Monthly Archives: November 2014

Thu 20th November 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
White paper: .bank is here! - A white paper from OBER/KALER describing what you need to know about .bank Sunrise is on the horizon for .bank. A new Internet land rush begins mid-2015 for websites bearing the extension .bank, the financial world’s new .com. A thorough vetting process and heightened security requirements promise to make .bank websites the most secure and trustworthy places to conduct the online banking of the future. But allowing a .bank website bearing your bank’s name to fall into ... read more ...
 
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Radix Launches .space – "Domains with Personality" - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, Asia’s largest portfolio nTLD applicant, launched its latest high potential domain extension, .space into Sunrise on 17th November 2014. The extension is positioned as a much needed platform for individuals, freelancers and professionals alike to present their own unique personality to the world via a short, memorable and meaningful online address..space gives a user a broad namespace to create a website that represents them ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling changes plan for .Click launch - NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling’s companies have registered thousands — even tens out thousands — of names ahead of general availability launch. That left frustrated domainers searching through the scraps. This was especially notable because Shilling ... read more ...
 
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Rightside shares strike new low - Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share this afternoon. It’s unclear what caused the sharp drop this week. Rightside reported earnings after the bell on November 6, and shares climbed the next day. The company filed its 10-Q with the SEC last Friday. I could not ... read more ...
 
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Nirvana gets domain names from Australian male who demanded $1.5 million - Panels say it Smells Like B.S. Nirvana LLC — the company that owns the intellectual property from the late grunge band Nirvana — has won control of five domain names registered by an Australian man. The company filed UDRP and aUDRP disputes against Darren Wilcox (Willcox) for the domain names nirvanadrums.com.au, nirvanadrums.net.au, nirvanadrums.com, nirvanadrumsfilm.com and nirvanadrums.net. Wilcox argued that he registered the domain names because of the concept ... read more ...
 
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HuaGao.com during $20k and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson summarizes weekly expired domain name sales Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified public accountant using HuaGaoCPA.com, for instance.) Yet I suspect that coupling “Hua” (transform or blossom) + “Gao” (tall or above average) conveys some other meaning in Chinese. ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Rin.com Sells for $35,000 on Sedo – Sold on Sedo for $14,000 in 2011 - Crossing the Sedo feed this afternoon is Rin.com at $35,000. Looks like it was the second time it sold on Sedo, DN Journal reported it sold for $14,000 in 2011. Affordable Webhosting Inc out of Oregon looks to be the seller and had the domain parked. Eli Shoval looks to be the buyer of the name. The name has been registered since 1995, at one time legendary domainer Garry Chernoff owned the domain back in 2004 and looks like he was the person who sold it on Sedo back in 2011. The buyer looked to ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD - LogicBoxes to hold an informative webinar to share details on the solution and highlight how ccTLDs can further grow their namespace and increase ARPUs. LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them a dedicated retail storefront and a complete end-to-end ... read more ...
 
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WHITE PAPER: .bank is here! - A white paper from OBER/KALER describing what you need to know about .bank Sunrise is on the horizon for .bank. A new Internet land rush begins mid-2015 for websites bearing the extension .bank, the financial world’s new .com. A thorough vetting process and heightened security requirements promise to make .bank websites the most secure and trustworthy places to conduct the online banking of the future. But allowing a .bank website bearing your bank’s name to fall into the wrong hands could ... read more ...
 
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November 2014 Web Server Survey - In the November 2014 survey we received responses from 947,029,805 sites and 4,994,577 web-facing computers. Despite the dramatic loss of almost 82 million sites since October, the number of web-facing computers increased by over 23 thousand (+0.47%) this month. Automatically generated content and wildcard sites are often used for activities such as domain holding and search-engine results manipulation, where the majority of the sites will not receive human visitors and therefore the resources ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on RightOfTheDot - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon 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’s interview is with Monte Cahn, President of RightOfTheDot, LLC. Q. Can you tell us about your company and how long you have been there? RightOfTheDot, LLC is an Internet consulting and advertising firm ... read more ...
 
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Braden Pollock’s Legal Brand Marketing Acquires 14 Premium Law-related .Co.com Domains -     According to a press release we received, co.com LLC, announced today that Legal Brand Marketing, LLC which was founded by Braden Pollock, acquired a premium portfolio of law-related .co.com domain names, including Law.co.com and Attorney.co.com. Legal Brand Marketing, plans to develop and launch websites for each domain. Financial terms were not disclosed. Legal Brand Marketing is a leading publisher of law-related websites and provider marketing services to law firms including: lead generation, ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Releases Numbers On Landrush: 145 Domains Sell For $1K-$9,999: 10 Sell For $10K+ - New York City released some numbers on the recently concluded Landrush period for the new gTLD .NYC, in which residents and businesses located in New York City were given the opportunity to apply for a domain for any extra fee before general availability started. TheDomains.com published a couple of posts on some unofficial sales here and here but these numbers came from the city: A total of 10,506 domain names were applied for in Landrush. 9,412 had only one applicant and became eligible for activation ... read more ...
 
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November 17: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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La NABP comenzará el periodo de registro de marcas Sunrise para … - La NABP comenzará el periodo de registro de marcas Sunrise para sitios web .pharmacy La NABP comenzará el periodo de registro de marcas Sunrise para sitios web .pharmacy PR Newswire MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois, 19 de noviembre de 2014 MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois, 19 de noviembre de 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- La National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) pronto aceptará solicitudes para los nombres de dominio .pharmacy de los poseedores de marcas comerciales que estén ... read more ...
 
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Hier bekommen Sie die neuen .koeln-Domains - Neue Möglichkeiten für alle, die sich eine neue Webseite aufbauen wollen oder einfach nur eine ausgefallene Mailadresse suchen: Seit diesem Herbst sind die neuen Internet-Domains .koeln und .cologne verfügbar. Im Web wird’s bei den Endungen von Internet-Adressen – den sogenannten Top Level Domains, kurz: TLDs – zunehmend bunter: Hatte man früher hierzulande nur die Wahl zwischen wenigen Endungen wie .de und .com, sind inzwischen viele neue TLDs dazugekommen. Während aber viele ... read more ...
 
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NABP startet gestaffelte Registrierungsphase von Handelsmarken fuuml;r … - Die Polizei berichtet zu diesem Thema:Mount Prospect, Illinois (ots/PRNewswire) - Die National Association of Boards of Pharmacy(®) (NABP(®)) wird in naher Zukunft Anträge für .pharmacy Domänennamen von Markeninhabern akzeptieren, die im Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) registriert sind. Die gestaffelte Registrierungsphase (Sunrise Period) für Anträge startet am 19. Dezember 2014 sowie geht der Sunrise TMCH Registrierungsperiode ... read more ...
 
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Noms de domaine : L’Italien Aruba seul maître du .Cloud - C’est une surprise. Aruba, fournisseur italien de Cloud public, annonce avoir été retenu par l’Icann pour devenir le registre officiel du .Cloud. Ce gTLD de premier niveau était très convoité depuis plus de 2 ans par de grands acteurs de l’IT qui ont tous un intérêt dans le Cloud. Citons Amazon, actuel le leader sur le marché du IaaS, Google (via sa filiale Charleston Road Registry), qui étoffe petit à petit sa plateforme Cloud, et Symantec, qui travaille sur la sécurité en mode ... read more ...
 
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Dish DBS beats Google in .Dot auction, pays $700,000 for domain - Dish won a two way race to operate the top level domain name .dot. Dish DBS, the satellite TV company and owner of Blockbuster, has beaten Google in a public auction for the top level domain .Dot. It paid $700,000 for the rights to the domain name. You’re not misreading this – the domain name is .dot. So soon, you might be able to visit Blockbuster at Blockbuster-dot-dot. In its application for the domain name, Dish said it plans to use the domain name for its ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user domain name sales, including a large .Me - An antiquated technology term in .me sells for five figures. Sedo sold $1 million worth of domain names last week. While this week’s list doesn’t include as many end user buyers as the last one (at least publicly), a lot of smaller businesses bought domain names. One of the most amusing ones is Telegram.me at $10,000. Now, be honest — if someone told you they registered a domain name with telegram in it, you’d laugh at him. Right? The New Zealand man who ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection - App makes it easier to narrow in on the best domain name. GoDaddy recently released an iOS app for finding and registering domain names called GoDaddy DomainFinder. Many of its features are similar to what you find on GoDaddy.com and other registrar sites. For example, the app lets you filter by price, TLD, and length. Yet some features are new and different, mostly when it comes to whittling down the large list of results you receive. You can easily “favorite” ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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Sedo Transactions Transactions Total $1 Million Led By Bohai.com - Over the past week, 554 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million dollars. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: bohai.com at 29,022 USD which was bought by a Chinese buyer. · Top ccTLD: erfahrung.de at 15,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: jie.net at 4,800 USD The domain name hack T.im caught my eye which sold for 3,000 GBP.     ... read more ...
 
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Aruba.It Formally Announces It Acquired .Cloud Beating Out Google & Amazon -                                     10 days ago we told you at TheDomains.com that Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it) beat out Amazon, Google and Donuts to win the new gTLD .Cloud Today the company finally put out a press release: “Aruba wins prestigious .cloud top level domain” “The Italian company has been awarded this gTLD instead of six of the most well-known internet companies who also applied. Aruba will set up the Official Registry for .cloud, expanding its already strong ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO: Government Attempts to Impose Rules on The Internet are Doomed to Fail - ICANN Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehade told Bloomberg yesterday in an interview that government attempts to impose rules on the Internet are doomed to fail “Governments can’t effectively enforce laws on websites available in different jurisdictions. Any group that makes policies for the Web must be decentralized and involve the private sector and academia” “The Internet itself has morphed so fast” that policies may be futile” “We need mechanisms that are rapid, that are effective ... read more ...
 
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NYC.com Making Email Expensive - Gothamist did a piece about NYC.com offering email addresses and their not cheap. The article looks at all of the recent attention around “NYC” branding. The new .NYC extension is mentioned along with the offering of email addresses from NYC.com. From the article: The email addresses are not free, they come with a monthly rent ($69, $99, $199, and $999 a month are the current prices). So, for example: a three character one (you@nyc.com) costs $99/month, and a one character email (u@nyc.com) costs ... read more ...