Monthly Archives: April 2014

Tue 29th April 2014
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British Businesses Can Now Register "Dot London" URLs - SLast week's news that London had applied for a .london top level domain name (TLD)—joining a small handful of other cities and regions around the world, including .nyc and .paris—raised the question of how a city might define itself online, where the edges and outer boundaries of a city might be when you're clicking around amidst all those 1s and 0s.That a city needs to establish a recognizable, physical identity for itself in the real world—whether that's through flags and official seals, ... read more ...
 
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‘.London’ domains on sale - Megha Kedia On April 29, 2014 Londoners can now start bidding for a new .London domain, the new generic top-level domain (gTLD), available for sale starting Tuesday. Over 100,000 firms have showed an interest in using the gTLD as an alternative to .com or .co.uk including Fortnum Mason, West Ham United Football ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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The Top Five Threats to Online Branding - The Internet is a vast and chaotic place—and getting more so as time marches on. This time around, the Domain Name System (DNS), which includes the recognizable .com, .net and .gov, will be adding more than 1,400 gTLDs (generic top-level domain names) to the mix. Those will be released gradually over the coming year. Businesses that operate online need to be vigilant with the first wave of new gTLDs becoming available to the public for purchase. There will be a sharp ... read more ...
 
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NetNames Acquires WebIP - NetNames, an online brand protection and corporate domain name management, has acquired WebIP, a leader in corporate domain name management in the Australian market. This acquisition provides access for Australian corporations to NetNames’ online brand protection services, which are used by many global brands to prevent counterfeit sales and other forms of online brand infringement. I n addition, Web IP’s clients will have access to NetNames’ global domain name registration platform and the ... read more ...
 
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I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98 - So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them  with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As most of you know the .TV registry had premium renewal prices on most of all their good premium domain names until a few years ago when they accepted a one time premium payment and normal renewal fees. However old legacy .TV domains that had an annual premium ... read more ...
 
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I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98 - So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them  with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As most of you know the .TV registry had premium renewal prices on most of all their good premium domain names until a few years ago when they accepted a one time premium payment and normal renewal fees. However old legacy .TV domains that had an annual premium ... read more ...
 
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London is latest major city to get its own domain - The city of London has its own TLD... or should that be tea-LD? Alessandro Colle/Shutterstock Would you Adam-and-Eve it? Londoners now have their own domain. New local top-level domains have arrived in another major city as people and businesses in the British capital can proudly add ".london" to their Web address. Cor blimey, guvnor!New local domain names are sprouting up around the world thanks to ... read more ...
 
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New Top-Level Domain Extensions May Help .travel Domains Increase … - Non-traditional TLDs like .travel are gaining credibility and visibility in search. No longer will .com be taken for granted as the most popular and most trustworthy of domains – neither by search engines, or by end users. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 29, 2014 Since late 2013, new top-level domain extensions, ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Continues Global Expansion - Go Daddy is expanding all around the globe. The company now  Supports Localized Product Support in 37 Countries, 42 Markets, 44 Currencies 17 Languages. Go Daddy put out a release announcing some of their expansion plans. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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U.S. Government Looking to Cash In Seized Silk Road Bitcoins - As a decentralized currency Bitcoin has proven itself to function well with the “If the majority feels a change should be made” then it can, and promptly like with the double spend bug a few years ago that required miners to adopt a new fork. This is an excellent advantage as it can be adaptable but not easily manipulated. I believe we, the Community, Miners, and Dev’s should use the power again, this time to remove the seized coins as they represent a huge threat. Investors all over the world ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy eliminates email support in preference of phone, chat - Company says customer satisfaction is higher with phone and chat support. GoDaddy has stopped offering support by email for U.S. customers, instead pushing them to phone and chat support options. Nick Fuller, Communications Manager at GoDaddy.com, told Domain Name Wire that the company made the switch after reviewing customer behavior and satisfaction scores: We’ve seen a shift in the way our customers engage and while talking to a ‘real person’ on the phone ... read more ...
 
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DomainAgents’ new complement competence accelerate your domain name sales - DomainAgents adds system for domain name sellers. Domain sales platform DomainAgents has made a major upgrade with the hopes of helping domain name investors sell more inventory. DomainAgents launched as a “certified offer” service in 2012. Domain buyers would pay to submit an offer on a domain and DomainAgents would track down the owner to present the offer. Negotiations would take place over email. The original concept was somewhat similar to Network Solutions’ ... read more ...
 
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3 new domain registries ask ICANN for dual impression domain names - .Wiki, .globo, and .ceo registries want to offer two character domain names. Three new top level domain name registries have asked ICANN to allow them to register two character domain names under their TLDs. New TLD registries aren’t allowed to offer two character second level domain names per their agreements with ICANN, but I expect this to change in coming years. The requests are very different. 1. .Wiki applicant Top Level Design has asked for two character ... read more ...
 
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Villa.com changes registrars as partial of Villa landgrab - Who’s behind this Villa landgrab? Last year I wrote about how someone was buying up lots of country code domain names with villa and villas at the second level. Since then I’ve continued to watch dozens of similar domain names get purchased/registered with Mark Monitor. All of them have Mark Monitor’s version of Whois privacy “DNStinations”. Now the final shoe has dropped: Villa.com has moved from Whois privacy at Fabulous to Whois privacy at Mark Monitor. Was ... read more ...
 
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FICEP SPA guilty of retreat domain name hijacking in unwashed UDRP case - This case is particularly dirty. Italian machine tool manufacturing company FICEP SPA has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for FICEP.com. Czech Arbitration Court panelist Jane Seager got the call right as this is a very clear cut case of reverse domain name hijacking. It was a pretty dirty filing. FICEP SPA filed a case against respondent FICEP in October. It was a clear-cut case that it lost. Although FICEP SPA has been around for decades, ... read more ...
Mon 28th April 2014
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Ficep.com Registrant Wins Again and Panelist Declares RDNH - Second time around is no better than the first for Ficep SPA, they filed a second UDRP to try to get the domain FICEP.com. This was not company vs domain investor but rather an Italian company founded in 1930 vs a French company founded in 1978. The panelist did not seem too happy that the Italian company filed a second UDRP on the same name with basically all the same facts.  Janet Seager went on to say, Furthermore the Panel finds that the Complainant has engaged in RDNH because, at the time that ... read more ...
 
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The Prediction Made On TheDomains Comes True As The 2 Chinese IDN Both Make The Top 5 - Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as  Dot Chinese Website (中文网) Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that: “I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations  at the end of landrush.” Well it took a couple of days longer until the 1st day of general availability (GA) but  ... read more ...
 
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.london domain names available from tomorrow, 100000 firms declare interest - London businesses can start bidding on new generic top-level domain [gTLD] names from tomorrow as the .london gets ready for its official launch. Related: “The biggest change to the Internet since its inception”: Massive domain name expansion underway The gTLD has already provoked strong interest in the capital with over 100,000 registering for more information with the likes of Fortnum Mason, West Ham United Football Club and the London School ... read more ...
 
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New .london domains touted tomorrow amid usual tech hypegasm - Security intelligence for a faster world Do you have any idea what "wind and kite" means? No? Well, it's Cockney rhyming for “website.” But from tomorrow, rather than lobbing geezer slang around, you'll have a much easier time making sure the world knows your business is from London.Tuesday marks the launch of the .london, and addresses using the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will go on sale for the first time. More ... read more ...
 
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Live.TV offered for $500,000 Joins Small Group of non dot coms offered for $500,000 plus - Live.tv was reported sold on Namepros by Ammar from Quest Financial. He has been in communication with Cyber Tavern and was working with them to get the sale reported to DN Journal. (Live.tv is NSFW) Live.TV enters the exclusive club of reported  non .com sales that have sold for $500,000 and up. Shopping.de    $2,858,945 9/2009 Sedo Kredit.de          $1,169,175     Sedo     11/25/08 Cruises.co.uk  $1,099,798     Pvt Sale     2/5/08 Poker.org         $1,000,000 ... read more ...
 
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Buzz Bash festival features launch of new top-level domain program - The first Buzz Bash festival kicked off the start of .BUZZ, a new self-sustaining, top-level domain created by Adjunct Marketing Instructor Bill Doshier, during x-period April 15 on the College of Business lawn. Doshier used the help of his marketing creative consulting class to launch .BUZZ. Senior Michael Borrelli, one of Doshier’s students, said, “I’m really excited to see how well the domain names sell and to know that what we’ve been working for all semester is a success.” Senior Jerry ... read more ...
 
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10 some-more new TLDs strike a marketplace this week. 1 will be a large flop. - Nine more new top level domain names enter general availability this week, including one that is going to have a miserable launch. The week is already off with a bang thanks to the two most successful first day new TLD launches so far. TLD Registry released Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) this morning. Tomorrow .build launches with a suggested retail price of $99. On Wednesday five of Donuts’ domain names go into regularly-priced ... read more ...
 
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Whoa: Chinese IDNs rocket in initial day - Two Chinese IDN domain names have 50,000 registrations after first partial day of general availibility. [Note: TLD Registry provided registration numbers this morning that later turned out to include registry reserved domain names. The initial numbers were about twice the updated ones in this story.] The Chinese IDN new TLD .在线, which means “online” in Chinese, had 54,011 33,012 domain names under management as of this afternoon, according to TLD Registry. ... read more ...
 
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Domain parking is down, though not dead - Survey shows domain parking is still a key to the domain business, even if much smaller than before. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor proves that the domain name parking market is still alive and kicking. Just not like it was many years ago. Despite pessimism and declining earnings, domain parking still makes up a big part of the domain investing market. 39% of survey takers reported an RPM (revenue per thousand) below $10, with 56% reporting below $20. ... read more ...