Monthly Archives: May 2015

Mon 25th May 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
DNS.PT apoia a Autoridade Geral de Regulação de São Tomé e Príncipe na … - 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 na ... read more ...
 
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[Infographic] What is Going to be the Future of Domain Names? - Before starting a new website or even starting a new business itself, one of the most important decisions people have to make is choosing a domain name. A domain name is identification string that are used in various networking contexts, application specific naming, and addressing purposes. Source: WhoIsHostingThis.com Category   Internet ... read more ...
Sun 24th May 2015
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Afnic: “2017, year of consolidation for the domain name market?” - Afnic published a report that looked at consolidation in 2017 for legacy tlds. The report looks at retention rates for legacy tlds and cctlds. Projections are put forward relating to annual creations and deletions. New gtlds were not included in the report. The key takeaway being, the level of deletions should reach and exceed the level of creations in H1 2017 for the two segments of TLDs. From the report: For the purposes of this study, we relied on ICANN reports for Legacy gTLDs and ccTLDs, and ... read more ...
 
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New ‘.sucks’ domain name gives rise to extortion claims, future online reputation … - A new way for disgruntled parties to gripe about businesses is on the horizon: the “.sucks” generic top-level domain, or gTLD. This new domain, intended to “help consumers find their voices and allow companies to find the value in criticism” – at least according to the website of owner Vox Populi Registry Ltd. – has created controversy well before its formal launch. ICANN and new gTLDs For background, four years ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opted ... read more ...
 
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May 31, 2015 deadline for trademark holders to acquire potentially damaging … - The sunrise period for trademark owners to acquire the .SUCKS domain suffix will expire on May 31, 2015. On June 1, 2015 the Generic Top-Level Domain (“gTLD”) (a domain suffix) _____.SUCKS will be released to the general public.  This domain suffix has the potential to be damaging to well-known brands including, consumer product, manufacturing and service companies. Prior to a new gTLD being released to the general public for purchase, trademark holders have the exclusive right to buy the new ... read more ...
 
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TLD gives Toowoomba tour followers its best team shot - IT DIDN'T have a rider on the winner's podium during this year's FKG Tour of Toowoomba. But Team TLD won the hearts and admiration of its supporters and Toowoomba cycling public with a brave display in this year's event. The six-member Toowoomba-based team was a wildcard entry into its home tour which this year included the longest and toughest stages in the event's six-year history. Pedr Harvey, Michael Hooper, Richard MacAvoy and Jonathon Noble all lined up at Thursday's tour start ... read more ...
 
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Report: Bitgold, Inc. Purchases GoldMoney.com for Nearly $52M - According to CoinTelegraph.com, BitGold has just acquired Goldmoney.com for CA$51.9 million (US$42.3 million), incorporating more than 135K of the website’s “gold bugs,” or gold-hoarding enthusiasts”. “Founded in 2001 by James Turk…Goldmoney is a service that allows users to trade and safely store their gold assets, controlling over CA$1.5 billion worth of precious metals in their storage facilities. GoldMoney’s “low cost storage” fees for gold ranged between 0.12% and 0.18% per ... read more ...
 
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Is Go Daddy Too Expensive to buy ? - GoDaddy negatives 1) Valuation and Debt – I think that GoDaddy can be an attractive investment but at a much lower price. The company’s stock price has jumped by more than 30%, since it did its IPO at $20. The company is not making a profit, though it is generating a free cash flow of more than $100 million. The valuation at more than $4 billion is a bit too high for a company that’s operating at moderate margins and does not have a great growth profile either. The company’s underwriters ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afnic: "2017, year of converging for a domain name market?" - Afnic published a report that looked at consolidation in 2017 for legacy tlds. The report looks at retention rates for legacy tlds and cctlds. Projections are put forward relating to annual creations and deletions. New gtlds were not included in the report. The key takeaway being, the level of deletions should reach and exceed the level of creations in H1 2017 for the two segments of TLDs. From the report: For the purposes of this study, we relied on ICANN reports for Legacy gTLDs and ccTLDs, and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Medien: Schweden gewinnt ESC, Deutschland null Punkte - Wien (dpa) - Der schwedische Sänger Måns Zelmerlöw ist der strahlende Sieger beim Eurovision Song Contest 2015, die Deutsche Ann Sophie muss mit null Punkten heimfahren. Bei der Fernsehshow in Wien siegte der Popsong "Heroes" deutlich vor Russland und Italien, er folgt damit auf die Ballade "Rise Like A Phoenix" der österreichischen Bart-Dragqueen Conchita Wurst. Anzeige Deutschland konnte mit dem Lied "Black Smoke" und Ann Sophie keine Punkte bei Zuschauern und Juroren aus 40 Ländern ... read more ...
 
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Enfrentamiento en Mulchén dejó cinco carabineros y dos … -

Enfrentamiento en Mulchén dejó cinco carabineros y dos comuneros mapuche heridos

Los hechos se registraron en un predio de la Forestal Mininco.

Via: cooperativa.cl

Sat 23rd May 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Must Read This Very Troubling UDRP; 18 Year Old Playworld.com Lost in UDRP After Domain Is Parked - Playworld Systems, Inc. just won control of the 18 year old domain name playworld.com in a UDRP which I find to be very troubling. Playworld Systems owns and operates PlayWorldSystems.com which was registered in 1996. PlayWorld.com was registered on October 30, 1997 Playworld System apparently made an offer of $30K which the domain owner rejected, countering with $120K According to the facts and findings the domain holder at one time turned down $80,000 for the domain years earlier from a third-party. The ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
DNS.pt apoia AGER na re-delegação de domínio “.st” - As duas entidades assinaram um protocolo para a transferência, a implantação do registo, manutenção e gestão do ccTLD referente a São Tomé e Príncipe. A associação DNS.pt assinou um protocolo de cooperação com a Autoridade Geral de Regulação de São Tomé e Príncipe (AGER), focado na acção junto da Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) para a re-delegação, transferência, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Psychology of Pricing - For many domain investors negotiation and pricing is some of the trickiest and hardest things to learn. While there is no exact science, experience and a ton of previous transactions help the most, there are strategies you can employ to help with your negotiation and pricing. Mike stumbled across a very extensive article from Nick Kolenda that deals with the psychological aspects of pricing. The article is very long and detailed, so I would suggest you bookmark it as it is a lot for one reading. ... read more ...
 
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Make sure your brand doesn’t .suck ! - The  .sucks domain name registry is preparing to launch, queuing up what promises to be an epic battle between those who build brands and those who condemn them. Touted as a platform "designed to help consumers find their voices and allow companies to find the value in criticism," .sucks is one of the latest - and most controversial -- generic Top-Level Domain ("gTLD") strings recently made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"). A gTLD is the term to the ... read more ...
 
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Új domainek élesztik újjá a régi spameket - Spam és adathalász statisztika ·      A spamek aránya az e-mail forgalomban 2015 első negyedévében 59,2 százalék volt, ami 6 százalékponttal kevesebb, mint az előző negyedévben. ·      Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok megőrizte vezető spamforrás pozícióját 14,5 százalékkal. ·      A Kaspersky Lab termékei 50,077,057 esetben riasztottak adathalászat észlelése miatt, amely 1 millióval több, mint az előző negyedévben. ·      Az összes regisztrált ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Video Promotes Use, But No Major Presidential Candidate Seems To Own … - In a new video posted by the .GOP registry, they boast about it being the only new gTLD owned by a political party and of course that is true, as the other political domain names, .Democrat, .Republican. .Vote and .Voting are owned by for profit non-affiliated registries. The .GOP gTLD is owned by Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. an affiliate to the republican party. The video’s most talked about site is  StopHillary.Gop which is being forwarded to a .com; a site under GOP.com which ... read more ...
 
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After It's Disastrous Super Bowl Commercial Godaddy Maybe Looking For New Ad Agency - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) seems to be looking for a new advertising agency in wake of the disastrous Super Bowl Commercial and the less than impressive, at least in my opinion,  of its Claude Van Dam commercials Godaddy has put out a global brand agency request for proposal (RFP) to help promote and personalize the GoDaddy brand globally. Chief Marketing Officer Phil Bienert is quoted as saying; “This next phase in GoDaddy’s marketing strategy will fuel brand messaging globally while leveraging ... read more ...
 
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Report: 4 Million AdultFriendFinder.com Members Personal Information Stolen - click2houston.com, is reporting that the personal information from as many as four million members of AdultFriendFinder.com may have been stolen. The information includes the sexual preference, marital status and other personal data, like dates of birth and email addresses. According to the story, the site boasts 64 million members, but it’s not known which of those had their information stolen. Its one of those sites that people in and out of relationships use to hookup. For those in relationships ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs hit 5 million -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System from a existent 22 TLDs, such as ‘.com’ and ‘.org’, to over 1,400 TLDs.

While a handful of new gTLDs seem to be…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Expired domain name report: 1280.com for $26k and more - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. The sadist in me contemplates a cruel reality TV show in which some unsuspecting person answers a knock on the door to find a camera crew pointed right at him. “John Q. Public, you’ve just won $26,010!” Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he sees a beaming fashion model holding out to him a cartoonish bag of money. Then, just as our surprised victim reaches for that bulging prize, Alex Trebek blurts out: “Wait a sec! You let the ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames.com Becomes 2nd Largest New gTLD Registrar In The World - AlpNames.com has become the 2nd Largest New gTLD Registrar In The World  according to ntldstats.com. The domain name registrar which was little known and used before the new gTLD program has skyrocket into having the 2nd most new gTLD registrations with over 430K registration passing Network Solutions that has over 427,000 registrations. Alpnames.com now accounts for over 7.5% of all new gTLD domain name registrations Alpnames.com seems to have a special relationship with one new gTLD portfolio ... read more ...
 
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2 domain name owners don't respond though win UDRPs - Panelists do their job by evaluating cases on their merits. The owners of Marlboro.reviews and PoolFactory.com can keep their domain names, despite not responding to UDRPs. Although respondents can win a UDRP without responding, panelists typically give the benefit of the doubt to the complainant in these cases. In one recent case, a panelist even asked the complainant to amend the case to make it easier to side with it! One of the two cases was brought by The Pool Factory, Inc for the domain name ... read more ...
 
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.GOP Video Promotes Use, But No Major Presidential Candidate Seems To Own One - In a new video posted by the .GOP registry, they boast about it being the only new gTLD owned by a political party and of course that is true, as the other political domain names, .Democrat, .Republican. .Vote and .Voting are owned by for profit non-affiliated registries. The .GOP gTLD is owned by Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. an affiliate to the republican party. The video’s most talked about site is  StopHillary.Gop which is being forwarded to a .com; a site under GOP.com which ... read more ...
 
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Ten things to do in Toowoomba this weekend - Valmai Adams and Shirley Lacey have a look around at the opening of the Horse in War exhibition at the Cobb and Co Museum. Photo Contributed Contributed 1. Horse in War HORSE in War focuses on the lives of those who worked with, and risked death alongside, the 120,000 horses of the Australian Army during the First World War. Through photographs, diaries and original objects, Horse in War tells the stories of some of the thousands of skilled horsemen who joined the war efforts. The exhibition ... read more ...