Monthly Archives: May 2015

Thu 7th May 2015
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The Buzz | Mitchell Oldenburg to TLD KTM - Mitchell Oldenburg was impressive aboard his ARMA Energy Yamaha this Supercross season.TransWorld Motocross has learned that there are some changes in store for the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM team this summer, as Mitchell Oldenburg has been recruited to field a factory KTM 250 SX-F alongside Jessy Nelson and Shane McElrath. Word has it Darryn Durham’s wrist hasn’t fully healed from the injury that sidelined him at the start of the Monster Energy Supercross Series.Oldenburg completed the ... read more ...
 
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Unmet Fundamental Requisites for a Successful gTLDs Program - New pioneering ideas are not always welcomed or requested by consumers. I outline three such examples: 1. The car. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse," Henry Ford once said, or so goes the story. The quote has never been verified, but what it says is true. In 1903 most consumers gave little sign of wanting to buy cars. The Ford Model A began rolling out and all that changed. 2. ATMs. In the late 1970s, many people were still suspicious of impersonal ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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Squarespace Partners with Rightside to Offer New gTLDs - Rightside and Squarespace have teamed up to offer new gTLDs to users of Squarespace’s website builder. Some of the new gTLDs that will be available include .BAND, .ROCKS, .NINJA, .DANCE, and .LAWYER, among others. Since the introduction of new gTLDs there has been some struggle with raising enough awareness among SMBs and individual users that new gTLDs are available and can be quite affordable. By partnering with Squarespace, a site builder with broad appeal, Rightside could be bringing new ... read more ...
 
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Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com - Qatar Airways has Filed  a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.com address linked to the domain since at least 2012. The domain name appears to have been parked according to Screenshots.com for at least 10 years or so. In 2013 the Airlines launched a service called Discover Qatar “that allows passengers flying with Qatar ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.sucks — Unless You Act Now! - As the INTA Annual Meeting winds down, one memory for me that certainly stuck out was an on-site ad campaign revolving around the new “.sucks” top-level domain (“TLD”). Depending on whom you ask, it’s either ingenious or diabolical. Just outside the San Diego Convention Center, the throngs of orange lanyard-wearing conference attendees were greeted by some rather cheery folks holding white signs with the “.sucks” TLD laid over some speech bubbles. That nice lady who graciously ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing - As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon to be very valuable domain names of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.party ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.party On ... read more ...
 
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Don’t be .sucker punched by the latest domain extension! - Brand owners!  Have you heard about the .sucks domain names? Sunrise registrations for the TLD opened on 30 March and Instagram, Bank of America and Keven Spacey have already secured their .sucks. Controversial domain extensions like .sucks are nothing new. However, the high fees to secure a .sucks are unprecedented. Canadian company Vox Pupuli, the TLD owner, charges nearly USD$2,500 to register during the sunrise period. This makes it a difficult decision, especially for brand ... read more ...
 
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Tucows reports continued expansion as mobile services boom - Ting helps Tucows continue to post strong growth. Tucows reported continued revenue growth in an earnings release after the market closed today. The company posted $40.5 million revenue, up from $34.4 million in the same quarter last year and $38.8 million last quarter. Tucows’ Ting group, which offers mobile phone services and is moving into high speed internet, continues to be the growth driver for the company. Quarterly revenue from these services has nearly doubled in the past year and hit ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #9: Canelo-Kirkland & Mayweather-Pacquiao - In this episode, Diego and I give our Mayweather-Pacquiao postmortem. We dissect the fight itself, talk about how it had impossible hype to live up to and wonder what’s next for both men. Was Manny Pacquiao’s shoulder injury a deciding factor? Is Floyd Mayweather that much better than Pacquiao? We also preview Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-James Kirkland, a fight that promises tremendous action and carries major implications. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the episode: We know that Manny ... read more ...
 
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Rightside posts profit, gets $7.2 million from withdrawing new TLDs - Rightside posts profit and gets big haul from withdrawing new top level domain name applications. Rightside released first quarter earnings after the bell today. The company posted an adjusted EBITDA of $0.6 million and a GAAP profit of $1.9 million. Revenue from Registrar Services (i.e. eNom and Name.com) was $42.0 million, up from $37.5 million in the same quarter last year. Registry Services (i.e. new top level domains and backend services) revenue was $1.6 million, up from just $42,000 in the ... read more ...
 
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Coming Soon: .Bank And .Insurance Domain Names - 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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Historique du firmware du contrôleur Phison S9 pour SSD - Si à chaque publication d'un nouveau fichier sur TLD, que ce soit un pilote, un bios ou un firmware, nous accordons une attention particulière à la liste des améliorations et corrections apportées, il faut bien reconnaître que certains fabricants ne nous aident pas beaucoup et sont particulièrement discrets sur le sujet. Dans le domaine des SSD, c'est par exemple le cas des produits basés sur les contrôleurs Phison pour lesquels il est assez dur d'obtenir la moindre information. Toutefois, ... read more ...
 
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.Club turns 1 and these 17 registrars are offered domains for $1 - Registrars offer $1 special on .Club domains on first anniversary of launch. .Club is celebrating the one year anniversary of its general availability. As part of the celebration, 17 registrars are offering .Club domain names for about a dollar today only. (See the list at the end of this post). The registry put out an infographic today displaying some of the top level domain’s metrics after one year of .Club. Highlights include: 220,000 paid registrations 73,123 unique registrations 38,665 live ... read more ...
 
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Not Every New Domain .Sucks — .CLUB Marks One-Year Launch Anniversary as … - FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwired - May 07, 2015) - While much media attention has been focused on the defensive strategies that celebrities and brands are taking against the new .sucks and .porn domain names, there have been several new domain extensions enjoying widespread success, being registered and used by hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses. One of those successes is .CLUB, the most popular new domain extension, celebrating its one-year launch anniversary today, maintaining ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDS – Semaine du 11 au 17 mai 2015 -   Partager cet article :Beaucoup de fins de périodes pour cette mi-mai, mais les nouvelles extensions ne font pas les ponts et un certain nombre va sortir dans les prochains jours. Afin de ne manquer aucune date, notez les lancements de la semaine 20. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Fin période Sunrise :16/05 – .apartments16/05 – .irishOuverture période EAP :13/05 – .chat13/05 – .style13/05 ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .sucks Domain Names - The sunrise period for trademark owners to register their .sucks domain names has started. That means owners of federally registered trademarks (and celebrities) can pay around $2,000 to get their brands’ .sucks domain names before those domains go on sale to the general public on June 1, 2015. Yes, you read that correctly. The cost to secure your .sucks domain name before anyone else can get it is at least $2,000. If you wait until June 1, you can register any .sucks domain for $249 ... read more ...
 
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TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K "Ransom" - TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it. The story is about Rand Paul purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k yesterday calling payment of $100K “Ransom” “Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has already suffered an unfortunate outlay: a $100,980 ransom check for RandPaul.com.” “Domain ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Name Roundup including Moviez.com for $11k - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in domain name sales at NameJet. At some point, yours truly will stop pointing out the fault line between Chinese and Western domain sales in these charts, inasmuch as I’m beginning to sound like a broken record! Still, for the benefit of those readers who are just now joining us, I’ll reiterate: Week after week, domain auctions at NameJet are dominated by purchases addressing either the U.S. or the Chinese market; and it’s always a tossup which group ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: QD.com, Circle.com, HorseRanch.com and More Domains - Welcome to the latest and greatest domain movers where we detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or just moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies! These are often early detections and lead to new products, brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest, and if you like this series, checkout some of the past articles here in the Domain Movers category. Future Media Architects Inc. has sold the 2 letter ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160 - Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access Period (EAP) to register domains before GA .Video wound up with 3,271 domain name registered and .Sale has 2,160 registered domain names. .Video domain name registrations are priced at $34.99 while .Sale is priced at $22.99 at Enom.com Rightside now has ... read more ...
 
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Beautiful People Magazine Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BeautifulPeople.com - Beautiful People Magazine, Inc. has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) The Magazine filed a UDRP on five domain names: BeautifulPeople.com BeautifulPeople.net beautifulwomenonly.com gaybeautifulpeople.com beautifulpeoplegay.com The three member panel of Jeffrey M. Samuels Esq., Jonathan Hudis Esq. and Alan L. Limbury Esq. found the Complainant knew it could not prove bad faith registration of the domain names beautifulpeople.net and beautifulpeople.com, and knew of the ... read more ...
 
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One domicile cashes in twice in Verisign Contest - Twice the cash for Florida household. Verisign recently released the second batch of winners in its Internet Official contest. Here are the five that each took home $5,000: KidsCookDinner.com – Kate K, New York NYC SkinnyLA.com – Sarah G Los Angeles, CA SoldiersOnly.com – Alfred M, Jacksonville FL LastSecondFlights.com – Michael S – Wilton CT SeniorBride.com – Terry S., Port Charlotte, FL I couldn’t help but notice that there are now two winners from Port Charlotte, Florida. Last month ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs (retroactive edition) - Recapping this week’s domain name launches. It’s been a busy week and I missed doing my weekly new top level domain name preview. A number of interesting domain names launched this week, so I’ll recap what came out and how they did. Top Level Design’s .Design entered early access on May 5. You can pick up the domain names now at a premium, or wait for regular pricing general availability on May 12. Regular pricing seems to be about $50-$70, but some registrars are offering first year discounts. Public ... read more ...