Monthly Archives: August 2014

Mon 11th August 2014
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Biggest new TLD surprises (upside and downside) - We’re closing in on 200 top level domain names being released in general availability, and there have been quite a few surprises. Some domains have done better than I expected and others have done much worse. I’ll list a few here, and I’m curious what you think. Let’s start with three that have done better than I expected: 1. .Guru 67,322 registrations (zone file) Would .guru have this much momentum if it wasn’t released at the beginning of the program? ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: medical and financial domain names - Medical Donuts exit EAP, financial Donuts enter. A slow week for new top level domain names is on tap. Donuts is the only company with new releases hitting general availability this week. That means all of the action takes place on Wednesday. .Care, .Clinic, .Surgery and .Dental come out of the Early Access Program and revert to regular pricing. .Care is in Donuts’ middle price tier and the other three are at the highest price level. That’s not surprising for ... read more ...
Sun 10th August 2014
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EU Court to Decide if Bitcoin Transactions Are Subject to Value Added Tax - Jane Genova wrote an article on PaymentWeek.com about the EU deciding on whether or not to tax Bitcoin transactions. Earlier in the year Sweden asked for the EU to rule on whether or not Bitcoin should be taxed. The UK has ruled no valued added tax on Bitcoin. From the article: The European Court of Justice will rule if bitcoin transactions are subject to its value-added tax rules (VAT). If that top court decides to impose VAT regulations on member nations with bitcoin businesses, they could suffer ... read more ...
 
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Adam Strong Sells Racing.com To Australian Company; Racing Victoria - According to AFR.com, Racing Victoria based in Melbourne Australia has purchased the domain name ­Racing.com “a further step in establishing its own media business ­containing almost all of the state’s ­digital thoroughbred racing assets..for an undisclosed fee, and will launch the media unit and new, wider ­consumer brand for the industry by mid-September.” Racing Victoria website is at RacingVictoria.net.au and you can read all about the company here According to DomainTools.com, domain ... read more ...
 
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Where Does Your State Rank In Internet Speed? Va is #1; Alaska is Last - Broadview Networks released a report showing Internet Speeds by States If you want to see the map format check out the source site.   State by State Breakdown State Q1 ’14 Avg Mbps QoQ Change % (Q1 ’14 vs. Q4 ’13) YoY Change % (Q1 ’14 vs. Q1 ’13) Virginia 13.7 -4.3 30 Delaware 13.1 6.3 18 Massachusetts 13.1 2.6 22 Rhode Island 12.9 11 35 D.C. 12.8 5 18 Washington 12.5 8.5 29 New Hampshire 12.3 4 6 Utah 12.1 6 17 Michigan 11.8 13 42 Connecticut 11.7 7.2 18 North ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Another URS On Hello.Photo - Frank Schillings North Sound Names has won another Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name Hello.Photo to Complainant, HOLA S.L. of Madrid, Spain, who has trademarked “HELLO!”, “in one or more countries”. John Berryhill, represented North Sound Names. Omar Haydar, the examiner found: The Respondent has registered the domain name , and is the owner of many other domain names, many containing similar commonly used generic terms, purchased primarily for the purpose of resale. Complainant ... read more ...
 
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A good snyopsis of Verisign’s corner contract - Investor does a pretty good job explaining how Verisign has a license to print money. Verisign has a wonderful license to print money. Its contract with ICANN to run .com allows it to charge $7.85 per .com domain name registered. The company enjoys fat 55% operating margins as a result. Stephen Pomeroy of Pomeroy Capital Partners, L.P. recently sent a letter to his limited partners about Verisign (of which his fund is a stockholder) and published it on SeekingAlpha. The ... read more ...
Sat 9th August 2014
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Quick Chat with Josh Garza a male who bought BTC.com for $1million - BTC.com was purchased for $1million as most of our readers know, we talked to Mike Robertson from Domain Guardians earlier in the week. Josh Garza and his company GAW Miners bought the domain, and we had a quick chat with him. Besides talking to us about the domain side of things, after our interview was completed Josh spoke to Tech Crunch about the Mining side of Bitcoin.  Interview 1) Congrats on the purchase of BTC.com, can you tell us a little bit about what your company does and how it makes ... read more ...
 
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1st .Vegas Domains: Wynn, HardRock, Caesars, Sands, Harrahs, Palms, World Series Of Poker - The new gTLD .Vegas just closed it Sunrise period there are over 300 domain names registered including a few retained by the registry. There are actually more .Vegas domain names registered at this point that .NYC according to the zone file. Landrush for .Vegas domains start on August 14, 2014  and runs until September 10, 2014. General Availability starts on September 15th. As usually some very good generics were grabbed in the Sunrise period, which is only opened to trademark holders, so domain ... read more ...
 
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Oh, great: someone is SMS spamming Whois -

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I theory those emails a spammers send we after we register a domain name aren’t effective enough.

Don’t click a link, even out of curiosity. Your mobile phone series is appended to a URL, so they’ll know we got a message.

Via: domainnamewire.com

Fri 8th August 2014
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Google Wants You To Encrypt Your Traffic and Will Favor Those That Comply - Another homework assignment for webmasters given by Ms. Google Google announced that it will start to favor websites that encrypt their traffic in their search results. Google said: For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We’ve seen positive results, so we’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it’s only a very lightweight signal—affecting ... read more ...
 
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iPhone 6 running Android? You’d better (not) believe it -

GameSpot’s PS4 Destiny Giveaway

Enter for your possibility to win* a PS4, a duplicate of Destiny, and a Turtle Beach headset.

Via: cnet.com

 
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Interview with Jeffrey Peterson of Mobile Corporation – Company Recently Purchased Mobile.co for $239,000 - Mobile Corporation just completed the purchase of Mobile.co for $239,000. Our readers may recall that there was an interesting story behind this transaction. The start up based out of Cambridge,Massachusetts has raised $5 million in funding. Jeffrey Peterson the CEO of Mobile Corporation was kind enough to get on the phone and give me an interview about the company and their strategy. Interview 1)Please tell us a little about your domain portfolio Jeffrey Peterson: Working together with our partner ... read more ...
 
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SignEasy.com Saved In UDRP But Panel Finds “Sales Page” Not Legitimate or Fair Use - Glykka LLC of San Francisco, California lost its bid to grab the domain name SignEasy.com. The domain name SignEasy.com was registered back on October 7, 2005. The Complainant wasn’t even incorporated until March 8th 2013. So the domain owner registered the domain some 7 years before the Complainant even existed. The Complainant trademark is dated July 30, 2013 which is 7+ year after the domain holder registered the domain. Not only did the one member panel of Sebastian M.W. Hughes refuse to find ... read more ...
 
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New .ORGANIC Domain Sunrise Begins, Creating Verified Space for Organic … - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that the one-month sunrise period is now open for its socially responsible top-level domain (TLD): .ORGANIC. The sunrise period allows qualified trademark holders to register names immediately; other members of the organic community can register names beginning September 15. Interest in organic products is growing rapidly worldwide; however, terms like "natural" and "healthy" are often used interchangeably with "organic" on the ... read more ...
 
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VP.Net Being Offered For Sale For The 1st Time - The super premium Domain Name VP.net is being sold exclusively through our brokerage service. The Domain Name VP.net has a current original registration date of 1998, making the domain name over 15 years old. The domain name has never been offered for sale before. VP.net is one of the shortest, brandable, instantly recognizable and unforgettable domain name market. According to Google there are over 94,700,000 references for the term “VP” which the most common is to represent Vice President but ... read more ...
 
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Ground broken on Wade Park - Wednesday morning, ground was broken to mark the beginning of Wade Park, a major mixed-use destination center in Frisco. Mayor Maher Maso, President of the Frisco Chamber of Commerce Tony Felker, and other community leaders joined developer Thomas Land Development (TLD) for the event. The newly expanded 175-acre project is located along the Dallas North Tollway ... read more ...
 
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Fake iPhone 6 With 26 Cores And 8 Day Battery Fools Passer-bys (video) - Jonathan Morrison from TLD pranked passer-bys on the street with a fake iPhone 6 which he explained is 300 percent lighter, contains 26 processor cores and is equipped with a eight day battery. With his fake iPhone 6 device Jonathan also explains to passers-by that Apple didn’t like Siri so they removed it and replaced it with Google’s voice activated personal assistant. Check out the footage in the video after the jump for a few laughs at just how gullible people can be if put on the spot. Apple ... read more ...
 
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Are you serious ? Le vrai iPhone 6 ! - Si vous avez hâte de voir le vrai iPhone 6 d’Apple – attendez le 9 Septembre ! Autrement, vous auriez pu vous faire avoir par Jonathan Morrison de TLD qui s’est amusé à présenter un clone iPhone 6 sous Android (basé sur les rumeurs) à des passants qui se sont laissés dupés par l’homme.La vidéo commence par Jonathan en train de montrer fièrement son iPhone 6 cloné à une personne qui tout de suite s’est emballée : « Are you serious ? » avec le grand sourire qui accompagnait ... read more ...
 
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Rightside(TM) Announces Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> August 07, 2014 -- Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year 32 gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Signed to DateKIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves ... read more ...
 
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Hold NHPC; target of Rs 25: Emkay - Emkay Global Financial Services research report on NHPC APAT of Rs7.5bn vs our estimate of Rs8.3bn due to lower than expected other income (Rs1.6bn vs Rs2.5bn YoY and Rs2.6bn QoQ). Due to non billing of secondary energy thetotal incentives were lower at Rs1.26bn vs Rs1.8bn YoY As in Q4FY14, during the quarter also the company provided for borrowing and admin exp of Rs1.75bn in the reported PAT of Rs6.2bn for Subansiri and TLD-IV projects. Core RoE for the quarter was at 6.3% (6.2% ... read more ...
 
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L’iPhone 6 est déjà sorti et un journaliste le présente aux passants … - L'iPhone 6 ne devrait pas être commercialisé avant un bon mois et pourtant, à lire la presse high-tech ces dernières semaine, on a l'impression que l'appareil n'a plus vraiment de secret. Plus drôle encore, certains clament avoir réussi à acheter un prototype; l'arborant fièrement sur les réseaux sociaux... C'est sur ce malentendu qu'a décidé de surfer Jonathan Morrison, de la chaine YouTube TLD. L'homme s'est baladé aux Etats-Unis muni d'un prétendu iPhone 6 « exclusif ». ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour inside Google’s new domain name registrar - Google Domains offers a simple way for businesses to establish a web presence, but not much more. It’s been a little over a month since Google announced its domain name registration service, and I got access to the beta today. Google Domains is what I expected it to be: a no-frills experience designed to make it dead simple to get online. I started by searching for available domain names. I read an article yesterday about cocktails being dispensed by tap, so I ... read more ...
 
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This week’s lapsed domain name sales - NameJet kicks off our list of last week’s expired domain auctions with a category-defining domain that blends Employment, Travel, and Leisure — the $15k sale of HospitalityJobs.com. Thereafter, we’ve got 2 “soft” domains in a row, roughly totaling $10k between them. And it turns out 4 of the domains I pointed to in last week’s article finished in the $2.1k to $2.6k range: InternetGaming.com, MobileDating.com, AdultOnline.com, and DistanceLearning.org. iBud.com ... read more ...
 
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End user domain name purchases including State Street and Live Person - State Street and LivePerson among domain name buyers. Sedo sold 632 domain names last week for a total of $1.7 million. Their highest reported sale was just $25,100, which means there were one or more big ticket sales that were confidential. Here are some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report. EasyBook.com 13,500 ... read more ...