Monthly Archives: March 2014

Wed 19th March 2014
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Afilias Welcomes “Dot Chinese Online” and “Dot Chinese Website” Top-Level … – Virtual - Global Internet access moves forward with Landrush launch of Chinese Internationalized Domain Names. DUBLIN (PRWEB) March 19, 2014 Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the completion of technical preparations for the Landrush launch of the new Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top-level domains (TLD). These two new TLDs represent the next generation of domains, ones that are written in local language scripts. Called Internationalized Domain ... read more ...
 
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Well We Just Told You These IDN’s Are Hot: Chinese Goverment Buys 20500 … - We published a post earlier this morning about the TLD Registry Ltd, and its two new Chinese IDN new gTLD’s  Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). We interviewed  A representative of the registry who predicted that they was a greater than 50% chance that both of these extensions would be in the top 5 of all new gTLD’s after its Landrush completed and now the registry announced overnight that it has contracted with the Chinese central government’s own registrar ... read more ...
 
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Marchex, Endurance Added To NASDAQ Internet Index - NASDAQ (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the addition and deletion of companies to the NASDAQ Internet Index® (Nasdaq:QNET), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, March 24, 2014. The Index is designed to track the performance of a set of companies engaged in internet-related businesses. Two of the company’s added are two in the domain industry Marchex (Nasdaq:MCHX) and Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc (Nasdaq:EIGI) Twenty-two securities will be added to the Index: Benefitfocus, ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Welcomes “Dot Chinese Online” and “Dot Chinese Website” Top-Level … - Afilias We’ve been able to launch these domains so quickly because of the skill and historical knowledge that Afilias brought to the project. DUBLIN (PRWEB) March 19, 2014 Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the completion of technical preparations for the Landrush launch of the new ... read more ...
 
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Well We Just Told You These IDN’s Are Hot: Chinese Goverment Buys 20,500 Domains - We published a post earlier this morning about the TLD Registry Ltd, and its two new Chinese IDN new gTLD’s  Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). We interviewed  A representative of the registry who predicted that they was a greater than 50% chance that both of these extensions would be in the top 5 of all new gTLD’s after its Landrush completed and now the registry announced overnight that it has contracted with the Chinese central government’s own registrar in ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game - Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clients, “making it the #1 registrar for .BERLIN domains in the B2B sector”. Godaddy.com which had just under 40% of the new gTLD market as a domain name registrar share is now sitting right below 35%. Many German based registrars benefited from ... read more ...
 
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Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s … - Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in  Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at 11pm EST). Personally I don’t own any IDN’s but this one may make me change my mind. For one as most know, China has more internet users than the population of the United States, 618 million as of December 2013. About 2 weeks ago LinkedIn launched ... read more ...
 
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.Berlin Does over 31000 Registration In 1st Day; 20K in 1st Hour -   The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations. .Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most popular new gTLD only to .Guru which has around 44,500 registrations. By contrast .Guru only did 9,500 registrations on its first day of general availability. According to InterNetX a German based registrar, 20,000 registration were done in the 1st hour of availability. .Berlin,  as we have told you was one of the groups that really ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game - Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clients, “making it the #1 registrar for .BERLIN domains in the B2B sector”. Godaddy.com which had just under 40% of the new gTLD market as a domain name registrar share is now sitting right below 35%. Many German based registrars benefited from the success ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old Domain HoldOn.com By Owners Of Holdon.Info - A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name HoldOn.com The domain name has an original registration according DomainTools.com of March 18th 1997 making the domain 14 years old. However Screenshots has results for HoldOn.com going back to 1994. The domain name is owned by a Dharrshinee Naidu of New York. The domain is parked and according to Screenshots has been parked since at least 1996. Amicus Trade AB of Sweden filed the complaint. According to the website of the company which is located ... read more ...
 
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.Berlin Does over 31,000 Registration In 1st Day; 20K in 1st Hour -   The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations. .Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most popular new gTLD only to .Guru which has around 44,500 registrations. By contrast .Guru only did 9,500 registrations on its first day of general availability. According to InterNetX a German based registrar, 20,000 registration were done in the 1st hour of availability. .Berlin,  as we have told you was one of the groups that really pushed ... read more ...
 
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Traumstart für .BERLIN: Mehr als 30.000 registrierte Domains in wenigen Stunden - Die Domain-Endung aus der Hauptstadt ist mit dem bisher erfolgreichsten Launch aller neuen TLDs in die General Availability gegangen. InterNetX konnte 81 Prozent aller Vorregistrierungen für seine Kunden sichern und steht damit auf Platz 1 der .BERLINRegistrare im B2B-Bereich. Die neue Domain-Endung für Berlin ist am Dienstag (18. März) mit einem Paukenschlag in die General Availability gestartet. In weniger als einer Stunde waren mehr als 20.000 Adressen unter der neuen TLD vergeben. Damit ist ... read more ...
 
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Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s & How You Can Play It - Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in  Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at 11pm EST). Personally I don’t own any IDN’s but this one may make me change my mind. For one as most know, China has more internet users than the population of the United States, 618 million as of December 2013. About 2 weeks ago LinkedIn launched its ... read more ...
 
 
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Registration Numbers Not the Only Success Measure for New TLDs - Like many, I've been watching the rollout of the first 150+ new Top-Level Domains (TLD) with interest. Since the delegation of شبكة. back in October, we've seen all sorts of TLDs launched — from brands like .monash to generics like .build. There has been intense scrutiny within our industry on the zone file registration numbers of these delegated TLDs to measure whether or not they are successful. To be fair, this is not a surprise. We've been conditioned by past generic TLD launches ... read more ...
 
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Ladas Domains Selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®) - HEXONET  today announced that Ladas Domains LLC (Ladas) has selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®) as the domain name service platform for its renowned trademark protection and corporate domain management division. The combination of industry leading expertise and experience managing digital corporate assets and brands for high profile clientele with a state of the art domain registration system will ensure Ladas’ high profile clients are protected as the Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Donuts adds another 20,000 registrations with subsequent 6 domains - Donuts next six domains launch and 11 is picking up steam thanks to cut rate pricing. Another five six of Donuts domain names reverted to “regular” pricing today and they picked up about 20,000 registrations in the first hours, according to updated stats on nTLDStats.com. The six domain names and their net adds are: company 6,493 center 5,599 systems 3,041 academy 2,793 management 2,252 computer 1,313 .Academy and .Computer appear to be in Donuts’ middle price ... read more ...
 
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Quebec’s supervision loses domain brawl over Quebec.com - UDRP must have been lost in translation. The Government of Quebec has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name Quebec.com. This was a no brainer case. The three person panel found that domain owner Anything.com has rights or legitimate interests in the domain and did not register it in bad faith. Instead, the registrant registered it and parked it showing ads related to the city of Quebec. While the panel doesn’t specifically find laches, it questions why it ... read more ...
 
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NTIA: U.S. won’t desert a purpose in a internet until it’s confident with a alternative - Strickling makes it clear that IANA contract won’t be transitioned until it is happy with the alternative. Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence E. Strickling penned a blog post today to try to clarify some of the misinformation coming out of last week’s announcement of transitioning the IANA functions. In his post, Strickling makes is clear that the NTIA will only transition these functions if it’s satisfied with the alternative that ... read more ...
 
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.Berlin scores 30,000+ registrations in good news for city TLDs - City domain name rockets out of the starting gate. The .Berlin top level domain name has quickly racked up over 30,000 domain name registrations according to the latest published zone file. A lot of domain industry insiders think .city domain names have some of the best potential among new TLDs, and .Berlin’s quick start is certainly a positive sign. Perhaps encouraged by the success of Germany’s country code domain name .de, applicants applied for eight city ... read more ...
 
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Registrar suspends all domain names eliminated from consummated registrar - EnCirca finds that domains were used for nefarious purposes. ICANN terminated the accreditation of domain name registrar ABSYSTEMS INC (dba yournamemonkey.com) in December for multiple contract breaches. ICANN transferred the domain names to another registrar as ICANN does in cases of a de-accreditation. In this case, EnCirca was the (not so) lucky registrar. EnCirca got more than it bargained for. ICANN informed EnCirca that ABSYSTEMS had approximately 700-800 names, ... read more ...
 
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Chinese supervision buys 20,000 new IDN domain names - TLD Registry inks deal with Chinese government for over 10,000 domains in each of its new TLDs. Pictured: Director LI Qingfeng, The Service Development Center of SCOPSR (China’s own registrar) and Arto ISOKOSKI, CEO, TLD Registry Ltd.TLD Registry Ltd, which is launching the new top level domain names Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has inked a deal with the Chinese central government’s own registrar for 10,226 domain names in ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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International SEO Tips – What Are the Game Changing Factors? - Tweet Buffer When I was at SES London in February, I received lots of great questions from search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners around Europe at the International SEO session and Meet the Experts roundtable. Some of the questions were very specific, yet rather basic, such as, “Do I have to have a .de ccTLD to have a website for Germany?” or, “I don’t have a local address, so that is why I don’t rank well in Spain, right?” There ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Two Weeks Of Transactions Total $2.8 Million - Sedo, just published its sales for two weeks For the week of March 3rd – 9th 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales for the week of March 3rd-9th were: ·         Top .coms: jamrock.com at 68,750 USD ·         Top ccTLD: homify.fr at 20,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: hff.org at 10,000 USD For the week of March 10th- 16th: 691 transactions ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Gets Hit With UDRP On a Domain Name ClearCare.com - One of Frank Schilling Name Administration domain names has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name ClearCare.com has been owned by Name Administration since at least 2008 according to DomainTools.com The complainant is not listed but Alcon a publicly traded company (ACL) makes a contact lens cleaning productknown as Clear Care, which it uses the URL Clearcaresolution.com. There are multiple live trademarks for the term ClearCare in the US by: Arch Chemicals, Inc. ClearCare, Inc Novartis AG Group Health ... read more ...