Monthly Archives: October 2014

Thu 23rd October 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How we can (and can’t) clear new Top Level Domain auction prices - In this post, DOT TBA founder Christa Taylor considers the payback period for new TLDs based on recent auction prices and current registration volumes. The October 22nd ICANN new top level domain name auction resulted in the resolution of several TLDs selling for substantial amounts of money: .Realty $5.6 million .Salon $5.1 million .Spot $2.2 million. These results, along with the September 17th auction results of .buy at $4.6 million, .tech at $6.8 million and ... read more ...
 
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Yesterday’s 5 new TLD launches sum about 2,500 registrations - A slow start, but some of these domains have long term potential. Five new top level domain names launched yesterday, and they combined for a total registration base of just 2,500 after the end of the “zone day”. This includes sunrise and landrush, plus the initial hours of general availability. Donuts’ .healthcare ended the day with about 1,400 registrations (all stats from nTLDstats). I’m a bit curious about .healthcare. There’s a growing chorus of concern ... read more ...
 
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17 some-more finish user domain name sales - Here’s a list of some of the end users that bought domain names last week. Sedo handled a total of 484 transactions last week, representing $1.4 million in total sales. Yes the most expensive sale they reported was just $16,200, suggesting there was at least one big sale that is not public. Before I run through some of the end user sales, here’s a quick thing I noticed. Remember when .berlin had a free domain giveaway? They canceled it after a couple groups registered ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
How to hit the top of Google’s rankings: ‘Use a new dot-thing gTLD’ - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar If you want to get higher up Google's search rankings, it turns out that using a new dot-thing domain – such as .guru or .ninja – may give you the edge.Two recent studies into the impact of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) have claimed that, far from Google's official position, using the right domain ending can bump you up an extra place or two in the rankings. Both investigations ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UK Charity “Homeless International” With an annual bill £20 million Rebrands To An .XYZ -           Homeless International a .UK based charity with an annual budget £20 million announced they havere-branded from Homeless-International.org to Reall.xyz The NGO has been around since 1989 “focusing on urban poverty issues (including slums and social housing) in the developing world” The charity has its own Wikipedia.org page Here is some info from the press release: “Since 2010, our annual budget to accelerate sustainable housing development in Africa and Asia has increased ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
VirnetX Gets Patent For “Secure Communications Using Secure Domain Names” - VirnetX™ Holding Corporation (NYSE MKT: VHC), an Internet security software and technology company, announced today that on October 21, 2014, it was granted a new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); Patent no. 8,868,705, entitled “Agile Network Protocol for Secure Communications Using Secure Domain Names.” Multiple applications are in development that run on VirnetX’s Gabriel Technology Platform and these applications communicate securely using VirnetX’s ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Q3FY14 Preview: Company Strives To Regain Growth In The Face Of … - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leader in the Domain Name System (DNS) market with a 47% market share, is set to release its third quarter earnings for the financial year 2014 on October 23rd. VeriSign is the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name. The company registered a 5% increase in sales in the first half of 2014, with revenues ... read more ...
 
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Can New TLDs Actually Co-Exist? - The new TLD program was a long time coming and now we have over 600 options for domain name endings, with more on the way. It made sense to a lot of people that options other than the already crowded .com space were needed but did we really envisage the plethora of ultimately "similar" TLDs that would rise from the ICANN process? I hear question everyday like: Is .global giving me or my customers anything different to .web? If I have a .club domain will that really make a difference to my ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Launches “Eureka” Campaign To Promote .Com/.Net Domains; Here a 1st Video - Verisign, the registry operator for .com, .net  announced today it was launching a new campaign to promote .Com and .Net domain names including a series of “”short, humorous videos this month” “As any aspiring entrepreneur knows, great business ideas can come from anywhere, at any time. The Verisign video spots are part of a new online campaign featuring that “eureka” moment that comes with an idea, creatively dramatized by a big, fuzzy mascot, and lets the viewer know his or her next ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Domain Names Now at GoDaddy - Uniregistry has been selling its new gTLD domain names since the end of February of this year, but they have not been selling them via GoDaddy, the largest domain name registrar in the world. According to a tweet from Uniregistry founder Frank Schilling, as of yesterday, new gTLD domain names managed by Uniregistry are now available for purchase by customers at GoDaddy. Proud to see all Uniregistry TLDs on the shelf at #Godaddy today! The best extensions are now available at the biggest ... read more ...
 
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Houston We Have A Problem: 2 URS Examiners Can’t Agree If The Same Company Owns A Trademark - My man Raymond Hackney who writes posts for thedomains.com, as well as his own blog at tldinvestors.com, pointed out two diametrically opposed URS decisions filed by the same complainant Aeropostale Procurement Company, Inc. of New York, one of which concludes they own the trademark to the clothing line of Aeropostale and the other examiner finding they do not. In the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding on the domain name Aeropostale.Uno, decided on April 10th, 2014, the examiner Alan L. Limbury ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: next round of new gTLDs in 2018? -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published a news patrician “New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments”. This news is a breeze work devise that outlines a stairs ICANN intends to take as partial of a examination and comment of a initial turn of new general top-level domain (gTLD) applications. This news also indicates that a subsequent turn of new…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Morning Watch List: Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), SORL Auto Parts … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), announced on 15 October it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME)’s stock on 21 October traded at beginning with a price of $9.51 and when day-trade ended the stock finally advanced 2.21% to end at $9.71. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME)’s showed weekly performance of 5.89%. Zacks upgraded shares of Sorl Auto Parts Inc. (NASDAQ:SORL) ... read more ...
 
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Air France to evaluate Taxibot taxiing system - Air France has signed a deal to evaluate the new Taxibot system developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and TLD Group. The TaxiBot, a semi-robotic, pilot-controlled vehicle, developed by IAI and manufactured by TLD, is designed to transport aircraft from airport gate to the runway and back, without using the main engines. A significant reduction in fuel consumption is achieved by using it and it can provide a decisive economic advantage to Air France, while also reducing emissions and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Heimat im Herzen und im Internet - Unser Foto zeigt die Suchzeile eines Internetbrowsers mit der Anfrage „www.dahoam.bayern“. Seit kurzem sind Internet-Adressen mit der Endung .bayern erhältlich. Foto: Nicolas Armer/dpa <!-- -->Von Beate Weigert Kelheim. Seit etwa drei Wochen gibt es eine neue Domain-Endung für Internetadressen – für Bayern aus Überzeugung. Egal, ob Ein-Mann-Betrieb oder Großkonzern, Verein oder Privatperson. Sie heißt: Punkt ... read more ...
 
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86% Of Lawyers Not “Eager” to Get a .Lawyer/.Attorney Name? That Only Leave 200K That Want One - My fellow domain Blogger Konstantinos Zournas of OnlineDomain.com cited a poll on his site today in a post entitled: “83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains” Konstantinos which is doing a great job this year on his blog, seemed to have fallen for a poll whose results are statically fatally faulted. Konstantinos did not conduct the poll, the poll was conducted by Law Times News but was the basis for Konstantinos post. If you read some stuff on poll theory  (as a Political ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com buys .spot domain name for $2.2 million, .Realty sells for $5.6 million - Amazon wins another new top level domain, but it was out shadowed by more expensive auctions. The latest round of new top level domain name “auctions of last resort” at ICANN took place today. Three auctions for the rights to run top level domain names closed for prices ranging from $2.2 million to $5.6 million: Amazon.com won .spot for $2,200,000, beating applicants Google and Dotspot, LLC. Fegistry won .realty for $5,588,888, beating Donuts. Fegistry is Jay ... read more ...
 
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A million domain names have been suspended, and law coercion is AWOL - Domain registrars plead for data as websites go dark thanks to whois verification requirements. “We won’t provide you with data to show that what you’re doing is pointless.”It has been almost a year since most large domain name registrars have been required to verify certain elements of domain name whois information. For now, it’s pretty simple. Your registrar sends an email to the whois contact on your domain and asks you to click a button to verify. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s new videos: Make your Idea Official [watch] - Clever video series promotes registering a domain name as the first step in a business idea. Verisign released a couple videos today as part of its “Make your Idea Official” campaign. The videos remind me a bit of more recent humorous ads from GoDaddy. Although the videos promote .com and .net, they’re good overall for promoting domain name registration. In the first video, a guy see’s some other dude moving in on his “idea” at a club: The second one ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy paid adult to $45 million for Mad Mimi, justification S-1 - GoDaddy’s amended s-1 filing shows that it paid $42 million plus up to $3 million in bonuses for email marketing firm. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC yesterday. Most of the changes from the previous S-1, filed in August, are subtle. The latest filing does not include third quarter results. The most notable change in the new filing is the disclosure of its purchase price for email marketing firm Mad Mimi. The filing discloses that it paid $42 million ... read more ...
 
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First Rakuten forsaken Buy.com, now it skeleton to stop Play.com - They are not selling off Buy.Com, they still point to Rakuten. I know this sounds strange, but if I had to put a number on it, I’d say at least 75% of the public still doesn’t know how to enter a domain name into a browser. I do a lot of technical support over the phone. Many of those calls start with me asking people to type something like http://www.TeamViewer.Com into the browser. 1. About 20% of the time, they would ask me what a browser is… Some are brave enough to say “Is ... read more ...
 
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Loose Lips Sink Ships: are new troops domain names dangerous? - In this post, Joseph Peterson questions if new .navy, .army and .airforce domain names could be a security issue for the U.S. military. This little article of mine may make me some enemies at Rightside, the registry behind the recently released TLDs .ARMY, .AIRFORCE, and .NAVY. However, I have no ax to grind. Far from being opposed to the new TLD initiative per se, I personally invest in nTLD domains on occasion; and I see strong commercial potential in some of Rightside’s ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million -

Sedo.com Released a sale news and  over a past week, 484 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: localgenius.com during 14,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: slv.fr during 5,000 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: designs.net during 16,800 USD
 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
AusRegistry Issues the First in a Series of Quarterly Reports Analyzing … - The report – titled “Behind the Dot, The State of the .au Domain” – offers statistical insights that have never before been released to the public. The highlights are also available in ... read more ...
 
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Claim Your .REALTOR Domain on October 23 - The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is pleased to announce that on October 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, NAR members can claim their .REALTOR top-level domain. With a .REALTOR domain, members can instantly communicate to consumers their status as a REALTOR® in their website address, which strengthens their connection to the REALTOR® brand and identifies them as a trusted source for real estate information. NAR will provide one free .REALTOR domain for one year to the first 500,000 ... read more ...