Monthly Archives: June 2014

Tue 17th June 2014
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Godaddy Auction Of Premium .Futbol, .Ninja & .Reviews Domains Closes Tomorrow; App.Reviews Over $1K - The Godaddy auction of premium . Futbol, .Ninja and .Reviews domain names closes tomorrow Wednesday June 18th at 5pm PST and several domain names already have multiple bidders Leading domain names in the auction is App.Reviews which has 7 bidders and as of publication has a high bid of $1,050. A single letter domain that will carry a normal renewal price e.ninja has a high bid of $520 Hosting.Reviews has 5 bidders and a high bid of $540 Cloud.Ninja has a high bid of $511 Live.Ninja has an opening ... read more ...
 
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Shares Of Minds + Machines Sink On News Of Its Expensive .Fashion Auction Win - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced overnight that it acquired the new gTLD .Fashion at a price that exceed almost all the money it received from losing the new gTLD applications for .cricket, .pizza, .restaurant, .coupon and .immo. In essesence according to the company it gave up rights to 5 new gTLD strings for .Fashion and £250,000. Shares of Mind + Machines sank today in trading over 7.5% down to 10.75P in trading today Fred Krueger, Chairman of Minds + Machines, commented: “We ... read more ...
 
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UDRP’s Filed On Verb.com, QIQ.com and AmericanForce.com - Two UDRP’s were just filed against two very good domain names. Moroccanoil Israel Ltd. Verb Hair Products Canada Inc./Verb Products Inc. filed the UDRP against Verb.com Verb.com has been owned since at lease 2002 by a Richard Bloxham. According to Screenshots.com the domain name Verb.com has been parked since at least August 2005. The parked page that I see currently and the one’s viewable on Screenshots appear to only contain links to language  and nothing about hair products. Looks like an ... read more ...
 
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Funny: UDRP Panel Rejects Developer of iFunny.Mobi’s Attempt To Grab iFunny.com - A three member UDRP panel has denied the attempt of Okruzhnost LLC of Penza, Russian Federation, attempt to grab the domain name ifunny.com owned by Six Media Ltd. of Hong Kong, represented by Esquire.com Here are the facts and findings from the three member panel, which consisted of Gabriela Kennedy, Nicholas Weston and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C.: The Complainant is a software company that develops mobile applications and websites. The Complainant launched a website ifunny.mobi and mobile application ... read more ...
 
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Two minute guide to generic top level domains - The liberalisation of the Internet domain name system is well under way, so now might be a good time to revisit what it is all about and how companies can make money from the whole process. For many years the number of generic top level domains (or gTLDs) – the bit in the web address that comes after the final dot – was limited, which was fine, except the names were a bit … well … generic. Let me demonstrate how this can be a problem. I am a Spurs fan (that's not the problem, by the way). If ... read more ...
 
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El proceso de liberalización de los dominios de Internet - Han transcurrido más de 25 años desde que se crearon los primeros nombres de dominio en internet. A partir de entonces,  “Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers” (en adelante, el “ICCAN”) es el organismo responsable de la asignación de las extensiones de dominio de internet y de su funcionamiento estable y seguro.Posteriormente, en el año 2008, el ICCAN, impulsado por el crecimiento exponencial del uso de internet y por las limitaciones existentes para obtener un nombre ... read more ...
 
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Neue Domains und ihr Einfluss auf SEO - Jun 17 2014 • Internet • Keine KommentareDas Internet ist groß, sehr groß – aber wohl nicht groß genug. Aus diesem Grund hat die ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, die oberste Instanz, wenn es um die Vergabe von einmaligen Namen und Adressen im World Wide Web geht, reagiert. Neue Domains, wie zum Beispiel .shop, .web, .gmbh und .berlin sorgen seit Februar diesen Jahres für neuen Platz in der (Internet-) Welt. Doch ist ein guter Domainname gleichbedeutend mit einer ... read more ...
 
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New Internet Domain ".moe" for Anime Lovers, Cosplayers and Hobbyists … – ITAR - TOKYO, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlink Co., Ltd., a new Domain Registry Operator, announced on June 17 that it will open the Internet's most unique Top Level Domain (TLD)(1), ".moe", to the public starting Tuesday June 17th. The word "moe" (means a special affinity to fictional characters, people, animals, etc.; pronounced as "moh-ay") is rooted deep in the Japanese Otaku (geek) culture. ".moe" is a New Top Level Domain (TLD) designed to serve as a new online ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic to Acquire Internet.BS In A Deal Worth Up to $7.5 Million - CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic said it will pay $5.2 million when the deal closes, with $2.7 million due in cash and $2.5 million to be paid in the form of 2.1 million new CentralNic shares. An additional $1.8 million payment is deferred. It is to be paid over 12 months and can be adjusted higher or lower depending on the acquisition’s performance. The maximum amount that can be paid is $2.3 ... read more ...
 
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Free Domains Anyone? .Berlin Adds 70K Domains & Tops 116K; .XYZ Adds 27K & Tops 145K - A huge day in the new gTLD program as .Berlin in its first day of offering free domain names,  added some 70,000 domain names, more domains than were registered in the extension in the three months since .Berlin was launched. .Berlin passed .Club to become the 2nd most registered new domain extension (new gTLD). .Berlin which had been hanging around 48,000 registrations for weeks, shot up to 116,638 registered domains .Berlin launched around March 19 and got some 32,000 registrations in its first ... read more ...
 
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Rightside releases Premium Domains during reg price for .Pub - Thousands of domains that would normally carry a premium are being offered at registration fee. Rightside, backer of an increasingly large pool of new TLDs, is trying something different with its upcoming launch of .Pub. The company’s previous new TLD launches have included reserved domains (called Platinum) and premium domains. The premium domains were sold through registrars but at higher prices that most domains. For .Pub, which just entered landrush, Rightside ... read more ...
 
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.Bid/.Trade domain name auction closes with no sales - Auction attracts bidders, but none are willing to pay the reserve prices. A domain name auction on Sedo for registry-reserved .bid and .trade domain names has closed with no sales. The auction included 35 domain names, 10 of which received bids. The top auction was PPC.bid at $1,050, which was below its stated reserve of between $1,000 and $5,000. The nine other domains that received bids all closed below $1,000 but had reserves above $1,000. Personally, I’m a ... read more ...
 
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Over 2,200 purebred for 50th ICANN assembly in London subsequent week - Over 2,200 people have registered for next week’s ICANN meeting. Next week’s ICANN meeting in London is sure to be big. And not just because it’s the big 5-0. The 50th ICANN meeting, which officially kicks off on Sunday, June 22, already has 2,200 registered attendees. I’m one of those 2,200. I haven’t been to an ICANN meeting in a while, and here’s why I picked this next one to attend: 1. It’s in London. It’s a world city that’s easy to get to from ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ 1-ups .Berlin in giveaway domain giveaways - .Berlin more than doubles it registrations overnight. .XYZ calls. Starting yesterday, certain registrars started offering free .Berlin domain names to customers in a promotion that will run through the end of the work week. I posed the question if this promotion would enable .Berlin to overtake .xyz at the top of the top level domain charts. After one day it would seem the answer could be yes. But I forgot to consider another factor: .xyz could rev up its own free ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion tip turn domain name - Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this stunning fact: after considering its payoffs from losing .cricket, .pizza, .restaurant, .coupon and immo and its payment for .fashion, plus the refunds it received in withdrawn applications, it netted just £250,000 in ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Kurds want a country code top-level domain - BasNews (Germany):   Kurdish organizations have sent a request to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an attempt to obtain an ccTLD for the Kurdistan Region. Every country has its own code: (.DE) for Germany, (.SE) for Sweden, (.IR) for Iran, etc. However, this code is not unique to countries, and can also be used by stateless nations, like Iraqi Kurdistan. Other unrecognized people including the Catalans, Basques, Bretons and Székelys, have also requested a ... read more ...
 
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Namejet & RightOfTheDot Team Up For .Global Auction Event During ICANN London - Namejet.com just announced it has teamed up with RightoftheDot.com to hold a Online/Live auction during the ICANN London Conference for over 90 premium .Global domain names We will have more on this in the next few days leading up to the auction but basically Namejet.com is going to handle the pre-bidding on the domains before the live auction, which will be held in London during the ICANN conference. Since Namejet.com has not sent this out its customers I wanted to post it here. As a matter of disclosure ... read more ...
 
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14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology - The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”. The domain name current seems to be directing into an advertising program as opposed to going to a site or a PPC or landing page. The domain was until December of 2013 according to screenshots.com parked for many years. The complainant of  the UDRP is not listed. There ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Website “The First True Alternative To .Com”” Announces Launch Timeline -   Radix the registry operator of .Website just announced the timeline for the release of the new gTLD extension which they are calling “The first true alternative to .com” Here is the some of the Press release: “Website will become the first all-purpose domain extension available for registration when it launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. Radix, .website’s registry and the largest new gTLD registry based in Asia, released a complete launch timeline for .website today, outlining a Landrush ... read more ...
 
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.Bid/.Trade Auction Ends On Sedo Tomorrow & 8 Domains Have Bids Led By PPC.bid - Sedo’s auction of Premium .Bid and .Trade domain names ends tomorrow Tuesday at Noon EST. As of publication 8 domains out of the 35 in auction have bids. The auction is led by PPC.bid which has a high bid $1,050 while both LiveAuction.bid and onlineauction.com have bids of $800 All of the domain names have a reserve range of $1,000-$5,000 and none of the domains have reached reserve as of publication. Here is the entire list:   ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Retrospective at ICANN 50 - On Wednesday June 25th from 10-12am in the Sovereign Room applicants and key community members will debate what worked, what didn't and what's next for new gTLDs. The event has been organized by the RySG NTAG as the first community led dialogue on the 2012 new gTLD round since 'reveal day' two years ago. Rather than have panelists deliver presentations, the session will be an open dialogue both between panel members and the audience. It is split into two fifty minute discussion sessions. The ... read more ...
 
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Mrs. Jello Loses UDRP On Milly.com After Rejecting Offer To Sell & Not Filing An Answer - Milly LLC of New York, New York, just won control of the domain name Milly.com in a UDRP which was owned by Mrs. Jello, LLC which of course the company owned by the late Igal Lichtman. Sadly no one responded to the UDRP on behalf of Mrs. Jello, LLC, although someone apparently rejected an offer presented sometime this year by the Complaintant and changed the parked page from adult links to links to the Complainant Milly LLC has been using the domain name MillyNy.com for its website since 2001 Here ... read more ...
 
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Auto.Ru Bought By Russian Search Engine Yandex For $175 Million - According to TechCrunch.com, Yandex, the search engine often called the Google of Russia, announced they are buying Auto.ru, for $175 million in cash. Auto.Ru is a site not just a domain name. Auto.ru has been around since 1996 and currently has some 400,000 unique listings for cars for sale. “Auto.ru is the most popular automobile-related website in Russia and operates the largest and most detailed classifieds catalogue for new and used cars in Russia,” said Alexey Tretyakov, VP of Commerce ... read more ...
 
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This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS - Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carries a potential “penalty” in the form of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) a URS carries no similar “penalty” In this case the URS involved a three letter generic new gTLD domain. The domain name Bas.Graphics was registered by QA Graphics of ... read more ...
 
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Domain-Boom für Restaurants und Bars startet mit der Freigabe von .rest- und … - Seit dem 11. Juni können sich Restaurants und Bars während der "Landrush-Phase" die neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs) .rest (Punkt-rest) und .bar (Punkt-bar) sichern. Das Unternehmen Punto 2012, mit Sitz in Mexiko, steckt hinter diesen neuen gTLDs.  Es bietet Domaininvestoren, frühen Antragsstellern, Bars, Nachtclubs und Restaurants die einmalige Möglichkeit, sich im Zeitalter des Internets attraktive, erstklassige und begehrte Domainnamen zu reservieren , wie beispielsweise ... read more ...