Monthly Archives: March 2015

Thu 12th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number … - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of Dec 31 - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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VVV.com sells for $136,400 - One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between members VVVcom and First, in the end First won the name at $136,400 There were six bidders who bid $100,000 or more. A total of 515 bids. ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems ist Aussteller bei den WorldHostingDays 2015 - St. Ingbert (ots) - Die Key-Systems GmbH wird bei den WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) vom 24. - 26. März 2015 in Rust ihre Metaregistry[TM] RRPproxy[TM] vorstellen. RRPproxy bündelt eine Vielzahl an Domain-Endungen und Dienstleistungen in einem einfach zu bedienenden, leistungsstarken Echtzeit-System und ermöglicht den Wiederverkauf von Domains mit zahlreichen Endungen wie .DE, .COM, .NET, .CLUB, .BERLIN oder ... read more ...
 
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Brand TLDs: five potential benefits - Recently introduced, brand top level domains (TLDs) offer a range of potential opportunites for brands.  Our latest report, A Marketer’s Guide to Brand Top-Level Domains, will help brands to understand these new TLDs and decide on a strategy.  It was authored by Martin Talks, Founder of Matomico.  Here are some of the potential benefits of brand TLDs... Trust A brand has complete control over who uses the .brand part of the domain.  Customers would therefore know that any .brand is authorised ... read more ...
 
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Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD's To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations? - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: "2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class" - In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of  11, and two word domains was their most popular selling Category of domain name Here are the details including some of the domain names they sold: ... read more ...
 
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Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191 - Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new gTLD’s that the ntldstats.com number were not current nor correct. The corrected registration numbers including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to register a domain in the Early Access Program after ... read more ...
 
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Survey: .Club and .Web domain names are favorites - .Club is In Da Club. .Club is a favorite new top level domain name, according to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey. The survey asked which top new level domain name was the respondent’s favorite, as well as which TLD they thought would get the most domain name registrations. .Club was the runaway answer to both questions. Its heavy marketing and early results (about 200,000 registrations to date) certainly put the domain top of mind. Responses weren’t limited to already-released domain names, ... read more ...
 
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Google Mobile deadline approaching, though we don't wish to use .Mobi - Responsive design, not a separate website, is key to going mobile. On April 21, Google’s search rankings will undergo a “significant” change on mobile devices. Websites that are mobile friendly will get a big leg up on those that aren’t. The .Mobi domain name wants to take advantage of this, and tweeted this today: Major Google update: mobile-friendly sites will rise in ranking! Get your .MOBI now – the mobile-specific domain. http://t.co/tdAgND00zE — dotMobiOfficial (@dotMobiOfficial) ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder - The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 56 years The Complainant claims to own the ANN LANDERS trademark as assignee of the trademark registration with the USPTO (Reg. No. 831, 048, registered June 27, 1967). Respondent failed to submit a Response in this proceeding. Complainant ... read more ...
 
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18 End User Domain Name Sales - Wyndham Hotels, Business Insider and 23 and Me buy domain names. Sedo handled 602 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.4 million in sales. Among the purchases were some typos and famous brands, but also companies buying up great generics for their industries. Writer wanted: Joseph Peterson has been writing the end user sales lists for the past month, but the weekly expired domain reports alone are taking up enough of his time. I’m looking for a writer to handle this weekly post. ... read more ...
 
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Wall Street Journal covers domain name theft - Article shines light on growing problem for businesses. Domain name theft is getting mainstream exposure today thanks to a Wall Street Journal article. The article focuses on the recent theft of ShadesDaddy.com, but also discusses other companies that have fallen victim to domain name theft. It also quotes the ICA’s Phil Corwin and attorneys Enrico Schaefer of Traverse Legal and David Weslow of Wiley Rein. It also refers to domainers, but describes them in a much better light than the typical article ... read more ...
 
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NIRA Restates Commitment to Populating Nigeria’s Domain Name - President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), manager of the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, has reiterated its commitment to populate the country's domain name. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who stated this at a media training on .ng domain name, organised NIRA, encouraged Nigerians to register their businesses with .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in the cyberspace, ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2015
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Don’t Confuse Brand and Category-Label New gTLDs - The domain name industry gets brand and label confused. A brand sums up what makes a company unique to its customers. A label tells what category a company goes in; it sums up what the product has in common with other products of that type. Sedan and SUV are category labels; Volvo is a brand, one that means safety to customers. Similarly Tesla Motors has its distinctive "Tesla" brand, but it introduces products to its users as "electric vehicles." Another way of saying the above: generic Top-Level ... read more ...
 
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Google paga US$ 25 milhões por todo o domínio .app - A Google pagou US$ 25 milhões pelos direitos exclusivos de todo o domínio .app. A empresa já havia se candidatado para comprar novos domínios de alto nível (TLD, Top Level Domain) em 2012, quatro anos antes do ICANN decidir aumentar o número de TLDs da web. A Google resolveu disputar vários desses domínios, incluindo .docs, .android e .free. O ICANN vem leiloando esses domínios periodicamente. A Amazon comprou o .buy por US$ 5 milhões e .spot por US$ 2,2 milhões no ano passado. ... read more ...
 
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March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K - The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auction is opened which means people can join and bid at any time. We will let you at the end of the day tomorrow how it all turns out. If you want to join or follow the auction you can click here You can vote for how much the domain will sell for at domaininvesting.com, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate a 30th anniversary of a initial .com - Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary. You can enter the  #InternetOfficial contest by clicking here ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and .Limo so .Taxi make the car transportation hat trick. According to ntldstats.com .Cab has lover 3,800 registrations. .Limo has over 3,300 registration ... read more ...
 
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Rightside to Release 20K+ Two Character New gTLD Domain Names On Mar 18th - Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), announced that it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such popular extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. on March 18 These two-character domain names, such as 2b.social, 21.rocks, and A1.lawyer, offer more than 20,000 new URL options for businesses and consumers to share their identities, interests, and brand personalities with short, memorable web addresses. Rightside included the following ... read more ...
 
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The one thing that matters for a domain name escrow service - Reputation, reputation, reputation. This year’s Domain Name Wire Survey asked respondents why they use the domain name escrow service they do. The question offered a number of options, from pricing to licensing to customer service. It turns out that people really only care about one thing. The rest is just details: Yes, 61% said reputation was the most important factor. The next biggest factor had only 6% of the vote. Reputation was also top on last year’s poll. True, reputation encompasses ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string for Macao. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual ... read more ...
 
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Hollywood seeking a assistance of Domain Registrars in a conflict opposite piracy - Jeremy Malcom and Maira Sutton wrote an article on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website that deals with Hollywood trying to influence domain registrars. The article is well written and gives a peek into the behind the scenes battles taking place on the IP front. Domain registrars actually became what was called a “New Issue Focus” by the United States Trade Representative (USTR). It looks like industry groups would like the registrars to be on their side in the fight against piracy. From ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
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Free Visual Map of the Domain Universe Charts the Birth of the 800+ Extensions … - Sunday (March 15) will mark the 30th anniversary of the first domain name ever registered - Symbolics.com. Since that day back in 1985 more than 284 ... read more ...