Monthly Archives: September 2014

Mon 22nd September 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
10 Churches Using .Church Domain Name - I’ve seen some press regarding the recently introduced .Church domain names. This morning, Hover reported that .Church “has debuted at no.8 on this week’s Top 20 gTLDs.” I wanted to have a look to see if any .Church domain names were being used by churches, and I shared some of what I found below. Based on a Google search of “site:.church,” I want to share 10 churches that I found that have their .Church websites indexed in Google. I did not check to see if these churches are ... read more ...
 
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HuntingMoon’s Auction Is Live: 675 Domains: Adult, Dating, Gambling & New … - HuntingMoon.com is holding an online auction of over 675 domain names including in conjunction with the Webmaster Access conference which is being held in Amsterdam. The auction ends Oct 1, 2014 in staggered fashion starting around 4PM EST/1PM PST There are also couple of small portfolios and two businesses for sale. While the domain auction has a high percentage of adult, dating and gambling domains there are some non-adult domains like StockFutures.com The auction also features a number of registry ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
HuntingMoon’s Auction Is Live: 675 Domains: Adult, Dating, Gambling & New gTLD’s - HuntingMoon.com is holding an online auction of over 675 domain names including in conjunction with the Webmaster Access conference which is being held in Amsterdam. The auction ends Oct 1, 2014 in staggered fashion starting around 4PM EST/1PM PST There are also couple of small portfolios and two businesses for sale. While the domain auction has a high percentage of adult, dating and gambling domains there are some non-adult domains like StockFutures.com The auction also features a number of registry ... read more ...
 
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Dünya’nın En İlginç Alan Adı Hikayesi - Korelileri hedefleyerek kayda açılan KİM uzantısı, En yoğun talebi Türkiye'den görüyor! Peki "KİM" hedef pazarında neden büyüyemedi? Türkler bu uzantıyı neden sevdi? 22.09.2014 / 16:00 Ülke uzantıları ile birlikte geçen seneye kadar 300'e yakın alan adı alternatifi ile ilerleyen domain sektörü, 250 milyona yakın müşteri tabanını yarım milyara yaklaştırma hedefiyle devreye alınan ICANN, new gTLD programı ile bugün 250'yi aşkın, 2016 başına kadar da 1200'den ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
SeekingAlpha: Even After Its Stock Dropped 45% Last Week Marchex Is Still Overvalued - SeekingAlpha.com just covered Marchex and noted even though shares were down 45% last week and is down over 66% since July since July its still overvalued. The post was written by Ariana Research: “On September 18th, 2014, Marchex Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (“Marchex”, “MCHX”, or the “Company”) released an 8K, which subsequently resulted in a decline in the equity value of ~45% for the day, or ~66% since the short was originally recommended this past July. Although the business is most likely ... read more ...
 
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Accent Media Limited Win Private Auction For .Tickets Beating Donuts, Famous … - According to a press release we received overnight, a British company, Accent Media Limited, won the private auction for the new gTLD .Tickets beating Donuts, Famous Four Media, Shubert Internet, Inc., and Afilias. According to the PR, “The company will offer domain names to approved organisations to provide safer online ticket sales with the intention to establish the “.tickets” top-level domain as a global gold standard of trust for consumers. According to a separate press release by publicly ... read more ...
 
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Accent Media Limited Win Private Auction For .Tickets Beating Donuts, Famous Four, 2 Others - According to a press release we received overnight, a British company, Accent Media Limited, won the private auction for the new gTLD .Tickets beating Donuts, Famous Four Media, Shubert Internet, Inc., and Afilias. According to the PR, “The company will offer domain names to approved organisations to provide safer online ticket sales with the intention to establish the “.tickets” top-level domain as a global gold standard of trust for consumers. According to a separate press release by publicly ... read more ...
 
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TLDs unter dem Auktionshammer: Amazon holt sich .buy für 4,5 Millionen Dollar - Bis zum kommenden März versteigert die private Netzverwaltung ICANN im Monatsrhytmus weitere 70 TLDs. Mehr als 4,5 Millionen US-Dollar hat sich Amazon die Top Level Domain (TLD) .buy kosten lassen, 3 Millionen Dollar blätterte .bayern-Betreiber Minds and Machine für .vip hin und für .tech fiel der Auktionshammer sogar erst bei 6,7 Millionen Dollar. Das sind die Ergebnisse der September-Auktion der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Bis zum kommenden ... read more ...
 
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Amazon buy .buy domain for $4.6m - It’s a situation redolent of the earliest days of the web when supposedly sought after .com prefixes swede snapped up by millions. Now that a whole host of top level domains (TLDs) are newly available, we’re seeing some of them going for silly money. Amazon saw off other buyers, including Google, in the auction held by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). The $4.6m saw off the competition. I suppose in the grander scheme of things such a sum is pocket change ... read more ...
 
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L’équipementier aéroportuaire TLD inaugure une usine de tracteurs … - Le numéro 1 mondial des échelles, passerelles et tracteurs d'aéroport TLD a inauguré une nouvelle usine vendredi à Sorigny, au sud de Tours (Indre-et-Loire) en présence de plusieurs élus locaux et nationaux, et de l'ensemble de ses 240 salariés français.8,5 millions d'euros ont été investis par la Société d'équipement de la Touraine (SET), contrôlée par les collectivités locales et la Caisse des dépôts, via une société d'aménagement qui intègre d'autres actionnaires, dont le ... read more ...
 
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CentralNIC Group buys stake in .tickets rights holder - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...
 
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Cybercriminosos Tiram Proveito de Novas TLDs em Ataques de Phishing e … – Under - Vejam que já tive antivirus da Norton, Avg e agora da Avast, e nenhum deles que os paguei anual, me ajudaram, pelo contrário foi e é uma porta para os virus entrarem de graça, para quem acredita que estes antivirus funcionam..kkkkkkkkkk De hoje resposta de meu tickt para a Avast: Sr. Marcus Tenho um Apple celular, que é a melhor tecnologia para download, só que o Avast Security Internet, apareceu o icone no celular, e ficou me travando tudo quanto é programa, um software que não aceitou ... read more ...
 
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A most slower week forward for new TLDs - A slower week, but still a lot of TLDs will hit the market. After an incredibly busy week with 16 new TLD launches last week, this week slows down quite a bit. Scotland didn’t vote to break off from the United Kingdom, but it does launch its .scot domain name on Tuesday. So ‘yes’ voters can at least feel a bit of national pride. On Wednesday, Donuts launches .direct and .place in regular price general availability, and .deals enters EAP. Also on Wednesday, both ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic invests in .Tickets TLD winner, valuing it during $13.5 million - Registry pumps money into .tickets auction victor. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) has invested $1.62 million in Accent Media Ltd, which the latter used to help acquired the .Tickets TLD in a private auction. Accent Media Ltd beat Donuts, Famous Four Media, Tickets TLD LLC and Shubert Internet in the auction. CentralNic’s investment will give it a 12% equity stake in Accent Media. As best I can tell, Accent was set up to get the .tickets TLD, which ... read more ...
Sun 21st September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Verisign Ranked #1 By Z-Score Which Predicts Companies Heading Into Serious Financial Distress” - USA Today.com, just covered something called The Altman Z-Score ” a financial indicator that predicts when companies are careening toward serious financial distress, which the article says  is commonly used by investment professionals. “The Z-Score is a single number that summarizes the financial strength of companies in five dimensions. ” “The Z-Score examines companies by sizing up working capital, retained earnings, earnings before interest and taxes to total assets and sales to total ... read more ...
 
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Results Available for 17 September 2014 New gTLD Program Auction – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES - On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN's authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. String contention occurs when more than one applicant has applied for the same or a confusingly similar gTLD. According to ICANN, the applicants for these strings were unable to resolve the contention sets among themselves, and thus proceeded to an auction, ... read more ...
Sat 20th September 2014
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Scotland Facing Fight for Domain Name -   Scotland has plenty to sort out as its people vote on their future: about currency, the European Union, oil revenue and tax. Now there may be a different thorny problem -- from the world of technology.The country decides on Sept. 18 on whether to stay part of the United Kingdom or declare independence. At present, Scotland has the right to use .UK as its top level domain, the same as users in Wales, England or Northern Ireland.Scotland would surely want its own Country Code Top Level Domain ... read more ...
 
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Amazon, .buy alan adının sahibi oldu! - Amazon, 4.6 milyon dolar ödeyerek ve Google'ı da geçerek .buy alan adının sahibi olmayı başardı. Benzer bir açık artırmaysa .tech üst-seviye alan adında (gTLD) yaşandı. Teknoloji sektör için bir çevrimiçi ortam oluşturmayı amaçlayan Dot Tech LLC, .tech alan adını 6.7 milyon dolara satın aldı. .tech'in peşinde Google'ın da olduğu söyleniyor. Ancak Google'ın bu alan adlarını "kaybetmiş" olması çok önemli değil, çünkü firma için 100'ün üzerinde üst-seviye ... read more ...
 
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General Nutrition Loses Bid To Grab GNC.Asia; Domain Holder Represented By Zak Muscovitch - We don’t cover to many .Asia UDRP’s but this one caught our eye because the Complainant General Nutrition Investment Company owns and operates vitamin and supplement stores all over the United States simply know as GNC. The domain holder, The Web Group of Washington, D.C., Uwas represented by Zak Muscovitch of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The three member panel of Douglas M. Isenberg, Diane Cabell and the Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson agreed that the term “GNC” was generic and was used all over ... read more ...
 
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Amazon shells out $4.6M for .buy domain - Amazon has shelled out a hefty $4.6 million for the .buy generic top-level domain (TLD), outbidding rival Google and other tech companies in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) auction. The Domain Name Wire reports that the .buy TLD was demanded by 4 applicants - Amazon, Bitter Sunset, LLC, Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google’s registry service), dot Buy Limited, and the online retailer giant with a bid of $4,588,888 has won out. Notably, only 2 bidders out ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
iOS 8 and iPhone 6 work with new TLDs - New operating system (that comes pre-installed on iPhone 6) makes it easier to access websites using new top level domains. One of the big challenges with new top level domain names is getting them to work with various devices and software programs. This took a big leap forward on the mobile side with Apple’s release of iOS 8 this week. Before, it wasn’t always easy to get a new TLD to work on an iPhone. You had to type in http:// most of the time for it to be ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
L’équipementier aéroportuaire TLD inaugure une usine de tracteurs … - Le numéro 1 mondial des échelles, passerelles et tracteurs d'aéroport TLD a inauguré une nouvelle usine vendredi à Sorigny, au sud de Tours (Indre-et-Loire) en présence de plusieurs élus locaux et nationaux, et de l'ensemble de ses 240 salariés français.8,5 millions d'euros ont été investis par la Société d'équipement de la Touraine (SET), contrôlée par les collectivités locales et la Caisse des dépôts, via une société d'aménagement qui intègre d'autres actionnaires, dont ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Amazon: TLD ".buy" für 4,6 Mio. Dollar gekauft - TLDs sind ein begehrtes Gut und gehen für Millionen Dollar weg. Amazon hat Google die hochlukrative Top Level Domain (TLD) .buy vor der Nase weggeschnappt - offenbar haben sich die beiden eine Weile gegenseitig überboten, denn der Endpreis lag bei 4,6 Millionen Dollar, was die TLD zu einer der teuereren Internet-Adressen der Geschichte macht. Wie das Fachmagazin Domain Name Wire unter Hinweis ... read more ...
 
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Purva.com Lost In UDRP After Winning Last Year: Brokers Email To TM Holder Changes Everything - “The Panel observes that the Complaint filed by Complainant is against the same Respondent in regard to the same disputed domain name as a previous UDRP case, Puravankara Projects Limited v. Shiva Malhotra, WIPO Case No. D2013-0260, decided on March 25, 2013. “The Complaint in that previous proceeding was filed on February 7, 2013. ” Complainant was unsuccessful in persuading the panel who rendered the previous determination (the “previous panel”) that the disputed domain name was the ... read more ...
 
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.Com Is Rocking -             As someone who watches the numbers of domain name registrations across all TLD’s everyday I have to say .Com is rocking and seems to be getting stronger by the day. Back on March 31, there were 113.2 Million .Com registered according to Verisign. Today 5 1/2 months later .com has topped 114.4 Million registrations (14,408,441) with a net add of over 37,000 registrations yesterday and over 30K the day before according to RegistrarStats.com It was just about a month ago that we ... read more ...