Monthly Archives: January 2014

Wed 22nd January 2014
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Web.com: WebLock module will be opt-in, not opt-out - Company will not charge customers for added security service unless they accept it. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, came under fire yesterday after informing some customers they would automatically be opted-in to a security program that costs $1,850. An email sent to 49 customers informed them that their accounts would have added security under a new service called WebLock. The email also indicated that customers would be charged $1,850 ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row refuses to give lapsed domain to prior owner - Domain owner that offered to sell domain name to respondent let it expire. A UDRP panel has refused to transfer the domain name iSound.com back to a previous owner who let the domain name expire. Jeremy Same filed the case against Richard Weston / dreamGEAR, LLC for the domain name iSound.com. Same’s company owned the domain name, and previously offered to sell it to the respondent, which has a number of trademarks for i.sound and claims to have sold over $50 million ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy posts the initial 2014 Super Bowl Commercial - No naked women. Just men this time. GoDaddy has published one of its Super Bowl Commercials that will air during the big game February 2. As promised, it’s a distinct departure from previous years in which the company featured scantily clad women. This time it is scantily clad men, although Danica Patrick still plays a role. Compared to the previous commercial along these lines featuring Jean-Claude van Damme, I think this commercial says less about what GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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Donuts has bad fitness of a draw, loses .ski as well - Panelist from .sports decisions also rules against Donuts for .ski. Earlier today I wrote about how Donuts lost a community objection brought against its .sports top level domain name application. It also lost an objection brought against .ski. This was a case of bad luck-of-the-draw: it got the same panelist on this case, Jonathan Taylor, as it did for .sport. Had Jennifer Kirby, who handled the .basketball case, heard this case then Donuts likely would have won. This ... read more ...
 
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TKO: There will be no .sports tip turn domain in a initial round - Objection panel rules that the the sport community would face material detriment for a .sports domain name. Well, at least this decision is consistent. Except it isn’t. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld SportAccord’s community objection against Donuts’ application to run the .sports top level domain name. While this decision (pdf) is consistent with another panelist’s decision in .sport, the rationale again conflicts with the decision ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million - Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: ·         Top .coms: homify.com at 30,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: rabatkoder.dk at 36,500 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: boot.net at 11,500 USD <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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6 Domain Name Industry Developments to Lookout for in 2014 - 2013 was one of the most exciting and forward-looking year for our Industry, and here we are, right at the beginning of 2014. Shall we look into the crystal ball and see what the horizon up ahead likely holds for us? We hope and foresee that a lot of everyone's hard work will eventually begin to pay off this year. We also believe that the industry will witness a huge change; opportunities and possibilities that were never before thought of. 1. The Year of Internet Innovation Never before ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains - W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using Johnson.com for example. This browser makes domain name translations completely invisible to the user.  Any name*number address will be translated into the corresponding native format for domain name resolution, and any domain name registered in the test format will be presented to the user as ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the complete report: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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USGPS LLC Announces the Sale of LadiesJackets.com – PR - USGPS LLC has announced that the domain name LadiesJackets.com is up for sale for $17,000 negotiable. LadiesJackets.com is a premium ".com" domain in the Fashion/Lifestyle industry.Dot "com" domains are in general considered superior to other Top Level Domains (TLDs) and are continuing to hold their value in spite of the ongoing introduction of other TLDs.Currently this domain is appraised for $87,000 by Estibot.comAcquiring a domain name is an important first step in building a successful online ... read more ...
 
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Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah - Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one applied for .Yeah It seems like a horrible move which will only serve to confuse the public on the new gTLD’s We have chatted before about while Brands might led the charge of the use and adoption of new gTLD’s they might also led the confusion. Booking.com is not ... read more ...
 
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Asia Pac Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress - From what I understand, the domain market in Asia, particularly in China, is booming. If you are a domain investor located in Asia, or if you have an interest in visiting Hong Kong for a domain conference, I want to share some news about a new conference I just learned about: Asia Pac Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress. The primary focus of this new domain conference is the new gTLD domain names. According to the press release distributed by Momentum events, “This new event which ... read more ...
 
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Via al servizio di preregistrazione dei domini - Register.it, brand italiano del Gruppo Dada, lancia un nuovo servizio di reale pre-registrazione dei nuovi domini 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 per il proprio business. A seguito della liberalizzazione dei gTLD - nomi a dominio di primo livello -  a partire dal prossimo mese avrà infatti inizio la fase di General Availability delle prime ... read more ...
 
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NameSilo.com Becomes 2nd Domain Registrar To Accept Bitcoin - A second domain name registrar, NameSilo.com announced that it was offering Bitcoin as a new method of payment on its website. NameCheap.com became the 1st domain name registrar to offer BitCoin back in March of 2013. The move makes NameSilo the latest established business to accept payment via the digital currency, and one of the first major domain registrars to do so. “It is important to us to respond to the requests of our customers,” said Michael Goldfarb, co-founder of NameSilo. “Our ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions And RightOfTheDot, LLC Announce Partnership To Auction … - Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) January 21, 2014 An exclusive joint partnership has been announced between Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC to provide live auctioneer and live online auction services for premium domains in new TLD 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 ... read more ...
 
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Monash university wins own domain name, claiming a world internet first - Monash university’s websites will begin to operate under its own .monash domain name, a world first, the university said on Tuesday. The university revealed it was the first “globally recognised organisation” to be delegated a generic top-level domain (gTLD), an alternative to .com, .org and other web address suffixes. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the global internet governing body, drew the lottery for top-level domain application approvals ... read more ...
 
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Authorization.com sole for $35,100 on NameJet - Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet 27 bids from $20,000 between two bidders. Domain Timeline:  The domain was registered  12/13/2000 by DomaiName – A Division of Internet Yakin Aman out of Indonesia 2003 The name looks to have dropped and Buy Domains became the owner. 11/28/10 Registration changes to  Media Community LLC which was a company based out of Oregon that became a subsidiary of NameMedia in 2007. 7/1/12 The domain moves to Moniker and privacy 11/1/13 Comes out of privacy ... read more ...
 
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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 ... read more ...
 
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Monash becomes first brand in the world to have its own top-level domain name - Monash University has become the first ''brand'' in the world to have its own top-level domain on the internet. Monash has trumped Google, Amazon, Apple and over 600 other major brands around the world by securing the domain name .monash, which was switched on over the weekend. Monash paid a $180,000 application fee to the global governing body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and will pay an annual fee of $25,000.  ICANN is in the process of evaluating ... read more ...
 
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Monash claims a world first with its new branded top-level domain - Monash University has been delegated a branded top-level domain (TLD) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global governing body of internet standards, a feat the University claims makes it the first globally-recognised organisation to get one. Following a lengthy application process and detailed review of the University’s technical, operational and financial capabilities, the ... read more ...
 
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Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop - Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company. Back in the day, guest ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions automobile enrolls business into $1,850 “WebLock” service - If your domains are within the top 1% of traffic at Web.com, the company is going to opt you into a new program that costs $1,850 the first year. UPDATE 1/22/14 3PM CT: The company says the program will actually be opt-in, not opt-out. Read more here. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will cost $1,850 per year. Brent Simmons, who says he has ... read more ...
 
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Big company’s website dangling interjection to 2013 RAA - Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting site, has been suspended because the owner did not respond to a verification email. As of January 1, domain name registrars operating under the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement must suspend sites when they cannot verify ... read more ...