Monthly Archives: January 2015

Mon 19th January 2015
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This week in new TLDs: Belgium geos, .RIP and a singular landrush - A couple geo domain names are among this week’s new TLD launches. I usually don’t write about landrush phases, but .Space has a landrush this week that is rather unique. It starts today, lasts just one week, and most registrars have it priced at or near the cost of the domain name when it hits general availability. 101Domain, for example, is charging only $10.99 for a .space domain in landrush, the same price as it will ask next week when it hits general availability. ... read more ...
Sun 18th January 2015
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Beware: DefendNames.com Spamming, Trying To Sell Unregistered Domains For $39.95 -     Over the last several days I have been receiving over 20 emails a day offering me domains for sale for $39.95 each. Until tonight I didn’t pay too much attention but the sheer volume of the emails I have received today led to me to check it out. So the emails are coming from support@rosegardenestates.com Here is the email including just one of the many domain names I was offered: “Thank you for your interest in the domain name, clearwateraccident.com. As you are probably aware, domains ... read more ...
 
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Owner of Sols.co Raises $8.5 Million & Buys Sols.com - Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which measures the foot and provider the information to 3d print the shoe. It’s an amazing rags to riches story, about getting a startup off the ground, entrepreneurship, raising seed money and an example of the use of this truly game changing technology of 3d printing. Of course part of the story, concerns domain names as well. The company recently ... read more ...
 
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EZTV packs adult the Virtual Bags and Moves to .Ch from .IT - Just like The Pirate Bay has done several time, EZTV has had to pick up and move, leaving EZTV.it and moving to EZTV.ch. BetaNews wrote: EZTV made a quick comeback, but problems have continued for the service, as Italian authorities closed in on its .IT domain. This has forced the organization to pack up shop and make a move to a new country where things will, hopefully, be calmer. The old site, EZTV.it, has fled to Switzerland, where it now resides under EZTV.ch. According to TorrentFreak, “Over ... read more ...
Sat 17th January 2015
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.ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way - The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both Apple and Microsoft went in heavy into the Sunrise program registering most of their tech product names in .forsale. If your wondering iphone and ipad are not on the list because  Apple bought a trademark block on all Rightside extensionsfor those terms. However, Apple didn’t register iphones.forsale, ipads.forsale or Apples.forsale Someone ... read more ...
 
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Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+ Years Is Not Bad Faith - Well here is something you don’t see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn’t even elect to pay for a three member panel The UDRP was brought by Sports South, LLC on the domain SportsSouth.com which is owned by Fox Sports Networks, LLC and registered at Mark Monitor The Sports South, LLC domain name claimed that there company was formed in 1972 but they just filed for a trademark on the term Sports South in January 2014. Mark ... read more ...
 
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Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net - Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their back vs the interests of telecom companies. President Obama recommended a plan that would reclassify internet providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, giving the government agency more authority to quash telecom giants’ plans to create “internet fast lanes.” This would seem to go around that and take away the power the FCC ... read more ...
 
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A Couple Interesting Websites Getting a lot of attention - Australia and New Zealand each have websites that our causing quite a stir,  ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com which Shane wrote about last night is on Flippa. HackersList is based out of New Zealand and they got a write up on ReadWrite.com. You can check out Shane’s article about the Flippa aspect of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com here, I found an interview on Slate with the 22 year old founder, he explains how it got started in a short interview. The comment section shows how they are already getting copied, ... read more ...
 
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GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with … - GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with Current Law By Joseph WrightJan. 6 — Increased protections for geographic names would create too much uncertainty for future generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants, according to multiple comments received on a Governmental Advisory Committee subgroup proposal.The proposed protection of a broader swath of geographic names also contravenes established international ... read more ...
 
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Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com - Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was the sole  Panelist. Here are the highlights: “Complainant claims Respondent has not provided any bona fide offering of goods or services, or made a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the disputed domain name.  Complainant claims Respondent uses the disputed domain to pass itself off as Complainant. This Panel disagrees after doing ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com - The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in domains were sold on Tuesday at the Namescon show in Las Vegas. There are over 300 domain names in the extended auction that will close on February 5th at 3:15 pm EST subject to Snapnames.com normal closing rules. The extended auction includes the 40 or so  domain names that didn’t sell in the live auction along with over 250 new domain names ... read more ...
 
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Roadcam.com Saved in a Very Interesting UDRP With A Very Good Lesson In TM Law - In a very interesting UDRP decision Roadcam, Inc. lost its bid to grab the domain roadcam.com The domain holder is Jon Smejkal of Pittsburg, California Actually there were three domain names in disputed domain names, roadcam.com and roadcam.net dashcamlab.com The case is really interesting because of the allegations of the parties which I have highlighted below the fact that the “trademark holder” alleges common law rights, there is an relationship of some sort between the parties and a finding ... read more ...
 
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
 
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
 
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China to set adult $6.5 Billion Government Venture Capital Fund - China is looking to set up a $6.5 Billion venture capital fund. The Financial Times mentioned that, the launch of the government-sponsored VC fund will be apart of China’s efforts at financial reform. China will set up a government venture capital fund worth 40 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) to support start-ups in emerging industries, in its latest move to support the private sector and foster innovation. “The establishment of the state venture capital investment guidance fund, with the focus to ... read more ...
 
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Day 3 Photos & Highlights from NamesCon – Live Domain Auctions Live Again … - Above: The Tuesday (Jan. 13) schedule began with a trio of simultaneous sessions at 9:55am including the one above covering Data Science for the Domain Name Industry that ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains Now Available for Businesses - Credit: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock Starting a website? Google's new domain registry service can help. Previously launched last summer as an invite-only service, Google Domains is now available to all Web users in the United States. The service lets users purchase domains, create ... read more ...
 
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Sick of these new dot-words? Join the .club – it’s the only one challenging .com - Round-up Las Vegas loves a show. And so it was earlier this week when domain-name conference NamesCon held an auction for more than 100 high-value names. The auction has been hailed as a success, especially given two headline sales: homecare.com for $350,000 and wine.club for $140,000. But we thought we'd dig into the results to see what it says about the state of the new dot-word domains that have gone live in recent months. ... read more ...
 
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“Legitimate companies don’t censor their hit details” - Is using whois privacy or proxy services a red flag? I was reading a story this morning about problems at Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay. The author noted that the EgoPay.com website is devoid of contact information and that the domain name is protected by whois privacy. The author concludes that “Legitimate companies don’t hide their contact details.” I agree to an extent. A combination of not disclosing contact details on a site and using whois privacy ... read more ...
 
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More new TLD complexity: transferring reward domain names - Article points to further complexities with new top level domain names. With new top level domain names now entering their renewal cycle, you might be tempted to transfer domain names from one registrar to another. This could prove challenging if the domain name you bought is a “premium” domain name in which the registry charges higher than standard pricing. That’s what Kevin Lisota found out while testing out Google Domains: Google Domains does sell .tips domains, ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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SICUREZZA IT – Blog Post Kaspersky: i criminali informatici mirano ai nuovi gTLD - I criminali informatici di tutto il mondo mirano ai nuovi gTLD, generic Top Level Domains, approvati da ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) e offerti agli utenti interessati all’acquisto di un nuovo dominio. Recentemente Kaspersky Lab ha scoperto diverse attivita dannose in questo senso, tra cui malware e pagine di phishing registrate con i domini .club, .berlin, .blue, .computer, .camera, .futbol, .link, .pink, .report, .travel, .vacations e .xyz. Abbiamo scoperto ... read more ...
 
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Branding with New gTLDs: The Next Marketing Frontier - New gTLDs can be an efficient way to immediately propel a registrant's online relevance and profitability. Registrants are the companies, organizations and individuals who seek to better utilize the Internet to reach their goals. Marketing Professionals acting on their behalf should understand that protection mechanisms for new gTLDs have been created by ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. New gTLDs are powerful and inexpensive marketing tools that have improved measures ... read more ...
 
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Top Trends That Impacted VeriSign’s Performance in 2014 - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) is the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name. It is the leader in the Domain Name market with a 47% market share. Though the company registered a ~5% increase in sales to $754 million in the first nine months of 2014, the growth rate has declined considerably. VeriSign’s sales grew by ~12% in the first ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains throws open its doors as gTLD registrations break the 4 million … - Trevor Little The level of new gTLD registrations, which this month broke through the 4 million mark, should receive a boost following Google’s announcement that it has opened its domain registration service to US-based registrants. A year ago we posted a blog titled “Another internet landmark as public registration opens for seven new gTLDs”, ... read more ...
 
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Theralase (V.TLT) names lead photo dynamic compound for human clinical … - Theralase Technologies (TSX: V.TLT, Stock Forum) continued its journey toward bringing its ground-breaking cancer treatment to market when the company announced today that it had identified the lead Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”) for human clinical trials.   According to the news release, the lead PDC has been identified as TLD-1433, a Ruthenium-based PDC. The company plans to enter this PDC into a Health Canada Clinical Trial Application (“CTA”) / Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ... read more ...