --HighlightsTLDH's wholly owned registrar business, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited, launches at ICANN's Buenos Aires meeting; TLDH debuts its Priority Reservation service for five gTLDs: .best, .casa, .ceo, .cooking, and .horse, with others to follow;Internet users now able to pay nominal fee to reserve names on first-come, first-served basis in participating gTLDs ahead of formal launch through TLDH's Priority Reservation ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Nuovi domini web con nomi dei marchi: meglio di .com e dei social network? - A ottobre l’ICANN ha annunciato nuovi domini di primo livello: gli esperti sono convinti che estensioni di domini di marchi famosi, come .NIKE o .TIFFANY, saranno un modo migliore di attirare l’attenzione dei clienti online, più di quanto possano fare i social networkUna ricerca effettuata dal fornitore di servizi di registrazione Afilias svela che il lancio dei nuovi domini web con nomi dei marchi famosi rappresenterà probabilmente l’inizio della diminuzione del numero di marchi che fanno ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Trademark Holder of “Ovation Hair” Registered In 2012 Wins UDRP On Ovation.com Registered in 2008 - The owner of a trademark on Ovation Hair, DC Labs Inc. was awarded the generic domain name Ovation.com by a one member panel although the term Ovation is a generic term and the trademark OVATION HAIR was not granted by the USPTO until 4 years after the domain name Ovation.com was acquired by the domain holder Of course the trademark was for a broader term than the domain name itself. Its a horrible decision in which the one one member panel of Eduardo Machado found a common law trademark to the ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain to market full internet addresses -

Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., a association focused on shopping a rights to internet residence suffixes, Monday announced skeleton to marketplace full internet addresses directly to consumers.

Instead of only offered a rights to use internet residence suffixes–known as tip turn domains–to companies that afterwards use these to emanate full internet

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13 Year Old Calibers.com Saved In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH Despite No Bad Faith, Legitimate Use & Generic Term - Calibers National Shooters Sports Center, LC lost its claim to grab the domain name calibers.com, however the panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) despite the fact that they found the domain holder had legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and did not register and use the disputed domain name in bad faith The Panel hold that Complainant has not established a prima facie case in support of its arguments that Respondent lacks rights and legitimate interests under Policy ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Pulls All 16 New gTLD Domain Names On Collision List Out of Auction - After ICANN released the collision list today for all new gTLD strings, Namejet.com informed TheDomains.com that it has pulled all auction for new gTLD domain names that were on the collision list. NameJet.com in conjunction with the .XYZ and .College registry has been first out of the block to sell new gTLD domain names by auction certain new gTLD domain names off on its platform However after ICANN released the collision report today, identifying domain names in each new gTLD which cannot be sold, ... read more ...
 
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Panel denies village objections opposite .Hotels applicant - Objectors were upset with single registrant application for .hotels. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied two community objections filed against .hotels applicant Booking.com. The cases were filed by Hotel Consumer Protection Coalition and HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants Cafés in Europe, and the cases were consolidated. Although there were 7 applications for the .hotel (singular) top level domain, it seems that the groups were concerned about Booking.com’s ... read more ...
 
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Forget new TLDs, new 844 numbers are entrance soon! - New toll free numbers are coming out next month, and services offer to pre-register them much like new top level domain names. New TLDs are coming, but not as soon as new 844 toll free numbers. The new numbers will be released next month. Much like with new TLDs, companies are happy to help you secure the new toll free numbers. I received an email today from a group that offers a pre-registration service similar to what some domain name registrars are offering for ... read more ...