Monthly Archives: June 2014

Fri 13th June 2014
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Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org - I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new gTLD. Several days ago we reported that NameStat.org removed all of NSI registrations for .XYZ from its stats based on the free giveaway promotion for purposes of computing the best selling domain list on the site as well as from the Fastest Growing ... read more ...
 
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ICANN recognises ‘.brand’ registry TLDs -

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New gTLDs made available by ICANN - gTLDs : generic Top Level Domains Wide array of new gLTDs were made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The move will transform cyberspace. Traditional gTLDs like .com, .org, .net, and even country-specific domains like .in (for India) are likely to take a back seat as companies and individuals vie to get new domain names registered. As of 2 June 2014, more than 295 new gTLDs, have been introduced. Registering a domain name could cost a buyer anything ranging ... read more ...
 
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ICANN is MIA on .XYZ - By now anyone who's part of the domain investment or broader ICANN community is aware of the curious saga of the recently launched .XYZ registry. Soon after its young CEO boldly stated, "we hope to reach 1 million .XYZ registrations in the first year and 5 million registrations in the first three years", the registry launched with a remarkable total of nearly 18,000 registrations on its first day, a total that has quickly grown to more than 100,000. But it was soon noted that "the zone files ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Harvard Business School and others bought final week - Harvard among end user domain name buyers last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users; see previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domains like these on Sedo? Download this report to learn how. PuzzleRings.com $18,000- jewelry company Uctuk, which operates the website PuzzleRing.com (singular). IdentityToys.com $1,395 – Fremont, California company IdentiToy Inc. They design “Object-to-display ... read more ...
 
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Is .xyz’s selling wrong, intelligent or both? - Inflated numbers will result in more mainstream press mentions. A lot has been written over the past couple weeks about .xyz and its so-called “sham” registrations. Network Solutions is giving away free .xyz domain names and is not even requiring account holders to affirm that they want the domain names. This is drastically inflating the number of registered .xyz domain names. As a result, .xyz is at the top of the new TLD charts. It has over 100,000 registrations. ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2014
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.uk domain registrations exceed 50000 on opening day - .uk has become the fastest selling new general top level domain [gTLD] after seeing registrations surpass 50,000 in opening 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, reports that the likes of Sainsbury’s, Bentley and Burberry have all already snapped up .uk domain names and it represents just a small proportion of the 10 million that are expected to register. "Consumers and ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partners 880 … - Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we used the higher total in all cases). Here are the totals after the 1st day including Sunrise Registrations .Events 3,902 .Futbol 1,628 .Dating 1.043 .Partners 880 .Productions 771 All and all a very weak showing. Actually Famous Four 3 new gTLD that went into ... read more ...
 
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Domain Boom for Restaurants and Bars Begins June 11 with the Release of … - MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- An online land grab for restaurants and bars began on June 11th, when new generic top level domains (gTLDs) .REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) were released during the “land rush” period. Punto 2012, the Mexico-based company behind these new gTLDs, is encouraging domain investors, early applicants, bars, nightclubs and restaurants to have a significantly improved chance to reserve desirable, premium and high demand domain names such as ibiza.bar, ... read more ...
 
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Patient.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patient.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH - Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patient.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP. The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member panel of Gabriela Kennedy, Nick J. Gardner and David E. Sorkin finding that the Complainant didn’t meet any of the three requirements of the UDRP, they did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking nor did they even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partners 880, .Productions 771 - Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we used the higher total in all cases). Here are the totals after the 1st day including Sunrise Registrations .Events 3,902 .Futbol 1,628 .Dating 1.043 .Partners 880 .Productions 771 All and all a very weak showing. Actually Famous Four 3 new gTLD that went into ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com - Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by  AN-KI, Mexico,  has  been found guilty of Reverse  Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com,  which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by ESQwire.com PC. Mr Casillas brought his case based on trademarks in the United States , Canada and Mexico based on registered trademarks for the term “Big Bang Identidad Enmpresarial” the earliest of which was filed in Mexico on June 9, 2006 and ... read more ...
 
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Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com - Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian Dollar, etc… In cryptocurrency markets the symbol for Bitcoin is BTC. From the release: The term “BTC” is the commonly used abbreviation for the crypto-currency Bitcoin. As such, this rare domain asset provides an exceptional branding opportunity for new and existing companies within the Bitcoin space. “Whether ... read more ...
 
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Scandal on the gTLD scene — .xyz registrations may be inflated - The total number of generic top level domain registrations is nearing 1 million as new gTLDs launch daily. The new gTLD leaders, .club and .guru, are still holding tight to their positions. The top 10 on the leader board are: Click here to view the table. The question is, does everyone belong on the leader board? The gTLD scene is not without scandal. The .xyz gTLD has more than 27,000 new registrations that list the name server as belonging to Network Solutions (NetSol) and its ... read more ...
 
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Köln: Die Kölner surfen bald mit eigener Adresse im Netz - Heute beginnt die sogenannte "Sunrise"-Phase. Sie läuft einen Monat und soll es Markeninhabern ermöglichen, sich ihre geschützte Adresse mit der neuen Endung zu sichern. Im Anschluss, in der Phase "Limited Registration", bekommen Kölner Vereine und Non-Profit-Organisationen eine Chance auf die TLD. Ende August werden in einer Premium-Phase ("Landrush Periode") Wunschdomains versteigert. Zu guter Letzt können sich ab dem 5. September dann alle anderen um eine regionale Kennung für ... read more ...
 
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Wow: .Hotel row set resolved after CPE - .Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the only applicant to elect community status and has now won the contention set. This means the other six applicants for .hotel, including Donuts, Minds + Machines, Famous Four and Radix, have lost their chance to run .hotel. The ... read more ...
 
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Today: Two firsts in spam - A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three domain names for sale. I don’t know the sender, although it was pretty easy to look up their corporate identity using whois. They were pitching .xyz domains, by the way. So that makes it the first time someone has contacted ... read more ...
 
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Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, though it should have been retreat domain name hijacking - Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularly egregious filing and obvious abuse of the policy. The three person panel found that Egton Medical didn’t prove any of the three prongs of the UDRP. Egton also made ridiculous arguments, such as Health Axis Group’s ownership ... read more ...
 
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EDR: Results and research from over 150 lapsed domain name auctions - In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy.  It’s not surprising, really.  Computing has infiltrated our lives, and smart phones are conquering both the younger generation and the developing world.  But although the #1 spot is about mobile tech, the #2 domain, SmartRoom.com, seems to be ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy End User domain name sales - A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple weeks ago. An additional reason might be the temporary loss of Afternic on its Premium level distribution. Both Afternic and Sedo had to temporarily remove Moniker due to its ongoing problems. GoDaddy’s registration path ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2014
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Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa - There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale as the 240 .ly portfolio closed not meeting the reserve. Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premium domains will “corner the market“, and own some of the greatest domain hacks of all time. Many of the 240 premium domains here are exact match, brandable, and in highly lucrative markets — ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week - Please find the weekly sales list attached to this message. Over the past week, 633 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1MM. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: puzzlerings.com at 18,000 USD · Top ccTLD: casinos.com.br at 10,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: 011.net at 5,800 USD Below is the complete report:   ... read more ...
 
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.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day - According to itproportal.com,  the new .UK extension has surpassed 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain holders with a .co.uk or one of the other variations that will have first crack at getting the shorter address and with prices set below a .com, £3.50 for a single year (about $5 and £2.50 per year About $4 for multiple year ... read more ...
 
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Light.Co Bought For $25K In May On Afternic/Godaddy Raises $9.7 Million - Back in May of this year we reported that the domain name Light.co sold on Afternic/Godaddy for $25,000 A nice price for a nice .Co domain name. Today the Term Sheet is reporting that Light.co, a digital photography startup, has raised $9.7 million in Series A funding. Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV co-led the round, and were joined by Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm exec chairman) and Sanjay Jha (ex-Motorola Mobility CEO). Now the question becomes what is going on with light.com As present the domain does ... read more ...
 
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Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings - One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry in computing its Best Selling gTLD list. NameStat.org is now showing .XYZ with just under 15,000 registrations ... read more ...