Monthly Archives: April 2014

Wed 23rd April 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ICANN Seeks Provider To Conduct A Review of The Generic Names Supporting … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is seeking a provider to conduct an independent review of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), as mandated by ICANN’s Bylaws. The GNSO is the policy-making body responsible for generic top-level domains, such as .COM, .NET, and .ORG. Its members include representatives from generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) registries, gTLD registrars, intellectual property interest, Internet service providers, businesses and non-commercial ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Seeks Provider To Conduct A Review of The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is seeking a provider to conduct an independent review of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), as mandated by ICANN’s Bylaws. The GNSO is the policy-making body responsible for generic top-level domains, such as .COM, .NET, and .ORG. Its members include representatives from generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) registries, gTLD registrars, intellectual property interest, Internet service providers, businesses and non-commercial ... read more ...
 
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Google and Samsung Among First to Sign New ICANN Registry Agreements for … - Tweet Buffer The first group of brands has signed contracts with ICANN so that they can start using their new branded top-level domains. What new forms of advertising and marketing can we expect to see? A handful of brands have entered into their contracts with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to begin operating their own registry, a historic event celebrated with little fanfare by the digital marketing community. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.9 million in domains for a week - Go Daddy/Afternic reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/14/14 – 4/20/14 The top sale for the week was Trade360.com at $42,500, registered in 2004. Rad360.com also sold for $3,500. Cod.co was the top country code sale at $8,250 Resell.net sold for $7,000. I thought scripter.com for $2,000 was a great buy and a shout out to my good friend Bob Brookes who does this part time but had another mooc sale,with Cmooc.com for $2,250. Total sales for the week $1,982,736   ... read more ...
 
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Here’s why the web’s new domains will change everything… and nothing - From next month you’re going to start seeing a whole range of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) popping up online. Alongside longstanding ones like .com and .net, you’ll see geographic, special interest and brand name ones like .africa and .joburg, .sport and .radio, and potentially, .cocacola or .microsoft. Should you rush out and secure every possible permutation that vaguely relates to your existing site or business? Probably not.In the last few weeks I’ve gotten a number of emails telling ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Hacia una Internet justa y equitativa - Diversas organizaciones y personas han expresado gran incomodidad ante la forma en que el "consenso" artificial para mantener el statu quo en la gobernanza de Internet es decir, el control de Internet por parte de EE.UU. y las grandes corporaciones, a nombre del modelo multisectorial ha sustituido cualquier debate significativo sobre este tema. Es en este contexto que un grupo de organizaciones y activistas se reuni en Nueva Delhi, India, el 14 y 15 de febrero de 2014, para formar la Coalicin por ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
2014 Domain Name Wire Survey: By a Numbers - 251 people from 36 countries participated in this year’s survey. Over the next week or two I’ll post a series of stories with the results from this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. I’d like to start by thanking each and every person who took the survey. 251 people from 36 countries responded this year. That’s fewer than in previous years because this year’s survey didn’t have any voting for companies. However, I think the quality of response was higher. The ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name sales adult to $42,500 - Trade360.com leads list of end user domain name sales. GoDaddy and Afternic sold nearly $2 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a list of 15 that were sold to end users. You can view previous end user sales lists here. Trade360.com $42,500 – A New York firm called Trade360. JSA.com $25,000 – Jackson Square Aviation in San Francisco. I think it got a good deal. BuyDomains was the seller. TouchLamps.com $4,999 – The online lamp seller that was using ... read more ...
Tue 22nd April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million And 10% Are .Club Domains - Over the past week, 513 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million of which  .Club domains sales totaled  $98,750. Certainly by far the biggest week of sales by any new gTLD. Disclaimer Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: fun8.com at 25,000 USD · Top ccTLD: gewerbeflächen.de at 16,500 EUR (= „industrial real estate“ in German) · Top “other” TLD: chinese.club at 13,750 USD 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. As a ... read more ...
 
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Neustar is Holding A Live Event In NYC To Discuss Rights Protections in .NYC Tomorrow - Neustar the company operating the .NYC domain name extension on behalf of the city of New York is holding a Breakfast seminar in New York Tomorrow April 23rd at 8:30 Am to discuss ICANN’s rights protection mechanisms, the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), general brand protection strategies and the .NYC launch program The event is free and breakfast will be served “”Join experts and colleagues for a breakfast gathering to discuss ICANN’s rights protection mechanisms, the Trademark Clearinghouse ... read more ...
 
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Afilias bringt Farbe ins Internet – die neuen Top-Level-Domains .RED .PINK und … - Botschaften und Aussagen lassen sich durch die unterschiedliche Wirkung von Farben noch verstärken – ab sofort sogar schon in der URL! Afilias startet die TLDs .RED, .PINK und .BLUE, mit denen Webadressen aufgepeppt werden können. Dublin, 22. April 2014__ Jeder Farbe wird eine eigene Wirkung zugesprochen. Websitebetreiber – ob privat oder gewerblich – können sich das nun zunutze machen und mit der richtigen Domain-Endung ihre Botschaft verstärken. Afilias, globaler Anbieter von Registry-Services, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
.vlaanderen, .gent en .brussels vanaf 25 euro - DNS Belgium gaat 20 euro vragen aan zijn agenten voor een domeinnaam eindigend op .vlaanderen of .brussels. De consument zal voor een startprijs van ongeveer 25 euro een exemplaar op de kop kunnen tikken. Voor een domeinnaam eindigend op .gent zal een gelijkaardige prijs worden gevraagd. De groothandelsprijs voor een jaarregistratie van een .vlaanderen of een .brussels domeinnaam bedraagt 20 euro. DNS Belgium, de beheerder van .be, .brussels en .vlaanderen, bevindt zich daarmee in dezelfde prijscategorie ... read more ...
 
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Mi.com Bought By Xiaomi of China For $3.6 Million - According to TechCrunch Chinese Android devices startup, Xiaomi has acquired the two letter domain name Mi.com to rebrand its company outside China from Xiaomi.com to Mi.com. Xiaomi translates literally as ‘little rice’. “The ‘Mi’ in Xiaomi also functions as an acronym for ‘mobile Internet” The domain name was owned by “Aunis LLC” According to thenextweb.com, Li Wanqiang, co-founder and VP of Xiaomi, revealed on Weibo that Xiaomi spent CNY3.6 million ($577,000) to purchase the domain ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
MyArt.com Lost in UDRP On 2nd Try - The On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) UDRP provider, has just handed over the domain name MyArt.com to the My-Art Company which was just formed on September 10th, 2010 The domain was subject to a previous UDRP which the complainant lost back in 2011, you can read that decision here. In the first case the panel ruled in favor of the then domain name holder based on the fact the domain was registered in 1996 however this case was filed against a new domain owner after the domain ... read more ...
 
 
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Online enforcement strategies largely unchanged as gTLDs roll-out continues - While new gTLD domain registrations have surpassed the half a million mark, less than a quarter of corporate trademark counsel have made changes to their online enforcement strategies in reaction to the gTLD expansion, according to World Trademark Review’s annual Global Benchmarking Survey. According to the latest (at time of writing) statistics from nTLDstats, 553,963 domains have been registered, with ‘.guru’ leading the field with a 9.18% share (51,560 domains). Hot on its heels ... read more ...
 
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HowStuffWorks.com To Be Sold for 18 % of the 2007 Purchase Price - The Wall Street Journal reported that Discover Communications is selling the popular website, HowStuffWorks.com.  They will be taking a loss on the sale as they are only realizing 18% of their 2007 purchase price. From the article: For Discovery Communications Inc., DISCA -0.49% the website HowStuffWorks.com proved to be one investment in digital media that didn’t work. Discovery said Monday it would sell the site, which offers explanations on topics such as “How magnets work” and “How ... read more ...
 
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Neue Domain-Endungen - Neue Domain-Endungen [ Foto ] Straßwalchen (pts005/22.04.2014/10:00) - 2014 ist in Hinsicht auf die Einführung neuer Domainendungen ein ganz besonderes Jahr. Viele neue Domainendungen wurden im Rahmen des ICANN new gTLD-Programms unter anderem an Donuts Inc vergeben und können von jedem frei registriert werden. Darunter finden sich Domainendungen wie .guru, .bike, .camera, .clothing, .company, .gallery, ... read more ...
 
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International bereits mehr als 530.000 neue TLD Domains registriert - 2014 ist in Hinsicht auf die Einführung neuer Domainendungen ein ganz besonderes Jahr. Viele neue Domainendungen wurden im Rahmen des ICANN new gTLD-Programms unter anderem an Donuts Inc vergeben und können von jedem frei registriert werden. Darunter finden sich Domainendungen wie .guru, .bike, .camera, .clothing, .company, .gallery, .holdings, .limo, .photos, .repair, .singles, .tips und viele mehr. Bereits jetzt wurden in wenigen Monaten mehr als 530000 dieser neuen TLD Domains registriert! Das ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Il lancio dei nuovi gTLD – parte 2 -  Mentre i brand non possono opporsi formalmente alle applicazioni gTLD, come commentato dall’ICANN e siccome il termine per presentare un’opposizione formale è scaduto, è ancora importante che i marchi rivedano le applicazioni TLD e la preparazione per ciò che gli si prospetta. L’ICANN ha imposto una serie di nuovi diritti dei meccanismi di protezione a tutela dei proprietari di marchi, incluse le rivendicazioni del Trademark Clearinghouse, Trademark Claims, Sunrise Registration and Dispute ... read more ...
 
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Il lancio dei nuovi gTLD – parte 2 -  Mentre i brand non possono opporsi formalmente alle applicazioni gTLD, come commentato dall’ICANN e siccome il termine per presentare un’opposizione formale è scaduto, è ancora importante che i marchi rivedano le applicazioni TLD e la preparazione per ciò che gli si prospetta. L’ICANN ha imposto una serie di nuovi diritti dei meccanismi di protezione a tutela dei proprietari di marchi, incluse le rivendicazioni del Trademark Clearinghouse, Trademark Claims, Sunrise Registration and Dispute ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions patents domain purchasing system - Patent for domain purchasing system granted ten years after application was filed. Network Solutions, now part of Web.com, has received a patent for its Certified Offer service…ten years after applying for it. Network Solutions applied for the patent titled “Certified Offer Service for Domain Names” back in 2004. It was rejected multiple times, but the company successfully amended and appealed. The service lets customers make an offer on a domain name that is ... read more ...
 
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Three domain name blogs rebrand - Two blogs combine in merger and another changes its name. Three domain name industry blogs have rebranded over the past week. Two are accounted for in a merger between Shane Cultra’s blog Domain Shane and Aaron Wilkin’s Accidental Domainer. The new blog is officially called Domain Shane + Accidental Domainer, but you can access the site at the shorter domain DomainShane.com. The merged blog has an updated pinterest-style design as well. Raymond Hackney has rebranded ... read more ...
 
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My-Art.com owners gets MyArt.com in second try UDRP - Domain transfer (that didn’t actually happen) resets the clock for registration date. My Art, a French company that operates the website My-Art.com, has convinced a Czech Arbitration Court UDRP panelist to order the transfer of the domain name MyArt.com. This is the second time My Art has filed a UDRP against the domain name. My Art lost a case it filed in 2011 because the registrant of the domain name had registered it in 1996, well before the company had a trademark ... read more ...
Mon 21st April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Matt Cutts Answers How To Research A Domain Before Buying -

Matt Cutts got a doubt now from someone who purchased a domain name and afterwards found out a domain had been in difficulty with Google. The domain is not now indexed and a new owners has to do a reconsideration request.

Matt points out stairs to check to see if a domain had problems in a past, like if used for spam.

Via: thedomains.com