Monthly Archives: June 2014

Tue 10th June 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
"Shorter, sharper" .uk domain arrives - Gallery By Jane McCallion Posted on 10 Jun 2014 at 10:27 UK domain name registry Nominet is rolling out a new ".uk" top-level domain (TLD) name for UK-based websites. The new "shorter, sharper" .uk url suffix will not replace the commonly seen .co.uk, .org.uk, or .gov.uk domain names. "For most businesses, it is about having more choice," Eleanor ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live MondayJUNE 8, 2014 BY MICHAEL BERKENSFamous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD’s first new gTLD’s are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid.All three new gTLD’s are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars.I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult influence.According to its site, “”Famous Four Media, (FFM) was set up in 2011 by a small group of recognized domain name experts and successful ... read more ...
 
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EnCirca Supporting All New Travel-related Top-Level Domains - 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 • .villas • .voyage • .webcam “Business ... read more ...
 
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.Co.com drops pricing on “Premium” domain names, releases reserved - Company will slash prices on premium domains and offer many reserved domains at regular prices. .Co.com, a new third level domain name option, is dropping prices on premium domain names and has removed tens of thousands of domain names from its reserved names list. The company released a list of the previously reserved domain names that are now available for registration in a blog post. The list includes some metrics, but not the actual traffic the domains receive. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets obvious for “Domain name steal protection” - Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional patent of an application I wrote about in 2008. The earlier patent application hasn’t been granted yet. The majority of the patent is about whois proxy services (e.g. DomainsByProxy) rather than domain theft prevent; It’s a ... read more ...
 
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One Domain Investor obliged for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations - One investor responsible for most initial domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for the bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655 domain names to reach 3,678. Approximately 3,100 of them were registered at registrar Encirca by a single domain name investor. .Trade got 3,197 registrations to reach 3,235. I count nearly 2,400 of them registered ... read more ...
 
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Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games - .Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came to Austin for the first time this past weekend. The young audience is a great target for the .ninja domain name, and .Ninja owner Rightside was there promoting the new name. The company sponsored a laser tag center and had a booth ... read more ...
Mon 9th June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time - The New York Times is reporting that talk of a Go Daddy IPO is  just like their new slogan states, Its Go Time, as it filed it S-1 with the SEC today. According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year but  continues to lose money as it reported a $199.9 million loss for 2013, which is narrower than its $279.1 million loss in 2012. Blake Irving appears to have a ... read more ...
 
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Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud - Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud.  PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the display URL of their own advertisement. From the article: When you first hear about PPC fraud rings, you tend to think of click fraud where an automated system, not a real person, is generating fake clicks on an advertiser’s ad. However, PPC impersonation ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Community Objection Standing Analysis - The notion of community has been debated since the inception of the ICANN New gTLD Program. However, as far as we know no one has yet taken a holistic approach to analyzing the wealth of information generated by the experts who participated in the ICANN New gTLD community objection process. As a community applicant for .eco on behalf of the environmental community, Big Room Inc. has a keen interest in understanding how independent experts are interpreting the ICANN notion of community. The ... read more ...
 
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for … - I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don’t get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with Build, not end with Build so selfconfidence.build doesn’t make that much sense as the proper term using in ... read more ...
 
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid - I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don’t get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with Build, not end with Build so selfconfidence.build doesn’t make that much sense as the proper term using in ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com - As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names. As usual we do not point out typo’s but mostly domain names that seem to be right in the wheel house of a trademark holders. Trademark holders have been complaining (and rightly so) about the cost of defensive registrations when it comes to new gTLD’s but these domains are all .com and many have traffic. All of these domains were ... read more ...
 
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gTLD registrations soar, but many brands are falling behind - The number of new gTLD registrations has broken the million mark, with ‘xyz’ supplanting ‘.club’ as the most popular string. While online discussion centres on just how it achieved this feat, an equally interesting question is how much of the demand has come from big brands. At the end of May, World Trademark Review reported that, with heavyweight endorser 50 Cent throwing his weight behind the string, ‘.club’ had shot to the top of the gTLD registrations table. Over the past ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam - In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were ” for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry” including Tube.Webcam; Asian.Webcam MILF.Webcam With this sale Famous Four has basically made back the money it spent acquiring the extension. Andy Churley, Chief Marketing Officer at Famous Four Media is quoted as saying, “We are delighted ... read more ...
 
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Neue Endungen verändern das Netz - Zukünftig werden die kuriosesten Endungen bei Internetadressen möglich sein. Die Auswahl an verfügbaren Internetadressen nimmt stetig ab. Aber das soll sich jetzt ändern. Die Einführung der neuen Top-Level-Domains bietet eine bis dato unbekannte Vielfalt an individuellen Kombinationsmöglichkeiten bei der Namensgebung einer Internet-Adresse. So ist es beispielsweise möglich, dass sich Experten unter anderem die Endung .guru statt .de geben können. Die Auswahl an verfügbaren ... read more ...
 
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8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing - GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It breaks down like this: $672M from domains (and add-ons like privacy), $381M from hosting and $77M from business apps. Oh, and 24% of the revenue comes from its Customer Service reps selling to customers. 3. Its GAAP loss was $199.9M ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy files to go open (again) - GoDaddy says “It’s Go Time” for IPO. GoDaddy has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will be the company’s second attempt at an initial public offering. It originally filed to go public in 2006, but later shelved its plans. The company found another way to exit in 2011 when it found an investor in KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. Parsons remained the individual single shareholder in the company after the investment. ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media spinoff Rightside to list on NASDAQ as “NAME”, scores some-more TLDs - NAME is coming soon to the NASDAQ. Demand Media moved one step closer to spinning off its Rightside domain name business today with the filing of an amended registration statement. The company plans to issue new shares for the spinoff that will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker NAME. The SEC filing does not say how many shares of Rightside will be issued for each share of Demand Media stock. Demand Media plans a reverse stock split before the spin off. Rightside ... read more ...
 
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Which new TLD is on top? Here’s one answer. - Search data shows that .directory is winning in terms of total indexed pages. No, this article isn’t about whether .xyz or .club should be considered the most registered new domain name so far. Instead, it’s a different look at how to measure the most successful new top level domain names. Matt Bentley, who you may recall from back in the day at Sedo, now runs a search engine optimization service called CanIRank. He collated some data on how many unique URLs on ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: Famous Four, Donuts…and .UK? - At least seven new TLDs hit the market this week, and expect a lot of press around second level .uk domain names. Famous Four Media finally gets into the mix this week as it launches its first three top level domain names: .webcam, .trade and .bid. All hit the market today. It already made news this morning with the sale of 15 .webcam domains for a total of $175,000. According to the Calzone.org calendar, .商城 also begins its claims period today. However, the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Sex.sells: 15 .Webcam domains sell for $175k - .Webcam hits premium gold with large sale ahead of launch. Famous Four Media launches its first three top level domain names today, and one of them is off to a nice start thanks to a big premium sale. The company announced today that it has sold a package of 15 adult .webcam domain names for a total of $175,000. While some new TLDs have failed to find their footing with premium domain sales, it seems that the adult community is very interested. Famous Four Media probably ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Microsoft and others bought - Microsoft headlines last week’s Sedo end user sales list. Microsoft is the biggest name on last week’s Sedo end user sales list, but a flower delivery company bought the most expensive (disclosed) domain name. There’s also a .berlin domain name on the list. Below are end user sales I found on the list Sedo sent last week; see previous end user sales here. Bouq.com $40,000 – Flower site The Bouqs. Bouq is short for Bouquet. They have a video that explains ... read more ...
Sun 8th June 2014
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GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...