Monthly Archives: December 2014

Thu 18th December 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Club lifting some-more money, valued during $25.4 million - .Club to be valued at $25.4 million after investment. The .Club top level domain name registry is raising more funds, and the latest round will value the company at $25.4 million after the investment closes. .Club previously raised $7.5 million, with about $3.5 million of that in debt. The company is conducting two additional fundraising rounds, both of which are fully subscribed. The first is a raise from existing shareholders that will effectively convert the $3.5 ... read more ...
 
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Union Bank loses cases opposite dispute websites - Former customer registered ten domain names to air grievances about the bank. Union Bank has lost three domain name arbitration cases involving an upset former customer. The bank filed three separate actions covering UnionBank.me, unionbancal.co, unionbank.cc, union-bank.co, mufgunionbankna.com, unionbancalcorp.com, unionbancal.net, unionbancal.org, unionbankna.com and unionbanks.net. The domain names were all registered by William Bookout. At one point, his company ... read more ...
 
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Cuba domain names take off after yesterday’s announcement - It’s interesting to compare the surge in Cuba-related domain registrations following this announcement with the volume of domains purchased when a new TLD enters general availability. 1,500 newly registered .COM / .NET domains containing “Cuba” … That exceeds the total number of domains registered to date for dozens of keyword nTLDs! According to NameStat.org, these TLDs have accumulated only between 1,000 and 1,600 domains: .GENT, .PIZZA, .GIFTS, .FAIL, .ACTOR, .SURF, .CREDIT, ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour behind during November’s NameJet Sales - November for Namejet – as measured by domain auctions that closed above $2,000 – was a slow month. Just one month prior, 12 out of the 66 charted sales surpassed $10k, with the highest attaining $91.8k; but last month only 1 out of 61 sales climbed into the 5 digits. To be fair, the high end of the domain market is always the most erratic. Trends are mainly to be found in the low and mid-value ranges and over a longer period of time. Interestingly, activity ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Would confectionery industry benefit from a .CANDY? -   I have to admit that I’m a bit skeptical of the whole changing .COM into .OTHERTHINGS, like .ORGANIC, .NFL, or .XXX. I mean, yes, it could help us better sort through the world wide web, which is, after all, worldwide, but there’s a deeply rooted part of my soul that has a hard time letting go of the simplicity of .COM.  Crystal Lindell Ya, ya, I know, we’ve always had .GOV, .EDU, and the dated sounding .NET, so adding a few more shouldn’t be such a ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy Sued For $50 Million By Russian Millionaire Konstantin Malofeev - According to Courthousenews.com, GoDaddy.com has been sued for $50 million by A Russian millionaire claiming Godaddy defamed him by hosting a number of websites that accuse him of fraud. Konstantin Malofeev sued GoDaddy, Domains by Proxy and John Doe – the anonymous operator of the websites – on Dec. 14 Malofeev claims he is a businessman, politician, and chairman of the board of directors of Marshall Capital Group, one of Russia’s largest equity investment groups. He claims that a number of ... read more ...
 
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
 
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available … - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
 
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iOS 8: Falsch adressierte E-Mails vermeiden (Tipp) - iPhone und iPad: Falsch adressierte E-Mails vermeiden Oha, das ist ärgerlich: Die interne Firmen-Mail wurde versehentlich an einen völlig Unbeteiligten geschickt, weil sein Name so ähnlich war wie der des eigentlich gemeinten Empfängers. Dagegen ist auch iOS machtlos, aber es kann Ihnen helfen, solche peinlichen Pannen in Zukunft zu vermeiden: Wählen Sie Einstellungen – Mail, Kontakte, Kalender. Tippen Sie im Abschnitt Mail auf Adressen markieren. Geben Sie nun die Mail-Domain Ihrer Firma ... read more ...
 
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The Real Facts About New gTLDs - Many with financial interests in new gTLDs, such as Donuts, have painted a rosy picture of how new gTLDs create greater availability of meaningful domain name options that the global masses have been waiting for. Their message seems to be: FINALLY, there is an alternative to .com in new domain extensions like .guru, .photography, .blackfriday and .tips. But, the reality is that we have always had options other than .com to choose from when registering a domain name. The challenge isn't choice, ... read more ...
 
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Jeannie McPherson - The Real Facts About New gTLDs Many with financial interests in new gTLDs, such as Donuts, have painted a rosy picture of how new gTLDs create greater availability of meaningful domain name options that the global masses have been waiting for. Their message seems to be: FINALLY, there is an alternative to .com in new domain extensions like .guru, .photography, .blackfriday and .tips. But, the reality is that we have always had options other than .com to choose from when registering a domain ... read more ...
 
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John Mueller : Non, les nouvelles extensions n’amélioreront pas … - Après Matt Cutts en 2012, John Mueller enfonce à nouveau le clou (après en avoir déjà parlé au premier semestre) : non, les nouvelles extensions (.paris, .bzh, .store, etc.) ne vont pas vous aider à gagner des places dans les résultats des moteurs de recherche... Après Matt Cutts il y a quelques mois, c'est au tour de John Mueller d'en remettre une couche sur Google+ au sujet des nouvelles extensions (.paris, .bzh, .alsace, .web, .search, etc.) en insistant une nouvelle fois sur le ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Believes They Had A Spear Phishing Attack in November - ICANN is looking into an attack on their systems that took place back in November, they have posted an announcement on their website and have said to stay tuned for further updates by checking back. An email also went out to those using the CZDS: In order to continue using CZDS, please visit http://czds.icann.org and follow the instructions there to request a new password. We suggest that you take appropriate steps to protect any other online accounts for which you might have used the same username ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines in 2014 and 2015 - Written by Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines. On January 1, 2014, Minds + Machines was trading at 14p. As of yesterday our share price was 7p. You might conclude from this that our company has declined by a factor of two. But from our perspective, exactly the opposite has happened. Why the disconnect? It's the end of the year and it's time to look back at what's happened, and try to shed a little light on what's to come. Here's how we see our company today vs. one year ... read more ...
 
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Could new TLDs have an SEO advantage in a future? - Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s what Google says. And it makes sense when you think about it. A lot of people that think new TLDs have an SEO advantage are thinking with their heart, not with their head. Logic dictates that Google would give a boost of some sorts ... read more ...
 
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ICANN hacked, section record complement among victims - Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to members of its staff. Email credentials of several ICANN staff members were obtained. It appears the biggest system to be accessed as a result of the security breach was The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS). This system is a ... read more ...
 
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Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS - .Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson Johnson won .Baby with a $3,088,888 bid. It beat out Google, Minds + Machines, Donuts, Radix and Famous Four in the auction. Johnson Johnson also owns the domain name Baby.com. Canadian Real Estate Association beat Afilias in the auction ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NamesCon Acquires DomainFest & Will Be Part of NamesCon 2015 Las Vegas! - Well our hunch was right yesterday, as today NamesCon announced they have acquired DomainFest from Oversee.net in a press release we just received. “Starting with small conferences in LA and Barcelona, Oversee grew Domainfest into a large, global conference series, attracting domainers, marketing professionals and celebrity speakers from all over the world.” “We are very proud of the industry-leading conference that we built up over the years”, said Debra Domeyer, CEO of Oversee.net. “DomainFest ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million - Over the past week just 573 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: competitiveintelligence.com at 35,477 USD · Top ccTLD: ferienhausschweden.de at 4,500 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ovn.org at 9,888 USD KingFashion.com at $10,000 was one of our domains that sold A few notes: Someone paid almost $2K for shooopping.com Someone paid $4K for snowflakedb.net Crowdmoney.com ... read more ...
 
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Shoes.com Sold - According to Bloomberg.com, Shoes.com has sold “Brown Shoe Co. (BWS), owner of the Famous Footwear retail chain, sold its Shoes.com online division to a closely held Seattle company pushing into a market Shoeme, parent of OnlineShoes.com and Shoeme.ca, is purchasing Shoes.com for an undisclosed price, the companies said in separate statements today. ” “Shoeme Chief Executive Officer Roger Hardy has been working to move into footwear retailing on the Web. After selling Vancouver-based Coastal ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs Don’t Necessarily Provide SEO Advantage: Google - New TLDs do not receive any search rankings advantage compared to traditional TLDs like .com. Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller reiterated a comment from Google webspam team head Matt Cutts in 2012, rebutting a specific online post stating that the new TLDs were automatically favored by Google. “They can perform well in search, just like any other TLD can perform well in search,” Mueller said in a public Google+ post last week. “They give you an opportunity to pick a name that ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions,  which is  part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750000 Registered Domains - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions,  which is  part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension ... read more ...
 
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Terror bomb victims demanding Iran’s .ir will appeal US ruling - A US judge's decision that Iran's internet registry cannot be seized by victims of an Iranian-backed bomb attack will be challenged on appeal [PDF] in Washington DC. The decision last month by Judge Royce Lamberth that the .ir country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is not "attachable property" was the latest twist in a decade-long lawsuit brought by Israeli law center Shurat HaDin – which is seeking compensation for nine US citizens injured in an ... read more ...
 
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RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement - RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco Division for trademark infringement asking for disgorgement of profits, for civil penalties, and for preliminary and permanent injunctions enjoining Risk IO, its officers, agents, servants, employees, and all other persons in active concert with it, from ... read more ...