Monthly Archives: January 2014

Wed 29th January 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Donuts’ EAP opens today, though usually some domain name registrars support it - GoDaddy and eNom are offering Donuts’ domains today, but other big registrars are not. Seven of Donuts new top level domain names, including .guru and .clothing, are available starting today under the company’s “Early Access Program.” For the next five days the domains can be purchased at premium prices. Today the prices are over $10,000, and the price will drop each day going forward. Only some of the major domain name registrars appear to be offering Donuts’ ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Uno wants to be a domain of choice for Spanish speakers - .Uno top level domain name to cater to Spanish-speaking internet users. A lot of new top level domain name applicants have suffered through years of ups and downs waiting for the new top level domain name program to launch. Not Shaul Jolles. Jolles, who is behind six top level domain name applications, decided to apply just a few months before the application window closed. He was visiting with his acquaintance Efraim Gershom at one of Jolles’ co-working spaces ... read more ...
 
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Dude, Seriously! What Were You Thinking? The authorised row during NamesCon - A recap of the legal panel at NamesCon. A legal panel is a mainstay at domain name conferences. Earlier this month at NamesCon was no different. Perhaps trying to jazz up a panel full of lawyers, the session was titled “Dude, Seriously?!?? What Were You Thinking?!?” (which looks a lot like the click grabbing headlines on Weather.com). But seriously, it was a good session. Each person gave a story about someone who fought a fight they shouldn’t have or did something ... read more ...
Tue 28th January 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow - If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous registrars worldwide. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) already made four new gTLDs in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic scripts available, but this is the first time new gTLDs will become available in Latin characters. The ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Epic Bet: Name.com Vs. Enom Who You Got? - Rightside, Enom and Name.com  is involved in an  epic bet between our eNom office in Seattle and our Name.com office in Denver. “So not only will this Sunday spell a showdown for Russell vs. Peyton, but for Registar’s eNom vs. Name as well.” Below I’ve posted blog and video links offering the details of our #BigBowlBet. We’ll have videos coming all week leading up to Sunday! So we are opening the poll up for your picks Rightside’s video Name.com statement The Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOS0HM-61AE eNom’s ... read more ...
 
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Ready for .sucks or .sexy? New domain names available next week - Ever thought it would be cool to have something other than “.com” at the end of your website URL? If you find .ca and .net just a tad blasé too, you’re in luck: On Feb. 4, the largest number of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs, or the suffix to any URL) will come into existence, opening up a whole new world of possible kooky domain names.About 1,000 new gTLDs will start to go live Feb. 4, Quartz reports, and anyone can buy a domain name with the gTLD of his or her choosing. In 2012, companies ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO sets off explosion of new Internet names (Q&A) - ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade (Credit: ICANN) Starting next week, the Internet is going to look very different -- and ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade is the one who'll get both the credit and the blame. Today, Net addresses end with 22 familiar terms -- .com, .net, and .edu -- called generic top-level domains (GTLDs). But starting Feb. 4, the first of hundreds of new GTLDs will begin arriving -- .ninja, .farm, .shoes, .photography, .bike, .pink, and even .wtf. The Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1.7 Million - Over the past week, 769 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: true.com at 350,000 USD · Top ccTLD: lotterie.at at 15,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: offer.net at 50,000 USD Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
El ICANN da vía libre a los nuevos dominios de Internet - La semana que viene, el Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), el organismo que regula los nombres en Internet, abrirá la Red a nuevos dominios como .sky, .sexy o .berlin. Las 22 terminaciones actuales -como .com, .net o .org- pasarán a compartir espacio con cientos de nuevos dominios genéricos de nivel superior, los conocidos como gTLD. El nuevo Sistema de Nombres de Dominio permitirá dominios no sólo en caracteres latinos, sino también en letras chinas, caracteres cirílicos ... read more ...
 
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Here they come: Dot-word warehouse Donuts to launch new top-level domains … - Upstart domain registry Donuts has announced that its first seven new global top-level domains (gTLDs) will be made available to the public on Wednesday, with more to come throughout the year."This is a unique opportunity for businesses, brands, organizations, and individuals to find an online identity that speaks precisely to their products, services and interests," Donuts co-founder and CEO Paul Stahura said in a canned statement. ... read more ...
 
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TheDomains.com/Domaining.com Ticker Is Sold Out - We announced the release of the Domaining.com/TheDomains.com new gTLD ticker about two weeks ago and today I’m happy to announce that we are sold out. In announcing the new gTLD ticker that runs on both  TheDomains.com and Domaining.com, we said it was going to be strictly limited to 20 strings and today we sold the remaining strings meaning all 20 spots are sold out. If your a registry and want to be included in the ticker I’m opening up the waiting list which will be made on a first come ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
TheDomains.com/Domaining.com Ticker Is Sold Out - We announced the release of the Domaining.com/TheDomains.com new gTLD ticker about two weeks ago and today I’m happy to announce that we are sold out. In announcing the new gTLD ticker that runs on both  TheDomains.com and Domaining.com, we said it was going to be strictly limited to 20 strings and today we sold the remaining strings meaning all 20 spots are sold out. If your a registry and want to be included in the ticker I’m opening up the waiting list which will be made on a first come first ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Club Sunrise Period Starts Today - .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that it has officially begun its Trademark Sunrise Period. .CLUB Domains also announced it has signed agreements  with more than 50 registrars around the world, including Network Solutions, LLC, Register.com MarkMonitor, GoDaddy, Name.com, Melbourne IT, 1and1, United-Domains and many more to begin selling “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, membership organizations, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Scotland To Get Its Own ‘.scot’ Top-Level Domain Name - Scotland is set to get its own country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD), after the non-profit Dot Scot Registry (DSR) agreed a deal with the US-based International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). As early as July, businesses and individuals will be able to register character strings ending in ‘.scot’ as their website and email addresses having previously had no choice but to use ‘.co.uk’ or ‘.com’. “The .scot domain is long overdue in this digital age, and the worldwide ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.77 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/20/14 – 1/26/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,770,240. The top .com sale was lead by Heard.com for $40,000, with the top non-com sale lead by Hui.net for $8,125. Below is the complete report: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Our Interview With .TV Domain Investor Kevin Lawrence Who Just Sold FYI.TV For $30,000 - Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who resides in Southern California. Kevin just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 marking it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. I did a short interview with Kevin to get the background of how he decided on the .TV extension to investment a large portion of this domain investments. So your a pretty big .TV domain investor can you tell me what  drew you to the space?   “Almost weekly I come in contact with .TV because ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
Internet čeká největší rozšiřování v historii. Nové domény přinesou miliony dolarů -

Mezi schvlen nzvy generickch domn nejvyho du (takzvanch gTLD) u pat destky jmen jako .coffee, .ninja i .sexy. Bhem letonho roku by jich mlo pibt asi tisc.

Internetov sdruen pro pidlovn jmen a sel (ICANN) toti na leton rok naplnovalo nejvt rozen domnovch jmen v historii internetu.

Via: zahranicni.ihned.cz

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Ex-Wrestler; Dancing With The Stars Contestant, Stacy Keibler Buys Her .Com For $5,500 - Stacy Keibler the ex-wrestling star and well as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and the ex-girlfriend of George Clooney just bought the her matching domain name of StacyKeibler.com which just sold for 3,333 GBP or $5,500. The domain is being directed to Ms Keibler’s site at Skphilosophy.com Based on her career and frequent television appearances Ms. Keibler might have been able to win this domain in a UDRP however it appears she just bought the domain instead for what it would have cost ... read more ...
 
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Do you want to own every domain variation of your internet address? - That's the question that companies, large and small, have supposedly been asking themselves ever since ICANN announced that it was lifting the restrictions on New Generic Top Level Domain Names (new gTLDs) such as .web, .shop and .london. And we're about to find out the answer, because after all the hype and excitement, many of the new domains are undergoing a final review before launch - most likely at the beginning of 2014.To do so will cost £111,797Despite ... read more ...
 
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2nd Themed Above.com Auction Scheduled for Mar 2014: “Lead Generation Domain Auction” - Above.com announces that the “Lead Generation Domain Auction” will be its second Themed Auction starting on March 17, 2014 and ending on April 16, 2014 at 12pm PT 2014. “Themed auctions provide a better method of cost effectively selling domains to end-users,” says Victor Pitts, Director of Domain Services at Above.com. While not a new concept, themed auctions can be very effective in connecting the right domains to the right buyers en masse. Themed auctions are vastly more cost effective ... read more ...
 
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7 New Donuts gTLD’s Available For Registration Tomorrow - According to a press release out today, Tomorrow, Wednesday Donuts Inc., kicks off the general availability period for seven new Internet domain names, (gTLD’s). The gTLD the will be live available for registration are : .BIKE .CLOTHING .GURU .HOLDINGS .PLUMBING .SINGLES .VENTURES. Anyone can register names in these gTLDs on a first come, first-served basis from accredited registrars worldwide. Next Wednesday, February 5, .CAMERA, .EQUIPMENT, .ESTATE, .GALLERY, .GRAPHICS, .LIGHTING and .PHOTOGRAPHY ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holder Loses UDRP Bid To Grab Domains Registered Early As in 1999 With 2012 TM - Ednovo d/b/a Gooru of Palo Alto, just lost its attempt to grab the domain names Gooru.com; Gooru.net; Gooru.org; and Gooru.biz registered in 1999 on the basis of a trademark filed in 2012 with a UDRP Panel Here are the relevant facts and findings from the one member panel The Complainant is a non-profit organization established in 2011, and based in the United States of America, that operates a free search engine via its domain name goorulearning.org, for teachers and students to search for learning ... read more ...
 
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John Turturro Stars In Godaddy Superbowl Ad Where Real Person, Quits Real Job - Actor John Turturro stars in GoDaddy’s 1st Half Super Bowl commercial where a real person quits a real job to pursue her passion and start her own business. In what is an historic commercial ‘first,’ you’ll see a real person quit a real job in front of 100-million people! During the big game, see how a gutsy go getter goes from working for someone else to following their dream and turning a hobby into their very own small business. Only the people involved with the commercial production ... read more ...
 
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GigaOM “How GoDaddy skeleton to turn a genuine tech association for genuine people” - GigaOm did a very lengthy piece earlier today on Go Daddy and on the maturation process the company has embarked upon to become more of a technology company. Blake Irving certainly has shaken things up with a lot of the focus being on small business. The company has made acquisitions like Locu and will be heavily marketing its new “Get Found”  product. GigaOm wrote, The product, which starts at $4.99 per month, uses machine learning algorithms to pull company information from store websites, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Auctions – Apparently No Antitrust Concerns? - There has been much discussion in ICANN circles concerning auctions to resolve new gTLD contention sets. This article summarizes the discussion and events to date, and suggests there should be little worry for applicants seeking to resolve their contention sets via private auction, rather than ICANN's "last resort" auction. The primary differences between the two types of auctions are that private auctions are faster and more flexible as to rules, and losing bidders share the amount paid by ... read more ...