Monthly Archives: February 2015

Sat 21st February 2015
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Mali offers free .ml domain names in Malaysia, hoping for a global presence - Mali is offering its country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ml, to the 20 million Internet users in Malaysia, capitalizing on the popular use of “ML” as an abbreviation for the Southeast Asian nation.Internet use in French-speaking Mali, in West Africa, has been low. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, and has a high level of illiteracy.Meanwhile, Malayisa has recently prioritized ICT to ensure it contributes 17 percent to its GDP by 2020, up from 11 percent now. The .my domain is ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2015
 
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Guy takes third gash during MySchool.com with lawsuit - Owner of MySchool411.com really wants MySchool.com, preferably without paying for it. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. That’s apparently Joseph Carpenter’s belief. Carpenter runs the site MySchool411.com. He filed a UDRP against MySchool.com in 2010 and lost. He filed another one last year and lost again. Now he has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name in a third attempt to get the domain name without buying it. The lawsuit uses the Uniregistry whois privacy on ... read more ...
 
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SIDN releases 2014 growth rate figures for ‘.nl’ domain names -

SIDN, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry obliged for ‘.nl’, a ccTLD for a Netherlands, has announced that it had seen increasing expansion in 2014, with 5,531,186 domain names underneath government during a finish of a year. This represented an boost of 2.7% compared to a total from 2013.

During 2014, scarcely 900,000 new ‘.nl’ domain names were…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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So we got a call from Register.com this week… - Registrar called about a renewal, and it was strange. If you have any domain names at a Web.com registrar (Register.com and Network Solutions), you know the company is big on marketing to its customer base. You literally get one email every day from the company, promoting everything from search engine optimization to Facebook pages. Most of them end up in your spam folder. This week I got a call from Register.com that was helpful in one way, but disconcerting in another. I won a domain name in a ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte Foods Loses UDRP ON Delmontefarm.com, Delmontefarms.com & Delmonteexpress.com - Del Monte Foods, Inc. just lost a UDRP on three domain names delmonteexpress.com, delmontefarm.com and delmontefarms.com The three member UDRP panel of Robert A. Badgley, Michelle Brownlee and Gregory N. Albright Complainant is a leading purveyor of food and beverages in the United States, and has used the mark DEL MONTE for 120 years to identify and distinguish its various offerings. Some of Complainant’s DEL MONTE marks have been registered for more than 40 years. Complainant asserts, and there ... read more ...
 
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Coca-Cola Puts Smiley Face Emojis Into Web Address Using .WS Domains -   Ad week is reporting that Coca-Cola Puerto Rico that puts smiley-face emojis right in the brand’s web addresses. The brand registered URLs for every emoji that conveys happiness. Entering any of these happy icons into a mobile web browser, along with the .ws suffix, leads users to Coca-­Cola Puerto Rico’s website. Ad Week goes on to say: Why .ws, which is actually the domain suffix for Samoa? “Emojis are not accepted on domains such as .com, .net, and .org,” DDB Puerto ... read more ...
 
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MediaOptions Brokers Sales Of 50.com After Being Listed In Newsletter For $3.5 Million - The domain name 50.com has been purchased and the domain transferred to its new owner, Wang Yi of China. The domain was brokered by MediaOptions.com under a NDA. All we know is that the domain was sold and was listed in MediaOptions.copm newsletter back in December 2014, with an asking price of $3.5 Million dollars. The last reported two numbered .com sale was for 37.com which was sold for $1,968,000 according to DnJournal.com Congrats to the seller, buyer and MediaOptions.com on what appears to ... read more ...
 
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Brand.com domain name goes behind on a market - Company that acquired domain name in 2013 is changing business models. The owner of Brand.com, which bought the domain name for $500,000 in 2013, is putting the domain name back on the market. ReputationChanger.com acquired the domain name in 2013 and rebranded as simply Brand.com. Now Brand.com is changing its business focus to a news-related business model (and corresponding name) and no longer needs Brand.com. The short, five letter .com domain has a number of potential uses. Before the current ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Takes A demeanour during Year Zero For The New gTLDs - Afnic published a report on the new gtlds and looked at “Year Zero” for the new extensions. The report covered, looking back at 2014, the fee or free business model, the valuation proposition and where the new gtlds are heading. Read the full report here From the report: 2014 ended with 470 gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in the root, including 39 using non-Latin characters, and 290 ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) of which 41 used  non-Latin characters. In all, there were no less ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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Start Spreading the .News – Rightside Acquires One of the Most Attractive New … - the crowd in a big way. Everyone is touched by news in one way or another - people want to hear and see it, businesses and organization want to spread it and the web is the most efficient way ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 on Losing New … - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
 
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Highlights from Rightside Q4 financier call - Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) reported results today. Rightside reported fourth quarter and full year financials for 2014 after the bell today. The company had earnings of $1.5M for Q4, and adjusted EBITDA of $0.6M. For the year it turned in a net loss of ($1.9M) and adjusted EBITDA of ($3.1M). I just listened to the conference call, and here are some of the highlights from the quarter: The company got $7.8 million for losing new top level domain name auctions. In Q3 it reported $8.6 ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding … - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a lot of them use a .io extension - Tech Crunch did a story on Entrepreneur First which is a European accelerator for start-ups along the lines of the popular Y Combinator. Entrepreneur First is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London. We select purely on the basis of technical talent, so you can apply before you have a team or an idea. Our intensive 7-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 100 days of your startup’s life. ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTLD Apps - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
 
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Das Internet wird bunter: Jetzt sind .lgbt-Domains erhältich - “Der großen und vielfältigen LGBT-Community steht nun eine Internetadresse zur Verfügung, die der Community einen exklusiven Kommunikationsraum bietet”, so Philipp Grabensee von der Vergabestelle Afilias. “Die neue .lgbt-Domain bietet Email- und Website-Adressen, die sofort als ‘LGBT-freundlich’ erkannt werden können.” Deutsche Internetnutzer können sich ihre .lgbt-Domain über fünf Anbieter registrieren lassen. Bislang gibt es rund eine Handvoll von ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Food Truck entrance to Austin during SXSW - Sedo to promote top level domain name choices during SXSW. Sedo is bringing its “gTLD frozen yogurt” marketing idea to Austin next month during the SXSW conference. The company partnered with registries for a similar program during dmexco in Cologne last September. Sedo served frozen yogurt with toppings, and the toppings were all named after different TLDs. For example, someone who wants their froyo topped with chocolate sauce and sprinkles might have to order it “with .club and .sexy on top”. In ... read more ...
 
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Le fichier des drivers GeForce 349.65 en téléchargement sur TLD - Nous vous informions dès cette nuit de la disponibilité sur Windows Update de nouveaux drivers Nvidia GeForce 349.72 349.65 spécialement optimisés pour Windows 10 grâce au support de WDDM 2.0 et de DirectX 12. Ces drivers sont destinés aux GPU Nvidia des familles Kepler et Maxwell à savoir les GeForce GTX 600, les GeForce 700 et les GeForce 900. On remarque en revanche que les GPU mobiles sont quasiment tous absents alors que Nvidia les indiquait initialement comme compatibles. Cette version ... read more ...
 
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2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding To Its Huge Vertical - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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How to Get a Lowest Prices during GoDaddy - GoDaddy has a bunch of pricing tiers and discounts. The best deal depends a lot on the size of your domain name portfolio. If you’re a domainer, you shouldn’t be paying list price for domain name registrations at GoDaddy (or any registrar, for that matter). Since a lot of readers use GoDaddy, I thought it worthwhile to run down the various discount options at the registrar. Price is one of the most important considerations when choosing a domain name registrar, according to last year’s Domain ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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39 some-more End User domain name sales - 39 recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. Over the past week, Sedo’s network sold 538 domains totaling $1.2 million. As usual, I’ve done some research and compiled this list of 39 transactions where I’ve detected a specific end user. Some domains actually sold during a prior week but have only just emerged from escrow for inspection. At the moment, several of last week’s larger purchases – including Shein.com ($95k) and HOOQ.com ($50k) – remain indeterminate. 1Bridge.com ($999) ... read more ...