Monthly Archives: August 2014

Sat 16th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
Internet Subscriber Growth Surpasses Cable for First Time in The U.S. - I don’t think its a surprise to a lot of our readers but Wired magazine did a story on the Internet being more popular than cable tv by subscriber count. This does not seem to be distressing to the major cable companies as they are all deeply ingrained with the Internet. The margins for broadband are also greater than they are for cable tv so this is another bonus. Of course as more people want their entertainment on demand, whenever and wherever it is only logical the Internet will overshadow ... read more ...
 
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Client of Mark Monitor’s Buys iPick.com From Vertical Axis - A client of Brand protection company Mark Monitor has purchased the highly brandable domain name iPick.com from Vertical Axis. The domain name was transferred over to brand protection company MarkMoniktor.com today. The domain name was owned by Vertical Axis who seems to have owned the domain name since at least 2005 Of course we do not have any idea how much the domain name sold for but knowing Vertical Axis we can only assume it was a six figure purchase. The domain name is not currently resolving. It ... read more ...
 
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IRP Panel’s Declaration of a IRP Procedure in a box of DotConnect Africa Trust vs ICANN - IRP Panel’s Declaration of the IRP Procedure was released on August 14, dealing with the matter between DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA) and ICANN. In June of 2013 ICANN decided not to accept the application from DCA with regards to the .Africa extension. Over the last year the two sides have been battling it out back and forth. According to DCA Trust, “ICANN’s administration of the New gTLD Program and its decision on DCA’s application were unfair, discriminatory, and lacked appropriate due diligence ... read more ...
 
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How people are using the web’s newest corners - It’s been half a year since the web’s first new top-level domains (gTLDs) went live, a moment Quartz called “the biggest land rush in history.” The web is in the process of moving from fewer than two dozen TLDs (such as the .com in qz.com) to over a thousand. Nearly 200 have already gone live. Now that the dust has settled, it is possible to look back over the past few months and see what effect these new TLDs are really having on the web. Verisign, the company that administers ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
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ICANN offers fix for domain name collisions - I recently got a call from a friend whose business was having problems with an internal network whose web server had a URL that included .guru. One day, their staff had trouble reaching it. They'd made no changes and you could still reach the server using its IPv4 address; it was a mystery. It took me hours — and you still owe me guys! —but I finally discovered that there was a public internet website with a .guru top-level domain name that was conflicting with their private ... read more ...
 
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Google’s Response to Negative SEO Extortion “No Bueno” - Hi Rannvijay, Thanks for your reply. I must admit I’m amazed at the costs of your service! Only $1,500 for 20,000 links??? That’s only 8p a link! What a bargain! How can you even afford to pay someone to do that for so little money is beyond me. Either you pay your guys a very minimum wage or they’re incredibly efficient coders. Which is it? I’d love to know your secret. We’ve got engineers here and they’d laughed at me if I asked them to add a link to a page for 8p! What CMS do you use? ... read more ...
 
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Ha.com Last Auction Now Over $800K in Sales & Post Auction Ends Aug 25th - We just got an email from Heritage Auction and to date their last domain auction has produced around $800,000 in sales so far. The post-auction offers end in 9 days on August 25th. The entire list is here:http://domains.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ns=Price%7c1N=3369+794+4294950887 There are some amazing names here are just a few: TYI.com SEM.com (incredible name: Search Engine Marketing) Watermark.com Plank.com Cain.com SouthernCalifornia.com PlanetPartners.com Bitcoin.club Luxury.club Downline.com OklahomaCity.com Copies.com ACJ.com All ... read more ...
 
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Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 - Trending: Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video Cisco cutting 6,000 jobs Androids gain in enterprise Security nightmares Resources/White Papers Rows network world Securitynavigateright ... read more ...
 
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Another Previously Unreported Sale; Peep.com - It appears the domain name Peep.com changed hand this year. The domain name that has been owned under privacy for many years, moved to Godaddy.com in May. The domain has been a parked page for many years as well but as you can see from the screenshot, its now the home of the Peep App. We don;t know what the domain sold for but a couple of similar domain names, PeepingTom.com sold for $20,000 back in December 2011 and Peep.me sold for $11,750 back in 2013 according to dnpric.es   ... read more ...
 
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Big Changes To TRAFFIC & Awards: Escrow.com To Count Votes & Rick Schwartz Last Show Produced? - Some big changes are coming to the TRAFFIC domain name conference and the TRAFFIC awards. The TRAFFIC awards for 2014 will be handed out during TRAFFIC’s 10th anniversary conference that will be held October 30th- November 2nd in Miami Beach. Over the years I have been fortunate enough to win 4 TRAFFIC awards and have to tell you I proudly display all of them in my office. I had a chance to get the low down from Mr. Rick Schwartz, one of the organizers of the conference to chat about the 2014 TRAFFIC ... read more ...
 
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Call for ICANN to Educate and Not Mislead GAC - I read with interest the recent blog written by Theresa Swinehart a Sr. Advisor to the President on Strategy. She wrote: "The most critical element of this [ICANN Transition] process is trust and alignment. To ensure success on this accountability track, we must as a community work closely together to make sure that the final process is meaningful. There is plenty of work to be done in an ambitious period of time." Post the completion of the ICANN 50 London meeting, I wrote a Commentary on ... read more ...
 
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4chan loses domain name brawl with Oversee.net - 4chan wanted to get the domain name 4chan.com. Popular bulletin board site 4chan has lost a case it filed to get the domain name 4chan.com. 4chan, LLC, which operates the top 1,000 site 4chan.org, filed the complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Oversee.net back in March. One commenter on my original story about the UDRP case thought it was odd that 4chan was just now coming after the domain name. That person also pointed out that 4chan ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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Godaddy: Radix Landrush Fees Are Fully Refundable & Always Were -   I got a message from Godaddy today in response to my story of a few days ago, that they were charging a non-refundable $160 application Landrush fee for the Radix new gTLD which start with .Press, .Website, .Host. Godaddy wrote me today and said that the $160 landrush fee was in fact refundable in the event the applicant didn’t wind up getting the domain. I asked the Godaddy Representative if this was a change in policy based on my post and they told me despite what their site showed in the ... read more ...
 
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New Canadian-backed .club web domains getting snapped up by 50 Cent, Demi … - Michael OliveiraTORONTO — Guessing a website address used to be so simple. Stick a .com or .ca at the end of a company or organization’s name and most of the time, that would do it.But there’s a flood of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) hitting the web, which could eventually leave consumers struggling to remember which of more than 1,400 web suffixes to type in.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the process of gradually rolling out all ... read more ...
 
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Last Lap of .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST Sunrise - The Sunrise of Radix's first three TLDs .website, .press and .host is receiving great acceptance. Brands registered with the TMCH have the last 10 days left to take advantage of this Sunrise opportunity. Only 10 days are left before Radix's first three TLDs, .website, .host and .press exit Sunrise on 22nd August '14. The three extensions were launched on 26th June '14 with more than 75 Accredited Registrars on board including Sunrise focused Registrars like MarkMonitor, 101Domain, Com ... read more ...
 
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Sued Yesterday As Part of BestRegistrar, Jeff Smith Is Also Applicant For New … - Yesterday we reported that Simon Property Group (SPG) sued domain name registrar BestRegistrar along with a few alleged resellers and its principals individually including a Jeff Smith to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by SPG, and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful attempts to exact a “ransom” from SPG for the ... read more ...
 
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Sued Yesterday As Part of BestRegistrar, Jeff Smith Is Also Applicant For New gTLD .Shop - Yesterday we reported that Simon Property Group (SPG) sued domain name registrar BestRegistrar along with a few alleged resellers and its principals individually including a Jeff Smith to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by SPG, and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful attempts to exact a “ransom” from SPG for the ... read more ...
 
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Brands Concerned by Risks Associated With New Domains - Photo by Descrier Images Creative Commons license As generic top-level domains (gTLDs) become more widespread, brands have admitted to feeling concerned about their rollout over the next five years. Research released from brand protection firm Netnames as part ... read more ...
 
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Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs - A recent study, by EURid and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre, set out to better understand the most common usage of websites that are linked to domains, and we thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. So, we analyzed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs according to published zone files on June 29, 2014. Verisign utilizes our own proprietary process for classifying websites, which results in similar classifications to those ... read more ...
 
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Firms are very worried about new generic top level domains - We have updated our privacy policy. In the latest update it explains what cookies are and how we use them on our site. To learn more about cookies and their benefits, please view our privacy policy. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies. By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy unless you have disabled them. ... read more ...
 
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Study reveals new gTLD usage patterns, but treat figures with caution - New research from Verisign has revealed that only 3% of the second-level domains registered in new gTLDs contain business websites, with pay-per-click (PPC) usage dwarfing that level. However, there are some caveats to consider.   In previous blogs we have looked at overall registration levels in the new gTLD space (1,875,612 at time of writing) but haven’t drilled down to look at how these sites are being used. Verisign’s study analysed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs ... read more ...
 
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German Company Now Has $1 Billion Valuation After Acquiring Pizza.de - TechCrunch.com is reporting that the German food delivery service  Delivery Hero  announced today that it has acquired Pizza.de, another food delivery service also based in Germany. “The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but we understand from a source that it is an all-cash deal, with no shares exchanged and that post-acquisition, the total valuation of Delivery Hero is now over $1 billion.” “Östberg calls the acquisition of Pizza.de “the largest news in the history of Delivery ... read more ...
 
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Group On’s ideeli, Acquires & Rebrands As ideel.com - ideeli, the online retailer, announced today it has acquired the domain name and rebranded itself to ideel.com The company recently acquired the domain ideel.com back in June from a domain holder in France in a sale that has not been previously reported. “The company which is a discount fashion site was acquired by Groupon earlier this year. The website has been expanding its offerings in women’s apparel, shoes, home and men’s, while testing the use of “ideel” branding across the site ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks 1st Day New gTLD Totals; .Dental 1,971; .Clinic 1,447; .Care 1,395; .Surgery 534 - Four new gTLD’s went into general availability yesterday, meaning domain names could be registered on a first come first served basis. Including domain names registered during the Sunrise period for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP) where people paid a higher fee to get early access to domain registrations here are the totals after the first day of GA according to ntldstats.com .Dental 1,971 .Clinic 1,447 .Care 1,395 .Surgery 534 So we are looking at a total of just over 5,000 ... read more ...
 
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Overstock Sees Positive Earnings Impact from Accepting Bitcoin - Overstock sees Bitcoin having a postitive effect on earnings for 2014. The company told Reuters they expect Bitcoin to add 4 cents per share, they are expecting $1.5 billion in sales for the year. From the article: Overstock.com Inc’s sales through bitcoin are expected to add 4 cents per share to its earnings this year, the online retailer’s chief executive, Patrick Byrne, told Reuters. Bitcoin sales at Overstock (OSTK.O), which started accepting this type of currency as payment for items on ... read more ...