Monthly Archives: September 2014

Thu 25th September 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Escrow.com acquires Agreed.com escrow service - Escrow service that launched this year is gobbled up by largest online escrow company. For the past year, the number of online escrow companies targeting the domain industry has grown considerably. It’s about to shrink by one. Escrow.com announced today that it has acquired Agreed.com from Thought Convergence. This is Thought Convergence’s second divestiture in as many weeks; last week it announced the sale of Aftermarket.com. Agreed.com launched in January of ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Design wins .design row set - Hotly contested top level domain name goes to Portland company. The .design top level domain name will be run, fittingly, by Top Level Design. Top Level Design beat out six other applicants in a private auction to win the domain. Given the number of applicants, I suspect the final price for the domain was near a high water mark. Top Level Design CEO Ray King told Domain Name Wire that winning .design was very important for the company, as you might guess from the ... read more ...
 
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Mike Robertson joins DirectNic as Business Development Director - Australian who co-founded Domain Guardians to move to U.S. for role. DNC Holdings (DirectNic) announced today that it has hired Mike Robertson as Business Development Director. A familiar face (and Australian accent) at domain conferences, Robertson previously co-founded Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians started as a sort of estate planning system for domain name owners. It later shifted into other domainer-focused products including domain brokerage. The company ... read more ...
 
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Apple iOS 8 tip #10: selecting TLDs from a keyboard - Millions of iOS 8 users are being reminded about how to quickly insert .com using the iOS keyboard. I made the switch from Android to iOS last week with the iPhone 6. iOS 8 has a “tips” app that pushes a new usage tip to you every few days. It’s helpful for someone like me who’s learning a new operating system. Some things in iOS aren’t intuitive to those that haven’t used the operating system before. Last night I received a push notification about shortcuts ... read more ...
 
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Spamhaus wins Spamhaus.com in UDRP, though it won’t get a domain right away - Domain name is part of Ondova portfolio tied up in courts. A UDRP panel has awarded anti-spam group The Spamhaus Project the domain name Spamhaus.com, but the group won’t be able to use the domain any time soon. The domain name is registered to Ondova Limited Company and is part of a domain name portfolio that has been locked up in bankruptcy court for years. When the UDRP was filed, lawyers acting for United States Bankruptcy Trustee of Ondova Limited Company sent ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
LasVegasWeekly.com: “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket & A Waste Of Money” - Lasvegasweekly.com just published a post entitled “Why The .Vegas Launch is a Ridiculous Racket” So as you can guess from the title LasVegasWeekly.com is not a fan of .Vegas It is probably as a scathing review of any new gTLD or the program in general that I have read from a non-domain industry publication. Its Brutal. Here we go with the highlights: “Now that the inane hype and local media boosterism for the new “dot-vegas” top level domain name is beginning to subside, maybe someone with ... read more ...
 
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Why the dot-vegas launch is a ridiculous racket - Now that the inane hype and local media boosterism for the new “dot-vegas” top level domain name is beginning to subside, maybe someone with some sense will listen to the truth: It’s a racket, a waste of money and a doomed concept that someday will make a mockery out of all those civic leaders posing around that goofy .VEGAS sign. Seriously. It’s going to make the Las Vegas Monorail seem like a good idea. For the uninitiated, all Internet addresses have what are called “top level domains,” ... read more ...
 
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So you want to apply for a new gTLD in the second Round of the ICANN new … - New domain names are now on the market and you start to realize that you may have missed the train by not submitting your own new gTLD application. So why not get your part of the cake and consider applying for your own new Top-Level Domain in the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program? Why not become a "Registry" and sell domain names… to the world? New gTLD Service Providers will tell you all about it There are many offers on the market: those from back-end Registries (technical ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Strikes Back with “.buy” - Image by: Robert Scoble As a new development in the scramble to acquire generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), Amazon is the latest to successfully make a move.  Amazon recently purchased the gTLD “.buy” for a whopping $4.6 million dollars, outbidding competitors such as Google to receive the gTLD.  When more than one party seeks to register a TLD, it may result in a bidding war between the two (or more) parties.  Thus, the initial application ... read more ...
 
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ICANN vydražil nové TLD .buy, .tech a .vip za miliony dolarů - Lupa.cz (www.lupa.cz), server o českém Internetu. ISSN 1213-0702 Copyright © 1998 – 2014 Internet Info, s.r.o. Všechna práva vyhrazena. Powered by Linux. Přepnout na mobilní verzi Kontakt| Reklama| Podmínky užívání| Podpořte Lupa.cz| Win8 app| RSS exporty ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 10,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .BlackFriday - Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop. North Sound Names also registered 10,000 domain names in a third Uniregistry string yesterday .Blackfriday,  which launched in July of this year. After the first day of general availability .Blackfriday had ... read more ...
 
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.Direct Launches Today Here Are The More Interesting Of The 250 + Registrations - .The new gTLD .Direct launches today into General Availability (GA) when domains can be registered on a first come, first serve basis. .Direct according to nTLDstats.com has over 250 registrations including Sunrise Period registrations that were opened to trademark holders and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names  in the Early Access Program (EAP). By comparison, the other Donuts new gTLD launching today, .Place has less than 100 registrations (85) through Sunrise and EAP. The ... read more ...
 
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País Vasco y Galicia ya disponen de sus dominios .eus y .gal - Los nuevos dominios de nivel superior genéricos o gTLD “.eus” y “.gal” ya se encuentran disponibles desde fechas recientes en fase Sunrise y Landrush, aunque, cabe señalar, que el registro libre no estará disponible hasta el próximo 3 de diciembre. Las extensiones “.barcelona” y “.madrid” también estarán operativas a corto plazo. Estas extensiones podrán alojar todo tipo de empresas, asociaciones y particulares que quieran vincular sus proyectos y páginas web a las culturas ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 5,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Hiphop New gTLD - Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry yesterday. North Sound Domains also registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop yesterday. .Hiphop which launched earlier this month,  had after its first day of general availability,  just 424 domain registrations and had around 500 registrations before yesterday registrations ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Registers 16,000 Domains In Uniregistry’s .Audio New gTLD - It appears that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry yesterday according to Registered.Today .Audio which launched earlier this month,  had after its first day of general availability,  just 701 registrations and had around 1,100 registrations before yesterday registrations by North Sound Names. .Audio is now the 24th most registered new gTLD according to ntldstats,com with ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins .Auto; Donuts Wins .Memorial; Afilias Loses IDN .信息 Which May Mean Info - Uniregistry won the new gTLD private auction for .Auto beating out Donuts, long time domain name investor Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry, and Dot Auto LLC, which is associated with the company that operates .Uno Donuts also won the new gTLD .Memorial beating  Afilias and dotCOOL, which operates the new gTLD .Qpon. Publicly traded Rightside (NAME) won the auction for .RIP which jointly owns certain new gTLD together with Donuts and operates Donuts registries backend. Afilias also lost the auction to ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Reports: Sales Increase 4,114%; Revenue 255%; Shares Are Up 9.5% -       Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) issued its financial report for the six months ending  June 30, 2014 today. Total sales increased 4,114% to £295,000 against £7,000 for the same period in 2013;  Operating profit was up 255% at £2.92 million against a 2013 loss of £1.88million,  and wound up with £20 Million  in the bank as of June 30th up from £9 Million  as of the end of December 31st, 2013 You can read the full report here. Operational Highlights: ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million -     Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the new gTLD auctions for the new domain name extensions .Law and .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million). The net cash to the Minds + Machines includes the amounts paid for .Vip and .Law, and is also net of auction fees and refunds that the Company received from ICANN for withdrawing applications. The Company also participated ... read more ...
 
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Minds+Machines shares up as auctions results beat expectations - Internet domain specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) added nearly 10% in early deals as it revealed it had won the auctions for .law and for .vip, surpassing its expectations. The firm also earned a total of US$6.2 million (£3.8 million) from withdrawing its applications to .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate and .video in private auctions. Separately, the firm posted its latest half year results, which showed a considerable increase in revenues. It purchased .vip for around US$3.1 million, ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from the Republic of Iraq Successfully Passes String … – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from the Republic of Iraq Successfully Passes String ... / LOS ANGELES – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for the Republic of Iraq. Details of the successful evaluation are provided through this link: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion According to ICANN, the ... read more ...
 
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SEO’s contend lapsed domains are being targeted by Google - Some people think Google is using expired domain info to track down so-called “Private Blog Networks”. About ten years ago I made a mint from expired domains. These weren’t good expired domains. They were just domains that had been used before, had lots of incoming links and nice Google juice. I’d slap up a site full of pretty crappy content and wait for the search engines to come slurp it up. The ad clicks tallied up to over $1,000 a day for a short while. ... read more ...
 
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I don’t know this new TLD ad - Google ad for new TLDs just links to an end user website using a new TLD. I came across this contextual Google ad today: The ad text itself seems like something a new TLD seller would use. And marina.equipment is certainly a new TLD. But what do marinas have to do with new TLDs? Curious, I clicked the ad. This is what I saw: The answer: it has nothing to do with new TLDs. This site is about marina management software. It makes sense with the domain marina.equipment, ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines’ numbers uncover new TLD auctions are removing out of control - Highly contested new TLD auctions are likely ending well above $10 million. Minds + Machines put out a press release today about winning the .law and .vip domain names at auction, and the numbers in it provide hints about how much companies are paying to win private auctions for new TLDs. If my math is right, these new TLD auctions are getting out of control. The company won .law and .vip, but lost five auctions: .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate and .video. ... read more ...
 
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Is Verisign’s devise for a standards organisation partial of the obvious play? - Company’s CEO disclosed creating an industry group as part of monetizing its patent portfolio. Verisign recently announced plans to organize a group called Registration Operations Association (ROA) to discuss technical aspects of domain name registration. A three part blog series proposing the group, penned by Verisign Senior Director Scott Hollenbeck, focuses on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and the challenges of registrars working with different EPP extensions ... read more ...