Monthly Archives: February 2015

Thu 12th February 2015
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Why Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic, and how it got Sonic.com - Nearly decades after it was founded, Sonic.net acquired the matching .com domain name and rebranded. After 20 years of being known as Sonic.net, the California ISP and telecom rebranded as merely “Sonic” after acquiring Sonic.com.When Dane Jasper co-founded California ISP and telecom company Sonic.net in 1994, he settled on .net because the .com was already taken. Another California company, Sonic Solutions, had registered Sonic.com the year before. Using a .net didn’t seem like a big problem ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790 - Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where people pay additional fees to register their domain names early here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Energy 1,084 .Delivery 790 The three new gTLD’s that went into GA on Tuesday had nice 2nd days results as well. .Work added another 819 domains yesterday and is now over 4,650 registrations. .Casa added 10% more registrations, 138 ... read more ...
 
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36 End User Domain Name Purchases - Here are 36 domain names sold at Sedo recently that were acquired by end users. Sedo had another strong batch of sales last week: 12 spanning $10k – $18k and another 4 ranging from $35k all the way up to $150k. Most of the big-ticket items couldn’t be pinned down conclusively – either because the domains are unused and under privacy or because the transfers remain incomplete. One $60k purchase – Employer.com – can be ascribed to a domain investor, but I haven’t yet asked him whether ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2015
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.Online partnership splits, one association will work new TLD - Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Radix, Tucows and NameCheap won the contention set auction for .online last year, reportedly paying more than $10 million for the domain name. All three parties then made capital contributions to the partnership to cover the cost of the auction and running ... read more ...
 
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Here Is The GAC Advice to ICANN from The GAC Communique-Singapore -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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To The CEO Of ICANN Fadi Chehade: Do You Think Vodafone Is The Biggest Domain Hogger? - Two weeks ago we called out the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade, for some remarks he made in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com to wit: “The reality is, the more there are names (new gTLD’s),  less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them. Theregister.co.uk then followed up by reporting on the story which included my blog post At the ICANN meeting this week Fadi was asked about his remarks on Hogging domains and according to Domainincite.com Chehade was given ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry expands on TMCH fee deal for brands seeking protection in adult … - Trevor Little With the launch of its ‘.adult’ and ‘.porn’ TLDs imminent, ICM Registry has expanded on its plans to offer trademark owners wishing to keep their trademark terms out of the hands of cybersquatters  access to reduced Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) fees. To date ICM Registry has taken a proactive stance on trademark protection. ... read more ...
 
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Dossier TLD: Boîte à outils Sandisk SSD Dashboard - Sandisk lançait l'année dernière l'application SSD Dashboard en remplacement du précédent SSD Toolkit. Cette nouvelle boîte à outils pour SSD propose énormément de fonctionnalités comme la mise à jour du firmware des SSD Sandisk directement depuis Windows et la consultation de nombreuses informations utiles sur le SSD et sur le système (référence, version du firmware, capacité, état de santé, température...). Mais ce logiciel offre aussi à l'utilisateur la possibilité de vérifier ... read more ...
 
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Jay Westerdal's Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The new gTLD .Forum - Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal’s company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts Famous Four. Fegistry won an ICANN Last Resort auction for the new gTLD .Realty ICANN auction results  are public information, so we know that Fegistry paid $5.6 million for .Realty However .Forum, which was scheduled for an ICANN auction later this month, was settled privately so the amount it sold for in the auction is unknown. According ... read more ...
 
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Introducing the World Trademark Review podcast: available now - Trevor Little World Trademark Review is pleased to announce the launch of the first WTR podcast, in which we talk to J Scott Evans, 2015 president of the International Trademark Association, about all things brand - spanning new gTLDs, 3D printing, plain packaging for tobacco products and the need for the trademark community to accentuate the positive. The ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke) - Domain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her management company apparently sent him a demand letter, stating that the domain name includes her “famous Taylor Swift trademark” in its entirety. Sometimes when this happens, companies defensively register other domain names to protect themselves. ... read more ...
 
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.Email domain name owners YoYo sues 3 Banks over UDRP - YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email domain names when they came out, almost all of them reflecting brand names. The company plans to use the domain names for a certified email service. But the registration of these brand names has drawn the ire of trademark holders, and YoYo has the distinction ... read more ...
 
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Top 10 Keywords Registered .Com & .Net In January -

Verisign a registry for .Com and .Netpublished a tip 10 keywords purebred in .COM and .NET. for a month of January

Here are a trending registrations from January:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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GoDaddy justification IPO filing - GoDaddy updates S-1, but it doesn’t include final 2014 financials. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 statement with the Securities Exchange Commission today. I’ll save you a couple hours of combing over the new document for changes…there aren’t many, unless you’re fascinated by GoDaddy’s corporate and shareholder structure and its investors’ plans to minimize taxes. Using Intelligize’s Smart Compare feature, I compared the current S-1 to the previous one filed November 17. Essentially, ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball in Trademark Battle over a minute W - Not sure what is going on over at the corporate offices of Major League Baseball, The Washington Post published an article on the trademark battle between Wallet Hub and MLB related to marks owned by both the Washington Nationals and Chicago Cubs. You might ask where is there a W in Chicago or Cubs ? After a victory the Cubs raise a flag with the letter W on it at Wrigley Field. The logo seems generic enough. The letter W written in white, block type inside of a bright green box. It stands for WalletHub, ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Work 3,833; .Casa 1,235; .LGBT 404 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday and here are the number of domains registered under each extension after the first day according to ntldstats.com: .Work 3,833 .Casa 1,235 .LGBT 404 Minds + Machines is the registry for .Work and .Casa. .LGBT registry is Afilias. Today Wednesday two more new gTLD’s go into General Availability, .Delivery and .Energy. As of publication .Energy has 308 registrations through Sunrise and the Early Access Program, and .Delivery. My ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2015
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Glitter & Hemp among final month's prohibited .com domain names - Throw some glitter and order some hemp oil. That’s what domain name registrants did last month. Verisign has started a monthly feature of the top 10 “trending” keywords used in new .com and .net domain name registrations. The trending keywords are calculated based on the biggest growth in that keyword in new registrations, thus avoiding having “online” be the number one keyword each month. Last month’s trending .com’s include glitter because of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com getting lots ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Posted A Moderate Fourth Quarter, But Aims Higher With Increased … - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the dominant player in the Domain Name market, posted its fourth quarter results on Thursday, February 5th. VeriSign’s revenue for the quarter was $256 million, a 4.2% increase on a year-over-year basis. GAAP operating income was $142 million, a 9% increase on a year-over-year basis. The increase in revenue was primarily driven by effective marketing activities which are reinforcing VeriSign’s brand value, the market dominance of the .com brand, and the ... read more ...
 
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HomeAway Files UDRP On HolidayRentals.com 36K Most Visited Site On The Internet (Alexa) -       HomeAway, Inc. has just filed a UDRP on the domain name HolidayRentals.com. As a domain it’s about as generic as you can get. However HolidayRentals.com is not just a domain name,  it’s a website ranked by Alexa as the 36,000 most visited website on the Internet. The site boasts that they have over 60,000 properties listed in 80 countries. Here is some more information about HolidayRentals.com from its site: “”Founded in 2010 and based in Victoria Avenue London, UK, HolidayRentals.com ... read more ...
 
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Why we purebred .Casa and .Work domains - Inexpensive domain names are worth the risk. I can count on both hands the number of new domain name extensions I’ve registered domains under, and this week I added two more: .casa and .work. Minds + Machines launched both domain names today. So why .casa and .work? They were price inexpensively, which limited the risk you take registering new top level domain names. I paid about $4 per landrush .casa domain name, and less than $2 per .work launch day registration. At these prices, my attitude ... read more ...
 
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Sedo's Transactions Total $1.2 Million Led By Response.com At $150K - Sedo just reported that over the past week, 588 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million dollars 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: response.com at 150,00 USD · Top ccTLD: galileo.tv at 18,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: kino.info at 10,000 EUR BookMyFlight.com for $2K was the buy of the week in my opinion and Ninja.tv for $5,800 was an interesting sale. Here are the public sales: ... read more ...
 
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.LGBT Public Launch Begins Today - .LGBT Public Launch Begins – Community leaders tout benefits of this protected and inclusive space (www.get.LGBT)Global domain registry operator Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: "dot LGBT" or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organizations and other entities serving the community may register for a .LGBT domain name immediately. "The ... read more ...
 
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Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats - According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be called “The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) According to the story the CTIIC will be an “intelligence center that will ‘connect the dots’ between various cyber threats to the nation so that relevant departments and agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA so they are aware of these ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC/Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of Apprentice As Celeb Judges: #InternetOfficial - Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner  and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #InternetOfficial Contest along with Bill Rancic, who amoung his accomplishments was the winner of the first season of NBC’s “The Apprentice. These two celebrities join myself, Steve Manning, naming expert and CEO of naming firm Igor and Anita Campbell, is the Founder, ... read more ...