Monthly Archives: June 2014

Thu 5th June 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
A Very Good Week for Applicant Famous Four Media - Multiple new gTLD applicant Famous Four Media is having a very good week. "FFM", the name that they now use for the company to be acknowledged, is getting closer to an important period of its development: the General Availability, also known as "GA", for three of its domain name extension. Added to this, another announcement was made to make it known. Entering General availability is planned for June the 9th FFM has applied for sixty new domain name extensions and, just like all new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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4 Steps To Good Trademark Strategy In A New GTLD World - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Law360, New York (June 05, 2014, 10:20 AM ET) -- On April 26 every year, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day in order to promote discussion of the role of intellectual property in encouraging innovation.One of the hot topics for discussion this year involved the hundreds of new generic top-level domains that are surfacing on the Internet. IP lawyers, brand managers and companies are all asking the same questions:How ... read more ...
 
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My Preorder For Cool.Vegas Just Got A $35,525 Bill & CoolVegas.com Is Priced during $12K - I placed a pre-order for the domain name Cool.Vegas on a landrush basis with 101domain.com a while back. I got word the other day that the domain name was placed on the reserved list of the registry and made a premium domain. So I got a bill for the difference between what I previously paid for the pre-order $234.99 and the new premium price for the domain name of $35,760.00 I have no idea of how the .Vegas registry thinks a domain name like Cool.Vegas should be priced at $35K I reached out to DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
 
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ReturnMoi.com, a Largest Lost & Found Co In The World Switches To Return.Me - According to a press release out this morning by the .Me registry, the largest Lost Found Company in the World has switched their domain name from ReturnMoi.com to Return.Me “ReturnMoi was our original company name.” “Due to our international success and growth we decided this year to change our name to ReturnMe. “After looking at many domain name options and setting up a focus group we decided to get the .ME domain as it was a perfect fit with our new name”, says Suhail Niazi, the CEO ... read more ...
 
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Top Tips for Securing Your Domain Name - The release of more than 1,000 new Top Level Domains (TLD) by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) this year is being hailed as one of the biggest changes to the internet since its inception, resulting in expanded consumer choice and industry competition.Until this new program, web users could only choose from 22 generic top-level domain names such as .com, .org and .biz. New TLDs signify the next major milestone in the expansion of the Internet and a brand’s digital presence. ... read more ...
 
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Ab sofort kann jeder eine neue Wunsch-Internetadresse erwerben – Mittelstand - Stockholm - Schnell sein und Informationen in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stellen sind wichtige Kriterien, um heutzutage im Internet erfolgreich zu sein. Egal ob Nachrichten, Produkt-Angebote oder die neuesten Trends – Aktualität und Schnelligkeit sind entscheidende Faktoren für den Erfolg im Web. Diesem Bedürfnis nach Aktualität und Neuigkeiten trägt auch die neue Top Level Domain (TLD) .JETZT Rechnung. Ab heute kann jeder Interessent eine neue Wunsch-Internetadresse mit ... read more ...
 
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Ntldstats.com Updated Registrant Distribution Feature - Ntldstats.com updated their  “Registrant Breakdown” I thought it would be interesting to see who is the top 25 as we now have been live for just over four months. These guys continue to do a great job and the same goes for Andy at Namestat.org I posted the top 25, click the link above to see the whole list.   ... read more ...
 
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Moniker CEO Bonnie Wittenburg discusses botched transition - Wittenburg discusses what went wrong and what the company is doing to fix it. It’s been a long week for Moniker and its customers. The company transitioned its entire platform over to Key-Systems’ reseller platform over the weekend and it didn’t go as planned. Domains not set to renew were renewed, domains were missing from accounts, pricing was erroneous and other features didn’t work correctly. Moniker took the entire site down for 24 hours starting Tuesday ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte appeals new tip turn domain name lawsuit - Battle over .delmonte continues. Del Monte International is taking a dispute over new top level domain names to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Del Monte International (DMI) applied for the .delmonte domain name. Del Monte Corporation (DMC), which did not apply for .delmonte, filed a Legal Rights Objection against the application and won. (Both companies were once part of the same company, RJR Nabisco.) DMI subsequently filed a lawsuit against DMC to overturn ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling is a biggest registrant of new TLDs - New registrant report reveals who has the most registrations in new top level domain names. nTLDStats.com published a new “Registrant Breakdown” today [see update below]. It shows the top registrants of new top level domain names. Coming in at number one on the list is Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, which registered tens of thousands of names in his own TLDs in order to sell them at higher prices. According to nTLDStats, North Sound Names has registered ... read more ...
 
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Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 tip turn domain name - Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, which roughly translates to “info”. The losing party was Afilias, which operates the .info domain name. This is the first of many planned auctions to resolve contention sets. ICANN published an auction report that includes the ... read more ...
 
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EDR: A demeanour during 150 lapsed domain name auctions from a past week - This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson has close to 150 expired domain name auctions from last week. As always, some of the prices paid are head-scratchers. One thing organizations are good at … is dropping the ball.  Take this week’s top-selling expired domain auction, for instance. MobiLoans.com seems to have purchased MobileLoans.com in December, 2011.  Last April, the domain expired; and now NameJet has sold it for a whopping $30k.  Although ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2014
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.XYZ Moves Into 4th Most Registered New gTLD Topping 38K But 72% Are From NetSol - Ntldstats.com, has updated this morning and .XYZ is now the 4th most popular gTLD with over 38,000 registrations. However over 72% of these, or over 27,500 domains are at Network Solutions (NSI), which as we discussed yesterday and today, offered free .XYZ domains to certain customers on an opt out basis, meaning that many of these customers may not even know they have an .XYZ domain. If we back out the NSI registrations .XYZ still had over 11,000 registrations in its first 24 hours or so more than ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Launches 32 More Top-Level Domain Names in June - Related: Press Release, News BELLEVUE, Wash., June 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues its expansion of the Internet's global addressing system in June by making 16 new gTLDs available to the general public. In addition to the 16 gTLDs slated for general availability, Donuts will open another 16 gTLDs for "Sunrise" availability to trademark holders. Donuts, now eclipsing the six-month mark of its new gTLD general ... read more ...
 
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Strato pone a la venta desde este miércoles el dominio ‘.futbol’ - MADRID, 4 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -    La empresa de 'hosting' Strato ha puesto a la venta desde este miércoles dos de los nuevas terminaciones de dominio que más aceptación van a tener durante los próximos mesesm, '.futbol' y '.tienda.', según informa en un comunicado.    Según datos del Ministerio de Industria, en España existen casi 3,5 millones de dominios registrados, de los que casi el 50% son .es y otro 36% .com. Pero ahora se pueden disponer de nuevos dominios (TLDs), intuitivos ... read more ...
 
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.JETZT geht’s los! - Ab sofort kann jeder eine neue Wunsch-Internetadresse mit der Endung .JETZT erwerben und online durchstarten Stockholm, 4. Juni 2014. Schnell sein und Informationen in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stellen sind wichtige Kriterien, um heutzutage im Internet erfolgreich zu sein. Egal ob Nachrichten, Produkt-Angebote oder die neuesten Trends - Aktualität und Schnelligkeit sind entscheidende Faktoren für den Erfolg im Web. Diesem Bedürfnis nach Aktualität und Neuigkeiten trägt auch die neue Top Level ... read more ...
 
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STRATO pone a la venta los dominios .futbol y .tienda - Madrid, 04 de junio de 2014. STRATO pone a la venta a partir de hoy dos de los nuevas terminaciones de dominio que más aceptación van a tener durante los próximos meses: .futbol y .tienda. Según datos del Ministerio de Industria, en España existen casi 3,5 millones de dominios registrados, de los que casi el 50% son .es y otro 36% .com. Ahora ha llegado la hora de los nuevos dominios (TLDs), intuitivos y fáciles de recordar. Por un lado ayudarán al usuario de Internet a entender y diferenciar ... read more ...
 
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Stockholm – Schnell sein und Informationen in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stellen … – Mittelstand - Stockholm - Schnell sein und Informationen in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stellen sind wichtige Kriterien, um heutzutage im Internet erfolgreich zu sein. Egal ob Nachrichten, Produkt-Angebote oder die neuesten Trends – Aktualität und Schnelligkeit sind entscheidende Faktoren für den Erfolg im Web. Diesem Bedürfnis nach Aktualität und Neuigkeiten trägt auch die neue Top Level Domain (TLD) .JETZT Rechnung. Ab heute kann jeder Interessent eine neue Wunsch-Internetadresse mit ... read more ...
 
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.jetzt geht’s los! / Ab sofort kann jeder eine neue Wunsch-Internetadresse mit der … - Stockholm (ots) - - Querverweis: Bildmaterial wird über obs versandt und ist abrufbar unter http://www.presseportal.de/galerie.htx?type=obs -'); } else { document.write(''); } //-- Schnell sein und Informationen in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stellen sind wichtige Kriterien, um heutzutage im Internet erfolgreich zu sein. Egal ob Nachrichten, Produkt-Angebote oder die neuesten Trends Aktualität und Schnelligkeit sind entscheidende Faktoren für den Erfolg im Web. Diesem Bedürfnis nach ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Has No Idea What we am articulate about – UPDATED WITH PROOF OF EMAIL - So there was a lot of talk about Network Solutions and .XYZ yesterday. We had a comment in one thread which led to Michael doing a follow up post and mentioning that specific comment. The comment was : “I recently got the email from Netsol offering me a complementary .xyz for my so-so .com free for 1 year. and in order to decline such an offer I had to visit a link and click decline, otherwise the domain would be mine automatically.” So I called Web.com who owns Network Solutions and Register.com. ... read more ...
 
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Try Uniregistry’s sharp bulk domain name search - A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords across multiple TLDs and multiple keywords across a single TLD. Type in any keyword and Uniregistry quickly checks its availability against multiple TLDs. You don’t even have to press a button before the results are returned: 6 results ... read more ...
 
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Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for association called HealthKit - This company is based in Australia, not California.Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offering healthcare data services under the company name HealthKit. It also uses the domain HealthKit.com. While the confusion might seems like a huge blessing, it’s also ... read more ...
 
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New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading - Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they announce this. If you look at the top 10 domains by zone files, at least three of them include a lot of free or registry-owned domain names. The biggest example is .xyz. Network Solutions gave away tens of thousands of domains ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought final week - 19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See previous end user lists here.) Compounding.com $25,000 – Pharmacy compounding company Medisca. Quina.org $3,688 – Lottoland in Gibraltar Quina is the name of a lottery in Brazil. RenovatingForProfit.com $4,000 – The ... read more ...
Tue 3rd June 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NameJet.com Reports $555K in Domains Sales Led By Liao.com For $100K -

Namejet.com only reported over $555,000 in domain name auction for a month of May 2014.

Only sales of $2K or some-more are included.

All sales were led by Liao.com that sole for $100,000.

PontoonBoats.com was the purchase.

 

Via: thedomains.com