Monthly Archives: February 2014

Thu 27th February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The gTLDs are coming! - Trademark owners should be aware that, as of the date of this posting, the “sunrise” periods are open for 43 new top-level domain names. A list of the domains and pertinent dates can be found here, and includes TLDs such as .bike, .shoes, .company, and .buzz. To be eligible to register a domain name during the sunrise period under any of the new TLDs, a mark owner must first register its mark with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) as discussed in the March 2013 issue of Incontestable. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NO and tagged
Bestill time til vaksinering på helsestasjon i god tld før du reiser -

Grunna stor pågang ved vaksinering til reisande er det viktig during de bestiller time i God tid før avreise.

Det kan vera vaksiner som krev fleire dosar og ein bør starte vaksineringa smallest 6 veker før reisa tek til. Du kan bestille time på helsestasjonen måndag, tysdag og fredag på tlf 57 62 97 20. Hugs å ta med deg opplysningar om dei vaksinene du har fått tidligare til timen”

Via: sogndal.kommune.no

 
 
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While Most of a domain attention debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it adult offered numeric domains - While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN the first half of February.  Over the last week things have picked up with some of the biggest sales ever in the history of the site. 920.com which sold on 2-26-14 is the number 5 sale all time. Here is a look at the numeric sales over the last week and change: 920.com  ... read more ...
 
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Goldgräberstimmung: Welchen Einfluss haben die neuen Top-Level Domains … - Tobias FlaitzCEO und VorstandSedo Holding AG [Gastartikel] Über 1.000 neue Endungen gehen online. Tobias Flaitz, CEO Sedo Holding AG, gibt vier Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Domainstrategie. Im Laufe des Jahres werden hunderte neuer Top-Level-Domains freigeschaltet. Als Unternehmer, Marketingleiter oder auch Agentur ist es daher wichtig zu wissen, welchen positiven Einfluss diese neuen Endungen auf die unternehmenseigene Webpräsenz haben können. Die ... read more ...
 
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Independent Report Maps Possible Way Forward in Mitigating Domain Name … – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES - An independent report commissioned by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions. According to ICANN, a name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System (DNS). “This report takes an in-depth look at the collision issue and the potential risks and impacts, and gives us ... read more ...
 
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Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations - Right now we’re in a transient condition. Registration volume is affected by the sequence of the various nTLD launches, by the effectiveness of various PR campaigns, and also by market saturation / dilution and buyer fatigue. But transients aren’t reliable indicators of the long-term, steady-state condition — which won’t be reached until a couple of years have purged the zone files of unwanted defensive and speculative registrations. I’ll stick my ... read more ...
 
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Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations - .Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has more than 38,000 registration and the soon to be released .Ninja and the later to come .Expert The domains are priced at $25 at Godaddy making Donuts there registration fee of $185K back on day 1 not counting Sunrise and EAP registrations which are included ... read more ...
 
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Small Business Owners are Gaining Headway with New Domains. Is Your … - February 2014 marked the official launch of new top-level domains (TLDs), or domain extensions, available for registration thus forever changing the Internet namespace. Ranging from industry to geographic location, over 25 new TLDs are now available and the number continues to rise. Small business owners specifically have recognized the opportunity to better brand themselves online and have jumped at the chance to register a unique and custom domain name. With this new development on the Web, it ... read more ...
 
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Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV - About a month ago we interviewed  Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported to us that the buyer is A E Network who is using the domain name FYI.TV to re-brand its Bio network. The Hollywoodreporter.com confirms that  A E Networks is rebranding Bio as lifestyle network FYI and will launch in June 2014 “Known as “for your inspiration” ... read more ...
 
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ICANN seeks to tackle DNS namespace collision risks - As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System.The draft of a report (PDF) commissioned by ICANN and carried out by JAS Global Advisors includes a series of recommendations — ranging from alerting network operators ... read more ...
 
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ICANN seeks to tackle DNS namespace collision risks - As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System.The draft of a report (PDF) commissioned by ICANN and carried out by JAS Global Advisors includes a series of recommendations — ranging from alerting network operators ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens … - An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System (DNS). “This report takes an in-depth look at the collision issue and the potential risks and impacts, and gives us some very clear advice aimed at how to ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post - The report “centers on the technique of “controlled interruption,” initially described in a public preview shared by Jeff Schmidt last month.” “With that technique, domain names that are currently on one of ICANN’s second-level domain (SLD) block lists can be registered and delegated for regular use, provided that they first go through a trial period where they’re mapped to a designated “test” address.  ” “The staged introduction of new SLDs is intended to provide operators ... read more ...
 
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Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013 - Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI),  which owns Dotster.com,  Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company’s,  reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Fourth Quarter Highlights Revenue increased 17% to $136.4 million compared to $117.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2012. Adjusted EBITDA increased 40% to $46.2 million compared to $33.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2012. Net loss attributable ... read more ...
 
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Uncontrolled Interruption? Dozens of "Blocked" Domains in New gTLDs Actually … - The Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions report, just published by JAS Global Advisors, under contract to ICANN, centers on the technique of "controlled interruption," initially described in a public preview shared by Jeff Schmidt last month. With that technique, domain names that are currently on one of ICANN's second-level domain (SLD) block lists can be registered and delegated for regular use, provided that they first go through a trial period where they're mapped to a designated ... read more ...
 
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Richard Branson turns to new collection to fight cybersquatting - Billionaire fights back after finding his name cybersquatted in new domain names. Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has turned to two new tools to combat cybersquatting in new top level domain names: The new Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy and Donuts’ “Domain Protected Marks List”. Branson filed a URS case with the National Arbitration Forum in an effort to get the registrations for RichardBranson.holdings and RichardBranson.ventures suspended. ... read more ...
 
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.CO creates a “Pop-up HQ” for SXSW 2014 - .CO creates its own home on the road for SXSW Interactive. .CO went small the first time it came to SXSW Interactive in Austin. It was more of a scouting trip than a marketing one. I remember catching up with the company at the W Hotel that year. .CO Internet CEO Juan Diego Calle said “Wow, this is big”. .CO has had a major presence at SXSW ever since then. It’s the perfect event for a company that targets startups. This year it’s going bigger and better ... read more ...
 
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4 some-more Donuts domain names entered GA yesterday. Here are a numbers. - Donuts’ domain names continue to spill onto the domain name market. Yesterday four new Donuts domain names came off of “Early Access Pricing” and became available for standard registration prices. .Tips I could tell this one was getting traction because Network Solutions was promoting it much like it did .guru. It’s a fairly solid generic. Pricing is in Donuts’ lowest pricing tier, so .tips domains will typically run you about $20-$25. NameCheap, which ... read more ...
 
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Whisky.com domain name sells for $3.1 million - Michael Castello gives details behind blockbuster $3.1 million domain name sale. Michael Castello (with his brother David known as “The Castello Brothers”) has sold the domain name Whisky.com for $3.1 million, DNJournal reported today. This is a phenomenal sale. Michael Castello did a great job explaining how the sale came to be. Here are some of the highlights from my perspective: * The buyer owns Whisky.de. ccTLD owners still want the .com version of their domain ... read more ...
Wed 26th February 2014
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Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and… (Part Four: Donuts) - ...what is their approach to bringing new domain names to market? Donuts is an applicant that threw the entire domain name industry into uproar due to the number of applications it submitted: 307 in total. Recent figures about Donuts are available here. It is hardly surprising that whenever new gTLDs are mentioned in the media that Donuts are mentioned alongside due to shear number of applications that they have submitted. There are dozens of articles in the media mixing information and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period - An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System (DNS). “This report takes an in-depth look at the collision issue and the potential risks and impacts, and gives us some very clear advice aimed at how to help ... read more ...
 
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NameCheap.com Says Its Has 20% Of All .Sexy & .Tattoo Registrations - NameCheap.com has around 20% of all .Sexy and .Tattoo registrations. Based on the last zone file update, .Sexy and .Tattoo has around 2,700 domain name registered. NameCheap.com has registered 423 .sexy and 130 .Tattoo domain names as of the publication for a total of 553 domains or around 20% of the last zone update. To be clear, the NameCheap.com numbers are as of publication while the total registrations for .Sexy and .Tattoo are as of the last Zone update. Anyway you slice it with over 40 domain ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10% - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. is hovering around $5 a share down about 10% from the closing price last night hitting an intraday low of $4.95 Demand has a 52 week high of $9.75 At its current price, Demand’s market cap is $459 Million dollars. Demand Media, Inc, is intending to spin off its registrar, registry and new gTLD business into a new public company Rightside.       Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10% - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. is hovering around $5 a share down about 10% from the closing price last night hitting an intraday low of $4.95 Demand has a 52 week high of $9.75 At its current price, Demand’s market cap is $459 Million dollars. Demand Media, Inc, is intending to spin off its registrar, registry and new gTLD business into a new public company Rightside.       Google+Michael ... read more ...