Monthly Archives: December 2014

Thu 4th December 2014
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Last week’s finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A Hong Kong game developer, investment firm and manufacturer bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 509 domain name transactions last week, for a total of $1.3 million. It was a little bit harder than usual to find obvious end user sales, but there are plenty of them. Once again, many of the sales were to people who owned one TLD version of a domain picking up another. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can ... read more ...
 
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Companies don’t wish we to use Whois privacy, though they use it themselves - Brands owners benefit from whois privacy, even though they’d prefer their adversaries not be able to use it. There’s a common myth in intellectual property circles that, if it weren’t for whois privacy and proxy services, there would be a lot less bad stuff on the internet. I can bust a hole right in the myth. But instead, I’d like to point out something these companies don’t often admit: they are some of the biggest users of whois privacy. I was reminded ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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"Chinese Domaining Masterclass" to be Presented at NamesCon Las Vegas in … - The second annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, is proud to announce a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world's leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网 ) top level domains. TLD Registry's Chinese Domaining Masterclass will run over all four days of NamesCon, and will be taught by TLD Registry's Simon Cousins and ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC - Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn’t have much information as to what they plan to do in particular with the extension. dotBeauty LLC is affiliated with the applicant who won .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000 - According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired  TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and had the same owner so I’m not sure what to make of it According to the press release, Trucking Unlimited ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four - Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others,  Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don’t know what the string sold for. In my opinion I would  say i.News had to sell for more than $10 million and actually would be surprised if it sold ... read more ...
 
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Auction and Sales Channel Update - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, has announce that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds ... read more ...
 
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Radix Set to Launch .SITE TLD in 2015 - Radix, the UAE based registry operator for a number of new TLDs, has won the rights to operate the popular new gTLD .site for an undisclosed amount, and is looking to launch it in early 2015. This was a big win for Radix as it went up against industry heavyweights including Donuts, Minds+ Machines and Interlink Co. .site is a short, generic, and easily understood nTLD by end consumers. It is already amongst the most pre-registered new gTLDs across several registrars and features in the ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC  of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru,  could have just bought the domain name which was listed on Sedo with a Buy it now price of $6,000. Instead  the company elected to file a $1,500 UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds that the Company will receive from ICANN for withdrawing its applications. Cash ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued in Sunrise. Finally .Gal ended its first day of general availability with 1,140. .Gal has nothing to do with ... read more ...
 
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Internet atteint 280 millions de noms de domaine au cours du … - Menu Articles de la revue de presse : - l'ensemble [tous | francophone] - par mots clé [tous] - par site [tous] - le tagwall [voir] - Top bi-hebdo de la revue de presse [Voir] S'abonner au fil RSS global de la revue de presse Internet atteint 280 millions de noms de domaine au cours du deuxième trimestre 2014Par Global Security Mag OnlineLe [2014-12-03] à 11:17:52Présentation : Verisign, Inc., annonce que quatre millions de noms de domaine ont été ajoutés à Internet au cours du deuxième ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2 of 2014 - The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2014.VeriSign has announced that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate ... read more ...
 
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Internet atteint 280 millions de noms de domaine au cours du … - L’augmentation mondiale de quatre millions de noms de domaine représente un taux de croissance de 1,4 % par rapport au premier trimestre de 2014. Les enregistrements à l’échelle mondiale ont augmenté de 18,6 millions, soit 7,2 % sur une année glissante. Les domaines de premier niveau (TLD) .com et .net ont connu une croissance groupée pendant le deuxième trimestre 2014, atteignant un total combiné d’environ 128,9 millions de noms de domaine dans la zone ajustée pour les .com et ... read more ...
 
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Bakom lanciert Infoportal zur Domain .swiss - Unternehmen und Institutionen, die sich für die Domain .swiss interessieren, können sich auf einem neuen Informationsportal über das Vergabeprozedere informieren, wie das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) mitteilt. So bietet das Portal unter anderem allgemeine Informationen zur Domain .swiss, deren Verfügbarkeit, Registrierungsbedingungen und Preise für die Registrierung. Das Bakom ist dafür zuständig, diese Domain ab Herbst 2015 jenen Unternehmen und Organisationen zuzuteilen, die einen ... read more ...
 
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World now has 280 million registered domain names: Verisign - There are now 280 million registered domain names across the world. Global domain names and Internet security company VeriSign, Inc has announced in its latest Domain Name Industry Brief that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, pushing the total to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014. “The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 percent over the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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Global registered domain names reach 280 mln in Q2 - The internet recorded the addition of 4 million domain names in the second quarter, up 1.4 percent from the first quarter, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The additions brought the total number of registered domain names at end June to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). Worldwide registrations grew by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of 128.9 million domain names, up 3.7 percent ... read more ...
 
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Australia Denies Apple’s Bid To Trademark “App Store” In Australia - Jenni Ryall reported for Mashable that Australia has said no go to Apple trademarking the term “App Store” in Australia. This latest ruling was an appeal of their 2013 trademark attempt. The judge did not see app store as distinguishing itself to be Apple centric. From the story: Apple can not exclusively use the term “app store” in Australia after a ruling in the Federal Court on Wednesday. Apple was appealing a 2013 decision by the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks, that rejected an ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com - I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it’s $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code “SAS149COM”. An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That’s the best deal we’ve seen for .com registration from GoDaddy since March, when we saw it for 99 cents. Some ... read more ...