Monthly Archives: July 2014

Sun 27th July 2014
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Tech Radar: “The new domain name system is causing problems for brands” - Tech Radar published an article todayon new gtlds and the problems brands are already having with protecting their brand. The article references a study from Brad Newberg at Reed Smith, the sample study took a look at 20 brands in the bicycle industry and how fast some of their names were taken by those not affiliated with the company. Canyon.bike is referenced as to being regged, “seven seconds after it became publicly available”. The article goes on to tell brand owners to be more proactive ... read more ...
 
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Tech Radar: “The new domain name complement is causing problems for brands” - Tech Radar published an article todayon new gtlds and the problems brands are already having with protecting their brand. The article references a study from Brad Newberg at Reed Smith, the sample study took a look at 20 brands in the bicycle industry and how fast some of their names were taken by those not affiliated with the company. Canyon.bike is referenced as to being regged, “seven seconds after it became publicly available”. The article goes on to tell brand owners to be more proactive ... read more ...
 
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Actress Blake Lively Launches New Lifestyle Brand on a .US - Actress Blake Lively launched her new lifestyle website on a .US rather than say going the Blake.Luxury route or Lively.social. The Gossip Girl star is going with the name Preserve.Us. The Huffington Post covered the launch and the feedback from all over the Twitterverse, Blake Lively’s new lifestyle brand Preserve launched this week and it’s fair to say that the Internet felt every emotion possible about the star’s new venture. On Tuesday, the actress and style icon debuted her lifestyle-driven ... read more ...
 
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WEB – .Email, .Club, .Academy: e tu, di che dominio sei? Ecco quali … - 11 Internet, il principale provider di web hosting a livello mondiale, rivela quali sono i domini di primo livello (TLD, ovvero le estensioni che compongono l’ultima parte dell’indirizzo di un sito) più richiesti dagli italiani. In vetta alla classifica c’è .email, seguito da .club e .academy, a dimostrare un desiderio costante di comunicare, divertirsi e di non smettere mai di imparare. Analizzando la classifica dei 20 domini maggiormente richiesti emerge la passione degli italiani ... read more ...
Sat 26th July 2014
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e-Commerce might be a sizzle, though section and trebuchet stays a steak - e-Commerce is certainly one of the largest trends to affect business and culture over the past 25 years. In 2013 Amazon did $74.45 billion in revenue, but when compared to Walmart that number looks small. The Arkansas based retailer is close to half a trillion in sales. Find more statistics at Statista Barbara Thau wrote an article on Forbes that broke down a recent shopping preference study. The study conducted by A.T. Kearney, showed that people prefer brick and mortar shopping hands down. The ... read more ...
 
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Best of TechRadar Pro: Tech politics, a braver Microsoft, ICANN’s TLDs and … - Why tech is on the verge of changing the political process foreverIt's a bleak time to be young. The 30-something-and-below generation is facing huge debts, long hours, low pay and an ever-disappearing retirement age.The cost of higher education in 2014 would've been enough to buy a three bedroom house 30 years ago. When a graduate enters the workforce, they can either look forward to being used as a political football, or a punching bag when one of the three main parties' PR machines needs "tough ... read more ...
 
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Exclusive – Interview with a Buyer of Digital.com, Richard Kershaw - Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyer’s premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Richard a few questions about what he does, why he purchased the name and how high he would have bid if there was a bidding war ? TheDomains.com: What business are you in? Richard: I own two internet businesses, both based in London: #1. Wish.co.uk, ... read more ...
 
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Roundup: this week in a Domain Name Business - It was another exciting week in the domain name industry. Here’s a look back. Domain Registry of America may finally get cut off from ICANN. The notorious company that sends misleading domain renewal notices to domain owners has been suspended by ICANN and a full termination may be coming. Sedo is planning a big new TLD booth at September’s DMEXCO conference in Germany. Interested new TLD companies are invited to reach out to the company about participating. Amazon ... read more ...
Fri 25th July 2014
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It’s All About Branding - Domaining 6.0 So here we are in 2012 and things have changed again. Google algorithms change like the wind leaving SEO guys trying to figure out how to game the system keyword rich domains are selling but at a much lower rate and non-.com’s at a much lower prices. Sales are brisk but the average prices have come down. Look at the DnJournal.com year to date sales chart. I mean really go check it out now and come back. I’ll wait. So we are half way through the year and you will see just one domain ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Issues 350K Shares To Employee during 9P Stock trade At 11.50P - According to a regulatory filing, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that it has issued 350,000 new Ordinary Shares following exercise by an employee of 350,000 share options at an exercise price of 9p per share. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares and application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM which is expected to occur on or ... read more ...
 
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.Broadway Resolved as 2 of 3 Apps are Withdrawn - Another new gTLD string has apparently been resolved, .Broadway The surviving applicant is Celebrate Broadway, Inc which is a Minds + Machines backed applicant. Those withdrawing their applications are broadwayacrossamerica.com and Donuts. We do not have any information regarding how the contention set was settle or what the terms were. We only know there were three applications for .Broadway and now there is one. Congrats ... read more ...
 
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Groei nieuwe domeinextensies zet gestaag door - Maassluis, 25 Juli 2014 /EZPress/ - Sinds de uitgave van de eerste nieuwe domeinnamen (new gTLD’s) zet de groei nog gestaag door. In Nederland worden er per maand ruim 4000 nieuwe domeinen met één van de nieuw uitgekomen extensies geregistreerd. Nederland staat hiermee wereldwijd op de 9e plaats. Stabiele groei Waar de verwachtingen voor het uitkomen van de nieuwe extensies uiteen liepen is nu op te maken dat het aantal geregistreerde domeinen stabiel groeit. Sinds ... read more ...
 
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Is The US Lagging Behind China in Domain Savvy ? - Kathy Nielsen did an article for Wired that took a look at the U.S. lagging behind China when it comes to gTLD awareness. From the article: The IDN movement is significant in China, which has 21.97% of the world’s Internet users, compared to just 9.58% of the world’s Internet users coming from the U.S. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last year, Fadi Chehade, CEO of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s governing body, predicted that ... read more ...
 
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Is The U.S. Lagging Behind China in Domain Savvy ? - Kathy Nielsen did an article for Wired that took a look at the U.S. lagging behind China when it comes to gTLD awareness. From the article: The IDN movement is significant in China, which has 21.97% of the world’s Internet users, compared to just 9.58% of the world’s Internet users coming from the U.S. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last year, Fadi Chehade, CEO of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s governing body, predicted that ... read more ...
 
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Verisign batch jumps after gain report - Stock investors still think .com is king. Verisign reported earnings yesterday and shares in the company are up 12% in trading so far today. Why the jump in share price after a dismal quarter for net domain name adds? Well, Citigroup upgraded the company from sell to neutral today saying “fundamentals have likely bottomed”. Financials apparently exceeded most expectations. Verisign had just 0.42 million net adds in .com and .net last quarter. It expects Q3 net ... read more ...
 
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Paula Deen spends $27,900 on domain name for new try (end user sales) - Celebrity chef among end users who bought domain names last week. Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who experienced a spectacular fall from grace last year over her prior use of racial slurs, is making a comeback with Paul Deen Ventures. She’s launching a subscription service called Paula Deen Network (PDN). She just made a smart move by buying the domain name PDN.com for $27,900, which is a heck of a deal. That was just one of many end user domain name purchases at Sedo ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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Verisign Goes Rogue: New gTLD’s: “Registration Numbers on Par With .Co” & .Net is Like One - During ts earnings call today Verisign (VRSN) brushed away the new gTLD’s saying “Gross registrations for new gTLD’s are at 1.6 million which puts them on Par with .Co” Ouch Verisign’s Representative went further to say that no one should build a conclusion on the new gTLD program until we go through a re-billing cycle (which we happen to Agree with) “I think what you saw in the second quarter is a lot of confusion in domains including new gTLD’s in both the singular and plural of the ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 128.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains; 57.2% Profit Margin & $1.5 Billion In a Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the registry for .Com and .Net reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2014 after the market closed today and lets face it .com and net growth are basically stalled. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $250 million for the second quarter of 2014, up 4.6% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $100 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.71 for the second quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $87 million and diluted ... read more ...
 
 
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Heritage Auctions Led by Digital.com sells $773,876 in domain names - Heritage Auction Results total $773,876 which includes the Buyers Premium of 15 % The Heritage auction wrapped up today and the big sellers were Digital.com and Cute.com. Digital sold for $325,000 and with the buyers premium the total comes to $373,750. Cute.com sold for $200,000 and the buyers premium brought the total to $230,000. 16 lots sold. There was one auction (CapCollection.com) that started at $2, I found that funny. It is clear the crowd was .com only as Baby.club was the only non .com ... read more ...
 
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Of The 9025 .Voting Domains Registered Over 97% Registered To Co. With Ties … - One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We reported earlier today that .Voting had 9,025 domain names registered after the first day of general availability However we see that 8,811 of the 9,025 domain names were registered by the domain name registrar, Registry Gate GmbH” which seems to be a member of the Key Drive family of registrars. All of the domain names registered at Registry Gate were registered to the same registrant: Registrant ... read more ...
 
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Of The 9,025 .Voting Domains Registered Over 97% Registered To Co. With Ties To The Registry? - One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We reported earlier today that .Voting had 9,025 domain names registered after the first day of general availability However we see that 8,811 of the 9,025 domain names were registered by the domain name registrar, Registry Gate GmbH” which seems to be a member of the Key Drive family of registrars. All of the domain names registered at Registry Gate were registered to the same registrant: Registrant ... read more ...
 
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What do ICANN’s new top level domains mean for business? - In September 2013, internet registration outfit ICANN introduced a slew of new Top Level Domains (TLDs), far expanding the options beyond .com, .co.uk and a multitude of other aging suffixes.Many of the new entries - including .technology and .photography - touched down with an obvious purpose, which can't be said for decidedly less conventional ones - such as .barefoot, .whoswho. and .zulu. In France, the new TLDs have even sparked protest among the country's wine vendors. They reckon that the ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Kaufen 4325; Consulting 3852; Media … - Yesterday a bunch of new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA)  meaning domain names can be registered live on a first come first serve basis. All total include any Sunrise registrations and any Landrush/Early Access Program (EAP) registration which took place before GA .Voting 9.025 .Kaufen which is German for the word “Buy” had 4,325 .Consulting  3,852 .Media 3,438 .Pictures 1,548 .Lease .538 We noted yesterday that .Pictures was the 4th of very similar domains to launch including ... read more ...
 
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gTLD’s: Now It Gets Interesting: .Pics, .Pictures, Photo, .Photos - Tomorrow the new gTLD .Pictures launches into general availability  status meaning it can be registered on a first come first served basis. We have been chatting about plural and singular new gTLD’s for a while as well as vertical competition but with the launch of this new domain name extension we can actually start to see what the effect of these different but similar strings have on the new gTLD program. .Photos .Photos was the first of the five to launch on February 26th an is a Donuts extension. .Photos ... read more ...