Monthly Archives: February 2014

Fri 14th February 2014
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love.guru, celebrities.sexy Could Soon be Real Websites, BigRock Gears up for … - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India BigRock, one of India’s leading domain registrars and web hosting companies announced that it has begun offering new top level domain extensions such as .bike, .guru, .ventures amongst several others under the aegis of ICANN’s new gTLD program. Indian consumers can now visit the BigRock website and purchase or pre-order a domain name of their choice in minutes. Domain names, the cornerstone of web addresses, are overseen by the Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Domains Gone Wild - Girls Gone Wild is liquidating their domain names reports TMZ The company which filed for bankruptcy last year is liquidating their portfolio of 69 names. BestBreastsEver.com … MardiGrasInvasion.net … SpringBreakExplosion.com … WeddingSubmissionVideo.com Some more names include: – BannedFromTV.com– HottestMomentsEver.com– MyExGFClub.com– SexStarvedCollegeGirls.net– And practically every other GGW-themed name you can think of (GirlsGoneWild.com, GGWbus.com, GGWcams.com, GGWdating.com, ... read more ...
 
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Stone Temple Pilots to play DomainFest - STP on the bill for DomainFest 2014. DomainSponsor’s DomainFest conference is always known for legendary entertainment. The Playboy Mansion comes to mind. Renting our Universal Studios. In other words, over-the-top events when compared to other domain conferences. This year the conference has another great event, but in an entirely different category: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington will play Tuesday, April 2 at a private event. The location will be ... read more ...
 
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People are shopping new TLDs when a “matching” .com is available - Would you pay over $1,000 for Metadata.guru when you could get MetadataGuru.com for just $10? This morning I posted about GoDaddy’s auction results for new top level domain names thus far. The post included nine domain names that sold for over $1,000 at auction. I totally missed something very, very interesting about some of these domain purchases. As Joseph Peterson pointed out in a comment, two of these domains had matching .com domains that were freely available ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy auction information yield early denote of new TLD direct and values - Auction data show competition for new TLD registrations and shed light on strategic considerations for ordering domains. What are domains registered under new top level domain names worth, and what is the demand for them? We already know how many domains are being registered. .Guru has close to 30,000 registrations and .photography has topped 10,000. Most others are in the 1,000-5,000 range. But digging deeper into the pre-registration process provides another interesting ... read more ...
 
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27 finish user domain buyers including 23 And Me and Indiegogo - Popular startups among domain name buyers last week. Afternic and GoDaddy sold close to $2.0 million worth of domain names last week. Below are end user sales from last week. You can see previous end user sales lists here. AspireTechnology.com $30,000 – Aspire Technology, Ltd in Dublin MedPayment.com $2,088 – Direct Medical Claims Connection in New York. TrailerLoan.com $1,788 – Trailer Wheel and Frame, which sells what its name says. NetLeaseInvestments.com ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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Afilias Announces Its First Internationalized TLD With the Launch of .MOBILE in … - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that March 14, 2014, is the sunrise launch date for its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level: .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese). Transliterated as "Yí Dòng," .移动 is a domain name just like .MOBI, which is also for mobile websites. But this domain is part of a new generation of top-level domains (TLDs) that are written in native languages rather than traditional ASCII-compliant scripts like the .INFO or .MOBI ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Announces Sunrise Launch Dates for 3 New TLDs: .PINK, .RED and .BLUE - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the sunrise launch dates for three new generic top-level domains (gTLD): .PINK, .RED and .BLUE With the .PINK, .RED and .BLUE domains, Afilias is the first registry to offer truly colorful ways to express yourself on the Internet. No longer are site owners restrained to drab domain addresses. Now, your Web address can express your individual enthusiasms! "Afilias has a long history of launching innovative new gTLDs," said Roland ... read more ...
 
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Afilias expands Internet choice with launch of Chinese “mobile” top-level domain … – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that March 14, 2014, is the sunrise launch date for its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level: .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese). Transliterated as “Yí Dòng,” .移动 is a domain name just like .MOBI, which is also for mobile websites. But this domain is part of a new generation of top-level domains (TLDs) that are written in native languages rather than ... read more ...
 
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Afilias adds color and choice to the Internet with three new top-level domains – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the sunrise launch dates for three new generic top-level domains (gTLD): .PINK, .RED and BLUE. With the .PINK, .RED and .BLUE domains, Afilias is the first registry to offer truly colorful ways to express yourself on the Internet. No longer are site owners restrained to drab domain addresses. Now, your Web address can express your individual enthusiasms! “Afilias ... read more ...
 
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NTIA wary of gTLD explosion - The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is concerned that new generic Top-Level Domains being made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers may not be considering consumer protections. Since Jan. 1, ICANN has added more than 70 gTLDs (only a subset are yet accessible) to the Internet's root with the goal of reaching about 1,000 gTLDs in all by 2015. On Jan. 29 the first batch of new domains – including .bike, .guru and .singles – became ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Is Platinum Sponsor Of DOMAINfest Hollywood; Launches Landrush For … - LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DomainSponsor®, the online monetization business of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINFest® series of conferences, announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the luxurious Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California. The .CLUB gTLD will sponsor the welcome party and reception at DOMAINFest. During the conference .CLUB will launch its Land Rush period with thousands ... read more ...
 
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Intellectual property warning for brands ahead of ICANN web domain rollout -

New print for a office! Thanks @TheDrum! Smashing emanate by a approach – no joke dictated #smashingmartian

Via: thedrum.com

 
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.Club Is The Platinum Sponsor For Domainfest & Will Launch its Landrush at The … - DomainSponsor®, the organizer of DOMAINFest®  announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the luxurious Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California. The .CLUB gTLD will sponsor the welcome party and reception at DOMAINFest. During the conference .CLUB will launch its Land Rush period with thousands of premium quality names included at Land Rush prices. Over 60 registrars have already signed on, including Network ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Expands Domain Menu, Adding 14 More Global Top Level Domains - Scottsdale, Arizona-based GoDaddy is continuing its expansion of top level domains being sold via the domain registrar, saying Wednesday that it has added .PHOTOGRAPHY, .CAMERA, .EQUIPMENT, .GALLERY, .GRAPHICS, .LIGHTING and .ESTATE for general registrationThe story you have requested is only available to paid members of the Techrockies.com web site. Stories newer than 15 daysare restricted to paid members only. Please login in order to access this members-only content, or become a member. ... read more ...
 
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.Club Is The Platinum Sponsor For Domainfest & Will Launch the Landrush during The Conference - DomainSponsor®, the organizer of DOMAINFest®  announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the luxurious Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California. The .CLUB gTLD will sponsor the welcome party and reception at DOMAINFest. During the conference .CLUB will launch its Land Rush period with thousands of premium quality names included at Land Rush prices. Over 60 registrars have already signed on, including Network Solutions, ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD guide #3: .Chinese-internet and .online (both in Chinese) - 13 February 2014   |   Peter Leung, Hong Kong One of the most notable features of the new gTLDs is the availability of Chinese character domains. Two of the new Chinese-language gTLDs illustrate the opportunities and risks ... read more ...
 
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Domaining for Links - Peter van der Graaf wrote an article today on Search Engine Watch that deals with domaining for links. Van der Graaf writes that even though this is old school it is still a method that works for acquiring link value. From the article: What Domains Do You Buy? Domains with link value become available once the current owner has little use for it anymore. This happens in various occasions, which all have their unique signal for Google to pick up and act on when they suspect unnatural behavior. Expired ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames/Moniker 2014 Kick Off Premium Auction Is Live & Nova.com Has a $60K Bid - Moniker® and SnapNames®, both KeyDrive S. A.  today announced their 2014 Kick-Off Premium Auction catalog and the auction is in fact live. One domain name, Nova.com, already has a $60,000 bid however the reserve range is $50k- $100K and the domain has not hit reserve. The auction ends on March 6th at 3:15pm EST in according with Snapnames.com closing rules. Some of the more interesting domains include; 4k.com, Bop.com; Click.com; and handshake.com Here is a list of all the domain names in the ... read more ...
 
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.CEO Starts Sunrise Today & Releases Another Video To Celebrate - Registry operatory dotCEO TLD announced today it has entered its 30-day Sunrise period and issued another video to celebrate the occasion (which appears below) .CEO,  is being marketed to brand leaders,  in a partnership with dotCEO parent company PeopleBrowsr Inc. Jodee Rich, CEO of dotCEO TLD said: “The Internet is evolving from the days of dotCom to the many colors and flavors of new Top Level Domains. Instead of viewing domains as “addresses”, people will embrace domains as online “Identities”. The ... read more ...
 
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TLD Launches Have Started and They Represent a Big Opportunity to Innovate - After years of planning, policy making and more than a $1 billion invested to date, the first Top Level Domains (TLDs) began hitting retail shelves last week.  We are at the beginning of an Internet taxonomy shift where content, services and communities will form on name-based areas of interest.    IT IS BIG More than 1,300 unique string TLD registries are coming to the Internet. It is a massive expansion with generic strings such as; .club, .wiki, .skiing, and geographic strings including; ... read more ...
 
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IBM Wins Its URS On IBM.ventures & IBM.Guru 6 Days After Filling - IBM has won the first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) filed on new gTLD domain names. On February 6th IBM filed the first URS on the new gTLD domains IBM.ventures and IBM.Guru Yesterday the Nation Arbitration Forum is showing as the domain names being in SUSPENDED FINAL status. Unlike the UDRP dispute resolution system, the winner of a URS does not get ownership of the domain name but only gets the right to have the domain name suspended from the registrant. The “decision” should be issued today.   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed Over ThamesRivers.com - FC Management Limited has filed a UDRP on the domain name ThamesRivers.com The domain name ThamesRivers.com is the site of the Thames River Capital Group Limited which “is a privately owned investment company. The firm provides its services to institutional investors and entrepreneurs . It launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It was founded in 1998 and ... read more ...
 
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Issues for TM owners – new gTLDs - The core group of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) such as .com, .info, .net and .org is set to expand significantly over the next few years. The process has already begun, as seven new gTLDs were made available to the general public on 29 January 2014, with many more set to follow in the coming months. In 2008, the Internet Corporation for AsTMsigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for managing domain names, began a process designed to introduce hundreds of ... read more ...
 
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Domini di primo livello, la scelta si amplia - Con la disponibilità dei domini di primo livello .LIGHTING, .EQUIPMENT, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .GRAPHICS, .ESTATE, .GALLERY e .CAMERA si completa la prima trance dei nuovi gTLD (genral Top Domain Level) proposti dall’ICANN, l’ente no profit che si occupa della loro gestione a livello internazionale. I nuovi domini entrano nella fase di General Availability (in cui tutti possono acquisire un proprio dominio) a pochi giorni dall’arrivo dei domini .VENTURES, .CLOTHING, .SINGLES, .GURU, .HOLDINGS, ... read more ...