Monthly Archives: May 2015

Wed 13th May 2015
Written by The Domains in EN
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a "Long Term Lease" - BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on “the million-dollar domain”. We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is “long term lease agreement” and that BTC.com plans on selling subdomains. We had an interview with the Broker who sold the BTC.com domain name which you can check out here Here is the press release: “BTC.com is the prime online destination for information about the Bitcoin and digital currency industry: ... read more ...
 
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Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee - Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin,  Counsel, Internet Commerce Association   will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” The hearing should have a live webcast here and is scheduled to start at 10am EST Here is Mr. Corwin statement and there are some ... read more ...
 
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BTC.com launched currently after being leased from association that paid $1 million for domain - Domain name buyer ran into trouble, so Bitcoinist leased BTC.com and has launched it as a site for cryptocurrencies. BTC.com launched as a cryptocurreny information site after a long term lease deal for the domain name.The $1 million sale of BTC.com last year raised a few eyebrows, even in the bitcoin-fueled crytocurrency bubble. The timing of the domain name sale was great…for the seller. Buyer GAWMiners quickly ran into financial (and perhaps other) trouble. But a UK company stepped in to carry ... read more ...
 
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Nepal, Cuba and IoT are trending in domain names - News stories generate domain name registrations. Verisign has released its list of trending terms in .com and .net domain name registrations last month. A couple of terms are directly related to news stories: Nepal, which is recovering from earthquakes, came in at #8. Cuba, which is being opened up even more to the United States, ranked #4. (Read this story about a domain name investor who was really early for Cuba domain names.) IoT, short for Internet of Things, ranked #6. (Verisign’s DomainView ... read more ...
Tue 12th May 2015
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Registry fires back at ICANN over .SUCKS domain pricing criticism - When last we left the nascent ".sucks" generic top-level domain, ICANN was calling for investigation and scrutiny into the pricing structure the domain’s designated registry was implementing. That registry, a company called Vox Populi, is currently offering sunrise pricing on ".sucks" domain names with the MSRP going as high as $2,499. Individual registrars are charged $1,999 for each registration, and the registrants themselves are charged whatever the registrar wants—"as low as ... read more ...
 
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GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green -   General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD without re-directing to  another domain name especially a .com. Moreover not only is GM using the .green domain name for ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy finds it harder to grow tip line - Revenue growth slowed in first quarter. GoDaddy’s headline revenue number in Q1 was up 17.5% year-over-year, but the quarter-over-quarter number isn’t as pretty. Here’s GoDaddy’s revenue growth each quarter-over-quarter, going back as far as its S-1 filed with the SEC discloses: Q1 2015 was up just 1.2% compared to Q4 2014. Q4 2014 wasn’t a a huge quarter, either. In Q1, revenue increased about $5 million compared to the previous quarter. The lowest gross change in any quarter over the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Same.com For $233,333 -

Sedo reported that 673 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million Dollars

56% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .com: Same.com during $233,333
· Top ccTLD: Veilingen.nl during 31,000 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: Laws.org during $10,000

Here are a reported sales:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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GoDaddy releases initial gain news as open company - Company posts 17.5% year-over-year growth in first quarter of 2015. GoDaddy has released its first quarterly earnings as a public company and will hold its first quarterly investor call later this afternoon. The company posted revenue of $376.3, up 17.5% compared to the first quarter of 2014. Revenue was up just 1% quarter-over-quarter. The net loss was $(43.4) million, which isn’t as bad as the same quarter last year but is worse than last quarter’s $(26.8) million. GoDaddy added about 400,000 ... read more ...
 
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Social app spends $233,333 for Same.com domain name - Company spends six figures for better domain name. Same, a social networking and chat app for the Chinese market, has purchased the domain name Same.com for $233,333. The company behind the app uses the domain name ohsame.com. Same.com now forwards to the existing website. Here’s the iTunes page for the app, which appears to have been released originally about two years ago. Anything.com, a company that owns a large portfolio of valuable domain names, was the seller. Sedo brokered the transaction ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings reports $4.75 million domain name sales in Q1 - Sales up year-over-year but down quarter-over-quarter. Domain Holdings has released its quarterly report of domain name sales. The company sold $4.75 million worth of domain names in Q1 2015. Although this is up 40% over its sales in Q1 of 2015, the number is about half of what the company has sold in each of the past three quarters. Domain Holdings’ sales team has gone through a lot of recent upheaval, with a number of brokers leaving. Here are some other stats from Domain Holdings’ report: 65% ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name … - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Design and 4 Early Access - .Design enters GA and Donuts releases four more domain names. Only one top level domain name enters true general availability this week: .Design went live this morning U.S. time. The domain name is being offered (fittingly) by Top Level Design. You can read more about the hotly contest auction for this top level domain, and listen to Top Level Design founder Ray King discuss why he thinks this domain offers so much opportunity. GoDaddy is offering .Design domains with a first year price of $29.99, ... read more ...
 
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10 years of brand protection on YouTube – and a glimpse into the future - Tim Lince This week YouTube is celebrating its 10th anniversary, meaning that trademark counsel have now spent a decade policing brand and content use on the platform. The in-house counsel who heads up YouTube’s trademark and anti-counterfeiting policies admits that finding the correct balance between alleviating brand owner concerns and protecting ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs in action (and comedy) - A year and a half after rolling out the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD), over 600 new domains have been delegated and about five million new domain names have been registered in the new gTLDs. Despite these impressive numbers, the feeling is that the average consumer is still unaware of this massive expansion of the Internet. However, there are some indications that the tide is turning. In the current season of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley,” fictional tech giant ... read more ...
 
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.Design Is Live & Almost Everything is Available Including Single Letter & Two Letter Domains: My.Design - .Design just launched today into general availability and virtually every domain name is available including single letters and two letter domain names, for a price. Domain names like E.Design and A.Design and X.Design can be registered for $6,500 with renewal pricing at $6,500 a year at Godaddy (i.Design and u.design are either taken or reserved). You.Design is likewise priced around $6,500 a year. We.design is priced at $2,500 a year as is Tv.Design Domains like Great.Design and Top/Design are ... read more ...
 
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Coming soon: .bank and .insurance domain names - In 2008, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (“IANA”), the nonprofit organization overseeing global IP address allocation, began the process of creating and auctioning new top-level domains. Since then, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), has confirmed a number of new ‘generic’ top level domains (“gTLD”), including two new “community-based gTLDs” for the financial services community, .bank and .insurance. “Community-based gTLDs” ... read more ...
 
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Scenes from a domain name auction in China - These are some of the Chinese domain name investors buying your domains. The domain name market in China is hot and is driving major price appreciation, especially in short domain names. What’s the Chinese domain name community like? A lot like that in other parts of the world. It has its own “big personalities” and players. It also has its own gatherings and domain name auctions. Last month, 域名圈 organized a live domain name auction in Beijing that attracted 200-300 people. 域名圈 ... read more ...
 
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First UDRP decision under ‘.paris’ new gTLD -

In a new preference underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a heading French journal publisher has performed a send of dual domain names reproducing a obvious heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.paris’. It is a initial preference ever underneath a UDRP involving a domain…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Major.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - A UDRP for a major domain name. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Major Wire Industries Limited against the owner of Major.com. Panelist Christopher S. Gibson declined to find reverse domain name hijacking, though. Major Wire Industries has been around since the 1800s, and decided to go after Major.com some 130 years after it was founded (and 20 years after Major.com was first registered). The company tried to buy the domain name, but didn’t ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Gets .Games; Uniregistry Got .Game - Domaininvesting.com, posted today that Uniregistry declared victory getting the new gTLD .Game in as a private auction beating out Google (Charleston Road Registry, Inc.), Amazon, Dot Game Limited, Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. However the contention set also included the new gTLD .Games whose application was not withdrawn meaning it seems that in the private auction the parties decided that there will be a .Game and .Games known as indirect contention. Donuts was the only applicant ... read more ...
 
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Apartments.com's $100 million ad debate includes "We put a .com in apartments" - Ad campaign promotes apartments…and .com. Apartments.com recently launched a $100 million advertising campaign, and Verisign couldn’t be happier: One of the ad lines used in the campaign is “We put the .com in apartments”. The overall campaign is called “Change your apartment. Change the world.” and features actor Jeff Goldblum (Will Grace, Jurassic Park) as a Silicon Valley futurist. The year-long ad campaign aims to reach 95% of 18-49-year-olds with more than 3 billion ad impressions. ... read more ...
 
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Vox Populi Registry Says "Enough" About .SUCKS Accusations - May 11, 2015 John O. Jeffrey General Counsel Secretary ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 Re: Vox Populi Registry Agreement Dear Mr. Jeffrey, This firm represents ICANN's contractual partner, Vox Populi Registry ("Vox Populi"). I write regarding your letter to The Honorable Edith Ramirez, the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), and The Honorable John Knubley, the Deputy Minister of Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs ("OCA"), dated April 9, ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...