Monthly Archives: November 2013

Sat 16th November 2013
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In Praise of ICANN - ICANN comes in for a lot of criticism. That's because people care very deeply about it. The multi-stakeholder model, of which ICANN is the exemplar, is such a radical and revolutionary departure from how global affairs have been managed in the past that many of us are constantly on guard lest ICANN degrade into the command-and-control structure that characterizes other global regulatory bodies. At ICANN, it's the volunteers, those who care (as well as, yes, those who are paid to pretend to care) ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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What Happened To Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Name Industry Report? -   Verisign which had been releasing a quarterly report on the domain name industry seems to be  Missing in Action. The last Domain Name Industry Report was  published for the quarter ending December 31, 2012. Verisign had been issuing quarterly reports containing the number of total domain names registrations with a break down ccTLD’s has been a no show in 2013. Verisign’s last quarterly report it issued was for December 2012 showed 252 million domain names registered  worldwide. As ... read more ...
 
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ICANN@15: Born in the USA – But Will It Stay? - This article was originally intended to be a short one focused on indications that ICANN was exploring the establishment of a legal nexus outside the United States and discussing what that might mean — and whether it was consistent with the Affirmation of Commitments (AOC) entered into with the United States in 2009. Then, as completion neared, came the sudden and nearly simultaneous release of the October 7th Montevideo Statement and the announcement two days later of a proposed 2014 Brazil ... read more ...
 
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265 Million Domains: We Asked What Happened To The Verisign Report & Tonight Verisign Answered With The Numbers - Earlier today we asked what happened to the Verisign Quarterly  Domain Name Industry Brief that has been missing for 2013 and tonight Verisign answered us. In in a post on the company blog Verisign releasing an series of three infographics showing that current worldwide domain name registrations sit at 265 Million domains as of the end of the 3rd quarter of 2013, up from 252 million reported by Verisign as of December 31, 2012.” In the blog post Verisign writes: “Today Verisign announced that ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Launches New Travel Site Dedicated to 2-4 Day Getaways: WanderWe.com - Oversee.net announced tonight, that is launched a new travel site,  Wanderwe.com, where “weekend travelers can now book all aspects of their weekend getaway including hotel, activities and tours. ” “WanderWe, the only online travel site completely focused on the 2 – 4 day getaway market, focuses on flexible destination search for travel within the next 60 days. ” “This means they can search for unique experiences based on budget and lifestyle interests, narrowing down their choices after ... read more ...
 
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London becomes the latest city to get its own top-level domain - Not to be outdone by New York City, London is set to follow its transatlantic cousin in getting its very own domain name. ICANN, regulator of all things domain related, today gave the British capital the go-ahead to offer .london addresses to "businesses, organisations and individuals". While it gives Londoners the chance to show a bit of hometown love, the domain has already attracted the attention of "tens of thousands of businesses," which will each do their bit to help to boost London's online ... read more ...
 
 
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Will the ICANN Auctions Kill off New gTLD Innovation? - As the launch of the first of the new gTLDs draws ever closer, more and more applicants are beginning to publicise their business models and ideas for putting the Domain Name System (DNS) to good use. By doing so, they are also shedding light on what promises to be a far less uniform Top Level for the Internet than might have previously been feared. A schism is appearing in the type of applicant/TLD model being enacted. Up until now, Donuts, Google et al have tended to hold the spotlight, ... read more ...
 
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Ken Hansen Of NeuStar Resigns to Launch The Co.com Registry With Greg McNair & Paul Goldstone - According to press release we received, “three well known domain industry leaders have teamed up to launch the co.com registry that will allow users to “register the .com domain names they’ve always wanted!” Ken Hansen (formerly of Neustar) will lead the new venture as CEO, joining Paul Goldstone (President), and Gregg McNair (Chairman). Ken Hansen “When Paul asked me to work with him to build a ‘dream team’ for co.com, I immediately thought of Ken Hansen as our leader. Today our CEO ... read more ...
 
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This Small Company Is Battling Amazon For The Next .COM - XYZ.com is bringing the new domain extensions .xyz and .College to the Internet as part of the new gTLD program. It’s also in a battle with Amazon and others to bring .Now to market. Do you expect to get any domains with new gTLDs? Anything in particular you’re leaning toward? Let us know in the comments. The company consists of a small team of about five people battling against giants like Amazon, Google and Donuts. Co-founder Daniel Negari is the youngest gTLD applicant ... read more ...
 
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What Happened To Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Name Industry Report? -   Verisign which had been releasing a quarterly report on the domain name industry seems to be  Missing in Action. The last Domain Name Industry Report was  published for the quarter ending December 31, 2012. Verisign had been issuing quarterly reports containing the number of total domain names registrations with a break down ccTLD’s has been a no show in 2013. Verisign’s last quarterly report it issued was for December 2012 showed 252 million domain names registered  worldwide. As you ... read more ...
 
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.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN - The new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON,  to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the Internet’s root zone in 2014. Dot London is a subsidiary of London Partners, the official promotional ... read more ...
 
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Über 700 Internet-Domains für die Schweiz - Anstatt nur auf .com oder .ch sollen Domains künftig auf alles Mögliche enden können. Seit letztem Jahr können sich Unternehmen und Behörden für neue generische Top Level Domains (TLDs) bewerben. Die Schweizer waren bis anhin im Reservationsverfahren bescheiden, der Bund hat sich nach kurzem Techtelmechtel mit der gleichlautenden Fluggesellschaft die Rechte an .swiss gesichert.  Nun sind die neuen TLDs in der Schweiz angekommen, schreibt Switchplus. Die Tochtergesellschaft von Switch ... read more ...
 
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101domain.com joins Famous Four Media Registrar Ecosystem to promote its … - 101domain.com joins Famous Four Media Registrar Ecosystem to promote its new generic TLDs Portfolio Details WhaTech Channel: Domain Names Published: Friday, 15 November 2013 00:08 Submitted by Jonathan Dolby Press Release from: Famous Four Media Read: 0 times Famous Four Media announced a collaborative approach with 101domain.com ... read more ...
 
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MarkMonitor Signs the .UNO Registry-Registrar Agreement With Dot Latin LLC - .UNO 'The Internet namespace will change dramatically with the introduction of the new gTLDs and .UNO is poised to be one of the early movers in this evolving ecosystem,' says Matt Serlin, Vice President, Domain Operations for MarkMonitor. Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) November 14, 2013 Dot Latin LLC announced today ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Holdings batch adult 25% on .London news, adult 3x given final month - TLDH on fire as new top level domain names get closer to reality. Shares in Top Level Domain Holdings skyrocketed 25% today after the company announced ICANN had signed the contract for the .london top level domain name. TLDH is the backend registry for .london. Shares in TLDH were up 3.62 pence to 17.88 pence on the London Stock Exchange. There were also two “price monitoring extensions”. This extension is “activated when the matching process would have otherwise ... read more ...
 
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Ken Hansen leaves Neustar to launch co.com domain name registry - Hansen will join team offering third level domain registrations under co.com. Ken Hansen, formerly at Neustar, will lead co.com as CEO.Three well known people in the domain name industry have teamed up to offer domain name registrations under co.com, e.g. name.co.com. Ken Hansen has resigned his position at Neustar to join the new venture as CEO. Paul Goldstone (who owned the second level domain co.com) will be President and Gregg McNair (Igloo.com) will be Chairman. This ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy to finish the Sedo domain sales partnership - Sedo to lose key domain distribution partner next year. GoDaddy is ending its domain listing syndication partnership with Sedo as of March 31, 2014. The partnership enabled domain names listed with Sedo to show up on GoDaddy Auctions as well as in the registration path on GoDaddy.com when a customer searched for a domain listed for sale with Sedo. The decision comes in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition of Sedo’s competitor Afternic in September. “We’re all ... read more ...
 
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The GoDaddy and Afternic finish user domain name sales list - GoDaddy handles $1.8 million in aftermarket sales, including these end user domain name sales. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.8 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 23 that were end user sales. Domain, Price – buyer AllRenovations.com $3,288 – All Renovation Construction LLC in Staten Island, which uses the domain AllRenovationLLC.com. MichiganSealCoating.com $1,250 – B E Sealcoat Products, Inc in Blanchard, Michigan. YHCA.com $1,088 – ... read more ...
Thu 14th November 2013
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.Kiwi Launches Founders Program - The .Kiwi registry has formally launched a Founders Program for the .Kiwi new gTLD and has broken it down between several different levels of involvment Launch Community Individuals and organizations who show early interest in .kiwi, and are eager to promote their Kiwi-ness. Only a select few will have the opportunity to join the .kiwi Launch Community. Register your interest with us now to be kept in the loop about potential future offerings. Launch Partners Organizations that are so confident in ... read more ...
 
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JustCloud.com Buys Mega.Co For $60,000 - JustCloud.com a company which allows you to store all you “information in the cloud” just bought the domain name Mega.co for $60,000 The domain name was owned by  InterNetworX Ltd. Co. KG. The domain sale was brokered by Rocket Name™ According to Rocketname.com, it’s the fifth biggest .co sale to date after O.Co ($350,000), e.Co ($81,000), cruises.co ($82,500) and mesothelioma.co ($76,000). It should be noted that e.Co was subsequently sold for more than $81,000 in a unreported transaction. Mega.com ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes 3rd Part of Four Part Series On Name Collisions - Verisign publishes the 3rd part of a new 4 part series on name collisions last night. “Blocking a second level domain (SLD) simply on the basis that it was queried for in a past sample set runs a significant risk of false positives.  SLDs that could have been delegated safely may be excluded on quantitative evidence alone, limiting the value of the new gTLD until the status of the SLD can be proven otherwise. Similarly, not blocking an SLD on the basis that it was not queried for in a past ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes 3rd Part of Four Part Series On Name Collisions - Verisign publishes the 3rd part of a new 4 part series on name collisions last night. “Blocking a second level domain (SLD) simply on the basis that it was queried for in a past sample set runs a significant risk of false positives.  SLDs that could have been delegated safely may be excluded on quantitative evidence alone, limiting the value of the new gTLD until the status of the SLD can be proven otherwise. Similarly, not blocking an SLD on the basis that it was not queried for in a past sample ... read more ...
 
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Timbermate Products Pty Ltd Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Timbermate Products Pty Ltd of Nunawading, Victoria, Australia, represented by K L Gates LLP, Australia has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Timbermate.com The one member panel of Tony Willoughby gives an excellent recap of UDRP decisions where RDNH was found and the basis for finding RDNH. Here are the relevant facts and findings by Mr. Willoughby: The Complainant has owned its domain name timbermate.com.au since at least December 7, 1998. The Domain ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Publishes The Second Installment of the NameSentry Namespace … - Architelos, Inc. announced today the publication of the second installment of the NameSentry Namespace Quality Report. The report benchmarks the comparative safety of the Internet and its largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring by the prevalence of security threats such as malware, phishing, botnets, and spam. The findings indicate a 67% increase of domain names identified and listed as “abusive” by major blocklists from January to September 2013, and that at least 5.5% of newly registered ... read more ...