Monthly Archives: February 2015

Sun 8th February 2015
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Il food vola sul web: 6 nuovi domini gTLD - Il cibo, da sempre un fiore all’occhiello del nostro paese e quest’anno anche cuore della prima Esposizione Universale mai realizzata sul tema alimentazione e nutrizione, si arricchisce di ghiotte opportunità con l’arrivo sul web di nuove estensioni di dominio. La community culinaria potrà infatti da ora trovare velocemente ricette e contenuti grazie alla presenza online di domini quali .coffee, .kitchen, .pizza, .recipes, .restaurant e .catering che rendono i siti di operatori della ristorazione, ... read more ...
 
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Former AFRINIC CEO Adiel Akplogan joins ICANN to Aid Global Outreach - ICANN has selected the  former  CEO of AFRINIC (Africa’s Regional Internet Registry) Adiel Akplogan as its vice president for technical engagement, a newly created role expected to deepen the organization’s efforts to improve its international presence and participation. Akplogan headed AFRINIC, from its creation in 2005. His role as AFRINIC CEO ended at the end of last month, and he is expected to start work at ICANN  on March 1st and will be  based in Montreal, Canada. Akplogan has been ... read more ...
 
Sat 7th February 2015
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Flippa Domain Sales for The Past Week Led by Pharmaceuticals.com during $50,000 - Flippa had a nice week and they released their sales numbers on their blog and Pharmaceuticals.com was the top sale. Pharmaceuticals gets 6600 exact searches a month according to the Google Keyplanner Tool. CasinoDeals.com at $10,000 is a nice name that I think could do really good with all the affiliate programs for online casinos, combined with selling direct advertising to land based casinos all around the world. Notable Flippa Domain Sales from This Past Week Pharmaceuticals.com  @ $50,000  ... read more ...
 
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Above.com Holding Radix Auction With a Twist - Victor Pitts from Above.com shared some information about an auction the company is running with new gTLD domain names from Radix. Opening bids start at $200 and go up to $1,000. The auction features .Website, .Host, and .Press domain names. One interesting aspect of this auction is that there is a buy it now option on all of the auctions. For people who don’t want to risk losing an auction, they can click the buy it now button to pay a higher price but avoid an auction. Buy it now prices ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Hit with a UDRP on The Domain eBottle.com By Owner of eBottles.com -       Marchex has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name eBottle.com The Complaint was filed by Lerman Container Corporation. Marchex has owned the domain name since at least 2009. The Complainant Lerman Container Corporation, has a federally registered trademark on the term eBottles.com which is applied for on May 21, 2013, which was Published for Opposition on October 28, 2014 and was finally granted 3 weeks ago on January 13, 2015. The domain name eBottles.com is registered to a Josh Erlanger, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on 15 Year Old Domain GreatRun.com By Owner Of GreatRun.org -   A UDRP has been filed on what seems to be a very generic term GreatRun.com which was has been owned by the same owner, Product Reports, Inc which has owned the domain name since at least 2007 by the owner of the non-profit GreatRun.org Actually the only change in the ownership of GreatRun.com since November, 2007, is that the owner moved its address from to Melville, New York to Levittown, New York in 2010. The domain name GreatRun.com currently does not resolve and according to Screenshots, ... read more ...
 
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.Com Top 116 Million Active Domain Names For The 1st Time & Is Up 600K Registrations Since Dec 31 - The number of active .Com domain names has passed the 116 million mark for the firs time in history. At the end of 2014 there were 15.3 million .Com domain registered in the active zone file, meaning that .Com registrations have increase 600,000 domain names in the first 5 weeks of 2015. The number of new gTLD’s is stilling at 4,288,778 according to ntldstats.com up from the 3,650,000 new gTLD domain names registered at the end of 2014, which appears to be a gain of almost 600,000 domain registrations However ... read more ...
 
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Google vs a Mississippi A.G. Could Set A Precedent for a State's Right to Regulate Online Content - Matt Schruers wrote an article yesterday on an upcoming legal battle that could set a precedent for content censorship. This is Google going up against the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi. Schruers makes the point that this is like SOPA at the state level. From the article: Far from Washington or any other place associated with Internet policy-making, a federal district court in Jackson, Mississippi is considering a case that could dramatically alter the regulation of Internet speech. ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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LGBT Domain Provides Protected Community Space on Internet -

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Jeffrey Sass - We're Asking the Wrong Questions In my role as CMO of .CLUB I get to speak about domain names at different events all over the world, and have been doing so for more than two years now. From stages and podiums at countless events I have heard the same comments and questions again and again, and in all that time it seems that very little has changed when it comes to the perceptions of the new domain extensions, the so-called "new gTLDs"... more» ... read more ...
 
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Domain Names Overcoming Awareness Gap in Mainstream Media - One of the challenges faced by registries that are launching is that there is a large lack awareness of the new options being available — to browse as internet users or to register a domain. In a recent survey conducted by the Domain Name Association, (TheDNA) (of which I am a member), people of varying aptitude and experience from the general population of 10 different countries were provided a series of questions about their browsing habits. The results were that participants had little ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Association Survey Reveals Strong Interest in New Domain … - February 6th, 2015 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – The Domain Name Association (DNA) has announced the results of a recent global survey to ascertain Internet users’ attitudes toward new Internet domain-name extensions, such as “.club” and “.global,” that are being released through ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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Rogue Internet Drug Seller Activity Highlights Need for .Pharmacy Domain … - PRESS RELEASE NABP has issued a report underscoring the need for the .Pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program as a public health initiative to help consumers distinguish legitimate online pharmacies from rogue online drug sellers. As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: January 2015, the two most common characteristics of sites NABP has identified as rogue drug sellers are dispensing prescription drugs without a valid prescription ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs await watershed moment in terms of public awareness - Trevor Little As the online community descends on Singapore for the first of ICANN’s 2015 meetings, new research commissioned by the Domain Name Association has highlighted the low level of awareness of new gTLDs amongst consumers worldwide. The stage is therefore set for ‘.brands’ to turn the tide. In October we reported on the Domain Name ... read more ...
 
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gTLDs await watershed moment in terms of public awareness - Trevor Little As the online community descends on Singapore for the first of ICANN’s 2015 meetings, new research commissioned by the Domain Name Association has highlighted the low level of awareness of new gTLDs amongst consumers worldwide. The stage is therefore set for ‘.brands’ to turn the tide. In October we reported on the Domain Name ... read more ...
 
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ICA responds to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé's "Hogging" remarks - ICANN boss made questionable comments in Davos last month. Internet Commerce Association has sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé, following remarks Chehadé made at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. In a video interview with Huffington Post, Chehadé said: The reality is, the more there are names, the less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them. Because if somebody took your name on dot-x, you can go get another name on dot-y now.” ... read more ...
 
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ResellerClub Offers Upto 50% Discounts on Servers, Web Hosting & Domains to … - NEW YORK, February 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Web Services Provider, ResellerClub has launched a slew of promotions across all its hosting products and security add-ons all through February to mark its birthday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/614177) According to the terms of the offer, both existing and new Resellers of ResellerClub can take advantage of fantastic discounts across a wide array of products like Servers, Shared Hosting, Website Security Backup, Website Builder ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: iiiii.com and more - Joseph Peterson looks at the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. Market value for repeating-character domains (on average) undergoes a stepwise descent as length increases. CCs outsell CCCs, which outperform CCCCs, which outclass CCCCCs. So, for instance, last week NameJet sold 4 LLL.com domains above $5k. However, as they weren’t part of the expired auction cycle, they’re not reported in this article. Instead what tops the chart at $5k is a repeating 5-letter domain: iiiii.com. ... read more ...
 
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2° Trofeo “Amico di Valerio” - La National Rifle Association of Italy e il comitato Fi-Tld comunicano a tutti i propri iscritti e a tutti gli appassionati di tiro a lunga distanza, che domenica 1 marzo, sul Campo di Tiro di Terranuova Bracciolini, avrà luogo il 2° Trofeo “Amico di Valerio”. La manifestazione si svolgerà sulla distanza di 600 yards, con base le regole utilizzate nella F-Class. Sono previste le categorie ufficiali F-Class (Open e Tr) e le nuove categorie introdotte quest’anno: light, heavy e semiauto, con ... read more ...
 
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Web pattern association sues GoDaddy over "It's Go Time" slogan - Company says it was using the slogan first. A small web development company is suing GoDaddy over its “It’s Go Time” slogan, arguing that it started using the moniker well before GoDaddy adopted it. Plaintiff The Easy Life, LLC runs GoWeb1. The company says it is actually a reseller of GoDaddy’s domain name services. It alleges that it has had the same account manager at GoDaddy and has been emailing newsletters to that account manager — including the It’s Go Time slogan – since at ... read more ...
 
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How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts - Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transliterations of .com and .net, meaning that investors of IDN.com domain names might be close to getting their hands on IDN.com-as-IDN domains. I say might because Verisign isn’t willing to put a date on it and hinted that the end is not near. The company ... read more ...
 
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Do Cheap Domain Names Fuel The eCrime Economy ? - It looks like the business of cheap domain names will be getting its own track at a security conference. RSA Conference draws nearly 30,000 attendees per year, and according to them makes them the world’s largest info security event. The description for track goes like this: To stay agile and avoid detection, cybercriminals need plentiful and “too cheap to meter” domain names and the DNS industry is only too happy to comply. The result is that most new domain names are created for wicked purposes. ... read more ...
 
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Which Brands Got The Biggest Brand Lift From The Super Bowl ? That Little Registrar Named Go Daddy Tops The List - AdWeek published an article that looked at what brands won the Super Bowl. The survey conducted by Bully Pulpit Interactive surveyed 700 people before the Super Bowl and another 700 after. Go Daddy was getting their rear end handed to them before the big game and pulled their puppy mill ad, but like Tom Brady and the Patriots made a big comeback and actually had the highest numbers when it came to gaining favor with consumers. From the article: All of the respondents watched the game, and 200 were ... read more ...