Monthly Archives: February 2014

Wed 19th February 2014
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Marchex Reports & Archeo Sells 262 Domains For 1.6 Million In 4th Quarter of 2013 - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Archeo Q4 Business Highlights: Revenue. Archeo non-GAAP revenue was $3.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2013, which excludes domain sales recognized in GAAP revenue. Domains sales. During the fourth quarter of 2013, Archeo sold a total of 262 domain names that yielded $1.6 million. To save you the math, that is just over $6,100 per domain name which is well below the ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46880 - The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz  at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expensive domain not on the collision list is Jobs.Buzz at  $42,000 Business.Buzz  is priced at  $33,500 Clothes.buzz is priced at $30,000 NewYork.buzz is priced at $28,300 Software.Buzz is priced $16,800 Also priced at $16,800 each are Consulting.buzz, ... read more ...
 
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Sibername Opens the General Availability Registrations for 7 more domain … – PR - SiberName (http://www.sibername.com), one of the most trusted Canadian resources for domain registration and web hosting, has announced that seven new gTLD;s are released for public registration through their website starting this Wednesday February 19th, 2014 at 11:00 AM EST. The following list of new domain names: .CONSTRUCTION .CONTRACTORS .DIRECTORY .KITCHEN .LAND .TECHNOLOGY .TODAY will be available for online registration through SiberName's Domain Name Registration webpage and also through ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46,880 - The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz  at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expensive domain not on the collision list is Jobs.Buzz at  $42,000 Business.Buzz  is priced at  $33,500 Clothes.buzz is priced at $30,000 NewYork.buzz is priced at $28,300 Software.Buzz is priced $16,800 Also priced at $16,800 each are Consulting.buzz, NYC.buzz, ... read more ...
 
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If You Want To Bid On A .Club Auction Domain At Sedo You Need To Send In A Form -   The Sedo.com auction for 25 .club domain names started today but you won’t be able to bid on any of them unless and until you fill out the Auction Bidder Certification form print it out and submit it to Sedo.com via email or faxed. This requirement seems to apply to all bidders even those who have been qualified by Sedo in the past, even those authorized to bid $10K or more even $100K or more in other auctions. The .Club auction like other themed Sedo auction only last a week and I know many ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To … - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV/AIDS and work against the stigmatization of people living with the virus.” The .HIV new gTLD is being described as more than just a domain name, its  “A Digital Red Ribbon”, the Red Ribbon of the digital age if you will. Out of the he planned ... read more ...
 
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.Org Adds 206K Registrations; Up 2.6% in 2013; 85% Of Registrants Renew For 3 Years Or More - PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG Top Level domain name extension, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals that 206,542 new .ORG domains were registered from January to December 2013, bringing the total number of .ORG domains under registration (DUM) to more than 10,346,000 globally. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include the following: · The number ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To Non-Profits - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV/AIDS and work against the stigmatization of people living with the virus.” The .HIV new gTLD is being described as more than just a domain name, its  “A Digital Red Ribbon”, the Red Ribbon of the digital age if you will. Out of the he planned retail ... read more ...
 
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Las ventas de dominios .com crecieron un 5% en 2013 - En 2013, Sedo gestionó 37.241 transacciones en su mercado de dominios con un precio medio de 1.893 dólares y un precio mediano de 577 dólares. Estas cifras representan un incremento del 3% en las transacciones sobre las 36.181 compraventas de 2012, así como un incremento sobre el precio medio de 1.885 dólares de 2012.   Con cientos de nuevos dominios de primer nivel lanzándose en 2014, este podría ser el último año en el que los puntocom (.com) se mantengan en la cima con un ... read more ...
 
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Design Review Shows BAE Systems’ HAMMER Solution on Target - NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems’ HAMMER™ precision targeting system successfully completed the U.S. Army’s Critical Design Review for its Joint Effects Targeting System (JETS) Target Location Designation System (TLDS) program. This review of the system’s design and capability is a key milestone as the company works toward providing dismounted soldiers and operators with a lightweight and cost-effective solution. BAE Systems' HAMMER precision ... read more ...
 
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.UNO Wants To Be The Spanish Equivalent of .Com - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning Shaul Jolles President and CEO of the the .Uno registry laid out his goal for the .UNO registry .UNO wants to be the .COM to the spanish speaking market. .UNO will globally connect over 490 million Spanish speaking businesses, consumers and individuals. Mr. Jolles in laying out his vision cited some live .UNO “sites” However each and everyone is being forwarded to site built on either a .com or a .org Here are the sites cited by Mr. Jolles: AARP.Uno ... read more ...
 
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"Versuch, Claims auf Zukunftsmärkten abzustecken" - Hans-Peter Oswald© privat 19.02.2014Interview mit Hans-Peter Oswald über Top Level Domains "Versuch, Claims auf Zukunftsmärkten abzustecken"Darf ein Domainname wie „.book“ nur einem Unternehmen wie Amazon gehören? Hans-Peter Oswald, Geschäftsführer der Domainregistrierungsfirma Secura, über das Rennen um die begehrten Plätze im Web. Die Secura GmbH ist einer der von der ICANN – der Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers – akkreditierten deutschen Domain-Registrare ... read more ...
 
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13 Year Old SocialPoint.com Saved In UDRP - Social Point, S.L. of Barcelona, Spain, just lost it attempt to grab the domain name socialpoint.com who was represented by Erika L. Hengst, Esquire of Florida The domain name SocialPoint was registered on August 30, 2001. The Complainant is the developer of social games such as “Social Empires”, “Dragon City”, “Monster Legends” and “Social Wars” that can be played through the website “www.facebook.com” on streaming or downloaded to be played with iOS and Android apps. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Amazon successfully defends community objection against application for … - <![CDATA[ ]]> Please complete the form below to receive a free trial of WTR magazine and daily email updates. The personal details provided by you will be held on a database and may be shared with Globe Business Publishing Ltd's associated companies. The details provided will not be passed to any other company. Please view our Terms Conditions. ... read more ...
 
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A new era for domain management - Akram Atallah, president of the global domains division at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which is behind an initiative to release a wave of new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) onto the web, says he's looking forward to a lot of innovation over the coming months.Until recently, gTLDs such as .com and .net numbered just 22, alongside the 300 or so country codes. That's set to expand to well over a thousand this year, with the first top-level domains having ... read more ...
 
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Internet, des extensions de noms de domaine en caractères arabes … - Dès le quatrième trimestre de cette année, vous pourrez obtenir un nom de domaine avec l’extension .المغرب en caractères arabes. L’ANRT vient de désigner Maroc Telecom pour la gestion de la nouvelle plateforme de toutes les extensions marocaines.   Dans le cadre de la création de nouvelles extensions de pays (ccTLD : Country Code Top Level Domain) en caractères non latins (arabe, chinois, russe…), l’ICANN a approuvé la demande de délégation présentée par l’ANRT ... read more ...
 
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Capturing a Gold by Stepping Up Your Game With a Right Registrations - FairWinds Partners  is hosting the Beyond the dot conference in Washington D.C. today, Michael is at the conference for TheDomains.com and RightoftheDot.com The 2014 Beyond the Dot Conference will be held at the Newseum tomorrow, February 19. The event will bring together policymakers, corporations, non-profits, government officials, and average Internet users to explore and discuss what they will mean to all Internet users and how they will change the way that we approach Internet navigation, ... read more ...
 
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The story of how Microryza rebranded as Experiment.com for $54,000 - Story is typical of startups and explains the benefits of using a great domain name. Startups go through the name game all the time. Picking a name and acquiring the matching domain name is often no easy feat. But rarely is the story chronicled so well as this post on Priceonomics.com about Experiment.com. The story does a great job of outlining what I think is a typical adventure for startups: 1. Pick a bad name because it’s available for registration (or cheap). 2. ... read more ...
 
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Marchex sells $1.6 million in domain names in Q4 - Marchex’s Archeo division continues to sell domains at fairly high prices. Marchex reported its fourth quarter earnings after the bell today. It included sales results from Archeo, its domain name division. Archeo sold 262 domain names for a total of $1.6 million last quarter. That’s about double how much it sold last year in the same quarter. It’s also a high average selling price of $6,100 per domain name. Averages can be misleading, but I suspect Archeo’s ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought final week - Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company American Eagle Towelie.com €2,999 – Viacom. This is the name of an episode of Southpark, and a character in the episode. AccidentSolicitors.com £1,625 GBP – The same company behind LegalBrokers.co.uk UnitedPrint.pl €1,199 ... read more ...
 
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Verisign gets obvious for Recovery of a Failed Registry - Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one that “enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files ... read more ...
 
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The non-.com steam cause and what it means for new TLDs - In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your website visitors is confusion. In the U.S., that means choosing a domain other than .com. In the Czech Republic, that means choosing a domain other than .cz. Whatever the dominant TLD is in a country, opting for another extensions ... read more ...
Tue 18th February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
dotVersicherung startet in Kürze - Juan Nevado präsentiert: „Braucht Multi-Asset-Management Vorhersagen?“ Vortrag am 5. März 2014, 10:30 Uhr, Saal 1. Erfahren Sie mehr. Nur für professionelle Anleger. Der Wert von Anlagen kann schwanken, wodurch die Fondspreise steigen oder fallen können und Sie Ihren ursprünglich investierten Betrag möglicherweise nicht zurückerhalten. Anzeige ... read more ...
 
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Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for the … - Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for the .desi gTLD LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has been selected by Dot Desi Reseller, LLC (an affiliate of Desi Networks, LLC Registry for .desi gTLD) to manage their wholesale and retail infrastructure and provide marketing assistance. As part of the deal, LogicBoxes will provide a custom Vertical Integration solutions package. LogicBoxes ... read more ...
 
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Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for a .desi gTLD - Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for the .desi gTLD LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has been selected by Dot Desi Reseller, LLC (an affiliate of Desi Networks, LLC Registry for .desi gTLD) to manage their wholesale and retail infrastructure and provide marketing assistance. As part of the deal, LogicBoxes will provide a custom Vertical Integration solutions package. LogicBoxes will ... read more ...