Monthly Archives: May 2014

Wed 7th May 2014
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".Soy": Google quiere una internet para hispanos - BBC Mundo, @davidcuen En junio de 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. Foto: Reuters en español La lista incluía nombres esperados como .gmail, .ads, .android, .youtube pero también otros menos comunes como .dad, .dog o .soy. Más de un analista ... read more ...
 
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".Soy": Google quiere una internet para hispanos - En junio de 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 de descifrar el por qué el buscador estaba dispuesto a pagar US$185.000 por el dominio .soy (o soja, en español traducido literalmente).Ahora ... read more ...
 
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Dots.com Auction Has $250,000 Stalking Horse Bidder - Hilco Streambank announced today that Rainbow Shops will be the stalking horse bidder in the Chapter 11 auction of Dots LLC intellectual property assets at an opening purchase price in the amount of $250,000. The bid deadline has been extended to 11:59PM ET Wednesday May 7th, 2014 to accommodate competing bidders. The auction was rescheduled to Friday May 9th, 2014. The marks include the well-known Dots(R) apparel and accessories brand, the Dots.com domain name, and the company’s customer database. ... read more ...
 
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.properties opens its doors - The protection of brands is a key issue for many businesses, particularly for those brands which are consumer facing.   One aspect of brand protection is the protection of brands in domain names. Until recently, the number of generic top level domains (“gTLDs”) had been restricted to a limited number, including .com, .org and .info.  However, a large number of new gTLDs are now to be rolled out and the roll-out has already started with names such as .luxury, .clothing and ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy issues recover on Dot Club Entering General Availability - .Club is now available to everyone Go Daddy put out a press release today on .Club entering general availability. – 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 ... read more ...
 
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Russell Pangborn in as new CEO during Marksmen - Marksmen Names Russell Pangborn new CEO Brand protection firm Marksmen, Inc.  announced that founder Ken Taylor will become a consultant to the company as Russell Pangborn takes over at the helm. Pangborn previously had been at Microsoft where he was their Assistant General Counsel in charge of trademarks. The company put out a press release: Marksmen, Inc., a worldwide leader in brand protection services, today named Russell Pangborn chief executive officer effective immediately. He succeeds Ken ... read more ...
 
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O primeiro novo domínio de Internet liberado para o Brasil é o ".globo" - Quando o ICANN (Corporação da Internet para Atribuição de Nomes e Números) anunciou a criação de uma nova grade de domínios, várias empresas brasileiras reivindicaram ao órgão a oportunidade de ter sua própria extensão. A primeira delas a ser atendida foram as Organizações Globo, que agora possui o primeiro domínio da nova safra liberado para o Brasil. A partir da homologação realizada nesta semana pela IANA (Autoridade para Atribuição de Números da Internet), .globo corresponde ... read more ...
 
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New .CLUB Domain Extension Launches Today - (Menafn - Marketwired via COMTEX) New .CLUB Domain Extension Launches TodayHighly Anticipated Domain Name Now Available for Immediate RegistrationFORT LAUDERDALE, FL, May 7, 2014 (Menafn - Marketwired via COMTEX) --While Lego.club, Ferarri.club, NewYorkYankees.club and many more brands have had a jump start on buying their new .CLUB web addresses, now anyone can buy and start their own .CLUB as "yourname.club" web addresses become available for immediate registration today, as announced by .CLUB ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Announces Flat Rate NameSentry? Pricing For New gTLDs - Related: Press Release, News Architelos, Inc., the leading provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced a flat rate pricing for its NameSentry automated abuse detection and mitigation service targeted at new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). New gTLD operators will now be able to sign up for NameSentry Basic or NameSentry Enterprise service and pay a flat rate regardless of their domain name registration volumes. Architelos' pioneering NameSentry service ... read more ...
 
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Agora é oficial: .GLOBO é o primeiro dos novos domínios da Internet concedido ao Brasil - Publicada em 06/05/2014 19:07 Desde de que a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -ICANN, autoridade internacional sobre nomes de domínio internet, divulgou a lista de candidatos a novos domínios genéricos de primeiro nível – os chamados gTLDs ou generic top-level domain – os brasileiros ficaram sabendo do interesse de empresas e entidades aqui do país em terem seus próprios sufixos nos endereços usados na grande rede. Segundo um documento divulgado ... read more ...
 
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Agora é oficial: .GLOBO é o primeiro dos novos domínios da Internet concedido … - Publicada em 06/05/2014 19:07 Desde de que a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -ICANN, autoridade internacional sobre nomes de domínio internet, divulgou a lista de candidatos a novos domínios genéricos de primeiro nível – os chamados gTLDs ou generic top-level domain – os brasileiros ficaram sabendo do interesse de empresas e entidades aqui do país em terem seus próprios sufixos nos endereços usados na grande rede. Segundo um documento divulgado ... read more ...
 
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Organizações Globo conseguem o primeiro novo domínio de Internet liberado para o Brasil - As Organizações Globo conseguiram a oficialização da extensão .GLOBO na Internet junto ao ICANN. É a primeira empresa brasileira a obter um dos novos gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) criados pelo órgão que regulamenta a Web. Quando o ICANN anunciou a criação de uma nova safra de domínios para acompanhar os tradicionais .COM, .ORG, .NET e outros que já existiam, diversas empresas e entidades brasileiras enviaram propostas para garantir suas próprias extensões. Com a publicação ... read more ...
 
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Organizações Globo conseguem o primeiro novo domínio de Internet liberado … - As Organizações Globo conseguiram a oficialização da extensão .GLOBO na Internet junto ao ICANN. É a primeira empresa brasileira a obter um dos novos gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) criados pelo órgão que regulamenta a Web. Quando o ICANN anunciou a criação de uma nova safra de domínios para acompanhar os tradicionais .COM, .ORG, .NET e outros que já existiam, diversas empresas e entidades brasileiras enviaram propostas para garantir suas próprias extensões. Com a publicação ... read more ...
 
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Alibaba Group Files For Potentially The Biggest IPO in U.S. History - Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba files for IPO The Chinese company is kind of a big deal when it comes to e-Commerce in China, accounting for 80 % of sales. The company has garnered a lot of press over the last two days. Forbes covered it: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group filed registration documents on Tuesday to go public in the U.S. in what may be one of the biggest initial public offerings in American history. While the average U.S. consumer may be unfamiliar with Alibaba and its operations, ... read more ...
 
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.Gent gaat van start als eerste Belgische ‘geographic-TLD’ - Niet .Vlaanderen of .Brussels gaat van start als eerste  Belgische regionale of 'city-TLD'. De primeur gaat naar .Gent. De .Gent-domeinnamen zullen voor het grote publiek beschikbaar worden vanaf 24/11/2014, voorafgaand aan een lanceringsfase die start op 01/09/2014.  De lancering van .Gent gaat vooraf aan enkele fases die aan bepaalde doelgroepen het recht geeft om al eerder hun domeinnaam vast te leggen, namelijk inwoners, bedrijven en non-profit organisaties in Gent en omstreken (de zogenaamde ... read more ...
 
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.Club lands among Top 10 new TLDs on initial day - .Club is now one of the top ten new TLDs. The .Club domain name is now among the top 10 most registered new TLDs after launching this morning. The exact number of registrations (based on the zone file) won’t be available until tomorrow. It takes about 15,000 registrations to make the top ten as of today. The company received 2,000 registrations combined from sunrise and a premium-priced landrush. 100 of the landrush domains are going to auction. .Club CEO Colin ... read more ...
 
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ParkingCrew integrates Bounce.io email monetization - ParkingCrew customers could get more revenue with Bounce.io integration. Domain name owners have been monetizing web traffic to domain names for a long time. But few monetize e-mails sent to their parked domain names. ParkingCrew announced today that it has integrated email monetization in its platform. Domain name owners can now make money whenever an email is sent to their domain names, whether it’s spam or a legitimate sender. Data about spam emails are compiled ... read more ...
 
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Company loses UDRP opposite 20-year-old-domain, though maybe is shouldn’t have. - Panel believes registrant registered domain name over 20 years ago. It didn’t. German company Softway AG has lost a UDRP it filed against the 20-year-old domain name Softway.com. On the surface, it appears to be a particularly egregious case. Although Softway AG claimed it’s been around since 1989, it didn’t set up a web presence until 2007, at which point it registered Softway.de. It’s at that time that Softway AG started asking the owner of Softway.com ... read more ...
 
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4 reasons domain name registries should consider twice before renting premiums - Holding back premiums for resale might not be in the best interests of domain registries. Last month there was quite an uproar about Uniregistry withholding thousands of premium domain names. Some people believe Uniregistry founder Frank Schilling misled them with prior statements about premiums. Others just think registries shouldn’t reserve lots of domains on principle. Admittedly, most readers of this blog look at the issue from a domain investor’s standpoint, ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2014
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UPDATED Orgasms.com Sells Very Quietly On SnapNames.com For $38K: Did It Drop? - The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the auction, which is pretty unusual for a domain that sells for that amount. The domain has an Estibot appraised value of $143K. It’s not exactly clear from the whois records found at DomainTools.com what happened to the domain, but it does look like the domain expired at the end of March and had new registration date of  May 1st The previous whois ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million - Over the past week, 466 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million Dollars 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Interestingly (well at least I found it interesting) whatsup.today sold for more ($1,500) than Friday.org (999 Euro’s) Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: kalamata.com at 45,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: autos.de at 120,000 EUR (autos = “cars” in German) · Top “other” TLD: 房地产.在线 (portfolio with 3 domains) ... read more ...
 
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3 Number .Asia Domains On Namejet.com Are Public Auctions: 888.Asia $2,300; 777.Asia $900 -   Namejet.com has notified us that several three numbered .Asia domain names all except one which are repeating numbers, that are in auction were incorrect labeled as private auctions and are now marked as public auctions meaning that anyone can bid. The closing time for the auction was also extended for a couple of days due to the error. There are several domains including 888.Asian and 777.Asia which have met reserve and will sell. The auctions start to close tomorrow with 000.Asia, which has ... read more ...
 
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Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool Registrations - .Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD’s where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Cool as used in language generally is the start of the phrase rather than the end of the phrase Having said that I thought I would take a look at the zone file to see what trademarks and Early Access Program domains had bee registered to see how people see .Cool domains. Walgreen’s registered Beauty.cool and pharmacy.cool Twitter stepped ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Signs Its 100th Registrar & Now Covers 90% Of All Currently Regsitered Domains - Famous Four Media, one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s announced today they have signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Famous Four Media believes that these 100 registrars provide the largest distribution channel currently held by any new gTLD Registry operator, covering some 90% of all currently registered domains. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names can purchase the domains. Andy Churley, CMO of Famous Four Media explains, “We have a laser-sharp ... read more ...