Monthly Archives: May 2014

Thu 8th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
Hassle.com Bought For $16K on Afternic In Sep Raises $6 Million - Back in September 2013, we reported that the domain name Hassle.com was bought on Afternic for $16,000. Today comes the news via the Term Sheet that: “Hassle.com, an online marketplace for home-cleaning services, has raised $6 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners. ” So we are talking about a domain now bought for what now appears to be pennies on the dollar raising $6 Million in first round funding just 8 months after it was acquired. Something to keep in mind the next time you get ... read more ...
 
 
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Rede Globo: domínio personalizado na web - As Organizações Globo conseguiram a oficialização da extensão .GLOBO junto ao ICANN (Corporação da Internet para Atribuição de Nomes e Números, da sigla em inglês).  Projac, centro de produção da Globo. Foto: Divulgação. PIR recebe solicitações para .NGO e .ONGAmazônia X Amazon: duelo de gigantesCGI.br: nada a ver com o Registro.rsA empresa se torna a primeira do Brasil a obter um dos novos gTLD (Domínio ... read more ...
 
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Holdon.com 1st Registered in 1997; Transfered To New Owner in 2013 Lost In UDRP - Amicus Trade AB of Båstad, Sweden just won control of the domain name HoldOn.com This is the third recent case where a UDRP panel found the transfer of a domain name to a third party amounts to a new registration for purposes of the Policy The original registration date, which is this case was March 18, 1997. However, the current domain holder acquired the domain name this year (actually it appears the domain holder may have acquired the domain back in 2009 and financed it but it was in the name ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Reports: Almost £4M In Revenue; £1M in Earnings & Has £4.93 In The Bank - CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2013. Share of the company are down slightly trading at 62.5P.  The company has a 52 week high of 115.5 P and has a low of 58,5 P. For 2013 billings were £3.89 million, representing a 15% increase on 2012, and producing net revenues of £3.05 million, an increase of 4% over 2012. Net cash-flow from operating activities was £1.13 million, a 15% improvement over the previous year. This growth in revenues ... read more ...
 
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CentralNIC Group set to pick up the pace - The first set of full-year results since listing in September revealed a rising top-line at CentralNic (LON:CNIC), with plenty of growth in the pipeline. The Internet domain name registry and registry saw billings jump 15% in 2013 to £3.9mln, helping revenues rise 4% to £3.1mln. The company, which wholesales and retails the letters at the end of web addresses (known as generic Top Level Domains, or gTLDs), said the growth stemmed from strong deferred revenues from previous periods, continued growth ... read more ...
 
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No Brasil, Globo é a 1ª a conseguir domínio de internet personalizado - O primeiro domínio de internet personalizado concedido ao Brasil foi para as Organizações Globo. Os órgãos da companhia poderão usar o sufixo .GLOBO em seus sites, conforme noticia o Código Fonte. O documento enviado pela Globo ao ICANN para pedir o novo gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) deixa claro que ele “será específico, criado para concentrar todos os conteúdos gerados pelas Organizações Globo”. “Como hoje, vamos produzir conteúdos específicos para o canal digital e adaptar ... read more ...
 
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Special Rights for IGOs and INGOs Could Lead To Registrant Rights Disappearing When it Comes to UDRP - A slight change of one word could open the door for domain registrant rights to evaporate over time. Currently ICANN is looking at a Preliminary Issue Report on Access by IGOs (Inter Governmental Organization )and INGOs  (Inter Non Governmental Organization) to the Curative Rights Protections of the UDRP and URS. You can read all the comments here. The Intellectual Property Constituency (“IPC”) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (“GNSO”) would like to see the language changed when ... read more ...
 
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Ellos dominan Internet - El universo Internet es mucho más que los clásicos '.com', '.net' o las terminaciones de cada país. Más de 25 años después de que se establecieran los primeros dominios en la Red, el ICCAN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), organismo encargado de la asignación de las extensiones, inició en 2008 un nuevo proceso de adjudicación de los llamados nuevos dominios de nivel superior genérico, los gTLD (generic Top Level Domains). "No podemos olvidar que tener un dominio propio ... read more ...
 
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.Club Registers Over 25000 Domains On 1st Day To #6; New gTLD’s Totals Over … -   .Club which just went into general availability today had over 25,000 registrations in less than its 1st full day,  according to the zone files that were just updated Ntldstats.com, is reporting 25,776 .Club domain names in the Zone file placing it as the 6th top new gTLD’s in terms of domain names in the root zone  files. Colin Campbell told TheDomains.com earlier today that the registry did not register any domains itself and all but 46 domains which the registry activated for its own use ... read more ...
 
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1&1 offre 70 nuove estensioni di dominio tra cui .CLUB - 11 rende disponibili per gli utenti tre nuove estensioni di dominio all’interno della gamma di nuovi gTLD che verranno lanciati a breve. La creazione di centinaia di nuovi suffissi di dominio sta trasformando il panorama internet e ha generato interesse sia nel mondo IT, sia in quello delle imprese di ogni tipologia. I nuovi domini offrono alle imprese nuove opportunità di branding e la possibilità di migliorare il targeting sul web. In collaborazione con diversi Internet Registry, 11 Internet ... read more ...
 
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.Club Registers Over 25,000 Domains On 1st Day To #6; New gTLD’s Totals Over 711K -   .Club which just went into general availability today had over 25,000 registrations in less than its 1st full day,  according to the zone files that were just updated Ntldstats.com, is reporting 25,776 .Club domain names in the Zone file placing it as the 6th top new gTLD’s in terms of domain names in the root zone  files. Colin Campbell told TheDomains.com earlier today that the registry did not register any domains itself and all but 46 domains which the registry activated for its own use ... read more ...
 
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EDR: Weird lapsed domain sales (partially) explained - This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) explains why some domains sell for what they do, plus a preview of domains you might want to backorder. Why do people bid on expired domain auctions? The number of bidders and the prices are often surprisingly high; so it’s a fair question. FingerYoga.com is a case in point. Who bought this 12-year-old domain isn’t yet clear. But there were 83 bids as high as $2,227. Were those bidders looking to create a new website? ... read more ...
 
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What domains Microsoft, HBO and others bought final week - HBO buys a potential show-related domain other end user domain name sales. Sedo sold $1.2 million worth of domain names last week. That seems to include about $200k from the Chinese IDN auction it held in China a while back. Here are some of Sedo’s sales to end users. You can see previous lists here. RDH.com $29,000 – RDH Building Engineering Ltd. in Vancouver. They’ve been using the longer acronym domain name RDHBE.com. RiverSoftware.com $25,000 – this domain ... read more ...
 
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After 15 years of trying, association uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name - Hold on just a minute… Amicus Trade AB has been trying to get the domain name Holdon.com for its Holdon brand of fasteners since at least 1999. That’s when the company sent a letter to the (then) owner of the domain with an offer to buy it. Ownership of the domain has changed multiple times since then according to Whois record. In 2013 the whois changed to Dharshinee Naidu. According to DomainTools, Naidu’s email address is associated with 36,544 domain names. Amicus ... read more ...
 
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.Club domain name debuts during #6, here are a Top 10 - .Club goes clubbing with over 25,000 registrations. As a follow up to yesterday’s story about .club, the first day zone file has been released showing a solid 25,776 domain names. That’s good enough to land the domain at #6 on the new top level domain name charts. Here’s a look at the top ten new TLDs by registration volume (based on the zone*) as of today: 1. .guru 54,868 2. .berlin 46,734 3. .photography 34,499 4. .在线 (.xn--3ds443g, Dot Chinese Online) ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.87 Million In Domain Names -

Afternic/GoDaddy expelled a sales news for a week of 4/28/14 – 5/4/14.

All sales for a week totalled $1,878,819.

The tip .com sale was lead by maimaiche.com for $80,000 followed by freehookups.com for $40,000.

The tip non-com sale lead by heirloom.net for $4,802.

Below is a finish report:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New Domain Name .Club Hits The Net - A new Internet domain name extension targeted at sports businesses and organisations has gone on general release.     The new generic Top-Level Domain name (gTLD) .Club is expected to be one of the most popular domain name extensions among nearly one thousand gTLDs being issued this year by ICANN, the international organisation that regulates domain names, as part of a drive to open up competition and opportunity on the Internet. ICANN accredited UK domain name provider Easyspace, one of ... read more ...
 
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May 5: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification periods - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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".Soy": Google quiere una Internet para hispanos | El Comercio Perú - En junio del 2012 Google presentó una propuesta para registrar 101 dominios de primer nivel en Internet, o TLD como se les conoce en inglés. Se trata de los dominios como .org o .com. La lista incluía nombres esperados como .gmail, .ads, .android, .youtube pero también otros menos comunes como .dad, .dog o .soy. Más de un analista se rascó la cabeza tratando ... read more ...
 
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Video: Watch The Live Launch Of .Club; Which Will Be Well Within The Top 10 Of New gTLD’s Today - .Club went live earlier today for general availability and here is the video of the live countdown and launch of the .Club extension. The video was shot at Godaddy.com where Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass gathered with some key Godaddy staffers I had a call a short time ago with Colin,  Jeff of .Club and Mike McLaughlin of Godaddy. For .Club its been a long road and they assured me that today is not the end but just the beginning for .Club “Today is the beginning for .Club not the end” “A lot ... read more ...
 
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Over $300K In Bids The Snapnames.com Spring Premium Auction Closes Thursday - The Snapnames.com Spring Premium domain name Auction closes tomorrow on Thursday May 8th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames closing rules. As of publication there are over $300,000 in bids placed with the highest bid being on Airline.com at $170,000.  The domain name Airline.com has a reserve range of $250K- $500K so it has not hit reserve as of yet. Likewise the domain name Won.com has a bid of $75,00o, short of its Reserve Range of $100K-$250K. The domain name with the highest bid that ... read more ...
 
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Investor In Minds + Machines Sells Over 22.5 Million Shares Representing 2.8% Of Shares - According to a press release just out, it seems a major investor in Minds + Machines has sold over 22.5 Million shares in the past 2 weeks. “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) were notified by Guy Elliot on May 7th 2014 that following disposals between April 22nd and May 6th; Guy Elliott and the Elliott Family Irrevocable Trust 22,686,350 ordinary shares representing 2.8% of the issued share capital of the Company.” The press release did not say if these shareholder sold ... read more ...
 
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Still Think .brands Might Be a Waste of Time? Google Doesn’t! - The new Top-Level Domain (TLD) program was designed from the outset to enhance competition and foster innovation. It was a great result for the wider industry to see approximately one-third of the applications received by ICANN submitted by some of the world's largest companies seeking to own and operate their own .brand TLD. Even with organisations such as Apple, Citibank and IBM applying for their respective TLDs, scepticism remained on the potential for .brands to succeed. Where would ... read more ...
 
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Rede Globo consegue registro do domínio personalizado ".GLOBO" - Desde março do ano passado, empresas de todo o mundo podem solicitar ao Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) o registro de domínios personalizados. Basicamente, o famoso ".com" no final dos sites agora pode ser substituído por um sufixo específico que possa, entre outras funções, associar o produto à companhia. Agora, eis que temos a primeira entidade brasileira a obter um dos novos Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) criados pelo ICANN, órgão que regulamenta a web. ... read more ...