Monthly Archives: March 2015

Sun 8th March 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Will The Namespace Be Shaken Up By Live Registry Buys ? - Kieren Mc Carthy wrote an article on TheRegister.co.uk relating to Donuts winning the rights to .reise. Now .reise is already live, so Donuts picked up a registry with existing registrations and websites. Mc Carthy ponders what these types of deals could mean in the future ? One registry buying another and then raising prices. I think that is the important question moving forward, will this shake up the future of the namespace ? Will Donuts eventually buy out a string in a niche they otherwise control, ... read more ...
Sat 7th March 2015
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD’s; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins … - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
 
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Auction of a live gTLD could pave way for domain-name shakeup - The first new top-level domain name to be sold with live websites attached to it has been picked up by registry giant Donuts at auction. The rights to sell domains under the name ".reise" – which is German for "travel" – represents a sea-change in the way the domain-name system will run in future, with generic top-level domains (gTLDs) becoming tradable assets rather than the core focus of a business. ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD's; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins .Hockey & .Run Too - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to a new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
 
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I pronounced it before Canada is not messing around when it comes to Spam - Back in September of 2014 I wrote an article on DomainCrunch.com that Canada was not playing around when it comes to spam. A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July 1, the law makes sending commercial messages to a Canadian resident without their express consent very costly. According to the legislation, the maximum penalty per violation for an individual is $1 million per violation, and for a business, it is $10 ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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Who Has a Most Valuable Search Traffic ? - Matt Southern wrote an article on Search Engine Journal that included an infographic on who has the most valuable search traffic. His takeaway from the data was: It’s interesting to note that the site with the most valuable search traffic, Wikipedia, is one that does not attempt to generate a profit from its traffic. Besides that one outlier, the results are more or less what you would expect for each vertical. Some other surprises to me was the value of Yellow Pages’ search traffic, and the ... read more ...
 
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LuxeValet.com shortens domain name to Luxe.com for $172,500 - Domain name sold to parking company after auction ended. Heritage Auctions continues to sell domain names that were listed in its auction last month in New York. One of the bigger sales is Luxe.com, which was purchased by on demand parking and valet service Luxe for $172,500. It has been using the domain name LuxeValet.com. Luxe recently raised $20 million in financing. The total from Heritage Auctions’ February auction lots now stands at over $1.2 million. In addition to the Luxe.com sale, the ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pockets $1.68 from 3 some-more auction losses - Company gets cash for losing auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has added $1.68 million to its bank account after losing three more contention set auctions. The money primarily comes from losing .beauty and .soccer, both of which were resolved through a private auction. L’Oreal won the three-way race for .beauty and Donuts won the four company auction for .soccer. The company also received a $37,000 refund from ICANN for withdrawing its .app application. .App was resolved ... read more ...
 
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ASOP gets Tucows named in U.S. Government "Notorious" List - Registrar blamed for domain names used for fake online pharmacies. The U.S. government just released its “2014 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” report (pdf), which calls out markets in which there is apparent widespread counterfeiting or privacy. At the urging of Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), domain name registrar Tucows has been placed on the list. According to the report: Based in Canada, Tucows is reportedly an example of a registrar that fails to take action when notified ... read more ...
 
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TLD fête ses 16 ans: Participez au jeu concours SteelSeries - Hé oui le temps passe, voila déjà 16 années que TousLesDrivers.com existe. C'est en effet à la fin du mois de Février 1999 que la toute première version de TLD était mise en ligne et nous n'avons cessé, depuis, de vous tenir informés quotidiennement de la sortie de nouveaux pilotes de périphériques et de mises à jour d'équipements high-tech en général. Pour fêter ça, nous organisons un jeu concours en partenariat avec la marque SteelSeries que vous connaissez sans doute déjà ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2015
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Facebook Warns Page Owners Their Number of Likes May Drop on Mar 12 - Venture Beat post an article that Facebook will be removing inactive accounts from a Facebook pages’ like stats and that page owners will see a dip in the number of likes on their page. From the article: In a blog post this morning, Facebook said, “To make audience data even more meaningful for businesses, we’re updating the way Page likes are counted by removing memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages’ like counts.” Facebook said there are two main reasons why it ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains joins Afternic - Domains listed on Afternic will show up for searches on Google Domains. Google’s new domain name registrar is now part of AfternicDLS and its fast transfer network, according to an announcement on the Afternic.com website: Google Domains has joined Afternic DLS and will be part of our Fast Transfer network. Afternic domains that are opted into Premium Promotion will be promoted on Google Domains. We are delighted to add Google Domains to Afternic DLS, the world’s largest premium domain reseller ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy names Chief Customer Officer, new CMO - One of GoDaddy’s original employees moves to new position. GoDaddy announced today that long time Chief Marketing Office Barb Rechterman will be the company’s Chief Customer Officer, a newly-formed position. According to a press release, this new position is “responsible for aligning the company’s products, services and engagement models with strategic needs and values of GoDaddy’s unique customer base.” Rechterman has been with GoDaddy since it was founded in 1997. She has been a driving ... read more ...
 
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OpenDNS Working On A System To Quickly Detect Cyber Crime - Interesting article on ComputerWorld.com about a new system for detecting domain names and websites used for cyber crime. The company OpenDNS has been around since 2005 and has created something they call Natural Processing Language. From the article: A security system undergoing testing by a San-Francisco-based company aims to speed up the detection of websites and domains used for cybercrime. The technology is being developed by OpenDNS, which specializes in performing DNS (Domain Name System) ... read more ...
 
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.SO Registry Bans More “KickassTorrents” Domains - With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents has become a prime target for copyright holders, many of whom would like to see the site taken offline. Among other tactics, copyright holders ask domain name registries to suspend pirate site domain names. For a long time the Somalian .so TLD appeared to be a relatively safe haven, but this changed last month when the Kickass.so domain was “banned.” Initially the action appeared to be an isolated incident, but the .SO registry wasn’t ... read more ...
 
 
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Survey: domain name registrars contingency concentration on confidence and price - Domain name registrars must offer strong security and price to attract customers. There are some questions I’ve asked on the Domain Name Wire Survey over the past ten years that have predictable answers year after year. One of these is “Rank the importance of these items when choosing a domain registrar.” Just about every year, security and price are the top two. That was the case again in 2015. The weighted score for these two factors was essentially a statistical dead heat for the most important ... read more ...
 
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La Somalie n’aime pas KickAss - KickAss a du faire face à une série de coups durs le mois dernier. Après s’être fait bannir de Somalie, la plateforme a du trouver refuge au Royaume de Tonga, et donc au beau milieu de l’océan Pacifique. Enfin pas elle, plutôt son nom de domaine et toute l’histoire est expliquée en détails dans cet article. Oui, et le truc c’est que le registar en charge du TLD .so a voulu aller encore un peu plus loin, sans doute pour brosser les ayant-droits dans le sens du ... read more ...
 
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Domain Sales Data Website SimilarSales.com Launches - Rudin Web Solutions out of Switzerland has a new site up on SimilarSales.com. The site provides historical sales data and I don’t know if they are just using NameBio.com to collect their data or if they have their own proprietary system for gathering sales data. The site is not as up to date yet as NameBio as the recent sales data was not showing anything for 3/3 or 3/4. They are incorporating data from BuyDomains and NetFleet.com.au along with Flippa, 4.cn and Park.io. One of the problems with ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to launch land grab in cyberspace - Are you aware of the new generic Top Level Domains launch by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)? It has been claimed that this launch will revolutionise and change the face of the internet. This note explains what all the fuss is about. Many new generic Top level Domains are about to enter cyberspace. To explain this, we must first explain what a top-level domain (TLD) is. Every domain name ends with a TLD. It is the two or more letters that come after ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2015
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Google’s Domain Name Land Grab: Consumer Convenience Or Coercive … - Internet naming decisions are the sort of Internet plumbing inside baseball that only interests policy wonks and marketing mavens. That is until an 800 pound gorilla like Google Google decides to pay $25 million for a single generic top-level domain name (gTLD). Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about the strategy behind Google’s expansive and expensive domain name land grab. Although the most costly, .app is ... read more ...
 
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Google Chose to Win .APP in an ICANN Auction for $25m – Why? - For those who don't know, there are typically 3 methods of resolving contention sets in the new gTLD world: 1. Private deals – This method is used often for small contention sets of 1 to 3 applicants where straightforward negotiation is possible. Sometimes, revenue sharing deals are agreed, a fee can be agreed in exchange for other parties to withdraw their applications, or other types of barter deal are used such as 'swaps' where one party withdraws from one application and another withdraws ... read more ...
 
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Forbes Chats About Google's New gTLD's & Mucks It All Up - Forbes just published a post about Google’s new gTLD initiative and well basically mucked it all up. The story covered Google’s acquisition of .App for $25 Million but a quick read through the 1st paragraph of the story and you can see the author hasn’t really kept up with developments of the new gTLD program or Google’s applications Here is the 1st paragraph of the story: “Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about ... read more ...