Monthly Archives: April 2014

Thu 24th April 2014
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Publicly Traded Company Announces Acquisition of FindIt.com - In a pretty unusually worded press release sent out by Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: ARTT) (PINKSHEETS: ARTT) it said it “recently entered into an agreement to purchase the domain name Findit.com. The company has opened escrow and made the initial payment.” “The domain Findit.com has been transferred to Escrow.com and Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. now has control of the Findit.com URL. ” “The deal provides Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. to make monthly payments while using the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse: keeping cyber squatters at bay? - Expansion of the domain name system ICANN (the organisation that coordinates internet domain names) is in the process of expanding the domain name system by introducing hundreds of new global Top Level Domains (“gTLDs”). Domain name endings such as .london, .black and .christmas will be available for the first time alongside traditional gTLDs such as .com, .net and .org. As new domain names are made available, brand owners must be vigilant to the risk that a third party will ... read more ...
 
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Team TLD set for round two of road series - Topics:  cycing, queensland road teams series, team tld racing Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet Team TLD squad members at the announcement of its entry into next month's Tour of Toowoomba. Bev Lacey TOOWOOMBA'S Team TLD Racing will be on a dual assignment this weekend when it lines up in round two of the 2014 ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports negligence .Com/.Net registrations in Q1 - New registrations and renewal rate dip. Verisign reported first quarter earnings today after the bell. The company reported revenue of $249 million, a 5% increase from the first quarter of 2013. The company added 1.28 million net new names during the first quarter to .com and .net, ending the quarter with 128.5 million active domain names in the zone. Some other metrics weren’t as rosy. Verisign processed 8.6 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net ... read more ...
 
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.City row set resolved during a high price - Many new TLD contention auctions were held this week. There were a number of new top level domain name contention set auctions this week, although details on winners are scant thus far. .Garden, .property, and .yoga were set for auction on Tuesday. I haven’t been able to figure out the winners yet, although I’m sure publicly traded Minds + Machines (a participant in all three) will issue a press release as soon as everything is settled. I’ve learned that Donuts ... read more ...
 
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The usually thing Blake Irving points during elephants is a camera - GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing a Reddit AMA. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit right now. It’s a pretty gutsy move given the typical Reddit user and their stance toward GoDaddy. I suppose that’s the point. Comments have been basically what you’d expect: the company’s initial support of SOPA, the founder shooting elephants and racy commercials. Most of these are easy to defend since Blake wasn’t around when these happened. ... read more ...
 
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Domain registrars wish some-more business? Focus on confidence and price. - Survey shows that security and price remain top customer considerations. Domain name registrars looking to grow their business need to focus on two key things: security and price. That’s according to this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. Really the past eight annual versions of the survey, too. 34% of respondents said security was their primary consideration when selecting a domain name registrar. 29% said price was most important. Here’s a weighted ranking of ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s finish user domain name sales - Sedo sold a number of domain names to end users last week. Sedo sold 513 domain names last week for a total of $1 million. Here are some domain names purchased by end users. (You can view previous end user sales lists here.) BBCStore.co.uk 810 GBP – Broadcaster BBC Golf.academy $2,000 – New Media Golf Corporation Soundtrack.fm $1,000 – the publisher of Soundtrack.net NativeOil.com $2,995 – Medicine Stone Petroleum Svcs, LLC ENSGroup.com $2,000 – IT company ... read more ...
 
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.Club and dual Chinese new tip turn domains have about $500k in reward sales - A few top level domain names have sold an impression amount of premium domains prior to general availability. Here are three new top level domain names to keep an eye on: .Club, .在线 and .中文网. .Club Domains is an “all-in” registry, meaning it has only one new TLD to offer. The company raised $7 million and spent a decent amount in a contention set auction for the domain. Still, it has millions of dollars to spend on marketing. For example, it has paid ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2014
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.GOP To Launch On July 7th - The new gTLD .GOP will go live for registrations on July 7th 2014 according to a email we received from the registry The .GOP new gTLD was applied for by The Republican State Leadership Committee, (RSLC)  a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices not the National Party. According to the email; “.GOP will be major factor in the future of Republican efforts to organize, fund raise and connect voters online. ” “Soon elected officials, candidates, grassroots activists and ... read more ...
 
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.GOP To Launch On Jul 7th - The new gTLD .GOP will go live for registrations on July 7th 2014 according to a email we received from the registry The .GOP new gTLD was applied for by The Republican State Leadership Committee, (RSLC)  a group that seeks to elect Republicans to state-level offices not the National Party. According to the email; “.GOP will be major factor in the future of Republican efforts to organize, fund raise and connect voters online. ” “Soon elected officials, candidates, grassroots activists and ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Reports Better Than Expected Earnings, $2.5 Billion in Revenue & Has Over 1 Billion Mobile Users - Facebook reported first quarter earnings after the close today.  Earnings beat expectations coming in at $0.34 cents a share.  The company now has 802 million daily users with 609 million of those being mobile. The company was trading down on Wednesday but is up in after hours. After Hours: 63.69 +2.33 (3.80%) Apr 23, 6:46PM EDT Tech Crunch covered the release here Facebook’s is getting more and more mobile, now with 1.01 billion users on small screens. It’s Q1 2014 earnings show it beat ... read more ...
 
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Land Rush for Two Chinese gTLDs Meaning .Online and .Website Ends … - TLD Registry Ltd., the company that is introducing two new Chinese language TLDs - .在线 (.online in Chinese) and .中文网 (.website in Chinese) - has ... read more ...
 
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Earnings – Stock adult in After Hours Trading - Apple just reported second quarter earnings and the stock is up in after hours trading. The stock closed down 1.31 % to $524.75 on the trading day but is up $43 in after hours trading. NASDAQ: AAPL – Apr 23 5:25 PM ET From 9 to 5 Mac Apple just announced its second quarter results for 2014 with revenue for the quarter coming in at $45.6 billion. That’s compared to the guidance it previously provided of $42 – $44 billion and estimates by analysts averaging approximately $43.5B. Apple’s ... read more ...
 
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New York City government to launch .nyc gTLD next month - 23 April 2014   |   Alli Pyrah, New York New York will launch its own .nyc gTLD next month for businesses and individuals who want to identify themselves as having a physical location in the city ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .WANG Launched – Here Is Why "Wang" Is Both "King" and "Net" to … - Zodiac is pleased to announce the launch of .wang. As a pinyin (the official phonetic system for transcribing Chinese characters into Latin alphabet), "wang" is the Mandarin pronunciation of a number of Chinese characters, including 王 and 网. "王" is the surname of more than 100 million Chinese around the world but it also means "king" or "best of its kind". "网" means "web" or "net". For example, one of the largest Chinese online retail platforms, "taobao.com" is known as 淘宝网 ... read more ...
 
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Sono .bike, .email e .guru i nuovi domini con più registrazioni - Primi bilanci per i nuovi gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domains – domini generici di primo livello) resi disponibili un paio di mesi fa. A fotografare la situazione ha pensato Register.it, la quale, a fronte delle oltre 200 le estensioni registrabili, ha conteggiato più di 480.000 registrazioni con un numero in costante crescita di pre-registrazioni. Ricordiamo che nei prossimi mesi continueranno a essere rilasciate nuove estensioni, tra cui le più rilevanti attese entro la fine di aprile ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: The Rise and Fall Of Oversee.net - With the news that Oversee.net sold DomainSponsor.com as well as their owned and operated domain portfolio which reportedly numbered between 700K and 1M domains, to Rook Media, it marks the end of to a 14 year run of one of the biggest companies to ever exist in the domain space. It’s important to point out that the current management of Oversee.net including Debra Domeyer who was just appointed CEO back on March 2, 2012 were not involved in much of what happened to this company over the years. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website’s Landrush Period Closes during 3:55AM UTC - The land rush period for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs  Closes at 3:55AM UTC According to an email we just received  Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have “been amonsgt the most successful in the history of ICANN’s New gTLD Program.” Landrush for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) ends at the following times: UTC – Thursday April 24 at 03:55 China – Thursday April 24 at 11:55 New York ... read more ...
 
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It looks like a Apple Smartwatch will be called a iWatch - It looks like Apple is going to name their smart watch the “iWatch” In an article written by Chris Smith for BGR.com, it seems that a trademark registration filed by Brightflash USA LLC  has the same address that Apple has used in the past when trademarking iSlate. The same address was used to register the Car Play trademark by a company called, Carplay Enterprises. From the article Now that Apple has been seen further extending its company trademark to cover Class 14 devices including watches, ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.sucks: trademark protection and the new gTLD designations - “Little more than a predatory shakedown scheme” to “enrich the domain name industry rather than benefit the broader community of Internet users.” That was how West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller described the potential registration of the .sucks generic top level domain (gTLD) by ICANN. Yet this is somewhat familiar territory for brand owners. Even before the new .sucks gTLD was proposed, there was nothing to stop someone from registering a domain using a trademarked ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Partners With SiteLock - According to a press release out today, GoDaddy, has partnered with SiteLock to bring complete protection to websites. SiteLock proactively protects websites using the latest scanning techniques, giving customer peace-of-mind their website is safe. SiteLock scans websites for the latest malware, viruses, suspicious code, back doors and many other vulnerabilities commonly exploited by attackers. A report is emailed summarizing what was detected. In addition to finding issues, SiteLock automatically ... read more ...
 
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Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses … - The National Arbitration  Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding  (URS) found the registrant,  Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This marks the 3rd time that Farris Nawas has lost a URS on a new gTLD domain name in just 5 weeks. Mr. Nawas ... read more ...
 
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Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses His 3rd URS - The National Arbitration  Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding  (URS) found the registrant,  Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This marks the 3rd time that Farris Nawas has lost a URS on a new gTLD domain name in just 5 weeks. Mr. Nawas ... read more ...
 
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New domains carry risk of ‘name collision’ attacks: OpenDNS - Some of the new web addresses recently made available by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be creating a new security risk that could compromise private networks around the world, according to analysis conducted by OpenDNS. OpenDNS offers a free domain name service for anyone accessing the Internet – taking the letters and words we type into our browser’s address bars ... read more ...