Monthly Archives: December 2014

Fri 12th December 2014
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Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations - Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. Some people are striking oil with new TLDs.It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high initial prices and registry premiums to suggest that domainers are being cut out of the action. The reality is that some people are making good money flipping new TLDs. I want to be careful ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2014
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NCC Group to Open Trust Domain For Registration - NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, “NCC Group” or "the Group"), the international, independent provider of Escrow, Assurance and Domain Services, announces that companies will be able to submit their requests to become part of the .trust community on 16 December 2014.   NCC Group’s .trust generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) has now begun a 90-day “Name Collision” and will shortly enter into a “Sunrise Period”, as defined by ICANN, to protect trademarked brands. Rob Cotton, NCC Group CEO, commented: “After ... read more ...
 
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It’s Go Buddy Time: Say Hello To The Star Of Godaddy’s Super Bowl Commercial “Buddy” -                         As any frequent reader to TheDomains.com knows, there isn’t many things I love more than Dogs so I’m really looking forward to this years Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial Godaddy which announced that their Super Bowl Commercial would feature a Puppy has now released a picture of the adorable pup and after a name the puppy contest that ran on Twitter this week under the Hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy. Godaddy announced just a little while ago that the puppy has been named ... read more ...
 
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New Poll Says 25% Think Organic Co. Should Have .Organic Domain: But Only 396 Have Been Registered - .ORGANIC domain operator Afilias today announced the results of a poll in which “nearly 70% of respondents believe that some companies are misrepresenting themselves as “organic” to command a premium price, and 60% would like a reliable way to distinguish real organic providers online from the pretenders. That’s why almost 60% of respondents claimed they would be more inclined to visit a site on .ORGANIC, which is restricted to verified organic entities, than legacy .COM sites when searching ... read more ...
 
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Consumers Prefer the .ORGANIC Web Address for True-Organic Goods - DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2014--.ORGANIC domain operator Afilias  today announced the results of new research that provides important insights regarding U.K. and U.S. Internet users’ experience finding organic products and services online. Nearly 70% of respondents believe that some companies are misrepresenting themselves as “organic” to command a premium price, and 60% would like a reliable way to distinguish real organic providers online from the pretenders. That’s why almost 60% ... read more ...
 
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Fig. 2: Brands that U.S. consumers believe should be on the .ORGANIC domain … - DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--.ORGANIC domain operator Afilias today announced the results of new research that provides important insights regarding U.K. and U.S. Internet users’ experience finding organic products and services online. Nearly 70% of respondents believe that some companies are misrepresenting themselves as “organic” to command a premium price, and 60% would like a reliable way to distinguish real organic providers online from the pretenders. ... read more ...
 
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16 Year Old Domain TVBS.com Lost in UDRP: Privacy is Not a Way a Legitimate Business Would Operate - TVBS.com, a domain name registered on April 20, 1998 has been ordered transferred to a trademark holder in a UDRP decision handed down by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (“ADNDRC”). Some of the language in the decision is troubling as is the failure of the panel to even consider or discuss the legal concept of latches due to the 16 year delay in taking action. The Complainant is the TVB, Television Broadcasts Limited (listed on the main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong ... read more ...
 
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The latest on everything you need to know about domain names - We continue with the series on domain names and the important things to know and remember when securing a domain name and creating a web presence.Structure of domain namesA domain name is composed of different parts separated by “dots” and each part represents a hierarchy in the domain name structure and this hierarchy descent from the right to the left part of the domain name.At the highest level of the hierarchy is the Top Level Domain which is the right most part of the domain name. For example ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft “You Can Use Bitcoins to Buy Apps, Games & More for Windows & Xbox Today In The US - In a blog post, Microsoft announced that starting today in the U.S., by using BitPay, the world’s leading bitcoin payment processor, you can trade-in bitcoin – at current market value — and add it to your Microsoft account. Those funds can then be used to purchase content in the Windows Store, or in stores that house Xbox Games, Xbox Music or Xbox Video. “For us, this is about giving people options and helping them do more on their devices and in the cloud,” says Eric Lockard, corporate ... read more ...
 
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TM Holder Of Beauty Lab Loses URDP Bid The Grab The Domain MyBeautyLab.com: Too Generic - The owner of the trademark for BeautyLab just lost its attempt to grab the domain name TheBeautyLab.com The sole UDRP panelist Brigitte Joppich bascially found that although the Complainant had valid trademarks registered before the domain name, including in the country where the domain holder operates, the term Beauty Lab was too generic to enjoy any protection in the UDRP process. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “”The Complainant operates a beauty and cosmetics business distributing ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .immo 5274; .Business 3292; .Software 3068; .Network … - 6 New gTLD’s went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including all domain names registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and in the Early Access Period (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a one time fee for early access more than 17,000 domain names were registered across the six new domain extensions which is the best first day performance by non-city new gTLD’s for a long time. Here ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .immo 5,274; .Business 3,292; .Software 3,068; .Network 3,055; .Pizza 1,272; .Auction 1,056 - 6 New gTLD’s went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including all domain names registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and in the Early Access Period (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a one time fee for early access more than 17,000 domain names were registered across the six new domain extensions which is the best first day performance by non-city new gTLD’s for a long time. Here ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations? Here’s The Answer - The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in which case we are talking about the principal owners of the registry, any domain registered and reserved ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations … - The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in which case we are talking about the principal owners of the registry, any domain registered and reserved ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investor Chad Folkening Interviewed By Inc.com - Inc.com just published an interview with Domain investor Chad Folkening entitled “Domain Pro Spills Secrets for Scoring a Prize URL” Chad Folkening is “a co-founder of Domain Holdiings a developer of online domains, and owner of tens of thousands of URLs, many of which his various companies have turned into profitable websites. And that’s big business–when it comes to selling the dot-coms. “Recently, Domain Holdings sold LocalRegister.com to Amazon. “Some other successes in its past ... read more ...
 
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Wanna buy a dot-word? If you want a .pizza the action, now’s a chance - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines Roundup Everyone loves pizza. Even though the industry is responsible for cluttering millions of people's mailboxes with flyers, you'll still take a look and think about ordering one.Well, expect to see one minor change in those flyers from now on – the addition of new .pizza domain names – thanks to the launch of the internet registry earlier on Wednesday. According to one registrar, it is the top selling ... read more ...
 
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6 new tip turn domain names launched yesterday, and a many renouned is… - Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo, .network and .pizza. Guess which one had the most registrations? If you’re an English speaker, you probably guessed wrong. According to nTLDstats, .immo ended the “zone file” day with the most registrations at ... read more ...
 
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Blast from a past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s really different) - Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent domain names. Instead of typing a domain name like Money.com in your browser, you could just type “Money”. RealNames would resolve the query to whomever had registered the keyword “Money” with RealNames (at a cost, ... read more ...
 
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Over 200 Expired Domain Sales Results, including Kickbox.com - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain name sales. The combat sport that brought Jean-Claude Van Damme to the silver screen (and eventually put “the Muscles from Brussels” to work in maracas-shaking GoDaddy commercials) had a notable expired domain sale last week: Kickbox.com ended at NameJet just a dollar shy of $12k. I’d say Kickbox.com is agile enough to be used inside or outside the literal ring, and we may see it developed with no ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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Which Domains Stand a Strongest Against Phishing Attacks? - On the Afilias blog there was a post by Ram Mohan on extensions and phishing attacks. He took a look at research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Key Findings 1.    Apple became the world’s most-phished brand in 2014 2.    The introduction of new top-level domains did not have an immediate major impact on phishing 3.    Chinese phishers were responsible for 85% of the domain names registered for phishing 4.    Malicious domains and subdomain registrations continue ... read more ...
 
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Early Data Suggests New gTLDs Perform Well in Search Environment - Internet addresses registered in new gTLDs are holding their own against — and in some cases outperforming — comparable addresses registered in legacy domains like .COM, according to new data that provides the best window yet into the operational functionality of new gTLD addresses. A question on everyone's mind in the run up to new gTLDs was: how would new domains perform in the wild against legacy domains on the key criteria of search? Even though Donuts bet on the hypothesis that new ... read more ...
 
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DNN Podcast Interview with Antony Van Couvering - Antony Van Couvering, founder and CEO of of Minds + Machines was recently interviewed by DNN's Andrew Allemann's, where they discuss new Top-Level Domains. Andrew writes: "We discuss registry pricing of premium domains, niche TLDs, domain name registration channels and more. It’s an enlightening discussion with the founder of one of the largest new TLD companies." You can listen to the podcast here. About Minds + Machines Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX) is a leading owner ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry and Right of the Dot Establish a Domain Name Industry "Dream … - TLD Registry Ltd, the world's leading Internationalized Domain Name "New gTLD" registry, announced a partnership agreement with the influential Internet advising and consulting firm, Right of the Dot, LLC (ROTD). ROTD is led by successful veteran domain name industry experts, Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens, who will work with TLD Registry as it continues to market and sell its two IDNs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ), and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Extensions Launching Today .Business, .Network, .Immo, .Auction, .Pizza - Several new gTLD’s go into general availability today where they can be registered on a first come first serve basis and many have quite a few registrations after its Sunrise  period which was for trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register the domain during the Early Access Period (EAP) .Business has 506 registrations which is more registrations that 17 fully launched, new gTLD’s have. .Network is close behind with 487 Sunrise and EAP registrations. .Network is very interesting,  ... read more ...