Monthly Archives: December 2014

Wed 10th December 2014
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With .SOFTWARE and .AUCTION, Programmers and Resellers Get Their Piece … – Virtual - New Top Level Domains Expand Online Options KIRKLAND, Wash., Dec. 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced the launch of .SOFTWARE and .AUCTION, two new web extensions that expand Rightside's growing portfolio of unique Top Level Domains (TLDs). There are almost a million software developers in the U.S. alone, and the U.S. Bureau of ... read more ...
 
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Photo Release — Rightside Provides Highlights From Investor & Analyst Day at … - KIRKLAND, Wash., Dec 09, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. NAME, -1.34% ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions to reason super-exclusive domain auction during Waldorf Astoria Hotel - Auction will be limited to 30 high quality domain names. Heritage Auctions is trying something different for its next domain name auction: it will be a super-exclusive event held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. What makes it so exclusive? There will only be 30 domain names at the auction. That’s the smallest (in terms of number of lots) live domain auction I can recall. It also means the inventory will be limited to high quality, one word domain names ... read more ...
 
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Which domain name registrars mislaid (and won) transfers according to many new central data - Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars. ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a customer standpoint. I’ve been checking these reports over the past few months to see how many domains Moniker is losing after changing its account interface. What I thought would be massive hemorrhaging has proven to be just ... read more ...
 
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A outline of unequivocally engaging information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation - Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded domain name companies is that we can get more data from the companies than we can from private ones. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is a prime example. Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day last Friday. You can view the entire ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million As a Record Number 60% Of Domains Sell … - Over the past week, 458 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I believe is a record high for Sedo or anyone else in the industry Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: restaurantuniforms.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: etfs.de at 11,900 EUR · Top “other” TLD: joins.net at 3,500 EUR I wish I can pick out a favorite buy but I have nothing off this list:   ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million As a Record Number 60% Of Domains Sell At Buy It Now - Over the past week, 458 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I believe is a record high for Sedo or anyone else in the industry Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: restaurantuniforms.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: etfs.de at 11,900 EUR · Top “other” TLD: joins.net at 3,500 EUR I wish I can pick out a favorite buy but I have nothing off this list:   ... read more ...
 
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Photos & Highlights from Rightside’s Big Day at NASDAQ Friday - the day with Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu ringing the closing bell (Rightside trades in the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol NAME). NASDAQ and Rightside provided some photos from the busy day in ... read more ...
 
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Women.com Named By Inc.com As The #1 Startup In Los Angeles To Watch in 2015 - Inc.com, just published a story on the 7 startups in Los Angeles to watch in 2015 and Women.com came in at number one. “The startup scene in Los Angeles (and Santa Monica) has got the name “Silicon Beach” due to the massive number of tech startups that call the nation’s second largest city home. The spectacular exits of both Maker Studios ($950 million to Disney) and Oculus ($2 billion to Facebook) have spread the word that it’s not just a cool place to start a company, it might actually ... read more ...
 
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BaseKit Partners with Rightside - December 9th, 2014 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) -  BaseKit, the website building platform, has today announced its new partnership with Rightside Group Ltd (Nasdaq: NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online. ... read more ...
 
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NetworkWorld: Companies Switching Back To .Com After Seeing Their New Domains Fall Flat - A really interesting story just got published by NetworkWorld.com, entitled “Companies are movin’ on up to .com domain names” with the subtitle “More businesses are investing in the tried-and-true .com after seeing their efforts with new domain names fall flat.” “I’ve noticed a number of companies movin’ on up to prime online real estate by switching from one of the many alternative domain names to .com. Recently, I wrote about a few companies, including overstock.com, Visa International, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Graffiti Launched by Industry Veterans - At the TRAFFIC conference in October, I learned about a new domain industry company called Domain Graffiti, which was founded by Braden Pollock and James Wester. Domain Graffiti is a domain brokerage that helps add value to domain names by working on concept creation, drafting of a business summary, logo creation, and other value adds on behalf of the domain name owner. Domain Graffiti’s team of brokers are focused on representing higher value (six and seven figure) domain names. In addition, ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Claim Denied Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - In yet what is becoming a long line of cases, a UDRP panel summarily dismissed a case against the owner of the domain name RockGaming.com which was registered over 10 years ago back on November 18, 2004 The complaint was brought by Rock Gaming LLC of Michigan who alleged in its complaint that it had “trademark rights in ROCK GAMING” However on this issue the one member panel of Debrett G. Lyons determined “the critical question in this case is whether Complainant has trademark rights in ROCK ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Looking to buy adult to $8million value of shares in mutated Dutch Auction - Tucows Commences Dutch Tender Offer Under the Tender Offer, shareholders will have the opportunity to tender some or all of their shares at a price within the range of $16.50 to $18.50 per share. Based on the number of shares tendered and the prices specified by the tendering shareholders, Tucows will determine the lowest per share price within the range that will enable it to buy up to $8.0 million worth of shares, or such lesser number of shares that are properly tendered. Assuming that the offer ... read more ...
 
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Namescon Registrations Pass 500; Double From Last Year At This Time - According to the conference organizers, NamesCon has broken 500 pre-registered attendees which is double the number of attendees registered at this time last year. NamesCon will be held in Las Vegas January 11th-14th at the Tropicana Hotel and Conference Center. The NamesCon seems to be on track to exceed 800+ attendees this year. RightoftheDot.com will be holding a live and online domain name auction as part of the conference on January 13th, 2015 with online bidding on Snapnames.com NamesCon has ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets another Domain Appraisal patent - Patent covers using comps for domain name evaluation. GoDaddy has been issued another U.S. patent related to domain name appraisals. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent number 8,909,558 for “Appraising a domain name using keyword monetary value data”. The patent basically covers using comps for a domain name appraisal, i.e. looking up sales of other domain names including similar keywords and using this to determine value. GoDaddy has a number ... read more ...
 
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Donuts and Rightside recover 6 new domains on Wednesday - …And they’re some of the better domains released so far. Remember the good ole’ days of the middle of 2014, when mega-registry Donuts would release four of five new top level domain names every week? Well, they’re back. For one week, anyway. Donuts will launch four new domain names at “regular” pricing this week after the conclusion of their early access phases: .business, .network, .immo and .pizza. .Business and .Network are interesting because they ... read more ...
 
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Analyst reiterates new TLD foresee and cost aim for Rightside - After Rightside investor day, analyst says forecast is on target. B. Riley Co analyst Sameet Sinha has reiterated his forecast for new top level domain names and his $15 price target for Rightside. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is currently trading for $8.29. Sinha forecasts that 29.1 million registrations will be made under new to level domain names by the end of 2016. Based on 3.4 million domains registered to date, he believes his forecast of 3.6 million by the end ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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If You Want One More Problem.com Its At $30K At NameJet.com With a Day To Go - Boca Raton’s own Ariana Grande has been burning up the music charts with the song “Problem” for most of the year. If you have been living off the grid and haven’t’ heard the song or worse if you haven’t watched the video here is a little early Christmas present. Anyway on the domain name front, Problem.com is at auction at Namejet.com. The domain name auction closes tomorrow and bidding has already topped $30K with 224 bidders. The good news is the domain auction is public so you can ... read more ...
 
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Despite Fanfare In New York, Shares of Rightside Get No Pop In Price or in Volume -                                           The domain name industry blogs covered Rightside (NAME) exposure in New York last week, which included presenting to the street and ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ which was covered here, here, here, and here just to name a few and in press releases and financial publications like TheStreet.com. There were some great pictures of Rightside appearing in the Times Square billboards as well like the one above However today none of ... read more ...
 
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Which Domains Stand the Strongest Against Phishing Attacks? - Highlights from the latest research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Criminals behind phishing attacks are constantly looking for new vulnerabilities. The latest Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Global Phishing Survey, which analyzed over 100,000 phishing attacks in the first half of 2014, examines the progress that top level domains (TLDs) are making in responding to phishing attacks that use their TLDs. The report finds the .INFO domain has the lowest average phishing ... read more ...
 
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If You Want One Of The Best .Auction Domains You Better Bring A Big Check; Up To $60k A Year - .Auction which goes into general availability on Wednesday is coming with some pretty stiff premium registration and renewal pricing. The new extension is being sold by Rightside. A regular registration will cost around $42. Here are some of the more interesting domain names I found that are available as of publication (pricing based at rack rate at Enom.com): $60,012 Registration fee and Annual renewal fee: Ceramics.Auction Charity.Auction Coin.Auction Coins.Auction Condo.Auction Condos.Auction Estate.Auction FineArt.Auction FineWine.Auction Foreclosure.Auction Furniture.Auction i.Auction ... read more ...
 
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The Cost Of What A Block Would Have Cost - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
 
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The … - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
 
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US Dept of Commerce Strickling: No Firm Deadline To Give Up Control Over ICANN - The WallStreetJournal.com, according to a letter in the Journal today , Commerce Department official Lawrence Strickling dismissed the importance of U.S. oversight of ICANN and said that there is no firm deadline for the U.S. to give up oversight of ICANN. “In March the U.S. announced it would not renew its contract with ICANN next September. Mr. Strickling now says that’s not a firm deadline: “We will not complete the transition absent an accountability plan that has the support of the community.” In ... read more ...