Monthly Archives: February 2014

Mon 3rd February 2014
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Perché Google vuole offrire 101 alternative al .com? - Nel 2014 centinaia di nuovi domini di primo livello, l’ultima parte di un indirizzo web, inonderanno la Rete. Ma Google cosa ci guadagna? Pubblicato febbraio 3, 2014 FULLSCREEN ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Super Bowl Ad Winners; Twitter Hash Tags: Losers Domain Names, Facebook - As most of you, I just finished watching the Seattle blowout tonight in the Super Bowl and on the advertising front I’m going to declare Twitter Hash Tags the big winner and domain names and Facebook as the big losers. No matter what television commercials you loved or hated you had to notice the lack of domain names, the total absence of Facebook URL’s and the overwhelming amount of commercials which had a Tweeter Hash tag as its go to point of reference. Even Godaddy, which sells domain name ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy Auctions sole over 35,000 domain names including Spokes.com for $40,000 - GoDaddy Auctions helped sell over 35,000 domain names last month. GoDaddy Auction’s monthly market report is out, and it is reporting 35,209 sales for January. This preliminary number is typically adjusted upward later in the month. Here are the top ten sales from last month, some of which have already been reported in the company’s weekly sales lists: spokes.com $40,000 radiant.org $23,000 rottencredit.com $22,000 oair.com $20,100 myanmar.org $20,000 – purchased ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from January - Domain security, new TLDs, and two sessions from NamesCon were popular news topics last month. The first month of 2014 flew by, and there was plenty going on in the domain name business. Here’s a review of the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Network Solutions auto enrolls customers into $1,850 “WebLock” service – Network Solutions sent an email to some customers telling them they were going to be charged $1,850 for a new service. It later ... read more ...
 
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How to adjust your DomainNameSales.com comment for low labelled domain names - Here’s a way to segment your DNS account to handle low-priced sales by yourself. This weekend Frank Schilling’s domain name brokerage service, DomainNameSales.com, sent a notice to its customers that it is setting a minimum charge of $175 per sale when it brokers the sale. DomainNameSales (DNS) is a unique platform in that you can select any broker to handle your sales, but many have opted in to having DNS handle this. It charges just 12.5%. But with the new ... read more ...
 
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Domain registration agreements are removing longer interjection to new TLDs - There are a bunch of added terms specific to each new domain name. With the creation of dozens of new registries offering top level domain names, each of them having different rules (some of them even having different rules for each of their TLDs), domain name registration agreements are getting longer. These registration agreements have always had special terms thrown in for specific TLDs. For example, GoDaddy’s Domain Name Registration Agreement (itself part of ... read more ...
Sun 2nd February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Here’s Why ‘The Internet Of Things’ Will Be Huge, And Drive Tremendous Value For People And Businesses - Business Insider has put out a detailed report on the Internet of Things. From the article detailing the report: Estimates for Internet of Things or IoT market value are massive, since by definition the IoT will be a diffuse layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire consumer, business-to-business, and government industries. The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly ... read more ...
 
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Coping With The New Top Level Domains In 2014 - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
DomainNameSales.com Average Sale $15K; Set Min Commission during $175 - In an announcement today on DomainNameSales.com, they are setting a $175 minium commission on all domain sales starting on February 15th. However since the average sale is $15,000 according to the release the minimum commission shouldn’t be a big deal. Here is the announcement: “”Firstly, in regard to DNS, The DNS platform is unique because it lets you self-broker your sales, and negotiate via the DNS iPhone app. You can set buy-it-now prices on all of your low value (under $1500) domain names ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Tightens Security After @N Debacle - In another move related to the social engineering that took place at Go Daddy and allegedly Paypal (Paypal stands by the position they did not give the hijacker anything and that it was a failed attempt) Go Daddy is now changing their security practices. In a tweet on Saturday there was an exchage from the former owner of @N and Go Daddy, he is also a former Go Daddy client as he tweeted yesterday that he has moved his names to Namecheap. @N_is_stolen Will do. We now require 8 card digits, lock after ... read more ...
 
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How GoDaddy found Gwen, a lady who quit her pursuit in a Super Bowl Commercial - How GoDaddy found is puppet master. GoDaddy’s first half Super Bowl Commercial tonight featured Gwen Dean, who announced in the commercial that she was quitting her job to follow her dreams of running a puppeteer business. That’s a heck of a way to start a business, especially when 100 million people see your web address, PuppetsByGwen.com. I’m sure lots of people would appreciate the same exposure. So just how did Gwen end up being the “lucky quitter?” It ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Super Bowl ads once opposite put domain biz in a spotlight - GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercials are very different this year. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and that means the domain name industry will be getting some broad attention this evening. GoDaddy has been advertising in the Super Bowl since 2005, and will once again run two Super Bowl ads tonight. In the first half, GoDaddy will run its “Surprise” commercial in which a real person will apparently quit their job in front of the entire Super Bowl audience. According to ... read more ...
Sat 1st February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Top-Level-Domains - Ab kommendem Mittwoch, 5. Februar, können Internet-Nutzer Adressen innerhalb neuer zielspezifischer Domänen registrieren. Anschliessend werden auf wöchentlicher Basis Hunderte neue generische Top-Level-Domains (TLD) freigegeben. Dies berichtet der US-Domain-Anbieter Donuts, einer von mehreren grossen TLD-Boutiquen. Top Level Domain (TLD)Der Name einer Domain im Internet besteht aus einer Folge von Zeichen, die durch Punkte getrennten werden. Die Bezeichnung Top Level Domain bezieht sich dabei ... read more ...
 
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ICANN schaltet neue Internet-Adressen frei - Ab kommendem Mittwoch, 5. Februar, können Internet-Nutzer Adressen innerhalb neuer zielspezifischer Domänen registrieren. Anschliessend werden auf wöchentlicher Basis Hunderte neue generische Top-Level-Domains (TLD) freigegeben. Dies berichtet der US-Domain-Anbieter Donuts, einer von mehreren grossen TLD-Boutiquen. Top Level Domain (TLD)Der Name einer Domain im Internet besteht aus einer Folge von Zeichen, die durch Punkte getrennten werden. Die Bezeichnung Top Level Domain bezieht sich dabei ... read more ...
 
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2013 Turkish Domain Name Market Study - AlanAdlari.com put out their 2013 Turkish Domain Report Top 3 keywords for sales were Game,News and Ticket. The most popular lengths for domains that sold were in the 7 to 11 character range. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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Coupons.com files for $100million IPO - Last week it was Care.com going public and soaring in its first day of trading and now another category killer .com, Coupons.com has filed to go public. When looking at both of these companies “.COM” is a part of the name, they are not Care Inc or Coupons Inc and use the .com extension. With all the talk lately of new gtlds and branding themselves it is important to note that .com started this trend with the extension as part of the company name. Tech Crunch wrote on the coming IPO The march ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Facebook’s Game of The Year Bought Its Domain For $2,500 on Sedo & Isn’t Using It - Facebook published its 2013 Games of the Year list in the 1st week of December. The game gets 100 million active monthly users. The company that makes the game, Pretty Simple SA out of Paris France, bought the matching domain name of the Game of the Year CriminalCase.com for $2,500 on Sedo a year ago. The domain name CriminalCase.com however remains parked today and has an Alexa rank of 9 Million. The registrant of the domain is still showing as  Sedo with  transferservice@sedo.com as the registrant’s ... read more ...
 
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New Internet domains go live, hundreds more to come - This week, Web users will get to stake their claim on website names for seven new domains, the first of many to be introduced in 2014. Donuts Inc, a generic top-level domain (gTLDs) registry, went live with seven new domains last week: .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures. Going forward, average Web users can now register names on these domains — like tech.guru or womens.clothing. “This is a unique opportunity for businesses, brands, organisations ... read more ...
 
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Tnooz “Travel domains going for (not exactly) a song” - Linda Fox wrote a piece today on Tnooz.com about Tour.com being put up for sale for $3million. In the past three years, according to information from domain specialist Sedo, a number of premium travel domain sales have taken place: Jerusalem.com – $510,000 Visitstockholm.com – $70,000 wellnessfinder.com – Euro 300,000 sommerhus.dk (Danish summer house rentals) – Euro 87,500 gruppenreisen.de (group travel in German) – Euro 59,500 hoteles.es  (hotels in Spanish) – Euro 275,000 xinjian.com ... read more ...
 
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Will the new generic top-level domains change the way we browse the Internet? - A big name startup called Donuts Inc. is finally getting a chance to test its great theory of the Internet: URLs matter, and if Donuts just happens to get rich along the way, so be it. That’s the sales pitch, as the company rolls out the first seven of potentially hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs), insisting that the new approach will change the way we use the Internet. The new TLDs (sometimes called generic TLDs or gTLDs), which became available ... read more ...
 
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Neue Internet-Adressen: Hoffen auf den gold.rausch - handelsblatt.com 01.02.2014 08:27:15 Axel Schwiersch kennt das Problem aus eigener Erfahrung. Der Unternehmer verkaufte in den 90er Jahren selbst Versicherungen - und fand es schwierig, eine griffige Adresse für die Internet-Präsenz seiner Agentur zu finden. Viele gängige Begriffe mit .de- oder .com-Endung waren vergeben. Das will Schwiersch ändern: Seine Firma führt demnächst die Endung .versicherung ein. Finanzdienstleister und Makler können sich dort demnächst Web-Adressen sichern, die ... read more ...
 
 
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Amazon succeeds in ICC case over .amazon gTLD - 30 January 2014   |   James Nurton, London Online retailer Amazon has won an important victory in its battle to own the .amazon generic top-level domain (gTLD), as well as the equivalent names in Japanese and Chinese ... read more ...