Monthly Archives: April 2015

Tue 14th April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Internet: Cnr, crisi cancella le Pmi in Rete - 17:18 14 APR 2015(AGI) - Roma, 14 apr. - Il mercato dei domini internet alivello europeo e' segnato negli ultimi anni da una scarsacrescita e da sempre piu' numerose cancellazioni. Per quantoriguarda i domini ".it", ossia il Country code top level domain(ccTLD) che rappresenta il "made in Italy" nel web, continuanoa crescere (+4,8 per cento nel 2014) assestandosi intorno ai2.800.000 (aprile 2015), anche se nel 2014 ne sono staticancellati 495.000. Per capire i motivi di questa tendenza ilRegistro ... read more ...
 
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eMarketer Report: The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations" - eMarketer.com has put out a research paper on the new gtlds titled, “The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations” This report was a paid report, as I called the company about referencing it they also included it in the newsletter section which is available to everyone.(thank you Priscilla) The report draws on data from the Domain Name Association and ntldstats as well as a few others. From the report: ... read more ...
 
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Time To Re-Evaluate Your TLD Strategy -   Law360, New York (April 14, 2015, 10:21 AM ET) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers's new top-level domain program resulted in approximately 1,400 new TLDs for consumers and brands; including new domain extensions like .wine, .golf, .law, .nyc, .bmw, etc. The intellectual property community significantly influenced the creation of a variety of rights protections programs and policies for trademark owners in ICANN’s new TLD program.One of the principal results ... read more ...
 
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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs - When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet less than 10% of those that have gone live seem to have found success. The term 'success' has different definitions ... read more ...
 
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Aditya Chauhan - The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet less than 10% of those that have gone live seem to have found success. more» ... read more ...
 
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Google's mobile deadline one week away - Search results on mobile devices to change one week from today. Most people in the United States are making a last minute push to complete taxes, but another deadline is quickly approaching for website owners. April 21 — just one week from now — is the date that Google will change its search results on mobile devices. The “significant” change will promote mobile-friendly content over content designed only for full browser screens. Given the growth on mobile search and browsing, this is a ... read more ...
 
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Google Malaysia Experiences DNS Redirect Attack - TheStat.com.my is reporting that Google Malaysia was hit by a DNS redirect hack. It looks like Google’s actual servers were not comprimised and not everyone accessing the local Google site is being affected. From the article: Some users visiting the Google Malaysia website are seeing a hacked page that says “Google Malaysia hacked by TiGER-M@TE”. Although TiGER-M@TE claims to have hacked the search giant’s local website, it seems to be another DNS redirect attack on the .my domain. Google ... read more ...
 
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La crisi colpisce anche i domini «.it»: in 500mila hanno detto addio alla rete - La crisi contagia anche la rete. Lo dicono i numeri del mercato dei domini internet che negli ultimi anni a fronte di una crescita con il freno tirato rispetto al passato vedono per la prima volta registrare un boom di cancellazioni. È il caso dei domini «.it» ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Opens Up For Advertising - Sedo.com is now showing advertising rates on its website. I’m not sure how long they have been showing this but I believe its a new feature Here is what the site currently shows: “”Advertise with Sedo to reach the world’s largest audience of domain investors, as well as small business owners, marketing professionals and a wide variety of other consumers all interested in domain-related products and services. Our audience’s key interests include domain registration, domain valuation, domain ... read more ...
 
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YM.com Sold By Advance Publishing Inc. - The 2 letter domain name YM.com has been sold by the 44th largest private company in the United States, Advance Publishing Inc. according to whois records. Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. was the official company name listed in whois records for YM.com, and they are a subsidiary of Advance Publishing Inc. Advance Digital and Conde Nast Digital are all part of Advance Publishing Inc. company. The domain name YM.com was forwarding to TeenVogue.com for several years but I wasn’t able to find a public ... read more ...
 
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New .SUCKS Top-Level Domain is .PROBLEMATIC - 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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New TLDs this week: .Fashion, .Garden and .FRL - Minds + Machines launches two more domain names and another geo domain name goes live. Three top level domain names enter general availability this week, including a geographic domain. .FRL launches on Tuesday. This domain name stands for Friesland, a part of the Netherlands. The domain is targeted to the Frisian people as well as their culture, heritage, and companies located or associated with Friesland. Minds + Machines also launches two domain names this week: .Fashion and .Garden. Both domain ... read more ...
 
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Forget $2,499; Network Solutions Is Charging $4K For A Premium .Sucks Registration - Hundreds of stories have covered the launch of .Sucks and the suggested retail price of $2,499 for a one year registration of a “premium” domain. However all the registry Vox Populi can do is charge the registrars the wholesale cost of the domain names and suggest a retail price. Each domain registrar can then set the price they want to charge their customers for the domain name. We understand that the wholesale cost of a premium .Sucks registration that the registry is charging the registrars ... read more ...
 
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.Promo and other TLDs headed to auction - Auction group hopes to sell .Promo and other TLDs at June auction. Innovative Auctions Ltd. is holding another auction to “resell” already-contracted top level domain names. The next auction will take place June 4 and will feature .Promo. Play.PROMO Oy has entered into a contract with ICANN for the top level domain name but has not yet launched the domain name. .Promo was an uncontested application. Innovative Auctions previously auctioned .reise as a resale domain. That domain name had already ... read more ...
Mon 13th April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Internet, i domini .it: storia, analisi e dati - La storia e i dati dei domini .itdi Saverio Spinelli - Sono oltre  2 milioni e settecentomila i domini internet .it ad oggi, contro gli oltre 100 milioni dei .com che, da sempre,  detengono saldamente il primo posto tra i TLD (top level domain). Il dominio .it si colloca al 16° posto nel mondo, mentre tra i TLD nazionali primeggia il .de (Germania), con oltre 16 milioni di registrazioni. L’Ente che in Italia detiene il “registro” (DBNA: database dei nomi assegnati) è, dal 1987,  il CNR ... read more ...
 
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Sucks Top Level Domain Causes Controversy - Sucks Top Level Domain Causes Controversy Posted on 13. Apr, 2015 by Bob Johnson in Technology Country-related top level domains appear on a bench, although TLDs have since expanded to about six hundred more. Regulatory authorities had opened up domain name extensions beyond the basic .com, .net., .org and others, but the latest addition is stirring up some controversy. Some allege that the new .sucks top level domain is just a cash grab ... read more ...
 
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Big brands buy .porn domain - A new development in the quest for brand security online sees companies purchasing potentially harmful new web domain names such as .porn, .sucks and .adult. The new gTLDs will become available on June 1 and brands are already rushing to secure the domain names before internet trolls gain access. Taking ownership of these potentially damaging domain names can prevent companies from becoming vulnerable to undesirable associations ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines’ .law domain attracting interest of Legal Marketing Association - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...
 
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Owners of C.UK Generating 100,000 Uniques a month - Mike stumbled upon a very interesting use of a typo domain in the .UK extension. If you go to ebay.c.uk like Mike did, or any domain where you leave off the o in .co.uk, you get a page that explains that the company behind the domain is Claims.co.uk. The company has apparently done a lot of work helping charities and they are also owners of C.co.uk and the matching C.uk. So what the company is doing is using a wildcard on any typos and bringing users to this landing page, the page explains who they ... read more ...
 
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Bring out a Piñata: Fiesta.com UDRP fails - Panel rules domain name not registered in bad faith. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found in favor of the owner of the Fiesta.com domain name in a UDRP, although just one of three panelist found the complainant to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Dean Simmons, Sàrl and Heintz Van Landewyck S.à.r.l. filed the UDRP against Fiesta.com. The company appears to have recently launched an e-cigarette under the Fiesta brand, but it also pulled up some old (and questioned) ... read more ...
 
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Domain investing success story with Michael Castello – DNW Podcast #28 - Michael Castello’s twenty year journey in domain names. Michael Castello, CEO of Castello Cities Internet Network, discusses the amazing story of how he got into the domain name business and picked up great domains like Nashville.com and Whisky.com. Like many early domain name investors, he stumbled upon domain names when life wasn’t going quite as planned. In this episode, he tells the story of how he sold Whisky.com for $3.1 million about a year ago. He also discusses the past, present, and ... read more ...
 
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Flashlights.com, Gobe.com and More Domain Movers - Welcome to the latest installment of domain name movers that are mainly all associated with domains acquired by large companies for future products, services and brands. As always, these are mainly all very early discoveries. Amazon Technologies Inc. which has a payment service called Amazon Simple Pay (ASP) is discontinuing the service on June 1, 2015. Interesting to note, Simple Payments Corp acquired the domain name SimplePay.com between 10/31/2014 to 1/25/2015 when the domain went into privacy ... read more ...
 
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Panel Makes Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Finding Without Domain Holder Asking For It - NH Resources LLC and Vaughn Crowe of Southlake, Texas, were just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name no-heat.net, despite the fact that the domain holder didn’t even ask the panel to make a RDNH finding. The three member panel of John Swinson, Gaynell Methvin and David H. Bernstein rejected the Complainants claim of a common law trade mark rights in no-heat.com. The Complainants registered the domain name on October 21, 2004. The domain holder registered the ... read more ...
 
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.Poker Passes 500 Registrations In Sunrise & Landrush -     .Poker will launch into general availability on April 21. Through Sunrise and Landrush there are already over 500 .poker domain registrations (506) to be exact I do not thing domain names that got more than one landrush application and therefore heading to auction are included in the totals or in the zone file. Here are the more interesting .poker registrations: 007.poker 32red.poker 365.poker 3cardpokerpoker.com 7cardsstud.poker 7cardstud.poker 888.poker 8888.poker americascardroom.poker andrew.poker android.poker apple.poker appt.poker aria.poker axa.poker azimut.poker b10.poker backing.poker baidu.poker bellagio.poker bet365.poker betcoin.poker betcris.poker betfair.poker bets10.poker betsafe.poker betsson.poker betstars.poker betwin.poker biggame.poker bigwin.poker blackchip.poker blitz.poker blogger.poker bluff.poker bodog.poker borgata.poker bovada.poker boylepokerpoker.com boylesports.poker brian.poker brown.poker bwin.poker byron.poker californiaonline.poker cash.poker cashgames.poker celebrity.poker cloud.poker club.poker crown.poker cyber.poker duel.poker eureka.poker excalibur.poker extreme.poker florida.poker freetexasholdem.poker fulltilt.poker game.poker get.poker getstaked.poker google.poker goplay.poker grosvenor.poker guide.poker hall.poker hardrock.poker highstake.poker instagram.poker intelli.poker jamesbond.poker juegos.poker king.poker learnplaying.poker letitride.poker linkedin.poker live.poker macau.poker mgm.poker michael.poker microsoft.poker mike.poker mint.poker mirage.poker mohamed.poker monte-carlo.poker monte-carlo-casino.poker msn.poker naughty.poker newjersey.poker newyork.poker next.poker nike.poker office.poker omaha.poker onlinetournaments.poker open.poker party.poker paypal.poker perfect.poker planet.poker playmoney.poker pocketfives.poker redbull.poker rich.poker ritz.poker rollsroyce.poker rookie.poker rush.poker school.poker sevencardsstud.poker sky.poker snap.poker spiele.poker sportsbook.poker stars.poker team.poker theborgata.poker theritz.poker thompson.poker tilt.poker titan.poker true.poker university.poker usa.poker viagra.poker vip.poker virgin.poker watch.poker wins.poker worldtour.poker wpt.poker wtp.poker wynn.poker xbox.poker xxx.poker youtube.poker youwin.poker ... read more ...
 
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WIPO row finds chemical association intent in RDNH - Panel determines that company submitted “selective and incomplete story”. A three person WIPO panel has found NH Resources LLC of Texas to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name No-Heat.net. It’s a bizarre case in which the parties have already been embroiled in lawsuits, there are allegations of bribery and a host of other issues. Without going down that rabbit hole, the panel determined that the complainants were not completely forthcoming in the UDRP. Because ... read more ...