Monthly Archives: December 2013

Tue 31st December 2013
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Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s - As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. Seeing that a monumental change to the naming system was coming we have written about it every step of the way Readers have all kinds of opinions on the new gTLDs. I think its fair to say its the most divisive issue in the domainer community not only in ... read more ...
 
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OpenSRS Joins SedoMLS Domain Distribution Network - by Nicole Henderson on December 31, 2013Add Your Comments OpenSRS announced on Monday that it has joined Sedo‘s domain distribution network, the SedoMLS network. SedoMLS network places domain names in front of potential buyers, and OpenSRS said that it will now be able to automatically distribute more than 17 million premium domain name extensions to its resellers. Through the partnership, Sedo expands its distribution ... read more ...
 
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New York Times Interview Vin Cerf On ICANN/ITU & Where The Internet Is Going - The New York Times just published an interview with Dr. Vin Cerf in a story entitled “Viewing Where the Internet Goes”. The backdrop is due to the ” Snowden affair”, ” the new year is likely to see renewed calls to change the way the Internet is governed”. “In particular, governments that do not favor the free flow of information, especially if it’s through a system designed by Americans, would like to see the Internet regulated in a way that would “Balkanize” it by preventing ... read more ...
 
 
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Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network - Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual existing premium domains and premium domains of more than 400 upcoming new generic top­level domain (gTLD) extensions to the more than 13,000 resellers in Tucows’ OpenSRS reseller channel, and also allows Tucows registered domains to be listed for sale on the ... read more ...
 
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Bladde opp millioner for toppdpomene - Det melder nettstedet digi.no, som skriver at nordmennene bladde millioner for det generiske toppnivådomenet.Denne typen domenenavn, såkalte gTLD-er, er «etternavnet» i internasjonale internett- eller e-post-adresser, som for eksempel «.com» i google.com. Les også: Massivt slipp av nye nett-domener Andre kjente eksempler er «.net», «.org», «.biz», «.info» og så videre.De ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Tucows ink domain inventory placement deal - Tucows has joined SedoMLS, giving access to the domain sales network to its thousands of resellers. Sedo has gained a big customer for its SedoMLS network. Tucows, which is generally considered the third or fourth largest domain name registrar, is joining the network, the companies announced. This means that domain names listed for sale on Sedo are now eligible to appear on Tucows’ OpenSRS network of 13,000 resellers. Domain names registered with Tucows will also ... read more ...
 
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Tucows executes retreat batch split, starts trade on NASDAQ - Tucows shares trading close to $13.00. Domain name company Tucows is now trading on the NASDAQ at a double digit number, thanks to its reverse stock split. As of the time of posting, is shares (NASDAQ: TCX) are trading at $12.95. Shares closed at $3.11 yesterday, and today the shares are trading after a 1 for 4 reverse split. That would put the stock at an “open” of $12.44, so the stock is still up in trading today. Tucows moved to the NASDAQ and executed the ... read more ...
 
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2013 Top Stories: Demand Media to spin off domain business - Rightside will make some noise in 2014. Demand Media has had its share of ups and downs since it was founded in 2006. 2013 was mostly a year of downs for its content business, which includes eHow and Livestrong.com, thanks to Google’s search engine changes. But the domain name business is still holding its own, and it’s hoping to capitalize on the introduction of new top level domain names in 2014. In February, Demand Media announced that it was planning to spin ... read more ...
Mon 30th December 2013
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10 Year Old Domain Klickerz.com Saved In UDRP - Rita A. Girondi just lost her attempt to grab the domain name Klickerz.com The domain name Klickerz.com was registered on on May 25, 2003 by Light Church. Klickerz.com was a Parking company back in 2006-2007 Here is how Klickerz.com was  listed on Parkingprograms.com, back in 2006: “Klickerz is majority-owned by a cooperative of Domainers, Direct Navigation Associates.’ “Every domain owner will have the opportunity to buy into the co-op though membership is not required. ” “Our objective ... read more ...
 
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7578.com Hit With UDRP - The domain name 7578.com just got hit with a UDRP I’m have never seen a UDRP filed on a NNNN.com domain name so it could be the first but it also could be an attempt to get back a stolen domain. The domain was owned by a Jocelyn Michel of Montreal until late October of this year  when it was transferred to someone in Hong Kong under privacy at OnlineNIC Inc. However checking screenshots the site has been under construction for a number of years, since at least October 2009 so it could have been ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investor Rob Grant Opens Up LittleRobsters.com - Domain investor Rob Grant has opened up the first fan site devoted to a tropical shirt  under the domain name LittleRobsters.com All that appears on the site is a tropical shirt Welcome to the official fan page for Rob Grant’s tropical shirt! As the father of Lana Del Rey seems as Rob is getting into the action,  with a play off of Lady Gaga fans which are known as Little Monsters with LittleRobsters.com Speaking of Lana Del Rey she was nominated for several Grammy  Awards including “Best ... read more ...
 
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Neue Top-Level-Domains starten - Wien (OTS) - .versicherung, .gmbh, .shop, .wien - nur vier von rund 1.000 neuen sogenannten Top-Level-Domains (TLD), für die man sich laut nic.at-Geschäftsführer Richard Wein 2014 anmelden wird können. nic.at ist die heimische Registrierungs- und Verwaltungsstelle von allen .at-Domains. "Insgesamt gab es ca. 1.900 Anträge für neue TLDs, knapp 1.000 werden zu den bereits bestehenden 300 kommen. Den Start dafür erwarten wir noch im ersten Quartal, bis Ende nächsten Jahres werden schon ... read more ...
 
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It’s roughly 2014, and people are induction 2014 domain names in droves - Over 6,000 2014 domain names registered in December. It’s almost 2014, and the market for registering domain names that include “2014” is apparently quite robust. Verisign data show that 6,108 .com and .net domain names including “2014” have been registered in December as of the end of yesterday. Scanning through the list, I picked up on a few trends. First, counterfeiting and unauthorized trademark use is alive and well. Many of the domain names include ... read more ...
 
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Anti-Google organisation FairSearch.org loses conflict opposite .map - Panelist unmoved by FairSearch.org’s arguments against Google’s bid to run a .map top level domain name. FairSearch.org, a consortium representing companies that compete against Google, is now 0-for-2 in community objections it filed against Google’s top level domain name applications. Panelist Vladimir Khvalei has determined that the group’s community objection against .map fails (pdf). It previously lost its objection to .fly, and only a determination on ... read more ...
 
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2013 Top Stories: A new instruction for GoDaddy - GoDaddy has a new CEO and is moving in a new direction. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is trying to change the company — and its image.Blake Irving took the helm of domain name registrar and webhosting giant GoDaddy this year. It was a big shift for the company, which had been run by insiders until an investment group bought in to the company in 2011. The investors later installed an interim CEO until Irving came on board. Irving comes from Microsoft and Yahoo!, and brought ... read more ...
Sun 29th December 2013
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Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP’s Carlos Becerra Elected Deputy Co-President … – PR - Carlos Becerra, attorney at Tredway Lumsdaine Doyle LLP (TLD), has been elected deputy co-president of the Southern California chapter of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). Becerra, officially installed in his new position at the start of the month, will play an integral role in helping the organization's local chapter raise awareness of its mission and increase membership levels. "It is a privilege as a Hispanic attorney to help lead an organization that promotes the advancement ... read more ...
 
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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program - ICANN released its 1st  quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com,  pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of September 30, it still had $225.7 million in cash dedicated to the program, which is accounted for separate to ICANN’s regular operating budget.” ICANN completed the  initial evaluations of  (IE) of the 1930 applications in August. One can argue that ICANN therefore ... read more ...
 
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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program - ICANN released its 1st  quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com,  pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of September 30, it still had $225.7 million in cash dedicated to the program, which is accounted for separate to ICANN’s regular operating budget.” ICANN completed the  initial evaluations of  (IE) of the 1930 applications in August. One can argue that ICANN therefore ... read more ...
Sat 28th December 2013
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Buy Of The Year? 3-D.com Sells For $5K On Sedo; 3d.com sole For $500K - Just crossing the Sedo.com wire, might just be one of the best domain name buys of 2013; 3-D.com just sold for $5,000 There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term “3-d” with the hyphen. While we typically don’t love hyphenated domain names, in this case, the term 3d is often used and referred to in commerce as 3-d. Without the hyphen the term “3d” returns 691,000,000 results in Google. So 3-d has about 40% of the references of that 3d does in Google and 3d.com sold for $500,000. At ... read more ...
Fri 27th December 2013
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New gTLD delegation and sunrise periods – the new internet world is here! – are … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP’s Carlos Becerra Elected Deputy Co-President … - Carlos Becerra, attorney at Tredway Lumsdaine Doyle LLP (TLD), has been elected deputy co-president of the Southern California chapter of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). Becerra, officially installed in his new position at the start of the month, will play an integral role in helping the organization’s local chapter raise awareness of its mission and increase membership levels. “It is a privilege as a Hispanic attorney to help lead an organization that promotes ... read more ...
 
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Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content - Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question dealt with expired domains with penalties from Google Hello I purchased a new domain name last month. When I’m searching on Google, I can’t find anything similar. Therefore I have purchased it. But after the purchase, accidentally I went to the archive.org ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Bulk Transfers Domains from Dynamic Dolphin to BigRock - A bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. to BigRock Solutins Ltd. was authorized by ICANN on Tuesday. The move was announced in a release by ICANN, which had released a Notice of Termination of Dynamic Dolphin’s gTLD accreditation last Friday. BigRock was selected to receive and manage the gTLDs through ICANNs De-Accredited Registrar Transition Procedure.  Former Dynamic Dolphin customers will receive notice of the transfer and instructions on how to proceed from ... read more ...