Who Doesn't Suck? Kim Kardashian; Justin Bieber; Twitter, FoxNews, CNN Pass On $2,500 .Sucks Domains - While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 new gTLD’s in the new .sucks domain extension, in the Sunrise period for up to $2,499 for each domain, there were some glaring misses of some of the most criticized, controversial and most talked about companies, celebrities and public figures.
There are not domain registration so far for any of these as of publication:
Kanyewest.sucks
Kardashians.sucks
KimKardashian.sucks
JustinBieber.sucks
Twitter.sucks
FoxNews.sucks
NewYorkTimes.sucks
CNN.sucks
Donuts.sucks
LindsayLohan.sucks
BillCosby.sucks
BarackObama.sucks
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Sun 21st June 2015
.Sucks Gets Almost 3400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name.
Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499, with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd.
If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price, then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million
Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names:
markzuckerberg.sucks
markzuckerbergreally.sucks
mzuckerberg.sucks
mzuckerbergtotally.sucks
zuck.sucks
zuckerberg.sucks
zuckerbergreally.sucks
zuckerbergtotally.sucks
zuckreally.sucks
zucks.sucks
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name.
Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499, with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd.
If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price, then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million
Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names:
markzuckerberg.sucks
markzuckerbergreally.sucks
mzuckerberg.sucks
mzuckerbergtotally.sucks
zuck.sucks
zuckerberg.sucks
zuckerbergreally.sucks
zuckerbergtotally.sucks
zuckreally.sucks
zucks.sucks
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Sat 20th June 2015
Bachelet: «tremendo resultado» el triunfo de Chile - La presidenta chilena, Michelle Bachelet, calificó de "tremendo resultado" el 5-0 de la selección de Chile ante Bolivia en el Estadio Nacional de Santiago, donde la "Roja" aseguró el liderato del grupo A y jugará el partido de cuartos de final de la Copa América de fútbol.
"Fue un tremendo resultado", dijo en la noche del viernes la mandataria, que llegó al estadio acompañada de algunos de sus ministros a presenciar el cotejo.
"Volveremos el miércoles para apoyar a nuestra selección", ... read more ...
What You Need To Know About .Sucks Domain Names - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains
(TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such
as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even
.rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and
concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD
launching this year and being billed by its registry (the
appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers
can find their voice.
While several large organizations like Google ... read more ...
Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn -
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com being the most famous. Moore was eventually arrested. From Ars Technica:
On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com, pleaded guilty [PDF] to unauthorized access to a computer, aiding and abetting ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015 … - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015.
.Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names.
There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations
The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
Stages.com Sold In Jan for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week - Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly.
The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for a trademark last week.
The UDRP was filed by Foundation Fitness LLC which filed a trademark on the term “Stages” way back on June 12, 2015.
Oh by the way that was just 7 days ago.
Today is June 19th.
The domain name was sold on Sedo in January for ... read more ...
InterNetX Corp. reforça sua operação no Brasil ao oferecer a nova extensão de … -
InterNetX Corp. reforça sua operação no Brasil ao oferecer a nova extensão de domínios .LTDA
InterNetX Corp. reforça sua operação no Brasil ao oferecer a nova extensão de domínios .LTDA Categoria.: Info Ti Fonte/Autor.: Capital Informação
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InterNetX Corp. reforça sua operação no Brasil ao oferecer a nova extensão de domínios .LTDA
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live … - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration.
General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry.
fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
Architelos Releases the NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015.
.Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names.
There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations
The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
.BANK Launches With a Bang -
The 30-day .BANK Sunrise Period just concluded this week and is notable for several reasons.
The .BANK TLD is highly restricted to members of the banking industry. The .BANK Registry (which also has rights to .INSURANCE, launching this fall), was founded by 24 companies and organizations from the banking and insurance industries, The Registry's founders include industry leaders such as the American Banking Association, Citigroup, Dollar Bank, Independent Community Bankers of America, JPMorgan, ... read more ...
Cheap domain names are spammers' favorites - New report shows that spammers love some of the cheap new domain name options.
Spammers churn through a lot of domain names. As soon as deliverability sinks with one, they move on to the next.
That might explain this chart in Architelos’ June NameSentry Abuse Report:
The bulk of improper use of new top level domain names is spam, and this chart shows which new TLDs are being abused the most.
See a pattern here? All of the big ones are cheap domains. In fact, all of the domains on this chart can ... read more ...
Empresas podem começar a registar domínios em .bank na próxima … -
O .bank foi criado para identificar instituições ligadas à área financeira e para registar endereços web com este sufixo é necessário cumprir um conjunto de requisitos obrigatórios, que são validados pela Symantec.
Tal como acontece sempre que um novo TLD (Top Level Domain) fica disponível, há uma fase de pré-registo reservada às instituições com marcas a proteger. Isto garante, por exemplo, que não seja outra entidade que não a titular da marca Millenniumbcp ... read more ...
Brainstorm Domain Names Launches New Top Level Domain Social Media Sites -
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Small businesses, online marketers, entrepreneurs and home based businesses looking for increased exposure of new top level domains (gTLDs) to ... read more ...
Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike.
IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires – Lexology - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike.
IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on Jun 24th - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration.
General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry.
fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows the many renouned site Gamecoins.com Drop - I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015.
The domain name has a very interesting history.
For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics.
According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, 2010:
Sometrics launched a site called GameCoins.com in March that allows users to earn virtual currencies in their favorite ... read more ...
Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market.
And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous week’s expired auctions – evidence of what’s newest and most energetic in today’s domain market – this week NameJet presents us with something old fashioned. Insurance1.com was the top result, weighing in at a lighter $5.2k.
Many years ago, registrants were prone ... read more ...
Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet -
Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.
Via: thenewage.co.za
Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet | The New Age … -
Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.
Via: thenewage.co.za
Horrible domain name alert: QuiQui.me - Good luck pronouncing this domain name without an explanation.
A San Francisco startup hopes to start delivering pharmacy items by drone soon. But finding the company via word-of-mouth (or even on the app store) might be a bit challenging.
The company’s name is pronounced Quickie, but it is using the domain name QuiQui.me.
Qui is pronounced two different two different ways in the same name. That means company representatives are going to have to do a lot of explaining when they tell people about ... read more ...
Canada weighs in on .sucks debate - Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) has told the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that legal avenues exist to protect trademark owners in the new gTLD programme.
Deputy minister of Industry Canada John Knubley, on behalf of the OCA, wrote to ICANN on 9 June, after the corporation’s general counsel, John Jeffrey, asked the OCA and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into .sucks operator Vox Populi Registry.
Brands have complained that ... read more ...