Monthly Archives: March 2015

Tue 31st March 2015
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National Association of Realtors® and Move, Inc. Reach Agreement Over Use Of … - The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Move) announced today that they reached agreement over the use of top level domains outside of the United States. Accordingly, the complaint filed by NAR with the Chancery Court in Delaware on November 10, 2014 seeking clarification on this matter has been dismissed. Move was acquired by News Corp for $950 Million Dollars and the acquisition was completed on November 14, 2014. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Nothing related ... read more ...
 
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National Association of Realtors® and Move, Inc. Reach Agreement Over Use Of New gTLD's Outside The US - The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Move) announced today that they reached agreement over the use of top level domains outside of the United States. Accordingly, the complaint filed by NAR with the Chancery Court in Delaware on November 10, 2014 seeking clarification on this matter has been dismissed. Move was acquired by News Corp for $950 Million Dollars and the acquisition was completed on November 14, 2014. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Nothing related ... read more ...
 
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Google bat tous les records avec l’acquisition de la nouvelle tld ".app" - L'extension de premier niveau ".app" est désormais à la propriété de Google suite à une enchère organisée par l'ICANN à laquelle ont participé également 13 autres grandes enseignes tels que Amazon. La firme de Mountain View vient de mettre sur table la somme de 25 millions de dollars pour obtenir les droits exclusifs de la gestion de la nouvelle extension de nom de domaine .app. Cette somme vient de battre le record établi par la compagnie Dot Tech LLC qui a consacré près de 7 millions ... read more ...
 
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Highest Reported .info Sale Since 2007; Car.info during $76K Leads Sedo's $1.3 Million Week - Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million dollars. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: cyberobics.com at 22,500 USD · Top ccTLD: portfolio.me at 10,700 USD · Top “other” TLD: car.info at 76,000 USD According to Dnpric.es,  Car.info ranks as the 3rd highest reported .info sale of all time. Sex.info sold at a Sedo auction in August 2007. Travel.info sold for ... read more ...
 
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.Org Domains Rose 1.3% in 2014 - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard,” detailing the worldwide growth of .org in 2014. The report reveals that the number of .org domain names registered in 2014 rose 1.3 percent, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to more than 10,500,000 worldwide. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include: Registrations in international markets continue to experience ... read more ...
 
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.SUCKS actions really do - In 2009 intellectual property owners, facing the possibility of hundreds of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), which would open the floodgates for cybersquatting, worked with ICANN to create a Trademark Clearinghouse (“TMCH”). The TMCH provided trademark owners a central database that would valid their marks when each new gTLD went online. Registering their marks on the TMCH would relieve both trademark owners and the new administrators of gTLDs the burden of validating trademark ... read more ...
 
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Sedo augmenting smallest offers and commissions - Low-ball offers now must be a bit higher. Domain name marketplace Sedo is increasing the minimum offer people have to make on a domain name as well as the minimum commission sellers pay. Effective April 9, the minimum offer for most domains will increase from $60 to $90 (or EUR) or 75 GBP. Sellers will pay at least a $60 commission on all sales. The minimum offer price will likely be greeted positively by those people frustrated about getting $60 offers on their domains. I’m not sure that $90 will ... read more ...
 
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.Club & .Bar Team Up To Exhibit during The Nightclub & Bar Show Being Held in Las Vegas - .CLUB   .BAR domain names are teaming up for the first time to offer the nightclub and bar industry the opportunity to get the perfect web address for their club or bar at the  Nightclub and Bar Show being held in Las Vegas March 31-April 1, 2015 .CLUB Domains, which owns and operates the #1 selling new generic top-level domain “.club” and Punto 2012, the domain company that operates “.BAR” will be in booth # 232 at the in . According to a press release we received today, the .club and ... read more ...
 
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Google Inc. Acquires YT.com Domain Name - Google Inc. has acquired the 2 letter .com domain name YT.com. The domain came out of Privacy Protection at Dynadot on 3/30/2015 and transferred into MarkMonitor revealing Google as the buyers. Based on what I can tell and whois history records, the transaction likely took place on 1/29/2015 when the domains registrant data changed from Cyber Trading Co. at Tucows and transferred to Dynadot under privacy. Was the domain name YT.com acquired for YouTube.com? That is what I am thinking it was for ... read more ...
 
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Zarejestrowana domena a ochrona znaków towarowych - Nowe domeny są dostępne do rejestracji od ponad roku. Niektórzy internauci upatrują w nich nowe możliwości, inni – doszukują się zagrożeń. Wśród tych ostatnich są m.in. właściciele znaków towarowych. Jakie konkretnie niebezpieczeństwa niosą nTLD dla brandów?Program nTLD (new Top Level Domains) został zainicjowany przez ICANN (organizacja zarządzająca systemem DNS) pod koniec 2013 r. Jego założeniem jest urozmaicenie oferty rozszerzeń, w których można rejestrować adresy ... read more ...
 
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nTLDStats Reports Over 1.25 Million People Have Registered The 4.8 M New gTLD Domains - nTLDStats.com is reporting that the number of Unique Registrants of a new gTLD domain name is just over 1.25 Million registrants. The total number of new gTLD domain names registered are now over 4.8 Million. Some other interesting  numbers from ntldstats.com about the registrants of new gTLD’s: Frank Schilling North Sound Names has the largest number of new gTLD registration with over 183,000 registrations of as far as we can tell all in new gTLD extensions of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry ... read more ...
 
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Tidal.com, TastyBrands.com and More Domain Movers - Welcome to the latest round of domain name movers. The domain movers series digs to find domain names recently acquired, registered and moving for one reason or another by large companies around the web! These are often early indicators into new brands, services, acquisitions of other companies and much more. Here we go: BL.com has just been sold at Sedo! Finlead AG were the sellers and they actually recently acquired the domain about 5/3/2014 when the domain went into whois privacy at eNom. It came ... read more ...
 
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Rightside batch adult 50% this year - Shares rebound from tough 2014. 2014 was miserable for owners of Rightside stock. Its shares sank 58% from $15.82 after being spun off from Demand Media to $6.72 at the close of 2014. Ouch. 2015 is seeing a big reversal. Shares opened today at $10.11, up 50% from the January 2 open of $6.76. The fundamentals of the business don’t seem to have changed, but people are buying the stock. I suspect a lot of the sell-off in 2014 was from people who invested in Demand Media and didn’t care to own a ... read more ...
 
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Why Donuts is divulgence domain name renovation rates - By predicting and revealing renewals, Donuts hopes to get registrars and domain name investors on board. Donuts has posted an update on its renewal rates, showing an overall 68.4% rate after ten days. The update also highlights a reason Donuts predicted its renewal rates ahead of time and has continuously revealed its rates now that domains are expiring: It’s marketing. Co-founder Richard Tindal explains that renewal rates on Donuts domains are much higher than those of .com domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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Motley Fool Ponders if Go Daddy is Cheap - Alex Dumortier on Motley Fool took a look at the Go Daddy IPO and honed in on the history of operating losses and whether or not the stock is cheap based on projections. From the article: We have a history of operating losses and may not be able to achieve profitability in the future. That is one of the prominent risk factors that greets prospective investors in GoDaddy’s most recent prospectus. On a GAAP [generally accepted accounting principles] basis, GoDaddy has lost $622 million cumulatively ... read more ...
 
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Supercross: Shane McElrath To Step Up To 450 Class - TLD/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shan McElrath will compete in the 450 class at the New Jersey Supercross. For the first time since its inception, the TLD Team will compete in an eastern round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series when championship makes its stop in New Jersey on April 25. Shane McElrath, who normally competes in the 250 West Championship on the TLD KTM 250 SX-F Factory Edition, will move up to the 450 class, and the entire TLD staff and crew will be there to support him. According ... read more ...
Mon 30th March 2015
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This .Sucks: The Newest New gTLD - Two years ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that runs the Internet, launched a controversial program to expand the number of top-level domain names (TLDs).  Until recently, the real estate on the Internet was confined to traditional TLDs like .com, .net and .org; country code TLDs like .fr for France and .es for Spain; and a small number of sponsored TLDs like .xxx for adult entertainment and .aero for the airline industry. Under ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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10 Red Flags on a Go Daddy IPO according to Pando Daily - On the heels of the upcoming Go Daddy IPO, Pando Daily listed 10 red flags for those thinking about investing. Some in my opinion are valid and some are not. Asking the question in red flag #3 “And besides, how much longer are small businesses going to need Web sites in an era when most are engaging with customers on Facebook, Twitter or other mobile apps?” Small businesses need to control their content on their own site, anyone advising them to use a walled garden with holes in privacy and data ... read more ...
 
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Royal Caribbean files lawsuit to constraint typos - Cruise line goes cruising for typos. Cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against two typos of its RoyalCaribbean.com domain name. The two domains — RoyalCaribean.com and RoyalCarribean.com — forward to another domain name that is a lead gen site for cruises and is branded with “Royal Caribbean”. I wouldn’t be surprised if these domain names get a good bit of traffic. While writing this story I’ve confused the typo and correct version multiple times. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26 - Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many domains (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast. Many of the tips are universal and can be used to sell more of anything, not just domains. Also: Donuts’ renewal rates, .PING and Verisign-supported study suggests .com domains perform better than new TLDs. Subscribe via ... read more ...
 
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IP owners make last-ditch effort to derail “predatory” ‘.sucks’ rollout - Trevor Little ICANN’s IP Constituency has called on ICANN to immediately halt the “‘.sucks’ predatory registration scheme designed to exploit trademark owners”, and questioned the unique registry fees that could see ICANN benefit financially, to the tune of $1 million, from the TLD.  Sent to ICANN late on Friday (and available online courtesy ... read more ...
 
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UPS.com expires in 9 days - UPS and other big companies have domain names expiring soon. 9 days until this domain name expires.OK, so they surely have auto renew turned on. But isn’t this cutting it close? UPS’ main domain name UPS.com, the one it uses to run its company, expires on April 8 and hasn’t been renewed yet. UPS isn’t the only big company with a domain name that expires fairly soon. As I did a couple years ago, I ran through the Fortune 100 list of companies to see which ones have domains expiring soon. ... read more ...
 
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Giovanni Laporta CEO of Yoyo.Email Loser of 37 UDRP/URS's Rants About Domains, TM & More - Giovanni Laporta the CEO Yoyo.Email has made an extensive post on UDRPSearch.com, venting his thoughts about the UDRP/URS process the panelist, the process, domain names, trademarks and his motivation behind YoYo mail and his defense of what he says is around 50 UDRP/URS cases. According to UDRPSearch, YoYo has been the subject of 39 UDRP/URS cases and lost all but 2. These comments were made by Mr. Laporta in response to one of those lost decisions on Mysql.email and a comment made by a Mr. Levy ... read more ...
 
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Chehadé : It was only a misunderstanding - ICANN CEO explains domain “hogging” comments made during the Davos Annual Meeting. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has responded (pdf) to a letter from Internet Commerce Association (ICA) regarding domain “hogging” comments he made in a Huffington Post interview. In a video interview with Huffington Post in January, 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, ... read more ...