Monthly Archives: August 2014

Sun 3rd August 2014
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New .Co Site Making National News: ManServants.Co & Frank Schilling Owns The .Com - A new site launched on a .Co domain name is getting some national news coverage, I saw a feature on the site on Fox News yesterday. The site is ManServants.co By the way not that it’s going to come as any shock to anyone in the domain name space, Frank Schilling’s Name Administration owns the domain name ManServants.com So to start with what is a Man Servant you ask? According to the site a Man Servant just to start with will: According to the company’s blog, the San Francisco-based startup  ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – August 2014 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Fighting To Keep Contract Worth Half of Their Annual Revenues - Neustar is fighting to keep a contract that makes up over half of its revenue and it has nothing to do with domain names. The company has been in charge of a major governmental telecommunications contract for the last 17 years. The contract deals with the local number portability administrator (LNPA), which helps phone subscribers keep their numbers when switching carriers. The company is now looking to do whatever it can to keep Telcordia, a division of Ericsson, from taking over. Bloomberg noted ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" / WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a US federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered "property," and thus cannot be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, who are trying to obtain the assets of countries that they argued have supported terrorism, a press release by the ... read more ...
Sat 2nd August 2014
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Yerel alan adı uzantıları kimin? - ICANN'in açıklamasına göre, ülkelerin "internet alan adları" ülkelere veya bir başkasına ait değil. İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore'yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD'lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, ... read more ...
 
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Wikipedia Will Be Restricted Under Right to be Forgotten Law - Juliette Garside wrote a piece for The Guardian today that Google will restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article under the right to be forgotten law. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia said, “You do not have a right to use the law to prevent Wikipedia editors from writing truthful information, nor do you have a right to use the law to prevent Google from publishing truthful information. Wikipedia can and should work hard to do a good job, just as Google can and should work hard to do ... read more ...
 
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Victoria’s Secret Loses Trademark Battle for Pink in a U.K. - The Pink brand of Victoria’s Secret is everywhere in the U.S., the local mall I go to has a Victoria’s Secret and even when traffic was down and stores closing up, the Victoria’s Secret store was always packed. During the 2008 financial crisis the gourmet popcorn store closed, the bookstore closed but there was a brisk business for underwear. The Pink brand was launched in 2004 and has been a big driver of sales for the company. The brand has been credited with bringing a younger consumer to ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 54 To Be Held In Dublin in Fall of 2015 & ICANN Board Members To Get $45K - The ICANN Board selected Dublin, Ireland as the location of the ICANN 2015 Public Meeting from 18-22 October 2015 This meeting with be ICANN 54. There are plenty of companies in the domain space that have offices in Dublin which offers some big tax advantage over countries like the US including; Afilias Rightside Registry Starting Dot Minds Machines Dot Global TLD Registry Ltd IEDR, the company that runs Ireland’s ccTLD. ICANN also passed a resolution which will raise the compensation to all voting ... read more ...
 
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.Mail Gets Added To .Home and .Corp As Strings Killed Off By Collision - According to a resolution of the ICANN Board the .Mail has joined .Home and .Corp as extension that will not be delegated as part of the collision report. .Mail was basically killed off as part of the “ICANN NAME COLLISION OCCURRENCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK” which is putting into place a plan which will start the process of freeing up domain names on the Collision list: “Registry Operators will implement a period of, at least, 90 days of continuous controlled interruption. ICANN will monitor and ... read more ...
 
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.Mail Gets Added To .Home and .Corp As Strings Killed Off By Collision - According to a resolution of the ICANN Board the .Mail has joined .Home and .Corp as extension that will not be delegated as part of the collision report. .Mail was basically killed off as part of the “ICANN NAME COLLISION OCCURRENCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK” which is putting into place a plan which will start the process of freeing up domain names on the Collision list: “Registry Operators will implement a period of, at least, 90 days of continuous controlled interruption. ICANN will monitor and ... read more ...
 
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Fadi Chehadé Gets Two Year Extension & 12.5% Pay Raise From ICANN - The contract of President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has been extended by ICANN for two more years. Chehadé’s base salary will increase by 12.5 percent. Faidi contract with ICANN now expires 30 June 2017. The Board resolution said, “The decision to increase Mr. Chehadé’s compensation was done with recognition and acknowledgment of the work done by the Compensation Committee with Towers Watson to ensure that the increase recommended is reasonable and in line with comparable ... read more ...
 
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Nuove registrazioni di gTLD e Periodi Sunrise - Pianificare di registrare il proprio marchio come nome di dominio durante un Sunrise Period per poi scoprire che la registrazione figura in un elenco di Nomi Riservati?Ci sono una serie di motivi per cui un dominio che corrisponde al proprio marchio può figurare in una Reserved Names list. Prima di tutto se il dominio desiderato è oggetto di Name Collision, anche se questo non si verifica per tutti i registri. Infatti alcuni operatori stanno accettando idomini che sono stati oggetto di Name Collision ... read more ...
 
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Rightside promotes Matt Overman, hires Dwayne Walker - Former NameJet GM gets a promotion and Dwayne Walker jumps from Oversee.net to Rightside. Matt Overman, formerly General Manager of NameJet, has a new role at Rightside. According to Rightside’s Executive Leadership page, Overman is now VP GM, Aftermarket and Premium Domains. His bio describes his responsibilities as covering the “monetization and premium domain sales business”. In another domain name industry executive move, Dwayne Walker has joined Rightside ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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TLD Registry to Speak at Inaugural World Domain Day India - We are excited to announce that TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski and CMO Simon Cousins will be highlighted guest speakers at India's inaugural World Domain Day. To be staged in Hyderabad, India on August 24th, Arto and Simon will build upon TLD Registry's already well-established résumé as the world's leading experts on Chinese domain names. Increasing numbers of bloggers, domain name investors, governments, enterprises and even new Chinese parents are realizing the immense value and ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Growing Up - Tony Stewart pranks Danica Patrick in new Go Daddy Ad Go Daddy put out a new ad and uploaded it to You Tube a couple days ago. Media Bistro wrote about the ad and gave mention to an  interview on Ad Week by Go DaddyCMO Barb Rechterman  from last year on the company growing up and changing their ad strategy. “This commercial marks another milestone in our brand evolution. The ad definitely uses humor, as our past campaigns have, but this new campaign is not solely about driving brand awareness ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Parent Web.com Down 25 % Today & Close To 40% From June - Web.com (WWWW) is down big today after missing their revenue numbers for the second quarter. As of publication with about 40 minutes of trading left, Shares of Web.com are trading at $20 even down 6.55 after hitting an intraday, 52 week low of $19.37. Web.com acquired Snapnames back in May, and they own two of  the top ten  domain registrars Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock was $34.60 back in June when Google announced they would be getting into the business of selling domains. The ... read more ...
 
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"Requiescat in Pace" – the new .RIP Generic Top-Level Domain - What does "RIP" stand for? I thought "RIP" stood for "Rest In Peace". I thought it was an acronym used in English only and a TLD that would be understood by the next generation; because no one would ever register such a domain name ending in .RIP today. When you say "RIP", it makes you think of death… I have also said that such a TLD was something… typically American and that no other culture would consider buying such domain names because promoting death online is something a bit ... read more ...
 
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Are Internet domain names “property”? - An interesting lawsuit – Ben Haim et al. v Islamic Republic of Iran et al. – has been percolating through the federal system for the last few years, involving a group of plaintiffs who have received money judgments against the governments of Iran, Syria, and North Korea for injuries suffered in state-sponsored terror episodes.  To satisfy the judgments, the plaintiffs have been on a campaign to seize assets — bank accounts, real property, etc. — located in the US belonging to those governments ... read more ...
 
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Saisie de noms de domaines : l’ICANN met le holà - L’autorité gestionnaire du nommage sur Internet considère qu’une extension de premier niveau faisant référence à un pays – comme le .fr – ne peut faire l’objet d’une saisie. L’ICANN est formelle : désignées, dans la nomenclature du nommage Internet, par l’acronyme ccTLD (pour « country-code Top-Level Domain »), les extensions de noms de domaines rattachées à un pays ne peuvent pas faire l’objet de saisies judiciaires. L’organisme chargé de la gestion et ... read more ...
 
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.Kiwi Premium Domain Sales Top $250,000 -       The .Kiwi Registry is reporting for the firs time that they have sold over $250,000 in .Kiwi premium domain names. The total amount of sales including domains sold under NDA which comprised about $70,000 of the $250,000 in sales. .Kiwi is also listing some sales as “Undisclosed” as these domains were sold on the basis that the sale and amount could be released publicly but not the domain. These sales are included on the list below. .Kiwi still has thousands of premium domain name avaliable ... read more ...
 
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Five key takeaways from ICANN 50 in London - The 50th Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in London from June 22–26. This marked the first time that an ICANN meeting has been held in London, and also resulted in the largest attendance record for an ICANN meeting, with more than 3,300 individuals registered in attendance. Despite what could be characterized as organized chaos on the ground during the meeting, the following five topics and takeaways began to emerge for brand ... read more ...
 
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New Insurance Sales CRM Delivers Enterprise Level Functionality-Features At … - TLD CRM was developed specifically for small-mid size insurance sales companies. It's a web based turn key system that requires no customization or programming and includes all of the vital features a sales office needs ready to go. Coral Springs, FL (PRWEB) -There are lots of CRMs on the market today, and yet with so many CRMs available, it's hard to find one that meets the needs of a small business; and even harder if your small business is specialized. Salesforce is obviously ... read more ...
 
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The Google Penguin has turn a Punisher - Has the Google Penguin become the punisher ? Eric Enge wrote a very good article on Search Engine Land that took a look at how punitive the Google Penguin really is. Enge expressed that he had a heavy heart with relation to the unforgiving nature of the Penguin. Enge gives those webmasters new to the game a primer on how the Penguin came to be: History Of Penguin The first release of Penguin took place on April 24, 2012, and it landed on the industry like a ton of bricks. From my perspective, everything ... read more ...
 
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Domain Prices Set Record As New TLDs Begin Trading, According To Sedo’s … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... .Com Domains Reach an All-time Average High as Buy Now Sales Continue to ClimbBoston, Mass. – Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of ... read more ...