Monthly Archives: September 2014

Thu 18th September 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Amazon Scoops Up the ‘.Buy’ Domain for $4.6 Million - Looking to branch out beyond ".com," Amazon is the new proud owner of the ".buy" generic top-level domain (gTLD) after paying nearly $4.6 million at auction. The online retail giant reportedly beat out Google and two other companies in the auction, where the ".tech" and ".vip." domains were also sold for millions. The auction was run by ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees Internet domain names. Although the domain is sure to be valuable, it's still just a consolation prize for the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Amazon vence o Google outra vez e arremata domínio .buy - Clique para imprimir Enviar para um amigo <!--Tamanho da Fonte--> 18 de Setembro de 2014 - 16:0 Amazon vence o Google outra vez e arremata domínio .buy Foto divulgação Publicidade Depois de ter feito a maior oferta e arrematado o Twitch, a Amazon paga mais caro e vence outra vez o Google. A gigante varejista é a nova dona do Top-Level Domain (TLD) ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Beats Google, Pays $4.6 Million For .Buy Top-Level Domain - Amazon beat Google in an ICANN auction on Wednesday, and won the rights to operate the .buy top-level domain with a bid of $4,588,888. ICANN reports that there were four bidders for .buy — Amazon, Google (via its Charleston Road Registry subsidiary), Dot Buy and Bitter Sunset. Only Amazon and Google bid more than $1.5 million to operate the new gTLD. ICANN calls these “string contention” auctions, and describes the process this way: String contention occurs when ... read more ...
 
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Amazon vence o Google outra vez e arremata domínio .buy - Depois de ter feito a maior oferta e arrematado o Twitch, a Amazon paga mais caro e vence outra vez o Google. A gigante varejista é a nova dona do Top-Level Domain (TLD) .buy. O ICANN, serviço que regula e cria os domínios de alto nível da Internet, passou para a Amazon o controle da terminação .buy, após um leilão com quatro interessados. A Amazon fez o lance mais alto e levou o TLD por US$4,6 milhões. O segundo lance mais alto foi feito pelo Google. A Amazon ainda não ... read more ...
 
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Amazon “bate” Google e compra domínio .buy por 4,6 milhões - O leilão para os novos top level domains, ou TLDs, como são denominados internacionalmente, incluíam também os sufixos .vip e .tech, com destaque para o último, cujo lance vencedor, feito pela Dot Tech LLC, de 6,76 milhões de dólares, instituiu um novo recorde no sector. O .tech era outro dos TLD em que a Google estava interessada que ficou, assim, em mãos alheias. À gigante da Internet resta agora esperar pelos leilões relativamente aos outros 100 domínios que pretende ... read more ...
 
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DNS Policy Notes for Sept. 18, 2014 (Server Crash Edition) - Thursday, September 18, 2014 DNS Policy Notes for Sept. 18, 2014 (Server Crash Edition) by Thomas O'Toole Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for September 18, 2014.ICANN Policy Update Call ScheduledThe Pre-ICANN 51 Policy Update ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
.bayern geht am 30. September online - Betreiber und Verwalter der Top-Level-Domain .bayer, die Bayern Connect GmbH, wirbt auf ihrer Website für die neue Endung. Screenshot: nic.bayern <!-- --> Regensburg. Seit die Netz-Verwaltung Icann sich vor zwei Jahren entschieden hat, neue Endungen für Internet-Adressen zuzulassen, sind immer mehr dieser sogenannten Top Level Domains (TLD) an den Start gegangen. In Deutschland können beispielsweise Webseiten-Betreiber ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Beware of Bogus Go Daddy “Account On – Hold” Email Scam - Back on August 17th we wrote about a scam email going around that was impersonating Go Daddy, there looks to be a new one out that says your account is on hold. Another phishing attempt. Elliot Silver had pointed out a post that Go Daddy blogged about when dealing with email and phishing back in August as well. https://garage.godaddy.com/smallbusiness/secure/email-phishing-think-link/ Here is the text of the new bogus email: The subject line: Subject: Account on Hold: Registry Domain ID: 2844255_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Partner ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Domain Broker Igloo.com Acquires Aftermarket.com - Igloo.com Limited, a Domain Brokerage Consultancy Firm, has acquired the business of Aftermarket.com from Thought Convergence, Inc. for an undisclosed price according to a press release we received “This acquisition builds upon Igloo’s recent news of entering into an exclusive agreement with Rook Media to provide brokerage and related services for their newly acquired DomainSponsor portfolio. Visitors to Igloo.com’s marketplace will have access to millions of names appealing to every type ... read more ...
 
 
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Amazon Spends $4.6 Million To Acquire .Buy - Amazon Inc. is one of the heavyweights when it comes to online retail and many of its hardware devices are designed in such a way as to draw more traffic to their different Amazon properties. As such, it only makes sense that they would be one of several interested parties in acquiring the top level domain .Buy. Along with Amazon, one of the other interested groups was Google. There were also at least two other very interested parties. In the end however, it was Amazon that ended up securing ... read more ...
 
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.LONDON Heat Map Shows Most Tech-Savvy Boroughs - (Click to Enlarge) (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – The introduction of the new top-level domains (TLDs) has clearly already made an impact to businesses, consumers, and the IT industry as a whole. Last week marked the newest geographically-specific TLD that was introduced, .LONDON. 11 Internet and Fasthosts, two Web hosting providers that offer these new TLDs, recently released a heat map to identify which boroughs have registered the most number of these new domain names. So ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Beats Google To Purchase .Buy Domain For $4.6 Million - Amazon is one of the biggest online retailers in the world and it has forked out some serious money just for exclusive access to the .Buy domain name based website. It was up against Google in an auction which was also interested in purchasing the .Buy top-level domain but ultimately bid $4.6 million to get what it wanted. Google wasn’t the only one trying to battle Amazon. According to reports ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Unitedprint.com Buys EasyPrint.com For an “Unspecified Six-Figure Sum - According to a press release out today, a German company Unitedprint.com, announced the bought the domain name EasyPrint.com for an “amount in the six figures” The original Press release is in German and I used Google to translate it: Online printing unitedprint.com SE acquires the domain www.easyprint.com at an unspecified numbered six-figure sum, strengthening its global market access. With the acquisition of Easyprint.com address for their own brand Easy Print to unitedprint.com SE is even ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Extensions : plus de 14 millions de dollars pour les .Buy .Tech et .Vip - L'ICANN vient de dévoiler le résultat des enchères mises en place pour trois extensions de noms de domaine (TLD) : .Buy, .Tech et .Vip. Les enchères ont à chaque fois dépassé les millions d'euros. Si Google était sur les rangs pour les trois extensions, le géant du web n'en remporte finalement aucune.Il y a maintenant plus de deux ans, l'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) publiait la liste des extensions de noms de domaine ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Gets Hit With UDRP On TableForTwo.com By TablefortwoBlog.com - Yesterday we wrote about Frank Schilling’s Name Administration winning its 35th UDRP Today the company got his with another UDRP on the domain name tablefortwo.com The Complaint was filed by a Julie Wampler who owns the domain name tablefortwoblog.com Name Administration has owned the domain name TableforTwo.com since at least 2005 The domain name tablefortwoblog.com was first registered some 6 years later in 2011. There are several trademarks in the USPTO for the term “table for two” and one ... read more ...
 
 
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Amazon devance Google et s’offre le gTLD .buy - Quelques extensions de noms de domaine génériques viennent de trouver preneur lors d'une mise aux enchères proposée par l'ICANN. L'ICANN, l'organisation chargée de superviser les suffixes Internet, a ouvert une seconde vague d'enchères pour les gTLD .buy, .tech et .vip. Ces derniers devraient entrer en circulation avant la fin de l'année. C'est en déboursant quelque 4,6 millions de dollars qu'Amazon a finalement obtenu le contrôle de l'extension .buy. Le cyber-marchand a devancé la société ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
There are now over 1Billion Websites on a Internet - The Internet now has over 1 Billion websites, that is according to Internet Live Stats. The website points out, “By “Website” we mean unique hostname (a name which can be resolved, using a name server, into an IP Address). It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains or similar. “ Tech Times wrote: Rejoice! The Internet recently reached more than 1 billion websites, according to the site Internet Live Stats, and they just keep coming. Now you know ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4,044; .Guide 3,387; .Life 2,106; .Loans 632; .Republican 385 - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans 632 .Republican 385 So we have further indication that religion beats politics. In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4044; .Guide 3387; .Life 2106; .Loans 632 … - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans 632 .Republican 385 So we have further indication that religion beats politics. In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...
 
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Google & Donuts Lose All 3 ICANN New gTLD Auctions: What Did We Learn Today? - ICANN published results of the first three ICANN Last Resort Auctions (there was an auction in June for a IDN String) tonight and we certainly learned a few things. Many people had the opinion that Google and Amazon would simply outbid all other applicants for all the strings just because they could. However Google wound up losing all three auctions as did Donuts. At the end of the day Google like all companies, have a budget for each string and won’t pay an unlimited amount of money for each just ... read more ...
 
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Most followed: CentralNIC Group, JD Sports, Smiths Group, DS Smith, Sony - There are now more than one billion web sites out there, according to Internet Live Stats. If generic top level domains (gTLDs) specialist CentralNIC (LON:CNIC) has its wish, that number will be considerably higher by the end of the year. The group highlighted the launch today of three gTLDs: website, .press and .host. The domains have been available to priority candidates, such as trademark owners, for some time but now members of the general public can apply for Internet web addresses within these ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic announces launch of .website, .press and .host TLDs - 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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Donuts wants to obvious Domain Protected Marks List - Registry files patent application for brand protection tool. Donuts wants to patent the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML), a service that helps brand owners prevent their trademarks from being registered across multiple top level domains. The company filed U.S. patent application 13/804919 (pdf) in March 2013 for “Domain Protected Marks List Based Techniques For Managing Domain Name Registrations”. The application was published today. DPML allows brand owners ... read more ...