Monthly Archives: November 2014

Mon 17th November 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Following Macaulay Culkin hoax, research examines media gTLD registration … - Tim Lince A brand-hijacked website using the new gTLD string ‘.website’ went viral last week with a hoax news report about the ‘death of Macaulay Culkin’. The hoax spread, in part, because of the authentic-looking ‘msnbc.website’ domain, which convinced over 6 million users to share the fake article across a seven-day span. This issue highlights ... read more ...
 
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TLD met au point un système anticollision pour les aéroports - Les manoeuvres sur les pistes peuvent entraîner des chocs entre les avions et les passerelles, escaliers et autres matériels aéroportuaires. Sur les avions ayant une carlingue métallique, les déformations sont visibles et réparées. Mais les matériaux composites à mémoire de forme, utilisés sur l'A350 ou le Boeing 787, reprennent leur forme initiale, même si la structure est abîmée derrière. Pour pallier ce problème, qui peut avoir des incidences graves, TLD vient de sortir un système ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations - According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were given to customers for for free. As of the last update there are now 3,161,685new gTLD domain names registered. Godaddy has ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy reports Q3 gain in SEC filing - Revenue up nearly 25% compared to same quarter last year. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC today, in which it discloses its results from the third quarter. Here are some financial highlights: Q3 2014 revenue was $356.9 million, up 5.4% from Q2 and 24.7% from Q3 2013. Domain revenue kept growing, but its percentage of GoDaddy’s overall business continues to shrink. In Q3 2012, the domain business accounted for 65.7% of GoDaddy’s business. This past quarter ... read more ...
 
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Switching to a .brand is some-more costly than we think - Make a wholesale switch from Brand.com to .Brand will be expensive, and won’t give you many benefits. News over the weekend of the Government of Quebec deciding to not change its domains over to .Quebec heightens the discussion on if it makes sense for brands to switch their web presence to a .brand. If they want to do it, it’s going to be really expensive. The Government of Quebec pegged the cost at over $10 million. Ultimately, I think it might be much more. Keeping ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann and (more) economics of domain name portfolios - Washington Post article provides more data on about domain name portfolios. The Washington Post wrote about domain name investor Mike Mann yesterday, and the article sheds more light on the economics or large domain name portfolios. Really, it applies to all domain portfolios, even if you have a small one. I wrote about this topic before after BuyDomains sold for $44.9 million, or just $47 per domain name. According to the Washington Post article, Mann’s company ... read more ...
 
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Mobile.co owners pays dearly for Mobile.co.com - Company pays $32,000 for mobil.co.com and movil.co.com. The company that owns Mobile.co has spent $32,000 to acquire the third level domain names Mobile.co.com and Movil.co.com, the .co.com registry reported this morning. Freelancing site Mobile Inc bought the domain names in a deal brokered by Igloo.com. Although it might seem like a lot of money, the company may have spent a proportionally staggering amount when it acquired Mobile.co. .co.com is a common typo ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Quebec, .Top and .Engineer - A few new TLDs hit registrars’ shelves this week, including a large geo domain. A few top level domain names coming out in a week is the new normal, so I’m going to stop calling these “slow” weeks. Here’s a look at this week’s new top level domain name rollouts. .Quebec – Quebec gets its own TLD this Tuesday, but its government is going to sit on the sidelines thanks to the price tag of transitioning. The domain does not carry geographic restrictions, ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon 2015 with Jothan Frakes – Domain Name Wire Podcast - NamesCon is just two months away. Learn about the upcoming show on this week’s podcast. NamesCon returns for its second edition this January. Its inaugural show brought together 600 people from the domain name industry, making it the largest non-ICANN domain related event. On this week’s podcast, co-producer Jothan Frakes explains what’s in store for January’s conference. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, Jothan shares a $200 discount code during the ... read more ...
Sun 16th November 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Tech Companies Want Senate To End NSA Collection Programs Before Republicans Take Control - Tech companies coming together to get the Senate to act to eliminate the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Companies like Google and Microsoft etc… are worried about losing business around the world as foreign governments might fear that the U.S. government can gain easy access to the data of their citizens. With the change of power in the Senate there is a fear among tech leaders that this must be done now or it will not get done over the next Senate term. Of course Google just may feel like ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches -     According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end  its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec,  just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Government websites to .Quebec and will instead retain all of its Website to end in  .gouv.qc.ca . The Government told the  The Canadian Press on Friday that the migrating of all the Governmental websites to  .Quebec would have cost $12 million of public funds and  ... read more ...
Sat 15th November 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
nTLDs im Ranking! - (PresseBox) (Bonn, 15.11.2014) Wieder einmal ist ein Monat vorbei und die GERWAN Redaktion möchte Ihnen einen Blick darauf bieten, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen der neuen Domainendungen entwickelt haben. Wir können Ihnen versprechen, es hat sich viel getan in den letzten 30 Tagen. Einige Neueinstige haben sich bereits letzten Monat angekündigt, eine TLD, die erst am 23.10.2014 in die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit ging, hat dabei ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.book and the New Top-Level Domain Names - Amazon’s purchase of the .book generic top-level domain has prompted speculation about how the e-tailer plans to use it. Amazon bought the TLD for a reported $10 million last week, allowing it to sell domain names with the .book suffix.Amazon declined to comment on its plans for the TLD, but Raymond King, CEO of Top Level Design, owner of the generic TLD .ink, said he expects Amazon to offer .book domain names for sale to the public as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ... read more ...
 
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New .WINE and .VIN Are Now Political Tools - The more I follow the .WINE .VIN opera, the more I start to believe that the idea is either to kill both new gTLD applications to free space in Round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program or make this subject a political tool "only" to increase Europe's presence in ICANN decisions. Flying high above the sky If there still is a wish from the European Commission to help .WINE and .VIN to become the strongest identity European wines could ever have on Internet, I would like to understand why the ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
DNS Policy Notes for Nov. 14, 2014 (Hiatus Edition) - DNS POLICY NOTES FOR NOV. 14, 2014 (HIATUS EDITION) Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for Nov. 14, 2014.DNS Apparently Safe From TPPI spent the better part of today learning about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Here's what I learned:#1. The text of the TPP's Intellectual Property ... read more ...
 
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The .IR, .KP and .SY Domains Are “Safe” - By Paul Rosenzweig Friday, November 14, 2014 at 1:21 PM A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s alleged complicity in supporting terror and their own resulting injuries. Sadly, for the victims, none of these countries had assets subject to American jurisdiction that could be attached to satisfy ... read more ...
 
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US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized - A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who were inured during an Iranian-sponsored bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 had attempted to seize the top level “.IR” domain in order to recoup some of the millions of dollars in compensation they’re owed. Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, Judge Royce Lamberth sided with the Internet ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be? - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...
 
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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD … - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Nuovi domini di primo livello: le battaglie del terzo millennio - Negli ultimi due anni, più precisamente dal 12 Gennaio 2012, le più grandi imprese del web hanno cominciato a darsi battaglia su un nuovo campo, ovvero quello dei domini di primo livello. A partire da questa data è stato liberalizzato il mercato dei domini di primo livello, in altre parole è stata data libertà di utilizzo dei domini di primo livello personalizzati come indirizzo per il proprio sito web. Un indirizzo web, ovvero un dominio è costituito di norma da 3 parti divise da un punto: ... read more ...
 
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO … - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...
 
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Aruba si prende il cloud un tld ambito - E’ stata l’azienda italiana Aruba ad aggiudicarsi l’estensione molto interessante e ricercata, si tratta del .cloud. L’estensione .cloud era molto ricercata in proiezione futura ma già attuale, visti i servizi cloud che si stanno moltiplicando sul web, c’è da dire che sul tld erano piombate anche Amazon, Symantec e nientemeno che Google. L’azienda italiana però è riuscita a spuntarla e ha rivoluzionato il mercato, inserendo appunto un’azienda italiana come Aruba, ai vertici ... read more ...
 
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One Degree World disrupts Online Travel industry with its use of emerging top … - Technology One Degree World disrupts Online Travel industry with its use of emerging top-level domains Vicky Karantzavelou - 14 November 2014, 12:17 Company to launch the largest portfolio of global travel and entertainment sites on new top-level domains partnering with .BUZZ, .NINJA and .VEGAS, among others. <!-- Lorel ipsum . Philippe Chereque, Amadeus, . . 41 ... read more ...
 
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Italian company Aruba beats Amazon, Google to .cloud domain - Italian web hosting and cloud services company Aruba S.p.A. has won the auction to sell domains ending in .cloud, beating off competition from Amazon, Google and Symantic, reports The Register. The auction is a result of the decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create scores of new gTLD domain name extensions. Arezzo-based Aruba has been active in the Italian market for over 20 years and has been a cloud provider since 2011. However, Amazon did win ... read more ...