Monthly Archives: May 2014

Fri 9th May 2014
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How Low Will It Go? Demand Media, Inc. Closes At All Time Low Of $3.70 A Share - Shares of Demand Media, Inc. took a beating today closing at what we believe is an all time low of $3.70 a share. The company which reported earnings last night after the closed finished down almost 10% on the day. Shares hit an intra-day low  in trading of $3.62. Shares of Demand Media have a 52 week high of $9.75 well below its IPO price of $17 a share. Volume was about two and a half times as much as their 3 month daily average. The market cap of Demand Media is now $335 million, which is now ... read more ...
 
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Dot NYC (.nyc) TLD Enters First Phase of Launch - This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc Top-Level Domain (TLD). The "Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc names through June 20. This is the first of three phases prior to general availability opening October 8, 2014. As one of the most anticipated arrivals in the City and the Internet's history, the .nyc address is a unique opportunity for New York City residents, businesses ... read more ...
 
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Google Possibly Preparing for Major Algorithm Update - Barry Schwartz wrote on Search Engine Roundtable that Google may be prepping for a large update to their search algorithm. From the article: I mentioned there was some chatter about a Google update on May 2nd but now we are seeing even more chatter and signs of flux in the Google search results on May 7th. These signs of shifts in rankings, spikes in crawl rates, often, but not always, are early warning signs of a major Google update happening in the near future. Here are flux/volatility charts ... read more ...
 
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Sunrise .Expert Registrations Include Mac.Expert & .Bowling.Expert - I just went through the .Expert Zone file which contains Sunrise registrations which are available to those having valid trademark which filed with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). I picked out some of the more interesting Sunrise registration and some day 1 and day 2 registrations which cost as much as $12,500 depending on the registrar the  domains were registered with. On the Sunrise side Apple went in and grabbed Mac.Expert.  I haven’t seen Apple registering a lot of MAC new gTLD’s this ... read more ...
 
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If it ain’t broke, why fix it? - A multi-government Internet forum is already doing its job. Why have another body? Recent media reports have given voice to India’s call for the establishment of a global agency to manage the Internet. India wants a multi-government role in formulating Internet governance rules. The rationale is that this will reduce the grip of western powers and increase the country’s own influence in framing Internet-related policies.ICANN’s doing fineMany other countries also subscribe to this line ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Skeptical of the new gTLD insurgence … -

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As Dot London Launches, How Have Online Brand Protection Strategies Been … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 9, 2014 - This week in search, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google may be preparing for a large update, we saw shifts on May 2nd and 7th. Bing also may have done an update, this one was on May 5th. Google’s Matt Cutts told us they are working on relying on links less. Google treats the new TLDs and generic TLDs. Google dropped Amazon’s rich snippets. Google AdSense publishers are concerned about the downward earnings trend. AdWords launched MCC scripts. Wall Street Journal ... read more ...
 
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Primeiro sufixo de internet exclusivo no Brasil tem dono: a Globo - O ICANN continua com o processo de delegar/vender terminações de domínio diferentes dos tradicionais .com, .org e .net, entre outros. As Organizações Globo se tornaram, nesta semana, a primeira companhia do país a garantir uma terminação exclusiva para sua presença na internet. Quando as mudanças entrarem em vigor, os sites do grupo de comunicação poderão operar com o sufixo .globo. Globo estreou nova marca em abril deste ano A intenção da empresa é de reforçar a presença de seus ... read more ...
 
 
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Now Owned By Disney, Maker Studios to Launch Maker.tv - Maker Studios recently got acquired by Disney for at least $500 million back in March. Disney Chairman and CEO, Bob Iger explained why Disney acquired the company in Variety on Wednesday, From the article: “We can allow the Maker people to substantially improve the distribution and reach of shorter form video using these characters and stories and add their expertise on the production side,” said Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger during the call. While the executive said Maker had built “a bit ... read more ...
 
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How many registrations can GoDaddy’s home page expostulate to a new TLD? Here’s a answer. - .Club picks up 2,500 registrations with prominent promotion on GoDaddy.com. How many domain name registrations can GoDaddy generate by placing a TLD on top of its website for a day? Here’s one case study. All day yesterday (and still today) GoDaddy has featured .Club at the top of its website: If you click the “Find your .club” button you’ll be taken to the .club overview page with a search box. Comparing first day zone files with the second day, it appears ... read more ...
 
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Only one new TLD “auction of final resort” to take place in June - Other auctions deferred until later months. ICANN’s first official auction to resolve a new top level domain name contention set will take place on June 4…but with only one TLD. Participants in at least six TLD contention sets eligible for the first auction have postponed them. These auctions can be postponed for two reasons: First, by mutual agreement of both parties. Second, if any applicant in the contention set wants to wait for the finalized framework for ... read more ...
 
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NewgTLDs – No Country for Domain Investors? - It’s virtually impossible to get a great keyword in a relevant newgTLD at general availability. And by great I only mean a keyword+newgtld combo that has a real world business use. The sheer number of ‘filters’ that the keyword has to go through to get there is mind boggling. First – There’s the ICANN Block List – which blocks thousands of common keywords from most TLDs, so a lot of good keywords you can’t even register. Of those you can register, there are other ‘filters’ ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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Globo é a primeira a conseguir sites com domínio personalizado no Brasil! - A novidade permite que endereços da web usem terminações diferentes do conhecido ".com" Até que enfim domínios personalizados chegaram ao Brasil. "Globo Comunicações e Participações S.A" oficializou acordo com a ICANN, órgão regulador de endereços na web, a alteração do ".com.br" para ".globo". ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD Top Ten Club Gets a New Member in Record Tying Time … - As more and more new gTLDs enter General Availability it gets harder and harder to stand out in a crowd that has now reached triple digits. For better or worse, one metric ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Porter Wright adds new gTLD services -

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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Up 11% But eHow & Content Continues … - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014 today after the market closed Its our personal opinion that the sooner  Demand can spin off Rightside from the rest of the mess the better. Rightside operates the back end of all Donuts new gTLD extensions, owns 107 new gTLD’s with Donuts, Owns Enom the 2nd largest domain registrar on the planet as well as Name.com another top 10 domain name registrar. The eHow business I never like. Anytime you rely ... read more ...
 
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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Up 11% But eHow & Content Continues To Decline - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014 today after the market closed Its our personal opinion that the sooner  Demand can spin off Rightside from the rest of the mess the better. Rightside operates the back end of all Donuts new gTLD extensions, owns 107 new gTLD’s with Donuts, Owns Enom the 2nd largest domain registrar on the planet as well as Name.com another top 10 domain name registrar. The eHow business I never like. Anytime you rely ... read more ...
 
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The Real Uneven Playing Field of Name Collisions - Recent comments on the name collisions issue in the new gTLD program raise a question about the differences between established and new gTLDs with respect to name collisions, and whether they're on an even playing field with one another. Verisign's latest public comments on ICANN's "Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions" Phase One Report, in answering the question, suggest that the playing field the industry should be concerned about is actually in a different place. The following ... read more ...
 
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Did Two Domain Sherpa’s Change The New gTLD Registrar Market? -   As most domain investors know myself, Adam Dicker, Rick Schwartz and Page Howe have had a weekly show on DomainSherpa.com for many months were we discuss news and other things going on in the domain industry.   On last Thursday’s DomainSherpa.com show, Adam Dicker said that he had just a few days before found the domain name registrar Hexonet.net and told the audience that he loved the customer service, support and that Hexonet was going to be his go to registrar and highly recommended them ... read more ...
 
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A Donut for everyone, just in time for swimsuit season - The new gTLD giant, Donuts, Inc., is the world’s largest registry for new generic top level domains, applying for more than 300 new gTLDs during ICANN’s application phase. (Read the full list of Donuts, Inc.’s applications.) According to the company’s schedule, more than 100 new gTLDs will have launched by the end of May. Registrations in all new gTLDs total 600,000 so far, and Donuts makes up nearly 80% of that total with approximately 500,000 registrations. Here’s a ... read more ...
 
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Maccabim.com Partners With DomainTools To “Identify Serial Cybersquatters” - According to a press release out today, Maccabim.com, a “researcher and developer of cybercrime solutions to protect brands and IP assets, today announced the launch of its Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® The SCD Network “instantaneously identifies both the serial cybersquatters exploiting its members’ trademarks, as well as the opportunities to either initiate or join class complaints through the platform.” “Members thereby reduce their Uniform Domain-Name ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Landrush Starts Today; Here Are Domains Suggested By The Registry That Are Available - The new top-level domain (TLD) .wiki has Landrush today. The Landrush phase is a brief 2 week period when the you can register a .wiki domain on an early access basis. Of course any domain taking in landrush will not be available during general availability. The only .Wiki domain names not available during landrush will be those that are banned or reserved by the registry, have been temporarily blocked (collision list) , or were already claimed during the Sunrise period. “The possibilities for ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Domain Name Extension Now Available for General Registration - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, is helping customers find the right name for their business with the newest generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), .CLUB. As a word that translates across many languages, the .CLUB domain name extension brings immediately recognizable meaning and marketing value to names around the world. There are millions of established clubs throughout the world, ranging from social clubs to health clubs, ... read more ...