Monthly Archives: April 2015

Wed 1st April 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M - WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website not just a domain name. WallStreet.com was the first publicly reported domain name to sell for more than $1 Million dollars. Monte Cahn brokered the domain for $1.02 Million dollars 1999. The domain name resold for $1,030,000 in 2005. According to the ... read more ...
 
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Dubious New Domain Name Extensions Available – Protect Your Brand! - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Eerste websites met gTLD .amsterdam staan live -

De nieuwe top-level domeinnamen komen eraan. Of beter gezegd: ze zijn er al. De eerste websites met de gTLD-naam .amsterdam staan namelijk live.

Via: winmagpro.nl

 
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.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent - It appears Daniel Negari of  .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by  DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is still currently listed as DERRent, LLC, which won the extension in a two-way battle with Donuts who withdrew their application,  however Daniel Negari is now listed as the primary contact as well as Mr. Negari’s email address and physical address, so it would ... read more ...
 
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Google joins the fun on April Fool’s Day - Using Google's own Top Level Domain, all-comers were invited to visit com.google instead of the usual google.com, where everything is in mirror mode. — AFP picSAN FRANCISCO, April 1 — The net firm played an April 1 prank with a TLD trick ending in .google. “Sometimes it’s important to reflect,” remarked Google’s Twitter account, kicking off a day of levity and cunning across the web. Using its own Top Level Domain, all-comers were ... read more ...
 
 
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Google Launches Backwards Google Search - There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.Any search you do is reversed or backwards.Google announced this on Google+ as an April Fools joke saying:We’re always thinking about what’s ahead, but sometimes it’s important to look backwards. In that spirit, we’re proud to introduce http://com.google, available today. Made possible by new gTLDs (http://goo.gl/HolXqe), http://com.google gives us an ... read more ...
 
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March's Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other developments. Here’s a rundown of the top stories from last month: 1. 2 Things that could harm domain names – the value and importance of domain names is always under threat. 2. The most influential person in the domain name industry is… – this was ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Is Up Over $6 a Share In Early Trading - Godaddy (GDDY) which went public today at $20 IPO price is trading as of publication at $26.30, up $6.30 Godaddy’s first trade was at $26.18 then slipped as low as $25.49 before bouncing to its inter-day high of $26.84. Over 10,500,000 shares of Godaddy were traded in less than the 1st hour of trading. Godaddy sold 22 Million shares at $20 a share so more than 50% of the amount of shares available to be traded have been traded already in the first hour.     ... read more ...
 
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After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD's - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law - Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO of .Law. Carl Jaeckel, founder of Lawyer Central and CMO of Morgan Morgan will also join as COO and John Morgan, Founder of Morgan Morgan, renowned businessman, philanthropist and political power broker will serve as Chairman. Minds + Machines has ... read more ...
 
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.Club Tops 200K Domains Is Godaddy's #1 Selling New Domain Extension - In less than a year from its launch,  .CLUB has sold more than 200,000 domain names. .Club is still one of just a handful of new gTLD’s that are adding hundreds of registrations a day. According to a Press Release out today by the .Club registry, .CLUB is recognized globally as a meaningful, memorable word that expresses community and shared passion. .CLUB is the most popular new domain extension introduced thus far as part of the Internet’s recent namespace expansion. Those now using a web ... read more ...
 
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.brussels, .vlaanderen et .gent pas encore .sexy - Aujourd'hui, tant .brussels, .gent que .vlaanderen sont librement disponibles depuis quelques mois déjà pour le grand public. Mais avec un compteur indiquant respectivement 5.306, 2.260 et 6.017 enregistrements, il est bien difficile de parler d'une histoire à succès. Il est douteux qu'il n'y ait qu'une raison pour expliquer le succès mitigé des nouvelles extensions internet. Dans le secteur, l'on évoque plutôt un malheureux concours ... read more ...
 
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WIPO sees UDRP increase - Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaints increased 2 percent in 2014, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Trademark owners filed 2,634 cases concerning 5,591 domain names through the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. WIPO also speculated that registrations in new gTLDs have triggered UDRP cases. Registrations in new gTLDs represented 3.9 percent of domain names in WIPO’s caseload compared to 65.2 percent in .com in 2013. The US was the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy shares cocktail 30% during open - So far, so good for GoDaddy’s IPO. It’s not an April Fool joke — GoDaddy is off to a great start in the public markets. Shares began trading at about $26 today, 30% over where the IPO priced. The $20 pricing was itself above the expected range of $17-$19. At $26 a share, the company is being valued at about $4 billion. The nice open might be affecting shares of rival Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW), which are up close to 3% today. Other domain name stocks are mixed. Tucows shares are up about a percent ... read more ...
 
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Are You Bullish or Bearish on Go Daddy Stock ? - With Go Daddy shares set to start trading today, are you going to buy stock or are you negative on the offering ? James Gellert from Rapid Ratings told CNN he is not high on the stock. ‘Elevated’ financial risk: Investors want to know: Will GoDaddy shares be off to the races like Patrick’s No. 10 car or will they crash and burn? “I would say the caution flag is up,” said James Gellert, CEO of Rapid Ratings, a firm that rates the financial health of public and private companies. Even though ... read more ...
 
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Marketers warned of new .sucks domain - Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The worst nightmares of brands and the freelance marketers who look after them could become a reality in June, when hundreds of questionable web domain names go up for grabs. In fact, .sucks, .porn and .adult are just some of the 500 TLDs that will become available, and online ... read more ...
 
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IBM's Softlayer strike with ICANN crack notice - Notice appears to be triggered by customer complaint. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer, citing multiple contract infractions. Softlayer was acquired by IBM in 2013. According to the most recent .com registry report from November, Softlayer’s domain business is meaningful. It had about 90,000 .com registrations at the time. The breach appears to be triggered from a dispute about the domain name southaustralianweddings.com and maintaining registration ... read more ...
 
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.Club tops 200,000 domain name registrations - .Club domain marks big milestone. The .Club team is celebrating after crossing the 200,000 registration barrier less than a year after launch. The numbers can be attributed to a good domain, low pricing, broad distribution and aggressive marketing. Although officially #3 in the zone file rankings, I believe .Club is #2 in arms-length registrations, behind only .xyz. GoDaddy, which featured .Club on its home page for several weeks after it launched, is the number one registrar for .Club. Customers ... read more ...
 
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.brussels, .vlaanderen en .gent nog niet .sexy - Intussen zijn zowel .brussels, .gent als .vlaanderen al enkele maanden vrij beschikbaar voor het grote publiek. Maar met een teller die afklokt op respectievelijk 5.306, 2.260 en 6.017 registraties, kan je moeilijk van een succesverhaal spreken. Of er één echte reden is voor het beperkte succes, valt te betwijfelen. In de sector spreekt men eerder over een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden. Voor sommigen zijn de nieuwe tld's te ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy goes open today, raises $460 million - Company prices above expected range, valuing company at over $3 billion. GoDaddy will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the symbol “GDDY”. The company priced at $20 per share and sold 23 million shares, raising $460 million. This was above its planned price range of $17-$19, and values the company at just over $3 billion. The initial public offering should bring a lot of attention to the domain name industry today. It will be interesting to see if it has an effect on other ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic update on gTLDs - StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic has issued an update on generic top-level domains (gTLDs) - the new alternatives to .com, .net and .org. CentralNic says that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic picks up new batch of top level domains - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which  will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched nine gTLDs including wiki, .ink, .bar, .rest, .press, .host, .website, ... read more ...
 
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com.google: Gespiegelte Websuche unter der neuen Google-TLD -  Seit vielen Jahren gibt es die bekannte Google-Spiegelung elgooG, das sowohl die Startseite der Suchmaschine als auch die Suchergebnisse komplett spiegelt und seitenverkehr darstellt. Am heutigen 1. April hat Google nun eine eigene Version dieser gespiegelten Startseite vorgestellt, bei der vor allem die URL des Angebots sehr interessant ist: com.google Unter der URL com.google zeigt sich heute die Startseite der Suchmaschine in einer komplett gespiegelten Version. Vom Logo über das Suchfeld, ... read more ...
 
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag .ruhr! - Seit einiger Zeit schon tummeln sich im Internet die verschiedensten Regio-TLDs. Von .bayern über .saarland bis hin zu .hamburg werden viele Regionen Deutschlands abgedeckt und im Word-Wide-Web präsentiert. Auch das Ruhrgebiet hat mit .ruhr eine eigene nTLD gefunden. Und diese wird genau heute ein Jahr alt! [Anm.: Leider konnten wir diesen Artikel erst verspätet veröffentlichen. Der Geburtstag von .ruhr war der 27.03.] Diesen Tag wollten wir uns zum Anlass nehmen, Ihnen die sympathische Domainendung ... read more ...