Monthly Archives: January 2014

Wed 15th January 2014
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule - Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it “is disappointed that ICANN changed the “5-TLD-per-month” cap from its initial proposal.” “On the current draft schedule, Uniregistry has three months in which it will have seven TLD applications ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule - Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it “is disappointed that ICANN changed the “5-TLD-per-month” cap from its initial proposal.” “On the current draft schedule, Uniregistry has three months in which it will have seven TLD applications go ... read more ...
 
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After a successful 1st day, NamesCon gets prepared to flog off 2nd and final day - Second day of NamesCon is about to start. The first full day of NamesCon in Las Vegas yesterday was a big success. Sure, like any brand new conference, there were a couple hitches here and there. But overall the crowd was big, the content was great, and reviews have been positive. If you aren’t at the show, I invite you to follow me on twitter for photos and updates about the show as they happen. I also posted a couple live blogs from yesterday – one for a “meet ... read more ...
Tue 14th January 2014
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Sedo’s Transactions Total Over $2.5 Million In Domains On Just 572 Domains - Sedo just released its weekly report for the week of January 6th, 2014- January 13, 2014. In all just 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 Million Dollars. All sales were let by JCT.com which sold for $98,000 which sold to Junction Investments, Inc of San Fransisco. In a very nice .biz sale the domain llc.biz sold for $23,520 The highly brandable domain name BigBen.com sold for $50,000 and the buyer Kugo, Inc,. has nothing to do with the London tourist ... read more ...
 
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Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable - Net Neutrality looks like it could be in danger of being defeated. From NPR: In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court has struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s open-Internet rules, effectively ruling that the federal government cannot enforce net neutrality. Put more simply, it can’t require that Internet service providers treat all traffic equally. In a , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the agency’s rules had no basis in federal ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Hldg Ltd : gTLD Portfolio Update – 4 - gTLD Portfolio Update January 14, 2014 The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to provide an update on the progress of its uncontested gTLD applications, Minds + Machines' OPEN Priority Reservation programme and the private auction process. Progress of uncontested TLDH and client applications Of the 24 uncontested applications in which TLDH has an interest, the Company is delighted ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 - Sedo put out a press release today looking back at their 2013 as related to domain sales. Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 Leading Marketplace Books Nearly Twice as Many Top 100 Sales as Nearest Competitor and Four Times More Non-.Com Sales Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the Top 100 Domain Sales Chart as published by the domain industry publication, DN Journal.  With 34 of the top ... read more ...
 
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Chicago Sun-Times to exam Bitcoin and Twitter paywall with startup BitWall - The Chicago Sun-Times, the 9th largest newspaper in the USA, is testing a social paywall that will accept both Tweets and Bitcoin in partnership with the content monetization startup BitWall. For 24 hours on February 1st, 2014, Chicago Sun-Times readers will be prompted to donate Bitcoins to or Tweet about the Taproot Foundation to test the functionality and acceptance of Bitcoins on the site. The Taproot Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps design, marketing, IT, strategic management, ... read more ...
 
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“In a face of confusion, people will default to something they trust and understand” - George Pongas is the general manager for Aus Registry, AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australia) domain names including .com.au and .net.au, and non commercial domain names .gov.au and edu.au. He recently posted something on the Aus Registry website with regards to 2013 being a good year for .au domains. He makes mention of the new gtlds at the end of his post and shares the sentiment of many readers here and in the industry as a whole. ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon keynote: Frank Schilling’s comments on new TLDs - Here are my notes from Frank Schilling’s keynote at NamesCon this evening. In a couple spots I changed the order of his comments because he discussed the same issue at two or more spots in his talk (mostly in response to QA). The introduction of new TLDs is an evolution. It’s going to take many, many years. There are 7 billion people on earth, so for the most part nobody has domain names. This is because domains are very hard to use. That’s why people use Facebook ... read more ...
 
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Details on .uno, .luxury, .xyz, .rest, .ski, and some-more new TLDs - This is a live blog from the “Meet the New TLDs” panel today at NamesCon in Las Vegas. Participants included: Shaul Jolles CEO, DotLatin .uno Aaron Grego CEO, Punto 2012 .rest, .bar, .cafe Rob Rozicki VP Co-Founder, Starting Dot .ski, .bio, others Daniel Negari CEO, .xyz, .college Monica Kirchner CEO, Dotluxury .luxury Kirchner (.luxury) – the internet is for everybody, we want to make an internet for the luxury customer. It will coexist with what’s currently ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes releases Registry Wallet for registrars - Service aims to make it easier for registrars to manage prepaid balances with registries. Logic Boxes has released a new service called Registry Wallet to help domain name registrars maintain adequate balances with domain name registries. If you’re not familiar with registrar-registry relations, you might be surprised to learn that registrars have to pre-pay for registrations. A registrar will pay an advance to the registry, and each registration for the registry’s ... read more ...
 
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First full day of NamesCon kicks off shortly - Around 600 attendees for inaugural NamesCon conference. The first full day of the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas kicks off at 9:55 local time this morning. After a short orientation, Jennifer Wolfe will deliver a keynote. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman will follow with brief remarks about the city and doing business in Las Vegas. After that, there will be 3 simultaneous breakout sessions going on throughout the day starting at 11:15. There are 30 content sessions ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Burberry and 14 other users bought - Fashion company Burberry among companies recently buying domain names. These are end user sales from Sedo that occurred December 30 to January 5. You can view more end user sales lists here. ThisIsBrit.co.uk $1,150 – British fashion company Burberry Limited. It registered the .com in September. StyleLondon.com $900 – Signature X Ltd, which runs TheStyleLondon.com, drops the the. Meilleureassurance.com EUR 14,995 – MeilleurTaux.com Triangl.co.uk EUR 2,000 – ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot Partner on Live Auctions of New gTLD … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars … - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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Name Collisions Could Pose Potential Problem for Web Hosts - Much of the coverage on new gTLDs in the hosting industry has focused on the scope of opportunity it presents for web hosting providers looking to grow their business. From extensive marketing campaigns to new tools and platforms to help customers reserve their top choices, web hosts have been busy over the past few years preparing for this growth phase of the Internet. But one issue that perhaps hasn’t seen as much coverage when it comes to new gTLDs is the concern around name collisions. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy CEO calls stream domain space soiled and not descriptive - Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country codes may get an extra boost as people just include them when talking about the new gtlds. Click to watch the ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The partnership ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Ltd Announces Starting Roster of 26 Chinese and International … - TLD Registry Ltd the owner-operator of the Chinese New gTLDs Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) announced today its starting roster of registrars. The registry's international network of partners comprises 26 leading domain name registrars serving every continent and major region of the world. "According to our research, we have made domain name history", said CEO Arto Isokoski from Hong Kong. "No other Chinese language New gTLD registry has achieved such ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The partnership ... read more ...
 
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Wake up and smell the sunrise: the new TLD era has arrived - As we previously reported to you (click here to view the article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot").  While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here.    Over 1,900 applications were received by ICANN (the internet's governing body) from entities who ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand Anand, India has just been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain RpgLife.com by a one member UDRP Panel. The domain name was registered back  on October 28, 2005 Despite generating some $47 Million in revenue in 2012-2013 the company tried to grab the domain name away from its owner without compensation. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: The Complainant operates a pharmaceuticals ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker - Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for the new advertising program. The program is strictly limited to 2o strings in 2014. At the moment we ... read more ...