Monthly Archives: March 2014

Thu 27th March 2014
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Easyspace Offers New solutions for Business Domain Names - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]>   March 26, 2014 -- Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 26 March 2014 A new set of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) designed to help any businesses that provide training, consultancy or support has been issued by ICANN accredited UK domain name provider Easyspace. .solutions, .support, .training and .email are now available ... read more ...
 
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After 1st Day Of Availability .Email Has12K Registrations & Becomes 7th Most … - .Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability. According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company to become the 7th most registered new gTLD to date. The 2nd most popular new gTLD released this week after the first day of registrations is .Solutions which got just short of 7,000 registrations. There are now over 386,000 new gTLD registrations according to ntldstats.com and while the top 3 .Guru, .Berlin and Photography represent over ... read more ...
 
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After 1st Day Of Availability .Email Has12K Registrations & Becomes 7th Most Popular New gtTLD - .Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability. According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company to become the 7th most registered new gTLD to date. The 2nd most popular new gTLD released this week after the first day of registrations is .Solutions which got just short of 7,000 registrations. There are now over 386,000 new gTLD registrations according to ntldstats.com and while the top 3 .Guru, .Berlin and Photography represent over 30% ... read more ...
 
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ZACR and ICANN sign .africa agreement - ZACR and ICANN sign .africa agreement Representatives of South Africa's ZA Central Registry (ZACR) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names Numbers (ICANN) have signed an agreement that would see the launch of the .africa internet domain name. The agreement outlines the contractual terms by which the ZACR will launch and administer the .Africa geographic top-level domain (gTLD) starting in May this year, according to a statement. It was further ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX At The WorldHostingDays 2014 – New GTLD Strategies For The … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... (Regensburg, Germany) – The world's largest event for hosting professionals is going to celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2014. From April 1-3, experts and insiders from the international hosting business will meet at the WHD.global in Europa-Park Rust, Germany. As a specialist for innovative hosting and server products InterNetX is going to present its current offers and strategies for the new gTLD business. At the industry event experts from all ... read more ...
 
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King.com opens to Stock Crush Saga – Dropping 16% on First Day of Trading - King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could have titled their first day of trading as Stock Crush Saga. The stock had a very poor performance on its first day of trading. Perhaps people were looking at King and thinking it was going to be another Zynga, wildly popular before the IPO but as soon as it went public it could not make any gains in the public market. Zynga had Farmville and King has Candy Crush Saga, King must find more games that can provide a stable stream of income. Of course they ... read more ...
 
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Icann Moves to Delegate ".Africa" TLD With DCA’s Case Yet to Be Resolved - The controversy surrounding the dotAfrica TLD has taken an interesting turn following an announcement that ICANN had entered into an agreement with ZA Central Registry NPC - also known as Registry.Africa - to operate the ".africa" top-level domain. With the announcement and signing of the agreement, it essentially means that the ".africa" TLD could be handed over to the South Africa-based ZA Central Registry (ZACR) to manage, even with DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust's independent review process (IRP) ... read more ...
 
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Sedo domain names get kicked off GoDaddy on Monday - Domain sales partnership comes to an end next week. Last November GoDaddy announced it was ending its syndication agreement with Sedo effective the end of March 2014. That date is just around the corner: Monday. Domain names listed with SedoMLS will no longer show up on GoDaddy Auctions and, more importantly, in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. The move comes in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition of rival domain marketplace Afternic last September. GoDaddy is ... read more ...
 
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24 some-more finish user domain name sales - End user domain name sales of up to $35,000. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales made to end users. View previous end user sales reports here. SnowBusiness.at 1,500 EUR – Snow Business GmbH, which creates special effects of snow for movies and other video productions. They use SnowBusiness.de. OfficeCoffeeMachines.com.au $1,250 – Coffee Machines and Beans Pty Ltd UniteStudents.co.uk 800 GBP – UNITE Integrated ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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Who Should Oversee The Web ? - Who Should Oversee The Web ? PBS covered the topic of just who should oversee ICANN and what part government should have in that role. Host Judy Woodruff sat down with Vint Cerf from Google and Randolph May of the Free State Foundation. There is a full transcript on the site if you do not wish to watch the video. Cerf and May discuss their concerns with how the process may turn out, I think May summed up what a lot of people are concerned about. RANDOLPH MAY: I do have some concerns. And my concerns ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Hey Registries, Registrars This Is The Way To Sell A Domain - Over the years we have pointed out a bunch of ridiculous emails we get from registries and registrars trying to get people to buy a unregistered domain names. Usually the domain names suggested in the email have little to do with the person receiving the email or a defensive sale, along the lines of you better get this domain before someone else does. However today I got this from the DotCeo registry and you have to admit its a nice looking, bang on domain and properly presented. The operators of ... read more ...
 
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CENTR Reports on Latest ccTLD Stats - The Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) has released its 7th edition of DomainWire Stat Report with special focus on European country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). According to the report, the top 20 largest ccTLDs currently represent roughly 82% of all ccTLD registrations globally and 37% of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs etc). The ccTLD for Tokelau (.tk) has the largest zone with over 22 million reported domain names (see chart below). Note that ... read more ...
 
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dotAfrica documentation signed to pave way for launch - The outstanding legal documentation relating to the launch of the dotAfrica generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) was signed at the 49th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today, paving the way for the first phase of dotAfrica domain applications beginning in May. ICANN representative Akram Atallah and representatives of the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) Lucky Masilela and Neil Dundas signed the outstanding Registry Agreement today, detailing the contractual ... read more ...
 
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Confirmed: Credits.com Sold For $100K Net To Buyer - A few days ago we noticed that the domain name Credits.com came through on the Sedo sales wire selling for $30,000. Today we have been able to confirm with the seller of the domain name that the domain sold for $100,000 net to Seller, that Sedo.com RSS feed picked up the down payment of  $30,000 as the selling price. So as it turns out the seller of the domain did not lose money on the domain, which is very good to hear and we have another six figure sale. Even as of today the Sedo wire is still ... read more ...
 
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Prevention is better than cure: Trademark Claims service off to a good start - The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has announced that the notices sent as part of its Trademark Claims service appear to be deterring the registration of trade marks as domain names under the new gTLDs in the vast majority of cases. The TMCH is a central database of verified trade marks, of which most are registered trade marks. Registration in the TMCH enables trade mark owners to benefit from, amongst other things, the TMCH’s Trademark Claims service. The Trademark Claims service ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX auf den WorldHostingDays 2014 – new gTLD-Strategien für das … - Zum zehnten Jubiläum der Fachveranstaltung werden mehr als 5.000 Besucher erwartet. Im Konferenzteil stellt Marco Hoffmann, Head of Domain Services bei InterNetX, verschiedene Wege vor, mit den neuen Domain-Endungen geschäftlich durchzustarten. Das weltgrößte Treffen für Hosting-Experten geht in die zehnte Runde. Vom 1. bis 3. April treffen sich auf den WorldHostingDays.global (WHD.global) im Europa-Park Rust Experten und Insider aus dem internationalen Hosting-Business. Als Spezialist für ... read more ...
 
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Whibse.com New Bulk Domain Lookup Tool - Domain name intelligence service Whibse.com has released an update to its bulk Whois tool that “quickly and accurately retrieves and fully parses all fields in the Whois records, along with reputation information, all IP address information, all server information” “If you wanted to get hundreds or thousands of domain name Whois records along with all of the server, reputation and similar data, there wasn’t really a good way to do it John Horton President of Whibse told theDomains.com Whibse ... read more ...
 
 
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Sedo And TLD Registry Raise $182000 In First Live Auction Of New Chinese … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Premium Chinese Character Domain Names Sell for Between US$2,000 and $25,388 to Buyers WorldwideMACAU – March 25, 2014 – TLD Registry Ltd and Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that the first premium domain name auction of new Chinese character gTLDs has raised US$182,000 from 33 auction lot sales. Bidders in the room and around the world paid between US$2,000 and US$25,388 for valuable Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Le .tn, ce nom de domaine qui commence à avoir du succès sur la … - Depuis la libéralisation des noms de domaine nationaux, la fameuse extension .tn, à partir de 2009, le nombre des sites Internet tunisiens ayant adopté le .tn dans leur adresse Web ne cesse d’augmenter. D’après les statistiques de registre.tn, le site du registre national des ccTLD .tn de l’ATI, le nombre de ces noms de domaines (NDD) a littéralement explosé depuis la période sunrise 1 en début 2009 avec une année record, qu’est 2013. Et les performances de ce premier ... read more ...
 
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ZeptoLab Seeking to Cancel King.com EU Trademark on Candy - We have written before how King.com the makers of the wildly popular Candy Crush Saga were seeking to trademark Candy for video games and clothing. Last month King.com decided to pull their US application and are no longer seeking to trademark the word ‘Candy’ with the USPTO. “King has withdrawn its trademark application for Candy in the U.S., which we applied for in February 2013 before we acquired the early rights to Candy Crusher. Each market that King operates in is different with regard ... read more ...
 
 
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United Internet holding marketplace share from GoDaddy in new TLDs - After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 11, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. United spent about $50 million advertising pre-registrations for new top level domain names. Yet GoDaddy was kicking its butt in registrations for the first batches of new TLDs that hit the market. That has shifted in recent ... read more ...
 
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Sign.com and Signs.com settle dispute - You can’t trademark “sign” for selling signs. The owners of the category-killer domain names Sign.com and Signs.com have settled a legal battle over their ability to co-exist. In Janauary 2013 I wrote about how the owner of Sign.com made the bizarre claim that Signs.com was violating its service mark by using the domain Signs.com to sell signs. An attorney for SA International, owner of Sign.com, sent a cease desist letter to Signs.com: The use of the substantially ... read more ...