Monthly Archives: September 2014

Tue 30th September 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Melbourne web address up and running - Melbourne's well-known Flower Drum restaurant, the Melbourne Festival and Bank of Melbourne are among the first businesses to adopt a new web address from today: dot-melbourne.For example, the Melbourne Festival's new online address is www.festival.melbourne.Melbourne is the first Australian city to have its own top-level domain name, or TLD.- AAP ... read more ...
 
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TeleSign Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking As Esqwire.com Wins 11 In Row - TeleSign Corporation, of California was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name PhoneId.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc, which was represented as usual by Esqwire.com According to my records its the 11th win in row for Esqwire.com and the 5th finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The three member panel of Paul M. DeCicco, Esq., Diane Thilly Cabell, Esq., and the Honorable Charles K. McCotter, Jr. (Ret.) found while the complainant owned the very recently ... read more ...
 
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Arts Watch: Edinburgh’s Forest Fringe Microfestival Comes to Abrons – The Lo - This weekend an Edinburgh Festival Sensation, Forest Fringe, will be transforming the Abrons Arts Center into an experimental, building-wide microfestival for its New York debut. I recently caught up with one of the three co-founders, Andy Field. TLD – Why did you see the need to create the Forest Fringe Festival? AF – I love the International Festival and the Fringe and all of the other festivals in Edinburgh – it is extremely exciting to be there in the city during festival time. I love ... read more ...
 
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The Rick Schwartz Roast: Here is Your Chance To Get Your Material Into My Presentation - As the TRAFFIC organizers announced today, there will be a once in a lifetime roast of  Rick Schwartz at the TRAFFIC conference that will be held in Miami Beach next month. The idea for the roast came from Adam Dicker during last weeks DomainSherpa.com discussion, but it didn’t take long for that idea to jump onto the agenda at the TRAFFIC Conference. I’m going to be on the select panel to roast my good friend, so I though I would give the readers of thedomains.com the opportunity to furnish ... read more ...
 
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.Deals Has 400+ Registrations; Launches Tomorrow; Here are The More Interesting Domains - .Deals which launches into general availability tomorrow has over 400 registrations including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to get early access to the domain name (EAP). I think its a good extension. Of course some of the better domains are reserved or on the ICANN collision list. So Daily.Deals is out, as is Great.Deals, Best.Deals, Hot.Deals and Online.Deals to name a few. Other available domain names may have a premium registration and renewal rates. Here ... read more ...
 
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Next gTLDs: 2016 or 2019? - On September 22, 2014, ICANN published an analysis of the review and assessment work that remains to be done before a new round of gTLD (generic Top Level Domain) applications can be initiated. According to the document, 2016 is the earliest a call for the next lot of applications to operate an Internet suffix could come. To many, a subsequent application window so soon after the 2012 round seems unrealistic. ICANN has committed to undertaking a full review of that first round before moving ... read more ...
 
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Explore Global TLD chip market strategies and forecast to 2020 - Explore Global TLD chip market strategies and forecast to 2020 Details WhaTech Channel: Industrial Market Research Reports Published: Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:31 Submitted by Sherry James WhaTech Premium Legacy News from: Radiant Insights - Market Research Read: 22 times The report include six parts, the first ... read more ...
 
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Apple named ‘the most-phished brand’ as scam levels rise - Trevor Little Last night ICANN itself issued a warning about phishing scams using its branding and logo, and the organisation is not alone in this plight - the latest research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has revealed rising levels of phishing attacks across the first half of 2014, with Apple identified as the brand most frequently targeted ... read more ...
 
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News Corp Acquires Publicly Traded Move.com For $950M - News Corp has agreed to acquire Move, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE) “a leading online real estate business that brings consumers and Realtors® together to facilitate the sale and rental of real estate in the United States.” “The Move Network of websites, which also includes Move.com, reaches approximately 35 million people per month, who spend an average of 22 minutes each on its sites1. REA Group Limited (“REA”), which is 61.6% owned by News Corp and is the operator of the leading Australian residential ... read more ...
 
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.bayern startet: Neue TLD für Geschäfte im Süden - Die Top Level Domain (TLD) ".bayern" wird ab heute vergeben, der Webhosting-Anbieter 11 ermöglicht die verbindliche Bestellung der neuen TLD .bayern. Als Einführungsaktion sollen alle bestellten Adressen im ersten Jahr nur 1,99 Euro monatlich kosten, später kostet die Domain 3,99 Euro pro Monat. .bayern ist die dritte neue geografische Top-Level-Domain in Deutschland, mit der ein Bundesland an den Start geht - nach den Stadtstaaten Berlin und Hamburg. Der Registrar Domain Registry Deutschland ... read more ...
 
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".bayern" geht an den Start – Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie - © JanMiks/Colourbox.de Mehr Sichtbareit im Netz: Der DEHOGA Bayern begrüßt die neue Endung ".bayern" Top Level Domains MÜNCHEN. Als eine der ersten Regionen hat sich Bayern eine der neuen Internetendungen gesichert. Diese Endungen, auch Top Level Domains (TLD) genannt, können künftig anstelle von „.de“ oder „.com“ stehen. Den offiziellen Start der Endung „.bayern“ verkündeten Vertreter aus Politik, Wirtschaft ... read more ...
 
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Company pays $25k to solve lawsuit stemming from UDRP - Domain name owner that sued after losing UDRP settles for $25,000 (not including the domain). Companies that file long shot UDRPs with the hope of scoring a great domain name, take note. An Austin company has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against it after it initiated a UDRP case. And the company won its UDRP. Austin Pain Associates filed a UDRP against AustinPain.com, a domain owned by HugeDomains. I was surprised that the complainant won, and believe ... read more ...
 
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How to selectively allot sales leads on DomainNameSales.com - DomainNameSales.com allows you to handle the sales inquiries you want and send the others to brokers. I use DomainNameSales.com (DNS) to park most of my domain names because I like using their sales platform. DNS’ platform allows you to handle purchase inquiries on your own for no fee or assign a broker to handle your inquiries for a commission. For a long time I had DNS handle all my inquiries, but then I decided to broker domain sales myself. Yet sometimes I’d ... read more ...
Mon 29th September 2014
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New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge - With just over 2.4 million New gTLDs registered, abuse trends are beginning to emerge. Earlier this month we conducted a review of the top 100 most highly-trafficked Web property names across the top 5 most popular new gTLD registries. It is apparent that the abuse we had expected has occurred — just not where we had anticipated. For example, .Wang leads the pack in terms of abusive registrations with 47% of the top 100 Web property names registered to third-parties. For the other top ... read more ...
 
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„wiesn.bayern“ ist schon vergeben - München sz Man muss es wohl dazu sagen: Die Einführung der Internet-Domain „.bayern“ sei „kein Vorläufer eines Separatismus“, versicherte Bayerns Finanz- und Heimatminister Markus Söder (CSU) am Montag im Münchener Presseclub. Ab dem heutigen Dienstag können sich Interessierte die neue Internet-Wunschdomain sichern, wenn sie ihre bayerischen Wurzeln künftig auch über die Adresszeile nach außen tragen wollen.Zehn Jahre haben die Bayern an die ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Bayern-Domains: Eigenständige Identität, die ihre bajuwarischen Wurzeln zeigt - Am 30. September um 12 Uhr startet die Bayern-Domain. Wer sich jetzt noch eine gute Bayern-Domain sichern will, muß sich sputen... Die Registrierungsstelle schreibt:" Die neue Top-Level-Domain .BAYERN ermöglicht allen in Bayern - ob ansässiges Unternehmen, Ein-Mann-Betrieb, Start-Up, Großkonzern, gemeinnützige Organisation oder Privatperson - ihre Website regional zu färben, zum Beispiel balkonbau.bayern." Die Bayern-Domains, meint die Registrierungsstelle, sorge für Orientierung bei den Besuchern: "Die ... read more ...
 
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Neue Domain-Endung im Internet: Exklusiv für AZ-Leser: Die .bayern-Domain … - Söder hatte im April das US-Unternehmen Icann in Kalifornien besucht, das die Vergabe der Domains reguliert. "Regionen, Städte, Unternehmen, Vereine und Bürger können sich mit der Endung .bayern im Netz besser positionieren und ihre Verbindung zum Freistaat deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen", erklärte Söder. Eperten gehen auch davon aus, dass regionale TLDs, wie zum Beispiel .BAYERN in Suchmaschinen eine bessere Platzierung in den Trefferlisten erhalten. Das würde nicht zuletzt auch den regionalen ... read more ...
 
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Berryhill: “We’re Taking This to Court” As UDRP Rules Against Marchex’s Generic Banco24horas.com - Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil, just was awarded the generic domain names banco24horas.com and banco24horas.net Banco is Spanish for the word Bank and of course, “24 horas” translated from spanish is “24 hours” so the domains transferred we’re “24 hour bank” in .com and .net Marchex Sales Inc. which was represented by John Berryhill lost three member panel decision by a majority, meaning that two panelist, Sebastian M.W. Hughes and Philippe Gilliéron voted to transfer ... read more ...
 
 
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Law Enforcement Is Not Happy With Apple’s New Privacy Policy - Apple changed its privacy policy with iOS 8 and it has many in law enforcement up in arms. In an article on Mashable written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, members of law enforcement expressed their displeasure with some saying that the new policy could cost lives. One even went so far as to say that the iPhone will become the phone of choice for pedophiles. From the article: “[Criminals’] phones contain contacts, texts, and geo-tagged data that can help police track down accomplices,” ... read more ...
 
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Nuovi domini TLD: disponibili le registrazioni di centinaia di estensioni - Con l’avvento dei nuovi domini TLD di primo livello, che saranno man mano registrabili non appena le autorità competenti regolarizzeranno i registri appositi nei vari paesi, si intravedono nuove opportunità per tutti i professionisti e le aziende che intendono aprire una propria “finestra” sul web, con la creazione di siti internet, blog o portali e-commerce. Mentre infatti la scelta dei domini web era prima ... read more ...
 
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How Will The New Dot.Tickets Domain Impact The Way People Buy Tickets … - While the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a nonprofit, over the course of it’s 15 years in existence it’s created a tremendous amount of wealth.  As the organization responsible for creating new subdomains on the Internet, ICANN, as it’s known, decides what makes up the Internet.  While it started with just .com, .edu, .gov and .mil, it’s expanded a lot since then. Until 2011, the number of general top level domains (gTLDs) was fixed at 22 for non country-specific ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling has sole $12 million in domain names this year - Schilling says his domain aftermarket sales have hit $12 million for the year. Frank Schilling has sold $12 million worth of his own domain names this year, already surpassing his total from 2013. Schilling disclosed this number in an update to DomainNameSales.com (DNS) clients. He said his sales platform has been the engine behind his secondary market domain name sales success. The update lists a number of other big changes and features coming soon to his domain ... read more ...
 
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This week’s new TLDs: .Bayern, .ovh and .deals - A geo and an open .brand top level domain name launch this week. It’s a slow week again for new top level domain names, and that will be the case going forward for awhile. On Tuesday, the geo domain .bayern (Bavaria) launches. On Wednesday, Donuts releases .deals in general availability. .City will enter the Early Access Phase. Next week Donuts won’t send any domains to EAP, as it is running low on domain names to release. There’s an interesting launch on ... read more ...
 
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Sedo finish user domain name sales - An aviation company and a seller of hair extensions among end user domain name buyers. Sedo handled 591 domain name transactions the week before last for a total of about $1 million in sales. The list includes a startup in Texas, a bunch of .uk purchases, and a company buying a .berlin domain name to match its .eu domain. The end user list, including new TLDs and existing ones, is below. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to ... read more ...