Monthly Archives: May 2014

Fri 23rd May 2014
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Interpol Takes Down Over 10,000 Websites and Targets Rogue Registrars - Interpol takes down over 10,000 websites and targets rogue domain name registrars. In what was the largest global operation ever for taking down bad pharmacies, Interpol included rogue registrars as one of the main areas used by those involved in illegal pharmaceuticals. Here is the full release: LYON, France – Nearly 200 enforcement agencies across 111 countries have taken part in Operation Pangea VII targeting criminal networks behind the sale of fake medicines via illicit online pharmacies. ... read more ...
 
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Mail.Ru Quietly Buys My.com - Internet giant Mail.Ru Group bought the domain name My.com very quietly sometime between October 2012 and April 2013. The domain was registered under privacy at Moniker.com for many years until it changed to Tip Powers of My Acquisition Corporation in September 2012. In October 2012, the whois changed again to the the brand protection company Marksmen. It wasn’t until April 2013 until Mail.Ru Group showed up as the owner of the domain. Its not exactly clear if Marksmen acquired the domain immediately ... read more ...
 
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DomainIndex Is Holding Virtual WebFair 2014, a 1st Virtual Show of Its Kind & Expect 5K People - Virtual WebFair 2014 is the first conference of its kind for the domain, hosting, and SEO industries which offers participation in an event without the delegates or exhibitors having to leave their home or office. The concept is the brainchild of Michael Marcovici of Domainindex.com, who is one of the main sponsors and organizers of the happening. The virtual event takes place on a sophisticated 3D platform provided by Hyperfair.com and expects 5,000 plus visitors with about a hundred of exhibitors ... read more ...
 
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QNET Gets Exclusive URL That Will Change the Internet Forever - QNET Gets Exclusive URL That Will Change the Internet Forever PRWEB.COM Newswire Hong Kong (PRWEB) May 23, 2014 Asian Direct Selling Company, QNET has secured its own top-level domain .quest, making it one of only a few hundred companies in the world to be part of the first wave that will eventually transform almost every URL on the Internet. QNET has already begun thinking about how it will use the .quest domain but it is not likely to see it anywhere before early 2015. QNET ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | New gTLDs revive the Internet’s Wild West … -

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RetailMeNot Sees it Stock Get Whacked By Google Algorithm Update - RetailMeNot is see its stock get hit hard by the recent Google algorithm change. Barry Schwartz wrote on Search Engine Land: On Tuesday, Google pushed out their revised Panda Algorithm code-named Panda 4.0. Panda is designed to remove low-quality content from Google’s search results. Yesterday, we published an early Winners Losers report on which large sites were impacted the most both in a positive and negative way. RetailMeNot was one of the larger sites on the losers list, where Searchmetrics ... read more ...
 
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EDR: Over 120 lapsed domain sales formula and analysis - This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) covers over ten dozen domain names sold over the past week, plus a look at the week ahead. What’s the value of a good book?  Or a piece of art?  If you thought you couldn’t put a number on such subjective, intangible components of human culture, guess again!  At least in .COM, a good book is worth $565 and a piece of art $616. Domains are often compared to real estate because they’re a finite resource people pay ... read more ...
 
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Here’s what your favorite TLDs are (and a ones that will sell a most) - Your forecast for the best selling TLDs. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked you what your favorite new top level domain names are, as well as the ones you expect to get the most registrations. There was no clear runaway winner on which TLD you like the most. .Guru received the most votes. Although .guru is a fine domain name, I suspect that has a lot to do with it being on top of the registration leaderboard for the duration of the survey period. It’s top ... read more ...
Thu 22nd May 2014
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New generic top-level domain names do more harm than good - It’s been a few months now since the bevy of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were made available. These were supposed to rock the domain name registration business and change the Internet landscape forever. We’re all used to the traditional TLDs, such as .net, .com and .org, and the point of the initiative is to add a bunch of new gTLDs to create more options because the Internet is running out of good domain names to use. Now if I own a tattoo parlor, I can register company.tattoo. ... read more ...
 
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New generic top-level domain names do more harm than good - It’s been a few months now since the bevy of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were made available. These were supposed to rock the domain name registration business and change the Internet landscape forever. We’re all used to the traditional TLDs, such as .net, .com and .org, and the point of the initiative is to add a bunch of new gTLDs to create more options because the Internet is running out of good domain names to use. Now if I own a tattoo parlor, I can register company.tattoo. ... read more ...
 
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50 Cent Is Officially In The .Club As His Site, 50inDa.Club Goes Live - 50 Cent’s .Club Fan site just went live minutes ago. The Site, 50inDa.Club, now combines all of his fan sites, a store where you can buy merchandise, watch videos, listen to music engage in all of his social networks. Basically any and things 50 are a part of the site. The site went live just a few hours before the big .Club Launch party that is being held in New York tonight and 50 will be in attendance. The venue is already decked out and its all about .Club As we sit today .Club has the 2nd ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin Bigger Than Facebook ? Bitcoin Integration with Paypal ? - There have a few interesting Bitcoin related stories over the last couple days. These include,  The Winklevoss Twins telling the Guardian that Bitcoin has the potential to be bigger than Facebook, talk of Paypal accepting Bitcoin as a payment option and a number of resignations at the Bitcoin Foundation. William Channer did a piece on The Guardian that took a look at how the Winklevoss came to get involved with Bitcoin and what they see as the future for the most popular crypto currency on the ... read more ...
 
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.Foundation Gets 1393 Registrations On Day-1; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 … - The new gTLD stats just updated for the 5 new gTLD that went into general availability yesterday and the numbers were pretty low. 5 new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and numbers are less than impressive. Including Sunrise domain registrations here are the numbers according to ntldstats.com: . Foundation 1,393; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 and Best just 79 domain names. .Exposed and .Foundation were Donuts extensions, while Rightside has their first two new gTLD’s rollout, ... read more ...
 
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.Foundation Gets 1,393 Registrations On Day-1; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 Best-79 - The new gTLD stats just updated for the 5 new gTLD that went into general availability yesterday and the numbers were pretty low. 5 new gTLD went into general availability yesterday and numbers are less than impressive. Including Sunrise domain registrations here are the numbers according to ntldstats.com: . Foundation 1,393; .Dance 881; .Exposed 746 .Democrat 535 and Best just 79 domain names. .Exposed and .Foundation were Donuts extensions, while Rightside has their first two new gTLD’s rollout, ... read more ...
 
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Melbourne beats Sydney in pursuit of new generic top level domains -

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L’ICANN refuse le TLD .amazon à Amazon - L'autorité suprême de régulation des noms de domaine ICANN a suivi la décision du GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee), en rejetant la demande d’Amazon de créer la nouvelle TLD .amazon. Ce refus du GAC a provoqué la contestation d’Amazon, qui réclamait la justification de cet avis négatif. L’ICANN a expliqué ce refus par la possibilité de l’attribuer à l’Amazonie, ce que le marchand en ligne réfute car "l’Amazonie n’est pas une région géographique et son nom n’est ... read more ...
 
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Melbourne beats Sydney for new TLD - Melbourne has beaten Sydney in becoming the first Australian city to have its own top-level domain name (TLD).Melbourne businesses and residents will be able to buy the new .melbourne domain names within months.The global governing body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been gradually releasing some of 1,400 new TLDs since late 2013.The new TLDs, which join .com, .net and .au on the internet, will help internet users find ... read more ...
 
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May 20: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - 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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Advertising a 6 word domain name on a radio? - Why is this new home community asking radio listeners to remember a six word domain name? I heard a radio advertisement yesterday for a new home community outside of Austin called Rocky Creek. Like many planned developments, this one was built in phases. Once the first phase was mostly sold they started developing the second. Now they’re selling homes in the third phase. The commercial ended with a call to action: “Visit Rocky Creek phase three now open dot com,” ... read more ...
 
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What domain names TNT and 16 others bought final week - TV network among end user domain name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had a lot of five figure sales last week that are still in escrow, meaning I can’t see who bought the domains yet. Most of them are likely end users given the price tags and domains. Still, I uncovered 17 end user domain names sales. This includes TV network TNT, which bought the domain name TNTBoom.com related to its new slogan. Here’s the list, and you can view previous end user sales lists ... read more ...
 
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The many successful chairman in a domain name attention is… - Survey says… Who is the most influential person in the domain name industry? Frank Schilling, according to respondents to this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. 37% of respondents said Schilling was the most influential person in the domain name industry. The next highest was Rick Schwartz with 18% of the vote. Who would Domain Name Wire readers most like to have dinner with? Again, Frank Schilling. 26% picked Schilling as a dinner date, and the vote was spread ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2014
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JD.com Prices Offering Above Expectations At $19 - JD.com Inc.’s IPO priced above expectations Wednesday selling 93.7 million American depositary shares for $19 a piece, raising $1.8 billion. JD.com is set to open on the Nasdaq Stock Market Thursday under the symbol “JD.” JD.com starts off life as U.S. stock amid strong investor skepticism when it comes to shares of fast-growing technology companies. The Nasdaq Internet Index has tumbled 8% this year, on the heels of a 65% rally in 2013. Amazon.com Inc., JD.com’s U.S.-based peer, has seen ... read more ...
 
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Directi Rolls out Ringo.co - Directi has rolled out a new service called Ringo described as a new international calling app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone device. Ringo is an international calling app that uses a unique call flow to provide best-in-class call quality at costs lower than other popular calling apps. Ringo calls do not use the Internet, wifi or data and are instead use regular phone lines. Ringo is unlike any international calling apps available today and is unparalleled in cost, convenience, simplicity and ... read more ...
 
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DarkCoin jumps 10 overlay in a month - Andy Greenberg from Wired did a story today looking at DarkCoin, a crypto-currency that is supposedly more private than Bitcoin. The coin has seen its value jump from .75 to close to $7 in a month. From the article: Someone out there likes anonymous money. In only a month, the little-known bitcoin alternative known as Darkcoin has rocketed nearly tenfold in value–from around 75 cents a coin to almost seven dollars. Its selling point: Darkcoin offers far greater anonymity than bitcoin, mixing up ... read more ...
 
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Agora é oficial: ICANN nega pedido do domínio .AMAZON - Publicada em 21/05/2014 14:40 A Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – ICANN, órgão regulador do sistema de nomes de domínio da Web, decidiu acatar a recomendação de seu Comitê Consultivo Governamental (GAC) e rejeitar o pedido da empresa Amazom Inc. para o registro do novo gTLD “.AMAZON”, bem como as suas traduções chinesas e japonesas – que, inclusive, já haviam passado pelas primeiras etapas do processo de registro. De acordo com uma resolução ... read more ...