Monthly Archives: May 2015

Mon 4th May 2015
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Here Are The Winners Of $5K For The 2nd Month #Internetofficial Verisign .Com Contest - Verisign announced today the winners of the 2nd month of the Verisign .Com contest and has awarded $5,000 in prizes. KidsCookDinner.com Registered March 26th 2015 is an active site already a website is blog that encouraging kids to cook and eat healthy dinners. LastSecondFlights.com was registered February 3, 2015. SeniorBride.com was registered on March 1, 2015 SkinnyLa.com was registered on March 5th 2015 SoldiersOnly.COM was registered on January 28,2015 Unfortunately as one of the judges of ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs (.XYZ?) boost Web.com's bookings - “Very aggressive” new TLD promotions paying off for Web.com. Many in the domain name community blasted Web.com and .xyz for the hundreds of thousands of free domain names Web.com gave away last year through Network Solutions. Was it, perhaps, a brilliant business move? Web.com reported a bookings boost this past quarter, and the company says this is due to higher-than-expected renewal rates on new TLDs. Here’s Web.com CEO David Brown on last week’s conference call: Yes, I want to be very ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes partners with Domains.green to setup Retail and Wholesale … - (MILITARY-TECHNOLOGIES.NET) May 04, 2015 - LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration Solutions Provider for New gTLDs ccTLDs, today announced that it has partnered with Domains.green LLC to establish wholesale retail channels for .green domains; thus helping Domains.green LLC get closer to the global green community and serve it better. The .GREEN domain namespace is a collective symbol that identifies supports global internet users who strive to build a greener future. Domains.green LLC is a .Green ... read more ...
Sun 3rd May 2015
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Beyonce; Britney Spears, Blake Shelton; Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez All Register Their .Porn Domain - It looks like Taylor Swift was not by far the only celebrity to register a .Porn new gTLD domain name extension in the recently concluded Sunrise period. Lots of the biggest names in the music business joined Taylor Swift in registering their .porn domain including;  Beyonce, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Cher,  Britney Spears,  Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Ed Sheeran, Sheryl Crow,  James Blunt, The Band Perry, The Beach Boys. Jennifer Lopez registered ... read more ...
 
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It’s all a matter of logistics - At one time, there were companies that just hauled things and companies that mainly just stored things in warehouses. But more and more, companies called third-party logistics (3PL) providers are combining those services and others to give other companies an efficiency advantage. Full story available to subscribers ... read more ...
 
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Die beliebtesten neuen Top-Level-Domains im April - Seit unserer letzten Auflistung der zehn beliebtesten neuen Top-Level-Domains hat es einige Veränderungen gegeben. Es lässt sich nämlich eindeutig sagen, dass der vergangene Monat zwei große Verlierer und drei große Gewinner hatte. Was es mit diesen Entwicklungen auf sich hat, zeigt unser heutiger Artikel. Die Verlierer Während Dauer-Spitzenreiter .xyz weiter ein stabiles Wachstum an den Tag legt (obwohl man abwarten muss, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen nach der Renewal-Phase entwickeln ... read more ...
 
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Die beliebtesten neuen Top-Level-Domains im April - (PresseBox) (Bonn, 03.05.2015) Seit unserer letzten Auflistung der zehn beliebtesten neuen Top-Level-Domains hat es einige Veränderungen gegeben. Es lässt sich nämlich eindeutig sagen, dass der vergangene Monat zwei große Verlierer und drei große Gewinner hatte. Was es mit diesen Entwicklungen auf sich hat, zeigt unser heutiger Artikel. Die Verlierer Während Dauer-Spitzenreiter .xyz weiter ein stabiles Wachstum an den Tag ... read more ...
Sat 2nd May 2015
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Behind the Story of Netnopolis - You probably noticed the new banners on DomainInvesting.com advertising “The Story of Netnopolis.” If you clicked through, you learned it was an advertising campaign created by new gTLD registry and applicant, Radix. I reached out to Namrata Arya, one of my contacts at Radix, and she shared more details about this new marketing campaign and what Netnopolis means: “We’re running a never before ran sort of a campaign. It’s meant to create a metaphoric representation of the current ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Top 900,000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD new domain extension to have topped 900,000 registrations. According to new ntldstats.com .XYZ has 900,739, domain registered. There are only 6 new gTLD extension to have broken the six figure mark (excluding the IDN .网址 (xn--ses554g) which are all registry owned) and here they are in order: .XYZ .Science .Club .Berlin .Wang .Link Here are the top 10 domain name registrars for .XYZ,  with the number of domain names registered by each and the percentage for ... read more ...
 
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Why Namecoin never took off - Namecoin has been an idea that has got some press in the past but never really totally caught on. The idea of a decentralized DNS system, kind of like domain names working on the same premise as Bitcoin. Coin Telegraph sat down with Michael Dean one of the biggest proponents of Namecoin. In the interview Dean says that Namecoin is pretty much dead. From the article: CoinTelegraph: You used to be one of Namecoin’s biggest cheerleaders. What happened? Michael Dean: So here’s my opinion, which is ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2015
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Consumer Education, Awareness Key to Combating Rogue Online Drug Sellers - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., May 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) issued a report that profiles the continued pervasiveness of illegal online drug seller activity and the need for increased awareness about the risks such activity presents to public health. As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: April 2015, the threat posed by illegal online drug sellers ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Data Breach Could Result in Unfair Competitive Advantage for New … - Private data entered into the ICANN portals for new gTLD applicants and the GDD (Global Domains Division) was viewable in at least 36 log in sessions since April 2013, according to an ICANN statement issued on Thursday. “The results of the investigation currently indicate that the portal users were able to view data that was not their own,” said the release. The portals store data about applicants to the ICANN new gTLD program and gTLD registry operators. In December ICANN announced that ... read more ...
 
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SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Domain name firm CentralNic doubles revenues in … - By Ian Lyall, Proactive Investors, For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 13:50 GMT, 1 May 2015 | Updated: 13:55 GMT, 1 May 2015 View comments Internet platform business CentralNic intends to keep its foot down after doubling revenue in 2014.The group, which made its name as a registry services provider - keeping a database of top level domains assigned by registrars - finished ... read more ...
 
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New domain name registry asks trademark owners to pay up or risk the … - In recent years, the Internet has seen the launch of numerous new top level domain names, i.e., the letter strings to the right of the "dot" such as ".wedding" and "country" that, when combined with a second level domain (the name to the left of the dot) form the domain name as a whole.  This Advisory focuses on one such top level domain, or gTLD: ".sucks".  The .sucks gTLD is especially noteworthy for two reasons.  First, the allocation of .sucks names by the registry chosen ... read more ...
 
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Marksmen and Com Laude, Launch MCL Domains To Be Based In Seattle - Marksmen and Com Laude, announce the launch of MCL Domains “offering efficient, reliable corporate domain name management services for North America. MCL Domains opens for business this week at the 2015 International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in San Diego. MCL Domains combines Marksmen’s strategic and investigative acumen with Com Laude’s advanced technical platform, global registrar services, and noted focus on client service. Com Laude currently manages domain name portfolios ... read more ...
 
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HolidayRentals.com Saved In UDRP For The 2nd Time - HomeAway, Inc. of Austin, Texas lost its bid to grab the generic domain name holidayrentals.com in a UDRP. The domain name HolidayRentals.com was saved in a UDRP back in 2002. The domain holder Timothy Hall of the United Kingdom was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom and was the domain holder for the 2002 UDRP decision as well Here are the highlights of the three panel decision of Nicholas Smith, Tony Willoughby and Adam Taylor: The Complainant is a US company, incorporated in Delaware ... read more ...
 
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Northwest Austin is selling Weebly like crazy - Campaign to halt redevelopment is introducing people to website builder Weebly. Over a hundred of my neighbors in northwest Austin are advertising website builder Weebly. It’s a case where a non-paying customer does more good than a paying one. How did Weebly pull this off? It didn’t have to do anything at all. There’s an office complex in the area called Austin Oaks. The 12 building, 450,000 square foot complex has been around for quite some time. The owners want to tear down the complex and ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin Exchange PSCoin.com ReBrands to LZF.com - According to CryptoCoinsNews.com (CCN), Bitcoin exchange PSCoin.com is re-branding to LZF.com. “The Co-founder of PS Coin Daniel Pusateri told CCN that LZF.com stands for Laissez Faire, which means the free market, a market without government interference. At present, LZF.com redirects users to pscoin.com. The replacement will become complete within the coming weeks.” “Pusateri said his partner, Andrew Tepper, owned the LZF.com domain name and agreed to sell it to the company for $20,000 in ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDS – Semaine du 4 au 10 mai 2015 -   Partager cet article :Ce début de mois de mai est riche en nouvelles extensions, avec autant de sunrise, de landrush et d’ouverture générale. Afin de ne manquer aucune date, notez les sorties de vos futures extensions pour la semaine 19. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :05/05 – .cafe05/05 – .express05/05 – .news07/05 – .siteFin période Sunrise :05/05 – .one09/05 ... read more ...