Monthly Archives: May 2014

Thu 29th May 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
España entre los países que más protegen los datos de los titulares de dominios … - Los dominios de nivel superior (TLD) geográficos tienen una normativa específica para cada país o territorio dependiente que influye, por ejemplo, a la hora de mostrar información sobre el titular de un dominio en su “whois”. España se encuentra entre los países que más protegen la identidad de los titulares, junto a Moldavia, Portugal o Irlanda. Hemos analizado un total de 34 servicios whois de dominios de nivel superior geográficos o TLD geográficos, todos ellos del entorno europeo ... read more ...
 
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España entre los países que más protegen los datos de los titulares … - Los dominios de nivel superior (TLD) geográficos tienen una normativa específica para cada país o territorio dependiente que influye, por ejemplo, a la hora de mostrar información sobre el titular de un dominio en su “whois”. España se encuentra entre los países que más protegen la identidad de los titulares, junto a Moldavia, Portugal o Irlanda. Hemos analizado un total de 34 servicios whois de dominios de nivel superior geográficos o TLD geográficos, todos ellos del entorno ... read more ...
 
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The Internet Commerce Association’s Website Gets A Big Makeover -     The Internet Commerce Association’s (ICA) Website has undergone a massive redesign. The ICA has a new, sharp-looking website at InternetCommerce.org. The ICA wants to thank Michael Castello for leading the initiative to update the ICA site and for providing the mock-up, and Michael Sumner for creating the new site. The site just relaunched and now contains information on members, news and issues of importance to domain holders, mission statements along with all of the ICA’s blog post. Founded ... read more ...
 
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Uniregisty Wins Private Auctions For .Help and .Diet; Famous Four Participates In Its 1st Private Auction -         At the TRAFFIC show today, Sevan Derderian, Director of Sales of Uniregistry announced at the TRAFFIC conference being held in Las Vegas, that Uniregistry won the private auction for the new gTLD’s .Help and .Diet this week. There were two other applicants for .Help;  Dot Tech LLC of Kansas, and Donuts. There were two other applicants for .Diet;  Famous Four Media and Donuts. For Famous Four Media, Inc, this marks the first time they have participated in a private auction to resolve ... read more ...
 
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.Ninja Wins The Week With 5200 Registrations; .Rentals 5K+; .immobilien 4.5K … - Yesterday marked the first day of General Availability for several new domain extensions (new gTLD’s)  and .Ninja led the way ending with 5,200 registrations. Closely behind .Ninja was .Rentals which is sitting at 5,044 domains. .immobilien which translates into “real estate” closed it first day with 4,500 registrations. After those three  new extensions it was a large drop off to .Vacations which had  1,581 domains registered after it first day of GA .Flights came in with just 822 registrations ... read more ...
 
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How one Google Algorithm Change Can Damage A Business - There was an article over at Motley Fool yesterday by Adam Levy that took a look at how one Google algorithm changed can ruin a business. The article discussed the recent Panda change and the effect on RetailMeNot. From the article: Last week, shares of RetailMeNot (NASDAQ: SALE  ) slid over 20% over the course of two days after a report from SearchMetrics found that the website’s visibility had fallen 33% on Google’s search engine. The decline came after Google released an update to its search ... read more ...
 
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Two Letter .Com; QM.com Hits The Market For 1st Time & Already Has a High Bid of $260K - RightoftheDot.com is exclusively brokering the two letter .com domain QM.com which is on the market for the first time. The domain is corporate owned not domainer owned. The owner is looking for offers of $500,000  or more. ROTD has a current high offer of $260,000 and just started brokering the domain less than two weeks ago. There are only 676 two letter .com domains For some well known meanings for the term QM you can check out Wikipedia.org which includes; Quality management Quantum mechanics, ... read more ...
 
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.Ninja Wins The Week With 5,200 Registrations; .Rentals 5K+; .immobilien 4.5K; .Vacations 1,600 - Yesterday marked the first day of General Availability for several new domain extensions (new gTLD’s)  and .Ninja led the way ending with 5,200 registrations. Closely behind .Ninja was .Rentals which is sitting at 5,044 domains. .immobilien which translates into “real estate” closed it first day with 4,500 registrations. After those three  new extensions it was a large drop off to .Vacations which had  1,581 domains registered after it first day of GA .Flights came in with just 822 registrations ... read more ...
 
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Mt.Gox looking to sell Bitcoin Trademark, Can anyone indeed use it ? - The parent company of bankrupt Mt.Gox is looking to sell the trademark and bitcoins.com to raise some funds to repay creditors of Mt. Gox. Several publications covered the story, we looked at three. The interesting part that Coin Desk covered was whether or not a trademark could actually hold up. The Telegraph reported on the story The company overseeing bankruptcy proceedings for the collapsed exchange Mt. Gox hopes to sell the “Bitcoin” trademark and the bitcoins.com domain name in a bundle ... read more ...
 
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Sex.xxx domain name sells as partial of $5 million deal - Multi-year deal for forty .xxx domains valued at $5 million. The domain name Sex.xxx has been sold as part of a $5 million deal between ICM Registry and Barron Innovations. The two parties pegged the price of Sex.xxx itself at a whopping $3 million. The $5 million deal includes 40 .xxx domain names including cam.xxx, phone.xxx and black.xxx. Each of these three examples were valued at six figures. A press release about the deal describes it as a “multi-year deal,” ... read more ...
 
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Tadpole.com sells for $20k and .us compared to new TLDs - In this week’s Expired Domain Report, Joseph Peterson reports on the sale of Tadpole.com, plus a comparison of .us domain sales to the asking prices on new TLD premium domains. Once upon a time — specifically, once upon 22 April , 1992 — there hatched a Tadpole.  Like many a domain, it began as a primitive website but mutated as it matured.  Tadpole Computers supplied the world with “rugged … UNIX work stations, thin client laptops, and lightweight ... read more ...
 
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.Ninjas win Wednesday’s conflict of a new TLDs - Ninjas attack cruiselines and vacationers. Ninjas win. Seven new top level domain names hit the market yesterday, and the .Ninjas sliced their way to the most new registrations of any of them. .Ninja recorded 4,535 new registrations in the zone file, which is a pretty good measure of how many domains were registered. (Note: today I’m using data collated by Namestat.org. Some of my zone file access has expired. I, like many others, don’t know why they have to ... read more ...
 
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How many registrations will new TLDs get? - Most people think low five figures. We’re starting to get an idea of how many registrations new top level domain names can expect to get in the short term now that dozens have launched. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked “On average, how many second level registrations do you expect each new TLD to have one year after general availability for the domain starts?” The median response to this question was 12,000 and the average was 41,054. The average ... read more ...
Wed 28th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ExoClick Hits 4 Billion Daily Ad Impressions - ExoClick is now the fifth largest ad network in the world, today they put out a release claiming to have reached a record 4 billion daily ad impressions. ExoClick has seen rapid growth due to its access to the world’s top 1 million websites and the company’s aggressive expansion into mobile which now accounts for 27% of all ExoClick ad impressions, a significant jump from 19.3% back in August 2013 when the company announced it had reached 3 billion daily impressions. ExoClick sees mobile is ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Pulled Back & Reserved Luxury.Villas During EAP After Orders Were Placed - Yesterday we wrote about how Godaddy.com didn’t award us the domain name Luxury.Villas which we ordered last week for registration on the 5th day of the   Early Access Program (EAP) OnlineDomain.com wrote about this domain as being priced at $13,500 for year of registration and renewal just three days ago while the EAP program was already going. Now it seems the domain was reserved by the registry during the EAP period while there were pending orders Here is the Whois on the domain name: “This ... read more ...
 
 
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.XYZ Is Out of Sunrise and into Landrush “With The Most Domainer-Friendly Policies of any TLD” - .XYZ just exited it Sunrise period and is today in Land Rush “with the most domainer-friendly policies of any TLD” “”.xyz’s domainer-friendly policies include: – virtually every domain is available – less than 3,000 names have been reserved (as compared to tens and hundreds of thousands for other gTLDs) – all .xyz domains are available for the standard registration fee – no premium pricing – all .xyz landrush domains renew at the standard renewal rate, making it affordable to ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K - .Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of  3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the list of new gTLD’s with the most domain registrations. .Club become the first new gTLD to top 60,000 registrations, now with 60,412 registrations. There are now 7 new gTLD’s that have more than 30,000 registrations, 15 with 15,000 or more registrations and Today marks the first day that seven other new gTLD’s go into general availability ... read more ...
 
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New Jersey City University opens Logistics Center at BDI – Logistics News, Industry Analysis, Market Research Reports - Related SectorsSupply Chain Related Dates2014 May Related IndustriesTransport and Logistics Warehousing ... read more ...
 
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NJCU Launches Logistics Center at Business Development Incubator - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> Advances Workforce Innovation through Industry Collaboration May 27, 2014 -- JERSEY CITY, N.J., May 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --New Jersey City University (NJCU) opens Logistics Center at its Business Development Incubator (BDI) with a state-of-the-art operational warehouse environment that will train and certify middle management ... read more ...
 
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After Not Spending $20 To Register His Domains, Attorney Sues WordPress, Google and Web.com - Jeffrey Wilens D/B/A Lakeshore Law Center filed a federal lawsuit today against Google, the parent company of Word Press Automatic, Inc, and the registrar TLDS L.L.C. which appears to be owned by Web.com for trademark infringement and violation of the ACPA on his common law marks of Jeffrey Wilens and Lakeshore Law Center along with a bunch of registrants referred to as “Does” The eight page complaint is in my opinion less than impressive. We will quote from the Complaint below but basically ... read more ...
 
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Walgreens snaps adult general domain names in new TLDs - $67 billion pharmacy chain going after relevant terms in new TLDs. While I was going through .wiki registrations this morning I noticed that pharmacy chain Walgreens registered a number of generic terms under .wiki. It makes sense: why not own Haircare.wiki, Scooters.wiki and Prescriptions.wiki so they can control the conversation, not the other way around. When I started digging in I found that this wasn’t just a play on .wiki. Walgreens has been registering about ... read more ...
 
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Let’s combine on .wiki: A demeanour during who purebred .wiki domains - .Wiki tops 3,000 registrations by first day. Top Level Design released its first new top level domain name yesterday as .wiki hit registrar’s shelves. I count 3,166 domains in the zone file processed last night, which is a solid first day for a new TLD. I take a particular interest in .wiki because of its unique nature as well as my existing domain portfolio. .Wiki is rather unique among new TLDs for a couple reasons. First, it’s generic in the sense that anything ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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Melbourne IT sees growth in web names like .sydney - Martin Mercer: “There’s a lot of top-line momentum to be had in gTLDs – .kiwi went much better than we expected over in New Zealand, but it’s very hard to predict.” James Hutchinson Related Quotes MELB IT FPO (MLB) $ $ (%) View Full Quote » ASX Announcements 27/05/14 Results ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week - Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,000 USD · Top ccTLD: kaffee.de at 100,000 EUR (= “coffee” in German) · Top “other” TLD: password.org at 10,000 EUR Below is the complete report: ... read more ...