Monthly Archives: October 2014

Thu 16th October 2014
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.Club Leads All New gTLD’s In Number of Sites In Alexa Top 1 Million - According to Namestat.org  which is tracking the number of websites in the Alexa Top Million, based on the Namestat.org data on October 8th, 2014, .CLUB has more sites in the Alexa Top Million than any other new domain extension. If you calculate the number of sites in the Alexa Top Million for each of the top 50 new gTLD, after .Club the next top 49 extensions average 16.6  sites per domain, one-tenth of the number of .CLUB sites. All in all, .CLUB leads with more than ten times the usage of the ... read more ...
 
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.Club Leads All New gTLD’s In Number of Sites In Alexa Top 1 Million - According to Namestat.org  which is tracking the number of websites in the Alexa Top Million, based on the Namestat.org data on October 8th, 2014, .CLUB has more sites in the Alexa Top Million than any other new domain extension. If you calculate the number of sites in the Alexa Top Million for each of the top 50 new gTLD, after .Club the next top 49 extensions average 16.6  sites per domain, one-tenth of the number of .CLUB sites. All in all, .CLUB leads with more than ten times the usage of the ... read more ...
 
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Directi Founders Buying Back 100 % Ownership in Media.net - Photo Courtesy of DN Journal The Turakhia brothers (Bhavin and Divyank) are in the news today after starting the process to buy back 100 % interest in Media.net. This was the only business the serial entrepreneurs started that had an outside investor. The brothers started Directi while still in their teens and have since started many companies over the last 15 years. Businesses include: LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, and BigRock. Directi announced its more than $30 million investment for its application ... read more ...
 
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Governments import in on village and two-letter domain names - ICANN GAC concerned about community priority evaluations but not two-letter domain names. The Governmental Advisory Committee to ICANN has issued its GAC Communique (pdf) from this week’s meeting in Los Angeles. There are a couple notable items on it related to new top level domain names. First, the GAC noted apparent inconsistencies with recent Community Priority Evaluations and asked ICANN to consider an appeal process. Based on the language, it appears governments ... read more ...
 
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10 photos from ICANN 51 - A quick visual look at this week’s ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. It has been a busy, busy week in Los Angeles. I’ll have more thoughts on ICANN 51 later. For now, I have a collection of photos from in and around the event. Captions are below each photo. Entertainment during TLD Registry (“Dot Chinese Online” and “Dot Chinese Website”) and .Club event on Sunday at a popular Chinese restaurant. I also had a chance to hang out with TLD Registry when it was ... read more ...
 
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Oooh: .ooo domain name takes over front page of Times of India - New top level domain pays for front page impact. The backers of the new .ooo domain name have crazy predictions for how many domain names they’ll sell. I’ll tip my hat to them for at least backing it up with some crazy advertising. Indian e-commerce company Infibeam took out the entire front page of the Times of India today as an ad. Every “fake” article on the page is about domain names and e-commerce, with a play on “ooo” in the headline. Anil over ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: A Chinese Takeover! - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain sales. Pretty soon, not speaking Chinese will disqualify me from reporting on the domain market altogether!  So many of the big-ticket domain sales look eastward — numerical domains, LL through LLLL, and Chinese Pinyin.  China dominated NameJet charts in September, and China tops the list of last week’s GoDaddy expired auctions as well with ChaoZhi.com ($26k). One possible meaning of “Chāo Zhī”, ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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In the wider world of domain names, the address is key - Dot-restaurant will debut next month, following on the heels of dot-city, dot-organic, dot-rich, and even - dare we say it? - dot-WTF. So before you suddenly notice how the digital landscape has shifted and utter that bemused (and unprintable) expression yourself, here's an update on what's happening. Yes, ... read more ...
 
 
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Rightside Launching 11 More New gTLD’s This Year - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. Next week, members of the armed forces, as well as military families, supporters, and veterans, can begin registering .ARMY, .NAVY, .AIRFORCE, and .VET web addresses. Launch activities will include a home-page promotion with registrar partner GoDaddy on Veterans Day, as well as a salute to U.S. veterans through a donation in support ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Launching 11 More New gTLD’s This Year - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. Next week, members of the armed forces, as well as military families, supporters, and veterans, can begin registering .ARMY, .NAVY, .AIRFORCE, and .VET web addresses. Launch activities will include a home-page promotion with registrar partner GoDaddy on Veterans Day, as well as a salute to U.S. veterans through a donation in support ... read more ...
 
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What the new GTLD roll out means - World OutGames Miami launches crowdfunding effort What the new GTLD roll out means  1 More Image California based ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the not-for-profit governing body that authorizes domain extensions, has announced a new set of 1,300 strings of extensions that will available for use in the years to come on a slow “roll-out” process that started last fall. ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Forget Ebola.com, Where is Ebola.Gov ? - Over the last couple of days there have been a lot of stories about the domain name Ebola.com being put up for sale. Domain publications and mainstream media have written extensively about the domain. What we have not heard is anything about Ebola.gov. Why? Well the name has not even been registered by the U.S. government. This name could and should be used by the United States as a portal to news about the disease, symptoms, how and where to get treatment, quarantine information, outbreak information ... read more ...
 
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GigaOM: “The latest New York City “land rush” is already branch into a celebration for cyber-squatters” - Jeff John Roberts of GigaOM covered the .NYC launch in an article today, the site points out that many New York sports teams have had their domains registered but not by the teams themselves. They summed it up like this: The latest New York City “land rush” is already turning into a party for cyber-squatters, who have snapped up some familiar names. The episode shows, again, how the system is geared in favor of the domain name industry, rather than brands or the public. They go on to talk about ... read more ...
 
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Market Movers: Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), Linn Energy, LLC … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, on 8 October announced the launch of .LAWYER and .ATTORNEY. These new Top Level Domains (TLDs) help legal professionals stand out and attract clients in a highly competitive marketplace. Prior to today’s domain release, several thousand individuals and businesses had expressed interest in one or more of the new domains, and the ... read more ...
 
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‘.scot’ opens for general availability -

In a arise of a new referendum on Scottish independence, a Dot Scot Registry non-stop a ‘.scot’ new ubiquitous top-level domain (gTLD) for ubiquitous accessibility on Sep 23 2014. For a nation with a race of only over 5 million, a TLD racked adult an considerable series of registrations on a initial day proof that, nonetheless a Scottish inhabitant suggestion might have…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Top-Level-Domain .ovh: 50.000 Registrierungen in nur fünf Tagen - (PresseBox) (Saarbrücken, 15.10.2014) OVH, europäischer Marktführer und einer der führenden Anbieter von IT-Infrastrukturen weltweit, verzeichnete beeindruckende 50.000 Registrierungen für seine Top-Level-Domain .ovh – und das gerade einmal in fünf Tagen. Damit liegt die Endung auf Platz sechs der populärsten neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD). Alleine am 2. Oktober, dem Start des Launches, gab es 43.000 Registrierungen. ... read more ...
 
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WARNING: Stolen Domain Names Slash.com & County.com Are Being Shopped Around - We have received a report from Andrew Rosener of MediaOptions.com that at least two domain names, Slash.com County.com have been stolen from NetworkSolutions.com and are being shopped around for sale. In a email Andrew wrote: “I wanted to notify everyone that we have just discovered a domain theft at Network Solutions which I do not believe is an isolated incident.” “So far it involves two domains, slash.com county.com.” The domains are from different owners and stolen by the same thief.” County.com ... read more ...
 
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DNPric.es: There have been Over $1 Million In New gTLD Domain Name Sales - According to domain price research site DNPric.es there have been over $1 million in new gtld sales since the new gTLD launched in February. According to DNPric.es there have been 247 domain name sales in 58 New TLDs Totalling $1,016,987.12. I did not see a breakdown of EAP, Premium registry auction sales and/or whether these are just straight secondary domain name purchases. .Club led the way with over $191,000 in sales. This is of course based only on reported sales and we do not believe the list ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million; 51% Buy It Now; GoldPay.com Sells For 50,000 Euro’s -

Over a past week, 491 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 million

51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: goldpay.com during 50,000 EUR
· Top ccTLD: pri.mx during 10,000 USD
· Top “other” TLD: stream.org during 20,000 USD

Via: thedomains.com

 
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World Wrestling Entertainment Wins Control Of WWE.org - World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. just gained control of wwe.org. The domain name was parked and the domain owner just months after registering the domain name offered to sell the trademark holder the domain for $50,000 Here are the highlights from the one panel decision: Complainant has rights in the WWE mark through registrations with trademark agencies worldwide, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) (e.g., Reg. No 2,772,683 registered Oct. 7, 2003, filed May ... read more ...
 
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Grafitti artist Banksy final Banksy.com domain name - Agent files UDRP to get domain name. Famous grafitti artist Banksy has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of Banksy.com. [Update: the filing may have been from an imposter.] The case was filed by Banksy Inc (C/O Pest Control Office Limited). Pest Control Office is essentially an agent and certification group for Banksy’s work. It is currently trying to get a U.S. trademark for Banksy. If you go to Banksy.com right now, you’ll find a site about ... read more ...
 
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Do-Over: 2 TLD apps that mislaid in objections get another chance - .Cam and Amazon IDN domain name decisions will be reviewed. ICANN is giving two new top level domain name applications another look after embarrassing inconsistencies in string confusion objections. The board’s new TLD committee determined that decisions against Amazon.com’s .通販 application and Rightside’s .cam should be reviewed. I provide the background to this story in detail here. In the case of .cam, Verisign succeeded in a string confusion objection ... read more ...
Tue 14th October 2014
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Google Discloses A Vulnerability in SSL 3.0 - Google reported via their online security blog, that there is a vulnerability in the design of SSL Version 3.0. Apparently usage is ubiquitous as most browsers support SSL 3.0. They have recommended a work around to the problem. From the article: Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure connections to be calculated by a network attacker. I discovered this issue in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Crosses 600,000 Domain Registrations and .Club is gaining belligerent for a series dual spot - .XYZ crosses 600,000 Registrations According to Ntldstats.com .XYZ has crossed the 600,000 mark as far as domain registrations. .XYZ started October with 550,596 registrations. .Berlin remains in second place with .Club hot on its heels, .Club registrations are accelerating at a faster daily pace than .Berlin, .Club has increased its numbers by about 7,000 names since the beginning of October, while .Berlin is just a little over 500 names in that same time period. Club could overtake .Berlin for ... read more ...