Monthly Archives: March 2015

Tue 10th March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Fifty, Shades among tip trending domain registrations final month - Fifty Shades of Gray inspires domain name registrations. Verisign’s monthly “Trending Keywords” report is out for last month, and it appears a certain book-turned-movie was quite popular in .com domain names. The terms “Fifty” and “Shades” both made the list, no doubt due to the release of the Fifty Shades of Gray movie. As for some of the other terms, I’m a bit at a loss as to why they suddenly spiked. Holo? Roof? Here’s the list of top ten trending terms in .com and .net for February: The ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Oberberger „Taxibot“ schleppt Passagiermaschinen - Waldbröl.  27 Tonnen ist er schwer und 8,70 Meter lang – der sogenannte „Taxibot“. Noch befindet sich das Gerät in der Testphase, doch bald schon soll es auf Flughäfen sogar größere Passagiermaschinen mit einem Gewicht von mehr als 100 Tonnen zur Startbahn schleppen. In dem Schlepper, in dem ein 950 PS starkes Hybridsystem mit zwei Dieselmotoren zwei Stromgeneratoren antreibt, steckt auch ein großes Stück Oberberg: Das Getriebe kommt von der Firma ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Sales Total $1.4Million, led by Generational.com during $70,000 -

Over a past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 52% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.  

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: generational.com at 70,000 USD
  • Top ccTLD: expekt.gr at 20,000 EUR
  • Top “other” TLD: egb.net at 9,888 USD

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Adidas, Nike & Auditing hreflangs For Explosive SEO Results - Fierce competitors Nike Adidas make for a compelling study of differing approaches to internationalizing your website… and salutary lessons in what can go wrong for even the biggest brands’ international SEO campaigns. Fundamentally, there are two domain architectures to consider for your international brand: a single top-level domain (TLD) or multiple TLDs (e.g., .com, .co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.). In theory, both are equally valid options and can deliver exactly ... read more ...
 
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New ‘.bank’ domain available in mid-2015 - New opportunities for the banking community are coming this year. In the fall of 2014, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for coordinating internet domain names, granted fTLD Registry Services, LLC’s (fTLD) application to operate a new generic top-level domain name (gTLD). fTLD will begin operating and managing the domain name “.bank,” which will be made available to members of the banking community in the summer of 2015. fTLD has ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update: .adult and .porn on the horizon - The Internet was in a tizzy back in 2011 when ICM Registry began selling .xxx domain names for use by adult entertainment providers, selling nearly 250,000 addresses and netting more than $50 million. Just last year the registry sold sex.xxx for $3 million dollars, the highest price paid for a non-dot-com address. Which leads us to wonder if the addition of .adult and .porn will generate the same concerns and profits. ICM Registry has set aside nearly 1,000 domain names such as sex.porn, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Two Letter Domain Lost In UDRP "Bought As Part Of A $1M Domain Portfolio Purchase in 2014" - In an interesting  UDRP decision today  the domain holder Futurename of Paris said they purchased a 1,000 domain name portfolio for  $1,000,000 in August  2014. Some of the domain names purchased according to Futurename have the following values:  colis.com USD 7,600, though.com, USD 59,000, monnaie.fr – EUR 10,000, bons.com – USD 12,000, milkshake.net – USD 4,000. The domain at issue in the UDRP is VW.qa The complainant Volkswagen said the price paid for the portfolio was “not credible” ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Owners bullish on domain name values in 2015 - Domain name owners think domain name values will increase in 2015. Despite all of the changes in the internet naming landscape, or perhaps in spite of it, respondents to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey are bullish on domain name values. 61% said they think domain name values will go up in 2015, compared to just 9% that think they’ll go down. The rest think they’ll stay about the same. The initial question did not distinguish between existing TLDs and new ones. In a subsequent question, ... read more ...
 
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The New Generation of Multi-Level Internet Real Estate - 2014 witnessed dramatic expansion in Internet Domain Names. Applicant’s ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 businesses were delegated the authority by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate registries for new top level dots. Once under contract with ICANN these new registry operators are licensed to sell through registrars, second level names to the left of new TLDs such as .photo, and .dance, as well as non-ASCII internationalized domain names (IDNs) ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Owner of TechGuruit.com sues Owner of TechGuru.com For Trademark Infringement on Tech Guru - A. Preliminarily and permanently enjoining and restraining the Defendants and Defendants’ directors, officers, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, and all persons in active concert or participation with, through, or under Defendants: From using in any way the trademarks TECHGURU or TECH GURU, or any other marks, words or names confusingly similar to Plaintiff’s mark, as the name or mark for any of Defendants’ services; From committing any acts of unfair competition and from ... read more ...
 
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A Hot Winter during NameJet - It’s cold in most of North America, but this winter has been hot at NameJet. Winter at NameJet has been hot. In January the auction venue set a record with more sales above $2k than during any previous month. February racked up 121, which makes it the 3rd month in a row surpassing 100. Apart from December, 2014 ranged between 61 and 95 monthly sales $2k … with a mean of 76. So if your impression has been that bids are climbing into higher price ranges more frequently, well, the data agrees ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: Mo Money, Mo Domains - Four domain names launch this week, including .money. Donuts releases four new top level domain names this Wednesday: .Money, .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach. Ironically, .Money costs the least money of the four. A couple registrars I checked are offering the domain name for $28 per year. .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach are all priced about $50 retail. Many of these domain names are similar to other existing domains. .Money will compete with .Cash (4,200 domains) and .Finance (2,600 domains). .Legal is ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Rightside Group, Ltd. Insider Transaction Update: Wayne Maclaurin Sells 1295 … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), Maclaurin Wayne M., Officer (Chief Technology Officer) of Rightside Group, Ltd., unloaded 1,295 shares at an average price of $7.35 on March 5, 2015. The total amount of the transaction was worth $9,518, according to the disclosed information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Maclaurin Wayne M. now owns 99,426 shares of Rightside Group, Ltd.. Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the trading session with a loss ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
How Colin Campbell (Dot Club) Raised $7million in 30 Days - Colin Campbell wrote a very interesting article on StartUpBeat.com, he went into detail on how he raised $7million in 30 days for Dot Club. Colin gives the timeline that led from start to finish and is a very good read imo. From the article: I had a problem. A problem that almost every startup faces: Raising money. I had to raise $7 million fast for a concept that hadn’t yet generated any revenue, but I had to do it in 30 days, all without a broker, and all on my own. In 2013 I had applied for ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Vision 15: bNamed - Naar aanleiding van 15 jaar Smart Business geven wij een aantal 'opinion leaders' uit de ICT-sector de kans om hun visie te geven op 15 jaar ICT. Hoe zien zijn IT business de komende 15 jaar evolueren, en hoe zal hun bedrijf hier op inspelen? Bart Mortelmans, Managing Director bNamed: De domeinnaam-sector is vorig jaar een nieuwe periode ingegaan die nog wel even zal nazinderen en die bepalend zal zijn voor minstens de volgende 15 jaar. Waar we tot voor kort enkel websites en e-mail onder bijvoorbeeld ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Auction on Sedo May Go Without a Sale - 58 .HIV new gTLD’s are at auction at Sedo.com in a themed auction which ends tomorrow. I believe all of the domain names are owned by the .HIV registry, however the registries whois does not seem to be working, even resolving for that matter. As of publication only 4 domain names have bids and none are close to meeting reserve. Test.Hiv not surprising leads the list with a $500 bid but the reserve range is $10,000-$25,000 The other 3 bids are all at the $99 minimum but the reserve ranges start ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Domain Name Wire is 10 years old - Happy Birthday, Domain Name Wire. Domain Name Wire celebrates a decade today.Today is a special day for Domain Name Wire. Ten years ago today, I wrote a post about Local.com selling for $700,000. It was the first post on Domain Name Wire. Domain Name Wire started as a hobby but has become a business. Over 8,000 posts later, the DNW archives are like a time capsule for an industry always in transition. Ten years ago I was more likely to write about domain name parking than top level domains. 8 years ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Releases Pricing With "Premiums" For Trademark Holders Up To $2,499 A Year -         Vox Populi Registry Ltd. the owner of the new gTLD .Sucks, made headlines last year when as one of several applicants for .Sucks announced pricing of up to $25,000 per domain, per year. Now that Vox won the private auction to operate .Sucks their site went live on Friday with suggested pricing with 5 price and qualification classes ranging from $9.95 to $2,499 per domain, per year (prices are suggested retail, but each registrar can set their own price). I had a chance to chat with John ... read more ...
 
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Going .Green with Annalisa Roger – DNW Podcast #23 - .Green domain names are available this month after a long journey. The .Green top level domain name comes out this month. In this episode, DotGreen Community CEO Annalisa Roger discusses the long road to .green and how she hopes companies, groups and individuals will use the domain name. Also: how we choose domain name registrars, Google joins Afternic, and U.S. names a domain name registrar to its “Notorious Markets” list. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your ... read more ...
 
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.Com's biggest winners and losers - Uniregistry wins and Moniker loses when it comes to .com domain name transfers in November. ICANN has published the most recent monthly report from ICANN showing .com transfer wins and losses from November. Uniregistry had the biggest net inflow of transfers for a public registrar, while Moniker had the biggest net outflow. As bad as the number was for Moniker (23,847 lost to only 3,136 gained), it wasn’t as bad as its October outflow. Here are the top 5 winners*, measured by net transfers-in (transfer ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Makes Lotsof.Money in Early Access: .Money Has 327 Registrations, Launches Wed - Donuts seems to have made lots of money In the Early Access Program (EAP) grabbing 327 registrations including a handful of trademark registrations made in  Sunrise. In the EAP people pay extra.money to gain early access to register domain names ahead of general availability. .Money launches into general availability on Wednesday Here are some of the registrations that stood out to us: accident.money accounting.money add.money ads.money advance.money affiliate.money app.money apps.money atm.money auction.money autos.money bank.money best.money bet.money betting.money big.money bingo.money bond.money bonus.money borrow.money borrowing.money budget.money budgeting.money capital.money cars.money cash.money casino.money change.money chicago.money chinese.money click.money cloud.money coin.money coins.money collect.money converter.money crazy.money crowd.money crowdfunding.money crypto.money currency.money deposit.money dirty.money donate.money earning.money email.money escrow.money estate.money euro.money exchange.money extra.money family.money find.money for.money forex.money fundraising.money gambling.money give.money gold.money good.money great.money hard.money iam.money immediate.money ineed.money intelligent.money internet.money investing.money investment.money investor.money invests.money jet.money kids.money lease.money lend.money lending.money loan.money loaning.money loans.money london.money lost.money lotsof.money love.money mad.money makeextra.money makemore.money makes.money making.money manage.money mega.money micro.money mint.money missing.money more.money need.money news.money newyork.money next.money nyc.money old.money onthe.money pay.money play.money poker.money private.money raise.money raising.money receive.money reit.money russian.money saudi.money save.money saved.money saving.money send.money smart.money startup.money stockmarket.money super.money the.money trade.money transfer.money travel.money unclaimed.money usa.money use.money vegas.money wire.money xxx.money young.money ... read more ...
 
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Mega List: 67 finish user domain name sales - Joseph Peterson tracks down 67 recent end user domain name sales. During the previous week, Sedo’s network handled 581 domain transactions totaling $1.4 million. Compared to last week, whose top 3 public sales at Sedo added up to $500k, a high of $14.5k seems pitifully small. But the total volume is up 56%. This time, I tracked down end users for 67 domains. As usual, I’m mixing domains that just sold with others that closed earlier but just emerged from escrow. Additive-Manufacturing.de (€3610) ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TheRegister.co.uk Reports: Enom Suffers Huge DNS Outage, Taking Down Sites - TheRegister.co.uk,  is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours. The story says: “”Domain name registrar eNom appears to have gone titsup worldwide since the early hours of this morning, according to reports from furious customers who – at time of publication – were yet to get a response from the Washington-based firm.”” The story goes on to say: “Some customers reported ... read more ...
Sun 8th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Que pensent les experts du référencement des nouveaux gTLDs? -   Partager cet article :Afin de bien capter l’attention des professionnels, nous sommes allés poser la question directement à un groupe d’échange dédié au référencement au sujet d’une extension bien précise : le .SEO (“seo” signifie “Search Engine Optimization” ou “Référencement” en français). Pour rappel, il n’existe pas d’extension Internet .SEO.LinkedIn a cet avantage de permettre aux professionnels d’une industrie de se retrouver pour échanger sur des questions ... read more ...
 
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Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow – ag-IP - Home / Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow / By Staff Writer   AMMAN – The Regional Vice President in the Middle East of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mr. Baher Esmat stated that the number of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) could reach 1000-1400 which imposes some technical challenges on the Corporation.  In a press conference organized today for launching the second ... read more ...