Monthly Archives: May 2015

Tue 5th May 2015
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CentralNic Adds NCC Group’s Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...
 
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD's Done Right: Here is What You Need To Know - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...
 
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Which new TLDs I'm renewing (and not) - I’ve renewed most of my new TLDs so far, but that might change. New top level domain names have been out for over a year now, and that means those of us who registered them are facing renewal decisions. We already know early renewal results, at least from the biggest registry: for Donuts, early renewal rates ranged from 55%-72% per top level domain. I haven’t gone big on new top level domain names. I have about 60 in my portfolio and I’ve mostly registered domains in generic extensions. Some ... read more ...
 
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Carly Didn't Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org She let it drop - There has been a fair amount of press that the new GOP candidate and former CEO of HP,  Carly Fiorina “failed to secure” her matching name with the .org domain name CarlyFiorina.org but here are the facts! Carly DID own the domain name CarlyFiorina.org Carly Fiorina Enterprises (which she is CEO and Chair of) according to Wikipedia owned the domain name since at least March 3, 2008 according to whois history records. The domain was actually registered on June 23, 2006 and whois history records ... read more ...
 
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Verisign wants obvious for "Searchable Web Whois" - Company files patent application for improved whois searching across multiple registries. Verisign has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a “searchable web whois”. The application was filed in 2012 and just published today. The patent application suggests that current whois search, especially across multiple registries, is hard. It claims that current services only search a single registry per search request, it’s difficult to index whois records in real time, it’s ... read more ...
 
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NiRA Opens .Ng Domain Name under ‘i.ng’ Zone – Udeagu - Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has added a new boost to the cyberspace with the registration of new domain names under the ‘.i.ng’ zone. Chief Operating Officer (COO) and head of the Secretariat of Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Edith Udeagu made this known in a statement to the press, adding   that the new zone was introduced in April to serve as another platform in promoting the .ng ccTLD and growth ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Adds NCC Group's Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Announces Over $630K in Domain Sales In Apr Led By NWN.com For $32K -

Namejet.com has reported over $630,000 in domain name sales in April.

Only sales of $2,000 or some-more are reported and usually for domain sole and paid for in Apr are included

All sales were led by NWN.com that sole for $32,220

All a reported sales on NameJet.com  are a outcome of auctions.

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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IDNauction Launches Free Domain Name Auction Site - FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IDN.auction launched today, offering web professionals a totally free auction site for Internet domains, including all Top-Level Domains (TLDs). The site, which does not charge listing fees, gives web entrepreneurs an economical, easy way to get the right web address for the right price. For domainers, the site offers maximum profitability for sale of URLs. In honor of the launch, the site is waiving all closing fees for a limited time. "Don't you think ... read more ...
 
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If At First You Don't Succeed: Skx.Science Suspended in URS on 2nd Try - I believe we have a first, a domain name has been order suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) examiner after a complain on the same domain was rejected by another examiner a month earlier In the first URS filed over the domain name SKX.science, Skechers U.S.A., lost its attempt to get the domain suspended after the Examiner, Luz Helena Villamil Jimenez,  found “the Complainant did not submit any arguments to support the grounds of the Claim. He simply mentioned the trademark on which the ... read more ...
 
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.Com domain name winners and losers - eNom and Uniregistry do well on transfers, GoDaddy and eNom lead in new registrations. ICANN just published the most recent .com transactions report, reflecting registrar results for .com from January. There were no major outliers from January in terms of .com transfers, but Google Domains made an appearance on the top gainers list. 9,770 domains were transferred to Google’s new domain name registrar. I wonder if these were from consumers transferring their domains or if Google transferred some ... read more ...
Mon 4th May 2015
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A Look At The Domain Sector in The Public Markets - Value opinion on the DOMAIN NAMES sector based on DCF analysis To reach the fair value of this bundle of stocks compared with its market price, the following steps were conducted: · the added free cash flows of this bundle of companies (considered as a whole) have been projected to the future and discounted back by employing as weighted average cost of capital: a) The average of each single company WACC weighted for market capitalization; b) The average of each single company WACC; · the sum of ... read more ...
 
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In-house counsel become digital natives - Print Close Email a friend Your name: Your email: Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address. Recipient email(s): Recipient name(s): Email yourself a copy? ... read more ...
 
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JV.net still shows accessible to register though is indeed reserved - The domain name JV.net shows available when you do a whois look up, but when you go to register it the domain is not available. The domain dropped in 2013. The domain looks to have been owned by JVM out of Korea. These 1 and 2 charater .net names got reserved in 2005 and in 2010 Verisign wanted to auction them off, they later decided against that plan.   Usually when a domain is reserved the whois shows that IANA has reserved the domain like with the following R.net: It looks like JV.net must just ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Sale Gets 165 EAP Day 5 Domain Name Registrations; .Video 125 - The new gTLD .Sale which launches into general availability (GA) on Wednesday got 165 registrations on the 5th day of the Early Access program which allows registrants to pay an extra fee to get to register domain names ahead of GA. The list of domain name registered yesterday for both .Sale and .Video comes from Registered.Today As you can see it looks like trademark holders that either missed Sunrise or saved a few bucks by grabbing domain names in the 5th day of EAP registered domain names ahead ... read more ...
 
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Company That Bought Brand.com For $500K Sells It For $300K & Files Bankruptcy - According to technical.ly, after spending $500,000 for the domain name Brand.com, the company formerly known as Reputation Changer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last month. Technical.ly says according to the filing, Brand.com sold its domain for $300,000 . The domain name is currently in escrow.com at Igloo.com Technical.ly  also reports that the company sold the domain name NHQ.com, the domain for its content marketing identity News Headquarters, for $10,000. The Brand.com Twitter account has ... read more ...
 
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Radix Partners With the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Press … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 4, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, announced today that it has partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) to support its Press Freedom initiative. As part of the partnership, Radix will donate a portion of its revenue generated from .press domain registrations from the month of May to ICFJ. World Press Freedom day, held on May 3, celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom and pays tribute to journalists who ... read more ...
 
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IDN.auction Launches Free Domain Name Auction Site - FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 4, 2015 /SATPR.COM/ — IDN.auction launched today, offering web professionals a totally free auction site for Internet domains, including all Top-Level Domains (TLDs).   The site, which does not charge listing fees, gives web entrepreneurs an economical, easy way to get the right web address for the right price.  For domainers, the site offers maximum profitability for sale of URLs.  In honor of the launch, the site is waiving all closing fees for a limited time. “Don’t ... read more ...
 
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People wasting income on Princess Charlotte Domain Names - I’m not sure why people are wasting money on these domain names. People register domain names whenever a celebrity baby is born, and the news of the latest British royal baby is Princess Charlotte is no exception. So far today, about 100 Charlotte-related domain names have been registered in .com and .net, according to Verisign’s DomainView tool. This only includes domain names with “Charlotte” in them (excluding any related to the city of Charlotte and other people name Charlotte). What ... read more ...
 
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30 More Big Brand Fails: Bang On Trademarked Domains Continue To Drop To Third Parties - This is another post in our continuing series of bang on trademarked domain names that drop and the continuing failure of brand holders to catch them on the drop allowing third parties to register them and control them. All of these domains were owned by someone other than the trademark holder then dropped and could have been picked up by the trademark holder if they pursed the domain in the drop. Instead of the trademark holder registering these domains when they dropped, third parties, picked up ... read more ...
 
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The value of brief domain names with Andrew Rosener – DNW Podcast #31 - Andrew Rosener discusses the value of short domain names and his brokerage Media Options. Andrew Rosener, founder of domain name brokerage Media Options, discusses the rapid price appreciation of short domain names including 2 and 3-character domains (and even longer). Why are they shooting up in value? How much are they worth? Andrew also explains why the letters that many of us prized in these domain names a couple years ago aren’t necessarily the most valuable today. He also discusses his brokerage ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Skills.com, Nurse.com, CarClub.com and More Domains - Domain Movers digs deep to find domain names that have been acquired by large companies. Some domains may have simply been registered and others are moving around for some other reason. These are often early detections into new startups, new brands, new products and much more. Enjoy the domain data! Skills.com has been acquired with the help of domain broker Bill Sweetman of NameNinja.com for Skills.com Inc. The domain name was acquired on October 9, 2013 according to whois records and later went ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Sale Gets 165 EAP Day 5 Domain Name Registrations; .Video 125 - The new gTLD .Sale which launches into general availability (GA) on Wednesday got 165 registrations on the 5th day of the Early Access program which allows registrants to pay an extra fee to get to register domain names ahead of GA. The list of domain name registered yesterday for both .Sale and .Video comes from Registered.Today As you can see it looks like trademark holders that either missed Sunrise or saved a few bucks by grabbing domain names in the 5th day of EAP registered domain names ahead ... read more ...
 
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.Org Opens Nominations For 7 To Serve On The .Org Advisory Council - Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, today opened the call for nominations to identify seven new members to serve on the .org Advisory Council. Today through June 5, 2015, individuals may submit nominations – including self-nominations – detailing the applicant’s experience in leading a noncommercial organization, commitment to promoting the noncommercial use of the Internet and desire to ensure .org remains the domain of choice for any person, corporation or ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Featured on HBO's Silicon Valley - Tech company on show creates division using .xyz domain name. The .XYZ domain name was featured on HBO’s Silicon Valley last night. A big tech company featured in the show, Hooli, creates a new experimental division for moonshot projects called Hooli XYZ, hosted at Hooli.xyz. The show created a website on Hooli.xyz. The site says: HooliXYZ = who? A select team of “XYZeniuses.” It also list a bunch of the projects Hooli XYZ will work on: Self-driving cars? Flying cars? Self-flying cars? A space ... read more ...