Monthly Archives: May 2014

Tue 27th May 2014
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names -

Afternic/GoDaddy expelled a sales news for a week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14.

All sales for a week totalled $1,618,097.

The tip .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000.

The tip non-com sale lead by Awesome.de for $10,000.

Below is a finish report:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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New dots - The internet domain name system is currently going through a major growth spurt. What does this mean for your business? Previously the Domain Name System was defined by only 22 net address extensions or generic top-level domain names (“gTLDs”), including the most popular ‘.com’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org)’ and approximately 250 country code top level domains (such as ‘.ae’ or ‘.qa’).  A dramatic expansion of gTLDs is currently taking place. Since late October 2013, ... read more ...
 
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.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD -       .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still number three on the top 10 fastest growing list but only has a rating of 21. In other new gTLD number news there are now more than ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs revive the internet’s wild west tendencies… - No one is safe In light of Memorial Day weekend, the new gTLD .democrat entered general availability earlier this week. Registrants have been acquiring second-level .democrat domain names since the gTLD’s landrush period began April 17. Rightside, the registry offering the gTLD, does not have any protection mechanisms designed to protect the names of politicians at this time. One of the most interesting second-level domains acquired during landrush was clinton.democrat, which ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money - Last week  ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this domain name Luxury.Villas as a very expensive premium domain. Hexonet for example had the domain for around $9,500  however when I check Godaddy the price was only $169.99, so I went ahead with the registration and Godaddy took my money. Onlinedomain.com chatted ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Spilts On 20 Domains; Domain Holder Keeps Developed Domains Loses Parked Domains - A UDRP panel just awarded several domains to the trademark holder while denying the transfer of others. The only difference to the panel is what the domain owner was doing with the domains. The domain holder got to keep those domains that had “developed websites” on them but but the panel ordered all the parked domains transferred to the trademark holder The Complainant is Blue Diamond Hotels and Resorts Inc and the domain holder is Media Insight of Miami Beach, Florida otherwise known as Vacation ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Signs NameSentry Referral Agreement with Verisign - Related: Press Release, News Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced it has signed a referral agreement with Verisign for NameSentry. Under the terms of the agreement, Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as their back-end registry services provider. Architelos' pioneering NameSentry? service enables new gTLDs to not only ... read more ...
 
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.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD -       .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still number three on the top 10 fastest growing list but only has a rating of 21. In other new gTLD number news there are now more than ... read more ...
 
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General … - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
 
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
 
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20 finish user domain name sales adult to $25,000 - Mobile app company and environmental consulting company among end user domain name buyers last week. Afternic and GoDaddy sold a combined $1.6 million worth of domain names last week. This is lower than usual, possibly due to the holiday weekend in the U.S. Here are twenty domain sales that involved end users; view previous end user lists here. AppDay.com $20,000 – GetJar, a mobile app discovery service. StandardInsurance.com $25,000 – I’m a bit confused about ... read more ...
 
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In Da Club, 50 Cent, and New TLD marketing - .Club is spending a lot to promote .Club. That’s good news for .Club domain registrants. Last Thursday night .Club hosted a launch party at Tao Downtown in Manhattan featuring celebrity endorser 50 Cent. I just barely made it to the party thanks to bad weather, a presidential visit to New York, and the plane running out of fuel (necessitating an unexpected stop in Baltimore). But I made it for the last half of the party and saw Fiddy, albeit from behind velvet ropes. The ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: Ninjas and non-profits - A TLD.ninja’s overview of this week in new top level domain names. A handful of new top level domain names hit the market this week, and we’re not just talking about sprinkled donuts. Today Public Interest Registry launches three internationalized domain name (IDN) versions of its popular .org domain name: .орг Russian (Cyrillic) .संगठन Hindi (Devanagari) .机构 Simplified Chinese The domains are priced around $15 retail, but registrar coverage ... read more ...
Mon 26th May 2014
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USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains” - USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you’re trying to do”. “Are you an expert? There’s .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. Opening a restaurant in New York City? Consider .nyc. Running a daily news site? How about .today?” “After ... read more ...
 
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USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains” - USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you’re trying to do”. “Are you an expert? There’s .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. Opening a restaurant in New York City? Consider .nyc. Running a daily news site? How about .today?” “After ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy - Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Berryhill, Esq represented the domain holder. This is the first URS case decided that involved North Sound Names and the 1st URS represented by John Berryhill. North Sound Names is the company that was set up to register New gTLD’s of Uniregistry. North ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin Set to Overtake Paypal - The IB Times did a piece on Bitcoin surpassing Paypal in terms of USD transactions. From the article: Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake e-commerce giant eBay’s payment processor PayPal in terms of US dollar transactions in the near future. California-based hedge fund Laureate Trust says that bitcoin is fast establishing itself as the currency to use globally and instantly to make purchases or payments over the internet recording nearly $300m (£178m, €220m) daily in transactions. “Whenever ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling defends URS opposite indifferent .sexy domain name - Uniform Rapid Sexy. When Frank Schilling released his first handful of new top level domain names he also held back tens of thousands of second level domain names for himself. These were registered in the name of North Sound Names. Since the domains aren’t just held back as premiums for registration but are actually registered, they are subject to URS proceedings. Schilling has successfully defended the first such proceeding against one of his domains, a URS for ... read more ...
Sun 25th May 2014
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If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone - .Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions. In my opinion its the best of the Donuts domains this week. I was taking a look at some great .Vacation domains and found that if you want one,  your going to pay up as many of them carry high premium registration and renewal rates. From what I can see there are 4 price points on premium .Vacations domain names, $5,500, $1,500, $400 and $200 ... read more ...
 
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NameStat.org Offers New gTLD Info - .Link gains 6,710 registrations in 2 days #newgtlds #newdomains — namestats (@NameStats) May 23, 2014   Jean Guillon retweeted the above tweet, which made me aware of NameStat.org this morning. I spent some time looking around the website, and it looks like they offer some interesting information about new gTLD domain name registrations. On the home page, you can quickly reference the “Top 10″ in categories including fastest growing gTLDs, best selling gTLDs, fastest growing IDNs, ... read more ...
 
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LG G3 F400L Korean version valued at $635, hosted in top level domain - South Korea-based technology firm - LG Electronics - is scheduled to hold an event this coming Tuesday, May 27, where the company is expected to launch the highly anticipated top-tier premium flagship smartphone - the LG G3, and it is also expected the possibly of the G Watch appearance as well. The mobile handset appeared on the product listing on LG U+, a South Korean wireless carrier owned and operated by LG, confirmed the pricing of the LG G3 in its homeland territory, and not to mention ... read more ...
Sat 24th May 2014
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1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja & Fart.Ninja - I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these  domain names carry a premium annual renewal and registration fee. Long time domain industry veteran  Jothan Frakes scored with Brand.ninja and Conference.ninja. The University of Michigan registered Personal.Ninja The strangest registration in our opinion goes to a Matthew Mahler of California who is now officially the Fart.Ninja Here are the .Ninja ... read more ...
 
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PVP.com sells for $70,000, A demeanour behind during a story of a domain - PVP.com sold for $70,000 on Afternic.  PVP commonly referred to as Player Vs Player in gaming circles. The domain currently is under Afternic escrow for whois, and does not propagate properly and timing out. The domain has a registration date of 12/14/08 which seemed odd to me. It looks like the history of the domain started in the Cayman Islands, if we go back to the earliest records Domain Tools has on the name, we see: Modern Limited - Cayman Web Development PO Box 908 Suite #147 George Town, ... read more ...
 
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An anti-Obama dentist just bought up the best new Democrat domain names - This post has been updated with comment from Rightside. On Wednesday (May 21), the .democrat top-level domain (TLD) went on sale to the general public. By the end of the day, Dr Larry Kawa, an orthodontist from Boca Raton, Florida, had bought up dozens of high-profile domains, including obamacare.democrat, medicaid.democrat, and medicare.democrat. He also purchased more general domains, including usa.democrat, vote2016.democrat, america.democrat—and liar.democrat. (You can check who has ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2014
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Quoted: It’s about to get .real — on politics and domain names - “The right to purchase sites is emblematic of free speech and I embrace the opportunity to do so. As the left has taken control of the mainstream media, I feel it is interesting that one individual can express themselves on the Internet.” — Larry Kawa, an orthodontist from Boca Raton, Fla., who this week bought a bunch top-level domain .democrat and other domains such as liar.democrat. In case you haven’t guessed, he is not a Democrat; he has filed suit ... read more ...