Monthly Archives: February 2015

Tue 17th February 2015
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NameBio upgraded with pivotal new comps feature - Upgraded domain name sales database makes it easier to find comps when buying and selling domain names. Domain name sales database NameBio.com has been overhauled, and one of the new features should prove useful when searching for sales comps for domain name sales. Adam Strong brought in domainer and developer Michael Sumner to assist with the new site, which includes more data sources and a better mobile browsing experience. Domain names have also been split into 250 categories (underneath ten main ... read more ...
Mon 16th February 2015
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Online Banking Alert: Registration For .bank gTLD Opening Soon - The much-anticipated .bank generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) may be available to verified members of the banking community as early as June 2015. .bank is being touted by the operator, fTLD Registry, LLC. (“fTLD”), as a protected, trusted space on the Internet for the banking community and its customers with enhanced security controls that exceed most existing and new domains. While the addition of this new domain opens up real estate on the Internet and provides new marketing and branding ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Hiring Project Manager for Amazon Registry Services - Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new gTLD domain name extensions, having applied to manage 76 new TLDs. Although the company is not going to operate all 76 of these extensions, the company is looking to hire a Project Manager for its Amazon Registry Services, Inc. According to a job posting on Amazon.com, here’s the first paragraph of the Project Manager job description: Over the next several years, the fabric of the Internet is going to fundamentally change, and Amazon will ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola … - Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than a generic. Here is what Google had to say about .Moto in its application to ICANN: “Charleston Road Registry ... read more ...
 
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After Dropping In Oct 2013 & Sold On Namejet, StormGuard.com Hit With UDRP - The domain name StormGuard.com has been hit with a UDRP filing by Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC. The domain name went into pending delete in October 2013 after hainv been owned by Homeshield Stormguard L.L.C. of Hialeah, FL, which seemed to acquire the domain name in october 2008 all according to domaintools.com In November 2013 the domain name sold on Namejet.com after dropping, for $1,117 according to Dnpric.es The domain name twas originally registered in 1999. Its not clear if the company ... read more ...
 
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Watch Daniel Negari plead new TLDs on NBC Bay Area - Negari goes on NBC’s Press:Here to discuss .xyz and new top level domains. Just over one year ago ICANN’s Akram Atallah went on NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here show to discuss new top level domain names. The same program interviewed .XYZ founder Daniel Negari in a show published Friday. You can see the interview below. (Daniel is also this week’s Domain Name Wire podcast guest.) Press:Here is a weekly roundtable that features Silicon Valley tech reporters. This past week Michal Lev-Ram of Fortune ... read more ...
 
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I 10 cambiamenti nel mondo dei domini nel 2014 – Zeus News - Analizziamo con Jerome Sicard di MarkMonitor cosa è accaduto durante lo scorso anno nel mondo dei nomi di dominio. Negli ultimi cinque anni per vedere quante cose sono cambiate, considerato soprattutto che l'attenzione si è spostata verso argomenti collegati al lancio e all'uso di nuovi gTLD. È anche vero, però, che molte cose sono rimaste identiche, ad esempio problemi importanti come quelli relativi alla sicurezza dei nomi didominio e alla gestione dei relativi portafogli. Ma vediamo in ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins a .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola Division - Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than a generic. Here is what Google had to say about .Moto in its application to ICANN: “Charleston Road Registry ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Der gute Name im Netz – Domains registrieren - 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 jeder Webadresse. In Deutschland ist das „.de“, aber auch andere Endungen sind möglich. Kommerzielle Webseiten nutzen häufig ... read more ...
 
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Just how most did .Blog and .Store sell for? - Here’s a rough idea. On Friday I wrote about Minds + Machines and its payoff for losing the .blog and .store domain name auctions. Primer Nivel won the auction for .blog and Radix walked home with .Store. How much did they pay for these domain names? We don’t know for sure based on the data Minds + Machines disclosed, but we can get a general idea of the combined total. Minds + Machines pocketed $3.4 million. This includes its proceeds from these two auctions plus its refund from ICANN for withdrawing ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Passes .Mobi in Domain Registrations As It Closes In On 800K - According to ntldstats.com,  the new gTLD .XYZ has passed .Mobi in the number of registered domain names. The .Mobi registry which went live on September 26, 2006  according to RegistrarStats.com has 791,396 domains under registration having lost over 1/3 of the registrations it had at its peak in 2014. According to ntldstats.com (which does not track legacy TLD’s), .XYZ has almost 795,000 registrations. Registrarstats.com shows that .Mobi had around 1.2 million domain name registrations as of ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ and new TLDs with Daniel Negari – DNW Podcast #20 - How .XYZ became the most registered new top level domain name. Daniel Negari’s .XYZ domain name is the most registered new top level domain name by far, with about 800,000 registrations. But this hasn’t come without controversy. In this episode, Daniel talks about that controversy, how he got started with domain names, why he’s selling his .com’s and his plans for other new top level domain names. Also: Taylor Swift’s questionable domain registration, Sonic.net rebrands as just Sonic, ... read more ...
 
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The Prescription for New .Pharmacy Top Level Domain Names - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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DirtySpokes.com Returned To Co. That Let It Drop 1 Week Earlier W/O Registered Trademark - A one member UDRP panel has ordered the domain name dirtyspokes.com returned to the company that allowed the doamin to drop drop in late December 2014, although they did not have a federally registered trademark It should be noted that the domain dropped on December 27, 2014 and the UDRP complaint was filed on January 5th. I think the quick reaction of the Complainant really helped it get the domain returned via a UDRP. The one member panelist Hector Ariel Manoff found that the company which had ... read more ...
 
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Memex Provides Law Enforcement A Better Way To Surf a Dark Web - Mark Stockley wrote an interesting article that took a look at Memex. Memex is brought to you by the people that built the original ARPANET. It seems to be very well received by law enforcement as a way to surf the “Dark Web”, it has even proved vital in one major conviction against a sexual predator according to the article. Whereas Google and Bing are designed to be good-enough systems that work for everyone, Memex will end up powering domain-specific searches that are the very best solution ... read more ...
 
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New .sydney domain open for registrations tomorrow - From 11am on 17 February, the new .sydney top-level domain will hit general availability."The government invested in .sydney to provide the New South Wales business community with a long-term digital asset that will create a platform for innovation and ensure the continued development of the digital economy across the state," NSW finance and services minister Dominic Perrottet said in a statement.BridgeClimb Sydney, What’s On Sydney, Sydney Fish ... read more ...
Sun 15th February 2015
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Donuts Beats Google, Uniregistry and Afilias to Operate The New Domain Extension .Team - Donuts has won another private auction beating Uniregistry and Afilias to operate the new gTLD extension .Team. Unlike many other new gTLD’s I’m not sure there is much vertical competition to .team, arguably .club or one of the sports verticals like .Baseball or .Football; .Soccer etc As of now there are still 5 new gTLD’s set for ICANN Last Resort auction in 10 days; .App which was the most applied for new gTLD that still has 12 applicants; .beauty which has three applicants and then 3 gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Radix Wins Rights To New Domain Extension .Store Beating Amazon & Google + 4 More - Radix has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Store, beating 6 other applicants including Amazon and Google. The other 4 applications for .Store have now withdrawn their application as well, Donuts, Uniregistry, Minds + Machines, and a company out of Delaware thedotstore.com. The new gTLD .Store was set to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. There is vertical competition in the new gTLD space for the shopping vertical including several still in contention including .shop, and/or ... read more ...
 
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The .Show Goes On As Donuts Wins Rights to New gTLD Beating Google & Amazon - The old saying is the .show must go on and Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Show beating out Google and Amazon. The fourth applicant, Zodiac Aries Limited of Hong Kong also withdrew their applications for .Show. There will some other new gTLD’s in the vertical .Broadway, .Tickets and .Seat, not owned by Donuts, along with .Movie and .Events which are owned by Donuts. Donuts has an application in contention with the broadwayacrossamerica.com for .Theater. .Show was scheduled to ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Reveals Relevance Scores To Improve Ad Quality - Facebook is now going to reveal relevance scores to marketers in the hopes it will improve ad quality. Google has been using a quality score for years. They explain it like this: The 1-10 Quality Score reported for each keyword in your account is an estimate of the quality of your ads and landing pages triggered by that keyword. Having a high Quality Score means that our systems think your ad and landing page are relevant and useful to someone looking at your ad. You can find out your Quality Score ... read more ...
 
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So who just bought the rights to .blog for $30m? A chap living in Panama - Exclusive The rights to sell .blog domains – one of the most sought after new dot-word gTLDs – have been won at auction by an unknown Colombian working out of Panama. Gerardo Aristizabal and his company Primer Nivel paid an estimated $30m for the premium piece of internet real-estate, beating out industry giants Google, Afilias, Donuts as well as five others. It makes it the most expensive new ... read more ...
 
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.lgbt — Internet’s first top-level domain for the LGBT community launches - The internet’s first top-level domain (TLD), dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community — .lgbt — launched this week. The .LGBT domain is the first and only web address dedicated to the LGBT community, and registration is open to businesses, organizations and other entities who wish to reach this community through a .lgbt web address, “The large and vibrant LGBT community now has an Internet address that embraces the full breadth and diversity of LGBT people around ... read more ...
Sat 14th February 2015
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I 10 principali avvenimenti nel settore dei domini Internet - Jerome Sicard di MarkMonitor ha analizzato cosa è successo durante lo scorso anno nell’universo dei domini internet. “È divertente immaginare di tornare indietro di cinque anni per vedere quante cose sono cambiate. Molte cose però sono rimaste identiche, ad esempio problemi importanti come quelli relativi alla sicurezza dei nomi di dominio e alla gestione dei relativi portafogli” dice Jerome Sicard, Regional Manager di MarkMonitor ... read more ...
 
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Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Domain Names Are Property - Cincinnati.com published an article on a Minnesota court case that declared domain names are property and subject to garnishment. (TIP of the Cap to George Kirikos who tweeted out the story) Back in December of 2013 John Berryhill left a comment that I felt was good enough to be its own post, John spoke of why domain investors really don’t want domain names to be property. From the article: A Minnesota Appellate Court recently weighed in on an emerging question in the online world – is a domain ... read more ...
 
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin To Sell $4.4Billion Worth of Google Shares - Business Insider published a piece tonight that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to be selling $4.4billion worth of their holdings in Google. This was supposedly in place as part of a liquidation plan that expired in January. In 2014 Google did participate with the overall upswing to the market as the shares were lower by $32.24 or 5.8%. After the stock sales they will still control 52% of the voting power. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-co-founders-are-going-to-sell-44-billion-worth-of-shares-2015-2#ixzz3Rh7W7A3B ... read more ...