Monthly Archives: August 2014

Tue 12th August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Warning: Some Registrars (Godaddy) Are Making The Radix $160 Landrush … - Radix a new gTLD registry,  landrush for three new gTLDs .Host, .Website and .Press opens up on August 26th and runs until September 15th. Applying in landrush for a new gTLD domain gives the applicant early access to domain names ahead of general availability. The wholesale cost to apply for a .Host, .Website and .Press domain in landrush is $160. Radix has been advertising on social media calling their landrush a “no risk landrush” meaning that the $160 landrush fee is fully refundable if ... read more ...
 
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Warning: Some Registrars (Godaddy) Are Making The Radix $160 Landrush Fee NonRefundable - Radix a new gTLD registry,  landrush for three new gTLDs .Host, .Website and .Press opens up on August 26th and runs until September 15th. Applying in landrush for a new gTLD domain gives the applicant early access to domain names ahead of general availability. The wholesale cost to apply for a .Host, .Website and .Press domain in landrush is $160. Radix has been advertising on social media calling their landrush a “no risk landrush” meaning that the $160 landrush fee is fully refundable if ... read more ...
 
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Generic domain names pose threat - .com, .net, .org, and .gov have been a part of our online experiences for years now. Though we are familiar with existing Internet domains using these suffixes, the landscape is changing — and fast. New suffixes have and will become available at a rapid pace, causing concern for trademark infringement. These new suffixes — also known as generic Top-Level Domains or gTLDs — are the part of the web address to the right of the period and offer a wide variety to those ... read more ...
 
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What is in a name (plate)? - First there were plain Internet addresses, then came ccTLDs, then gTLDs and with one new domain-wave after another, personalization of tech-era's nick-names has only gathered more speed and ribbons in the recent past. But would you dress up to stand out? Interviews | by Pratima H MUMBAI, INDIA: Sentences like these are seldom heard in a group of boys. But indeed, it was a bloke, wide-eyed and anxiety-laden, who said ... read more ...
 
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From shopping Guns with Bitcoin to Consumer Protection Warnings a the Crypto Corner for 8/12/14 - A lot of news over the last two days on the crypto currency front, from guns for Bitcoin to Consumer warnings about the dangers and risks of virtual currencies. Let’s start out with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, they want to let consumers know that virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin are targets for hackers and that there are costs many may not be thinking about. Electronista wrote: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a warning on virtual currencies like ... read more ...
 
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Ajout des périphériques de jeu Gamdias - Après Qpad, nous venons de référencer sur TLD la marque Gamdias, filiale du groupe Taïwanais KWorld, qui propose également des claviers, souris et casques audio spécialement conçus pour les gamers. Nous avons donc tout logiquement créé une fiche pour l'application unifiée Hera, dans sa dernière version 2.0.0, qui permet de configurer les différentes fonctionnalités des claviers et souris Gamdias (profils, macros, sensibilité du capteur, messages vocaux pré-enregistrés...). Le pack ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Qpad - La marque Qpad, qui propose des claviers, souris et casques audio pour joueurs, a été référencée dans la base de données TLD. Les drivers et utilitaires pour les souris OM-75, 5K, 5K L.E. ainsi que pour le clavier MK-85 ont notamment été ajoutés même si ceux-ci ne sont plus très frais. A ce sujet, le site de la marque ne donnant pas d'informations sur leur compatibilité logicielle, si vous avez réussi à installer et à faire fonctionner ces différents drivers avec Windows 8 voire ... read more ...
 
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Robin Williams Domains Regged in a Aftermath of His Passing - Hollywood and fans around the world lost one of its most popular and famous icons on Monday. Robin Williams passed away from an apparent suicide at the age of 63. Robin Williams won an academy award for Good Will Hunting, I always thought just the scenes of him and Matt Damon talking alone made the movie great all by itself. I am always interested in the dialogue far and away above any other component of a movie and those scenes made that one of my all time favorite movies. After the news broke a ... read more ...
 
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Das steht im Vertrag zwischen der Hamburg Top-Level-Domain GmbH und der … - Vor etwa einem Monat berichtete ich über den Start der Sunrise Phase für die neue Hamburg Top-Level-Domain (TLD). Darin erwähnte ich auch, dass ich über eine Transparenzgesetz-Anfrage beantragt habe, dass der Kooperationsvertrag zwischen der Stadt Hamburg und der GmbH, welche die neuen .hamburg-Domains (Second-Level-Domains, SLD) vergibt, offen gelegt wird. Dies ist heute geschehen. Es hat zwar lange gedauert, aber die Senatskanzlei schaffte es, mir innerhalb der entsprechenden Frist ... read more ...
 
 
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Business Workshop: New domains are trademark headaches – Pittsburgh Post - August 12, 2014 12:00 AM Share with others: The organization that controls Internet names is making it harder and more expensive for trademark owners to protect their brands online. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently began to release new generic top-level domains (gTLD). These are are the endings of Web addresses, such as .com, .org or .net. Until 2013, there were only 22 of them. ICANN has already introduced more ... read more ...
 
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Tucows reports clever gain growth…from phone service - Ting powers Tucows to growth in Q2. Tucows released earnings for Q2 2014 after the bell today. It was a strong quarter for the company, which owns domain name reseller service OpenSRS. Revenue was up 14% compared to Q2 2013 and net earnings per share doubled. Don’t thank the domain name business for that growth. Although the domain business did OK, the growth driver was Tucows’ mobile phone service Ting. Ting revenue was up 121% compared to the same quarter last ... read more ...
 
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ICANN publishes updated new TLD Auction schedule - Delays now require all-party consent, so contention set resolution should accelerate. ICANN has published an updated “auction of last resort” schedule for new top level domain names. It’s harder for individual applicants to postpone these auctions now that the framework for handling name collisions is finalized. Postponements are now only possible if all parties in the contention set agree to the postponement. In that case, auctions can be postponed up to two ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Demand Media Names New CEO Shares Sink; Now Down 20% From Last Week - Demand Media, Inc, named one-time Ticketmaster Chief Executive Sean Moriarty as its new CEO and the market didn’t like the news sending shares down over 8% to close at $8.97 a share. You may recall it was just a week ago when Demand split off its Rightside division it traded as high as $11.10. Demand also said today it acquired Saatchi Online, which runs online art gallery Saatchi Art, for $17 million. Moriarty had been CEO of Saatchi Art since August 2013, and was CEO of Ticketmaster from 2007 ... read more ...
 
 
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Google Wins Control Of GlassForSnap.com Based On Its Trademark on Glass in UDRP - Google Inc. (“Complainant”), just won the rights to the domain name GlassforSnap.com. The one member panel of James A. Carmody, Esq., found the domain name GlassforSnap.com was confusing similar to Google’s trademark on the word “Glass”. The domain holder did not submit a response and the domain name went to a page which clearly targeted users of Google and Snapchat. All I can say is if you have a really good domain with the word “Glass” in it you better be careful what you do with ... read more ...
 
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Global Domain Name Registrations Reach 276 Million, Increase of Over 19M … - Five million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. The increase of five million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.7 percent over the fourth quarter of 2013. Worldwide registrations have grown by 19.3 million, or 7.5 percent, year over year. Related ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s Domain Industry Brief: There are 276 Million Domain Names As Of End Of 1st Q - Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), today published its Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2014, and five million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2014. The increase of five million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.7% over the fourth quarter of 2013. Worldwide registrations have grew by 19.3 million, or 7.5%, ... read more ...
 
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Falso iPhone 6 é usado em pegadinha nas ruas - Por Redação em |11.08.2014 às 12h35 Jonathan Morrison, do site TLD Today, decidiu brincar com a ansiedade e empolgação das pessoas em relação ao iPhone 6. Utilizando um clone chinês que está de acordo com os principais rumores sobre o aparelho da Apple, ele foi às ruas realizar uma pegadinha e ofereceu o aparelho em troca de CDs e outros objetos com os populares. Apenas as especificações citadas, por si só, já seriam suficientes para revelar a farsa para qualquer um minimamente entendido ... read more ...
 
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Falso iPhone 6 é usado em pegadinha nas ruas - Jonathan Morrison, do site TLD Today, decidiu brincar com a ansiedade e empolgação das pessoas em relação ao iPhone 6. Utilizando um clone chinês que está de acordo com os principais rumores sobre o aparelho da Apple, ele foi às ruas realizar uma pegadinha e ofereceu o aparelho em troca de CDs e outros objetos com os populares. Apenas as especificações citadas, por si só, já seriam suficientes para revelar a farsa para qualquer um minimamente entendido em tecnologia. De acordo com ... read more ...
 
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A Lot of Good Domains Grabbed In The EAP Of .Care - We took a look into the zone file for The new gTLD .Care that goes into general availability on Wednesday meaning it can be registered on a first come, first served basis to see what has been registered during Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP). It looks like one drug company, Teva Respiratory, LLC heavily participated in the Sunrise program and got a bunch of registrations followed by the Mayo Clinic. Most of the registrations seemed to be taken in the EAP program Here are the more interesting ... read more ...
 
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CFF.com & COA.com Hit $25K On NameJet & Cash.org Is At $15K; Which Will Sell For More? - Three very good domain names are at auction on Namejet.com which today and tomorrow, CFF.com, COA.com and Cash.org. Each of the domain name have hit reserve and will sell. The domains as of publication have current high bids of: CFF.com $25,100 COA.com $25,000 Cash.Org $14,999 All of these auction are public, meaning that people can still join them and they are not restricted to just people who backordered the domains by a deadline. CFF.com has 14 bidders who bid $5K or more, COA.com has only 7 bidders ... read more ...
 
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RMIT University Loses URS On RMIT.Education, To A Parked Page With Links To It - RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia lost its bid to get the domain name RMIT.education suspended through a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. Its a pretty amazing finding in that the  domain holder didn’t even respond to the URS, Complainant had a valid trademark, and the domain name  is parked and contains links to the school, on the parked page. According to the opinion the fault for decision may lay with the attorney for the School who represented it in the proceeding Here are ... read more ...
 
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More Brands Are Using Anonymous Apps To Market Their Product - Christopher Heine wrote a piece on Ad Week about the increasing ad campaigns on anonymous app platforms. The article looks at some of the big brands that are advertising on Whisper and Secret. As more and more people access at least apart of their daily online experience through mobile, brands are going to want to be on there. All the talk about new gtlds vs .com etc… This is where people should be spending some of their time, following what is going on with mobile and apps. I am not talking about ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Internet grew by 5 million domain names in Q1 - Domain Name Industry Brief shows continued growth of registered domain names. Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf) today , estimating that the total base of registered domain names grew by 5 million to 276 million in Q1 this year. (Yes, that’s Q1 — not the most recently concluded quarter.) That’s 1.7% more than at the end of Q4, and 7.5% growth year-over-year. The base of country code domain names grew at a faster clip than gTLDs, with a 2.9% ... read more ...