Monthly Archives: January 2014

Mon 20th January 2014
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Panel: .Kosher tip turn domain focus is Kosher - Application for .kosher top level domain name can proceed after surviving objection. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled that a community objection against .kosher has failed. The case was really an issue of competitive advantage, as the objector is in competition with the domain applicant in the business of certifying that products are kosher. The case was filed by Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, which describes itself as the ... read more ...
 
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What domains Sprint, Cox, BitTorrent, and Buzzfeed bought - Big companies buy aftermarket domain names. Once again, I’m a bit behind with end user domain names sales reports due to traveling for NamesCon last week. Here are the end user domain sales I found on Sedo’s sales list it sent out last week. You can view previous reports here. JCT.com $98,000 – Investments company Junction Investments, Inc. JCT is an abbreviation for “Junction.” JLL.pt $5,000 – Commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle bought its ... read more ...
Sun 19th January 2014
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SlideShare.net voted #1 in a .NET100 - Verisign and Entrepreneur put together .Net100 and apparently the votes are in for the top ranked .net sites on the Internet. Coming in at number 1 was SlideShare.net. The site has an Alexa ranking of 118 and is a very popular resource for those looking to create slideshow presentations. Welcome to the .Net100 – a ranking that measures the top sites on the web with the .net domain extension. Entrepreneur and Verisign came together to assemble the ranking, which is based on quantitative factors ... read more ...
 
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WhizzBangsBlog Is Back & Says Domainfest Will Be Held Mar 31- Apr 2, 2014 - Michael Gilmour has been hard at work for a relaunch of WhizzBangsBlog.com as a website with a social networking platform and is reporting that there will indeed be a Domainfest and it will be held on March 31st-April 3rd 2014. In a post Michael Says: “DomainFest is announced! The dates are 31st March until 2nd April. Further details to follow. :-)” As far as WhizzBangsBlog, the blog is now a  social network to me which he describes as “Facebook but only for the domain community” but to ... read more ...
 
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ICANN BC Committee Tells ICANN Not To Allow Singular & Plurals Strings (Again) - Elisa Cooper the Chair of the ICANN Business Constituency has told ICANN (again) not to allow singular and plural’s strings of the same word. The letter dated December 30, 2013 was just  published yesterday on ICANN’ site yesterday. We at TheDomains.com previously stated that allowing singular and plural strings of the same word i.e. .car and .cars was going to be a huge mess and was one of the top policy mistakes ICANN made in the new gTLD program. Of course the problem has gotten worse ... read more ...
 
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Number of Internet Domain Names Continues to Grow, Reaching 184 Million - Web Hosting Reviews – Mountain View, CA – Domain names continue to show growth across the Internet, according to the second quarter 2009 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. The second quarter of 2009 ended with a total base of 184 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domains (TLDs). This represents a one percent increase over the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Comments On ICANN Last Resort Auction Rules - Donuts filed a comment with ICANN over the ICANN Last Resort Auction Rules which were up for public comment. Unlike Google which thinks the one year period in which is would take ICANN to hold all Last Resort Auctions is too slow, and Unregistry which think the period is too quick, Donuts thinks the timing is just about right although wants applicants who agree to have a second extension period of 3 months to resolve contention privately. Donuts also suggests allowing other contention sets to jump ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX: .CO General Availability Kicks Off - Web Host News – REGENSBURG – The nifty .CO domain extension is about to enter the final phase of its launch. From July 20, 2010 onwards, .CO domain registration will be open to the general public. Domains can be registered via ten .CO accredited registrars located in North and South America – with the exception of InterNetX – the only .CO accredited registrar in Europe. Having accompanied the introduction of several top TLDs, including .ASIA, .EU, .MOBI and .TEL, the German company ... read more ...
 
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Des projets économiques porteurs -  TLD s'implante à Sorigny. C'est le projet le plus spectaculaire de l'année à hauteur de 10 M €. L'industriel aéroportuaire TLD ouvre, en juin, une deuxième usine en Indre-et-Loire, à Sorigny sur le site Isoparc – car celle de Montlouis-sur-Loire est saturée. Elle emploiera plus de cent personnes pour fabriquer le Taxibot, un tracteur pour avions qui fera économiser du kérosène. Agrandissement pour STMicroelectronics. Le site de Tours-Nord bénéficie d'un nouveau ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting - GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting Go Daddy unveiled a new WordPress offering that they announced on Thursday. From the press release they put out: GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform poorly. In addition to protecting WordPress, GoDaddy offers layers of added security including firewalls, malware ... read more ...
Sat 18th January 2014
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Juan Diego Calle of .CO: Want to Control Your Brand Experience? Look to Top-Level Domains - Tech Cocktail did a piece on Juan Diego Calle from .CO Registry. In the video Juan talks about his start in the Internet in 1999, that his first business went bankrupt, he talks about how he got started with .CO in 2009. He talks about building a community and the ROI on getting early adopters with credibility. He also calls .com a wasteland. From the article: With the gradual release of new top-level domains (TLDs), 2014 is going to be a big year for the Internet. It’s all very exciting for Juan ... read more ...
 
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Le délire des nouveaux domaines Internet de top niveau - Il y a quelques années, l'ICANN a décidé de lancer un vaste chantier pour la création de nouveaux domaines Internet de premier niveau, en anglais Top Level Domains, abrégé en TLD. Après son appel à propositions, l'ICANN a reçu près de 2000 dossiers de candidature, que vous pouvez consulter sur son site dédié. Les 1930 extensions proposées émanent de 60 pays et de tous les continents : l'Amérique du nord a été la plus prolifique avec 911 demandes, suivent l'Europe avec 675, ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds - Zero for 5 in my book .In case you want to know what desperate looks like, we are starting to get glimpses. As long as they keep demeaning and insulting professional domain investors it demonstrates that it is OUR FAULT that few want their .Crap. Unreal! You can start with Need, Want and Desire of which there is NONE and not a single one has come to challenge that premise for a very good reason. Then you can jump to the end user who has no interest whatsoever ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds - Slam Strategy is an Internet strategy firm out of Australia that works with businesses and helping them with their online presence. They are out with an article today on the new gtlds and the top 5 reasons why domainers resist new gtlds. In the opening paragraph the author did note he is an avid reader of the domains, he was inspired to write the current article based on comments from right here on thedomains.com. From the article: Top 5 reasons domainers don’t want new Gtlds Invested interest ... read more ...
Fri 17th January 2014
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Google Removed 350 Million Bad Ads in 2013 - Google is out with their bad ads advertising report for 2013. On their blog they reported: Stopping more bad ads from fewer bad sources We removed more than 350 million bad ads from our systems in 2013.  To put that in perspective, if someone looked at each of these for one second, it would take them more than ten years to see them all.  This was a significant increase from approximately 220 million ads removed in 2012.  This trend has been consistent in the last several years and we attribute ... read more ...
 
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Search Marketers Playing A Virtual Game of Ping Pong - MediaPost took at look at how cost per click rates seem to be bouncing up and down.  Depending on which search engine clients advertised on, resulted in very different pricing and pricing trends. From the article: Marketers in the Americas supported by Covario spent 9% more in Q4 2013 on campaigns, and 17% sequentially. Global CPC prices rose 10% compared with the year-ago quarter, but fell sequentially among the agency’s clients, mostly multinational high-tech brands. Several factors forced CPCs ... read more ...
 
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Sunrise Begins for Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website - Today, January 17, 2014, is the sunrise of a new era on the Chinese internet. The clear leaders in new Chinese TLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are now open for registrations. Our ICANN-mandated Sunrise period begins today. Trademark owners which are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse may reserve fully Chinese domain names in Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website. The opening of our Sunrise period coincides with an auspicious day in ... read more ...
 
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Photos & Highlights From the Last Two Landmark Days at the Inaugural … - With close to 600 registrants on hand, the inaugural NamesCon Conference completed its run with 6 keynote speakers, 30 business sessions (featuring 100 speakers) and a variety of social and networking ... read more ...
 
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Google grabs slice of interwebs for EVERYONE (who speaks Japanese) - Spare us five minutes for a short survey about end user computing? Google has announced its first successful move into new gTLDs with the launch of .みんな for the Japanese market.The registration is the world’s first open top-level domain in hiragana, one of the three scripts used to read and write Japanese, according to the web giant. Written in the Roman alphabet as “minna”, the word literally means “everyone” ... read more ...
 
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Juan Diego Calle of .CO: Want to Control Your Brand Experience? Look to Top … - <!-- --> Jan 17, 2014 - Ronald Barba for the National Edition With the gradual release of new top-level domains (TLDs), 2014 is going to be a big year for the Internet. It’s all very exciting for Juan Diego Calle, the CEO of .CO, who believes that access to new TLDs will bring about new business innovation and improve control of a business’ brand experience. Beginning in 2012, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has ... read more ...
 
 
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Bitcoin, Porn and Basketball - Porn.com and the Sacramento Kings are into Bitcoin Two Bitcoin related stories over the last day, the first from The Next Web, “Porn.com’s marketing director: ‘I definitely believe that porn will be Bitcoin’s killer app” From the article: In December, porn.com started accepting Bitcoin for its premium services, and the virtual currency quickly came to account for 10 percent of sales. At the start of January, a post on Reddit’s Bitcoin subforum boosted the figure to 50 percent, before ... read more ...
 
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The Business Side and The Potential Bad Side of The Internet of Things - Yes, two Internet of Things posts in one day. This post will look at two stories that have emerged over the last day and a half. One being that Google acquired Nest and the other that The Internet of Things is already getting hacked. MediaPost covered why Google wanted Nest, in their article “The Internet of Things is out of the Nest” Observers yesterday were pondering why Google “wants a $3.2 billion thermostat?” as Lex’s Robert Armstrong asked Financial Times reporter Joseph Cotterill ... read more ...
 
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HKIRC Launches .hk LOCK Better insurance for .hk websites as a Internet becomes reduction secure - The Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited, rolled out a new product for registrants of .hk domains (Hong Kong). It looks like the pricing for the service will be HK$2,000 a year or approximately $258 per domain. HKIRC Launches .hk LOCK Better protection for .hk websites as the Internet becomes less secure HONG KONG, 15 January 2014 – Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC) today announced the launch of .hk LOCK, a new security measure for .hk domain name owners. ... read more ...
 
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YogaGlo gets defensive with domains after obvious backlash - Online yoga instruction service snaps up domain names to protect itself during patent backlash. YogaGlo, which provides yoga classes via the web, has faced quite the backlash since it received a patent for its way of recording a yoga class and delivering it over the web. The company penned a response to the backlash last month to try to quell what it called the “misinformation” about what the patent pertains to and how it is enforcing it. It is also getting defensive ... read more ...