Monthly Archives: February 2015

Tue 24th February 2015
Written by The Domains 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 ...
 
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Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning -

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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Hermes recuperates domain name under ‘.clothing’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a obvious conform residence has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.clothing’.

The complainant was Hermes International, a obvious French…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN
Marijuana Now Legal In Alaska – A Few Related Domains Registered - Huffington Post along with several other news outlets covered the legalization of Marijuana in Alaska. From the article: Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska. Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, officially putting into effect Ballot Measure 2, approved by 53 percent of state voters in November. Alaskans age 21 and older may now legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana, grow as many as six marijuana plants in their homes (with no more than three ... read more ...
Mon 23rd February 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Domains: Der gute Name im Netz - Bei der Wahl der richtigen Webadresse müssen Internetnutzer einiges beachten Der persönliche Blog, die eigene Firma oder ein Erlebnisbericht über den letzten Urlaub – es gibt viele Gründe für den eigenen Internetauftritt. Wichtig dabei ist die Webadresse. Die Seite soll ja gefunden werden und im Gedächtnis bleiben. Bevor der Name gewählt wird, steht die Entscheidung der richtigen Endung an. Die sogenannte Top Level Domain (TLD) ist die Endung ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed Again The Domain Name Major.com Bought For € 48,000.00 EUR In 2010 -     Major Wire Industries Limited has filed a UDRP on the domain name Major.com. The domain name Major.com is owned by DigitalOne AG and seems to have bought the domain using Sedo, in November 2010 for € 48,000.00 EUR. It appear according to Screenshots.com, the domain was parked until November 2011. The domain resolves currently to a blank page. The company Major Wire Industries Limited uses the domain name MajorWire.cc, for its website, however that domain name is owned by Les Industries Fil ... read more ...
 
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Mali Offers Free .ML Domains in Malaysia to Grow User Base - Mali is offering free .ml domains in Malaysia to help promote its ccTLD, becoming the first African country to look abroad for domain name distribution. AGETIC, the government agency responsible for Mali’s public infrastructure, is offering domain names at no charge to Internet users in Malaysia for a 12-month period. Malaysia already has its own ccTLD, the .my domain, but according AGETIC, a combination of high registration costs and required paperwork has stalled the process for Malaysians ... read more ...
 
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Operators of NameBright.com & HugeDomains.com Launch Expire.com Domain Auction Service - According to a press release out today, TurnCommerce Inc., operators of NameBright.com (an ICANN accredited domain name registrar), HugeDomains.com (a domain name aftermarket), and DropCatch.com (a domain back-order service) announced the launch of Expire.com, a Dutch-style auction service that will sell between 15 and 30 premium domain names per day on a first-come first-served basis. A Dutch auction is a type of auction where the initial price starts off at a pre-determined amount and is lowered ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Expire.com launches as dutch auction for domain names - Domain name prices start at $500 and drop from there. The team behind HugeDomains, DropCatch.com and NameBright launched a new service called Expire.com today. It has nothing to do with expired domains, however. The name refers to domain name buying opportunities that are about to “expire” (i.e. end). Expire.com runs dutch auctions, a model that has worked well for new top level domain name companies that have run so-called early access phases. Domain names on Expire.com start at $500, and then ... read more ...
 
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Invention israélienne + savoir-faire français = révolution dans l … - Un tracteur révolutionnaire de remorquage semi-robotique appelé TaxiBot, développé par les Industries Aérospatiales d’Israël (IAI) et fabriqué par le fournisseur français d’équipements aéroportuaires TLD Group, a été déployé jeudi 19 février, pour être utilisé pour la première fois à l’aéroport de Francfort. La révolution de TaxiBot est dû au fait que la consommation de carburant d’un avion qui se déplace sur une piste est très importante. ... read more ...
 
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Quickly building domains with Bruce Marler – DNW Podcast #21 - Learn how you can quickly develop your domain names into web businesses. Want to develop your domain names into websites? Bruce Marler has done it on a number of domains. In this episode he explains his process for building out sites, including how he built a starter site on credit.club in just four hours, including content and a logo. Bruce also explains how listening to his customers helped him create a viable business model for a local site (hint: it’s not ads). Listen now and start turning ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings Sells Almost $31 Million In Domains In 2014; Over $8M In 4Q - Domainholdings.com in a company blog post today, said they brokered almost $31 Million dollars in domain names in 2014 Domain Holdings issued its combined Q4 and Annual 2014 report today In the 4th Quarter  Q4 Domainholdings.com sold  $8,086,642 in total domain name sales. Some of the sales brokered in 2014 included: Some of the main highlights from Q4 include: $622,049 Average Weekly Sales $26,323 Average Domain Sales. 72.38% of ALL Sales End Users ** The top two markets for buyers of domains ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings sells $8.1 million of domain names in Q4 - Company brokered over $30 million worth of domain names last year. Domain Holdings reported today that it sold $8.1 million worth of domain names last quarter, bringing its 2014 tally to $31.0 million. The fourth quarter number was down slightly from a strong Q2 and Q3 ($9.9M and $9.6M, respectively) but still strong compared to Q1 2014 and prior. 77% of the company’s sales in Q4 were .com domain names, and the same percentage of names had 10 or fewer characters. The company doesn’t report ... read more ...
 
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CargoWiz.com Registered 2 Years Before Trademark Saved in UDRP - Brian Rayle of Apollo Beach, Florida, who was self-represented lost his attempt to grab the domain name CargoWiz.com which is owned by Portmedia Holdings Ltd of Hong Kong, China, represented by ESQwire.com P.C., USA. The three member UDRP panel of Tony Willoughby, R. Eric Gaum and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that although the Complainant filed for a trademark on the term CARGOWIZ with the USPTO back in 2007, failed to carry the day since the domain had been registered in 2005. However the panel ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon sets dates and early bird special for 2016 show - NamesCon sets dates for 2016 and offer $199 tickets. It seems like just last month that the domain name industry converged on Las Vegas for NamesCon 2015. Oh yeah, it was last month. Yet NamesCon has already announced dates for its 2016 show, which will take place January 10-13 in Las Vegas. Tickets are 80% off through the end of this month, and will cost only $199 until then. The event will again take place at The Tropicana hotel. Co-producer Richard Lau tells Domain Name Wire that it will re-evaluate ... read more ...
 
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A opposite spin on a estimation scam - A bit of a new spin on the old appraisal scam, a reader sent us an email he received, for a law related domain, three word.com that makes sense, has value. Hello! I represent a big investor from UK. He needs personal*******.com for his new business project to be launched in September, 2015. Your domain name is at the top of his shortlist of names, and he would be prepared to pay up to US$10,000 to secure this domain name. Time is of the essence as he needs to secure the domain name as soon as possible, ... read more ...
 
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Fast Company: Rips .Green Calling It "An Idea Whose Time Has Passed" - Over the years I have read a ton of stories on new gTLD program and certainly some particular new gTLD’s, but few have gone as far as FastCompany just published on the new gTLD .Green in a story entitled: “Why The New .Green Domain Name Is An Idea Thankfully Past Its Time” “The problem is that (.Green) maybe an idea whose time has passed.” “Ten years ago, setting up a .green domain may have made sense; so few companies were doing green things.” “These days .green seems passé and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN on collision path for ccTLDs -

The house of a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has signalled a vigilant to suggest that a same Name Collision supplies that were put in place for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) are also practical to newly rising country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

By ICANN’s possess definition:

“a name collision occurs when users unknowingly entrance a…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Robot. Lufthansa et le Taxibot de Israël Aerospace Industries (IAI). - La compagnie Lufthansa a annoncé utiliser « en grandeur réelle » à Francfort le nouveau système Taxibot. Ce véhicule hybride semi-robotique sous la conduite d’un pilote, conçu pour le tractage des avions de la porte d’embarquement à la piste et vice-versa, a été développé par Israël Aerospace Industries (IAI), et est fabriqué par le Groupe TLD. Son utilisation doit permettre de une réduction significative la consommation de carburant, des émissions de CO² et de NOx, et du bruit. ... read more ...
 
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African ICANN Delegates Call for More Help Bridging Digital Divide - Commerce of the future will take place, increasingly, on the internet. But African countries worry they won’t be equipped to embrace this brave new digital world without help from outsiders and one another. Not enough Africans are getting online and developing websites, especially for businesses, delegates from the continent said earlier this month at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Singapore. “We are in an information economy and the internet ... read more ...
Sun 22nd February 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
DNW has been rested – take a look - The site looks similar, but it should run better. You might not notice anything different when you visit Domain Name Wire today. But under the hood, the site has been completely redone. It should now load faster and work better in more browsers, with better responsiveness for mobile devices. If you experience any glitches or problems on the site, please first try to do a hard refresh or clear your cache. If the problem persists, I’d be grateful if you can send an email to me at editor (at) domainnamewire.com ... read more ...
 
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Media Company Awarded $7million in Online Piracy Case - Torrent Freak reported that the largest media company in the Philippines was awarded $7million in damages and that several domains were forfeited in the process. From the article: In its ongoing crusade against sites said to infringe its copyrights, TV outfit ABS-CBN has just netted a couple of big wins. A pair of cases filed in a Florida district court have gone in the TV company’s favor resulting in damages awards of $7m and the forfeiture of several domains. During 2014, ABS-CBN, the largest ... read more ...
Sat 21st February 2015
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Government Set To Auction Another 50,000 Bitcoins Seized from Silk Road Bust - Joel Dalais reported on BitcoinMagazine.com that the third government auction of Bitcoins that were seized during the Silk Road bust will take place March 5, 2015. Joel points out that some of the coins seized were not used in any illegal business. There were merchants on Silk Road that operated perfectly legit businesses. From the article: The U.S. Marshals Service is holding its third Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) bitcoin auction this March 5th, 2015. These bitcoin were seized from Ross Ulbricht, ... read more ...
 
 
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For a 3rd Time This Week UDRP Panel Awards Domain To Company That Dropped It - For the third time this week a UDRP panel has awarded a domain to the company that previously owned the domain and allowed ti to drop. In this case, WesTrac Pty Ltd of South Guildford, Australia was awarded the rights to the domain name Westrac.com which is owned by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings. Westrac owned the domain for 12 years until 2012 when the domain dropped and Domain Asset Holdings got the domain on the drop. Subsequently Domain Asset Holdings quoted $50,000 to Westrac to buy the ... read more ...