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Rightside to Launch 11 More New Web Domains by Year-End 2014 -
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Fri 17th October 2014
Flippa Reveals The Niches With The Highest Chance of Selling and a Whole Lot More - Stephen Koo wrote a piece on the Flippa blog that should be of interest to everyone looking to sell domains and websites on the platform. Flippa has gained a lot of momentum in domain only auctions since Kevin Fink has come on board and been responsible for domain only transactions.
Koo points out that the niches with the highest chance of selling are the following:
The Niches with the Highest Chance of Selling
Websites in the following niches and sub-niches are the most likely to be successfully ... read more ...
Google Launches .SOY, Its First US TLD -
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New York Sports Teams On Watch For New Cybersquatters -
The New York Jets, New York Giants, New York Yankees and other New York-based sports teams may have a problem on their hands. Last week, a new generic top-level domain (referred to as gTLD), .NYC, was made available for public registrations. The .NYC gTLD allows a person who has a physical address within any of the five New York City boroughs to apply for the right to own a domain name ending in the abbreviation .NYC. Individuals are busy snatching up valuable names, including those ... read more ...
Google lance le gTLD .soy pour la communauté hispanique - Google annonce l'introduction d'une nouvelle extension de domaine générique. Les Hispaniques seront en mesure d'affirmer leur identité sur la Toile avec le .soy.
En fin d'année dernière, le cabinet World Internet Stats expliquait que la population hispanique représentait 7,9% de l'ensemble des internautes. Au 31 décembre 2013, les services ciblant spécifiquement les utilisateurs localisés en Espagne et en Amérique Latine avaient ainsi un marché potentiel de 222 406 379 de personnes.
C'est ... read more ...
.BERLIN Special zu den Deutschen Gründer- und Unternehmertagen -
.BERLIN Special zu den Deutschen Gründer- und Unternehmertagen
17 October 2014
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St. Ingbert (ots) – domaindiscount24.com (dd24), das Portal für Webadressen (Domains), Hosting und SSL-Zertifikate der Key-Systems GmbH, besucht die Deutschen Gründer- und Unternehmertage 2014 (deGUT) am 17./18. Oktober 2014 in Berlin. Als Mitaussteller am Stand der dotBERLIN GmbH, der Betreibergesellschaft der neuen Top Level ... read more ...
.BERLIN Special zu den Deutschen Gründer- und Unternehmertagen -
St. Ingbert (ots) - domaindiscount24.com (dd24), das Portal für Webadressen (Domains), Hosting und SSL-Zertifikate der Key-Systems GmbH, besucht die Deutschen Gründer- und Unternehmertage 2014 (deGUT) am 17./18. Oktober 2014 in Berlin. Als Mitaussteller am Stand der dotBERLIN GmbH, der Betreibergesellschaft der neuen Top Level Domain .BERLIN, bietet domaindiscount24 ein .BERLIN Special an: Bei der Registrierung einer .BERLIN Domain erhalten Messebesucher 6 Monate kostenfrei ... read more ...
When It Comes To Rightside, One Seeking Alpha Author Believes The Market … -
Summary
After quitting low quality ad service the company is bleeding cash with razor thin margins on its current business.
GTLDs represent a major shift in the way domains are used on the Internet.
The company bought the right to function as a registry for 33 unique gTLDs which is a major difference from its registrar business.
Revenue per gLTD domain sold is between $20-$30 instead of $1 for a traditional TLD.
Because of the tremendous operating leverage within the business model a major % of ... read more ...
When It Comes To Rightside, One Seeking Alpha Author Believes The Market Doesn’t Realize How Useful GLTDs Are And How Adoption Affects Earnings -
Summary
After quitting low quality ad service the company is bleeding cash with razor thin margins on its current business.
GTLDs represent a major shift in the way domains are used on the Internet.
The company bought the right to function as a registry for 33 unique gTLDs which is a major difference from its registrar business.
Revenue per gLTD domain sold is between $20-$30 instead of $1 for a traditional TLD.
Because of the tremendous operating leverage within the business model a major % of ... read more ...
Protección de marcas y nuevos GTLDS -
Este artculo va especialmente dirigido a
aquellos especialistas en proteccin de marcas,
y por qu no, a todas aquellas startups que se
enfrentan a la reciente expansin de las
extensiones de nombres de dominio, que ahora van
ms all del aburrido .com. Se dibuja un nuevo
panorama que plantea algunas dudas Cmo
registrar un dominio con las nuevas extensiones?
Qu mecanismos de proteccin ofrecen ... read more ...
This week’s TLDs: a Google launch and .Okinawa -
A couple domains hit general availability, but hardly anyone notices.
I was so busy at ICANN this week that I neglected to do my weekly preview of top level domain name launches…
…but I didn’t miss much.
Only two domain names hit general availability this week.
On Tuesday, BusinessRalliart Inc. launched the Japan geo domain name .Okinawa. It’s off to a rather slow start, with about 750 names in the zone thus far.
Also this week, Google launched the .soy ... read more ...
Thu 16th October 2014
Google Reports: Revenue adult 20%; Pay Per Click Up 17%; Cost Per Click Down 2%: $63 Billion In The Bank - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 after the market closed today, missing slightly from what was expected send the shares down over 2% in after hours trading
Google Inc. revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 were $16.52 billion, representing a 20% increase over third quarter of 2013 revenues of $13.75 billion.GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2014 was $3.72 billion, or 23% of revenues. This compares ... read more ...
Google Standing Firm on European De-Listing Requests As it Pertains to Google.com -
Tech Crunch is out with a piece on Google refusing to extend the European search de-lising rules to Google.com, currently requests made can only remove the information from Google.europeancctld. So it really is a cat and mouse game being played here. You could get your de-listing request approved and no longer show in Google.de for example, but that info would be found using Google.com. So anyone wanting to do a complete search would make sure to use Google.com in addition to their local European ... read more ...
Here is the GAC Communiqué From ICANN 51 Los Angeles - The Governmental Advisory Council to ICANN (GAC) released its Communiqué concluding its activity from the ICANN 51 conference that was held this week in Los Angeles, CA.
Here are the highlights:
Transition of US Stewardship of IANA and Strengthening ICANN Accountability
The GAC met with members of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and was briefed on the transition proposal process in relation to names, numbers and protocol parameters.
The GAC advises the ICANN Board ... read more ...
Here is a GAC Communiqué From ICANN 51 Los Angeles - The Governmental Advisory Council to ICANN (GAC) released its Communiqué concluding its activity from the ICANN 51 conference that was held this week in Los Angeles, CA.
Here are the highlights:
Transition of US Stewardship of IANA and Strengthening ICANN Accountability
The GAC met with members of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and was briefed on the transition proposal process in relation to names, numbers and protocol parameters.
The GAC advises the ICANN Board ... read more ...
An Overview of HostingCon Europe, Amsterdam -
(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – This week marked two of the biggest days of the year for the Web hosting industry as the biggest players came together for the first annual HostingCon Europe in Amsterdam. As a great opportunity to share the room with developers, vendors, analysts and media, all those that attended were able to discuss the biggest issues in hosting and Web technologies together. This was truly a great conference to collaborate over how to best understand ... read more ...
Six Key Topics to Track During Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and … -
The fifty-first international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally commences on Monday, October 13, 2014, in Los Angeles, marking what will likely be the most well-attended North American ICANN meeting. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike.
1. Two-Character ... read more ...
The game is afoot: concerns over trademark RPMs manipulation voiced -
Trevor Little
In a user feedback session on gTLD rights protection mechanisms (RPMs), held yesterday afternoon at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, a number of potential improvements were identified. However, a significant concern centred on alleged gaming of the system in a bid to circumvent mandated sunrise periods or increase the sums that trademark ... read more ...
TLD Celebrates The Opening Of Its New Factory - TLD celebrated the opening of its third and new 6,500 sqm factory in Sorigny, France last month. TLD built this new industrial site in order to produce the TaxiBot and cope with the increase of its aircraft tractors production.
This opening coincides with the last step of the aeronautical certification of the -“narrow body”- aircraft TaxiBot, and the beginning of the testing phase for the -“wide body”- aircraft TaxiBot.
180 guests and journalists as well as 300 TLD employees were gathered ... read more ...
Rightside to Launch 11 More New Web Domains by Year-End 2014 -
KIRKLAND, Wash., Oct 15, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Rightside Group, Ltd.
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6 Things to Consider Before Getting a .NYC Domain -
.NYC launched last Wednesday allowing businesses or people with a physical address in New York City to own the new top-level domain. View Full Caption
NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers now face a digital real estate dilemma: whether or not to get a .nyc web address.The city officially launched .nyc last Wednesday, allowing people and organizations with a physical address within the five boroughs to purchase the top-level domain (TLD) for between ... read more ...
Eine Domain für alle Bajuwaren -
(PresseBox) (Bonn, 16.10.2014)
Metropolen wie London, Berlin oder Hamburg haben es vorgemacht, New York hat gerade erst nachgezogen. Alle haben sich ihre eigene Stadt-TLD gesichert und feiern teilweise schon Erfolge. Nun warten Viele auch auf die Endung .muenchen, aber die Münchener haben sich erst gar nicht um eine Endung beworben. Die Bayern denken gleich in einem größeren Rahmen. Sie haben sich nämlich die Endung ... read more ...
Vil ha mer kontroll over nettet -
– Regjeringene bør bestemme.
I dag er det den USA-baserte, internasjonale organisasjonen ICANN som har det tekniske ansvaret Internett-standardene.
Diskuterer nytt systemMen denne ordningen er under diskusjon.
Mens EU og europeiske land (Norge inkludert) mener at FN bør få større makt, mener land som Kina, Iran og Saudi-Arabia at ansvaret i større grad bør legges på regjeringene i de enkelte land.
Møtes til ukaNeste uke møtes den internasjonale teleunionen ITU i Busan, ... read more ...
‘.paris’ is launched -
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System from a existent 22 TLDs, such as ‘.com’ and ‘.org’, to over 1,400 TLDs.
Over 400 new gTLDs have been substituted so far, and of…
Think geographic name protection in new gTLDs won’t impact your brand? Think … -
Trevor Little
The issue of geographic names took centre stage at the ICANN meeting yesterday, with a GAC session focused on its recent document ‘The protection of geographic names in the new gTLDs process’. Conflict over geographic name protection has already impacted gTLD applications from Amazon and US clothing company Patagonia. Should protection ... read more ...