Monthly Archives: December 2013

Mon 23rd December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
St. Andrews The Golf Course Wins Control of 10 year Old StAndrews.com in UDRP - St Andrews Links Ltd of St Andrews, Fife, the United Kingdom of Great Britain just won control of the domain name standrews.com in a one member UDRP decision. The decision is no surprise, the domain was parked until very recently pull up golf related links. The only real question is why did it take the complainant 10 years to file the complaint? Here are the relevant facts and findings from the decision: St Andrews is a town in Scotland. It possesses several world famous golf courses, which are widely ... read more ...
 
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Is ICANN Going To Hold Registries; The $25K .Sucks One To What They Said In Application?? - Vox Populi Registry Inc. (VOX) was in the news last week when it put up a site taking Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain, per year, and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain threatening trademark owners to act now because if they wait until the Sunrise Period, the cost would be $25,000. The $25,000 Sunrise fee is a per domain per year fee and of course unprecedented and especially troubling because its being offered to trademark holders in the Sunrise ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
5 Steps To Protect Your Brands In The New gTLD Regime - The time is upon us. After years of anticipation, lobbying for delays and more robust trademark protections, and otherwise steeling themselves against the oncoming tide of new, generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), brand owners are faced with the reality of ICANN's far-reaching program: the first new gTLDs have been "delegated" received final approval from ICANN for use and availability in the domain name system. These newly-delegated gTLDs include .guru, .clothing, .ventures, .bike, .camera, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
PC World: “Typos online aren’t only a hassle, they’re a hazard” - PC World did a story today on typos, they went on to look at the problems that typos cause as they are still being used by scammers and other shady online websites. They looked at at data from High Tech Bridge and how many typo domains were registered by people trying to pass themselves off as Anti Virus companies. Interestingly 107 domains were regged by the firms themselves to protect against phishing attempts. From the article: Typosquatting is one of the oldest Internet security problems and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Calle: New TLDs will be good for .Co - .Co Internet CEO thinks new TLDs will gain acceptance over time and ultimately be good for his own .co domain name. Everyone has been asking the question about what new TLDs mean for .com. Few have been asking what new TLDs mean for existing alternatives to .com, such as .me, .info, and of course .co. .Co Internet CEO Juan Diego Calle has weighed in on the issue on the .Co company blog. It’s a well-thought out post worth reading in its entirety, but I’ll attempt ... read more ...
 
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WIPO row awards StAndrews.com domain name to golf course - Famous golf course to get control of StAndrews.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization UDRP panelist has awarded the StAndrews.com domain name to St Andrews Links, one of the oldest golf courses in the world. This was an interesting case because St Andrew is also the name of the town in which St Andrews Links is located, and also has several other uses. In fact, when I search Google for “St Andrews,” the first page of results has only one mention ... read more ...
 
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A domainer looks behind during 2013 - One domainer says 2013 was more good than bad – but that had a lot to do with lowered expectations. It’s human nature that most people broadcast their successes yet hide their failures. That’s especially common in the domain name industry. That’s not the case for Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications. He lays it all out there – including his annual sales and income! Each year he also writes up a summary of how the year went for him, and it’s definitely ... read more ...
 
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Water Night during NamesCon is open for registration - Charitable event hopes to raise $55,000 for clean water. Water Night, a charitable event benefiting The Water School, will take place on the last night of NamesCon next month in Las Vegas. The event is from 8 pm to midnight on January 14 at the Havana Room at the Tropicana Hotel, where the rest of the conference is taking place. Although free to attend for NamesCon attendees, registration is required. NamesCon attendees are asked to make a donation, but it’s not ... read more ...
Sun 22nd December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Jennifer Wolfe: “Your .Com Won’t Be Worth Much Anymore” - Jennifer Wolfe is a digital strategy advisor and executive leader.  She is nationally accredited in public relations and the  Co-author of Brand Rewired and Domain Names Rewired. She runs a blog at Wolfedomain.com. On Friday Jennifer wrote a post entitled Dot Com Bubble (pt.2). I wanted to first find and read part 1, that post looks to have been written July 16, 2013 under the title of “New gTLDs and the Brand Bubble” In that article this is what stood out: What’s the Value of Your .com Now? A ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New gTLD Price Wars As United Domains Undercuts Godaddy - United Domains sent out an email making customers aware that they were now taking binding pre-orders on some new gTLD domain names. Interestedly Go Daddy which built its business being the low cost provider on .com, looks like it  may be taking a different path with the new gtlds as there prices are higher on a majority of the extension both are taking pre-orders on. UnitedDomains.com is basically under cutting Godaddy’s price on these new gTLD they are taking pre-orders  by up to  $10 ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New gTLD Price Wars As United Domains Undercuts Godaddy - United Domains sent out an email making customers aware that they were now taking binding pre-orders on some new gTLD domain names. Interestedly Go Daddy which built its business being the low cost provider on .com, looks like it  may be taking a different path with the new gtlds as there prices are higher on a majority of the extension both are taking pre-orders on. UnitedDomains.com is basically under cutting Godaddy’s price on these new gTLD they are taking pre-orders  by up to  $10 a domain ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Georgia Mega Millions Winner Ira Curry’s Name Could Mean Big Bucks For Entrepreneur - IBTimes.com has a story on a lottey winner’s name being used by someone else looking to cash in. From the article: In the digital age, teenagers in their parents’ basements can make a quick few million dollars off a good idea, and Turner seems poised to take that idea to the bank. On Wednesday, just 14 minutes after CNN posted a story announcing that Curry was the first of the two winners (the other winner has yet to reveal his or her identity and come forward to claim the prize, but is known ... read more ...
 
Written by The MediaWizard's Blog in EN
The newgTLDs discuss – featuring Rick Schwartz & Michael Berkens! - Don’t know if you’ve been following the back and forth between Rick Schwartz Michael Berkens about newgTLDS, but it’s been enlightening to say the least. What I’ve done is taken a few of their quotes that made the most impact and collated them. Read on… Rick’s Points http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/12/ricks-poll-results-mean/ So I don’t have all the answers, the consumer and the future does. True, no one has all the answers, but an educated guess is better than a shot in the ... read more ...
Sat 21st December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google+ form links work with garland of Google domains like Google.me - Google has been rolling out the availability of vanity urls for a little while now. One thing that was picked up by Search Engine Roundtable back in October was the terms. Google actually mentioned they may one day charge a fee. TechWhack.co posted an article yesterday that included this tip: If you have gotten yours, here is a cool tip. You do not need to use it with plus.google.com domain. You can use it with Google.com and even Google.me. Google.me/+yourcustomurl definitely looks better!   ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.BUZZ Rolls Out Gift Cards In Time For The Holidays: “Give the Gift of .Buzz” - We knew that the new gTLD registries would come up with some creative marketing ideas. Today we got an email from the upcoming .buzz registry who is selling .Buzz gift cards “just in time for the holidays”; “JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. GIVE THE GIFT OF .BUZZ” “dotStrategy, the parent company of the .buzz registry, is offering an easy solution for the last minute gift buyer — ‘Give the Gift of .Buzz. “dotStrategy is offering a Create.Buzz gift certificate good toward the registration ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Rolls Out Gift Cards In Time For The Holidays: “Give a Gift of .Buzz” - We knew that the new gTLD registries would come up with some creative marketing ideas. Today we got an email from the upcoming .buzz registry who is selling .Buzz gift cards “just in time for the holidays”; “JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. GIVE THE GIFT OF .BUZZ” “dotStrategy, the parent company of the .buzz registry, is offering an easy solution for the last minute gift buyer — ‘Give the Gift of .Buzz. “dotStrategy is offering a Create.Buzz gift certificate good toward the registration ... read more ...
 
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Internet is about to knowledge one of the biggest changes: ICANN - The Times of India sat down with Fadi Chehade of ICANN and conducted a small interview. Fadi Chehade is the president and CEO of the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that allocates web addresses and assigns unique protocol numbers on the internet. In an email interview with Kim Arora, he discussed ICANN’s globalization efforts, digital surveillance and the future of the internet. Chehade discusses DNS security, his efforts to move governance of  ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The final steps towards gTLDs - Over eight years after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) first considered introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to include non-Roman script characters (e.g. click here to view character), specific keywords (e.g. .music) or even specific brands (e.g. .google, .amazon), the first gTLDs (click here to view gTLDs) were entered into the internet root on Wednesday 23rd October 2013 and more have since been entered. While many large brands have ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The Evolution of Domain Names - Hello MHB, Domain Extinction ???? Whats the subliminal message here ???? Rather than focus on the coming (Extinction of the right of Dot gTLDs) Consumer Emotional spending habits always have and always will be used by the DISTINCTIVE Online Consumers worldwide. Took .COM Franchises 15 + years to get this TOP DISTINCTION. (Does anybody really think the new gTLDs will be around long enough to match this Strategic Online Marketing Strategy advantage, that ONLY ... read more ...
 
 
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2013: A Year in Review, End of Year Message from DotConnectAfrica - "As Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and spearhead of the Yes2DotAfrica Campaign, it gives me great pleasure to send this end of year message at Christmas to our entire Pan-African constituency and global community of supporters and well-wishers all over the world." —Sophia Bekele As 2013 draws to a close it is worth looking back at where we have been and consider what 2014 will bring. As usual for DCA, it has been a year of intense activity to ensure that our ... read more ...
Fri 20th December 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Empowering the Arabic language online -

Right now there are usually 22 domains such as .com, .org, .us, .ae and .net. With such reduction removing a website name we wish has turn increasingly formidable and expensive. To put this into context, there are around 160 million active websites, and 111 million of them are dot coms. All this is about to change with around 1,300 new domains going by a final stages of launch — with a initial ones expected to be online in a subsequent few months.

Via: gulfnews.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Well Here’s The 1st: KPMG To Replace Its .Com With Its New gTLD - 1) The develop of .com alongside the development of commercial internet itself will look completely different from the eventual adoption and use of .brands in a mature internet space. Reasons: too many to elaborate on. 2) Speculating on .com was acting on legitimate foresight. Speculating on these from a ‘domainer’ standpoint is gambling with crappy odds; two entirely different things. 3) How long it takes megabrands to migrate to .themselves, however many ... read more ...
 
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Well Here’s The 1st: KPMG To Replace Its .Com With Its New gTLD - I know a lot of people in the domain industry have put the eventual success on the new gTLD program on whether big brands would actually switch from their .com to their new gTLD. Today we have the first. In an interview with worldipreview.com, Professional services firm KPMG  says they are going to replace KPMG.com with .KPMG the new gTLD they applied for. KPMG is a worldwide company, which operates in more than 155 countries and employs close to 155,000 people according to David Green, ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD delegation and sunrise periods – the new internet world is here! – are … - One of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved Domain Name Registries (Donuts Inc.) has now launched its 60 day Sunrise Period in respect of seven new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The new gTLDs have the following extensions: .BIKE; .CLOTHING; .GURU; .HOLDINGS; .PLUMBING; .SINGLES; and .VENTURES These new gTLDs will ultimately sit alongside existing domains, such as .com and .com.au.  Donut Inc has, in fact, applied for several hundred ... read more ...