Monthly Archives: July 2014

Wed 9th July 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Problems With GTLD Community Objection Process - Share us on:   Law360, New York (July 09, 2014, 10:28 AM ET) -- If the rollout of many new generic top-level domains since the beginning of 2014 has been smooth on the face of it, the jockeying behind the scenes for ownership of certain strings has been anything but.Of the 1930 applications received, 142 unique strings drew objections and 263 objections were filed. There are four types of objections that can be raised and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... read more ...
 
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Updated: Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 401 - Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com. Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of them were registered by Uniregistry itself. Here are some of the domain name Uniregistry registered: Always.christmas behomefor.christmas Boycott.christmas Camera.christmas Cameras.christmas Cayman.christmas egift.christmas Flyaway.christmas Gift4.christmas Girls.christmas Grandcayman.christmas Offers.christmas Santaclaus.christmas Secretsanta.christmas Skivacations.christmas Stockingstuffers.christmas Many ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Is Willing To Let You Call Them Crooks But It Will Cost You $250 -             The .GOP is apparently willing to let opponents and haters to call it all sorts of unflattering names but only if they pay enough. Unlike the .Democrat  and .Republican registry which is being operated by a for profit public company, Demand Media (DMD), the. GOP extension is being run by an arm of the Republican party itself. According to its website “.GOP is the preferred domain name for all Republicans and conservatives online. As the only web ending run by a political party, ... read more ...
 
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Xbiz.com Asks Google To Reverse Ban On Advertising For Adult Websites -         Alec Helmy President Publisher of the adult industry publication xBiz.com sent a letter to Google yesterday asking the company to reconsider its “recent decision to no longer accept ads from adult oriented websites” We reported a week ago that Google new policy on advertising for explicit adult terms went into effect which Google announced in early June. Mr. Helmy writes: “Not surprisingly, an organization founded on imposing its idea of morality on lawful material has taken credit ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Selects Marrakesh, Morocco As The Site for ICANN 52 To Be Held In Feb 2015 -                 The ICANN Board has selected Marrakesh, Morocco as the site for ICANN 52 to be held February 8th-12th, 2015. In the Preliminary Report of the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board released last night, This meeting will be in the Africa region This is an Organizational Administrative Function that does not require public comment. For more information about Marrakesh you can click here. ICANN 51 is being held in Los Angeles, from October 12th-16th, 2014. ... read more ...
 
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More 2-Character Domain Requested for .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND -                 ICANN has opened up another comment period for 12 more new gTLD which have applied to have the right to allocated 2 charter domain names. The new gTLD string are: .XYZ, .DEALS, .CITY, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND and the IDN XN–FJQ720A. “”To obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators. The proposed Amendments are to implement a new registry service that would permit the ... read more ...
 
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TLD, le tracteur des avions s’envole - L’augmentation du trafic aérien dans les pays émergents offre de belles opportunités de croissance à l’équipementier d’aéroports. Inutile d’appeler Antoine Maguin à 9 heures du matin. Sur la montre du directeur général de TLD Group, leader mondial des tracteurs d’avions, il n’est que 3 heures, l’heure du premier fuseau horaire américain, celui de New-York. « Comme nous avons une organisation internationale, nous nous sommes réparti ... read more ...
 
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July 7: 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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Forbes: Company That Runs Formula 1 Racing Paid $8.5 Million For Formula1.com In 2002 - According to an Article in Forbes Today, the company that runs Formula 1 Racing, Formula One Management (FOM) is going public on the Singapore Stock Exchange and stuck in the 498 page Prospectus it is reveled that the company Paid $8.5 Million dollars for their domain name Formula1.com back in 2002. Its another one of those big money sales that we never heard about. According to the Forbes story the company has $1.6 billion in annual revenue making the $8.5 looks like the literal drop in the bucket. Here ... read more ...
 
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With 565 Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP .Services Appears To Be A Winner - The new gTLD .Services launches tomorrow. Taking into account all Sunrise applications and Early Access Program Registrations, there are 565 domain names registered. We have chatted about the last few weeks that no new gTLD produced any big 1st day registration numbers,  but based on the activity I’m seeing in the Zone file it looks like .Services will be pretty successful. Consider that last weeks total after the 1st day of general availability which also included Sunrise and Early Access/Landrush ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoins.com gives Heritage Auctions a press it has been looking for - HA adds a press-worthy domain name to its July auction. One of the things Heritage Auctions is trying to do with domain name auctions is bring domain investing to the mainstream. By mainstream, I mean collectors and investors in coins, memorabilia and other items HA already auctions. It’s working the press angle, too. Yesterday the company announced it will be auctioning off Bitcoins.com in its July 24 auction. Heritage finally has a domain name the press wants ... read more ...
 
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.XXX sells some-more premiums and offers giveaway domain names by partnership - Sales keep coming in for .xxx in its third year. .XXX continues to sell premium domain names for prices that new TLD operators would love to obtain. The company recently sold three more .xxx domain names, including extreme.xxx, for a total of over $150,000. .XXX registry ICM Registry also announced a partnership with ModelCentro for Models.xxx. ModelCentro runs a hosted system for fan sites. Verified models using the ModelCentro platform are able to register one ... read more ...
 
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Investing in new TLDs? Hope for modest, not great, success of program. - Early investors in new top level domain names might get a better return if new TLDs as a whole are a mediocre success instead of a home run. Domain investors have registered a good chunk (the bulk?) of new TLD offerings to date. Is this a good investment? I’ve thought about the potential returns from a number of angles. There are three scenarios I see: 1. New TLDs are a big failure. They don’t take off and end up being small niche TLDs like many existing sTLDs. 2. ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Club Leads All New gTLD’s Again On Sedo’s List Selling English.Club For $17,500; Total $2.4M - Over the past week, 564 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 Million 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: satoshi.com at 75,000 USD · Top ccTLD: autoankauf.de at 36,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: english.club at 17,500 USD   Here are the reportable sales: SharpMind.com which sold for $25K ... read more ...
 
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.Services, .Deals, .Fail Among 29 New Top-Level Domain Names - The great generic top-level domain (gTLD) name expansion is barrelling forward. New gTLD .services is now available for registration, according to Donuts Inc, the self-described “largest registry for new generic top-level domains.” Though Donuts operates hundreds of gTLDs, including .singles, .cool, .exposed, .fish, .wtf, .fail, .gripe, and .life, alongside several foreign language gTLDs such as .tiajes, the company is especially excited about .services, which will become available to the public ... read more ...
 
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Founder of Mt. Gox To Sell BitCoins.com In HA.com Domain Auction On Jul 24th - The URL Bitcoins.com will hit the auction block on July 24, 2014, as Part of Heritage Auctions’ Domain Names Intellectual Property Auction. The domain name is being sold by Mark Karpeles, the controversial founder of the failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, and is expected to bring more than $750,000. “We are hoping, with the sale of Bitcoins.com, to provide some relief to the people impacted by the Mt. Gox bankruptcy,” said Karpeles, “and will be putting at least half of the sale amount toward ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Rolls Out 29 New Domains In July - Donuts, the domain name registry company which has an office and operations here in Southern California, said today that it is releasing 29 new generic, top-level domains (gTLDs) this month, the latest in a very large number of gTLDs run by the company. Donuts said the 29 new gTLDs will bring its total to 139 under management. Donuts--which has many ties to local domain name companies, as well as many execs from Demand Media--is based in Washington State. The company reports that it has so far ... read more ...
 
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The Internet revolution — new gTLD update - Since our last blog post, the total number of domain name registrations among all new gTLDs has reached 1,414,766. There has been little movement this week on the leader board. The leaders are: Click here to view the table. ICANN has delegated four new gTLDs to the root zone: .active .suzuki .place .direct Protecting the home front It is important to remember that each newly delegated string that is set to launch is potentially one new threat to a trademark owner’s brand ... read more ...
 
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.Christmas & .Blackfriday Just Launched & The Extensions Seem To Be Very Lightly Reserved - Unregistry just launched .Christmas .Blackfriday  and the registry seems to have reserved a very small amount of domains. As usually we hunt and peck around for mostly every new extension either to register or to write about. I was actually surprised to see how few domain names seeemed to be reserved by the registry and I would assume most of those are probably on the ICANN collision list. Of course Merry.Christmas and Santa.Christmas and thenightbefore.christmas are reserved but going through ... read more ...
 
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Co.Com Enters “General Availability” Phase At Noon EST Today! -     According to a Press Release we just received the Co.Com registry will enter the live General Availability (GA) registration phase today, Tuesday, July 8th at 16:00 GMT (12 noon EDT). The .Co.Com registry previously announced it was removing tens of thousands of its premium domain names on their reserved list and allowing Landrush registrations which would presumably carry over to GA (except for those taken in Sunrise and Landrush) Here is the rest of the press release: “As we look ahead ... read more ...
 
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Punto 2012: ‘Landrush’-Phase für Domains .rest und .bar – cafe - Punto 2012: 'Landrush'-Phase für Domains .rest und .bar Noch bis zum 10. Juli haben interessierte Gastronomen Zeit, die neue .rest-Domain für Restaurants und die .bar-Domain für Bars eintragen zu lassen. Bis dahin läuft die sogenannte 'Landrush-Phase' für die neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs). Anbieter der neuen gTLDs ist das Unternehmen Punto 2012 mit Sitz in Mexiko. Es bietet Domaininvestoren, Bars, Nachtclubs ... read more ...
 
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.Co.com exits landrush with thousands of registrations - Third level domain option enters general availability today. .Co.com, a new third level domain name registration, enters general availability today with “single-digit thousands” of registrations already. The registry says that the greatest interest is coming from countries where third level domain names (e.g. something.com.au, something.co.uk and even something.com.co) are already commonplace. Some third level .co.com domain names already get traffic because of ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute - Reserved three letter .link domains won’t be suspended. Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uniform Rapid Suspension case against the domain names DB2.link and AIX.link. North Sound, with the help of attorney John Berryhill, successfully convinced the URS panelist that it registered the domain names as part of a collection ... read more ...
 
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Texas License plates sound a bit like new TLDs - A lot of niche license plates, just like niche domain names, might not make sense in the long run. Apparently not what the Dr. ordered.The Dallas Morning News published a story this past weekend about specialized licensed plates and a lack of sales for niche plates. Like many states, Texas offers specialized plates for supporters of certain causes, alumni of various colleges, etc. Texas is planning to cancel certain plates that have fewer than 200 users. Police are ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
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.GOP Registry/Registrar is Live At Join.GOP & Domains Are $20.16 - I just checked on the .GOP registry and both the registry and registrar are operational. We reported a few hours ago that the .GOP registry and registrar were not operational To register a .GOP domain name visit Join.GOP Domain names are priced at $20.16 Of course there are reserved and restricted domains but there is a form on the site if you are interested on buying one of those. It appears that Join.Gop is the only place that you can register a .GOP domain name, MindsandMachines.com does not ... read more ...