Monthly Archives: March 2015

Wed 4th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Google débourse 25 millions de dollars pour l’extension .app - La firme de Mountain View a remporté l’enchère du nom de domaine .app proposée par l’ICANN. Un nouveau record.25 millions et 1000 dollars, c’est la somme faramineuse dépensée par Google pour s’emparer du nom de domaine (ou domaine de premier niveau générique ou encore gTLD pour generic top-level domain) .app mis aux enchères par l’ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) selon Business Insider. Sous le nom de Charleston Road Registry Inc., Google a raflé la ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Daniel Tosh Sparks A Domain Regging Frenzy - I watch the Tosh.o show every Tuesday on Comedy Central, last night was the third new episode for this season. Daniel ended the show on a note that domain investors would take an interest in. Daniel promised to make domain recommendations that would help you get rich. Daniel recommended some hilarious domains and the power of having a following got them all registered. LadyPresidents.com Analbeeds.com Misspelling FreeDanielTosh.com SexyAsiansAtTheBusStop.com HotGirlInMyDaughtersClass.com BlackPeopleMeetWhiteWomen.com FamousAnuses.com Illuminati.org JasonIsAPedophile.com For ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Radix portion adult Grilled Cheese during SXSW - New top level domain name company hopes to reach tech audience at SXSW this month. Radix is giving out t-shirts, such as this one for .tech, along with grilled cheese sandwiches at SXSW.People love free food, especially during a busy conference. I recently wrote about Sedo’s Froyo truck at SXSW; new TLD company Radix is also giving away free food at the event in Austin later this month. The company will have a large booth at the SXSW Tradeshow and will be handing out free .space-branded grilled ... read more ...
 
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Don’t be caught off guard when the .bank top-level domain launches in June! - The .bank top-level-domain (TLD) is scheduled to open to the general public on June 1, 2015. As previously reported in the December 2014 issue of this newsletter, only verified members of the banking community will be able to register .bank domain names, such charter verification to be accomplished through applicants’ local and/or national regulators. In addition, .bank registrants will be required to adhere to several additional requirements, which can be found at http://goo.gl/K64qjG (See, Nos. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Worst gTLD Like Ever, Ever: .Whoswho Has 21 Registrations 2 Days After Launch -       .Whoswho a new gTLD went into general availability on March 2nd. Today on March 4th. According to ntldstats.com there are a whopping 21 registrations two days into GA, including any domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period. A .whoswho domain name registration is priced at $90 at 101domain.com and $99 at encirca.com The new gTLD is not being carried by any of the top 10 domain name registrars. Like any other new gTLD the applicant paid $185,000 for to ICANN for ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Loser.com Owner Has a Problem With Kanye West - Sometimes owners of short, generic .coms use those domains for a different purpose. The domain name Loser.com currently redirects to the Wikipedia page for rapper/entertainer Kanye West. The story is getting plenty of coverage even though it is a simple redirect with not much else going on. USA Today Which pointed out that Kanye did dis Beck at the Grammys, Beck famously wrote a hit song called Loser HollywoodReporter.com noted he did apologize to Beck: West has been on a bit of a make-good mission ... read more ...
 
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Miami cook alleges web engineer is holding domain name hostage - Personal chef claims he can’t get his domain name back and former web marketing firm is sabotaging his new website. Chef Stuart Shaw switched his domain name to TheMiamiPersonalChef.com (pictured) and claims his former web firm is holding his old domain hostage.A Miami personal chef has sued the owner of a web design/marketing company, alleging (pdf) that the company held his domain name hostage after he canceled services. Stuart Shaw says he contracted with Need Marketing Group in 2007 to develop ... read more ...
 
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InternetTraffic.com & Parked Pages Down? - I got a couple of emails overnight from people that have domain names parked at  InternetTraffic.com that says both their parked pages and IT are down since early last night I just checked some of my domain names and they appear to be down as well. I’ve been in contact with InternetTraffic.com who tells me they are now looking into the issues, based off my my report but from there side they are not seeing issues, but clearly there are issues. If you have a domain parked at IT please try one that ... read more ...
 
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UDRP losses count as damage in TM Dispute - Rebecca Tushnet wrote on her blog about a case that included UDRP expenses being counted as injury in a recent TM case between Migliore Associates, LLC v. Kentuckiana Reporters, LLC. From the article: Intro: “The court reporter game is a tough racket. It’s tougher still when a competitor registers an internet domain name that is confusingly similar to your business name then links it to its own website.” Migliore’s website is at miglioreassociates.com. “Searches on popular internet search ... read more ...
 
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2015 Domain Name Wire Survey: By a Numbers - Here’s who took this year’s survey. The submission period for this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey, the tenth annual version of the survey, is now closed. You may recall that I changed the format of the survey last year. The topics are no longer “stuff the ballot box” questions; they focus on overall trends in the domain name business. Survey takers also have to provide some identification details. That means fewer — but higher quality — responses. About 200 people took this year’s ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Domini .uk: gli effetti del nuovo ccTLD per il Regno Unito - E' la tua prima volta qui? Allora iscriviti GRATIS ai nostri feeds! Lo scorso mese di Giugno è stato uno alquanto movimentato per i proprietari di siti e aziende operanti nel Regno Unito. Nominet aveva annunciato qualche mesi prima che avrebbe lanciato i nuovi domini .uk, una versione più corta e facile da ricordare per i domini di questo paese, ma comunque compatibile con lo storico .co.uk e gli altri domini fino adesso disponibili. Inevitabilmente quindi, tutti quelli che hanno siti online orientati ... read more ...
 
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.PORN and .ADULT Join .XXX to Form Unsexy Threesome for Brand Owners - Yesterday marked the sunrise launch of the .porn and .adult generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which join .xxx in the top-level domain name space as gTLDs targeted mainly at online purveyors of adult entertainment.  As with .xxx, the introduction of these adult-themed gTLDs presents yet another annoyance for trademark owners already fatigued by the weekly onslaught of gTLDs introduced over the past couple of years pursuant to ICANN’s expansion of the domain name space.  Also as with ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
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Insider Transaction Update: Rightside Group, Ltd. Director Sells Company Shares - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), The Director, of Rightside Group Ltd, Panos E David had unloaded 685 shares at $7.01 per share in a transaction on February 25, 2015. The total value of transaction was $4,802. The Insider information was revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) suffered a loss, declining 0.42% in its share price. The bears locked in total control while fighting the bulls throughout the day, ... read more ...
 
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Radix Adds .Online to Growing Portfolio of New gTLDs – .CO.COM Happy With … - Radix Registry is celebrating the addition of .online to their portfolio of solely owned new gTLDs that already includes .website, .host and .space among others. Radix originally joined ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX; TSX:TC) and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. "Online" is the most commonly used word to end domain names, with over 550K .com ... read more ...
 
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Choose a gTLD for Love or for Added Value? - The decision to bid for a new gTLD can be driven by reason or by love. Either the applicant practices strategic and financial valuation, or the applicant falls for an idea implicit in the gTLD. The second group had better be very lucky or have some motivation besides profit. They enjoy little chance of economic viability. Worse, they follow up their poor initial selection with similar bad calls about their marketing message. They listen to their hearts, and their hearts keep making things worse. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Sales Total $1.4 million for a week, led by Ezpr.com -

Over a past week, 581 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 50% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.   

 Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: ezpr.com at 14,500 USD
  • Top ccTLD: moon.co at 6,000 GBP
  • Top “other” TLD: legend.net at 13,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The DNS Still Isn’t a Directory - Back in the mid 1990s, before ICANN was invented, a lot of people assumed that the way you would find stuff on the Internet would be through the Domain Name System. It wasn't a ridiculous idea at the time. The most popular way to look for stuff was through manually managed directories like Yahoo's, but they couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing World Wide Web. Search engines had been around since 1994, but they were either underpowered and missed a lot of stuff, or else produced a blizzard ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app domain for $25m - Google has bought the .app domain name for $25m, using it as “a domain space for application developers”. The deal means that Google will be able to create web addresses like “google.app” or “android.app.”  Google has its own domain registry where users can buy their own web addresses. The .app TLD may become available through that route, though Google hasn’t confirmed those plans. Google beat competition from 12 other bidders including Amazon for control of the domain name, meaning ... read more ...
 
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Hillary Clinton Used Her Own Domain to Conduct Communications - The Washington Post and New York Times covered a story on former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the domain name ClintonEmail.com. It seems that on the day of her Senate hearings she registered the domain name ClintonEmail.com. This is important because only official government email accounts have their content retained under the Federal Records Act. The domain is currently parked at Network Solutions and registered until 2017. That domain is probably getting some traffic today, ads on the site are ... read more ...
 
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Last week's NameJet Expired Domain Sales - Joseph Peterson details recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. After a couple of weeks during which Chinese purchases topped the expired domain auction list at NameJet, English is back. In the driver’s seat sits an exact-match domain that defines a ubiquitous commercial category: SignPrinting.com ($4.9k). ChicagoDivorce.com ($2.8k) called shotgun – an EMD as well yet geographically specific. Although this duo was fairly expensive, both are ultimately worth more. You can’t walk ... read more ...
 
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ICANN shuts two new Generic Top-Level Domain (g-TLD) after vulnerability risks -

Q1: What is a inlet of this issue?

A1: An emanate was reported that could potentially impact users of a New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals. Under certain circumstances, an real portal user could potentially perspective information of, or associated to, other users. Access to, and information in, these portals is singular to New gTLD Program field and New gTLD registry operators.

Via: techworm.net

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namejet.com Reports Over $600,000 In Domain Name Sales In February -

Namejet.com expelled a domain name sales for Feb for domains that sole for $2,000 or more.

The sum of such sales is only brief of $615,000.

Here are a sales:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Google Might Not Like Your Naturally Generated Links - Julie Joyce wrote a very interesting article on Search Engine Land about an hour ago on Google and natural links. We always tend to think of natural links as the prize or reward for creating engaging content. You didn’t pay for them, you did not manipulate the system, someone just liked your content and either included it in an article or on a forum or blog comment. Julie points out that SearchEngineLand.com is one of her best sources for client referrals and yet it seems Google has flagged those ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
February's tip 5 stories: Taylor Swift, Rangers and Google - Taylor Swift’s strange domain name registration was the most popular story on Domain Name Wire last month. February was a very cold and snowy month for much of the northern hemisphere, but a few domain name stories heated things up a bit. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Taylor Swift’s domain name registration – after her former guitar teacher registered a domain name with her name in it, Swift’s peeps registered a rather, um, dirty domain name with her name. 2. ... read more ...