Monthly Archives: July 2014

Tue 22nd July 2014
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.Tokyo domain name nears 10,000 registrations - Geo domain has a pretty good first day with nearly 10,000 domain name registrations. .Tokyo launched earlier today and now has 9,598 domain names in the zone file. That means day one adds were near 9,000. This is by far the largest city to launch a new top level domain name so far, and the numbers seem fairly good. One Domain Name Wire reader pointed out that Japanese companies often advertise for people to search for them, not type in their domain name. We’ll have ... read more ...
 
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An refurbish on Moniker - I’ve transferred many of my domain names out. I’m working on the rest. It’s been 7 weeks since domain name registrar Moniker switched to a new platform. 7 weeks since Moniker broke. The company has fixed a lot of the problems, even if confirmation messages were clearly written by a coder. But as I’ve written before, I’ve lost confidence in the registrar. I’m transferring my domain names out. I just completed my second batch of domain names and have now ... read more ...
 
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Comparing home appraisals to domain name appraisals - Appraising homes is easy compared to valuing domain names. Texas doesn’t have an income tax. But the state needs revenue from somewhere, and in Texas that “somewhere” is mostly property taxes. Every year I have to pay about 2.4% of my home’s value in property taxes. This steep rate creates a bit of a dance each year. The counties appraise homes by an automated system, kind of like Estibot. Then you have to argue with the county that the computer-generated ... read more ...
Mon 21st July 2014
 
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Bars get own internet domain - 21st July, 2014 by Patrick Schmitt An internet domain name for the bar and club industry called .bar launched on Sunday this week at London’s Sanderson Hotel. It’s hoped that .bar will help people find bars and clubs more easily online The advent of .bar, which is referred to as a Top-Level Domain (TLD), means that any drinks outlet can be instantly identified as a bar by looking at their internet address, without having to incorporate ... read more ...
 
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HA.com Live Domain Auction Is Thursday: Bitcoins.com; Bitcoin.Club; Digital.com; SEM.com - The third Heritage Auctions domain event closes for online bidding Wednesday July 23rd at 10PM Central time. The live auction is Thursday July 24th at 1PM Central time. The live auction will be in Dallas, Texas, but you can bid online from anywhere in the world. However please note that it appears you have to sign up for the “live” online bidding separately from the online bidding only, so if you want to bid online during the auction and have not qualified yourself to do so you need to do it ... read more ...
 
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Impartiality of Dot Pharmacy TLD Questioned - Catherine Saez and William New reporting in Intellectual Property Watch: "New generic top-level domain names seem set to be a constant source of discussions and dissension. The domain '.pharmacy' has been awarded to a United States pharmacy association with industry backing, stirring concerns among civil society and others. But the association insists it will work in an impartial manner to ensure safety of online pharmaceutical sales… The pharmacy gTLD is expected to be launched by NABP ... read more ...
 
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Fox; NHL; SXSW: Here are The .Media Domains Taken In Sunrise & EAP - The just reviewed the zone file for the new gTLD .Media which launches in general availability on Wednesday July 23rd to see what domain names were taken in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) . Sunrise domains have to match marks in the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH), while there is an extra charge to register a domain though the EAP. Generally speaking the largest registrants appear to be Fox, the NHL and its member teams, South by Southwest and as you will see we grabbed a few too Some ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Pass 1.6 Million Domain Regsitrations - The new gTLD program has passed 1.6 Million domain registrations, with.XYZ leading the way with 343K registrations now well past 100,000 registrations without Network solutions. .Berlin is adding less that 5 registrations a day but is solidly in 2nd place with over $137K . .Club Continues to add around 500 new registrations a day and is now closing in on 90,000 registrations at 87K domains .Guru passed 65.000 registrations .Photography passed 41,000 registrations to round out the top 5. However registrations ... read more ...
 
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Icann: Top-Level-Domains als Riesengeschäft - Insgesamt etwa 1.930 Bewerbungen um neue Internetendungen sind im Jahr 2012 bei der globalen Internetbehörde Icann eingegangen; in diesem Jahr werden sie vergeben. In 675 Fällen geht es um Markenendungen wie .audi oder .lidl, auf die Markeninhaber exklusiv Zugriff haben. Es bleiben 1.255 Bewerbungen um öffentlich zugängliche Top-Level-Domains (TLDs). Mehr als die Hälfte stammen von sechs Massenbewerbern. Die klassischen im Netz dominanten Konzerne Google und Amazon zählen dazu, die neuen ... read more ...
 
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These 10 domain names in this week’s HA auction are value their reserve - These ten domain names strike me as fairly priced for the right buyer. Heritage Auctions holds its next domain name auction on Thursday, July 24. It’s getting quit a bit of press around this auction, thanks in part to the Bitcoins.com domain name. There’s a $750,000 reserve on that one. It will be interesting to see if someone steps up to the plate. Whether or not it sells, the press will shine some light on other good domain names in the auction. Here are ones ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Tokyo, .Moe, .Consulting and more - Two Japan-focused domains kick off the week. It’s another busy week for new top level domain names, including a big .city domain name hitting registrar’s shelves on Tuesday. Tuesday Tuesday sees the launch of two Japan-focused domain names…in English. The biggie is .Tokyo, by far the most populous city TLD to enter general availability thus far. At least one Domain Name Wire reader thinks it will take a big shift in habits for people in Japan to promote or ... read more ...
Sun 20th July 2014
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Poll Results: “What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch?” - The results from our latest poll question are out and most don’t think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and 19% do not see Google in the top 20. 13% see Google in position number 10 and 12 % see them in position number 20. What Will Google Domains Market Share Of The Registrar Market Be A Year After Launch? Not in Top 20 (19%, 45 Votes) 10 (13%, 32 Votes) 20 ... read more ...
 
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Dell To Accept Bitcoin - Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount  on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). From their website: Now you can buy digital with digital – starting today, we’re accepting bitcoin on Dell.com. We’re piloting bitcoin, the world’s most widely used digital currency, as a purchase option on Dell.com for consumer and small business shoppers ... read more ...
 
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Nuova settimana, nuovi domini con 1&1 Internet - Progetti per un nuovo sito web ostacolati da dubbi su come differenziarsi all’interno della vastissima offerta online? Anche questa settimana 11 Internet accorre in aiuto, presentando una selezione di nuovi domini di primo livello perfetti per migliorare la propria reputazione e visibilità online, un’offerta che arricchisce ulteriormente l’ampia selezione proposta da 11 Internet Nella sezione del sito dedicata ai nuovi domini, alla quale è possibile accedere al link http://www.1and1.it/nuove-estensioni-di-dominio#stage, ... read more ...
Sat 19th July 2014
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Who’s Who in the New Dot Brandscape – And Why Should You Care? - Let's go to the scoreboard. There are 1751 applications for new top-level domains. Nearly 1/3 (635) are brands. The rest are generics (e.g. .Buzz) and geographies (e.g .NYC). So, brands are definitely interested in new TLDs — and a handful of major industries have jumped into the lead. If you're in any of those verticals, it's time to pay attention. Your competitors may be giving your customers new ways to reach out, learn and buy from them. Major players are investing in .brands. Industry ... read more ...
 
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Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations -             We haven’t heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year  registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of brands grabbing their new .Luxury gTLD’s. However since the launch .Luxury has added another 400 registrations and sits at 1,027 registrations which of course means the registry long ago made back its registration fee. One of the the types ... read more ...
 
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New Domain Names Now Outnumber Lions, Tigers and Bears -

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Fri 18th July 2014
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Businessweek: Pitbull Looking during Domainer Merlin Kauffman $7.5 Million Bitcoin Fund - Bloomberg/Businessweek.comm, just published a piece on the hip-hop artist known as Pitbull,  one of our South Florida celebs and his business ventures outside of the music world. According to the article  Pitbull’s attorney is trying to get his client Pitbull to possibly invest in Bitcoin and are looking forward to a meeting none other than Merlin Kaufman, who in addition to being a world-class domain investor is running a Bitcoin Fund: “Zigel slides over a stack of articles about Bitcoin and ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo’s Share of Search Is Under 10% For 1st Time Ever & All Time Low - SearchEngineLand.com, is reporting that Yahoo’s share of search traffic has fallen below 10% for the first time and marks an all time low. “”Yahoo’s share has now fallen below 10 percent. “This is an “all-time low.” The combined Yahoo-Bing “search alliance” share remains flat at 29%: Bing growth has  almost entirely been at Yahoo’s expense. Here are the figures for June: Google: 67.6% Bing: 19.2% Yahoo: 9.8% Others: 3.4% According to the post, these figures do NOT include mobile ... read more ...
 
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Did Lebron James Lease or Buy Lebron.com? After 6 Years Domain Points To LebronJames.com -             CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story,  which in a very positive light,  chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle. whom they described as a “Tech-savvy Maryland businessman”. “As millions of basketball fans search online for news of what team free agent LeBron James will be playing for next, Mr. Nagle has found a way to benefit. Type in LeBronJames.com and you go to James’s official Web ... read more ...
 
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Arena Football’s OrlandoPredators.com Gets Lost In Sale & Now Points To Sexual Offenders - The arena Football team the Orlando Predators was recently sold and the one thing that seem to have gotten lost in the sale is its domain name. According to a story in the orlandosentinel.com, the domain which served as the previous official site of the team OrlandoPredators.com now redirects visitors to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s archive of sexual offenders and predators. It seems the domain name was not in the name of the team or the league but in the name of the previous managing ... read more ...
 
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How brands are preparing to avoid a ‘.fail’ in the expanded gTLD space - In May we speculated that the looming sunrise for the ‘.fail’ and ‘.wtf’ gTLDs, which are prime strings for the creation of gripe sites, would likely be the focus of defensive registrations for companies seeking to keep their brands. The sunrises for both close on Saturday July 26 so we thought we would take a look at whether brands were securing their names in the two TLDs, either for marketing purposes or to keep them out of the hands of others.   For our search we focused on ... read more ...