Monthly Archives: August 2014

Tue 26th August 2014
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One of a misfortune domain names. Ever. - We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’d like to buy an ‘o’, please.I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or something like that. (It’s in my archives somewhere, but it was so bad I can’t even remember exactly what it was.) Now we have a new nominee for worst domain name: neighbrhds.com Neighbrhds is the ... read more ...
 
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How 22 finish users are (or aren’t!) regulating domain names they bought this year - Each week I write at least one post about which end users bought domain names over the past week. What do end users do with these domain names they buy on the aftermarket? I was curious, so I went back to one of the weekly end user reports I published about six months ago. The report included 22 sales ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. Six months later, here’s a breakdown of how the buyers are using the sites: 4 of 22 are used as the domain name for a website 8 of ... read more ...
 
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Quickly find a tip websites built on new TLDs - Two tools show you which sites built on new TLDs are gaining traction. A key for the long run success of each new top level domain name is usage. Which TLDs are getting traction with actual end users? Two tools based on Alexa data can help you find out. Softnik, creator of Watch My Domains Pro, has created a free tool that makes it easy to sort the Alexa 1 Million list by TLD. Just type in a TLD, hit enter and you’ll quickly see a list of domains on that TLD that ... read more ...
 
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Why your new TLDs won’t work good with domain parking (yet) - Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with the term “cash” in them. When they got clicks, they were high dollar clicks. There are lots of expensive Adwords terms related to cash. So would traffic to something.cash monetize well? No, not on the basis of the top level ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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As New gTLD Registrations Hit 2 Million Domains, Here Is Our Take On The New G’s - We have been talking about the new gTLD program for well over 6 years and over the weekend we noted that the number of new gTLD registrations passed the 2 Million mark. So we thought this would be a good time to give some thoughts about where the program is at and where it is going. Since we have been writing about the new G’s we have pretty much said the same thing, we don’t know how they will do or what  effect they will have on the .com aftermarket. After the launch of 194 new gTLD’s into ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s GreatDomains.com Auction Ends On Thursday & Has Over $250K In Bids - Sedo is holding its Month GreatDomains auction which closes at noon on Thursday EST and there are over $250,000 in bids placed altough as of publication the highest bid for a domain that has met reserve is $490 Here are all the domain names in the auction with the high bid (if any) and reserve range:   Domain Reserve met/not met High Bid Reserve Range musik.de Reserve not met 52,000 EUR 50,000 – 99,999 EUR apps.de Reserve not met 27,000 EUR 25,000 – 49,999 EUR j7.com Reserve not met 20,000 EUR 50,000 ... read more ...
 
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DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag On Thursday - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities. Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at: NetNames.com Marcaria Safe names Markmonitor Blacknight 101domain Moniker.com Tucows United Domains Epag Key Systems 1 and ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: DotHIV Launching With A Social Purpose & a $200 Price Tag Today - The .Hiv registry sent us this information on the launch of the new gTLD .Hiv The domain is not being offered by some of the bigger registrars and is priced around between $196 and $230 a year at some of the registrars I checked, although a portion of the price is being given to HIV and AIDS charities. Here are some of the registrars that you can register a .HIV domain name at: NetNames.com Marcaria Safe names Markmonitor Blacknight 101domain Moniker.com Tucows United Domains Epag Key Systems 1 and ... read more ...
 
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Apple Goes In Heavy On .Discount Which Gets Over 300 Sunrise/ Early Access Domain Registrations - .Discount which launches into General Availability this week on Wednesday, is doing pretty well compared to the most recent launches with over 340 Sunrise and Early Access Program Registrations and we thought we take a look at the more interesting one’s. For me Discount is one of those terms that is usually used  more on the left side of a term than on the rightside, so discount travel, discount hotels, discount fashion, discount electronics for example seems more natural than say fashion.discount ... read more ...
 
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$55,000 A Year For A Domain Registration? Wecolme To .Attorney & .Lawyer - Two new gTLD’s that will be launching into general availability on October 8th 2014, .Attorney and .Lawyer premium domain names are carrying the highest costs of any extension we have seen so far by a mile. Both extensions are being launched with an Early Access Program (EAP). The good news is that very few domains are being reserved by the registry. The bad news is for those domains labeled as premium domains by the registry, .Attorney and .Lawyer domains are names are carrying the highest premium ... read more ...
 
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About This Blog - Monday, August 25, 2014 DNS Policy Notes for August 25, 2014 by Thomas O'Toole Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and misc other cyberlaw topics for August 25, 2014.Breaking the Silence on Internet GovernanceVia the World Economic Forum:Inspired by the NETmundial meeting ... read more ...
 
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Domain name registration and a Paradox of Choice - Offering too many choices might lead to more abandoned shopping carts. One of my favorite books is Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice. The premise of the book is that more choice doesn’t necessarily mean more satisfaction. It can lead to regret, dissatisfaction, and indecision. The book references a report by Columbia and Stanford researchers called “When Choice is Demotivating” (pdf). One of the field experiments in the report involved a sample station ... read more ...
 
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Domain name financier condemned to jail for taxation fraud - Australian man was active on domain name forums. A domain name investor who was active on various domain name forums has been sentenced to jail for defrauding Australian tax authorities. Michael Purse spent tens of thousands of dollars buying expired domain names, District Court Judge Steven Millsteed said. The judge said Purse got $130,134 in illegal refunds for several businesses he set up to buy the domains, reports PerthNow. According to the publication, the ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: $150k/domain? Plus .black, .hiv, and .creditcard - Pull out your .creditcard. This week will be an interesting one for new top level domain names: Afilias takes a different tact on .color domains, an EAP with a $150k price tag, Donuts raises the bar with .creditcard, and the first “social cause” TLD launches. Tuesday Following on the lackluster launches of .red, .pink and .blue, Afilias launches .black. .Red is its most successful color domain so far, but it has received fewer than 2,500 registrations. Afilias ... read more ...
Sun 24th August 2014
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of … - According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549. However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around. Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names. cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week.  You ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of Caveats & Asterisks - According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549. However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around. Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names. cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week.  You ... read more ...
 
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Registry Registers & Reserves over 33500 New gTLD’s For .公司 (Business … - The registry we wrote about the other day which registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names for a new gTLD IDN has done it again with another new gTLD IDN. This time Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center registered and reserved over 33,500 domain names for the extension .公司 which means “business organization” You can read more about this application here The number of reserved and registered domains in .公司 (Business ... read more ...
 
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Registry Registers & Reserves over 33,500 New gTLD’s For .公司 (Business Organizations) - The registry we wrote about the other day which registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names for a new gTLD IDN has done it again with another new gTLD IDN. This time Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China Internet Network Information Center registered and reserved over 33,500 domain names for the extension .公司 which means “business organization” You can read more about this application here The number of reserved and registered domains in .公司 (Business ... read more ...
 
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Quebec to Launch Its Own Internet Domain: dot-Quebec - Montreal, Quebec – It may cause the rest of the nation to roll its eyes and once again mutter in frustration why this eccentric province insists on being non-germane, but the province is nonetheless poised to begin using its own suffix for websites. While the rest of Canada uses the standard .com or .ca suffixes, websites will soon sprout up using .quebec as their suffix. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization managing internet standards, ... read more ...
Sat 23rd August 2014
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Snapnames World Domain Day Auction List - Snapnames  auction for the World Domain Day WDD (World Domain Day) is an international event for the promotion of domain names and to educate people on building successful online businesses. A WDD spokeswoman said, “WDD is being held in India for the first time on 24.08.14. Join us to network with hundreds of domain investors, web professionals, startups and venture capitalists to learn all about creating successful businesses online! Register for the event to listen to international speakers, ... read more ...
 
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Dave Zatz Explains Amazon Ad Network - Dave Zatz runs a very popular gadget blog on Zatznotfunny.com. First off this does not look like its going to be an Adsense competitor, the ads are going to be CPM  impression based and not pay per click, so I don’t see this being a parking alternative. Of course Amazon could change their mind down the road. The program is invite only currently to a select group of Associates. Tech Crunch wrote: According to Amazon’s description of the new CPM ads, the ads are tailored to the user using Amazon’s ... read more ...
 
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Best News For Domainers Ever? Amazon Developing Product To Compete With Google Adwords - In what appears to be the best news for domain investors in many years, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon.com is gearing up to directly challenge Google’s dominance of the online advertising market, developing its own software for placing ads online that could leverage its knowledge of millions of Web shoppers. “Initially, Amazon plans to replace those ads on its pages that Google chiefly supplies with a new in-house ad placement platform, In the future, that system could challenge ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2014
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Google Gains Victory in German Publisher Dispute - Back in June, Jeff Jarvis wrote on Buzz Machine about German publishers banding together to go after Google for linking to their content. As Jarvis pointed out Google News does not show ads so the desire to get 11 % of something, would be 11% of nothing. From the article: German publishers are not just fighting Google. They are fighting the link and thus the essence of the internet. Half the major publishers in Germany have started a process of arbitration — which, no doubt, will lead to suits ... read more ...
 
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TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion - Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:54 pm TLD Ace pays OSHA fine, plans expansion By Howard French Journal Inquirer Journal Inquirer | 0 comments WINDSOR — TLD Ace Corp. ... read more ...