Monthly Archives: July 2015

Thu 2nd July 2015
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BearingPoint pays $100k+ for Net.Work domain name - New TLD sells for $100,000 plus premium renewal rates. Consulting firm BearingPoint has paid $100,000 to Minds + Machines for the domain name Net.work, and that’s just for the first year. It will pay an undisclosed premium renewal to continue using it after the first year. Minds + Machines took a different tack with .work, offering registrations for a just a couple bucks at retail. It also offered up to ten free .work domain names per customer at its own registrar, helping to boost overall registrations ... read more ...
 
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Time To Look during Online Education names as University of Phoenix Sees Drop off - The University of Phoenix is owned by Apollo Education Group which trades publicly under the symbol of APOL. The company reported dismal earnings and is now laying off 900 employees. The company has watched half of their enrollment drop in 5 years. Online Education, Classes and Degree have always been high paying keywords, back in 2011 WordStream released the 20 highest paying keywords for Google AdWords. They recently did a list for Bing where education did not make the top 20. From 2011 Google ... read more ...
Wed 1st July 2015
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FTC responds to ICANN over ‘.sucks’ pricing policies - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) referral of concerns over the pricing policies in the ‘.sucks’ new generic top-level domain (gTLD), but did not actually answer the specific question posed by ICANN. In April ICANN referred the Intellectual Property Constituency’s (IPC) concerns... ... read more ...
 
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‘.brand’ new gTLDs – lessons learned and looking ahead to a second round - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for Internet Protocol addresses and the domain name system (DNS). Among other DNS-related matters, ICANN is responsible for introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) into the DNS and overseeing their management. About 34%, or 664, of these... ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames.com Starts Selling Premium .Science, .Party and .Cricket Domains Starting At $230 - AlpNames.com just send out an email announcing they are starting to sell the premium domain names of three Famous Four Domain extension .Science, .Party and .Cricket and launched Premium.AlpNames.com. These are domain name reserved by the registry and were not available for registration. There are several price points for the premium domains: $230 $575 $1,150 $2,875 $5,750 $11,500 itsnotrocket.science will set you back $2,750 The premium domains are being sold for a one time price and then subject ... read more ...
 
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Sex.com Lawsuit: association final domain name over copyright and heading claims - Company demands ownership of Sex.com to settle claims of trademark and copyright infringement. Sex.com is one of the most valuable and storied domain names of all time. A battle over its ownership has resulted in multiple lawsuits, a fugitive hunt and millions of dollars in transactions. The domain name most recently sold for $13 million in 2010. Now a lawsuit is demanding transfer (pdf) of the ownership of the domain name based on copyright and trademark claims. Hydentra Hlp Int. Limited, dba MetArt, ... read more ...
 
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Filament.com for $89,000 and 18 other finish user domain name sales - Company buys Filament.com for new product line. Sedo’s top public end user sale for the past week was Filament.com, which was purchased by a company changing its name and introducing a new product line called Filament Network. The company had some other notable end user sales, including an IOT domain name purchased by a company that’s not an Internet of Things company. They paid a premium because IOT is now a popular acronym. One sale that didn’t make the list, because I can’t confirm it’s ... read more ...
 
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Khloe Kardashian Files UDRP TO Get The Domain Name KhloeKardashian.com - Khloe Kardashian has filed a UDRP TO Get her matching .Com Domain Name KhloeKardashian.com The actual complainant is listed as Khloe Kardashian; Khlomoney, Inc;  Whalerock Celebrity Subscription, LLC. The domain name was registered back in 2007. The domain registered under privacy at publicdomainregistry.com The last time the domain name wasn’t under privacy was in 2008 when the owner was Caribbean Online International Ltd of the Bahamas. The domain name was recently parked and had links directly ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Likely Sells GB.com Domain Name - Early this morning CentralNic published an press release Press Release saying they had sold $1 Million dollars in unidentified domain names and would be using  will use the cash to buy more premium web domain names. In the release CentralNic says they own around 20,000 premium domain names that they started acquiring in the 2nd half of 2014. This morning the domain name GB.com, which they own has changed registrant email address to: kk@sedo.com That registrant email change very likely indicates ... read more ...
 
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Khloe Kardashian final her .com domain name - Better late than never, a Kardashian files request for her .com domain name. Khloe Kardashian, reality TV star and sister of Kim Kardashian, has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of KhloeKardashian.com, demanding that the domain name be turned over to her. The case was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name was registered in 2007. It’s unclear who owns the domain name because its Whois record is protected by a privacy service. KhloeKardashian.com ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $1 million domain name portfolio - CentralNic sells more domain names from its domain trading business. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) announced today that it has sold a group of domain names for US $1 million, to be paid over the coming months. The sale comes from CentralNic’s portfolio of over 20,000 domain names. The company started buying and selling domain names in the second half of last year, and reported $2.5 million in sales in December 2014. CentralNic’s biggest value might be in the two letter domain names it owns, such as ... read more ...
 
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Six million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of … - Verisign today announced six million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of six million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.9 percent over the fourth quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 17.8 million, or 6.5 percent, year over ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign records 6 mln domain name additions in Q1 - VeriSign said 6 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 31 March, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase translates into a growth rate of 1.9 percent over the fourth quarter and 17.8 million, or 6.5 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the first quarter, reaching a combined total ... read more ...