Monthly Archives: January 2015

Mon 26th January 2015
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Sizzling News:Verisign (VRSN), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Chambers Street … - Las Vegas, NV – January 26, 2015 — (TechSonian) –Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN)updated four 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 Sept. 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.During the third quarter of 2014, Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was 114 billion across all TLDs operated by ... read more ...
 
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Photo.com – sole for over $1 million twice – saved in UDRP - Complainant makes interesting allegations in UDRP. A three person WIPO panel has handed down a decision in a UDRP for Photo.com in a case I wrote about in October. The complainant owns Foto.com, but there’s a lot more to the story than just a company using UDRP to go after a great domain name. According to complainant Fotocom Société Anonyme: Complainant contends that Respondent is actually controlled or influenced by its former Chief Executive Officer (hereinafter “Panos”). According to ... read more ...
 
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Photo.com Saved In UDRP But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Fotocom Société Anonyme of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, just lost its bid to grab the generic domain Photo.com. Although the three member panel threw out the case out finding the Complainant failed on the first element of not proving trademark rights the panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). Here are the highlights: Based in Belgium, Complainant describes itself as “a market leader in the online digital photo industry,” serving 186 countries. Complainant holds ... read more ...
 
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To Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of .Com Verisign Is Giving Away Over $100K In Cash Prizes - 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of .Com and I’m proud have been asked to  judge Verisign’s  #InternetOfficial .Com Domain Name Contest which will be awarding over $100,000 in cash prizes. Here are some details: Make your idea #InternetOfficial. Come up with the most descriptive, memorable and original .COM domain name(s) you can imagine—and register it! Submit your registered .COM domain name(s) with a brief explanation of why yours is the greatest thing since sliced e-bread Here is where ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs with Donuts' Richard Tindal – DNW Podcast #017 - A discussion about new top level domain names with the biggest new TLD company. Donuts Inc doesn’t sell baked goods by the dozen — it sells new domain names. But like Krispy Kreme, it sells a lot of varieties of its product. In this episode, I chat with Donuts co-founder and COO Richard Tindal. Donuts is the largest new TLD company with over 300 applications and nearly 200 domain names released. We discuss why Donuts thinks new TLDs are better than .com and what the company will do this year ... read more ...
 
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Valideus launches in US with Neuman hire - Print Close Email a friend Your name: Your email: Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address. Recipient email(s): Recipient name(s): Email yourself a copy? ... read more ...
 
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The Next Global Name Branding Boom - There are some million new cyber brands about to appear on the global e-commerce, big or small they will skate all around the globe. The influx of new dot names called gTLD cyber brands creating new name identities like wine.club, flat.paris loans.london or tax.kpmg jim.pharmacyThe bottom line; the global domain name expansion is unstoppable, the global hunger for brand name visibility is irresistible and the clash of the two is now inevitable.The new gTLD owners of 2000 such game changers armed ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP On ElectricFootball.com; Acquired When Complainant Let it Drop - A three member UDRP panel has awarded the domain name ElectricFootball.com to Tudor Games, Inc. of Sammamish, Washington which owned the domain name until 1997 when they “unintentionally” let it expire and that is when Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm, acquired the domain on the drop. The Complaintant did not apply for the trademark with the USPTO until 1999 but found the term was not a true generic but related to a particular type of game the kind currently featured ... read more ...
 
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APC’s .ng Domain Name, Website is Active, Says NIRA - By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, which maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has maintained that the website of All Progressives Congress (APC), was never shutdown for any reason. NIRA said the party's website, which was registered since February 7, 2013, under the internet domain name, www.apc.com.ng, was not shutdown by NIRA, and reiterated that the website is still ... read more ...
Sun 25th January 2015
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Coinbase Receives Approval to Launch Regulated U.S. Bitcoin Exchange - Coinbase to launch regulated Bitcoin exchange Monday Coin Desk reported that Coinbase will be rolling out a regulated Bitcoin exchange that has been approved by half of the nation’s state regulators. The Winklevoss  Twins announced on Friday that they plan to start a regulated Bitcoin exchange called Gemini, which they are financing out of their own pockets. They will only be dealing with American banks. From the article: Coinbase has until now acted largely as a brokerage for bitcoin users. By ... read more ...
 
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.Co names seems to be behind adult and using only fine - Dot Co was having some problems yesterday it was affecting some Twitter links. The Next Web reported on the issue with the .co extension which now seems to have gotten fixed. If you are still having a problem, they posted Update: Some are reporting that .co domains are beginning to work again. Flushing your DNS cache may fix the problem. Here’s how on Mac or PC. From the article: Noticed that none of the links on Twitter are working today? It’s not just you! It looks like there’s a very serious ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those “Hogging … - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That … - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those "Hogging" Domains" - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That Runs .Bar/.Rest - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Sells 941 domains for $5,984,520 -

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NameJet sole tighten to 1000 domains during $2,000 or some-more (941) in 2014, these sales totaled $5,984,520 USD.

41 LLL.coms sole on a list, with a tip sale being a altogether tip sale Liu.com during $155,688.

6 Numeric domains done a list led by 472.com during $43,700.

Here are a 5 and 6 figure sales:

Via: thedomains.com

Sat 24th January 2015
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling … - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
 
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Jeff Dunham's New Wife is Suing His Old Wife Over Domain Names - Here is one you don’t see everyday Jeff Dunham the famous ventriloquist who shows up every other weekend on Comedy Central in three hour blocks of programming, has an interesting situation going on in real life. It seems that the ex-wife of Mr. Dunham, Paige Dunham decided to play the domain game and register the names of his future wife under privacy. Then the ex-wife looked to sell those names to the new wife for a substantial sum. The Washington Post covered the story: [Audrey] Dunham v. [Paige] ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling Co. Ladbrokes - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
 
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Flippa Weekly Sales led by Coolant.com during $8,500 - Flippa released its sales from the past week, Coolant.com led the list at $8,500. The name was listed as exclusive to Flippa and sold at the buy it now. In new gtld sales, there was a package of 3 one letter .domains sold. A.domains,M.domains and U.domains sold for $701. The seller listed the premium at $77.88. In the comments he said ” My account shows $77.88 per year for each domain.” That was at Dynadot. Notable Flippa Domain Sales from This Past Week Coolant.com  @ $8,500  (Flippa Exclusive ... read more ...
 
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Internet alcanza los 284 millones de nombres de dominio en el … - RESTON, VA–(Marketwired – 22 de enero de 2015) – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), líder mundial en nombres de dominio y seguridad en internet, anunció hoy que se agregaron a internet cuatro millones de nombres de dominio en el tercer trimestre de 2014, alcanzando un total de 284 millones de nombres de dominio de primer nivel (TLD) registrados a nivel mundial al 30 de setiembre de 2014, según el último Resumen de la industria de nombres de dominio. El aumento de cuatro millones de nombres ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in shop for on the internet - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming readily available for the very first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) designed new on line actual estate. Place extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more common names ndash like .Photography and .Specialist ndash changed the internet forever, and created it easier for organizations to discover a location on line to call home.But what are the crucial trends set ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in shop for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming accessible for the first time. The new gTLDs (best-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) developed new on the web genuine estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more basic names ndash like .Photography and .Expert ndash changed the internet forever, and made it a lot easier for enterprises to find a place on the net to call residence.But what are the essential trends set to shape 2015, and what do ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in retailer for on line companies - By David Fisher on November 4, 2014. Gordon Nixon joins the Board of Directors of BCE Inc. BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) today announced the appointment of Gordon M. Nixon, CM, O. Ont., as a director of BCE… ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com is dead. Long live dot-com - As you probably know, the internet's domain names are dominated by a single three-letter ending: "com". What you probably don't know is the sheer scale of dot-com's dominance. There are roughly 116.5m domains ending in ".com" - more than all of the 25 next largest registries combined. When the industry draws bar charts of registrations, they let dot-com run off the top of the page, put it on a logarithmic ... read more ...