Monthly Archives: November 2014

Sun 30th November 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Invest.com Sells For Over $5 Million Dollars - According to the forexmagnates.com, the domain name Invest.com has been sold for more than $5 Million dollars to the VC firm Singulariteam headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and will be used for a Forex trading site. Singulariteam, is described as being a “super angel investor”, and Moshe Hogeg’s,  its Managing Partner Chairman,  is also known for having invested $200,000 in the messaging app Yo!, and is the is the CEO and Founder of Mobli, a social mobile photo and video-sharing website ... read more ...
 
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How many new gtlds have you registered in 2014 ? November poll results in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...
 
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How many new gtlds have we purebred in 2014 ? Nov check formula in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...
 
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Is the ICANN New gTLD Program a Draft for a V2 of the Internet? - A week ago I was discussing the alternative of a European Internet root with an ex-ICANN Board member. The idea that I like to develop in these discussions is to offer end-users a modern and cheaper naming system. Note that it does not mean that the ICANN root is a bad one, it means that a new and upgraded one could cohabit with the existing one. One will wonder what this article has to do with new gTLDs but considering the creation of an Internet "version 2", offers website and brand owners ... read more ...
Sat 29th November 2014
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Dot Club Releases “My Favorite Strings” The Holiday Song - The folks over at .Club in the spirit of the holiday season have created a .Club holiday song. Tis the season… to have some fun as well, so we put together a little jingle to celebrate some of our favorite new domain names.  From .dad to .directory, twenty-six of the new domain name extensions are mentioned in this Holiday ditty.  Is your favorite string mentioned? ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Auction Proceeds Approaching $30 Million - While the debate continues as to whether most new gTLDs are a sound long-term investment for their registry operators, there's no disputing that the program has been an economic boom for ICANN. The 1,930 first round applications each required an application fee of $185,000, which added up to a tidy $357 million. Even after refunds for withdrawn applications ICANN still cleared about a third of a billion dollars from the first round before a single string was delegated. Now, like the proverbial ... read more ...
 
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SouthStar, Thomas Land & Development Partner on 145-Acre Mixed-Use Ovation - November 29, 2014 By Eliza Theiss, Associate Editor Ovation – western view of main street Ovation, the transformative 145-acre project under development in Nashville’s Cool Springs submarket, is moving along at a dynamic pace. Just one month after breaking ground on the project’s 1.4 million-square-foot office component, SouthStar, LLC has now announced entering into a strategic partnership with Thomas Land Development (TLD) to develop the project’s retail, ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years, AlJazeera Wins Contorol of Aljazeera.Tv -             AlJazeera Media Network of Doha, Qatar, was awarded the domain name Aljazeera.tv by a one member UDRP panel of Assen Alexiev The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP, nor did the domain seem to be in use in the 6+ years since it was registered. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member: The domain name Aljazeera.tv was registered over 6 years ago on January 22, 2008. The Complainant is the global media corporation broadcasted in Arabic well known as a new ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years, AlJazeera Wins Contorol of Aljazeera.Tv -             AlJazeera Media Network of Doha, Qatar, was awarded the domain name Aljazeera.tv by a one member UDRP panel of Assen Alexiev The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP, nor did the domain seem to be in use in the 6+ years since it was registered. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member: The domain name Aljazeera.tv was registered over 6 years ago on January 22, 2008. The Complainant is the global media corporation broadcasted in Arabic well known as a new ... read more ...
Fri 28th November 2014
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New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London Passes 50k - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London … - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Someone Is Trying To Sell A Domain Still At Auction At Namejet.com -                               Earlier this month OnlineDomain.com, wrote about someone trying to sell the domain name iWire.com which they apparently won at a SnapNames.com but had not yet paid for. Today I got an email from someone that is trying to sell a domain name that is still in auction today at Namejet.com Here is the email: Hi – Noticed that you own CheapEurope.com. Would you be interested to buy Prague.co.com? I am willing to let it go at a fair price. Let me know. Regards Amelie Well ... read more ...
 
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Coffee.Club Launches: 40% Discount Black Friday-Cyber Monday & Free Membership To A Reader Of TheDomains -                 Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, launched its site today at Coffee.Club on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis. To celebrate the launch, in the tradition of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Coffee.Club is be offering a special 40% discount on all orders placed between  Friday, November 28th through Monday, December 1st using the code “DotClub” at checkout. Moreover,  ... read more ...
 
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Grateful Ventures Launches Thanksgiving.com on Thanksgiving - Grateful Ventures, an online media and publishing company announced on Thanksgiving the launch of Thanksgiving.com. The holiday-themed website delivers a cornucopia of all things Thanksgiving, offering a blend of traditional and modern recipes, entertaining and décor, history, and fun. The daily operations of Thanksgiving.com are run by the Grateful Ventures team, including founder and Chief Executive Officer Kyle Cox (formerly the President and founder of SheKnows.com) and his team of executives. Kristin ... read more ...
 
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Black Friday and new gTLDs: the opportunity for brands - Trevor Little Amidst the blitz of Black Friday-themed press releases and stories that have been written this week, one blog taking a unique angle has looked at the role new gTLDs are playing in marketing around the holiday season. Happily, it is more a story of ‘opportunity’ than ‘threat’. Over the past week, it is fair to say that World Trademark ... read more ...
 
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Aruba remporte le « .cloud » devant Amazon et Google, la firme compte ouvrir cette extension stratégique - Depuis janvier 2012, l'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbres) rceptionne des dossiers pour la cration de nouveaux noms de domaines gnriques de premier niveau (GTLD). Ce programme permet louverture du web a de nouveaux noms personnaliss pouvant s'achever avec des suffixes, comme .paris , qui au passage, notons-le, avait dj t valid par lICANN pour la ville de Paris.Si lobtention des suffixes propres des marques comme .apple ou .nike peut se rvler simple ... read more ...
 
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Aruba remporte le « .cloud » devant Amazon et Google, la firme compte ouvrir … - Depuis janvier 2012, l'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbres) rceptionne des dossiers pour la cration de nouveaux noms de domaines gnriques de premier niveau (GTLD). Ce programme permet louverture du web a de nouveaux noms personnaliss pouvant s'achever avec des suffixes, comme .paris , qui au passage, notons-le, avait dj t valid par lICANN pour la ville de Paris.Si lobtention des suffixes propres des marques comme .apple ou .nike peut se rvler simple ... read more ...
 
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Aruba gewinnt renommierte .cloud Top-Level-Domain - Das italienische Unternehmen hat die globale Top Level Domain (gTLD) ersteigert und setzte sich damit gegen sechs führende Online-Unternehmen durch. Aruba wird nun eine offizielle Registrierungsstelle für .cloud einrichten und damit sein starkes euro Arezzo, Italien – 20 November 2014 – Aruba S.p.A ( www.aruba.it ), führender Dienstleister in den Bereichen Web Hosting, zertifizierte E-Mails und Domain Namen Services und seit 2011 führender Cloud Provider in Europa ( www.arubacloud.com ), ... read more ...
 
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TrendyHair.es owners guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - WIPO panel finds GIGS United S.L. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. GIGS United S.L., the Barcelona company that owns TrendyHair.es, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name TrendyHair.com. The case was filed against SIE MANTIC, but it’s a little unclear as to who actually owns the domain and who responded to the case. According to the complainant, it negotiated to buy the domain name from the respondent for 2,500 EUR on ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Domain Name Stocks walloped so distant in 2014 - Most publicly traded domain name companies have had their stocks hit hard in 2014. The broader markets are up big time this year, but there’s not much cheer at domain name companies that are publicly listed. With about a month left in the year, some publicly traded domain name companies will need a healthy rebound to end the year where they started. In fact, I count only three companies that are up this year, compared to 6 that are down (big time). Here’s a look ... read more ...
Thu 27th November 2014
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How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...
 
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How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...
 
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Criação do domínio da Guiné Bissau .GW tem o apoio do DNS.PT - Foi lançado o ccTLD da Guiné Bissau, o .GW. O DNS.PT foi seleccionado para dar todo o apoio técnico e jurídico no lançamento e operação inicial deste TLD. AMEN, Ptisp e Domínios, foram os agentes de registo nacionais que assumiram já o estatuto de registar o .gw.A Autoridade Reguladora Nacional – Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação da Guiné-Bissau é, desde 10 de Julho de 2014, a entidade responsável pelo Domínio de Topo Nacional da Internet da Guiné-Bissau, .GW, na sequência ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...