Monthly Archives: May 2014

Thu 15th May 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
4 engaging things Tucows pronounced on the discussion call yesterday - Selling domains, letting some expire, and the impact of new top level domain names. Domain name registrar Tucows released its first quarter 2014 earnings yesterday. The investor conference call included four interesting comments/facts about the domain name side of the business. 1. Tucows is testing ways to sell more domains through parked pages. The company says it has launched an “aggressive program of experimentation” on landing pages for its domain names to ... read more ...
 
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Chicago Cubs among those shopping domain names final week - MLB buys domain name for Cubs and other end user domain name purchases. The Chicago Cubs (technically MLB Advanced Media, L.P.) were among those companies buying domain names last week. The team and Major League Baseball paid $1,700 for MyCubs.com. This is the name of their season ticket holder portal. It looks like MLB uses this same name for more clubs (e.g. MyBrewers) , which means MLB might try to acquire the other domain names. Here are other domain names sold ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
4 Year Old Mobile.co Hit With UDRP -                     The domain name Mobile.co has just been hit with a UDRP. The domain was registered in February,  2010 but was just transferred to the current holder  in March 2014. The domain is not currently resolving. The domain was a comparison shopping site back 2012 but became a parked domain according to Screenshots.com in 2013.       ... read more ...
 
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May 12: 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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“.NYC is The Best Real Estate Opportunity Since The Dutch Bought Manhattan” - BetaBeat did a story today on an early video done by former Mayor of New York City, the late Ed Koch. The headline for our story here was a quote that Mr.Koch used when doing his .NYC pitch. You can watch the video below. From the article: “Back in 2008, city officials were leaning against creating a ‘.nyc’ web address,” Davidson Goldin, the public relations superstar hired by DotNYC, told Betabeat. “Entrepreneurs who’d been behind the .tv address embarked on a long journey to convince ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Advertising Hits The London Tube (Subway) - Thanks to a reader of TheDomains.com who spotted an ad in the London Tube (otherwise known as the subway ) for new gTLD’s The Ad looks like a pretty big billboard (unfortunately it looks like the picture got chopped off slightly on the right) sponsored by the domain name registrar, 123-reg.co.uk Looks like the ad is featuring the new gTLD’s of .Club, .Ninja and .XYZ as well as .London, .Guru, .Plumbing, and .Webcam ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Take 1st Toll On Existing String? .Mobi Falls Below 1 Million … -   According to RegistrarStats.com the Top Level Domain (TLD) .Mobi  fell below 1 Million domain name registrations. .Mobi hit a high of 1.2 Million registrations in January 2014 before the new gTLD were released. .Mobi increased registration from late 2011,  from below 1 Million hitting  1.2 Million on January. We can’t peg the losses of 200,000 domain registrations since January just to the new gTLD’s, but it certainly could be a factor which is why the headline has a question mark. What ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Take 1st Toll On Existing String? .Mobi Falls Below 1 Million Registrations -   According to RegistrarStats.com the Top Level Domain (TLD) .Mobi  fell below 1 Million domain name registrations. .Mobi hit a high of 1.2 Million registrations in January 2014 before the new gTLD were released. .Mobi increased registration from late 2011,  from below 1 Million hitting  1.2 Million on January. We can’t peg the losses of 200,000 domain registrations since January just to the new gTLD’s, but it certainly could be a factor which is why the headline has a question mark. What ... read more ...
 
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De kansen en valkuilen van nieuwe gTLD’s - ICANN als verkeersleiderWat is een gTLD precies? Om het antwoord te kennen moet je bekend zijn met ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is een non­profit organisatie die fungeert als een soort bibliotheek en verkeersleider. Zij creëert top level domains, wijst domeinnamen toe en distribueert IP­nummers. Het is haar taak om de uitgifte van de nieuwe gTLD’s te reguleren en het administratieve proces te begeleiden. Dit betekent niet dat ICANN volledig verantwoordelijk ... read more ...
 
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Company sues to overturn UDRP decision - Company turns to courts (again) to try to overturn adverse UDRP ruling. Technology Online, LLC has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nevada to overturn a UDRP against the domain name Jeffers.com. Veterinarian supply company Jeffers, Inc. filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization earlier this year and won the case. Technology Online argues that the panelist in that case erred because she considered the date Technology Online acquired the domain ... read more ...
 
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DNPric.es has a good lead list for profitable new TLDs. Unfortunately a registries also have it. - You’ll find good ideas for new TLDs on this list, but many will be priced at a premium. I’m going to let you in on a secret strategy I’ve been undertaking with new TLDs. Every time one heads to general availability I go to DNPric.es to look for domains including the top level domain that have sold in recent years. For example, when .center came out recently I went to the site and searched for “center”. For each high value domain that popped up I went to ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Procter & Gamble and others bought final week - PG among end users that bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold 473 domain names for a total of $1.4 million last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users. (View previous end user lists.) Flipkart.co.za and Flipkart.com.au 5,000 EUR each – FlipKart, similar to Amazon.com for India. Last week they bought a couple other ccTLDs. StuffSacks.com $1,995 – Motorcycle clothing company Schampa, which sells “stuff sacks”. OpenArcade.com $1,995 ... read more ...
 
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Recruiter Harry Joiner buys CMOJobs.com from IDG - Joiner adds to his collection of valuable job domain names. Harry Joiner, who has acquired a number of job related domain names to help his recruiting business, has acquired CMOJobs.com from media giant IDG for a five figure pricetag. Joiner told Domain Name Wire he used a few brokers to try to acquire the domain name. Acquiring a domain name from a large company is never easy and the first couple brokers were unsuccessful. Then he received a fortuitous call from ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba in ... read more ...
 
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TLD Racing ready for hometown Tour debut - Topics:  cycling, tld racing, toowoomba, tour of toowoomba Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott (foreground) along with team managers Dave Silk and Peter Watts ahead of TLD competing in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. TLD Racing is excited about the chance to put Toowoomba ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com/Godaddy Sells $1.8 Million In Domain Led By EverydayCounts.com For $40K -

GoDaddy and Afternic only reported a weekly reportable domain sales for a week of 5/5/14 – 5/11/14.

Total domain sales for a week summed to $1,814,616.

All sales were led by a good call to movement domain name EverydayCounts.com $40,000

GreatIdeas.com sole for $19K

Weedshops.com sole for $18K

Light.Co sole for $25,000 and Seattle.Co sole for $9,999

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Canada’s MuchMusic Quietly Acquires Much.com - Canada’s Much Music quietly acquired the domain name Much.com in what appears to be around October 2013. The domain Much.com is now being forwarded to MuchMusic.com Much Music is a television network owned by Bell Media subsidiary of BCE It looks like the domain was acquired sometime in October 2013 by brandcertified.com a company related to MarkMonitor Prior to the acquisition in October,  the domain name was owned by for approximately  two years under privacy at Moniker.com. Prior to that ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.4 Million For The Week - Over the past week, 473 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million dollars. 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: intensity.com at 57,000 USD · Top ccTLD: groups.io at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: bussgeldkatalog.net at 6,000 EUR (“schedule of fines” in German)   ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution For .WIEN Retail Operation … - According to a press release we just received “LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other entities associated with Vienna, the Austrian capital. The vertically integrated retail operation for .WIEN, netzadresse.at GmbH, focuses specifically on the ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Delivers Vertical Integration Solution For .WIEN Retail Operation, Netzadresse.at - According to a press release we just received “LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has successfully executed a comprehensive Vertical Integration project in the .WIEN namespace. .WIEN is a new gTLD extension that caters to businesses, organizations, individuals and any other entities associated with Vienna, the Austrian capital. The vertically integrated retail operation for .WIEN, netzadresse.at GmbH, focuses specifically on the ... read more ...
 
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People Have A Right to be Forgotten - In a landmark case that is being covered by every news outlet around the world, a European Court has said ordinary people can request to have their info pulled from the search results. This will certainly open the door to a multitude of scenarios, first this is a European ruling, will North American courts demand the same rights for their citizens ? The ruling does not give any open and shut method for removing the info and of course Google is likely to fight this and appeal the ruling. AMSTERDAN ... read more ...
 
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Is the Future of .BRAND TLDs to Be Registered Just Like a Domain Name? - Will .BRAND Top-Level Domains be made available for registration at Registrars like GoDaddy, just like second level domains are? My guess is that it will and here are the reasons why. Go what? There is no longer a need to introduce GoDaddy. GoDaddy is just the largest Registrar in the world and has no equivalent. According to nTLDStats.com, it has 24.51% market shares in the new domain names market, with 175,313 new domain names registered out of a total of 715,276, 12 million customers ... read more ...
 
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dotAfrica dispute causes more delays - The launch of the .africa TLD by the ZACR has been delayed due to the ongoing Independent Review Process between ICANN and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), Neil Dundas, chief operating officer of the SA-based ZA Central Registry (ZACR) said. The DCA, whose domain name registry operates out of Kenya, initially submitted a separate competing application for .africa, but without government support, Dundas said. As a result of the lack of support and the subsequent Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
 
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Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name - Dispute further delays launch of .africa internet name A complaint by an organisation competing for the .africa geographic top-level domain (gTLD) has further postponed the launch of the internet name, which was planned to be unveiled early June. This is according to Neil Dundas, the chief operating officer of South Africa’s ZA Central Registry (ZACR), who says the internet name may only be commercially launched in late June or July now. This is the latest ... read more ...
 
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Rapper 50 Cent Picks A .Club Domain To Launch His Fan Site: 50inDa.Club - According to a press release just out, Rapper 50 Cent, announced today the upcoming launch of the 50InDa.Club web site in association with .CLUB Domains, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain (gTLD). 50 Cent will be officially launching the page and appearing live at the invitation-only launch party for the new .CLUB domain name extension in Manhattan on May 22, 2014. 50 Cent maybe best known for his No. 1 Billboard hit “In Da Club” and on the brink ... read more ...