Monthly Archives: December 2014

Mon 8th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD Related - CentralNic (LON:CNIC)  announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for  US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD’s over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015: .site, .design, .tickets. Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD … - CentralNic (LON:CNIC)  announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for  US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD’s over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015: .site, .design, .tickets. Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched ... read more ...
 
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dotCapeTown e-mail addresses causing headaches - Owners of new .capetown top-level domains may have some trouble using e-mail addresses from their new space on the Internet. This is because a number of online services still check to see that the top-level domain (TLD) portion of an e-mail address (such as .com, .net, or .za) is only a certain number of characters long. Even well-established, widely used open source Internet software checks for TLD lengths as short as 6 or 7 characters, despite an old Internet Engineering Task ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic banks US$2.5mln from premiun domain sale - ---ADDS MORE DETAIL, BROKER COMMENT AND SHARE PRICE--- Internet platform business CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is set to meet full-year expectations and is progressing well with the diversification of its business. The company, which listed on AIM just over a year ago, has been busy ploughing the money it raised in the flotation into diversifying its business. The company came to the market as a player primarily focused on the sale of Internet domain names (i.e. a registry service provider), but it now ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
News » WEB – Tutte le nuove registrazioni di gTLD dovrebbero essere soggette a Periodi Sunrise. Anche… - Pianificare di registrare il proprio marchio come nome di dominio durante un Sunrise Period per poi scoprire che la registrazione figura in un elenco di Nomi Riservati? Ci sono una serie di motivi per cui un dominio che corrisponde al proprio marchio puo figurare in una Reserved Names list. Prima di tutto se il dominio desiderato e oggetto di Name Collision, anche se questo non si verifica per tutti i registri. Infatti alcuni operatori stanno accettando idomini che sono stati oggetto ... read more ...
 
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Oops: Moniker comment balances are apparently borked - Incorrect balances shown on accounts dating back to October. The hits keep on coming for Moniker…and its customers. When the domain name registrar switched to a completely new registrar platform over the summer, it lost all previous invoices that customers used to be able to view within their account. Customers got access to new invoices, and could see an up-to-date balance, but couldn’t see their transactions from before the platform switch. Then, some time around ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs & Minds + Machines with Antony Van Couvering – DNW Podcast #10 - A discussion about new top level domain names. Antony Van Couvering, founder and CEO of new TLD company Minds + Machines, shares his thoughts on new top level domain names on this week’s podcast. 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. Also: Two warnings for domain name owners, the Dark Side of Domain Parking, ... read more ...
 
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Rightside rings NASDAQ shutting bell [Photo] - Domain name company holds investor day and rings closing bell. On Friday, domain name company Rightside rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ. The company became listed on the NASDAQ earlier this year after being spun off from Demand Media. Rightside trades under the ticker ‘NAME’. Earlier in the day Friday, Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day event at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Rightside is pitching new top level domain names as the future, and ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $2.5 million value of reward domain names - Sales were from the company’s portfolio of domain names. CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it has sold $2.5 million worth of premium domain names. These domain names are part of the group’s 20,000 domain name holdings that are not related to new top level domain names. The company did not disclose which domain names it sold. CentralNic also cited delays in new top level domain names coming to market for lower-than-expected sales in new TLDs. In its ... read more ...
Sun 7th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
WEB – Aruba: primi trend sulla campagna relativa ai domini gTLD - A partire dalla fine di gennaio, Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it), leader nei servizi di data center, web hosting, e-mail, PEC e registrazione domini, ha offerto a quanti fossero interessati la possibilita di esprimere la propria wishlist in riferimento all’imminente arrivo delle nuove estensioni di dominio (gTLD – Generic Top Level Domain). Il sito creato ad hoc dalla societa, nuovigtld.aruba.it, ha subito ottenuto un favorevole riscontro, facendo emergere dati interessanti, tra cui: - ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Has Blowout Holiday Party Featuring Pitbull -     Godaddy held its annual holiday party in Cedar Rapids Convention Center last night December 6th. The party featured one of the hottest performers in music, none other than Pitbull a/k/a Mr Worldwide a/k/a Mr. 305. Pitbull who is from Miami puts on a great show.  We were lucky enough to see him in Miami perform last new years eve but we were not lucky enough to have been invited to the Godaddy party which is generally for employees. The CEO of Godaddy posted this picture of himself and Mr. ... read more ...
 
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Following The Adwords Money Trail - Eric Van Buskirk wrote an article on Search Engine Journal which detailed his data analysis of where advertisers spend their money on Google Adwords. A pretty interesting look at sectors and prices paid in certain niches. From the article: There is an abundance of pieces written about uber expensive Google AdWords phrases: the top 10 or 100 most expensive, for example. However, little to no data analysis looks at a more significant sample size where an advertiser spends a bit more than a Friday ... read more ...
Sat 6th December 2014
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How Will new gTLD’s Rank? Coffee.Club is on 1st Page of Google 1 A Week … -                               Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD’s would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of  Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, but they also are ranking on the 1st page of Google organically beating out ... read more ...
 
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How Will new gTLD’s Rank? Coffee.Club is on 1st Page of Google 1 A Week After Launch -   Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD’s would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of  Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, but they also are ranking on the 1st page of Google organically beating out domain names like coffeeclub.com and thecoffeeclub.com ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars - Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD’s. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with ICANN against the three applicants for .Cars losing two and winning one and then there was an reconsideration ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wins gTLD .Cars Beating Donuts, DERcars - Uniregistry which has lost a bunch of recent new gTLD auctions, won a private auction for .Cars beating Donuts and DERcars which is Dominion Enterprises which applied for several new gTLD’s. If your wondering why .car and .cars is in the contention set, well its a long and in typical ICANN fashion pretty confusing. The short story  is that Google had filed a string confusion objection with ICANN against the three applicants for .Cars losing two and winning one and then there was an reconsideration ... read more ...
 
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Seven key takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
.DE sowie .EU- 2 altbekannte sowie gute TLDs - ImpressumKontaktAGBDatenschutzKostenlose Ticker für Ihre Webseite Hier einige unserer für unsere Leser ausgesuchten Top Nachrichten Quellen www.pressebox.de  www.eurogamer.de www.br.de www.sueddeutsche.de  www.handelsblatt.com www.n24.de www.stern.de www.motorsport-magazin.com www.1asport.de www.tagesspiegel.de www.derstandard.at  ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Hosting Piece of Digital Multimedia Art Sold For $5K At Art Basel in Miami - According to Fastcompany.com, a piece of art work hosted on a domain name has been sold for $5,000 at the Art Basel show in Miami. The digital piece of multimedia is hosted on a URL, smokeinmirrors.net and was create by an artist named Alexandra Gorczynski According to Fast Company the sale of a piece of art hosted on a domain name is purportedly the first of its kind at a major international art festival. Of course a domain to sell for $5,000 in a common occurrence, but this is really a piece of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Returns To Buenos Aires For Jun 2015 Meeting - ICANN has just announced they have selected Buenos Aires, Argentina for ICANN 53 which will be held in June 2015. ICANN 53 will be the  second Public Meeting ICANN meeting of 2015 and is to be held in Latin America/Caribbean region. Whereas, staff has completed a thorough review of all proposed and available venues in Latin America/Caribbean and finds the one in Buenos Aires, Argentina to be the most suitable. Resolved (2014.12.03.02), the Board authorizes the President and CEO, or his designee(s), ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2014
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu talks to TheStreet.com -

Taryn Naidu sat down with TheStreet.com and discussed what was going on with Rightside and a new gtlds. One of a initial things a interviewer asks if there is any status around .com ? Naidu replies that .com has no definition and it takes 6 to 8 searches to find an accessible .com right now.

Watch a video below

Via: thedomains.com

 
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NameJet.com Updates Its Term Of Use - Namejet.com updated its Terms of Use today. If you haven’t seen it already you will be required to accept the terms of use before you will be allowed to access your NameJet.com account. We have highlighted some language which you should particular note “Before you may become a user of any NameJet service, you must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Use, the NameJet Privacy Policy [located at http://www.namejet.com/Pages/Privacy.aspx], and ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars To Qatar National Bank - Another $1 million domain name transaction discovered by George Kirikos http://t.co/yoRgLR9Qnj domain name sold for $1 million by QNB Corp $QNB to Qatar National Bank http://t.co/hgrJ70T79W — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) December 5, 2014   QNB Corp., parent company of QNB Bank, filed a Current Report on Form 8-K regarding a change to its website domain to qnbbank.com and the planned sale of its prior domain name to a third party for a purchase price of $1,000,000. The transfer of the prior ... read more ...