Monthly Archives: March 2014

Mon 10th March 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
Larry Smith: CambridgeMovers.com Is Not Very Much in Relation to EyemakeUpRemovers.com - The start of another week and already I have a nice set of spam emails. Sure I get many of these every day and 99.99% I send into trash without regard but this one caught my eye based off the domain listed (which isn’t a bad domain) just a bad message “”Hello Worldwide Media Inc. My Name is Larry and I am representing the potential sale of CambridgeMovers.com We realized you may be interested because you currently own eyemakeupremovers.com which seems to be very much in relation to CambridgeMovers.com. We ... read more ...
 
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My Take on What Light Sunrise Numbers Mean - A week ago, Calzone shared some information about  the sunrise registration numbers for new gTLD registries. In the report, Calzone shared that “by any measure, the rolling average of 115 Sunrise domains per TLD falls far short of what many new Registries included in their revenue forecasts.” Although it might be obvious to many people, I want to share why I believe this may make things more challenging for the new gTLD registries and how this may change things a bit. I certainly don’t ... read more ...
 
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Companies, individuals making the most of .guru, .bike, and more - If you’re casting about for an interesting marketing or trends story, here’s one that could be adapted to just about any beat: The new domain names that have become available this year, which allow businesses to shed the run-of-the-mill .com designation in favor of snazzier suffixes like .bank, .guru and even, heaven help us, .Kardashian. It’s all part of the rollout of some 1,400 new “generic top-level domain names” (or gTLD) as the nomenclature ... read more ...
 
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How to register for a .uk domain name, and avoid the squatters and hackers - The fast approaching rollout of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), like .uk and .london, has the potential be either a dream scenario or waking nightmare for organisations of all shapes and sizes. This is because, on the one hand the move could let organisations tailor their online offering to a much more specific set of clients. For example, Groupon may like to take advantage of the ... read more ...
 
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M.Dot Rebranded as Go Daddy Go Mobile - App Advice reported that M.dot has been rebranded to Go Daddy Go Mobile. M.dot has just been updated to version 2.0. At the same time, it has been rebranded as GoDaddy GoMobile. Released in October 2012, M.dot was acquired by GoDaddy in February 2013. And now, over a year later, the app has been renamed to officially carry the GoDaddy brand. Not to be confused with GoDaddy Mobile, GoDaddy’s official iOS app, GoDaddy GoMobile offers quick and easy creation and management of mobile-optimized websites. ... read more ...
 
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Classified Ventures Seeking $3 Billion for Cars.com - Now that the sale of Apartments.com is completed at $585 million, Classified Ventures is looking for $3 billion for Cars.com. William Launder,Dana Mattioli and Mike Spector wrote an article tonight for the Wall Street Journal. A group of newspaper publishers has put the cars.com online marketplace up for sale for as much as $3 billion, hoping to cash in on booming values for e-commerce sites, people familiar with the plans said. Moelis Co., which is advising the Classified Ventures publishers consortium ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Domain Name Wire incited 9 this weekend - Covering the domain name industry since 2005. Domain Name Wire celebrated its ninth anniversary over the weekend. I’d like to take this occasion to thank all of Domain Name Wire’s loyal readers. Publishing a blog is only fun when there’s an engaged audience. Many of you take the time to comment and interact with posts. Many others tell me personal stories about how DNW has helped them grow their business, sell a domain name or clarify their strategy. Whether ... read more ...
 
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Photos: Domain.com SXSW Party & .CO HQ - Here are photos from Domain.com’s party in Austin Saturday night and the .CO HQ. Domain.com threw a party in conjunction with Public Interest Registry (PIR) Saturday night in Austin at the SXSW festival. A steady cold rain didn’t keep people away. In fact, it may have drawn them to the relative comfort and warmth of dancing in a tent. For the second year in a row the party featured 80s cover band The Spazmatics. Drinks included “The Domain Fire” and the “Refresh-ORG”. On ... read more ...
 
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Survey: Domain Name Registrars in 2014 - What do customers look for in a domain name registrar? The 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey is open and awaiting your participation. As always, the survey asks some questions about domain name registrars and why people use the registrar they do. The survey asks participants to rank eight difference factors commonly considered by customers. There’s an additional one this year that wasn’t on the list last year: availability of the top level domain name options ... read more ...
Sun 9th March 2014
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Hackers Claim to Publish Evidence of Fraud during BitCoin Exchange Mt.Gox - Andy Greenberg just did a piece on Forbes with regards to hackers claiming to have hacked the Mt.Gox servers. The recent bankruptcy of the Bitcoin exchange has many up in arms and some are deciding to get answers on their own. Some of the data released and posted on Reddit has already been taken down. Greenberg reached out to disgraced Mt.Gox C.E.O. Mark Karpeles but has yet to get a reply back. From the article: The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange ... read more ...
 
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25 Years of a World Wide Web - TIMELINE: March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee circulates his “informational management proposal” at the European organisation CERN, laying the foundation for the World Wide Web. He releases the code to the public on Christmas Day 1990. 1993: Mosaic, the browser credited with popularising the Web with an intuitive interface, is developed by a team led by Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois. Mosaic is the basis for the commercial browser Netscape in 1994. 1994: ... read more ...
 
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Are Crypto-Currencies Here To Stay ? Google’s Director of Ideas Says Yes - Gregory Ferenstein wrote a post on Tech Crunch  about the director of ideas from Google and his belief that crypto currencies are going to be a mainstay as we move forward. Google Director of Ideas and former technology advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jared Cohen, says that digital “crypto-currencies” like Bitcoin are here to stay. “I think it’s very obvious to all of us that crypto-currencies are inevitable,” he told the audience at SXSW, in conversation with Chairman ... read more ...
Sat 8th March 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Budget draws first blood on opening day of QRTS - Topics:  cycling, day one, meringandan, qrts, tld racing Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing team members (from left) Darren Rolfe, Peter Watts, Trent West, Seb Scott, CJ Maycock, Dave Silk, Damien Doran and James Orchard with Meringandan Hotel publican Justin Murphy before the start ... read more ...
 
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20 Year Old Graceland.com Lost In UDRP - Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.  (EPE) was awarded the 20 year old domain name graceland.com  by three member UDRP panel. Its an interesting set of facts. The domain was not parked but contained bible verses with Google Adsense which put up ads related to the former home of Elvis Presley which is now a huge tourist attraction. The parties didn’t even agree if it was the domain owner who offered to sell the domain to the trademark holder for $200,000 or if the trademark holder offered the domain ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Its Financials For The Six Months Ending December 2013 - The ICANN change in net assets is $3.3M, or 13.6%, higher than budget during the first six months of FY14 mainly as a result of (i) delays in planned operations ($2.8M, see Operating Expenses below), (ii) timing differences of ccTLD contributions ($1.3M), (iii) Reserve Fund and New gTLD investment income of ($3.7M) and ($1.4M), respectively, offset by (iv) delayed evaluation processing in the New gTLD program resulting in lower revenues recognized for the period (-$8.0M). The Funds under Management ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Its Financials For The Six Months Ending Dec 2013 - The ICANN change in net assets is $3.3M, or 13.6%, higher than budget during the first six months of FY14 mainly as a result of (i) delays in planned operations ($2.8M, see Operating Expenses below), (ii) timing differences of ccTLD contributions ($1.3M), (iii) Reserve Fund and New gTLD investment income of ($3.7M) and ($1.4M), respectively, offset by (iv) delayed evaluation processing in the New gTLD program resulting in lower revenues recognized for the period (-$8.0M). The Funds under Management ... read more ...
 
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‘Domains by Proxy’ Hands Over Personal Details of “Pirate” Site Owner - Torrent Freak reported that Domains By Proxy, the privacy service from Go Daddy, turned over the personal details of one of their customers. The majority of the 83 comments are taking a lot of shots at Go Daddy, as some think its bogus that Go Daddy uses the word potentially and does not have definitive proof by copyright holder. As one commenter pointed out, registrants need to understand that a privacy service is not going to accept potential legal risk for a registrant. You need to know what you ... read more ...
Fri 7th March 2014
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Yesterday Vine bans Porn, Today VinePorn.com sells for $9,900 on Sedo - Last January someone registered the domain VinePorn.com, yesterday Vine banned porn on their service, today VinePorn.com sold for $9,900 on Sedo. Vine posted: A change to Vine content rules We introduced Vine to make it easier for people to find, watch, create and share videos right from their mobile phones. As we’ve watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we’ve found that there’s a very small percentage of videos that are not a good fit for our community. So we’re making ... read more ...
 
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FT.com Covers Frank Schilling - One of the most prestigious publications in the world, the Financial Times out of London just published a huge cover story on Frank Schilling “Tucked inside a nondescript building on Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman, a stone’s throw from the island’s largest and glitziest hotels, Frank Schilling’s home feels a bit like the Batcave. ” “A lift leads to a large intercom-protected gate, which reveals a pair of oversized double doors that open into a huge marble-covered entrance passage.”” “We ... read more ...
 
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Policy Advisory Board Model Now a Test of Multistakeholder Model - In early November 2013, prior to ICANN's Buenos Aires meeting, I published an article at this forum, Policy Advisory Boards – A Cornerstone PICS (Public Interest Commitment Specification), that extoled the advantages of adopting a Policy Advisory Board (PAB) model as a practical, effective, and least burdensome means of effectively implementing the request of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) for consumer and competitive safeguards at sensitive new gTLD "strings" — especially ... read more ...
 
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14K of Enom’s 23K new gTLD Registrations Are From NameCheap - Yesterday we reported on the top 20 domain name registrars in terms of new gTLD domain name registrations. The domain name registrar in second place on the list was Enom with 23,167 new gTLD domain name registrations. Today the CEO fo NameCheap.com Richard Kirkendall told TheDomains.com that of the 23K domain name registrations of Enom.com, NameCheap.com accounts for over 14,000 of them. Namecheap.com is a reller of Enom so its totals are included in Enom’s official totals. Based on 14,000 registration ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ signs RRA with GoDaddy & Frank Schilling New Uniregistrar Is One of … - (Photo: Rich Merdinger of GoDaddy, Pinky Brand of  FocusNUA advisor to .BUZZ and Bill Doshier, Founder and CEO of .BUZZ) .BUZZ signed its RRA with GoDaddy in New York City at  the Momentum 3rd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress and announced over 40 other  registrars that will be taking .BUZZ registrations. One of the registrars on the list grabbed my eye, Frank Schilling  Uniregistrar Corp  which is the new domain name registrar that is suppose to be rolling out any day. Frank ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ signs RRA with GoDaddy & Frank Schilling New Uniregistrar Is One of .Buzz Registrars - (Photo: Rich Merdinger of GoDaddy, Pinky Brand of  FocusNUA advisor to .BUZZ and Bill Doshier, Founder and CEO of .BUZZ) .BUZZ signed its RRA with GoDaddy in New York City at  the Momentum 3rd Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress and announced over 40 other  registrars that will be taking .BUZZ registrations. One of the registrars on the list grabbed my eye, Frank Schilling  Uniregistrar Corp  which is the new domain name registrar that is suppose to be rolling out any day. Frank Schilling ... read more ...
 
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New Web domains expand possibilities - A great variety of gTLDs will add an organizing aspect to search and surfing. Credit: vschlichting Over 160 new gTLDs (generic Top-Level Domains) have joined the traditional .com, .org and .edu’s since October. Among these, many countries such as China, Australia and Switzerland have been granted country-specific domains as Internet access across the globe grows. Berlin and Vienna have registered their own city-specific gTLDs, .berlin and .wien. Even the domains’ languages are being expanded ... read more ...
 
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“Largest Domain Name Sales Database Ever Built” Launches WIth Over 315K Domains & $1,135,277,224 In Sales - According to a press release we received today the biggest domain name sales database ever built just just rolled out. The database is at DNPric.es. “”Currently the database has 315,461 domain name sale records totaling $1,135,277,224.00. Not only you can lookup historic sales, the site also offers amazing stats section where you can fish for tons of interesting information. Let’s have a quick look on it from different angles. 1. TLDs While .COM is still the king with more ... read more ...