Monthly Archives: June 2014

Wed 11th June 2014
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
June 9: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification periods - 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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Will WHOIS be assassinated? - 166 page report describes plan to completely scrap WHOIS as we know it. Last year I wrote about a plan to scrap Whois as we know it and replace it with a new Registration Directory Service (RDS). The initial proposal, created by an ICANN working group, was rather complicated and 49 pages long. Now the Expert Working Group has issued its final report. It weighs in at 166 pages and is sure to be a hot topic at the upcoming ICANN meeting in London. I read the executive ... read more ...
 
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Why no RDNH for Thingify.com? - A classic abuse-of-proceeding case, but no RDNH finding. A WIPO panel just handed down a decision in a UDRP for Thingify.com. It follows a familiar story line: 1. Person starts company, but matching .com domain is taken. 2. Company opts to use a different extension, in this case Thingify.net. 3. Company then tries to buy .com but can’t strike a deal at the price it wants. 4. Company files a UDRP it has no chance of winning. In the case of Thingify, Inc, it knew ... read more ...
 
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Sorry, Moniker. It’s Over. - My long relationship with Moniker is coming to an end due to irreconcilable differences. I’ve been a Moniker customer for a decade. Probably longer. I haven’t been a completely satisfied customer, but I have been a content customer. Until a week ago. That’s when Moniker flipped the switch on its new system. It completely scrapped the old Moniker we all knew. It replaced it with KeyDrive’s reseller platform. Unfortunately, the transition has been an unmitigated ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $1.3 Million -

Godaddy/Afternic reported the weekly sales that totaled only over $1.3 Million dollars.

All sales were led by Suzies.com for $62,050 that was owned by a Scottcraft Label Co. out of Marlton, NJ

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Travel and tourism companies now have more choices for online branding - (Forimmediaterelease.net) BOSTON, Massachusetts - Today, EnCirca ( www.encirca.com ) is proud to offer the travel and tourism industry the opportunity to register its trademarks and brand names in several new industry-specific TLDs. Let`s take a jaunt to discover the new generic travel-related TLDs. The following extensions are now available for registration: • .agency • .cruises • .events • .flights • .holiday • .international • .rentals • .travel • .vacations • .viajes • ... read more ...
 
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.Co.Com Releases “Tens Of Thousands” Premium Domains For Landrush -     The .Co.Com registry just announced on their blog, that they were dropping “tens of thousands” premium domains from their reserved list and placing them into availability where they can be immediately registered in the Landrush period. The .Co.Com registry furnished this list (excel) of over 23K formally reserved premium domain names with Google Searches Per Month, Google Competition and Google Suggested Bid for each domain Here is the list: co.com-released-names-june2014 The Co.Com blog ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are … - NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. Its current promotion going out to its customer marketing the  new gTLD  .events features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before.   If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by highlighting  three domain names they should at least make sure the domains are actually available to be registered and not on the reserved ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA - NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. A new promotion going out to all of their customers is marketing the new gTLD  .events. The promotion features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before.   If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by highlighting  three domain names they should at least make sure the domains are actually available to be registered ... read more ...
 
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Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin - Morgan and Daina Linton’s FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for the latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and world famous entrepreneur Mark Cuban owns part of the company. The news was reported by Xconomy.com Techstars says that more than 1,500 startups applied for this year’s class. The program gives each startup $18,000 in seed funding, provides office space, ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Sponsored Xinnet’s Partner Conference in Nanjing - TLD Registry Sponsored Xinnet's Partner Conference in NanjingTLD Registry's 2nd Principal Sponsorship of China's largest domain name registrar, Xinnet's partner conference roadshow concluded in Nanjing today. China's old southern capital was today the epicentre of China's domain name business, with around 250 of the region's most influential domain resellers gathering to enjoy Xinnet's and TLD Registry's sales trainings and hospitality. TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins ... read more ...
 
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Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month - Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords. Starting later this month they are basically shutting down Adwords advertising for adult sites. “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, hardcore pornography; graphic sexual acts including sex acts such as masturbation; genital, anal, ... read more ...
 
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Nominet: .uk-TLD ohne Präfixe für alle verfügbar - Die Organisation Nominet betreibt und verwaltet die Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .uk für Webseiten aus dem Vereinigten Königreich. Bisher konnten Webseiten aber nicht direkt mit dieser TLD registriert werden. Vielmehr waren unterschiedliche Präfixe als Second-Level-Domains verpflichtend, etwa ac.uk oder co.uk. Diese Einschränkung hebt Nominet ab sofort auf. Der Schauspieler und als Early-Adopter und Technik-Kommentator bekannte Stephen Fry ist mit seiner Webseite bereits umgezogen. Diese soll laut ... read more ...
 
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When Will Your gTLD Investments Be Profitable? - My personal and business opinion is that if I were to buy new gTLD domain names, my investment would be long term rather than the short term investments I prefer to make on behalf of my company. I’ve heard mixed opinions from other people who are buying new gTLD domain names, and I want to hear your opinion on when new gTLD domain investments will be profitable. To clarify this a bit more, I will give you an example of what I mean when I mention profitability. Let’s say you decide to ... read more ...
 
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Nominet launches ‘shorter, sharper’ .uk domain - WEB REGISTRAR Nominet kicked off the .uk generic top-level domain (TLD) for UK individuals and businesses on Tuesday. The launch of the .uk TLD brings the UK in line with other countries that already have a "shorter, sharper" TLD domain, such as Germany and France, which have .de and .fr, respectively. Nominet said that upwards of 10 million existing domain name holders will be given first dibs on the shorter TLD, and have five years to choose whether ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3675 Registrations; .Trade 3235; .Bid … - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018 - Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s population), up from 2.5 billion in 2013 By 2018, there will be 21 billion networked devices and connections globally, up from 12 billion in 2013 Globally, the average fixed broadband connection speed will increase 2.6-fold, from 16 Mbps in 2013 to 42 Mbps by 2018 Globally, ... read more ...
 
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Dot-UK launch: why do we need new domain names? - In theory, this is an opportunity for brands to tailor their online presence to specific audiences. By registering addresses with suffixes such as .radio, .blog and .hotel, for example, companies will not only make their websites more memorable, but will also be immediately identifiable to both customers and competitors. The launch of new location-based domains also allows organisations in those regions to establish a sense of local identity. According to research conducted ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629 - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions - Minds + Machines Group, the company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, (LON:MMX) released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD strings it applied for. During 2013 M+M participated in six private auctions in which it netted £4.1m, in addition to picking up two more new gTLD Strings .fishing and .casa CEO Antony Van Couvering ... read more ...
 
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Norwegians say yes to ‘.no’ -

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Owner of x.uk expects a brief web residence to fetch a record £10m - The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first  Brit to make the switch to .UK and the second story out this morning is about X.UK and a possible 10 Million GBP sale. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to switch to a .UK domain From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes available for the first time. The presenter is making the change from .com to a .uk address, after having expressed ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines bidding to grow - One-off gains saw Internet domains seller Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) move into the black in 2013. The company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, made a profit of £4.12mln from losing one more generic top level domain (gTLD) auction than it won in 2013; under the domain name auction system, the winning bid is divided among the losing contestants. The net gain from gTLD auctions pushed the company into the black, with a profit before tax of £729,000 versus a loss of £3.06mln the year ... read more ...