Monthly Archives: November 2014

Wed 12th November 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
gTLD : Amazon prend le contrôle des extensions .book et .pay - Le cyber marchand Amazon a obtenu le droits pour la gestion de nouvelles extensions de noms de domaine en devançant Google une nouvelle fois. L'ICANN, l'organisation chargée de superviser les suffixes Internet, attribue régulièrement la gestion des nouvelles gTLD aux sociétés ayant présenté le meilleur dossier, et aussi le plus gros portefeuille. Le géant du e-commerce Amazon est plutôt bien loti puisque la société multiplie les acquisitions. Au mois de septembre, Amazon avait récupéré ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Internet.bs Releasing 9.5 Million Available .Com Registered in Other Extensions - Here is the list of new gTLD sites that are in top 100,000 Alexa list as of yesterday. There are just 102 of them. I know that Alexa is not very accurate but it still is an indicator for sites within the top 100,000. These daily updated Alexa ranks are based on monthly averages and is slightly different from the toolbar rank (which is averaged over 3 months). “searchengines.guru”,”1067″ “thefappening.sexy”,”4227″ “archive.today”,”4330″ “kickasstorrent.link”,”9430″ “ddlvalley.rocks”,”11993″ “sourcephoenix.rocks”,”13125″ “friv.today”,”13800″ “kodi.wiki”,”17078″ “thefappening.rocks”,”17191″ “archive.moe”,”22207″ “webs.directory”,”22296″ “blackhat.community”,”23114″ “gen.xyz”,”24035″ “proxybay.xyz”,”26996″ “www.google”,”27419″ “rokettube.xyz”,”27560″ “sorozatbarat.ninja”,”28204″ “sozai.club”,”28269″ “msnbc.website”,”28709″ “torrentdownload.link”,”29300″ “thedudes.club”,”30249″ “c2d.ink”,”30784″ “2121.club”,”32294″ “womenslife.today”,”32514″ “riw.moscow”,”33504″ “poe.trade”,”33933″ “gunahsehri.club”,”34159″ “tema.ninja”,”34414″ “giveaways.club”,”34583″ “themoney.expert”,”35484″ “maturetube.sexy”,”36502″ “ait-themes.club”,”38048″ “you-tube.club”,”38617″ “just-like.club”,”40910″ “trendy.social”,”41848″ “claim.realtor”,”44054″ “viralcamp.club”,”45239″ “hackintosh.zone”,”46852″ “gaytube.sexy”,”46915″ “youtubetrends.red”,”48180″ “playbuzz.club”,”49519″ “bokepdo.club”,”50826″ “besser-einkaufen.tips”,”51664″ “lelivros.club”,”52333″ “smartlife.tips”,”52686″ “naiz.eus”,”52815″ “buy.ooo”,”53085″ “mp3s.xyz”,”53155″ “3d-print.today”,”54115″ “khmernews.today”,”54262″ “pressa.today”,”54346″ “kashin.guru”,”54481″ “youtubemp3.club”,”55581″ “warriors.tips”,”55865″ “telly.desi”,”57131″ “onlinehealth.wiki”,”59312″ “viral-videos.xyz”,”59963″ “okshare.xyz”,”61372″ “magesy.xyz”,”61627″ “richinvest.club”,”61720″ “duc.link”,”61963″ “pinayaqq.xyz”,”64047″ “ebookss.xyz”,”65701″ “winnet.club”,”68363″ “designhomes.pics”,”68462″ “bonddot.investments”,”68984″ “asiantube.sexy”,”70241″ “word.photos”,”71199″ “pcdrivers.guru”,”74975″ “mix.tokyo”,”75476″ “pcerror.support”,”75637″ “amk.cool”,”77129″ “songspk.cab”,”77419″ “artsex.sexy”,”78458″ “thefappening.social”,”78650″ “dnr.today”,”80175″ “mirror.ninja”,”80631″ “millionairefactory.cash”,”80762″ “toureiffel.paris”,”82282″ “fens.xyz”,”82925″ “www.youtube”,”83110″ “smartmovies.club”,”83195″ “desilink.website”,”83247″ “coolgallery.pics”,”83916″ “blackhat.guru”,”84214″ “hidown.xyz”,”85411″ “thesims.club”,”86809″ “1000.menu”,”89305″ “sav.support”,”91833″ “woodbook.xyz”,”92083″ “lesbiantube.sexy”,”92149″ “tribo.marketing”,”92270″ “see.place”,”92769″ “comparing.guru”,”92770″ “absolutely.club”,”93288″ “jpon.xyz”,”93765″ “fashionand.clothing”,”94292″ “jaja.club”,”94349″ “freesite.host”,”94926″ “artistintelligence.agency”,”95810″ “kat.works”,”96185″ “порно-видео.онлайн”,”96752″ ... read more ...
 
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Hotel chain obtains transfer of ‘.berlin’ domain name reproducing its mark -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation, a obvious hotel sequence has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general tip turn domain (gTLD) ‘.berlin’.

The ‘.berlin’ TLD is one of a many city TLDs launched by ICANN this…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Internet wins as justice denies suit to seize ccTLDs - Court rules .ir, .sy, .kp and related IDNs cannot be “attached” as compensation. ICANN and the internet community at large got a victory this week as a U.S. court denied a request (pdf) to seize country code top level domains (ccTLDs) as compensation in a lawsuit. A number of claimants that had won a judgement against Iran, Syria and North Korea over terrorism charges had demanded control of the country’s ccTLDs (.IR, .SY and .KP plus IDN versions) as payment. The ... read more ...
 
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Phone use continues to accelerate Tucows’ tip line - Ting product shows continued growth, OpenSRS takes a dip. Domain name and mobile phone service provider Tucows continues to see growth in its Ting offering, offsetting stagnating revenues in its domain name business. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Revenue from Ting increased $5.03 million, offsetting a drop of $1.79 million in its domain name business. OpenSRS — Tucows’ ... read more ...
 
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Disney buys a .club domain & 21 other finish user domain name sales - Disney, AMC and other big names bought domain names last week. Sedo had a busy sales week when it came to selling domain names to big name end users. From Disney, to $10 billion clothing company Next, to AMC, a number of household brands bought domain names at the marketplace last week. Interestingly, these three companies bought non-.com domains. .Club was the beneficiary of two of these big buyers, while AMC bought a .tv (although it has the matching .com domain ... read more ...
 
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Major Chinese transport sites Ctrip.com and eLong.com go down due to domain change [updated] - Domains stop resolving after placed in clienthold status. The websites for two major publicly traded Chinese travel sites went down today as a result of their domain names being place in “ClientHold” status at the registrar. Sites for $8 billion (market cap) Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP) and $0.6 billion eLong.com both were unavailable this morning United States time. Both domain names were placed on “clienthold”, a status that tells the registry to not activate ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs should obey a Startup.club indication for reward domains - Program promotes .Club while also generating premium domain sales revenue. .Club’s new Startup.club program is ingenious, and something that other new top level domains should consider emulating. Here’s startup.club in a nutshell: get a premium .club domain name but pay it off over 10 years, and .Club will also give you PR and marketing support. None of the features of Startup.club are new. TLDs have offered payment plans on premium domains for a while (e.g. sex.xxx), ... read more ...
 
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This week’s new TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more - A big geo among this week’s new TLD releases. I’ve been a bit remiss about my weekly new TLD posts, perhaps because the past couple Mondays have been busy news days. That, and new TLD rollouts have slowed down to a trickle. But I’m not late this week, as all the TLD launches I can find are Wednesday releases. The biggest is .Melbourne (see picture of ribbon cutting below), which launched Wednesday local time in Australia (technically 23:00UTC on November 11). ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...
 
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Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...
 
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Amazon bags control of .book and .pay domains – but NOT .cloud - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar Bookseller-turned-bazaar Amazon has beaten off competition from eight other companies, including Google and publisher Bowker, to win the right to sell domains ending in .book.It's not known how much Amazon paid since the gTLD was bought at private auction, although it is believed to have been between $5m and $10m – Amazon just paid $4.6m for dot-buy, by the way. Bowker was reportedly the last to drop out of the auction, ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Domain Helps UCONN Basketball Troll Syracuse - The Sporting News reported that Syracuse.nyc was registered by Tyler Wilkinson and Peter Bard at A Dime Back, a UConn-centric blog. UConn is one of the best Basketball teams in the Country and a rival to New York State based Syracuse. The domain name Syracuse.nyc is now being used to promote UConn while simultaneously trolling Syracuse fans. Now Syracuse.nyc directs people to a wesbite that hails the Huskies as “New York’s College Team” while flashing photos of UConn’s championship team ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Transactions Total $1.1 Led By EasyBet.com For 35K Euro’s - Over the past week, 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: easybet.com at 35,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: shudder.tv at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: penguin.club at 8,000 USD Topping all new gTLD’s were the sale of Penguin.club at $8K, Next.club for $4,500 and Beta.club for $1,500 Here are the public sales:   ... read more ...
 
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.quebec geographic gTLD ready for public launch - Quebec’s new generic top level domain (gTLD) —.quebec — is scheduled for general availability November 18, 2014. The .quebec domain will be of interest to any brand owners conducting business in La belle province. The launch of the .quebec domain is part of the ongoing expansion of the Internet from only 22 gTLDs in 2013 (e.g. .com, .net) to over one thousand by the end of 2015. New gTLD registries may be classified as open, restricted or closed. Open domains are available ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on 101domain.com - This article is the first in a series where NamesCon is conducting interviews with its Exhibitors and Sponsors. NamesCon is the largest commercial domain name conference and is held every January in Las Vegas. The NamesCon 2015 dates are January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel on the famous Las Vegas strip. Today we are lucky to have Joe Alagna from 101domain.com: Q. Hi Joe! Can you tell us about your company and how long you have been there? A. We’re 101domain.com ... read more ...
 
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Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .online Auction - A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. In the past year, dozens of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) from .actor to .wtf have brought meaning to the letters after the dot for niche constituencies and content. Soon, domain registrants will have one broad, intuitive, uncluttered alternative to .com for almost any initiative online. They will also have a registry operator that ... read more ...
 
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform … - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
 
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On New gTLD’s - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
 
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Google Withdraws Another New gTLD Application: .Earth Won By Interlink Co., Ltd - Google has given up on another new gTLD extension. Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is Interlink Co., Ltd. of Japan also known as Urban Brain. The new gTLD was set to go to auction later this month. According to its application Interlink Co., Ltd. (Interlink) envisions that the “.earth” top-level domain (TLD) will become a symbol of worldwide unity on the Internet. By registering a second-level domain in the “.earth” ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue Received on Veteran’s Day To Charity - NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue received today Veteran’s Day to  Veteran’s Village Las Vegas managed by SHARE, a 501(c)3 Registered Charity. Not 10%, not 20%, not even “Net Proceeds”, but a whopping 100% of all registrations. Today of all days is a time to reflect on the sacrifice our troops have made for our country, our nation, our families. Bigger men and women than you and I have faced down the enemy braving what we can only imagine. As co-founder of Right of The Dot, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rules That The Word “Club” Is Generic - A one member UDRP panel has found that the word “club” is generic The disputed domain names were clubsail.com; clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org however in the case of clubsail.com the domain holder agreed to transfer the domain leaving only the other two domains at issue Here are the relevant facts and finding: The Complainant operates a marine leisure business based in Tenerife. She is the owner of the following registered trademarks: The disputed domain names clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too - Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other  applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has just withdrawn its application, leaving Amazon as the winner of the .Pay domain name extension. Now that Amazon owns both .Buy and .Pay it would seem companies like Paypal should be concerned. Amazon already offers a branded credit card but with .Buy and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book - Amazon now owns the  new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Other applicants include Minds + Machines (which announced yesterday the walked away with over $8 million for losing .Book as well as .cloud, .dog , .site and .style), Google, Global Domain Registry Pty Ltd, Donuts, Straat (former owners of .Co) and Famous ... read more ...
 
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261.978 nuevos dominios ‘.es’ en España, frente a las nuevas 64.696 empresas - Entre los datos que más destacan de la infografía #DominiosyEmpresas realizada por Hostalia, se revela que entre enero y agosto de 2014 se han dado de alta en España cuatro nuevos dominios “.es” por cada nueva empresa creada. Se dieron de alta 261.978 nuevos dominios “.es” en España, casi cuatro veces más que las 64.696 nuevas empresas creadas en el mismo periodo del año, según datos estadísticos de Red.es y del INE.   El primer trimestre del año es el que más actividad ... read more ...