Monthly Archives: February 2015

Wed 25th February 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New claimant for misfortune domain name: Sqeeqee.com - Why would you put your company at such a marketing disadvantage? I’ve written about plenty of poor domain name choices, and I have a new candidate to throw into the mix: Sqeeqee.com Sqeeqee.com is some sort of social networking platform, and it proudly just launched a cloud file hosting service called SqeeBox. How do you think you pronounce these brands? Skee-key? Skwey-key? Squeak-Key? It’s tough to say. On the one hand, the logo has keyholes, so I think something with “key” in it. But ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Science Gets Almost 14,000 (Mostly Free) Registrations - Yesterday we told you that .Science could be registered for free on AlpNames.com, wound up its first day of general availability with almost 14,000 registrations. .Science only had 13 domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and wound up their first day with 13,397. Not surprisingly almost 94% of all .Science domain names were registered for free at AlpNames.com, some 12,590 of the 13,397. The .Science registry  is owned by Famous Four. For the record we registered 3.     ... read more ...
Tue 24th February 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
UPDATE – Minds + Machines revenues surge as new domains come online - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totalled £2.9mln in the six months to December, with £2.2mln generated in the last four months. In that time, 107,000 domain names were registered for Minds + Machines' portfolio, of which 10% were sold through its own registrar businesses. Minds + Machines (M+M) offers both registry and registrar services; a registrar ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy releases earnings, picks GDDY ticker - Domain name registrar gets one step closer to IPO. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 statement with the SEC today that revealed fourth quarter and full year 2014 financials, as well as the company’s planned NYSE stock ticker GDDY. Fourth quarter revenue at the company grew to $371.7 million, up from $356.9 million in the third quarter and $305.9 million in the same quarter of 2013. The company reported a net loss of ($26.8) million for the quarter, about in line with the third quarter. For the year, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Nuovi domini gTLD: i trend - Aruba S.p.A. leader nei servizi di web hosting, e-mail, PEC e registrazione domini, ha pubblicato una nuova infograficache rivela quali siano statenel corso dell’intero 2014 le estensioni più richieste dagli internauti, avendo offerto loro la possibilità di esprimere la propria wishlist in riferimento ai nuovi domini gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain).Ne emergono interessanti dati,tra cui:• Tra il 17 dicembre 2013 e l’11 dicembre 2014 è cresciutosempre di più il numero dei privati interessati ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Name Wire Survey is shutting soon - The survey period is closing soon… The deadline for completing the 10th annual Domain Name Wire survey is quickly approaching. Complete the survey here Already, people from 25 countries of taken about 5-10 minutes to complete the survey. They’ve answered questions about: Why they chose their current domain name registrar, such as security and pricing Where and how they sell domain names, such as “buy now” or “make offer” The current state of new top level domain names and where they ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Domain registration and management strategies for 2015 - More than ever, companies need to balance the need for promotion with protection by making intelligent domain registration decisions. They also need to ensure that domain assets, once registered, are completely secure. Corporate domain registration and management strategies have evolved over the last 10 years. It used to be that registering variations, typo squats and misspellings was a viable approach for protecting brands online. It used to be that the domain name system was ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total Led By Heika.com For $300K - Over the past week, 514 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $900,000 All sales were led by Heika.com I of course did a Google search and it looks like a “lovely shrubbery” as Monte Python would have said like 100 years ago, when I was like 100, I’m told that is also translates to “black card” but that is a whole different issue. Nice sale for the seller If you looking for my pick as the great buy off this list for the week OnlineChat.com sold for $24K ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Millenials Drive Mobile Ecommerce Growth in Canada: CIRA Report - One in five Canadians aged 18-34 has made a purchase from a mobile device, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) research. CIRA released its fourth annual .CA Factbook 2015 on Tuesday, in which it says mobile devices are taking a central role in ecommerce among Canadian youth. The .CA Factbook presents numerous statistics and findings related to the .CA TLD, which CIRA administers, as well as Canadian internet adoption and practices. Canadian enterprises sold $136 million ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
How can trends in cybersquatting inform policing policy? - Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained momentum and increasing support from the executive suite. Online brand policing is evolving from a strictly legal approach to one that encompasses marketing, e-commerce, compliance, security and profit and loss responsibilities. Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New podcast available: Evicting the typosquatters - Trevor Little In the second World Trademark Review podcast we talk to Nick Nikiforakis, co-author of a groundbreaking new study into the rise of online typosquatting abuse. We talk about the scale of the typosquatting problem, what trademark owners can do to minimise the damage to their brands and the effect that new gTLDs could have on typosquatting ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The .Me Registry Declares Mar 16th As .Me Day At South by Southwest Festival - The .Me registry has decided that March 16th will be the first-ever “ME Day” in the U.S., as a day to celebrate and share what makes each of us unique and to indulge, nourish and develop our personal passions and skills. The Domain.ME community will celebrate the first-ever ME Day at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 16th with a ME Day Party. ME Day ambassadors will be live tweeting the event. Anyone celebrating his or her own ME Day is invited to the conversation ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Aruba: le estensioni più richieste dagli internauti nel 2014. Il successo del .web. Netto incremento per il .cloud -

Simone Rinzivillo: «In Mamadigital si punta al goal»

L’agenzia, il cui approccio integra Seo e Paid Search, è costantemente al lavoro sull’ottimizzazione della presenza del code online e, nel caso di ecommerce, sulla ricerca di soluzioni che li aiutino a raggiungere gli obiettivi di vendita

Via: engage.it

 
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark - According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA becomes the first country domain in Africa to reach 1 million registrations. The bulk of registrations continue to be in co.za, which accounts for a little more than 971,000 registrations as of 19 February 2015, and continues to grow by a few thousand new ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
I domini di primo livello più richiesti secondo Aruba -

P.IVA: 02472210547 | Copyright © 2001 – 2015

Pubblicità | Contatti | Informazioni legali | Cookies | Storia | Supporta | Credits

 Segui i nostri Feed RSS

Via: ilsoftware.it

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Click Fraud? Report Says Bots Made Up To 98% Of Charged Ad Clicks on Google - A paper published by Oxford BioChronometrics SA, which is a company that sells click fraud protection to clients published a report last month concluding that: “Our research found that at best, 88% of the ad-clicks were made by bots on the LinkedIn ad platform, while at worst, 98% were from bots on the Google ad platform” The company said it set up pages as follows: How the research was conducted In order to limit the level of non ad-platform bot activity being recorded, individual web pages ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Science soars to 10,000 registrations in 3 hours - Famous Four’s latest launch is off to a fast start. Famous Four Media launched the .Science top level domain name this morning, and registration activity has been brisk so far. At roughly three hours after launch, 9,680 .science domain names have been registered. The company expects the number to top 10,000 within the next half hour. Why is .science doing so well? It’s not all rocket science: some registrars are giving the domain names away free or cheap, spurring extra demand. Kind of like .casa ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Club Offering Free Domains & $10K In Prizes At LAUNCH Hackathon in San Francisco - .Club announced today that they will be is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year’s LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27- March 1, 2015 in San Francisco. .CLUB is offering every LAUNCH Hackathon participant a free .CLUB domain name from GoDaddy, and any teams that choose to use a .CLUB domain name for their LAUNCH Hackathon project are automatically eligible to win the $10,000 prize for the best project in the .CLUB. The winning entrant (best project using a .CLUB domain name) ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free - .Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name you will see the cost is $0.00. By comparison Godaddy.com is charging $9.99 for a .Science registration. I don’t know what the limits are or how long it will last. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
February 2015 Web Server Survey - In the February 2015 survey we received responses from 883,419,935 sites and 5,135,229 web-facing computers. Microsoft showed the largest growth in terms of hostnames, with an additional 12 million sites taking its total up to 253 million. This has increased Microsoft's market share to 28.7%, but Apache continues to lead with a 38.8% share, despite a loss of 5.9 million sites. Web-facing computer growth was fairly even across the board, with the top three server vendors all showing ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn free - Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many X-rated Blogger accounts might cease to exist in the near future, as Google will no longer allow anyone to post sexually explicit or nude videos and images starting on March 23rd, 2015. It doesn’t end there, though: Mountain View also wants old account ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Les Catalyst 15.200 pour Windows 10 en téléchargement sur TLD - Nous vous informions hier de la disponibilité sur Windows Update des drivers Catalyst 15.200.1006 pour les APU et GPU Amd Radeon et le système d'exploitation Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 (build 9926). Tout comme pour Nvidia la semaine dernière, nous vous proposons désormais ces drivers en téléchargement direct sur les serveurs TLD. L'archive ZIP contient à la racine le fichier INF et le certificat WHQL que l'on doit utiliser pour installer le pilote manuellement depuis le gestionnaire ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Oh my, Verisign is indeed frightened of new tip turn domains! - Company sues .XYZ and claims its marketing is hurting .com. If you listen to any of Verisign’s quarterly investor calls, you’ll often hear analysts asking what new TLDs are doing to .com. Well, new TLDs are creating confusion, the company says. That confusion isn’t really hurting .com. Maybe .net gets caught up in the confusion, but that’s about it. Actions speak louder than words, though, and Kevin Murphy wrote about proof today that Verisign must actually be a bit concerned about .com in ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions - Big 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations of its domains picked toward the end of the year as it released more of them. Here are some highlights: Auctions – Grossed $36 million from losing 21 private auctions for new top level domain names last year; spent $25.9 million to acquire 6 contested ... read more ...