Monthly Archives: May 2014

Tue 6th May 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Treats New TLDs as gTLDs - There is a thread in Google Product Forums’ Webmaster Central forum asking about TLDs being treated as generic. Although the question doesn’t specifically appear to be about ICANN’s new gTLD program, it garnered a response from a Google employee who mentioned the new domain extensions. According to John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, “we currently treat the new TLDs as gTLDs, even if they sound like they may be region-specific (eg .berlin).” This is interesting to ... read more ...
 
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Google: We Currently Treat New TLDs As gTLDs - As you may know, there are tons of new TLDs that hit the market, such as .cash, .foo, .best and so on.But how does Google treat all these new TLDs that hit the market?Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that they are treated currently as gTLDs, Generic Top-Level Domains. So the same as the would treat a .com, .net, .org and so on.John wrote:In addition to those, we currently treat the new TLDs as gTLDs, even if they sound like they may be region-specific (eg .berlin). ... read more ...
 
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Bad Faith Registration: What China’s New Trademark Law Will Change To … - Maliciously registering a trademark ("in bad faith") refers to the attempted registration of a trademark through illegitimate means, during which time the applicant violates the law by improperly using a previously registered trademark, or, in the case of a trademark office, registers the mark under their own name and sends that trademark to the China Trademark Office (CTMO) for registration. A registered trademark should be afforded intellectual property protection by the CTMO under the rightful owner's ... read more ...
 
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Swatch Plans to Fight Apple on Trademark for “iWatch” - Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac did a piece on Swiss watch maker Swatch stating that they will look to fight Apple on trademarking “iWatch”. Now Apple already has trademarked the term in Japan, Mexico and Turkey according to the article. From the article: The company is seeking to block Apple trademarks for the name “iWatch” because of its own line of watches called “ISwatch.” A representative for Swatch told Watson: We assess the likelihood of confusion as given, the marks are confusingly ... read more ...
 
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Survey: domain name sales, marketplaces, and brokers - Will domain values go up? Survey says… This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked a number of questions about how people use domain name marketplaces and brokers. Domain Marketplaces The majority of survey-takers use only one or two domain name marketplaces. 30% use just one and 32% use two. However, 58% said they’re considering adding their domains to one or more additional marketplaces in 2014. The number of options for how to list domains at marketplaces ... read more ...
 
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Is .expert a subsequent “big” tip turn domain name? - .Expert is in the same category as .guru. How will the two compare? .Guru continues to lead the new top level domain name charts in terms of number of domain names registered. It currently has about 55,000 registrations and gets hundreds of additional registrations on some days. Tomorrow Donuts releases a similar new TLD in the Early Access Phase: .expert. Will .expert rival .guru in terms of registrations? It’s a tough question. Although .guru and .expert can ... read more ...
 
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Is Shutterstock disturbed about a boycott? - Company registers boycott-related domain names. What is stock photo company Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) so worried about? The company recently made a number of defensive domain name registrations related to boycotts and three of its brands. All of the domains included the brands preceded by “boycott”, e.g. BoycottBigstock.com, BoycottBigStockPhoto.com, BoycottOffset.com and BoycottShutterstock.com. A brief Google search didn’t pull up any discussion about boycotting ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NameJet.com Reports Over $460K In Domain Sales In April -

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Namejet.com only published a list of domain name sales that sealed in Apr that totaled over $463,000

All sales were lead by 472.com that sole for $43,700

Only sales of $2,000 0r some-more are reported:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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.Vegas Hits The Big Apple With Times Square Billboard - The .Vegas registry has a very nice sized ad that is in New York’s Time Square Thanks to a reader of the domains that spotted it and sent it over. We should expect to see more of the new gTLD’s marketed in a big way especially the Geo’s.   ... read more ...
 
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Qwalify Loses Bid To Grab Qualify.com In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH - Qwalify, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, lost its bid to grab the domain name qualify.com from Gregory Ricks the domain holder who represented himself. The Complainant based its claim to the domain based on its trademark on the term QWALIFY which is of course a mis-spelling of the proper word, which was the subject of the complaint. The domain name was registered September 27, 1999 by Mr. Ricks. The one member panel,Andrew D. S. Lothian however, refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) based ... read more ...
 
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Acquired In 2009 As Part of $96 Million Purchase, Getty Images Launches Photos.com -   Getty Images officially launched Photos.com, more than five years after they acquired the domain as part of its acquisition of Jupitermedia Corporation (“Jupitermedia”) (NASDAQ: JUPM) We reported back in February of 2009 that Jupitermedia Corporation (“Jupitermedia”) (NASDAQ: JUPM) sold  Jupiter Images Corporation (“Jupiterimages”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupitermedia, to Getty Images, Inc. for $96 million in cash. Included in the purchase was the domain name Photos.com which ... read more ...
 
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ARI Registry Services Facilitates Delegation of Another .brand TLD - ARI Registry Services facilitated the delegation of its second .brand Top-Level Domain (TLD) client to the web when the World Trade Center's .wtc TLD was switched on live during the week. Following technical testing to meet ICANN's stringent requirements, .wtc joined the likes of, شبكة. .menu, .build, .luxury and .monash when ARI Registry Services added the namespace to the Internet's authoritative root zone servers. More than 250 TLDs have already been delegated out of the almost ... read more ...
 
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Strategies: New domain expansion is already causing second thoughts - David Schachter A new Internet policy introduced by ICANN, the entity that controls and assigns all global Internet domain rights, now allows private parties to acquire ownership of top-level domains ... read more ...
 
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Does Google Glass Really Cost Just $80 to Produce ? - There seems to be some discrepancy on just how much money it costs for Google to make their Google Glass product. Sci Tech Today wrote about it Sunday, Given the current price of $1,500 for Google Glass, how much could the tech giant make? A new analysis estimates that the actual materials cost just under $80, indicating the tech giant could really be raking in the cash. However, the powers that be at Google are contesting that as a low-ball figure, saying it simply isn’t accurate. The analysis ... read more ...
 
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What Do PitBull & Juan Calle & John Ferber Have In Common? They Will All Be Speaking At eMerge In Miami - What do Pitbull and Juan Calle of .Co and John Ferber of DomainHoldings.com have in Common? They will all be speaking this week at the eMerge Americas Techweek being held in Miami otherwise known as the Magic City. eMerge Americas Techweek is described as “where entrepreneurs and tech tycoons alike meet for a week long celebration of all things tech, our approach is to bring together the entire South Florida and Latin American tech community under a BIG TENT and then shine a global SPOTLIGHT on ... read more ...
 
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My thoughts on final month’s NameJet domain sales - Some great deals and some questionable purchases. NameJet just released a list of sales over $2,000 from April. Here are my thoughts on some of them…the last one being the most interesting. Certifications.com $17,100 – I like this domain. There are thousands of certifications people can get, and many of them come with a fee. I’m not sure how many are offered online, but this domain could be a fantastic directory with an affiliate or lead gen model. Through.com ... read more ...
 
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Qwalify does’t validate for send in Qualify.com domain name dispute - Panel says Qualify.com wasn’t registered in bad faith to take advantage of Qwalify, Inc. Greg Ricks has successfully defended his third UDRP dispute in under a month. Ricks previously defended JustBelieve.com and Massy.com, and today WIPO issued a decision in his favor for Qualify.com. I wrote about the Qualify.com filing at length in February, so you can read the gist of the complaint here. A key to the case was that Ricks registered the domain name more than a ... read more ...
 
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13 finish user domain name sales from Sedo - A motorcycle parts company, real estate firm and lawyer make domain name purchases. Sedo’s most recent sales week had $1.1 million worth of domain name sales. Here are some that I identified as “end user” domain name sales. You may view more end user sales here. Verosa.com $1,099 – Verosa, which appears to be a new company in Vacouver. Movineo.com $4,000 – Movineo Network S.A., which uses the domain name Movineo.com.br WorthyBooks.com $1,000 – Worthy ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from April - April was a notable month in the domain name industry. April showers bring May flowers. Or so they say. Unfortunately, not in Austin this year. The drought continues. But it rained lots of stories in the domain industry last month: a big acquisition, more new TLDs, and a controversial keynote at DomainFest. 1. Uniregistry activates thousands of reserved domains per TLD, causing a firestorm with domainers. Especially because of comments Shilling had made earlier about ... read more ...
 
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.Rich still not removing rich - More domains registered…by the registry’s executive director. Last month I wrote about the .rich top level domain name, which had a mere 22 domain names in its zone file. (It was actually just 21 because I counted a registry domain.) After ICANN’s long hiatus of publishing zone files last week I was surprised to see the .rich zone file up to 36 domain names. At about $2,000 a pop retail, that would be a nice pick up. Domains such as born.rich, howtobe.rich, ... read more ...
Sun 4th May 2014
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Decoding The Secret Messages in Chinese Domain Names - Why the preference for digits over letters? It mostly has to do with ease of memorization. To a native English-speaker, remembering a long string of digits might seem harder than memorizing a word. But that’s if you understand the word. For many Chinese, numbers are easier to remember than Latin characters. Sure, Chinese children learn the pinyin system that uses the Roman alphabet to spell out Mandarin words (for example, the word for “Internet,” 网络, is spelled wangluo in pinyin). And ... read more ...
 
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Ebay’s Top Affiliate Gets Busted - In what is really an odd case, Shawn Hogan who was the top Ebay affiliate marketer, along with being a top Google Adsense earner got nailed for defrauding Ebay. Business Insider the story, Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sentenced to five months in federal prison for his role in defrauding eBay of an alleged $28 million in online marketing fees. eBay had secretly cooperated with the FBI since June 2006 to root out affiliate marketers ... read more ...
 
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Google May Have To Pay French Government $1.3 Billion - Forbes reported that Google could have to pay the French government up to $1.3 billion. The Silicon Valley Journal wrote: Mountain View-based Google said it has been hit with a tax assessment from French authorities that could cost between $693 million and $1.3 billion,  according to Forbes. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Google Inc. maintains that it has paid the taxes it owes, and expects to appeal the assessment. It is unclear, however, how successful such an appeal would ... read more ...
Sat 3rd May 2014
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Heritage Auctions Sends Out Call For Next Domain Auction To Be Held mid-July - Heritage Auctions has just sent out an email asking for submission to its next Domain Auction  which will take place mid-July and will be limited to 70 Domain names and “IP Assets” Here is the announcement: “”We are now taking consignments for our Summer domain name and IP auction which will take place mid-July. This event will be limited to 70 domain names and IP assets. Heritage is committed to making greater strides with our marketing and promotional efforts, and we are excited about ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post: An Insider’s Guide to .Wiki Landrush - This is a Guest Post written by Andrew Merriam who is the Business Development Coordinator for Top Level Design LLC, the new TLD registry for .wiki, .ink, and an applicant for an additional 7 TLDs. Andrew has been involved in Top Level Design’s applications from their start and has a background working with CEO Raymond King on a separate project, ICANNWiki, where he first entered the world of domain names, TLD expansion, and wikis. Here is the post which appears unedited: There are a LOT of names ... read more ...