Monthly Archives: July 2015

Mon 13th July 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
A Brandable Name That Got Unlucky - The situation going on in Greece has been in the news for the last few years. Back in 2011 a new software company decided to name itself Grexit. With all the talk back and forth on whether or not Greece will leave the Eurozone, some have coined the phrase ‘Grexit” QZ.com reported that all the attention is screwing up the traffic analytics and Grexit is considering a rebrand. From the article: As millions clamor to the Web for news of a Grexit, many will mistakenly land on the website of Grexit—a ... read more ...
Sun 12th July 2015
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Some New TLDs fire a whole module in a foot - .Ooo registry Infinibeam takes back 9-month-old domain names. New top level domain names aren’t exactly flying off registrar’s shelves. They face decades of head start from .com and county code domains, universal accessibility challenges, and problems getting slotted in registrar search results. That’s bad enough, but some registries are giving the new domains an even bigger black eye. Consider .ooo, the crazy registry that predicted 1 million registrations in the first year and couldn’t ... read more ...
Sat 11th July 2015
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1000 - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed To Gain Control Of KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com - Two Separate UDRP’s were filed yesterday for the domain names KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com. The complainants are listed as Kylie Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Inc. and Whalerock Celebrity Subscription LLC. Both KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com were registered on the same date October 18, 2007, however the registrants are not the same, although both domains are registered to someone in India. KylieJenner.com goes to a parked page full of links to Kylie and has an Alexa ranking of 1.7 million ... read more ...
 
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BLU.com Domain Suspended For Ownership Verification - The 3 letter domain name BLU.com is currently suspended pending ownership verification at the domain name registrar Network Solutions. The domain name’s status is clientTransferProhibited but that status alone wouldn’t indicate the domain name is suspended. Visiting Blu.com directly there is a message in the right-hand top corner stating: “If you are the owner of this domain name, click here to verify” According to current whois records, the domain name is owned by “Blue Chip Value Fund” ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2015
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On a dépassé les 1000 extensions ! -   Partager cet article :Difficile de s’y retrouver dans cet océan d’extensions, entre les génériques historiques, les ccTLDs, les brandTLDs et les new gTLDs. Et le nombre ne fait que s’accroitre.En effet, avec la délégation de 7 nouveaux gTLDs par l’ICANN le 8 juillet 2015 – .studio, .live, .jprs, .game, .barcelona et .bcn (le calendrier de lancement arrivera incessamment sous peu) – , le marché des extensions vient de dépasser la barre symbolique des 1000 tlds, ou pour être ... read more ...
 
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On a dépassé les 1000 extensions ! | SafeBrands -   Partager cet article :Difficile de s’y retrouver dans cet océan d’extensions, entre les génériques historiques, les ccTLDs, les brandTLDs et les new gTLDs. Et le nombre ne fait que s’accroitre.En effet, avec la délégation de 7 nouveaux gTLDs par l’ICANN le 8 juillet 2015 – .studio, .live, .jprs, .game, .barcelona et .bcn (le calendrier de lancement arrivera incessamment sous peu) – , le marché des extensions vient de dépasser la barre symbolique des 1000 tlds, ou pour être ... read more ...
 
 
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ilove.La Launches VipDomains.La - According to a press release we received today, iLove.LA announced today that its new site, VipDomains.LA According to the press release, the best available .LA domain names are now searchable on VipDomains.LA “Great names available including Yoga.LA, Selfies.LA, HealthInsurance.LA, HipHop.LA and Couture.LA Featured Names also include over 100 first and last names, dominant business categories, real estate and legal names and dictionary word names. Many options for Short Names (1-3 characters), ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new … - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new gTLD .Jio - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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RethinkDinner.com, FBAN.com And More Domain Movers - Domain Movers detects recently acquired, registered and domain names simply on the move for one reason or another. These domain movements are almost all by large companies and often reveal a future brand, product, service, ad campaign, new business or more. If this is your first time to Domain Movers, you can click that link to view more stories in the series. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Chemtura Corporation has allowed the domain name BackyardEssentials.com to expire. The domain had ... read more ...
 
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Happy Birthday .Org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate - Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org  the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org,  launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these websites and organizations have changed throughout the past 30 years. Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry ... read more ...
 
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Illness.com during $12.7k and other Expired Domain Name sales - Joseph Peterson recaps the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. Not sure why the previous owner of Illness.com permitted his domain to expire – illness perhaps? At any rate, after slipping into a coma, this 19-year-old was heroically resuscitated by the efforts of 151 NameJet bidders. Now, after an injection of $12,742, the kid’s got a new lease on life; but he’s leaving home. Among expired domain auctions, the second highest result last week at NameJet was HuiChen.com. ... read more ...
 
 
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LL.com 2 Letter Domain Name Sell? - The two letter .com domain name LL.com has had a change in whois records from REFLEX PUBLISHING, INC. to a HANGZHOU MIDAIZI NETWORK CO., LTD. with a GoldenName.com email address. Reflex Publishing owns some great domain names like Baseball.com, Motels.com and many more and states not only in whois records its domain names are not for sale, it also states it on its website Reflex.com. Here is the whois record that updated this morning on LL.com: In January 2015 I had reported that Reflex Publishing ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain | ET Telecom - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1,000 • The … - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
Thu 9th July 2015
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Businesses love .LOVE - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Merchant Law Group | Businesses love .LOVE – CNW Group - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Lack of ccTLD Growth in Africa Only Partially Due to Internet Penetration - ICANN says that, "the lack of ccTLD growth in africa is due to Internet penetration". However, Gideon Rop of DotConnectAfrica and an Internet Governance expert in the African landscape, expressed a different opinion during the Africa DNS forum in Nairobi: "The Internet penetration in Africa is listed as among the highest rising in the world, especially if you factor in the mobile phone penetration, which loosely translates to internet connectivity. The broadband pricing may still be higher ... read more ...
 
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RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore. Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ... read more ...
 
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Did SX.com Go to High or Too Low during $555,050 ? - SX.com closed today on NameJet at $555,050, the winning bidder First outdueled Boothcom to win the auction. There were 11  bidders who each bid $500,000 or more for the domain. There has been some action lately in the LL.com world, We.com sold on Sedo as reported by Jamie Zoch. There was no price mentioned on We.com, but some research done by James Iles on Namepros put the name at $8 – $10 million based on the commission paid. The sales price of We.com has never been publicly revealed, but the ... read more ...
 
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...