Monthly Archives: December 2014

Tue 16th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Nom de domaine : pas de bonus SEO pour les nouveaux TLD d … - Le Googler John Mueller a rappelé qu'"il n'y a pas d'avantage SEO pour les sites qui choisiront les nouvelles extensions". De très nombreuses nouvelles extensions arrivent pour les noms de domaines : les .paris, .bzh, .hotel, .music, .expert... Ces nouveaux TLD ("Top-Level Domains") vont-ils doper le SEO des sites qui les choisissent ? Non, a affirmé clairement John ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com business - Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies earlier this year. In an interview with Business in Vancouver, SHOEme CEO Roger Hardy said “Predominantly, we’re acquiring the assets. That’s the URL, the customers and the history of the customers as well as the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
See all 152 heading apps filed by a Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!) - Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matching mostly famous names and common terms. The company has filed 152 applications, according to a search on Trademark247. Most were filed around Thanksgiving, and many of them exactly match a celebrity name or famous brand ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name - Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CEO of Elephant Auto Insurance. If that name sounds familiar, it might be because the company unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Elephant.com from Adam Dicker through a UDRP in 2005. It later purchased the domain ... read more ...
Mon 15th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Did NamesCon Buy DomainFest.com? -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that owns over 75,000 domain names and whose sell site is during MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains.

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites - According to  csoonline.com citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on to say “ICANN hasn’t done enough and should ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing … - According to a company blog post out today, by brand protection company CSC, citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
ICANN: violações de dados não é por novos domínios - Porta-voz desmente acusações de que o recente crescimento no número de TLDs tenha causado violações de dados. Existem hoje mais de 700 domínios de nível de topo genéricos (“generic top level domain” ou gTLD), como .meme, .guru e .blog. O número de TLDs explodiu apenas recentemente – entre 1985 e 2012, o número de TLDs cresceu lentamente, de cinco para 22. E a Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Guess I Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New … - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Guess we Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New gTLD’s: 15X As Much? - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UDRP Panel Gives EasyGroup Rights To The Word “Easy”? Awards Domain It Let Expire In 2009 - A one member UDRP panel, of William R. Towns seemingly granted EasyGroup Limited of London, the right to all domain names that start with the word “easy” that the company has or will trademark in the future. EasyGroup is the owner of a Community trademark (“CTM”) for EASYTRAIN in connection with transportation services, which is was registered on October 21, 2011. I get why the domain holder lost the case. He didn’t respond. He parked the domain and had links to travel on the page. But ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how we competence think - Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search engine advantage. I’ve gotten into the nasty habit (sarcasm) of actually reading beyond the headline of reports and studies, and I was unimpressed with the data (if you can call it that) in these reports. Matt Cutts previously ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Best feign name used in a domain name scam. Ever. - I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to be an Asian domain name registrar, sends an email to the owner of a domain name and says that someone else is trying to register domain names using the same brand. The scammer says they’re reaching out as a courtesy. If the recipient ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11 - Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schilling comes on the show this week to discuss why he decided to shift his lifestyle from a relaxing one of managing his own domain name portfolio to starting a number of domain name services businesses. He also explains why he applied ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Lies, darned lies and new TLD statistics - Dig into statistics to understand how valuable they are. New top level domain name options have been out for less than a year, and everyone is clambering for data to make sense of the rollout. That includes me. I look at registration data from a number of sources, weekly sales information, usage data…basically, anything I can get my hands on. Yet it’s important to understand that data can be misleading, especially if you don’t dig into the details. A prime example ... read more ...
Sat 13th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ICANN gears up for second round of gTLD applications even as first round still … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the "dot" in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Monster.com (Jobs) Beats out Monster, Inc. (High End Audio Co.) For The gTLD … - Monster.com,  (NYSE:MWW), the job site has beaten out Monster, Inc. the company that makes high end audio cables and other equipment for the new gTLD .Monster. The contension set was scheuled to do to the ICANN last resort auction next week but Monster, Inc who is best know for high end audio cables just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Monster leaving Monster.com which is the job board company as the remaining applicant. According to its application Monster.com plans to operate ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Monster.com (Jobs) Beats out Monster, Inc. (High End Audio Co.) For The gTLD .Monster - Monster.com,  (NYSE:MWW), the job site has beaten out Monster, Inc. the company that makes high end audio cables and other equipment for the new gTLD .Monster. The contension set was scheuled to do to the ICANN last resort auction next week but Monster, Inc who is best know for high end audio cables just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Monster leaving Monster.com which is the job board company as the remaining applicant. According to its application Monster.com plans to operate ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ICANN Gears Up for Second Round of gTLD Applications Even as First Round … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the "dot" in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with an interest ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2014
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
HostingCon India Session Explores How Strategic Promotions Key to New gTLD … - MUMBAI, INDIA — The first day of ResellerClub presents HostingCon India featured diverse keynotes from various speakers. Topics covered in sessions on Friday included internet access in India, domains, and online marketing trends. In an early afternoon session, executives from the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit organization that manages the .ORG top level domain, were on hand to give an overview of the trends and changes in the domain name industry. PIR director of channel ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
After 7 Years, This Is Where Thedomains.com Has Been & Where it’s Going - Our first post was made on December 4th, 2007 so amazingly enough we have been hard at work over here at thedomains.com for 7 years. I have no idea where the time has gone, but it went, and a lot of it. We have published over 7,700 posts and just under 85,000 comments. We have been busy. As bloggers we have a natural urge to be first to publish “breaking news” and stories. Sometime you will see duplicate content on domain blogs. This is caused by several factors. Press releases being sent out ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Le TOP 10 des nouveaux gTLDs -

Il existe un “Top 10” des nouvelles extensions Internet: il s’agit des dix Registres qui autorisent la commercialisation de nouveaux noms de domaine au réseau des bureaux d’enregistrement accrédités. Dans le cas de ce Top 10, nous parlons des dix Registres qui créent le and de noms de domaine.

Via: journaldunet.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Best Reverse Domain Hijacking UDRP Ever: Asia Charts Of Singapore Guilty & 1st For Asian UDRP Provider - The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (Kuala Lumpur Office) has returned what we believe is that providers first Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling on the domain name AsiaCharts.com, and its on the exact type of case that we have been complaining about, one in which the complainant did not have a trademark. Even worse the domain name was registered 4 years before the Complainant was even formed. The three member Panel of Mr.D.Saravanan, Mr.Michael Soo and Honorable Neil Brown QC found ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
13 finish user domain name sales from final week - RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform Apparel, Inc. Another notable sale was GIII.com. Although the price tag was only $5,000, the buyer is a $2.1 billion (market cap) clothing company. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You ... read more ...