Monthly Archives: March 2015

Tue 24th March 2015
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Más allá del “punto com” - La revolución de los nuevos dominios de internet toma formaInternet está atravesando una revolución silenciosa, marcada por el florecimiento de centenares de nuevos dominios que se distancian del “punto com” para redefinir quién es quién en la red de redes, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos.Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a notar en 2014 y que, cuando concluya, habrá añadido más ... read more ...
 
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MOZ.com: "Moving 5 Domains To 1 an SEO Case Study" - Dr. Peter J. Meyers wrote an excellent piece on Moz.com that deals with changing multiple domains, basically 5 into 1 for this case study. The article is very detailed and is definitely something you want to bookmark in case there ever comes a time when you need to do this. From the article: People often ask me if they should change domain names, and I always shudder just a little. Changing domains is a huge, risky undertaking, and too many people rush into it seeing only the imaginary upside. The ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Did Taylor Swift Really Just Buy A Bunch Of Porn Sites?! - Posted on Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 1:21pm PDT       By X17 Staff In a word, yup! Swift has purchased TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, according to CNNMoney. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has added .sucks, .porn and .adult to their long list of generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, and the country star was able to get in early and buy her own websites before anyone else can. The TLDs will be available for purchase for the rest of us on June 1, but ... read more ...
 
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Radix Gives Us A Sneak Peek At Their New Videos - Radix is giving us a sneak peek at videos they will be releasing at World Hosting Days in Germany. Radix is excited to release videos for .website, .press, .host and .space. The Radix videos will be screened for the first time at WorldHostingDays in Germany on 24th Mar, 2015. For those missing WHD, here is an online exclusive. With so many new extensions being launched, it is important to keep customers hooked. And what better way than to have brand new videos to watch and entertain themselves with!       Videos ... read more ...
 
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Experts discover phishing campaign leveraging .gov TLD loophole - March 23, 2015 Researchers have picked up on a new spam campaign that sends victims phishing messages from a .gov account that thwarts email validation systems. One of the email addresses used by the attacker leverages the .gov TLD, which circumvents Sender Policy Framework (SPF) email validation, thus increasing the chances of victims actually receiving the spam, according to researchers at Trend Micro. Two other registered domain names leveraged by the miscreant ... read more ...
 
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.nrw geht online: Internet-Adressendung für Nordrhein-Westfalen - Von Birte Hauke Top Level Domain soll regionale Identität stärken. Firmen und Bürger können sich registrieren. Die regionale Adressendung .nrw geht am Dienstag ans Netz. Die regionale Adressendung ... read more ...
 
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Taiwan: Domain name dispute resolution - Our weekly IP round-up includes Panasonic, Taylor Swift, Motorola, Intellectual Ventures, ATT http://t.co/bpGxNLKGq7 http://t.co/YQR35RbRve Mar 28 2015 04:25 ·  reply ·  retweet ·  favourite ... read more ...
 
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La revolución de los nuevos dominios de internet toma forma - (EFE).- Internet está atravesando una revolución silenciosa marcada por el florecimiento de centenares de nuevos dominios que se distancian del "punto com" para redefinir quién es quién en la red de redes, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos. Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a notar en 2014 y que, cuando concluya, habrá añadido más de 1.300 nomenclaturas en el ciberespacio, los llamados ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Is On Fire Selling $76K in Domains That Cost Him Less than $750 Total - Mike Mann has been reporting some very impressive domain name sales the last few days on his Facebook page Mike just announced today he sold the domain name MissCandy.com for $30,000 a domain he purchase on July 30th 2012 for $75 Last week Mike reported selling Jazz.co for $22,000 a domain he purchased on July 19th 2010 as well as the domain TakeTheChance.com for  $15,000 which he purchased on August 1, 2013 for $300 The previous week Mike announced the sale of CityMarkets.com for $9,000 a domain ... read more ...
 
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Fakten zur Internet-Adresse ".nrw": Endspurt zur neuen NRW-Domain - Bild 1 vergrößern + Morgen wird sie freigeschaltet, die neue Top-Level-Domain für NRW Was sind Top-Level-Domains? Eine Top-Level-Domain (TLD) ist die höchste Hierarchie-Ebene eines Adressnamens im Internet. Am bekanntesten sind die länderspezifischen Domains wie .de oder .us. Außerdem gibt es so genannte generische Domains wie .com, .org oder .net. Relativ neu sind regionale Domains, auch geoTLD genannt. In Deutschland haben eine solche Domain unter anderem die Bundesländer Bayern ... read more ...
 
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Shocking? Google Domains Now Listed Organically Number 1 On Google For "domains" -                 Just a little over 2 months after launching out of Beta, Google new domain name registrar Google Domains is showing as the number one organic entry under Google when you search for the term “domains” replacing registrars like Godaddy.co,, Network Solutions.com, 1and1.com, NameCheap.com and Domain.com Google Domains is also ranking organically, number 2 under the term “domain registrar” number 4 for the term “domain” number 6 for the term “domain registrars” Not ... read more ...
 
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How Major League Baseball can Boost New Domain Names - If it actually uses its new TLDs, Major League Baseball can have a profound affect on awareness of new domain names. On today’s Domain Name Wire Podcast, Michael Berkens discussed some of the recent new top level domain name auction results. One that I think is interesting is .Baseball, which was won by Major League Baseball (MLB). MLB has been aggressive about buying .com domain names that match team names. It currently owns all but three team names in .com after acquiring Rangers.com for $375,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Suffers the 1st Overall Negative Domain Day -   The new gTLD Registry, Donuts suffered its first net negative domain day since becoming a registry; where the number of new domain names registered were exceeded by the number of new gTLD deleted or removed from the zone file for non-renewal. According to ntldstats.com Donuts had a net loss of 63 domain names yesterday on  March 22nd. You can see this by checking out this chart and mousing over yesterday. Donuts is now reporting its renewal stats on its company blog and updating it daily. Donuts ... read more ...
 
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¿Se acaba la era de los "puntocom" y comienza la revolución de los nuevos dominios de Internet? - Internet atraviesa 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 de redes, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos. Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a notar en 2014 y que, cuando concluya, habrá añadido más de 1.300 nomenclaturas en el ciberespacio, los llamados “nuevos ... read more ...
 
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¿Se acaba la era de los "puntocom" y comienza la revolución de los nuevos … - Internet atraviesa 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 de redes, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos. Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a notar en 2014 y que, cuando concluya, habrá añadido más de 1.300 nomenclaturas en el ciberespacio, los llamados “nuevos ... read more ...
 
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2 engaging new TLD-related videos - .Rocks, not .com, and .XYZ. I don’t have any cute cat videos to share with you this Monday, but I have a couple new top level domain name-related YouTube videos might interest readers. In the first one, one of the ten-year-old members of music band V² explains that their website is vsquared.rocks. Not .com, his brother explains: The second video is some footage of .XYZ’s #XYZsquad, commonly known as the purple people, at SXSW in Austin. .XYZ definitely upped the game with its purple people ... read more ...
 
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Forte progression des nouvelles extensions des noms de domaine - Le nombre des noms de domaine enregistrés dans les new gTLDs approche des cinq millions. Les statistiques disponibles sur le site ntldstats.com révèlent un très grand nombre d’enregistrements de nom de domaine dans les nouvelles extensions  comme .xyz, .club, .berlin, ou .wang qui s’élève au 23 mars à plus de 4 700 000 millions. On relèvera que la nouvelle extension .xyz est la préférée des réservataires avec plus de 810 000 noms de domaine enregistrés. Une autre extension ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Auction Results with Michael Berkens – DNW Podcast #25 - What do the winners and losers of new TLD auctions mean for the program? Google, Amazon, Donuts…lots of big companies are duking it out in auctions to control top level domain names. The results include a lot of surprises. On this week’s show, fellow blogger and new TLD consultant Michael Berkens talks about who’s winning and losing these auctions, and what the implications are for the new top level domain name program overall. Also: SXSW recap, GoDaddy IPO update, and Donuts launches “Freedom ... read more ...
 
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NAE.com Saved in UDRP But No RDNH Despite Domain Reg 6 Years Before TM - National Automotive Experts, L.L.C. just lost its bid to grab the three letter domain name NAE.com in a UDRP, from Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented as usually by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The three member panel of Ho-Hyun Nahm,  Diane Thilly Cabell and Sandra J. Franklin easily found in favor of the Domain Holder concluding that the Complainant didn’t establish that they had an exclusive rights to the term NAE and that the domain was registered 6 years prior to the date the  that Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Donuts' initial new domain names are starting to drop… - Donuts’ first domain name registrations are starting to drop. Here are initial numbers. Donuts is releasing renewal numbers for its new TLDs daily as the first batch of names exit the auto-renew grace period. Yesterday, Donuts COO and Co-Founder Richard Tindal blogged results for the 6,352 Donuts domains that exited the grace period as of Saturday. Of these, 85.3% were renewed. About one third of these domain names were sunrise registrations, which should have a higher-than-normal renewal rate. ... read more ...
 
 
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Weebly introduces module for domain name registrars and hosts - Reseller program allows hosts and registrars to offer Weebly website builder tools. Website builder Weebly launched a new program for domain name registrars and webhosts today, enabling them to offer Weebly’s website creation tool to their customers. NameCheap and Endurance International Group (which owns a number of hosting companies and Domain.com) are initial customers of the new Weebly for Hosts. Weebly for Hosts is essentially a reseller program, allowing companies to offer a simple website ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Wins Important Section 230 Case - Eric Goldman published an article on what he deemed an important legal victory for Go Daddy. Go Daddy won a Section 230 case which involved some Teamsters Union members. Section 230 is a part of the Communications Deceny Act and it provides immunity for providers like Go Daddy hosting. From the article: GoDaddy won a Section 230 case in the Second Circuit. It’s a short and efficient ruling, but it’s a published opinion and the court says it’s the first Second Circuit opinion on Section 230 ... read more ...
 
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La revolución de los dominios - Internet está atravesando una revolución silenciosa marcada por el florecimiento de centenares de nuevos dominios que se distancian del “punto com” para redefinir quién es quién en la red de redes, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos.Se trata de una transformación paulatina que ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Buys Up Porn Domain Names? - Is Taylor Swift getting into the porn biz? According to CNN.com, the pop star has purchased a pair of adult domains to prevent Internet trolls and porn companies from using her name to sell XXX-rated material online. Among her purchases include Taylorswift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult. The purchase comes after a 2011 decision by ICANN to expand top-level domains, or gTLDs, such as .com and .net. The number of gTLDs have increased from 22 to to over 547. Companies and anyone else who don't want their ... read more ...