Monthly Archives: July 2014

Thu 31st July 2014
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ICANN fights legal bid to seize top level country domains - Syria, Iran and North Korea domains targeted. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has applied in a United States federal court to set aside civil judgments that direct it to seize the top-level domains of Iran, Syria and North Korea, ... read more ...
 
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Internet’s Organizing Body: Nobody Actually Owns Country Codes, Not Even … - (frankieleon)Does anyone actually own the internet? That might be the existential crisis of our age. We know companies own and operate websites, that other companies own the software that let us look at those sites, and that still other companies own and operate the physical infrastructure that allows us access to those sites. And when we stop to think about it, we know that there are registrars and regulations and standards in place that make specific parts of web addresses — the bits after the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Halbjahres-Domainreport 2014: 24 Prozent aller weltweit gehandelten Top … - Insgesamt wurden in den vergangenen sechs Monaten Internetadressen mit 161 unterschiedlichen Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) gehandelt. Mit der Einführung von bisher über 300 neuen Endungen wie beispielsweise ".bio", ".club". oder ".ruhr", beträgt der Anteil dieser TLDs auf dem Domainhandelsplatz 24 Prozent am Gesamtvolumen. Den bisher höchsten Preis bei einem öffentlichen Verkauf von Domains unter den neuen TLDs erlöste die Adresse "eat.club" mit 20.000 US-Dollar. Bei einem nicht öffentlichen Verkauf ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Top-Level-Domains kann man nicht beschlagnahmen - Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) informiert in einer Pressemeldung über ihre Argumentation in einem Gerichtsverfahren. Terrorismusopfer fordern demnach im Rahmen eines Prozesses, die Länderdomains des Iran, Syriens und Nordkoreas zu beschlagnahmen, da diese Länder Terrorismus unterstützten. Die ICANN erklärte dem zuständigen US-Bundesbezirksgericht für den District of Columbia, die Domains .ir für Iran, .sy für Syrien und .kp für Nordkorea seien “Teil ... read more ...
 
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New ‘dot brand’ domains to increase customer loyalty - Written by Roland LaPlante, CMO of Affilias   Over the coming year, the Internet will experience its biggest makeover ever. More than 1,000 new top-level domains (TLDs) will join “heritage” domains such as .COM, .INFO, and .ORG. These new TLDs, covering brands, geography and generic concepts — like .DELMONTE, .VEGAS and .YACHTS — are designed to increase innovation on the Web. They will also open up massive opportunities for brands and retailers who want to make it easier and ... read more ...
 
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The wild west of gTLDs and trademarks - Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are a new and soon-to-be-huge feature of the internet. New websites using a wide variety of newly created domain names will soon be springing up like weeds. Owners of brands and trademarks need to be aware of the threats, and of their options and the tools that are available to protect their intellectual property on the web. This huge expansion of internet real estate also brings a new wave of speculators and cybersquatters. New gTLDs open up a ... read more ...
 
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Icann: Länderdomains sind kein Eigentum - Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) hat der Beschlagnahme von Länderdomains widersprochen. In den USA hatten Kläger vor Gericht erreicht, dass die Länderdomains - sogenannte Country Code Top-Level Domains oder ccTLDs - von Syrien (.sy), Iran (.ir) und Nordkorea (.kp) beschlagnahmt werden sollten. Solche Domains seien kein Eigentum, erklärte die Icann. Sie gehörten nicht den Ländern, denen sie zugewiesen worden seien und könnten somit auch nicht beschlagnahmt werden. Sollte ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Publishes 2014 First Half Domain Market Study: 35.9 Million In Sales - Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions worth a total of $35.9 million in sales. Domain values increased year-over-year, with the mean average sales price up 17 percent to $2,214 and the median price rising 7% to $616. The ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Publishes 2014 First Half Domain Market Study: 35.9 Million In Sales - Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions worth a total of $35.9 million in sales. Domain values increased year-over-year, with the mean average sales price up 17 percent to $2,214 and the median price rising 7% to $616. The ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Names: A New Frontier - First, think back to October 2013—the federal government had just experienced a 16-day shutdown and the internet only had 22 generic Top-Level Domains ("gTLDs").  Of these 22 gTLDs, there were less than a handful of gTLDs which were unrestricted and available for use for any purpose: namely, .COM, .NET, .ORG and .INFO.  Each of these gTLDs was managed by a domain name registrar who maintained a registry of all of the domain names and who collected periodic fees for each domain name registration. Because ... read more ...
 
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.COM Domains Remain Strong as New gTLDs Command Significant Market … - Since the new gTLDs started to become available in January, Sedo reports that the highest public sale of a new gTLD domain on its marketplace was eat.club, which sold for $20,000. Despite the excitement around new gTLDs, .com still remains the most popular TLD on its marketplace, accounting for more than half (55 percent) of all sales. Sedo released its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study on Thursday, which looks at the trends in its marketplace. During the first half of 2014, Sedo was behind ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Raises Positive Guidance After Expected 2Q Results With Substantial … - Sluggish domain name registration business growth of VeriSign (VRSN, Market Perform) and impacts of new gTLDs on core registry business remained doubtful, drives us to downgrade VeriSign to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ rating with price target of $50. However we see multiple strengths of VeriSign including revenue growth, profit margins expansion, growth in stock price, net income growth and remarkable earnings per share growth. Irrespective of Verisign missed second quarter revenue ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Halbjahres-Domainreport 2014: 24 Prozent aller weltweit gehandelten Top … - Die Sedo GmbH, Betreiber der weltweit größten Online-Handelsplattform für Premium Domains, veröffentlicht heute ihren Domainreport für das erste Halbjahr 2014. Im Zeitraum Januar bis Juli 2014 wurden auf der Plattform Sedo.com insgesamt 16.216 Transaktionen im Gegenwert von rund 35,9 Mio. US-Dollar durchgeführt. Der Durchschnittspreis für alle Verkäufe lag bei 2.214 US-Dollar (2013: 1.893 US-Dollar) und der Median-Preis bei 616 US-Dollar (2013: 577 US-Dollar). Dies entspricht einem Anstieg ... read more ...
 
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ICANN can’t hand over Iran’s internet, bomb victims told - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar It's not possible to hand over Iran's internet because it doesn't own it, a Washington DC court has been told in a mind-boggling submission to terrorism victims.Lawyers for nine US citizens injured in an Iran-financed bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 have turned to the internet in an effort to recoup millions of dollars awarded to them against the government of Iran more than a decade ago. ... read more ...
 
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1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2262; .University 1340; .Toys 1320 … - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...
 
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1st Day Totals For New gTLD’s: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340; .Toys 1,320; .Town 590 - Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive: .Reisen 2,262; .University 1,340 .Toys 1,320 .Town 590 Reisen is the German word for Travel. There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with ... read more ...
 
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Vergabe der neuen Top-Level-Domain – Köln auf den Punkt gebracht - Köln.  Die Auffindbarkeit im Internet gilt heute als wichtiges Qualitätskriterium für einen gelungenen Online-Auftritt. Was für Unternehmen selbstverständlich sein sollte, gilt längst auch für öffentliche Institutionen, Vereine oder den ambitionierten Privatmann. Damit sie künftig ihre regionale Verbundenheit zum Ausdruck bringen und besser für ihre Zwecke vermarkten können, forciert die Stadt über Netcologne und den Verein Köln plus Partner daher seit Monaten ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com starts charity domain name registration - Et tu, Amazon? Amazon.com is now offering domain name registration in conjunction with its web services. This move is not similar to Google’s recent foray into the retail registration market. Instead, it’s similar to what Google did many years ago — offer domain name registration through partners. Web services providers understand that domain name registration is a key part of getting online. Making it easier to get and integrate a domain name makes it easier ... read more ...
 
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Web.com misses income target, acquires UK online office company - Web.com’s Q2 revenue numbers don’t hit company’s target. Web.com, which owns Network Solutions, Register.com and SnapNames, released earnings after the bell today. GAAP revenue for the second quarter was $138.2 million. Adjusted revenue was $144.7 million. Although that’s up 10% year-over-year, it’s below the company’s guidance range of $146.0 million to $147.5 million. The company added 38,500 subscribers last quarter. The earnings press release does ... read more ...
 
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Estibot to launch domainIQ for retreat and chronological whois - New service will launch next week. The company behind Estibot is launching a new domain name service called domainIQ next week. domainIQ provides reverse whois (all the domains owned by a person or company), historical whois, and other intelligence about domain names. Many of the features are currently found in DomainTools, and some are also found in the free service Whoisology. domainIQ will certainly compete with these services, depending on what level of detail ... read more ...
 
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Sedo sells $17M of domains in Q2, including a new TLD for $100k - Sedo reports on its domain aftermarket sales so far this year. Sedo released its market report for the first half of 2014 today. The company sold about $17 million worth of domain names in the second quarter, down slightly from $19 million in Q1. In the second quarter is sold 7,453 domains, down from 8,763 in the first quarter. One interesting item of note: Sedo sold a second level domain in a new TLD for $100,000. The name is confidential, but that bests the luxury.estate ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: 775,000 domain names served - Donuts’ domain name registration base keeps growing. They keep stacking up.Donuts sent out a newsletter today that announced it is up to 775,000 domain name registrations. The mega-registry has released 111 top level domain names in general availability, so that’s an average of roughly 7,000 registrations per TLD. Frankly, this shows that the “portfolio” registry business is quite good. Scoff all you want at its TLDs with fewer than 5,000 registrations, ... read more ...
 
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German domain name .Reisen tops Donuts’ launches with 2,262 registrations - Domain buyers go traveling with .Reisen. Donuts launched another four domain names into regularly-priced general availability yesterday. Based on overnight zone files, which don’t include a full day, .Reisen was the most successful launch. .Reisen, German for travel, got 2,262 registrations. That brings its total with sunrise and early access to 2,262. .University and .Toys received about the same number of first day registrations. .University added 1,136 to reach ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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Report: New TLDs Cause Confusion - LOS ANGELES —  As a flood of new top-level domains (TLDs) enters the marketplace, providing websites with the equivalent of vanity license plates, a new report suggests it’s all too confusing for consumers and businesses. Today’s announcement of ICM’s official go-ahead to launch the .SEX TLD punctuates the perceptual problems that the rash of new domains is bringing to the global Internet arena, where hundreds of new TLDs, such as .bike, .club and .today — and yes, .sex — reveal ... read more ...
 
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Owner Of UGN.com Forced to Defend UDRP Against Someone With No Trademark & No Proof - Talk about a waste of money. The owner of the domain name UGN.com just successfully defended a UDRP against UGN, Inc which was represented by Laura Petrolino of Arment Dietrich, Inc., Illinois The owner of the domain has owned it since at least 2001. Complainant had a trademark for the term UGN SOUND SOLUTIONS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY but not for one for UGN. The one member panelist Sandra J. Franklin, made short work of the decision, throwing the case out since the Complainant failed to “submitted ... read more ...