Monthly Archives: April 2014

Thu 3rd April 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Announces Affiliate Program - Frank Schilling Uniregistry registrar side of the business has just announced its affiliate program that promises to pay commission just not on new gTLD registrations but for renewals as well for the lifetime of the domain registration. Frank of course just didn’t announce the affiliate program but painted the picture of where we have been and were we are going in the domain space: “We get tens-of-thousands of banner clicks each day from hopeful dreamers like me, looking to buy the names ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Announces Affiliate Program - Frank Schilling Uniregistry registrar side of the business has just announced its affiliate program that promises to pay commission just not on new gTLD registrations but for renewals as well for the lifetime of the domain registration. Frank of course just didn’t announce the affiliate program but painted the picture of where we have been and were we are going in the domain space: “We get tens-of-thousands of banner clicks each day from hopeful dreamers like me, looking to buy the names of our ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Issues New gTLD Update - In a press release sent out overnight, “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) are pleased to provide an update on the launch programme of its portfolio of new top-level domains and the expansion of its registrar sales channel activity.” “gTLD Launch Programme On 1 April 2014, the first five of Minds + Machines wholly owned gTLD’s, .FISHING, .VODKA, .RODEO, .COOKING and .HORSE, as well as .COUNTRY in which the Company has a joint venture interest, were delegated into the ... read more ...
 
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Out of The 1,735 .Builders Domains These Are My Favorite - I didn’t try to acquire domain names in the new gTLD of  .Builders but I reviewed the zone file and found these 80 domains which are my favorite registrations in the TLD. According to ntldstats.com/tld there are 1,735 domain name registrations under .Builders making it the 50th most registered new gTLD. Some creative uses for the extension as well as traditional one’s:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
 
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Mark Karpeles Ordered to come to a US to plead Mt. Gox Bankruptcy - Reuters reported that the Mark Karpeles has to come to the US to discuss the Mt.Gox Chapter 15 bankruptcy. The company filed bankruptcy in Japan but are also dealing with a class action filed in Chicago. Last month, Karpeles asked a Dallas court to grant Mt. Gox Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection, in part to put a stop to a class action that had been filed by U.S. customers in Chicago federal court. The chief executive of Japan’s Mt. Gox, once the world’s leading bitcoin exchange, was ordered ... read more ...
 
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HugeDomains.com Takes UDRP Loss On AustinPain.com to Federal Court: We Say Good Get Em - HugeDomains.com, LLC, just filed a lawsuit against ROBERT P. WILLS, MD. PA, a Texas Professional Association d/b/a AUSTIN PAIN ASSOCIATES for a declaratory judgement arising out of the UDRP decision against it on the domain name AustinPain.com. At the time we called the UDRP decision a bad one. While is you can not formally “appeal”  a UDRP, if a domain name is ordered to be transferred by a panel,  the domain owner has the right to file with a Federal Court an action for a declaratory judgement ... read more ...
 
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MapFree.com is not confusingly identical to Mapfre, row rules - Majority of panel denies all three prongs of UDRP complaint while another confirms all three. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled against Spanish company Mapfre in a UDRP case the company brought against MapFree.com. The domain name belongs to Vertical Axis (Kevin Ham’s company). Vertical Axis argued that it registered the domain name for its generic meaning. It pointed out that is has registered many other domains that start with Map. The ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions down, auctions will be extended until tomorrow - GoDaddy Auctions experiences outage and will extend auctions by a day. GoDaddy’s auction site at Auctions.GoDaddy.com has been down for over an hour and GoDaddy is working to get the site back up. Here’s a statement from GoDaddy Sr. Director, Aftermarket Paul Nicks: We noticed an issue with our Auctions.GoDaddy.com Web page today. We suspended the auction process temporarily, and are working to restore service as soon as possible. Once we’re back up, we will ... read more ...
 
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10 new TLDs now tip 10,000 registrations each - .Center appears to have hit the milestone, making it the tenth domain to do so. Ten new top level domain names have now eclipsed the 10,000 registration milestone. That’s according to new TLD tracking site nTLDStats.com. Actual zone files show the tenth one is slightly below 10,000, but given the number of “dark” domains without nameservers typically found in a TLD, the 10-at-10k number is probably correct. Here are the top 10, along with nTLDStats.com’s numbers: 1. ... read more ...
 
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HugeDomains sues medical organisation to keep domain and claims RDNH - HugeDomains claims Austin medical group provided false statements in UDRP. A couple weeks ago I wrote about a UDRP for AustinPain.com and how I thought the panel got it wrong. Now HugeDomains, which was on the losing end of the case, has filed suit to halt the transfer and is asking to recover damages under Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). The suit was filed against Austin Pain Associates in U.S. District Court in Colorado yesterday. In the suit, HugeDomains ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
5 DomainFest questions answered + 10 reasons I’m blissful Shane wasn’t there - Answers to the five questions about DomainFest. I’m flying back from DomainFest right now, so it’s time to answer the five questions about DomainFest that I published on Monday. I’d also like to respond to Domain Shane’s post “10 Great Things That Will Happen By Me Not Going to DomainFest”. First, here are the five questions about DomainFest and the answers: 1. How many people will show up? Officially there were over 400 in attendance. It didn’t always ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
35 Senators Demand Answers On NTIA Plan Of Giving Up Oversight of ICANN - 35 U.S. Senators (all Republicans) led by John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asking a lot of questions (I counted 13) on the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish oversight responsibility over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)functions of ICANN to the global multistakeholder community. Here is the letter that was sent, ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Beats Back a UDRP on a Domain ThinkThin.com Registered in 2001 - Vertical Axis Inc which was as always represented by Esqwire.com beat back a UDRP on the domain name ThinkThin.com The trademark holder 1st registered their trademark and started selling their product in 2006, somehow they thought they were entitled to the domain although it was registered back in 2001. Typical. The three member panel should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking but instead just denied the UDRP: The factual findings pertinent to the decision in this case are that: 1. Complainant ... read more ...
 
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18 Year Old Domain MyMachine.com Saved in UDRP - Sabrage Media, Inc. just lost his attempt to grab the 18 year old domain name mymachine.com through a UDRP to which the domain owner didn’t even bother to defend. The factual findings pertinent to the decision in this case are that: 1. Complainant has used the trademark MY MACHINE in connection with a magazine publication, website, and clothing products related generally to motorcycling; 2. Complainant owns United States Trademark Reg. No. 3,158,541, filed November 29, 2005, registered October ... read more ...
 
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Domains Acquired Through SnapNames Creds Will Be Managed By NetworkSolutions.com - Snapnames.com just announced that starting today, “domain names acquired at SnapNames®, through a SnapNames credential, will now be managed through Network Solutions. Before anyone freaks out about the price,  these domains will be subject to a special renewal rate of just $9.59 To quickly identify the registrar of record for purchased domains refer to your SnapNames confirmation email. Once your purchased domain is ready to manage, you will receive an email from Network Solutions containing ... read more ...
 
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Stuart Lawley Chats About ICANN & The New gTLD’s On Cavuto Fox Business Show - Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM Registry, which operates the .XXX top level domain name extension and an applicant for .sex, .porn and .adult was interviewed by Cavuto, on Fox Business News, in a segment which lasted over five minutes. My favorite quote from the Story from Lawley on new gTLD’s in response to Cavuto’s question won’t the new gTLD’s be confusing to users: “There will be confusion, but in 3-5 years from now people will look at the internet very different and people will look ... read more ...
 
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.London domain name to launch on 29 April 2014 - What is it?  A new top-level domain name (TLD) permitting registration of (brand).LONDON, with priority given to London businesses, organisations and individuals.  Anyone with a presence or interest in London should consider seeking to register a .LONDON domain name.  It is expected that domain names will be allocated by August or September 2014.  Who is eligible?  From 29 April 2014, there is a three-month period during which anyone with an interest in London may apply.  ... read more ...
 
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BedLinens.com Sells On Namejet For 10% Of What It Sold For 3 1/2 Years Ago - One of the domain names in the DomainFest/Namejet.com auction that sold yesterday was BedLinens.com The domain sold yesterday on Namejet.com for $2,411 The same domain BedLinens.com sold back in September 2010 on Namejet.com  for $22,322 So we are looking at a loss of $20,000 on a purchase of $22K. A loss of 90% Brutal. Congrats to the winner of yesterday’s auction.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WSJ: If The UN Gets Control Of ICANN Your Domain Registration Fees May Increase, A Lot - The Wall Street Journal just published a story by Karl Borden who is a professor of financial economics at the University of Nebraska who warns that if the US gives up its oversight control over ICANN and the United Nations winds up in that roll, expect that fees are going to be imposed on every domain registration to support not only ICANN but UN activities. The professor cites “As far back as 2001, a U.N. report, “Financing the Global Sharing Economy,” proposed that the U.N. be given the ... read more ...
 
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UK reaches pivotal miracle in cyber security - Warwick Ashford wrote a piece on ComputerWeekly.com that covered what is a significant event for cyber security in the United Kingdom. As the Internet grows to be more important to just about every facet of human life, the stakes are raised on how to protect what happens online. The Internet of Things will take this to another level and there really needs to be greater understanding and education for all those involved. Its good to see the UK taking a proactive attitude with regards to increasing ... read more ...
 
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Rekordowy wskaźnik odnawiania .eu w 2013 r: 80% - Rekordowy wskaźnik odnawiania .eu w 2013 r: 80% Raport o postępach .eu za IV kwartał 2013 r. już dostępny   Bruksela, 13 marca 2014 r. – Zgodnie z najnowszym raportem o postępach rejestru .eu EURid, w 2013 roku zostało odnowionych przeciętnie 81% nazw domen .eu. Jest to siódmy z kolei rok, w którym domena .eu utrzymała tak wysoki wskaźnik odnowień, co świadczy o tym, że posiadacze nazw domen .eu są lojalną grupą.   „Użytkownicy ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.9 million in domains led by iAcademy.com -

Go Daddy/Afternic sole $1,940,630 in domains for a week of  3/24/14 – 3/30/14.

The tip sale was iAcademy.com for $55,000. The domain was sole by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration.

The tip non .com sale was Pod.ly for $6,500

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Via: thedomains.com

 
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Evolution not revolution helps distribution – SYS - Tuesday, 1 April 2014, Gibraltar: Sunrise period opens for .BID, .TRADE and .WEBCAMThe new Internet naming convention, where websites can end in almost any characters rather than the old style .com, .net and .org, has been seen by many as a playground for fresh thinking and innovation on the Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates Internet names, cites the capacity for innovation as one of the reasons that has led ... read more ...
 
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Some SnapNames-caught domains to be managed during NetworkSolutions - Domains caught by SnapName’s own registrars will be managed through Network Solutions. Here’s the first notable change as a result of Web.com acquiring expired domain marketplace SnapNames. SnapNames announced today that domain names acquired through a SnapNames credential (i.e. registrar) will now be managed via Web.com registrar Network Solutions. Previously these names were managed by Moniker. I can already hear the collective groan from domainers not wanting ... read more ...