Monthly Archives: March 2015

Wed 25th March 2015
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Heritage Auctions usurpation submissions for summer domain name auction - Auction house will hold another exclusive auction this summer. Heritage Auctions is planning another live domain name auction for early this summer. The format will be similar to one it held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in February. It will be limited to about 30 high value domain names, primarily .com. It will take place in June in either Dallas (where Heritage Auctions is based) or New York. The February auction brought in over $1.3 million in sales, with many of them coming post-auction. ... read more ...
 
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Eén jaar nieuwe domeinextensies: slechts de helft kent ze - De populairste nieuwe domeinextensies in Nederland:.tips, .club en .today 25 maart 2015 - Slechts 45 procent van de internetgebruikers kent de nieuwe domeinextensies. 54 procent kent ze niet, een procent twijfelt. Dat is het resultaat van een online-enquête van het instituut forsa in Duitsland. STRATO heeft dit onderzoek een jaar na de invoering van de nieuwe TLD’s (Top Level Domains) laten uitvoeren. Meer dan 1.000 internetgebruikers in de leeftijd  tot 69 jaar werden ondervraagd over het ... read more ...
 
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25.03.2014 – Buy Local kooperiert mit Atalanda | Kartons mit Ebay-Logo von … - Buy Local – eine Händlerinitiative mit 600 Mitgliedern – hat die Zusammenarbeit mit Atalanda bekannt gegeben. Das Ziel der Kooperation ist der Aufbau von lokalen Online-Marktplätzen in möglichst vielen Städten. Außerdem: Kartons und Paketklebeband mit Ebay-Logo von Paketplus für gewerbliche Händler und die Anzahl der registrierten Top-Level-Domains steigt auf 288 Millionen. © Marco2811 - fotolia.com Buy Local vereinbart Kooperation mit Atalanda Atalanda und Buy Local sind eine Kooperation ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Nigeria registers 80000 domain names in three years - Nigerian Communications Commission HeadquartersABOUT 80, 000 Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, the .ng have so far been registered in the country since the campaign began in 2012. This was disclosed to The Guardian, by the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the agency incharge of administering domain names in the country, Mrs. Mary Uduma. Uduma however, disclosed that out of the 80, 000, only about 60, 000 are active; stressing ... read more ...
 
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The race to secure .porn domains - On the defensive, a number of celebrities and brands have secured unsavory web domains all in an effort to keep others from destroying their public image. SiliconANGLE takes a look at a few of the more notable domains that were quickly usurped by wary Hollywood and Fortune 500 elite. In 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the entity responsible for top level domains — announced the expansion of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This meant that aside from seeing ... read more ...
 
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Survey says .Com performs improved than new TLDs - Survey says that people more likely to click and recall .com domain names. Interbrand, ostensibly on behalf of Verisign, has released an infographic showing results from a 1,000 person survey about the power of .com. The survey shows that people click on domain names ending in .com more than those in new TLDs. Consumers were shown search results pages with similar web addresses but different domain extensions. When the new TLD was displayed first, 61% still clicked on the .com web address listed ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million: Record 56% of Sales Were Buy It Now - Sedo just reported that over the past week, 674 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I think is the all time high Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: buymyhouse.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: visitdubai.ae at 20,000 GBP · Top “other” TLD: dxb.net at 9,888 USD Although I do like to point out my favorite buy of the week, this week I didn’t find one   ... read more ...
 
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Roger Kay Would Like To See ICANN Slow Things Down When it comes to new gtlds - Roger Kay would like to see ICANN slow down, Kay has written about the new gtld program on Forbes a few times. Today he is out with an article that basically says ICANN should hit the brakes. The greatest expansion so far is confusion. He discusses compatability problems and names not working universally on every platform and every device. From the article: One of the biggest problems is compatibility.  That is, a lot of the new domain names don’t work with existing devices and software.  Browsers ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift And Microsoft Snatch Up .Porn Domains To Ward Off Opportunists … - It may sound strange, but one thing pop music star Taylor Swift and software giant Microsoft have in common is that both are feverishly acquiring .porn and .sucks domains. No, they're not looking to flip their respective brands upside down, nor are they collaborating on a new adult site to rule them all -- they're simply trying to pull the rug out from under the trolls. As the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues to expand the number of generic ... read more ...
 
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The state of internal domain names…based on a banking book - Almost all local businesses advertising in a coupon book included a website on their ad. Most coupons in this mailer had a website address on them.How many local companies promote their websites in ads, and what kind of domain names do they use? A coupon book I received in the mail recently gives insight, even though it’s a fairly small sample size. I opened up a coupon mailer the other day from RSVP. It bills itself as “Upscale Offers for Life Home” and most of the coupons are for the same ... read more ...
 
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March 23: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out updates ... read more ...
 
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3 Reasons Why Buying Taylor Swift.porn Isn’t Going To Stop Trolls -

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Taylor Swift has bought all porn domains with her name - According to a CNN report, American singer Taylor Swift has recently purchased all the porn domains which feature her name. As a result of the move, Taylor now owns porn domain sites such as TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, among others. Swift’s move to purchase the porn domains with her name is an evident effort by the singer to minimize the chance of Internet trolls – pornographers wishing to capitalize on her name, brand and image - ... read more ...
 
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TLD-Sunrise: Microsoft schnappt sich die Domain Office.porn - Office, Porno, Büro Bildquelle: Larry Knowles (CC BY 2.0) Demnächst wird der Öffentlichkeit die Möglichkeit gegeben, Domains unter einer Reihe neuer Top-Level-Domains zu registrieren, die teils als Wegweiser zu schlüpfrigen Inhalten eingerichtet wurden. Marken-Inhaber wie Microsoft versuchen nun bereits vorab, ihre Namensrechte davor zu schützen, in ungewollten Umgebungen aufzutauchen. Ab dem 1. Juni werden durch die Organisation zur Verwaltung der Namensräume im Internet ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Google: ccTLDs Can Get US Traffic Also, No Need To Worry - A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a ccTLD, specifically a .com.au (Australian top level domain) and he is concerned that over the past four months or so, his US origin traffic from Google search has spiked.He said, "Its weird because for the past 4 months we are getting huge impression from United States even though our domain is com.au."The concern is that he is not targeting Australian searchers any more and something was reset.Google's John Mueller responded that this ... read more ...
 
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Cost v benefit: assessing the ‘.porn’, ‘.adult’, ‘.sucks’ defensive registration … - Trevor Little The ‘.adult’, ‘.porn’ and ‘.sucks’ gTLDs are likely to pose particular challenges to brand owners, not least uncertainty over the likely success of Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) actions against registrations in these strings. So, what’s a brand to do? This week, the sunrise period for ICM Registry’s ‘.adult’ ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Buys Adult Domain Names to Thwart Fraudsters - US songstress Taylor Swift has been defensively registering new adult-themed generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) in a bid to head off phishers, cybersquatters and the like. The 25-year-old American singer-songwriter, or more likely her management team, made the proactive move of buying up TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult – two of the new gTLDs which go on public sale on 1 June, according to the BBC. At $99 each, they’re not the most expensive new gTLDs around – with some apparently costing ... read more ...
 
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First figures in and it doesn’t look good for new internet dot-words - Figures on the number of new dot-word domain names renewed after their first time have emerged – and they are not absolutely stellar. More than one in 10 of the listed dot-thing domain names were not renewed. Registry giant Donuts has released two sets of data for the first batch of gTLD addresses it put on sale this time last year – domains ending in .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, and others. ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Grants 36,950,000 Shares in New Options; Closing in on a Billion Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), has today agreed to award in aggregate 36,950,000 new options over ordinary shares to directors and officers of the Company. The option grants are issued under the Company’s Amended 2012 Stock Plan. The options have an exercise price of 8.49 pence per Ordinary Share, being the higher of the 30 day volume weighted average on the date immediately prior to  the recommendation of the remuneration committee and the date of formal grant by the Board. The ... read more ...
 
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.Green Is Now Live For Registrations -       The new gTLD .Green just went live into general availability at 9am EST today. .Green is now open to everyone on a first-come, first-served basis. Godaddy.com is selling at .Green registration for only $59.99. Here is a list of registrars selling .Green The landrush period for .Green closed on March 14th According to ntldstats.com including Sunrise and Landrush, .Green only has 202 registrations. Here are some of the domain names that were taken: 1st.green always.green ameritrade.green andalucia.green android.green applepay.green applestore.green arrow.green asda.green aurora-il.green bamerchantservices.green baml.green banditter.green bankofamerica.green bestbuy.green bgehome.green bigpromoter.green blanco.green blogger.green bmw.green bofa.green bofamerrilllynch.green bofaml.green bridgestone.green buying.green cam4.green cbakertest021915-3.green centurylink.green chanel.green chevron.green chrome.green citi.green citigroup.green community.green compra.green constellation.green consultor.green courrierresponsable.green cyclocity.green directv.green dna.green domains.green earthjustice.green edelman.green egreen.green enel.green enelgreenpower.green enterprise.green entrepreneur.green eoliatec.green eugene.green evolve.green exelon.green extracts.green fabory.green fbsc.green fieldsof.green firestone.green foundation.green fundraising.green gasnatural.green gasnaturalfenosa.green genotec.green gerry.green get.green gewinnen.green gewinner.green gi-energy.green gmail.green going.green google.green graham.green grainger.green greendatacenter.green greenit.green h-m.green homebuild.green homebuilding.green hornblower.green howtogo.green iac.green inesis.green innovator.green intuit.green iot.green isleep.green jackpot247.green jackpots.green jamieallan.green jcdecaux.green joakim.green joankerr.green jotun.green kamut.green kasino.green katjes.green khorasan.green kindle.green laura.green lawncare.green lepainquotidien.green lettreverte.green lpq.green luxottica.green marijuana420.green mediakiosk.green merck.green merrill.green merrilledge.green merrilllynch.green microsoft.green mista.green mister.green mondoverde.green mralex.green nationalcar.green nhl.green nic.green a0.nic.green a2.nic.green b0.nic.green c0.nic.green niederlande.green norge.green npoex.green oesterreich.green officebuilding.green onlinekasino.green onlinepoker.green opti-free.green oracle.green organicplus.green polska.green premium.green prime.green putt.green putting.green qualchem.green refurbished.green register.green registra.green registrars.green rental.green rolex.green samsclub.green savethe.green sheena.green showyour.green signature.green skanska.green spela.green spelakasino.green stanleycup.green statefarm.green suomi.green supercasino.green sverige.green switch.green tdameritrade.green testcbaker021915-4.green tfl.green thebig.green thebodyshop.green thinc.green treehuggers.green truffaut.green tuborg.green tudor.green tudorwatch.green tumblr.green usps.green ustrust.green utilityindependence.green vanguard.green viagra.green victorygardens.green vincitore.green vincitori.green vinn.green vinnare.green vinster.green visa.green voittaja.green voittajat.green voiture.green vuelosbaratos.green wal-mart.green wallo.green winnaars.green worldof.green worldwildlife.green www-mr.green xbox.green yoox.green youtube.green zeno.green zorotools.green zwyciezcy.green   ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLD launches: .Green and .Tires - .Green finally comes to fruition this week. Two Three new top level domain names are available to the public this week. .Green went live this morning and is available at a number of registrars. .Green domain names are available to everyone. Pricing at the three registrars I checked is between $60-$80 for the first year. Earlier this month I spoke with DotGreen Community CEO Annalisa Roger on the Domain Name Wire Podcast. You can listen to the story of the long road to .green and the purpose behind ... read more ...
 
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Yourbrand.SUCKS? - As many of you know, in addition to the gTLDs with which we are familiar, such as .com, .org, and .net, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") has approved over a thousand new gTLDs. Of significant concern for brand owners everywhere is ICANN’s approval of the gTLD.SUCKS, which is set to launch before the end of the year. Brand owners who have registered their trademarks with the Trademark Clearinghouse will have first dibs at domain names in the pernicious ... read more ...
 
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Nieuwe domeinextensies nog relatief onbekend - Meer dan de helft van de internetgebruikers kent geen nieuwe domeinextensies. Wel zijn er in Nederland in een jaar 50.000 nieuwe registraties gedaan voor de nieuwe domeinen. Sinds februari 2014 is een groot aantal nieuwe domeinextensies, oftewel top level domains (TLD) ingevoerd. Uit een onderzoek onder ... read more ...
 
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.Ping and .Srl domain names to be staid Wednesday - Two top level domain names head to the auction block on Wednesday. Auctions to settle contention sets for the .Ping and .SRL top level domain names will take place on Wednesday. The so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” will take place because one of the applicants didn’t want to settle the set in a private auction. Google and mySRL GmbH will square off for .SRL. SRL is similar to Limited Liability Company and is appended to the end of many company names. PING (the golf company) and Radix will ... read more ...
 
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Revolución de dominios en Internet toma forma - Más Los Ángeles (EE. UU.). EFE. Internet atraviesa por una revolución silenciosa, marcada por el florecimiento de centenares de nuevos dominios que se distancian del puntocom para redefinir quién es quién en la red, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos. Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en el 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a ... read more ...