Monthly Archives: May 2015

Wed 27th May 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
15 finish user domain name purchases - An accessories company, law firm and trade publisher bought domain names last week. Sedo had 598 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.1 million. Two likely end user sales aren’t on this list because they have whois privacy or are still in transfer: MyFood.com at $33,500 and FBet.com at €50,000. Neither domain name resolves to an active website yet, but we’ll probably find out who the buyers in the coming months. Below are 15 end user domain name sales at Sedo from the past week (You ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
UPDATE – Minds + Machines gets into its stride as Krueger bows out - Fred Krueger, executive chairman of Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is stepping down, having steered the company's evolution from an investment company to a fully-fledged operating entity. Krueger will be succeeded as chairman by Keith Teare, with the role now being a non-executive one. The company saw profit before tax surge in 2014 to US$22.06mln from US$1.14mln in 2013, largely as a result of receiving US$33.72mln (2013: US$6.44mln) for stepping aside in contested auctions for generic top level domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines Reports Earnings For 2014: Profit $22 Million: $46 Million in a Bank - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reported its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Minds + Machines reported a profit before in 2014 of $22.06 million against a profit of $1.14 million in 2013, largely as a result of receiving $33.72 Million for withdrawing applications for new gTLD’s that were in private auctions. The company made $6.44 million in 2013 for withdrawing applications Revenue from registry and registrar services, and this totaled $1.92 Million in 2014, up from $56,000 the ... read more ...
 
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Advantages of Crowdinvesting in Financing New gTLDs - The second-round new gTLD applicants have a tool they don't even know about: "crowdinvesting." That's when a venture sidesteps banks and venture capitalists and instead raises money by selling shares directly to the public. Usually this is done over the Internet, and often enough the investors can hope for a financial return that's far better than what banks and stocks offer. Since the end of 2013, crowdinvesting has raised more than $600 million from more than 5,000 offerings in the United ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Bought a Month Ago For $12K Fbet.com Leads Sedo's $1.1M Transactions during $50,000 Euros - Over the past week, 598 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million The domain selling for the highest amount is this week is Fbet.com which was purchased on Sedo just a little over a month ago for $10,099 and just sold again on Sedo for 50,000 Euro’s which is over $54,000 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. The Top ccTLD: cz.cc at 10,000 Euro’s The highest selling other TLD’s were  zb.org which sold for $10,099 and Joy.Eu that ... read more ...
 
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Sold! New domain name auctions with Sheel Mohnot – DNW Podcast #34 - How hundreds of new top level domain name conflicts were settled. Which company has facilitated the most (dollar wise) domain name auctions over the past couple years? It’s not the regular industry marketplaces. Instead, it’s Innovative Auctions, the company that has handled over 100 auctions in the past couple years to settle new top level domain name contention sets. On this episode, biz dev lead Sheel Mohnot talks about the success of these auctions and what’s next for his company now that ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
This week's new TLDs: .Apartments - You can move into a .apartments domain name this week. Donuts releases one domain name in regularly-priced general availability this week and some good ones enter Early Access. .Apartments launches on Wednesday, with many registrars offering prices around $50. This should be a great domain name for geo domains. You might want to look for lesser-known location names and state abbreviations. For example, you can pick up TX.apartments (short for Texas) at a premium price of about $150 per year. (You ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: SJ.com, Ploom.com ShoppingCart.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers where I dig tens of thousands of domain names to find recently acquired, registered and domains simply moving mainly by all large corporations. These domain names often highlight new brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. I do the legwork, you enjoy a bunch of unique content that can give you ideas to something in the works! Here we go with the latest domain movers: JoinTheFlock.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. The ... read more ...
 
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One Company Just Spent Over $150K In .Apartments Domains & Donuts Makes … - Donuts just I believe set a new gTLD record for selling 21 new gTLD’s on the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) in which wholesale prices are $10K and retail prices range from around $11K to $12,500. Meaning that Donuts took $210,000 in just EAP fees for day 1 of EAP plus many of those domain name also had a premium price. One company, registered 16 domain names on the 1st day EAP spending what basically amounts to what they could have spent to apply for the whole .apartment new gTLD by ... read more ...
 
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Chinese government move could significantly restrict domain name registration … - Trevor Little The Chinese government has announced that registries and registrars will have to meet a number of conditions and obtain the approval of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) before being allowed to engage in commercial and operational activities in China. With just 14 top-level domains (TLDs) approved to date, it ... read more ...
 
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Fred Krueger pushed out of Minds + Machines, association reports $5 million bookings - Co-founder leaves company and will focus on his website building platform. Minds + Machines released 2014 results today, and also announced that the board has voted co-founder Fred Krueger out of the company and his role as executive Chairman. Keith Teare, a British tech entrepreneur, will take over as Chairman. The move doesn’t come as a complete surprise to me. Krueger has seemed more excited about his website building software, Mozart, than the core process of top level domain names. In his ... read more ...
 
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How To Rank Websites With CcTLDs Well - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Do you have a website with ccTLD domain? Are you struggling with how to help it rise in Google rankings, then read on to find out how you can do that? The kind of domain your website possesses may influence its ranking in the Google PageRank. ccTLD domains are the indicators of the location of a website and are considered to be the best way of indicating to search engines and users, where it originates from. These domains are indicated by the use of ... read more ...
 
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How To Rank Websites With CcTLDs Well - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Do you have a website with ccTLD domain? Are you struggling with how to help it rise in Google rankings, then read on to find out how you can do that? The kind of domain your website possesses may influence its ranking in the Google PageRank. ccTLD domains are the indicators of the location of a website and are considered to be the best way of indicating to search engines and users, where it originates from. These domains are indicated by the use of ... read more ...
 
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The new internet layer and what it means for trademark counsel - Trevor Little While trademark practitioners are still coming to grips with the implications of the new gTLD expansion, Frogans technology is set to add a layer to the Internet in the form of Frogans sites. The introduction of Frogans does not represent a tidal wave of online change in the same way that new gTLDs have, but it is worth reporting on, ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines gets into its stride as Krueger bows out - Fred Krueger, executive chairman of Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is stepping down, having steered the company's evolution from an investment company to a fully-fledged operating entity. Krueger will be succeeded as chairman by Keith Teare, with the role now being a non-executive one. The company saw profit before tax surge in 2014 to US$22.06mln from US$1.14mln in 2013, largely as a result of receiving US$33.72mln (2013: US$6.44mln) for stepping aside in contested auctions for generic top level domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Co-Founder Of Minds + Machines Fred Krueger Is Leaving The Company - Fred Krueger, executive chairman and co-founder of Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is stepping down according to a press release by the company today. Fred Krueger will be succeeded as chairman by Keith Teare, with the role now being a non-executive one. “”The changing of the guard marks the evolution of Minds + Machines from a company set up to take advantage of the liberalisation of generic top level domains (gTLDs) to one that offers both registry services – maintaining the database of all registered ... read more ...
Mon 25th May 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
One Company Just Spent Over $150K In .Apartments Domains & Donuts Makes Over $220K Just In Day 1 - Donuts just I believe set a new gTLD record for selling 21 new gTLD’s on the 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) in which wholesale prices are $10K and retail prices range from around $11K to $12,500. Meaning that Donuts took $210,000 in just EAP fees for day 1 of EAP plus many of those domain name also had a premium price. One company, registered 16 domain names on the 1st day EAP spending what basically amounts to what they could have spent to apply for the whole .apartment new gTLD by ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
China a resserré le contrôle sur une nouvelle extension de domaine - HONG KONG, 25 mai 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- La Chine est le pays qui revendique la plus importante population en ligne et un pouvoir d'achat significatif qui promettent de générer une foule d'acquéreurs pour de nouvelles extensions de nom de domaine telles que .app, .auto ou .camera.  Le pays impose toutefois un contrôle rigoureux sur le marché. Dans cette perspective, les représentants de Brandma.Co participeront aux prochaines réunions de l'ICANN qui auront lieu du 21 au 25 juin en ... read more ...
 
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Report: Only 14 TLDs Are "Legal" in China - Allegravita published a paper that looks to be a bit troubling for registries looking to do business in China moving forward. The Chinese government is looking to regulate the Chinese domain industry while The MIIT will not interfere with existing domain registrations for unapproved registries; however, new registrations will not be permitted to be sold by Chinese registrars to Chinese registrants. New gtlds look like they are going to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make sure they are ... read more ...
 
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China hat Kontrolle für neue Domain-Erweiterungen verschärft - Hongkong (ots/PRNewswire) - China ist die Nation mit der größten Online-Bevölkerung und bedeutender Kaufkraft, und für neue Erweiterungen von Domainnamen wie zum Beispiel .app, .auto oder .camera wird ein großer Andrang an Käufern erwartet. Allerdings erlegt das Land dem Markt strikte Kontrollen auf. Repräsentanten von Brandma.Co [http://www.brandma.co/] werden angesichts dieses Umstands an den kommenden ICANN-Treffen [http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/] teilnehmen, die vom 21.-25. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Estados Unidos, Rusia y Ucrania lideran el ranking de países fuente de spam - Las nuevas zonas de dominio empezaron de inmediato la difusión masiva de spam publicitario, mensajes de maliciosos y de phishing. Los ciberdelincuentes registraron a propósito nombres de dominios para realizar envíos masivos de spam, hackearon sitios ya existentes para reemplazarlos por páginas de spam, o usaron ambos tipos de web para hacer redirecciones a sitios de spam. Los correos electrónicos enviados desde los dominios .work, en general, contenían distintas ofertas de trabajo, incluyendo ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Estados Unidos, Rusia y Ucrania lideran el ranking de países fuente de spam - Las nuevas zonas de dominio empezaron de inmediato la difusión masiva de spam publicitario, mensajes de maliciosos y de phishing. Los ciberdelincuentes registraron a propósito nombres de dominios para realizar envíos masivos de spam, hackearon sitios ya existentes para reemplazarlos por páginas de spam, o usaron ambos tipos de web para hacer redirecciones a sitios de spam. Los correos electrónicos enviados desde los dominios .work, en general, contenían distintas ofertas de trabajo, incluyendo ... read more ...
 
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CoinDesk Reports On "War" Over Bitcoin.com Domain Name - CoinDesk.com is reporting a dispute between Roger Ver and OKCoin over the domain name Bitcoin.com which is describes as a War over the domain: The issue stems from the management of the Bitcoin.com domain, after the two sides struck a five-year deal last December to control the property. Under the agreement, OKCoin was set to redesign the site and pay Ver a percentage of the revenue generated each month, with a minimum of $10,000 per month. according to the article. There is a reported contract dispute ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
China hat Kontrolle für neue Domain-Erweiterungen verschärft - HONGKONG, 25. Mai 2015HONGKONG, 25. Mai 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- China ist die Nation mit der größten Online-Bevölkerung und bedeutender Kaufkraft, und für neue Erweiterungen von Domainnamen wie zum Beispiel .app, .auto oder .camera wird ein großer Andrang an Käufern erwartet. Allerdings erlegt das Land dem Markt strikte Kontrollen auf. Repräsentanten von Brandma.Co werden angesichts dieses Umstands an den kommenden ICANN-Treffenteilnehmen, die vom 21.-25. Juni in Argentinien zur Interaktion ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
DNS.PT apoia a Autoridade Geral de Regulação de São Tomé e Príncipe na redelegação do .ST - O DNS.PT e a Autoridade Geral de Regulação de São Tomé e Príncipe – AGER assinaram um protocolo de cooperação que visa a redelegação junto da IANA, a transferência, a implementação do registo, a manutenção e a gestão do ccTLD .ST. A AGER pretende conseguir o resgate do .ST, o domínio de topo correspondente a São Tomé, junto da IANA – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, garantindo simultaneamente a responsabilidade administrativa e técnica do domínio de topo de São Tomé ... read more ...