Monthly Archives: December 2013

Mon 2nd December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
EU,US and Hong Kong authorities work together to take down 690 tawdry websites - Time Magazine is reporting that European and U.S. authorities have cracked down on another group of websites that traffic in counterfeit goods. This continues to be an ongoing battle between authorities and the counterfeiters who have networks all throughout the world. From the article: “These websites were set up to dupe consumers into unknowingly buying counterfeit products,” Europol said in a statement. In the operation dubbed “In Our Sites,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took ... read more ...
 
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Hosting Company XBT.com Is The Buyer Of Servers.com For $300,000 - The buyer of the domain name Servers.com has issued a press release about its $300,000 acquisition of the domain. XBT, whose website is XBT.com “one of the largest dedicated hosting, IP Transit and co-location provider of the European Union” acquired the domain name servers.com for 300.000 US dollars “as a highest bid in an auction, which took place in Dallas.” “Through ROOT S.A., XBT has been dominating the European market and with an aggressive acquisitions strategy in US and Asia is ... read more ...
 
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Kim Dot Com’s Mega.co.nz Is Buyer of Mega.co Sold For $60K - Just over two weeks ago we reported that the domain name Mega.co was sold for $60,000 to JustCloud.com However today the domain name Mega.co is being forwarded to Kim Dot Com’s Mega.co.nz. cloud service. For Mega.com acquiring the domain name Mega.co makes a lot of sense not just as a URL shorterner, but I’m sure there was a good deal of typo traffic going to the .co domain name. The domain name was owned by Rocket Name™ According to Rocketname.com, it’s the fifth biggest .co sale to date ... read more ...
 
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12 Year aged 8×8.net Lost in UDRP; Panel Rejects Laches - 8×8, Inc. (“Complainant”), owner of the domain name 8×8.com just won a three member panel against 8×8 Mediacom Services Ltd  represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA on the domain name 8×8.net which was registered back on August 8, 2001. Complainant states that it provides hosted business VOIP phone services and a wide variety of cloud-based communications services and that it has been using the 8X8 trade mark since at least as early as 1996 and that over the past ... read more ...
 
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1&1 offre la pre-registrazione vincolante dei nuovi gTLD, tra cui .ESTATE - Si consiglia alle aziende di effettuare pre-registrazioni vincolanti per aggiudicarsi il dominio desiderato 11 Internet leader mondiale tra i provider di web hosting, annuncia la possibilità per le aziende di pre-registrare una serie di nuove opzioni di nomi di dominio, in previsione del loro lancio ufficiale da parte dei Registri, previsto per il 2014. Effettuando la pre-registrazione vincolante con 11, le aziende avranno ottime possibilità di assicurarsi i domini preferiti nel momento in cui ... read more ...
 
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Top 10 trademark stories for November - WTR’s most-read blog in November considered new research suggesting that the launch of branded generic top-level domains (gTLDs) may start a decline in the number of brands relying on external social networks. In a poll of gTLD applicants and industry experts at the recent London-based Digital Marketing and gTLD Strategy Congress, the study found that 83% believe that branded domain names will be more effective in engaging customers online than social networks, with 41% believing that ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions Nov Domain Market Report led by Surpass.com - Go Daddy sells 39,077 domains in November vs 40,575 in October. It is interesting to note that October got adjusted up from 39,830. The top sale was surpass.com for $50,000. The domain was registered in 1997 and was purchased by BTL Group, its already developed into a website that helps universities in Europe with e-assessment. (Click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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18 finish user domain name sales - An expensive .co purchase is among Sedo’s big end user domain name sales. Sedo sent out its weekly domain name sales report last week, but due to the U.S. holiday I’m a week behind. Here’s the list, with format domain price – buyer. Yumda.com $1,000 – Yumbda.de, a site about the food and beverage industry. TungstenElectrodes.com $750 – WeldingMaterialSales.com tungsten electrodes are used in welding. Mozart.co $21,000 – Needly, Inc., a company owned ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com registers domain names for the delivery-by-drone Prime Air service - Company registers over 40 domains, but can’t get its hands on some key ones. Will your Amazon.com packages be delivered by drone in the future? That’s the vision of Jeff Bezos. And millions have already watched a video (embedded below) of how Amazon envisions it working. Amazon is pretty thorough with defensive domain name registration, and Amazon Prime Air is no exception. I count over forty domain name registrations the company made related to Amazon Prime Air ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories for November - GoDaddy, Sedo, Frank Schilling’s new TLDs, and a .xxx domain name make the news. Tired of turkey leftovers yet? Here are some domain name leftovers from last month…the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by order of views. 1. GoDaddy begins accepting pre-registrations for new TLDs for up to $1,200 each – the world’s largest domain name registrar starts accepting paid pre-registrations for .uno, .menu, luxury, and .build domain names. It isn’t cheap, ... read more ...
Sun 1st December 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
LogicBoxes Announces Elite Reseller Program for Large Web Hosts and Resellers – PR - LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced the launch of their Elite Reseller Program, a competitive offering designed exclusively for large domain and hosting companies. It features a unique base-cost pricing model for domain names, a comprehensive service offering that includes personalized business consulting, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) strategy assistance and exclusive support solutions.As part ... read more ...
 
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From An $11K Sale In 2004 Curious.com Sold Launched in May Gets $7.5 Million In Funding & Is Covered By Forbes - Curious.com was which  just been covered by Forbes.com,  as after launching in May and now having raised $7.5 Million, has a pretty Curious past of its own. On the business front Curious.com was cofounded by Justin Kitch, Chief Technology Officer Thai Bui, and engineering chief John Tokash. Kitch and Bui were cofounders and Tokash an early employee of the small-business website platform Homestead that Intuit bought in 2007. On the domain name front the domain was purchased for $11,000 back in 2004 ... read more ...