Monthly Archives: December 2013

Tue 10th December 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million - Sedo.com  Over the past week, 580 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million. This amounts to $63.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .coms: sandwich.com at 137,500 USD Top ccTLD: pizza.es at 35,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: tmnet.net at 3,900 EUR   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Register for Free WHIR Webinar on New gTLDs with LogicBoxes - by Nicole Henderson on December 10, 2013Add Your Comments In a WHIR webinar on Weds., Dec. 11, 2013, Siddharth Taliyan of LogicBoxes will be presenting on how web hosts can grow by leveraging new gTLDs. Riding the New gTLD Wave to Achieve 10x Hosting Growth from 2 – 3 pm ET will give web hosts the opportunity to ask questions about how your business can profit from new gTLDs. During his presentation, Taliyan ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy/Afternic Sells $1.76 In Domains Led By HealthAdvisor.com For $40K - Here is GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/2/13 – 12/8/13 Total domain sales for the week summed to $1,760,202 All sales were led by HealthAdvisor.com at $40K The bargain of the week may have been slot.org for $7K     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Demands Media’s Rightside Releases Introductory Video - Demand Media, Inc.,  proposed spinoff of its new gTLD registry, and registrar business Rightside.co just released an introductory video on its business and the new gTLD’s program. The video highlights many of Demand Media, Inc. own gTLD’s it applied for including .Ninja   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay : nouveau nom de domaine péruvien, le 6e en 2013 - C'est reparti pour un tour pour le jeu du chat et de la souris entre The Pirate Bay et l'industrie du divertissement. Le dernier nom de domaine sur lequel le site d'échange de torrents opérait a été saisi aujourd'hui, mais ce dernier en a aussitôt adopté un autre. La bataille entre The Pirate Bay et les ayants-droits ou leurs représentants se joue au tour par tour cette année. Faute de parvenir à remonter à la source, le site s'étant blindé accusation après accusation, les industriels ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. “As the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes.” “According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, 80% (more than double the global rate) ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. “As the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes.” “According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, 80% (more than double the global rate) of ... read more ...
 
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Art.com Build On Category Killer Domain Planning On Going Public in 2014; Godaddy May Not Be Far Behind - USAToday.com, is reporting that Art.com, a leading online seller of prints, posters, frames and canvas, is discuss plans for a possible initial public offering (IPO) next year If Art.com’s IPO plans work out, it will likely try to go public toward the end of 2014. “A surge in Internet stocks this year and the successful Twitter IPO has many private technology companies raising money or mulling a public listing. Alibaba, the giant Chinese e-commerce company, is expected to go public in the U.S. ... read more ...
 
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.Uno Starts Sunrise Period, Runs Until Feb 6, 2014 - Dot Latin LLC, the .UNO Domain Registry, announces today that their 60-Day Sunrise Period starts and runs until February 6, 2014. The Sunrise Period is when trademark owners are eligible to register a domain name containing their owned mark. In order for Trademark Holders to apply for a domain during Sunrise, they must submit an application and obtain validation approval from ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse (http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/). Sunrise applications will only be accepted through ... read more ...
 
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The world is your domain - 12 December 2013 | Edwina McDowallAt the end of October the doors opened on the new dawn of 
the internet as our 300 or so current domain name suffixes started to expand. By the end of 2015 they will have increased four-fold. Brand-holders, as well as the likes of you and me, can now become proud owners of our own .camera, .estate and .guru. The internet name space will never look back as each week up to 20 new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) become available for us to own.This is not ... read more ...
 
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Das Xmas DomainGame von InterNetX – spielerisch die Welt der Domains … - (PresseBox) (Regensburg, 10.12.2013) Von .AC bis .XYZ: Die Welt der Domains ist vielfältig - und wird in den kommenden Monaten rasant wachsen. Mit dem Xmas DomainGame (www.internetx.com/domaingame) nähert sich InterNetX dem komplexen Thema "Domains" über einen unterhaltsamen Ansatz: Das Spiel vermittelt verständlich Wissen über etablierte und neue Top-Level-Domains. Als zusätzlichen Anreiz sind für die besten Spieler attraktive ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy has a $12,500 cost tab for Donuts’ Early Access Program - GoDaddy issues its pricing for jumping the line for Donuts’ domain names. Last month I wrote about how Donuts was eschewing a traditional “landrush” period for its domain names in favor of a so-called “Early Access Program”. The Early Access Program (EAP) charges significantly higher prices the earlier you register a domain name. It was clear at the time that pricing for the program would not be cheap. 101Domain already listed a price of $10,990 for the ... read more ...
 
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Some Bitcoin domain name owners have cashed in - Domain domain investors have made good money with bitcoin domain names. Bitcoins are hot, and some domain name investors are cashing in. Not by investing in Bitcoins, but by investing in Bitcoin domain names. Here are some recent sales involving Bitcoin domain names: Bitcoin.us 17,500 Bitcoin.de and Bitcoins.de for 29,750 EUR Bitcoin2014.com $1200 Bitcoinlive.com $521 BitCoin.be 1,500 EUR Keep in mind that, given the nature of Bitcoins, many Bitcoin domain name sales ... read more ...
 
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Verisign is contrast reduce .com prices on deleted domain names - .Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete for $5.85. Regular wholesale pricing is $7.85 per year. The domain names must be registered before midnight on the day they are deleted. They must be registered through the auto batch pool, which is a secondary registry-registrar ... read more ...
 
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Verisign loses new TLD conflict opposite .brand applicant M-NET - Verisign loses another string confusion challenge. Verisign, the registry for .net domain names, has lost a string confusion objection it brought against M-Net and its application for the top level domain .mnet. M-Net is a pay-TV channel in South Africa. It applied for .mnet as a closed .brand domain name, and the closed nature weighed heavily in the panelist’s decision. Verisign tried to argue that M-Net could change its business model in the future, and this could ... read more ...
 
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Hardheaded governments vs. Amazon.com - Amazon details some of the concessions it was willing to make to governments in the Amazon region. One of the more peculiar new top level domain name battles is the one between Amazon.com and and governments of the Amazon area, including Brazil and Peru. At the request of these countries, the Governmental Advisory Committee has effectively killed Amazon.com’s bid for .amazon and two internationalized equivalents in Japanese and Chinese. It’s sometimes difficult ... read more ...
Mon 9th December 2013
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Aero Club of New Delhi, India Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on 14 Year Old Woodland.com - Aero Club of New Delhi, India, represented by Lall Sethi Advocates, India was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) by a one person UDRP WIPO panel on the generic domain name Woodland.com Aero Club operates under the domain name woodlandworldwide.com which they registered in 2002 and tried to grab the shorter Woodland.com domain which was registered on November 26, 1999 “The Complainant is an Indian partnership, which commenced business with two retail outlets in New Delhi in 1992. ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Event: "The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet" - Check out “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet” http://t.co/N2GlPa38HC via @eventbrite — Josh Bourne (@joshbourne) December 9, 2013   Fairwinds and The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society are hosting an event next week called “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet,” and the event is open to the public. This free panel, moderated by David McAuley of Bloomberg BNA, will be held on Monday, December 16 at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC at noon. Panelists who will ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Registry Agreement under the microscope as brands make their voices … - ICANN’s new gTLD Registry Agreement has become the centre of attention of brand owners, with the organisation opening a new comment period on proposals to tweak the agreement to better reflect the operating nature of ‘.brands’. Meanwhile, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPOA) has voiced trademark owner concerns over elements of the current agreement. On Friday ICANN has opened a new comment period centred on a proposal requested by the Brand Registry Group to incorporate ... read more ...
 
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What’s to the Right of Your Dot? Huge Domain Expansion Coming in 2014 - Published Monday, December 9th, 2013, by Sue Saldibar. TweetSharebarTweetThere is a major expansion of top level domains or “TLDs” coming in 2014 and business centers may be able to benefit. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers “ICANN” has been involved in an effort to identify hundreds of new domains. Some are brand associated, such as .Google, some are location sensitive, such as .nyc and .london, and some are even vertical industry-driven, such as .sports. This ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD guide #1: dot-shabaka - What is the domain and what’s unique about it? Dot-Shabaka شبكة is a domain for Arabic speakers. The four-character domain string can be translated as “web” or “internet”. The domain supports Arabic script and numerals. “It’s about building an Arabic internet, becoming the new .com in Arabic,” says Yasmin Omer, general manager of the domain. “It’s a market that hasn’t been tapped into. The internet speaks in English, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Fails To Order Transfer Of Domain Back From Ex-Employee - The Law Firm Dr. Khalid Alnowaiser of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, just lost its bid to get the domain name lfkan.com in a UDRP The Complainant is a law firm established in 1996, with offices in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Complainant offers a range of legal services to local and international clients, in both Arabic and English. Although the one member UDRP panel found that “The record suggests bad faith on the part of a disaffected former employee of the Complainant, who seems to have hijacked ... read more ...
 
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Technology Companies Propose Plan on Reforming Government Surveillance - Today a coalition of Technology companies released their plan for reforming how the government conducts surveillance.  See below for the full press release. In addition to the press release there were a couple of other related stories. CNN featured a story today, “Microsoft Fights Back Against NSA Snooping” (CNN) — Still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e-mails and other online communications? Well, you’ve got a new champion: Microsoft. The computing giant ... read more ...
 
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Top-Level Domain Names – Have Brand Owners Done Enough To Protect … - 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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Looks Like Godaddy Charges Some Customers $50 If They Get Hit With A UDRP - It appears that Godaddy.com charges its customers $50 one of their domains get hit with a UDRP. One customer is complaining on his own blog. Daniel Paden tells his tale on the blog Atheiststoday.com, in a post entitled, Stop Using Godaddy, including all the emails he exchanged with Godaddy.com complaining about a $50 fee charged to Mr. Paden credit card when a UDRP was filed against one of his domain names. “I purchased a domain name to use on a project I was working on. Someone had a problem with ... read more ...