Monthly Archives: November 2013

Thu 14th November 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
True Category Killer Hits The Market, Fashion.com But Why Is Schilling … - We get press releases about domain names for sale almost every day but this one really caught our eye. The domain name is Fashion.com Its a huge vertical, certainly a top 100 generic .com domain name and certainly worth into the eight figures According to the press release the domain is being brokered jointly by DomainNameSales.com and igloo.com. DomainNameSales of course was founded and is owned by Frank Schilling. Frank Schilling also is the founder of Uniregistry a company which applied for ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Publishes The Second Installment of a NameSentry Namespace Quality Report - 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 ...
 
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Architelos Publishes Second NameSentry Report, Releasing Data and Key … – Virtual - 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 ... read more ...
 
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True Category Killer Hits The Market, Fashion.com But Why Is Schilling Brokering Not Buying It? - We get press releases about domain names for sale almost every day but this one really caught our eye. The domain name is Fashion.com Its a huge vertical, certainly a top 100 generic .com domain name and certainly worth into the eight figures According to the press release the domain is being brokered jointly by DomainNameSales.com and igloo.com. DomainNameSales of course was founded and is owned by Frank Schilling. Frank Schilling also is the founder of Uniregistry a company which applied for over ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Publishes Second NameSentry Report, Releasing Data and Key … - LEESBURG, Va.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--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 ... read more ...
 
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New Internet Domain .BUILD Innovates Construction and All Things “Building” - Related:Press Release, News A new Internet Company founded by Los Angeles based entrepreneurs, .BUILD, has secured the rights to administer one of the most sought after, newly issued generic top level domains (gTLDs), “.BUILD” for global usage on the Internet. .BUILD is creating an entirely new ecosystem moving beyond the traditional domains of .com, .net, .org, etc. and serving as the new Internet destination for anyone who builds anything – with a specific focus on the building and ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems und Donuts unterzeichnen erste Registry-Registrar-Vereinbarung - Donnerstag 14. November 2013 | 14:16 St. Ingbert – Die Key-Systems GmbH, ein international tätiger Domain-Registrar, und die Donuts Inc., Registry für neue Top Level Domains (TLDs), haben eine Registry-Registrar-Vereinbarung (Registry Registrar Agreement, RRA) unterzeichnet. Diese Vereinbarung ermöglicht Key-Systems’ Kunden Domainnamen unterhalb der neuen Donuts TLDs verbindlich vorzubestellen und zu registrieren. Key-Systems bietet diesen Service über seine Portale ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems und Donuts unterzeichnen erste Registry-Registrar-Vereinbarung - St. Ingbert (ots) – Die Key-Systems GmbH, ein international tätiger Domain-Registrar, und die Donuts Inc., Registry für neue Top Level Domains (TLDs), haben eine Registry-Registrar-Vereinbarung (Registry Registrar Agreement, RRA) unterzeichnet. Diese Vereinbarung ermöglicht Key-Systems’ Kunden Domainnamen unterhalb der neuen Donuts TLDs verbindlich vorzubestellen und zu registrieren. Key-Systems bietet diesen Service über seine Portale domaindiscount24 (Endkunden), RRPproxy (Reseller) und ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems und Donuts unterzeichnen erste Registry-Registrar-Vereinbarung - ');event.preventDefault();});})();(function(){if(!FN.getData('artikel_data','aufklappen'))return;$(".aufklappen .shape").click(function(){var title;var text=$(this).parents(".inhalte-text");var cont=$(this).parent();if(text.css("width")=="747px"){if($.browser.msieparseInt($.browser.version,10)');$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseover(function(){$("#artikelBewertet").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").hide();$("#artikelBewerten").show();});$("#ArtikelWertung").mouseout(function(){$("#artikelBewerten").hide();$("#artikelBewertungTitel").show();$("#artikelBewertet").show();});$("#artikelBewertung").children().not("select, ... read more ...
 
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Neue Domain-Namen via Switchplus registrieren – Inside - Neue Domain-Namen via Switchplus registrieren Nach diversen Verschiebungen sollen nun voraussichtlich ab 2014 die neuen Endungen für Domain-Namen genutzt können. Diese sogenannten "neuen generischen Top Level Domains" (new gTLD) können dann auch prominente Endungen wie .zuerich, .shop, .sport und viele mehr enthalten, schreibt heute der Hoster Switchplus.Nach eigenen Angaben bietet man dort als erster Registrar in der Schweiz die Möglichkeit zur kostenlosen Vormerkung eines ... read more ...
 
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101domain.com joins Famous Four Media Registrar Ecosystem to promote its … - RealWire2013-11-14 November 2013 - Famous Four Media announced a collaborative approach with 101domain.com to promote and jointly develop and market the new FFM generic Top Level Domain (TLD) portfolio. The suffixes represented by FFM include some of the most relevant in the domain name industry, such as .accountant, .bid, .date or .download, 12 of the 57 applied for strings are uncontested. The first uncontested new FFM generic TLD will be .BID, with Sunrise expected to start in early 2014. With ... read more ...
 
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1&1 offre la prenotazione vincolante dei nuovi gTLD, tra cui .BIKE e .SINGLES - 11 Internet annuncia la possibilità per le aziende di pre-registrare una serie di nuove opzioni di nomi di dominio, in previsione del loro lancio ufficiale sul Registro, previsto per gennaio 2014 Effettuando la pre-registrazione vincolante con 11, le aziende avranno ottime possibilità di assicurarsi i domini preferiti nel momento in cui verranno immessi ufficialmente sul mercato. I nuovi domini offrono alle imprese nuove eccitanti opportunità di branding e targeting sul web. 11 Internet ha costantemente ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Partners with RightOfTheDot.com for “Category Killer” Premium & Founder Program Domain Sales and Strategy - Although I rarely write about projects I’m personally working on, I’m delighted to announced that .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), has partnered with Internet consulting and advisement firm RightOfTheDot, LLC to help facilitate and manage the release, placement and auction of certain super premium and Founder .CLUB domain names. Super premium names may include such “category killers” as a.club, e.club, 888.club, ... read more ...
 
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New Pizza Chain Spends a Whole $500 To Secure Its Brand, YourPie.com -               This is a new pizza chain starting to gain some momentum has now added South Florida to its locations. Your Pie which started in 2008 the same year  the domain name YourPie.com was acquired the domain at a Godaddy.com auction for a whopping $500, which is now the name for the pizza chain which is busy franchising locations. The chain is now in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee. Another example of someone selling a highly brandable domain name for pennies on the ... read more ...
 
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Type a new TLD in Chrome, and a browser will ask we if we unequivocally meant it - Did you really mean to go to nic.tattoo? New top level domain names are being delegated to the root, but Google Chrome wants to make sure you really meant to type them in. Here’s what happens when you type one of these new domain names into Chrome: It defaults to a Google search for “nic.newtld”, and you have to click a link to go to the actual web address. You only have to click the link once and then you don’t get the message when you visit the domain again. ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s initial new tip turn domain name is live - You can now visit a .tattoo domain name. Frank Schilling’s .tattoo is alive with nic.tattoo. Yes, that’s a domain name. And it’s now on the internet. It’s the first second level domain of Schilling’s TLD bids that you can actually visit from your browser. Included on the site, which is a pitch “artists, studios, and individuals” about the future availability of .tattoo domain names, is a video of Frank Schilling philosophizing about tattoos. If he does ... read more ...
 
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My picks for a Heritage Auctions domain name auction - Reasonable reserves should lead to some good sales in HA.com’s first domain name auction. The Heritage Auctions domain name auction, the first domain name auction to be undertaken by a major auction house, ends one week from today. The actual auction will take place on November 21. Reserves will be posted on HA.com tonight, but after taking an advance look, it seems like there are some great domains with very reasonable reserves. I’m not sure if these will sell, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
J.P. Morgan registers domain names for Mortgage Backed Securities settlement - Bank registers domain names for a settlement with the U.S. government over mortgage backed securities. It’s no secret that J.P. Morgan is on the verge of a multi-billion dollar settlement with the U.S. government over mortgage backed securities. That probably explains why the bank just registered a handful of domain names related to the settlement: jpmc-mbs-settlement.com jpmorganchasermbssettlement.com jpmorganmbssettlement.com jpmrmbssettlement.com MBS obviously ... read more ...
 
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Timbermate Products guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company never alleged domain was registered in bad faith…just use in bad faith. Timbermate Products Pty Ltd of Nunawading, Australia, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a World Intellectual Property Organization panel. The company, which uses the domain name timbermate.com.au, filed a UDRP against the domain name timbermate.com. The owner of Timbermate.com was, at one point, a distributor for Timbermate in the United States. After the distributorship ... read more ...
 
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Under Armour buys MapMyFitness for $150 million - Company didn’t spend a lot of money for its domain names. Athletic apparel company Under Armour has acquired Austin, Texas company MapMyFitness for $150 million. So what does this have to do with domain names? Well, it’s kind of interesting when you dig into it. The name MapMyFitness immediately set off alarm bells in my head when I heard about the acquisition. Not because it’s a local company, but because they recently bought a domain on the aftermarket. My ... read more ...
 
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Some new TLDs will run “Early Access Programs” for a Landrush phase - The TLD launch phase typically known as Landrush might look very different with new top level domain names. Top level domain name launches over the past decade have followed a fairly similar path. First, there’s a sunrise period in which trademark owners can get first claim on domains. Then the domain proceeds to a landrush phase. In landrush, prices are generally higher and there are auctions if more than one person is interested in the same domain. Finally, the ... read more ...
Wed 13th November 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Tucows Sells Over $4 Million In Domains Names In 3rd Quarter Or Gets A Lot Of Money For New gTLD Strings -   Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013 beating EPS estimates by $0.03 and beating revenue estimates by $3.8M. Shares are trading up over 15% after hours. Tucows sold a total of  $4.167,000 in domain names for the 3rd quarter of 2013 or maybe not. To be clear Tucows reported portfolio income of $4.1 million which has always consisted of  domain name sales but now includes some serious cash they may have gotten ... read more ...
 
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1and1.com Tops 4 Million New gTLD Pre-Reservations; Adding 1.5 Million In a Month -                       The domain name registrar, 1and1.com just topped 4 Million pre-reservations for new gTLD domain names. The registrar announced earlier this week that they were accepting pre-registrations for 4 new gTLD’s, .BIKE, .SINGLES, .HOLDINGS and .CLOTHING which are different that pre-reservations. 1and1.com recently announced they have spent over $50 million dollars in television and other marketing of new gTLD domain name pre-reservations. On October 24th 1and1.com passed ... read more ...
 
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Troubling: Federal Court Gives ShareTv.com To ShareTv.Org Despite .Com Registered 3 Years Earlier & 7 Years Before TM - In a troubling development for all domain investors, The United States District Court for the Eastern District Of Virginia has awarded the domain name Sharetv.com to the owner of ShareTv.org under a lawsuit brought under the Lanham Act and Virginia’s Unfair Competition Act. (Case No. 1:13-cv-00506, Dkt No. 1) Although ShareTv.org had a federally registered trademark on the term ShareTV, the domain name Sharetv.com was registered three years before the Plaintiff’s own domain name ShareTV.org was  ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domains – Chancen und Risiken für Unternehmen - Die neuen Internet Domains versprechen neue Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen, Experten sehen aber zugleich auch einige Risiken, welche besonders die Internetkriminalität fördern könnten. Aktuell sind bereits 1400 neue Domain-Endungen vergeben. Domain-Änderungen wie .Bayern, .shop oder .gay versprechen eine bessere Ordnung und vermitteln Identifikation. Die neuen Adressen sollen sich schon bald zu den Klassikern .de, .com etc. gesellen. Der Präsident der weltweiten Internetverwaltung ... read more ...