Monthly Archives: January 2015

Thu 15th January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google launches domain registration service - Google has publicly opened its Domains (Beta) service, which allows top-level domains (TLDs) to be rented for a year at a time or alternatively for a fixed amount of years. The Domains service was announced by the company last June, and has been an invitation-only affair until now. Some of the TLDs available for rent include ‘.cc’, ‘.co’, ‘.company’, ‘.enterprises’, ‘.haus’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org’. Online shopping giant Amazon hit headlines last September ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie … - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million - The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official total according to ntldstats.com is 4,010,951. Not too much has changed since our post when the number of new gTLD domain name registrations passed 3.5 million million mark. Over 350,000 of the 500,000 additional domain registrations have been added by the registry that is operating the IDN of .网址 which Translates to “website/net address” ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158 - Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day,  including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and including those domain names registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations: .World 5,081 .Degree 160 .Gives 158 We have already written twice about .World as we saw that .World was going to be a pretty hot extension coming out of the gate. Donuts made quite a bit of money on .World ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
White papers say arrival of new gTLDs will fragment Internet users into … - The Internet Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the body in India representing the online and mobile value added services industry, and NetNames, the global leader in online brand protection and corporate domain name management  have published two white papers stating that the current restructuring of the Domain Name System (DNS), and the introduction ... read more ...
 
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View The Space Gets $3.3 M Investment From Blackstone & Buys/Rebrands As VTS.com - VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX). The company also announced they have re-branded View The Space as VTS.  The company acquired the domain name VTS.com around January 8th. The previous owner of the domain was the Del Mar Electronics Show of La Jolla, California. I did not see the domain sale for VTS.com reported anywhere. ViewTheSpace.com still resolves but to the same ... read more ...
 
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Sofia Vergara Wins Rights To SofiaVergara.org - Sofia Vergara has won control of the domain name SofiaVergara.org which the domain owner alleged was a fan site for the Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated actress who currently stars in the Emmy Award winning television series, Modern Family. Ms. Vergara appears to own SofiaVergara.com which is registered to the World Entertainment Agency of Miami. Here are the  relevant facts and findings from the one person UDRP panel decision issued by WIPO Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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Quiksilver Ready To Surf The New gTLD Wave - Brand Channel published an article today about Quiksilver, the largest surfwear brand in the world, adding a .surf into the mix. The company released a press release that they were going to use the new gtld for social media (they have millions of followers) and to differentiate their business segments. This is how I have envisioned new gtlds being used, the .com or cctld being the hub and then using new gtlds as satellites for campaigns or certain business segments. Roxy is a sister brand of Quiksilver ... read more ...
 
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NIRA Urges Politicians to Adopt .ng Domain Name for Campaigns -  President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji Following the commencement of political campaigns across the country, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the body responsible for populating and managing Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain name (ccTLD), the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in cyberspace, has advised politicians to adopt the country's domain name for their political campaigns. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who gave the charge in ... read more ...
 
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Rothwell.com, OmahaHomes.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - Joseph Peterson’s weekly wrap-up of expired domain name sales. Names get around. For instance, take Rothwell.com, which expired and sold at NameJet during the past week for $8,100. King John – the villain of Robin Hood legends and real-life signatory of the Magna Carta – granted a tiny town of Rothwell in Northamptonshire the perpetual right to hold a Monday market, which they still celebrate with a “guard of halberdiers” and drinks of “rum and milk”. Over ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
WEB-1&1 Internet: 4 nuovi domini di primo livello - Il primo dominio disponibile da oggi, venerdi 11 luglio, con 11 Internet per la registrazione immediata e .BLACKFRIDAY. Lo scorso weekend ha dato ufficialmente il via alla stagione dei saldi, periodo tanto atteso sia dagli amanti dello shopping, sia da chi desidera acquistare con criterio e risparmiando. Il momento perfetto, quindi, per registrare il nuovoTLD.BLACKFRIDAY! Il termine Balckfriday, tradotto letteralmente venerdi nero, deriva dalla tradizione statunitense, dove e utilizzato ... read more ...
 
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WEB-Domini: espansione, Pmi in difficoltà e più phishing - Il Consiglio di amministrazione dell’Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ha approvato quello che alcuni definiscono come il cambiamento Internet piu drammatico degli ultimi quaranta anni, consentendo l’espansione dei nuovi Top Level Domain (Tld): questa decisione ha scatenato un acceso dibattito sui media tra sostenitori e contrari. Ecco il commento di Spencer Parker, Group Product manager di Websense che descrive i potenziali rischi di questa liberalizzazione. “Secondo ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin Drops Below $200 - Bitcoin slipped below $200 today and traded down as low as $179 and change. Ruth Reader covered it for Venture Beat: Very early this morning the coin’s price fell below the $200 mark to $179.13, before somewhat rebounding. As of this writing the coin is worth $194.29. Yesterday, the value of Bitcoin started descending quickly. Its value depreciated from its opening price of $267 to a low of $224 by 4 a.m. PT, according to Coindesk’s chart. Those who watch the market have long said that ... read more ...
 
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Webseiten: Googles Domain-Registrierung für alle US-Kunden - Im Juni vergangenen Jahres startete Google überraschend einen Dienst zur Domain-Registrierung. Nun kann das Angebot von jedem Interessierten in den USA genutzt werden. Noch befindet sich das Angebot aber weiterhin in der Betaphase, sodass offiziell wohl noch getestet wird. Derzeit setzt der Konzern auf Partnerschaften, etwa mit Webhostern wie Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly und Wix, statt selbst eigenen Webspace bereitzustellen. Allerdings können Blogs des Dienstes Blogger.com mit einer bei Google ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Domain Diction joins army with UK group C8 Consulting - According to a press release we revived, DomainDiction, “a marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announce that it is merging with UK based PR and marketing consultancy C8 Consulting, significantly strengthening its capability to service more clients in the domain space. Over the past three years DomainDiction has worked with a great number of the industry’s players from Neustar, Nominet, ICANN, Minds+Machines, Uniregistry, .Global, .Luxury, .Uno and many more. Now DomainDiction vastly ... read more ...
 
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Checkmate, GoDaddy – Google starts flogging dot-word domain names - Google has finally launched a domain-name shop, providing a clean and simple management interface that will put it in direct competition with market leader GoDaddy. Called Google Domains, the service emerged from testing today – and allows anyone in the United States (international expansion coming soon) to register domain names under 80 or so gTLDs from dot-academy to dot-ventures. Domains cost between $12 to $30 to register, and $12 a year to ... read more ...
 
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2015 will be the Year of Linux on the, no wait, of the dot-word domain EXPLOSION - Poll With the domain-name industry abuzz thanks the introduction of hundreds of new generic top-level domains – everything from dot-art to dot-zulu – it came as a dose of cold water to find out what the rest of the world really thinks about them. Not much, it seems. Giving a keynote at NamesCon here in Las Vegas on Monday, marketinpreneur Jennifer Wolfe, a big advocate of the new gTLDs, gave a ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon Official Auction Results $990,851 Led by HomeCare.com and Wine.Club - NamesCon Official Auction Results $990,851 – Some have asked me was Wine.Club like Coffee and Vegas ? A 10 year payment plan, Michael has told me no it was a straight cash buyer. Extended will have names on Thursday morning. Buyers and Sellers from Live will begin getting communication before the weekend. 87 out of the 134 lots sold for an impressive sell through rate.   ... read more ...
 
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Tous unis pour l’économie - Quand il parle d'économie, Frédéric Thomas se plaît à citer le « bon exemple » de TLD. Ces dernières années, les efforts conjoints consentis par la Région, le Département, la Société d'équipements de Touraine (SET) ou encore le syndicat Isoparc ont permis la construction d'une nouvelle usine pour la fabrication du Taxibot, le nouveau tracteur d'avion lauréat du prix national de l'innovation. Avec une centaine d'emplois à la clef. « Sans la mobilisation de tous ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Transactions Total $1.6 million led by PutzFrau.de during 32,000 Euros - Over the past week, 593 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .coms: jupl.com at 12,500 USD Top ccTLD: putzfrau.de at 32,000 EUR which translates to cleaning lady in German. Top “other” TLD: italian.club at 5,000 USD   Here are the reportable sales:   ... read more ...
 
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Dot-word domains ‘a shakedown, designed to get money out of people’ - People don't like you – and it's up to you to fix it. That was the unusual message to the domain-name industry during the keynote speeches at NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas on Monday morning. The domain-name industry conference, in its second year, is an opportunity for a wealth of organizations and businesses to get together and discuss web addresses. And this year it's seen a sudden increase in interest due to the introduction of nearly 500 new generic ... read more ...
 
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Chris Sheridan and Steve Banfield are withdrawal Rightside - Two key figures at eNom are moving on. A longtime fixture in the domain name industry — as well as a newer hire — are leaving domain name company Rightside. VP of Business Development Chris Sheridan is leaving the company this week to join website maker Weebly. His experience at Rightside, where he worked on the eNom business, will be highly relevant to Weebly. Prior to eNom/Rightside, the “selfie king” worked at Verisign. Sheridan’s former clients and other ... read more ...