Monthly Archives: January 2014

Fri 3rd January 2014
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Donuts appeals absurd .hospital objection - New TLD applicant asks ICANN’s board to reconsider objection that killed .hospital. A lot of new top level domain name applicants and objectors have filed reconsideration requests with ICANN after landing on the losing side of objections. I stopped writing about these filings after the first few. They’re so plentiful as to no longer constitute “news.” Also, ICANN is rejecting all of the requests, so it seems like a futile practice. But if there were ever ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon domain name discussion might sell out - With over 400 attendees, NamesCon is nearing capacity. I’m not sure what constitutes a “sell out”, but apparently this month’s NamesCon conference is nearing its capacity: Over 400 people have already registered, making this the biggest domainer-focused conference since Webfest nearly a year ago. This is despite being announced just a few months ago. The timing (with new TLDs finally rolling out) is great, the cost is low, and the content looks better than ... read more ...
 
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20 finish user domain name sales - GoDaddy and Afternic had a good sales week heading into the holidays. The domain name aftermarket doesn’t stop just because of the holidays! Today we’re playing catchup, as this list of end user sales is for Dec 16-Dec 22 at Afternic and GoDaddy. These are part of the $1.55 million worth of aftermarket domain names they sold during the week. You can see more end user domain name sales here. BluDot.ca $10,000 – Furniture seller BluDot. (I’m actually typing ... read more ...
Thu 2nd January 2014
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Nigeria Internet Registration Association Offers Free ccTLDs to Encourage .ng … - by Nicole Henderson on January 2, 2014Add Your Comments The Nigeria Internet Registration Association, the body that manages the .ng country code TLD, has announced plans to give out 100,000 free domain names to Nigerians in 2014. According to a report by ThisDay, the initiative is in celebration of Nigeria’s centenary and hopes to promote the use of .ng domains among its citizens. NiRA president, Mary Uduma, ... read more ...
 
 
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Bitcoin.me Sells For $10,000 - Just crossing the Sedo sales wire is the domain name Bitcoin.me which just sold for $10,000 The domain was registered in July 2010. The buyer is Help.org and the domain is being forwarded to Millybitcoin.com Bitcoin.biz sold for $2,800 in March 2013, Bitcoin.im sold for $1,500 in February 2013, Bitcoin.be sold for $1,950 in January 2013. On the other hand Bitcoin.us sold for $17,500 in December 2012 and BitCoin.de sold back in June 2011 when a lot few people had every heard of it and it was trading ... read more ...
 
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NeuStar & Web.com Make Forbes “Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth … - Forbes published a short list of “Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth Value Investors” and two companies from the domain space made the list NeuStar (NSR) operates the .US ccTLD and .Biz TLD, .NYC new gTLD and is also the back end provider for .Co and for hundreds of new gTLD’s. Shares of NeuStar traded between $41.82 – $57.29 in the past 52 weeks and sits just around $49.75 as of publication. Web.com (WWWW) owns two of the top 10  domain name registrars, Network Solutions and Register.com, ... read more ...
 
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SeekingAlpha: “New gTLD’s Pose No Threat To Verisign” - Stock site SeekingAlpha.com just published a blog post entitled New gTLD’s Pose No Threat To Verisign. Verisign (VRSN) is the registry for the .com and .net registry The author of the post is stock analyst Zeus Kerravala, is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.  Prior to ZK Research, Zeus Kerravala spent 10 years as an analyst at Yankee Group. Here is part of his post which should brighten the new year for all .com investors: “”I’ve seen a number of news stories over the past ... read more ...
 
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NeuStar & Web.com Make Forbes “Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth & Value Investors” - Forbes published a short list of “Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth Value Investors” and two companies from the domain space made the list NeuStar (NSR) operates the .US ccTLD and .Biz TLD, .NYC new gTLD and is also the back end provider for .Co and for hundreds of new gTLD’s. Shares of NeuStar traded between $41.82 – $57.29 in the past 52 weeks and sits just around $49.75 as of publication. Web.com (WWWW) owns two of the top 10  domain name registrars, Network Solutions and Register.com, ... read more ...
 
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Before Launching Its New Home For Tech, Wall Street Journal Quietly Acquires WSJD.com - We often call out companies for a acquiring bang on domain name before launching a new product or service, so we have to give some Kudos to Dow Jones Company, Inc. the publishers of the Wall Street Journal for buying the domain name WSJD.com before launching WSJD on January 1, which it described as follows: “Happy New Year! Today we are launching a new home for the Journal’s technology coverage. It’s called WSJD—the D is for Digital—and we hope you will take a look and quickly become a ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up a pair of domains for $8,300 each; NewYorkREIT.com and NYREIT.com   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Aio Quitely Acquires AIO.com But Bucks The Trend & Uses The Longer AioWireless.com -   Aio Wireless, a prepaid cell phone company headquartered in Washington DC, has been running television commercial in heavy rotation on several cable channels including CNN. The company’s domain name is AioWireless.com which they registered 6 years ago back in 2007. The company quietly acquired the domain name Aio.com around May of 2013. The domain was owned by a a large China company AIO CHINA which also had an office in San Jose California. Although the company has owned the shorter version ... read more ...
 
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ICANN advises on domain name collisions - ICANN’s latest report explains how DNS queries leak into the global DNS from private name spaces - and the unintended consequences of this. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public domain name system (DNS). Issued today, the advisory report serves to eliminate the causes of name collisions as new top-level domains (TLDs) are added ... read more ...
 
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Google’s and Cleveland Clinic’s .Med tip turn domains rejected - Panel determines .med would create likelihood of detriment to medical community. Internet powerhouse Google and one of the world’s most respected health institutions, The Cleveland Clinic, have both seen their hopes for operating a .med top level domain name dashed by an arbitration panel. Both parties were on the losing end of community objections filed by Independent Objector Alain Pellet as part of the new top level domain name objection process. International ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sells tighten to 40,000 domain names in December - Top reported sale was Uber.org for $36,000. GoDaddy Auctions tallied 38,841 domain name sales in December, according to preliminary numbers in the company’s Domain Market Report. The top reportable sale was Uber.org for $36,000. Although the whois record does not yet reflect the buyer, a likely buyer is taxi/black car service Uber. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: uber.org $36,000 supporter.com $35,000 personalcfo.com $29,000 squid.com $25,500 3dprinters.net $23,001 uchat.com $20,000 adata.com $15,000 ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets sixth obvious for “Adwords for Top Level Domains” - Domain registrar continues to collect patents for ways to prioritize domain name search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a sixth patent to GoDaddy related to a way to position domain names in response to a user’s domain search. I first wrote about GoDaddy’s idea in 2011 after the USPTO granted the first patent, 7,890,602, for “Tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website.” Domain name registrars accept marketing ... read more ...
 
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Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg launch AllThingsD inheritor on a .net domain - New tech publication Re/code acquires and launches on a .net domain name. Tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have shut down AllThingsD after their contract with NewsCorp/Wall Street Journal concluded without a new deal. With backing from NBCUniversal and Windsor Media, they’ve launched the successor to AllThingsD on a .net domain: Recode.net. It appears the duo may have bought the domain name from NameMedia last month. In fact, the whois record still ... read more ...
 
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2013 Top Stories: New TLD Objection problems - “Blame part of it on how the guidelines to achieving these goals were actually written. Blame it on weak agreements with incapable arbitration groups that hired incapable panelists.” Well said Andrew! By the way we filed re-consideration requests on the Amazon cases. We will act accordingly to ICANN’s and the ICC’s response. Here it is: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/governance/reconsideration/request-dotmusic-23dec13-en.pdf (See http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/governance/reconsideration ... read more ...
Wed 1st January 2014
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Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for Dec 2013 - Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the Canadian powerhouse Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the name still points to an Internet Traffic parked page. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...