Monthly Archives: January 2014

Thu 23rd January 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
DCA Trust, ICANN dispute over .africa going to international review panel - The dispute between the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) over the former’s application to manage the .africa generic top-level domain (gTLD) will be decided by the Independent Review Process (IRP) panel. DCA Trust, one of two organisations which applied to ICANN to manage to the new domain, has complained over decisions made by the body in charge of the internet with regard to its application. The organisation ... read more ...
 
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Internet ganha mais de 100 novos nomes de domínios - A ‘Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN), entidade máxima responsável pela alocação de espaço de endereços na Internet, aprovou recentemente mais de 100 novos nomes de domínios, noticia o Tek. Entre estes novos gTLD (generic Top-Level Domains) encontram-se o .pink, .luxury, .club, .photo e .social, que vêm juntar-se aos conhecidos .com, .net e .org, aumentando assim a possibilidade de registo de endereços para cerca de 1.400 variantes.São chamados ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Internet ganha mais de 100 novos nomes de domínios - A ‘Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN), entidade máxima responsável pela alocação de espaço de endereços na Internet, aprovou recentemente mais de 100 novos nomes de domínios, noticia o Tek. PUB Entre estes novos gTLD (generic Top-Level Domains) encontram-se o .pink, .luxury, .club, .photo e .social, que vêm juntar-se aos conhecidos .com, .net e .org, aumentando assim a possibilidade de registo de endereços para cerca de ... read more ...
 
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Building Your Business on Google + - If you have been looking to improve you Google + account and use it for your business. I know a lot of people don’t love Google + but there are some who have been looking to get more active. Google + has made it available now to get custom urls instread of that ugly long string of numbers. You can see how to do that here. Plus Your Business is a site that is providing free training courses in many aspects of using Google products. In a blog post they did about using Hangouts for certain niches ... read more ...
 
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Ninják és guruk lepik el a webet - Kezdenek elfogyni a hagyományos .com címek, amit többek közt arról lehet észrevenni, hogy a frissen bejegyzett másodszintű nevek átlagos hosszúsága 4-5 betűről 14-re nőtt. Február 4-én azonban új korszak kezdődik az interneten: nagyjából ezer új felsőszintű domén (TLD) válik elérhetővé. Egyik kedvencünk ezek közül a .ninja, és kíváncsian várjuk, hogy vajon milyen tartalom lesz majd a ninja.ninja címen, és hogy a Cink.hu-t működtető ... read more ...
 
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More than 100 gTLDs added to the root so far - The Internet's name space continues to expand, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN, the organisation that manages the Domain Name System — this morning announcing that more than 100 generic top-level domains have been added to the root zone."There are now almost five times more generic Top-Level Domains than there were only a few months ago and that translates to greater consumer choice," the president of ICANN's Global ... read more ...
 
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DomainFest earnings to Hollywood, skeleton discussion for finish of March - Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor announces plans for 2014 conference. DomainSponsor’s annual DomainFest conference is changing its branding back to DomainFest and has set its dates for 2014. The nine year old conference changed its name last year to WebFest Global because the agenda had expanded beyond domain names into search, mobile, and web development. Although it appears this year’s event will also focus on these expanded topics, the company is reverting its ... read more ...
 
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Two .xxx domain names sell for $750,000 - ICM Registry sells two more domain names to previous premium domain customer. Premium .xxx domain names continue to sell for top dollar. .XXX domain registry ICM Registry announced today that Really Useful has acquired Tube.xxx for $500,000 and Tubes.xxx for $250,000. Really Useful is the same company that acquired four .xxx domain names for $600,000 back in October. ICM’s press release quotes Really Useful’s “JT” comparing his success on .xxx sites compared ... read more ...
 
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Domain name discussion designed in Hong Kong to coincide with INTA meeting - New TLDs come to Hong Kong. DotAsia and Momentum Events are planning a domain name conference in Hong Kong May 13-14, coinciding with the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting taking place in the same city. The event is a combination of DotAsia’s “Internet of Names” meeting and Momentum’s “Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress” events. Targeted attendees include new TLD applicants, brands, domain investors and other industry stakeholders. ... read more ...
 
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Porn won’t be authorised on a home page of .Sexy websites - Nudity is too sexy for .sexy home pages. Anyone who wants to register a .sexy domain name to build their porn empire, take note: you can’t have nudity on the “home page” of your domain name. .Sexy registry Uniregistry spells out the rules in a revised document (pdf) it filed with ICANN on January 20. The guidelines only apply to the home page. This means that sites could have a warning button/entry page on the home page that leads to adult material elsewhere ... read more ...
 
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Cobb International guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company filed UDRP case even though the domain names at issue were not registered in bad faith. South African firm Cobb International has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organization. Cobb International filed a UDRP for the domain names CobbQ.com and CobbAmerica.com against Chris Holloway, Cobb Depot, Inc., Advanced Outdoor Concepts, Inc in Florida. The respondent in the case was a distributor for ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Capital One and 28 other finish users bought final week - Capital One was among the end user buyers making domain name purchases last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell $1.9 million worth of domain names last week, which is higher than normal. Below are sales that appear to be to end users. You can see previous end user sales reports here. KirklandPermits.net $2,077 – City of Kirkland, Washington. They also have the matching .com. Crafting.com $51,500 – Missouri Start Quilt Co, seller of craft supplies. This ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen sells LGG.com for $175k to association that filed UDRP opposite a domain name - Company pays up after playing dirty in domain name negotiation. This week’s DNJournal sales report includes a $175,000 sale of LGG.com. When reviewing the report, I instantly knew this domain name was familiar. Sure enough, I’ve written about it before. The company that just bought the domain name, a Finnish dairy company called Valio Ltd, filed a UDRP against Telepathy (owned by domain investor Nat Cohen) last year in an effort to get the domain name. Telepathy ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Now a Makers of Candy Crush Saga Want to heading a word Saga - On Monday we wrote about King Studios and their trademarking of the word Candy. The company seemed to be going out and trying to enforce the mark even though its still open for opposition at the USPTO.  King also received a trademark for Candy in Europe as well. In article out today on Complex.com Hanuman Welch writes that King  seems to be looking to protect the word “Saga”  The author brings up a good point that King really does not own a lot of other “Candy related” titles, but they ... read more ...
 
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Harvard Business School Study: Display Ads Drive Search Clicks After Two Weeks - Greg Sterling wrote an article on Search Engine Land today that related to a study showing display ads drive search clicks with a delayed effect. The study was conducted by Harvard and Ozyegin University researchers. Ozyegin is located in Turkey. From the article: The conclusions and insights are useful, however, and can be boiled down to the following: Display advertising does indeed generate more search volume, clicks and conversions Search ads don’t drive increased interaction with display ... read more ...
 
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Quartz: “The biggest land rush in a story of a internet starts on Feb 4″ - Leo Mirani and David Yanofsky wrote a very thorough piece for Quartz on the new gtlds. Their article titled, “The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4″ The article did a nice job in the set up and background of the program, then they took a look at the existing tlds and their reach on the Internet. They looked at new tld applicants and talked about “Free Money Forever” From the article: Free money, forever For its owner, setting up a generic top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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First 100 Generic Internet Domains Include .Rich, .Sexy and .Ninja - Last year, the Internet opened up the doors on generic top level domains (gTLDs), letting anyone create their own ".anything" space on the web — provided they pony up $185,000. Now those generic domains have passed their first big milestone. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that there are now 100 generic TLDs that have been "delegated," one of the final steps before the domains can begin taking registrations. Among the new domains are .rich, .sexy, .ninja, ... read more ...
 
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Confirmed: There Will Not Be A .Co/Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial This Year - Godaddy.com released one its commercials that it will be airing during the Super Bowl today. I confirmed with Godaddy that there will not be a .Co domain name registry co-branded commercial running on this year’s Super Bowl. The .Co registry ran co-branded ads with Godaddy for the past three Super Bowls. My favorite of the bunch, actually my favorite television commercial of all time for domain names, was last years Godaddy/.Co commercial entitled Your Big Idea .Co. Godaddy also confirmed that ... read more ...
 
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TeamWork.com Sold For $675,000 To Company With $12 Million In Sales - According to Siliconrepublic.com, an Irish software company located in Cork, TeamworkPM just bought the domain name Teamwork.com for $675,000. According to domaintools.com is appears the domain name was actually sold last year by domain investor Alexander Lerman to the software company. Alexander acquired the domain name back in 1999. The software company which bought the domain has 20,000 customers in 147 countries includingeBay, Microsoft, Oxfam, Forbes, PayPal, Electronic Arts and NBC. The company ... read more ...
 
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Company Wins UDRP On Domain It Let Drop After Domain Holder Says He Bought It For $21K - We just wrote about a guy who bought a domain name for $31,000, let it drop and lost a UDRP to regain control. This time Intrac Group AB of Stockholm, just won the rights to the domain name intrac.com, from intrac.biz,  who said they paid $21,500 for the domain. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel The Complainant is the registered owner of a trademark for INTRAC in Sweden (Trademark No. 0372029), filed on July 5, 2004 and registered on May 6, 2005. The Complainant operates ... read more ...
 
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Guy Buys iSound.com For $31K Asks $4M; Lets Its Drop & Loses UDRP, To Get It Back - In one of the more interesting UDRP cases I’ve not because of the law or the decision but because of the fact pattern. Jeremy Same (The Complainant) just lost his bid to get iSound.com back, a domain he bought in 2012 for $31,000 and let drop, to the company that he tried to sell the domain name to for $4 Million dollars. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel The  Complainant “is an Internet entrepreneur recognized across the world for his introduction of innovative ... read more ...
 
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The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4 - The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will go from one—Latin—to at least a dozen including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our ... read more ...
 
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Register.it lancia il servizio di reale pre-registrazione dei nuovi domini - A seguito della liberalizzazione dei gTLD Register.it, brand italiano del Gruppo DADA, leader in Italia nel mercato di domini, hosting, soluzioni di e-commerce e advertising digitale, lancia un nuovo servizio di reale pre-registrazione dei nuovi domini – http://www.register.it/domains/new-gtlds.html – per aggiudicarsi la priorità nei primi istanti di apertura della General Availability relativa al dominio d’interesse e avere maggiori probabilità di assicurarsi un nome strategico ... read more ...
 
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Domini di primo livello generici gTLD: ecco come pre-registrare domini con … - Register.it lancia un nuovo servizio di pre-registrazione dei nuovi domini per aggiudicarsi la priorità nei primi istanti di disponibilità relativa al dominio d’interesse e avere maggiori probabilità di assicurarsi un nome strategico per il proprio business. A seguito della liberalizzazione dei gTLD – nomi a dominio di primo livello – a partire da febbraio.I primi domini a essere rilasciati saranno .ventures, .clothing, .singles, .guru, .holdings .plumbing, .bike, e saranno fuori il 5 ... read more ...
 
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Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ? - Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft noticed a drop in Expedia’s traffic today and posted about it on Twitter. If you look at their decline today, it looks like Google has penalized Expedia in their search results. We reached out to Marcus Tober from Search Metrics who sent us additional details ... read more ...