Monthly Archives: April 2015

Tue 28th April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in HU and tagged
.xyz, a spammer tld -

Persze, de eléggé könnyen írható szabály ami blokkolja, felpontozza vagy bárhogy nehezíti az xyz végződésről küldőtt maileket.

Via: hup.hu

 
Written by The Domains in EN
79% Of The Attendees Of The Collision Startup Conference Using "Risky" Domains - Startup Domain Name Analysis (detail from infographic) (PRNewsFoto/Name Ninja)                 Bill Sweetman President of NameNinja.com, sent out a press release today saying that 79% of 491 Startups that will be participating at the Collision Startup Conference being held in Las Vegas on May 5-6 are using domain names that are counter intuitive and likely pose marketing challenges. Bill also found that more than two-thirds (68%) of the startup domains failed the Radio Test, meaning the names ... read more ...
 
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StormGuard.com Saved In UDRP - Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC v.just lost its bid to grab the domain name StormGuard.com which was just registered on February 6, 2014 The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com A majority of the three member panel of Willem J. H. Leppink, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was generic and since the registrant was located in South Korea is was unlikely that they knew about the trademark of the Complainant. However, panelist Nicholas Weston disagreed with the majority and filed ... read more ...
 
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Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US - One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One,  announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners (“ATP PEP”), one of Europe’s largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com’s launch into the U.S., its ongoing product innovation and the acceleration of its growth in new regions in Europe. Terms of the investment ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like Namejet.com Is Down -

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I looks like a domain name marketplace Namejet.com is down during a moment.

We are removing an blunder page on 3 opposite browsers.

We only sent off an email and we will let we know when they are behind online.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Startup domain name fails: 68% destroy radio test - Majority of companies attending startup conference have problematic domain names. Name Ninja recently performed an analysis of the domain names used by startups going to the Collision conference in Las Vegas next month. The domain name consultancy found that only 21% of companies have the “ideal” domain name for their business. A whopping 68% of company’s domain names fail the “radio test”, meaning they are not spelled the way they sound. It’s pretty easy to spot some of these names ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Post Reports Earnings For 2014: Up Almost 15% in Trading - CentralNic Group (CNIC) today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and shareholders loved the report sending shares up 14.75% in trading today to 35p Shares have a 52 week high of 73p and a low of 23p: Operational highlights Net revenue grew by 99% to £6.07m (2013: £3.05m) – growing revenues from registry, registrar and enterprise services Adjusted EBITDA grew by 70% to £1.72m (2013: £1.02m) – reflecting strong revenue growth offset by additional costs invested ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo now lets clients start their possess domain name auctions - Domainers can start their own reserve auctions…for a fee. Sedo is offering domain name sellers a new option to start an auction on its domain name marketplace. Called Direct Auction, clients can now select domain names to be auctioned, when they start and a reserve price. It costs $59 to start a Direct Auction. Previously, sellers could start an auction in response to an offer on their domain (aka “push to auction”) or by submitting it through Great Domains. They could also work with an account ... read more ...
 
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Are Zombie TLDs entrance this year? - Some of these TLDs can’t string along much longer. Hundreds of new top level domain names are now available. Some are doing reasonably well while others are not (to put it mildly). Will 2015 see the first new TLD “failures”, in which a top level domain operator calls it quits? We might have seen it already. The companies I’m most concerned about are the ones that operate just one or two TLDs and have a big staff (i.e., lots of overhead). If they aren’t getting traction after about a year, ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic doubled income in 2014 - Company posts big gains, likely due to acquisition of domain name registrar last year. Domain name services company CentralNic doubled its revenue in 2014 and increased its adjusted EBITDA by 65%. The company grew its topline from £3.891 million to £6.067 million. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes acquisition deal fees and non-cash charges, grew from £1.015 million in 2013 to £1.724 in 2014. Its actual profits before tax dipped for the year. CentralNic doesn’t break out results from each division, ... read more ...
 
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Lessons from .Build One Year After Launch: Q&A with CEO and Founder George … - The .build domain namespace opened in General Availability in April 2014, as a domain name designed specifically for the online needs of the building industry and beyond. As the appointed technical provider for .build, ARI Registry Services powered the launch and continued technical operations for this global domain name. A year into the life of the namespace, ARI Registry Services' Head of Global Consulting Tony Kirsch caught up with George Minardos, CEO of .build to talk about his insights ... read more ...
 
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NoMoreRack.com rebrands to Choxi.com - Internet retailer NoMoreRack.com has rebranded, the name they chose is Choxi, according to the company it is hybrid of “Chock Full” and Choice. I can say I don’t get it. I don’t think the name is easily spelled when one customer may tell a potential new shopper. On top of that Target used to sell a brand of chocolates called Choxie. InternetRetailer.com reports that the move was partially due to a lawsuit (which was dismissed) filed by Nordstrom 3 years ago. In the article the Chief Marketing ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New .vote TLD Used for Arizona Voters - Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan and the .VOTE registry are pleased to announce two new and simple web addresses have been launched for Arizona voters — www.arizona.vote and www.arizona.voto. These two new online destinations make it easier for people to locate information related to voter registration and election information. The new domains of .VOTE and its Spanish/Italian/Portuguese counterpart .VOTO were designed to help elected officials, governments, candidates and organizations ... read more ...
 
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Pax.com Sells on Sedo.com For $200,000 - The three letter .com market has been on fire this year and today the domain name Pax.com sold for $200,000 on Sedo. The domain name has been under privacy at Moniker since at least 2006. The last listed owner before the domain went under privacy was Kim Site-Development Enterprises of Beverly Hills, CA in 2006. The domain name is still under escrow at Sedo. I’m going to take a wild guess and say the buyer is the maker of popular Vapor devises which have the brand name of PAX Pax’s website is ... read more ...
 
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Even during Grassroots Level Trademark Disputes Can Get Ugly - Mama, a charismatic woman with colorful Mexican dresses and braided hair, became an anchor in the neighborhood, and her cafe was ground zero for activists, academics, politicians and police who were pushing to improve the area. Today, Romero lives just blocks away, but won’t go near the little restaurant with the blue awning. She hardly looks in that direction, just across the street from the park. She’s also careful to never use the Mama’s Hot Tamales name — on her Facebook, email or business ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Video, .Fit and .Sale - Minds + Machines and Rightside introduce new domain names this week. A few domain names hit general availability or Early Access this Wednesday. Minds + Machines will launch .Fit with retail pricing of about $25 or so. .Fit is one of the company’s wholly owned domain names, and is the last domain name the group has scheduled to launch until Q3. Rightside starts the Early Access phase for two domain names on Wednesday: .Video and .Sale. If you can wait one week until general availability you’ll ... read more ...
 
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Costa Rica: The New Home for Controversial Torrent Websites - Screenshot of KAT.cr A website that has often come under fire for allegedly facilitating online piracy of copyrighted content is currently hosted in Costa Rica. After trying their luck at retaining a Top Level Domain (TLD) in the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Isle of Man, a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, the administrators of the polemic website Kickass Torrents (KAT) have settled for the relative safety of Costa Rica. According to TorrentFreak.com, a website dedicated to covering ... read more ...
 
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Widerstand gegen Mist-Domains ist möglich - Die neue Internetadresse .sucks sorgt für Unmut bei Unternehmen und Prominenten. In Österreich kann man sich gegen eine Herabsetzung gut wehrenWien - "domain.sucks" - werden sich viele Marketingverantwortliche gerade denken. Wie mit der neuen Top-Level-Domain .sucks umzugehen ist, müssen sich Unternehmen und Celebritys jetzt überlegen. Die Vielfalt an neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLD) hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit schon unzählige Fragen aufgeworfen, etwa ob Inhaber von .com- oder .at-Domains ... read more ...
 
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Responding to Domain Name Offers with Bill Sweetman – DNW Podcast #30 - Name Ninja Bill Sweetman talks about his role as a domain buyer broker, and how domain name owners should respond to offers to buy their domain names. Domain name consultant Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja helps companies find and buy the right domain name for their business. In this episode, he discusses how he helps companies and provides tips for domain name owners about how to respond to an inquiry to purchase one of their domain names. Also: Analyzing GoDaddy’s $28.1 million purchase of Marchex’s ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Game.com, Meetings.com, Say.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or are simply moving, mainly all by large corporations. These domain movers are often very early finds and often lead to new brands, services, products and more. Here we go with the latest domain movers, which is STACKED with great domain names! Say.com has been sold by FUTURE MEDIA ARCHITECTS, INC. to a Carl Ng / Stripes39 according to whois records. Carl owns several other great domain ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during Escrow.com's income growth - Company’s topline is up over 50% in past five years. Australian company Freelancer.com has acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5M. This is 6.25x Escrow.com’s 2014 EBITDA. The transaction reveals, for the first time, Escrow.com’s growth in recent years. The company’s 2014 revenue was nearly 55% higher than 2010, representing a 9.1% CAGR since then. 2010: $3.269 million 2011: $4.125 million 2012: $4.646 million 2013: $4.798 million 2014: $5.048 million Keep in mind this only represents Escrow.com’s ... read more ...
 
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What is Freelancer.com and because did it buy Escrow.com? - Publicly traded freelance marketplace owns a number of businesses, including a website and domain name marketplace. Yesterday (United States time), Freelancer.com announced that it acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5 million. Freelancer.com is a publicly traded company in Australia with a market cap of about $450 million, but many people probably aren’t familiar with it. The company is similar to oDesk/eLance, where people post jobs they need done and freelancers bid to complete the work. Freelancer.com ... read more ...
Sun 26th April 2015
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Escrow.com Purchased for $7.5million - Freelancer.com announces the acquisition of Escrow.com and completion of capital raising Some big news for a Sunday night, Escrow.com getting acquired by Freelancer.com. Back in September of 2014, Escrow.com purchased Agreed.com. SYDNEY, April 27, 2015: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace,today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for US$7.5 million in cash, and completed a AUD$10 million ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million - Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company. Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Escrow.com is a popular service among domain name investors and has handled over $2.2 billion worth of transactions to date. Margins for escrow services are slim, and today’s acquisition announcement puts it in perspective: Escrow.com handled $220 million transactions last year, generating $5 ... read more ...
 
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Majority of the check respondents see new gtld registrations finale 2015 on a green note - We started a poll two months ago that asked, “How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There Be By The End of 2015?” Currently there are over 5 million new gtld registrations according to multiple sources such as ntldstats.com. The majority of respondents see the numbers going down. 27% of readers who participated see 2015 ending with 2 million or less registrations. Thanks for voting and here are the results: 2 million or less (27%, 93 Votes) 8,000,000-10 Million (13%, 45 Votes) Over 20 Million ... read more ...