Monthly Archives: January 2015

Wed 28th January 2015
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Estibot Values RightoftheDot.com Extended Namescon Auction At Over $13 Million Dollars - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference is ongoing on Snapnames.com and ends on February 5th which is a week from tomorrow. I ran the list of the domain names included in the extended auction through Estibot and the total value of the inventory came to over $13 Million dollars All domains were led by Investment.com which makes sense since invest.com recently sold for over $5 Million and investing.com sold a couple of years ago for $2.5 Million Auctions which is certainly ... read more ...
 
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Was Michele.watch purebred for Pole Dances or for Watches? - Domain name registrant came up with a creative defense in UDRP. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name Michele.watch transferred to watchmaker Fossil Group, Inc. I’ve got to hand it to the respondent in this case. He put up a spirited defense of his registration of Michele.watch. Kucevic said he didn’t register the domain name to take advantage of Fossil’s Michele brand of watches. Instead, he registered it for use as a pole dancing site. The idea was that visitors ... read more ...
 
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Vanity.com Loses Bid To Grab VanityShops.com from Vertical Axis - Vanity Shop which just acquired the domain name Vanity.com last year after another UDRP and a federal lawsuit of its own, just lost its bid to grab the domain name vanityshop.com from it’s owner Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com. The three member panel of the The Hon. Nelson A. Diaz, the Hon. Neil Brown Q.C., and David E. Sorkin found that the term Vanity Shop was generic as was Vanity and that the domain holder did not acquire the domain with the trademark ... read more ...
 
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.Global Puts Up Site With Over 3,500 Domains/ Many Previous Premiums Available For Registration - The .Global registry has put up a site to highlight over 3,500 domain names that are available for immediate registration many of which were formally on the reserved/restricted list. Domain names registered through January 31st are also eligible for the $25 per domain rebate for those that register 10 or more domains. Each listed domain name is click-able from the site, which will tell you if they are still available (some have been taken) and gives you some suggested registrars where the domain ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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Openbaar Vervoer De Lijn wordt vanaf 1 februari flink duurder - Het zonetarief verdwijnt omdat het huidige zonetarief achterhaald is en te ingewikkeld voor de reizigers, aldus De Lijn. In de plaats komt er een tijdstarief van 1 uur. Tijdens dat uur mogen reizigers onbeperkt overstappen. Na dat uur mag dat niet meer, maar mag de rit wel nog afgemaakt worden. Een gewoon biljet, waarmee je dus een uur kan reizen, kost voortaan 3 euro. Er komt één Lijnkaart -goed voor 10 maal een uur reizen- voor de prijs van 14 euro, in plaats van 10 euro nu. ... read more ...
 
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Howard Lefkowitz Shares Insight About His New Company - Howard Lefkowitz is something of an icon in Las Vegas. As the former CEO of Vegas.com, Lefkowitz has tremendous experience building and managing a great brand, and he has a massive rolodex of contacts in Las Vegas and in the travel industry. While attending NamesCon, I had the opportunity to have dinner with Lefkowitz, and we chatted about his new company, One Degree World. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of this travel technology company is that it is in the process of launching ... read more ...
 
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Dogs Win: Godaddy Follows Our Advice & Pulls The #Godaddypuppy Super Bowl Ad - It was just 8 hours ago when we posted the Godaddy Super Bowl Ad known as the #Godaddypuppy which went tragically wrong. Now the CEO of Godaddy has given in to the overwhelming condemnation of the ad and announced the commercial will not air during the Super Bowl. Had they reached out to anyone in the industry before hand like myself, we would have told them there we;re heading down the wrong path, but after investing what is probably million of dollars towards this campaign GoDaddy wisely followed ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy to change argumentative Super Bowl Commercial - GoDaddy won’t run controversial “Journey Home” commercial. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl commercial, which it just released this morning, won’t air on Sunday after all. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving tweeted this afternoon: The ad was criticized by many animal lovers. In many ways, the commercial was classic GoDaddy. It was sure to spark outrage, which got people talking about the company…much like its previous GoDaddy commercials. I wondered this morning if the plan was to get this commercial ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million, Led By One of Ours SuperSeats.com For $48,888 - 559 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS last week totaling $1.2 Million Dollars All sales this week were led by one of our domain names,  SuperSeats.com which sold for $48,888 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: superseats.com at 48,888 USD · Top ccTLD: autoteile.eu at 7,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: mouser.net at 6,000 USD Here are all the reportable sales: ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 284 million domain names in Q3 2014: Verisign - New Delhi: US-based Internet infrastructure services provider Verisign today said 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in July-September 2014 taking the total number to 284 million globally.Domain names rose by 1.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter compared to the second quarter of 2014, while globally registrations grew 18.1 million or 6.8 per cent, year-on-year.“Four million domain names were added to the Internet in third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch Covers TheDrop.Club: By Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator Partner Justin Kan - Techcrunch.com just covered TheDrop.club, what they describe as a “Digg/Reddit/Hacker News/Product Hunt for electronic dance music” The site is Thedrop.club and “Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator partner Justin Kan told TechCrunch: “I wanted something to create a constant stream of new electronic music tracks every day” TechCrunch.com goes on to describe the site: “Built on open-source curation interface Telescope and the SoundCloud API, The Drop.club lets you stream through a list ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap.com Jumps On #GodaddyPuppy Outrage With PUPPYLOVE $3.98 Transfer w/$1.50 To Humane Society - Wow Godaddy… Transfer yr domains to us for $3.98 using coupon code “PUPPYLOVE” we’ll donate to @HumaneSociety pic.twitter.com/04jU2bGysc — Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) January 27, 2015 Namecheap.com has jumped on the outrage from Godaddy’s Super Bowl commercial and is offering a $3.98 special using the transfer code of  PUPPYLOVE to anyone to transfer in any .com, .net .org or .info and Namecheap will contribute $1.50 to the Humane Society for each domain name transferred. As we noted ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN … - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
 
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¿Cuáles son los dominios argentinos de Internet más caros? - Sedo, el mercado de dominios y proveedor de monetización más grande del mundo, anunció su lista de 2014 de las principales ventas de dominios públicos del año. Encabeza la lista mm.com, que cerró el año con 1,2 millones de dólares, tras arrebatar el lugar más alto del podio a true.com con 350.000 dólares. En la lista de este año también también crecieron los ccTLD, entre ellos kaffee.de con 100.000 euros ("café" en alemán), chat.fr con 99.999 euros ("gato" en francés) y musik.de ... read more ...
 
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Featured Technology Stocks – Verisign, (VRSN), Juniper Networks, (JNPR), Intuit … - Las Vegas, NV – Jan 27, 2015 — (TechSonian) – EquityObserver.com continuously monitors and scans the markets for day trading and swing trading signals on NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, OTCBB and Pink Sheet companies for its free e-newsletter subscribers. To receive real-time SMS alerts, Just Text the Word EQUITY To 555888 from Your Cell Phone. Verisign, Inc.(NASDAQ:VRSN) a worldwide leader in domain names and Internet security, publicized four million domain names were added to the Internet in the third ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Looks Like They Have A Disaster On Its Hands; People REALLY Hate Their Super Bowl Ad - Its been less than an hour since we posted Godaddy’s new Super Bowl Ad and social media is already weighting in on what might go down as one of the worst marketing blunders of all time. Just go to Twitter and search for the hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy and you will see that the vast majority of people who are commenting, hate the commercial. I know hate is a strong word. But that is the word. Now we have a outcry against the commercial for promoting puppy mills with hash tags like #boycottGoDaddy #BanPuppyMills ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy's Super Bowl Commercial will be the many argumentative nonetheless [Watch] - Here’s proof you can have controversy without nudity. [Update: GoDaddy won’t run this ad after all.] GoDaddy made a name for itself with controversial Super Bowl commercials. If you thought its move from sexy commercials to one featuring a puppy dog meant the company was shying away from controversy, you’re in for a bit of a surprise. This year’s commercial (embedded below) features an adorable puppy dog that gets tossed off a truck, yet perseveres and finds its way home. Yet “Buddy” ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Space, Google's .How and .RIP - 6 new top level domain names will be released on Wednesday. A number of new top level domain names are being launched in general availability this week, all on Wednesday. Radix’s .Space hits registrars’ shelves at a price of about $10. It’s a generic domain, but also conjures up the idea of your “space” online. Their site markets it as “A .space domain is for passionate and driven individuals and groups who want to carve out a personalized space online. It specially caters to freelancers, ... read more ...
 
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Here Is a Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial; Not Risque But Downright Risky - The Godaddy.com Super Bowl commercial has been released and as promised for the first time features a dog, name buddy, with a VERY brief appearance by Danica Patrick Although there are no sexy, barely clothed women, I would say this commercial is as risky a commercial as the company has ever run on the Super Bowl. Other Godaddy.com Super Bowl ads have been Risque, but I think this is just risky IMHO. When I say risky I think there maybe a lot of push back on this commercial from the public.  I also ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN Last Resort Auctions For January - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows by 4 mln domain names to 284 mln Q3 - VeriSign, a provider of domain names and internet security, announced 4 million domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 284 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 September 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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Valideus Lures 15-Year Veteran Jeff Neuman Away from Neustar to Help … - London based management consultancy Valideus decided to launch a sister company in the United States and they have certainly gotten off on the right foot by appointing veteran ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post Takes A demeanour during Flipping Websites on Flippa - The Washington Post ran a story a couple hours ago on flipping websites. Caitlin Dewey took a look at some people who have taken to Flippa to try to make something off a website they no longer have the time or passion for. From the article: It helps, of course, that Flippa has a precedent in real life. People who buy struggling or neglected Web sites in the marketplace generally want to improve them — a process pretty similar to, say, any given episode of HGTV’s “Flip or Flop.” “Essentially ... read more ...
 
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Poster Boy For Frivolous UDRP Cases: Booked.xyz Guilty Of RDNH: TM Filed 16 Yrs After Domain Was Registered - Booked Ltd of London which owns the domain Booked.xyz and Bookedxyz.com was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Booked.com in one of the most baseless UDRP cases we have ever read. Its too bad there is not any penalties for those who bring frivolous UDRP cases other than a finding of Reverse Domain Name hijacking which the three member panel rightfully found. The domain owner represented himself in the UDRP which is just silly on its face. The domain Booked.com was ... read more ...
 
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Over half of domains registered in Spain in 2014 were .es - Monday 26 January 2015 | 15:15 CET | News The number of domain names registered under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain, .es, increased by 3.46 percent in 2014 and for the first time accounted for over half of all internet domains registered in the country, according to internet development agency Red.es. The total number of .es domain name registrations in 2014 reached 1,755,224, compared to the 1,696,538 registered the previous ... read more ...