Monthly Archives: August 2014

Thu 7th August 2014
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xBiz.com Reports Porn.com Has Been Recovered - Yesterday we wrote about a UDRP that was filed against the domain name Porn.com which we said appeared to be stolen out of a Moniker.com account. Today xBiz.com is reporting that the domain Porn.com has been recovered. It maybe interesting to note that when the domain appeared at the new registrar yesterday the domain was under privacy but today privacy was lifted and the owner was listed as the world famous domainer/adult site operator  lakshmishankar arunkumar The street address of the owner of ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Inc.: Demand Media Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results - Revenue ex-TAC of $87.1 Million and Adjusted EBITDA of $10.7 Million Registrar Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year to $41.2 Million Free Cash Flow of $9.8 Million SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Demand Media, Inc.(NYSE: DMD), a leading digital content media company, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. "The focus on user experience and content improvements we have made over the past several quarters are starting to show positive results," ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports: Revenue up 13% But Aftermarket Revenue Decreases 40% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Rightside became an independent, publicly traded company on August 1, 2014 as a result of the completion of its spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.(R) (DMD) so this is the first earnings report by Rightside as a separate operating public company. Shares of Rightside fell over 3% in trading today closing at $14 a share. Rightside now owns and operates the former domain name services business of ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports: Revenue adult 13% But Aftermarket Revenue Decreases 40% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Rightside became an independent, publicly traded company on August 1, 2014 as a result of the completion of its spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.(R) (DMD) so this is the first earnings report by Rightside as a separate operating public company. Shares of Rightside fell over 3% in trading today closing at $14 a share. Rightside now owns and operates the former domain name services business of ... read more ...
 
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Rightside/Enom Enters Into $30 Million Dollar Credit Agreement w/Silicon Valley Bank - According to an announcement just out, after the market closed Rightside Group, Ltd. (the “Company”), its domestic subsidiaries Rightside Operating Co. and eNom, Incorporated (together with the Company, the “U.S. Borrowers”) and its foreign subsidiaries DMIH Limited, United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Rightside Domains Europe Limited (collectively, the “Non-U.S. Borrowers” and together with the U.S. Borrowers, the “Borrowers”) entered into a credit agreement and related security and other ... read more ...
 
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DomainIQ.com takes On DomainTools.com To Take “Domain Name Research to a New Level” - Intelium Corp. , which is headed up by Luc Lezon CEO, has rolled out their newest site DomainIQ.com, “the world’s most powerful domain name and internet research tool.” The site “was created by software engineers with over a decade of experience in the domain industry which created popular services including EstiBot, Dropping.com, Domainex, DomainResearchTool and PremiumDrops” “DomainIQ allows users to discover everything about a domain name; its owner, the server it is hosted on, its ... read more ...
 
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WADE PARK GROUNDBREAKING MARKS START OF MAJOR FRISCO MIXED … - ~ Newly Acquired Land Expands Development Plans to 175 Acres ~Upcoming Fall Event to Give Community a First Taste of What’s to Come FRISCO, Texas – August 7, 2014 – (RealEstateRama) — Today marks the beginning of Wade Park, a major mixed-use destination center in Frisco. Community leaders and partners joined developer Thomas Land Development (TLD) in breaking ground on the newly expanded 175-acre project, conveniently located along the Dallas North Tollway. Plans for Wade Park feature ... read more ...
 
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Treat.co Bought For $1,050 in 2011 Just Flipped For $19K - The domain name Treat.co just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $19,000. The domain was bought by the Seller also from Sedo, back in December 2011 for $1,050. So its a 19X return in about 30 months. Not bad. The domain name is already active and appears to be a new Pet site, that will be coming soon. Congrats to the buyer and seller. ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Astro Gaming - Même si elle est très peu connue en France, nous venons tout de même de référencer sur TLD la marque Astro Gaming qui propose des casques audio de qualité pour joueurs. Les dernières mises à jour des firmwares des casques audio Astro A50 ont été ajoutées pour l'occasion tout comme le dernier firmware de l'égaliseur MixAmp Pro. Ces mises à jour sont notamment obligatoires pour assurer la compatibilité avec la console Sony PlayStation 4. Firmwares pour les casques audio Astro Gaming ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Adopts Compensation “Restricted Stock Unit Plan” For Up To 12.5% Of Its Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today “that it has adopted a new share incentive scheme”. “As set out in the Company’s Readmission document published earlier this year, the Company has been considering implementing a replacement incentive compensation scheme across the Group for its directors and employees to better attract, retain and reward employees. Employee attraction and retention are key factors for MMX as it continues to build its operations and launch gTLDs, ... read more ...
 
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Very Troubling: 19 Year Old SouthPaw.com Lost in UDRP - Southpaw Enterprises, Inc. just won the rights to the domain name southpaw.com in a UDRP As a term, Southpaw refers to someone who is left handed. The domain name was registered on April 18, 1995. The Respondent bought the domain name in 2002. The Complainant federal trademark registration is dated March 8, 1983 Despite the domain being 19 years old and owned by the current registrant for 12 years, The one member panel of Debrett G. Lyons explicitly considered and rejected the concept of Laches finding ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Summer time, sand in our hair, gTLDs in the air -

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Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru - Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expect that to go any better for Principal than this URS. The record shows Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name was to host a webpage containing an HTML link that reads, “This domain name is for sale!” along with a stock image. Complainant contends ... read more ...
 
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.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1100; .WTF 973 … - .Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with  5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it first day with 1,101 according to the Zone file which I pulled this morning .WTF had 973 domain names registered after its first day of GA The new gTLD .Financial wound up with just over 750 registrations including Sunrise and EAP. .Reise ended up its first day ... read more ...
 
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.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1,100; .WTF 973; .Financial 751 - .Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with  5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it first day with 1,101 according to the Zone file which I pulled this morning .WTF had 973 domain names registered after its first day of GA The new gTLD .Financial wound up with just over 750 registrations including Sunrise and EAP. .Reise ended up its first day ... read more ...
 
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Would .Mtl Be a Mistake? - Rumour has it that Montreal wants their dot city TLD…But they want .mtl instead of .montreal ! Huge, huge mistake #newgtlds — Christopher Hofman (@HofmanLaursen) August 7, 2014   The Gazette, a Montreal-based newspaper, published an article about the possibility that the city of Montreal would apply for its own new gTLD extension. The article indicates that .Mtl would be the extension the city would apply for, and I tend to agree with Christopher Hofman Laursen of the European Domain ... read more ...
 
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Noch 90 Tage Quarantäne für blockierte Domains: "Ihr DNS bedarf dringender … - Registries sollen die 10 Millionen Namen in den brandneuen TLD noch drei Monate lang wegen möglicher Kollisionsgefahr blockieren. Rund 10 Millionen Domains in den brandneuen Top Level Domains hatte die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) bislang blockiert, da sie möglicherweise mit Domain-ähnlichen Varianten dieser Namen innerhalb privater, nicht öffentlich gerouteter Netze kollidieren. Große Registries und kleine neue Betreiber ächzten unter ... read more ...
 
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When Searches for Bitcoin Go Up, The Price Goes Down according to a new study - A group of Swiss computer scientists conducted a study that took a look at web activity and social media chat around Bitcoin. They concluded when there is a surge in chatter around Bitcoin that the cryptocurrency is bound for a fall. The BBC took a look at the study: Key variable Bitcoin was a great candidate for research because so much of the activity surrounding it takes place online, wrote the team in a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society. Bitcoins are a virtual currency which ... read more ...
 
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Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc. | Further protection against cybersquatters -

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My takeaways from Rightside’s initial financier call - Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the time explaining Rightside’s market position to help frame the conversation with analysts. That market position is largely betting on the success of new top level domain names. The company explained how its margins as a registry ... read more ...
 
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Rightside only expelled the initial gain report - Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, posted total revenue of $46.7 million and a net loss of ($3.5) million. Both revenue and earnings were lower than what the group grossed in the second quarter of 2013, due to a sharp drop in its “Aftermarket” revenue. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 51 site shows humorous twitter from satire Chehade account - Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all tweets with the hashtag #icann51. The conference is still a couple months away, so you won’t find many relevant tweets about the event. It’s also an unfiltered feed. Which is what makes it funny. There are a bunch ... read more ...
 
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This week .Rocks, really not a .Fail week - .Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definition, it .rocks. Here’s a look at the total registration numbers as of the overnight zone files for domains that launched this week: .rocks 5191 .网址 1,565 .limited 1098 .wtf 977 .reise 892 .financial 758 .fail 634 .actor 572 .网址 ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor - Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for governor of Arizona. Parsons said he has already spent $1M funding Better Leaders for Arizona, which is running attack ads against competitor Doug Ducey. He might spend more. Parsons’ role in the ads was suspected after one of ... read more ...
 
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Picking a baby name formed on domain name availability - Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby. A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years about parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies. I have one matching my daughter’s name, and even registered them up for my nieces and nephews should they ever want to use them. A new site aims to help parents name their baby by telling them what domain names are available. Call it crazy, but it’s kind of fun. Just ... read more ...