Monthly Archives: January 2014

Fri 17th January 2014
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.Health field tarry village objections - .Health applications move forward after lengthy objection process. The objection process against .health top level domain names is over. Both DotHealth, LLC and Donuts have survived community objections filed against their applications. They previously survived limited public interest objections. The community objections were filed by the ICANN At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). Panelist Jan Paulsson took a bit different approach to this determination than other ... read more ...
 
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Donuts loses .Insurance though can keep .Insure - New top level domain mega-applicant Donuts is no longer in the running for the .insurance top level domain name as a result of a community objection decision. But it has survived an objection against its .insure application, for which it is not in a contention set. Panelist Mr. Juan Fernández-Armesto ruled in Donuts favor on one of the .insurance objections as well as the .insure one, but against Donuts on another community objection against .insurance. In the cases ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Google Registry Tells ICANN They Should Finish Off Last Resort Auctions In Six … - Uniregistry told ICANN in its comment filed on the subject,  that one year was too short of a period. Google Registry also makes a very good point that under the proposed ICANN Last Result Auction rules, there is a  30 days prohibition, once the date of a Last Resort auction is scheduled, from the parties to the auction to communicate. In the case  of applicants that have a many strings in contention like Google, if they are in an auction for March for one string, lets say against Amazon, Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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Google Registry Tells ICANN They Should Finish Off Last Resort Auctions In Six Months - Uniregistry told ICANN in its comment filed on the subject,  that one year was too short of a period. Google Registry also makes a very good point that under the proposed ICANN Last Result Auction rules, there is a  30 days prohibition, once the date of a Last Resort auction is scheduled, from the parties to the auction to communicate. In the case  of applicants that have a many strings in contention like Google, if they are in an auction for March for one string, lets say against Amazon, Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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Bing: It’s a parable that keyword abounding domains urge hunt engine ranking - Search Engine Journal is out with a piece about the myth of keyword rich domains and their correlation to improving search engine rankings. From the article: Duane Forrester, Sr. Product Manager of Bing, claims it’s a myth that keyword rich domain names improve search engine rankings in a post published yesterday on the Bing Webmaster Blog. This came about after Forrester attended Namescon and overheard people discussing how keyword rich or exact match domain names can make or break your site. ... read more ...
 
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What is a Internet Of Things ? Paradigm Changing or Hype ? - A couple weeks back Mike did a story on IOT.com and its $2.8 million price tag. Some people have left comments or emailed asking more about what exactly the Internet of Things (IOT) really is. Pocket-Lint did a piece on IOT yesterday that is a good read for those interested in learning more.  From the article: What is Internet of Things? The Internet of Things (IoT, for short) is a phrase for when everyday objects are connected to the internet and participating together on a system, though it also ... read more ...
 
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Registering Your Trademark with the Trademark Clearinghouse – Is Your House … - “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet since its inception” is how the president of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division has described the new gTLD Program being implemented by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and rightfully so. The new program will result in the expansion of available generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .COM, .NET or .ORG, from the list of 22 that we’ve all become familiar with through the years, to a list of possibly ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: .Com Registrations Blow Past 112 Million Mark For The 1st Time - Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the active zone file exceeded the 112,000,000 Mark for the first time. The number of .com domain name registrations in the active zone crossed the 112 Million number today January 16th, 2014 The number of .net domain names in the active zone file is down slightly but still well over the 15 million domain name mark.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Miért ne használjuk a .local TLD-t még otthoni hálózaton sem? - Inkább csak magamnak, emlékeztetőként...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local Itt van egy-két ok, amiért ne, de tegnap belefutottam valamibe, ami szintén alátámasztja, hogy a .local használata nem célszerű. Szóval be volt állítva egy GUI nélküli Debianon az /etc/apt/apt.conf-ban, hogy proxy-t használjon. Csak ő, senki más. Felkerült a gépre egy gnome a függőségeivel (köztük a network-manager). Reboot és ettől kezdve az apt-get, később az iceweasel nem találta a ... read more ...
 
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Organic growth drives revenue rise at NCC Group - IT security business NCC Group has reported one of its strongest first half performances for "a number of years" with revenue rising beyond the £50m mark. The Manchester-based company's sales were £54m for the six months to 30 November 2013, up from £48.1m for the same period a year earlier. Organic growth during the period was 11 per cent. Meanwhile, NCC posted a rise in pre-tax profit from £7.5m in 2012 to £11.1m. The company said Artemis, ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Weekly Sales Led by Fia.org - Go Daddy/Afternic Weekly Domain Sales: 1-6-14 to 1-12-14 Fia.org was the top sale for the week at Go Daddy/Afternic selling for $18,000. Undie.com and Connectup.com were the top two .com sales. Total sales for the week were $1,723, 709 Lcloud.com selling for $13,700 is the second such 1 letter cloud.com sale in the last few months. In November Fcloud.com sold on NameJet for $10,000. .com Sales    Price undie.com    $15,000 connectup.com    $15,000 lcloud.com    $13,700 3dprintingmagazine.com   ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Infographic on Protecting Your Trademark -

ICANN expelled a pdf and an infographic for brands looking to strengthen their trademark.

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Via: thedomains.com

 
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You competence find irony in what Sedo’s owner is doing now - Schumacher went from the business of delivering ads to blocking them. It’s been a few years since Tim Schumacher, co-founder of Sedo, left the company. You might be surprised to learn that, after creating one of the world’s largest domain parking ad companies, he’s now backing software that blocks internet users from seeing ads. Schumacher is an investor in the company behind Ad Block Plus, a browser plugin that blocks users from seeing most ads on a website. ... read more ...
 
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Bruce Marler listened to his customers. Then he altered his geodomain business model. - People weren’t very interested in buying local ads anymore. But they were interested in something else. I remember to go-go days of geo domain names. There was an annual geo domain conference where owners of geographic domain names – e.g. city.com or state.com – got together to boast about their success. But the business model for these domain names has always been a bit elusive. It shifted during the recession. The tried-and-true model of directory listings ... read more ...
Wed 15th January 2014
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The New gTLD Program: Latest Updates on Brand Protection and the Trademark … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the “dot” in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with an ... read more ...
 
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Google Unveils Publisher Plugin For Publishers to Monetize With Adsense - The Next Web reported that Google has come out with a WordPress plugin Here’s what Google says you can do with the plugin: Google AdSense: Earn money by placing ads on your website. The plugin links your WordPress site to your AdSense account and makes it easier to place ads on your site — without needing to manually modify any HTML code. Google Webmaster Tools: Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google. The plugin allows you to verify your site ... read more ...
 
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Jodee Rich Keynote: We Are Not Selling Domain Names, We Are Selling Domain Identities - Jodee Rich just finished off one of the Keynote Speeches from this mornings Namescon session and had some interesting comments. I also had the chance to chat with Jodee last night at dinner for a couple of hours and he is definitely an out of the box thinker. Mr. Rich’s company applied to operate the .CEO and .Best new gTLD. Mr. Rich’s company also operates People Browser, a social network platform that is adaptable to a endless amount of verticals as well as Kred which looks to be a Klout type ... read more ...
 
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Porch.com Featured on Tech Crunch was Privately Purchased from Mrs. Jello in 2012 - Porch.com was featured yesterday in Tech Crunch the company inked a deal with Lowe’s. The company is a start up that aggregates data about home improvement projects all around the country. The domain was formerly owned by the late Domain Hall of Famer, Igal Lichtman. The domain changed hands in October of 2012 from Mrs. Jello LLC to Matt Erlichman the  CEO and founder. Oddly the name is now registered to Scott Austin the Chief Product Officer. Its odd the name would not be in the name of the ... read more ...
 
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After 46 Years Pro Football Weekly Shuts Down & The Domain ProFootballWeekly.com Is At Auction - Back in 1967 Pro Football Weekly started as a sports magazine, that covered the National Football League (NFL). It was owned by Pro Football Weekly LLC and headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois. The magazine was published 32 times a year, including every week of the NFL season, and issued four supplementary publications the Pro Football Weekly Preview, the Fantasy Football Guide, the Draft Preview, and the Pro Prospects Preview. The magazine closed in 2013 due to years of losses. Now the domain ... read more ...
 
 
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SWITCH äussert sich mit Stellungnahme zur Gründung der Registrar Alliance - Nachdem die Registrar Alliance am Mittwoch ihre Pläne in Sachen zukünftigem Betrieb der Registry der .ch-Domains bekannt gegeben hat, lässt eine Antwort der bisherigen Betreiberin nicht lange auf sich warten. Die Stiftung SWITCH äussert sich mit der folgenden Stellungnahme:   "Am 15. Januar 2014 hat die Genossenschaft "Registrar Alliance" bekannt gegeben, dass sie sich als Registry für die Top Level Domain (TLD) .ch bewerben will. SWITCH ist seit über 25 Jahren Registrierungsstelle für ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - ICANN has today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN explains the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible solutions. Domain name collisions ... read more ...
 
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Two Seattle Men Looking To Get High on Domains - USA Today posted a story today about two Seattle men looking to cash in on Marijuana and domains. From the article: The longtime friends started buying pot-related URLs about a year and a half ago, as Washington state residents considered legalizing recreational marijuana. They now own more than 200 pot-related domain names. With medical marijuana legal in 20 states, and recreational marijuana legal in Washington and Colorado, Brooks and Dixon said they see a financial opportunity in purchasing domain ... read more ...
 
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Why Would A Guy Making Millions in Just 8 Months Want to Sell ? - Business Insider did not one but two articles on Scott DeLong and his ViralNova.com. ViralNova makes it bacon with click bait. DeLong started a site that in just 8 months gets 100 million visitors. From the article: Most people dream of getting rich instantly. That’s why the lottery is so popular. One man, Scott DeLong, found a way to do it. Eight months ago, he founded ViralNova.com. It’s a media company that uses click-baity headlines to draw in readers. The content is perfect for Facebook ... read more ...
 
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LIU.com Sells For $155K on NameJet.com - The domain name LIU.com just sold for $155,688 on Namejet.com The auction was basically between 2 bidders from the reserve price which seemed to be around $133K. The last few days have seen some nice domain name sales at Namejet.com Jhao.com sold for $50,000 Liang.com Sold For $45,000 Juggs.com sold for $41,600 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...