Monthly Archives: November 2013

Wed 13th November 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo.com Is Running Yahoo Premium Domain Auction Featuring AV.com - Sedo.com is running a Branded Yahoo.com Premium Domain Name Auction. The auction starts tomorrow November 14th and ends On November 21. It is the first time I have seen a branded domain name auction of a public company’s domain names. There are 29 domain names in the auction led by AV.com which has a stated reserve range of $1M-$1.5M MyM.com has a reserve range of $100K- $250K There are certainly some nice domain names on the list Here are all the domain names in the Yahoo Domain Auction as of ... read more ...
 
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Should you grab a generic top level domain name? - As of this week, anyone can apply for a generic top level domain name, such as .london, or .photography, but should your rush to acquire one and are there any benefits to be had? Search engine optimisation expert Adam Bunn of the independent digital marketing agency Greenlight says "maybe".Generic top level domains open up the possibility of the TLD becoming an important ranking factor in the future. As search engine Google does use the TLD as a ranking ... read more ...
 
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Brands May Lead The New gTLD’s But They May Also Lead The Confusion - Many expect the Brand applicants are to lead the new gTLD charge by bringing consumer awareness to the new gTLD program. To the extent consumers start seeing advertising on domain names using new gTLD’s , consumers may become much more aware of new gTLD domain names. However company’s are still using what I call the “indiscriminate dot” in its advertising, marketing and branding  which is only going to confuse consumers even more. At the recently held TRAFFIC conference I sat in a session ... read more ...
 
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Snapnames.com End Of Year Auction Closes Tomorrow & Has Over $100K in Bids - Snapnames.com End of Year Premium domain name auction closes tomorrow, Thursday November 14th at 3:15PM EST As of time of publication there are over $100,000 bids on the domain at auction although most of those domains have not yet hit reserve including Susan.com that has a $25,000 bid and Direction.com that has a $20,500 bid. Here is a complete list of all the domains in the auction with the current high bid and reserve range:   <![CDATA[]]>Domain Name Bidders Current Bid ReserveRange ReserveStatus susan.com 1 25000 $25,001 ... read more ...
 
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Meer dan één sunrise voor .vlaanderen en .brussels - <![CDATA[]]>DNSBelgium, de registry die over minder dan een jaar de extensies .vlaanderen en .brussels zal releasen en beheren, heeft aangekondigd dat er meerdere sunrises komen. Dit betekent dat u uw geregistreerde merknaam niet per sé bij het TradeMark ClearingHouse (TMCH) aangemeld moet hebben om deel te kunnen nemen aan één van deze sunrises. De allereerste fase is de sunrise die verplicht is voor elke nieuwe TLD en enkel houders van een geregistreerde merknaam die aangemeld werd ... read more ...
 
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Tucows shares rocket to $3.00 on earnings, new TLD deal - Deal with Donuts bolsters Q3 earnings. Shares of Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) shot up 15% to $3.00 in after hours trading after the company announced third quarter earnings. The company got a big cash boost from its deal with Donuts to withdraw its applications for the .marketing and .media top level domain name applications. Although the exact dollar figure of the deal was not disclosed in the earnings release, there’s a huge jump in the company’s “portfolio” ... read more ...
 
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ICANN cautions about new TLD pre-registrations - ICANN weighs in on pre-registrations for new top level domain names. With more and more domain name registrars offering some sort of pre-registration or pre-reservation service for new top level domain names, ICANN has published a word of caution. Cyrus Namazi, Vice President of DNS Industry Engagement for ICANN, published a blog post today titled “Pre-Reserve a Domain Name, or Not? ICANN Answers the Question.” Namazi warns against services that “guarantee” ... read more ...
 
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Motorola spends $7,500 shopping MotoG.com domain name for the new phone - Motorola buys domain name for phone at last minute. This week’s Sedo end user sales report includes a few big companies. One of the companies buying a domain on the aftermarket was Motorola, which bought MotoG.com for its new moto g phone that comes out today. It forwards the domain to its moto-g.com website. Here’s the list: EasyLoan.co.uk 3,500 GBP – Easyloans LTD, a UK company. It doesn’t seem to be the same company that owns EasyLoans.co.uk. MiamiWatersports.com ... read more ...
 
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Sedo auctioning off 100 of Yahoo’s domain names including AV.com - AV.com, Sled.com, and other Yahoo domain names go on the auction block. Sedo is holding an auction this month in which it is selling over 100 of Yahoo’s domain names. The auction runs November 11-21. Currently there are just 29 domains listed on the auction page, but an email I received from Sedo says there will be more than 100 domains in the auction. The names are quite good. Here are some of my favorites: Sled.com – would be good for a winter sportsgoods site ... read more ...
Tue 12th November 2013
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Afternic.com/Godaddy.com Sells $1.8MM in Domain Names, Led By SelectHomes.com For $21K - Afternic.com/Godaddy.com just report $1,802,489 in domain name sales for the week of November 4th – November 10th 2013 All sales were led by SelectHomes.com which sold for $21,000. Non .com sales were led by R2.Co which sold for $8K. southcarolinastatefair.com at $4,888 was one of our BIN domains that sold. Savealifetoday.com was included twice but we left it as it was in the totals provided Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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YourEDM.com “World’s Largest Electronic Dance Music News Site Acquires Rights To EDM.com” - According to a press release out this afternoon YourEDM.com the world’s largest electronic dance music (EDM) news site, The EDM Network. announced it acquired the rights to the domain EDM.com EDM.com was owned by a Jason Muir back in February of this year and is now owned under privacy. However the domain was owned by a Bruning Engineering, Inc in 2012. The company now owns these domain names:  EDM.com, YourEDM.com, Dubstep.NET, House.NET, TrapMusic.NET, GlitchHop.NET, Moombahton.NET, Electro.NET, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million - Over the past week, 748 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million This amounts to $58 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Sedo also congratulates  the buyer of iban.net: The website offers a free online software designed to validate an International Bank Account Number (IBAN) called “Reverse IBAN Checker”. “Now they moved from Reverseiban.com to iban.net – a much shorter and memorable ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN – PR - .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new .CLUB generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today it has signed its Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international organization responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS). This has been a long, stressful, and emotional process for myself and the team at .CLUB, said Colin Campbell, CEO and founder of .CLUB. We are so excited to have ... read more ...
 
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Fighting for Smaller New gTLD Applicants - Will new gTLDs just be more of the same, or will they bring real diversity and innovation to the Internet's namespace? For Hong Kong based Stable Tone, applicant for two Chinese character IDN TLDs (世界 or "Dot WORLD" and 健康 or "Dot HEALTHY"), it's the smaller applicants that give the new gTLD program its soul. Ahead of ICANN's 48th international meeting happening in Argentina next week (from November 15), Stable Tone's CEO Jason Du has commissioned a position paper on the plight of ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales.com Sells $1.3 Million In Domains Led By Ride.com For $325K - DomainNameSales.com just reported its sales for October 16th- November 12th so a little less than a month reporting $1,291,612 in domain name sales. I’m told that the only sales reported are public sales handled by the brokerage team. DomainNameSales.com  does not track or report on  “self brokered” sales made by their customers without the help of the brokerage team All sales were led by Ride.com which sold for $325,000.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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7 Year Old Domain jwines.com Saved in UDRP FIled By Holder of Jwine.com - J Vineyards Winery, L.P. which owns the domain jwine.com, lost a UDRP on the domain name jwines.com which was registered on December 17, 2005. The domain holder acquired the domain name from its previous owner on August 1, 2011. The domain holder was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of Esqwire.com. The three member panel found that while the complainant owned trademarks on J VINEYARDS and J VINEYARDS WINERY, none of Complainant’s alleged trademarks are identical or even remotely ... read more ...
 
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Pre-Registrations for New TLDs Now Available through 1&1 - Web Hosting News – Last Friday (November 8th) marked the next step forward for 11 Internet and new top-level domains (TLDs). The first released new TLDs are now officially available for pre-registration, in preparation for their official launch in January 2014. The new TLDs that businesses can begin to pre-register include: .BIKE .SINGLES .HOLDINGS .CLOTHING New TLDs offer exciting branding and targeting opportunities for businesses on the Web. Not only are there new opportunities for ... read more ...
 
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Here Are NameJet’s Terms & Conditions on New gTLD Auctions -         Namejet.com announced last week it would be auctioning off some new gTLD domain names in the strings .XYZ and .College, even before either new gTLD has been delegated to the root by ICANN. Some readers have questioned, exactly what they are bidding on since they can’t get the new gTLD domain if they win the auction and may not get the domain name. Namejet.com just updated its Terms Of Service last week in conjunction with the new gTLD domain auction and NameJet.com has specific ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Is Not An Auctioneer, Its A Venue -         As we just wrote Namejet.com updated their Terms and Conditions last week and I took the opportunity to read through them I’m not sure what parts of the TOS changed (other than the addition of the Advanced Auction rules on new gTLD’s) but found this section particularly interesting: 3. NameJet is a Venue. 3.1 NameJet is not an Auctioneer. Although we state that the Site includes online auctions, it is important to realize that we are not a traditional “auctioneer.” Instead, the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy waves green at gTLD land rush; initiates sale of first batch of domain … - Mittal Mandalia On November 12, 2013 http://www.techienews.co.uk GoDaddy has opened doors to prospects for the first registration of new domains as a part of ICANN’s generic top-level domain (gTLD) plan. The domain dealer has announced that it will be allowing interested parties to pre-register to domains ... read more ...
 
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Here Are NameJet’s Terms & Conditions on New gTLD Auctions -         Namejet.com announced last week it would be auctioning off some new gTLD domain names in the strings .XYZ and .College, even before either new gTLD has been delegated to the root by ICANN. Some readers have questioned, exactly what they are bidding on since they can’t get the new gTLD domain if they win the auction and may not get the domain name. Namejet.com just updated its Terms Of Service last week in conjunction with the new gTLD domain auction and NameJet.com has specific rules ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Domainendungen kommen im Frühjahr 2014 - Lang dauert es nicht mehr, dann können die ersten generischen Toplevel Domains verbindlich registriert werden. Nach einer Verschiebung Mitte 2013 wird es nun also im kommenden Frühjahr 2014 endlich so weit sein. Wer sich eine Domain mit einer der neuen Endungen unbedingt sichern will, dem sei geraten, diese schon jetzt vorzubestellen. Wer ein Geschäft in Berlin betreibt, der könnte sich beispielsweise seine Domain mit der Endung .berlin registrieren. Laut dem Domainregistrar United ... read more ...
 
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ICANN approves .website as top level domain name - The English language Internet is all set to grow in multiples as Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers starts the process of approving new generic Top Level Domain names. Radix, a group firm from Mumbai-based Directi that is a leading players in internet domain registry, announced that it has won the rights to operate the new top level domain, .website, after winning a private auction late last month against two other applicants. With this win, Radix will now ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media scores another $1.3 million from withdrawing new TLD applications - New TLD applicant gets $1.3 million from the withdraw of a couple new TLD applications. Demand Media realized $1.3 million in gains in the third quarter of this year due to the withdrawal of its interest in new top level domain name applications, according to the company’s latest 10-Q filing with the SEC. In gained $1.2 million in the second quarter, and the total comes out to $2.6 million so far. The gains are proceeds from settling contention sets via auction, ... read more ...
 
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One Del Monte calls a other a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker - You’ve heard of reverse domain name hijacking, but can you RDNH a top level domain name? Del Monte International GmbH has filed its opposition to Del Monte Corporation’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit related to the .delmonte top level domain name. If you’re confused already, let me bring you up to speed. Del Monte used to be one company, but was split into two in the late 1980s. One of the entities (Del Monte International) was able to continue using the Del Monte ... read more ...