Monthly Archives: July 2015

Tue 21st July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs – WebProNews - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) – Search … - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No … - Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD’s. “”With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we’d like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Google explica cómo trata los nuevos dominios de nivel superior en … - ¿Tendrán los dominios .london preferencia sobre el resto a la hora de buscar contenido y lugares en Londres?, ¿será mejor comprar un dominio .how desde un punto de vista SEO?, ¿Google favorecerá a los dominios de nivel superior nuevos (TLD)?… son muchas las preguntas que se han realizado desde que los dominios de nivel superior se han multiplicado, y hoy Google responde a todas ellas en esta página que acaban de publicar.La respuesta rápida es NO, Google tratará a estos nuevos dominios ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Scripps files heading applications for new tip turn domains - Trademarking Living and Lifestyle. Scripps Networks Interactive, through its top level domain name company Lifestyle Domain Holdings, has filed for U.S. trademarks matching a number of the top level domain names it will run. The company filed multiple trademark applications for “Living”, “Lifestyle” and “Vana”, which all match new top level domain names. There are four intent-to-use trademarks for each word, the only difference being the goods and services descriptions. One description ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says Google - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says … - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO – The SEM Post - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How & because we should use DomainTools' portfolio tracker - DomainTools offers a nifty tool for tracking domain names. DomainTools has a lot of useful features, but most people just barely scratch the surface of its capabilities. One of the tools I find particularly useful is Domain Monitor. Simply put, Domain Monitor monitors domain names and lets you know if changes are made to the whois record. Changes can include expiration dates, lock status, registrar, registrant, etc. It’s pretty obvious how this can help you with your own portfolio. DomainTools ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Brand Blunders: Domino's Files UDRP To Get The Domain Dominos.Pizza: Wynn On Wynn.Vegas - Domino’s pizza has filed a UDRP to gain control of the new gTLD domain name Dominos .Pizza. For me its another huge brand failure to protect a brand, on a bang on new gTLD domain. Last week we saw what happened when Bloomberg allowed a third party to register Bloomberg.Market by failing to register the domain name in Sunrise which led to a huge swing in the price of Twitter when a story on that faked Bloomberg site caused shares to rise as much as 8%. As we have chatted about before while I can ... read more ...
 
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Google reiterates how new TLDs are rubbed in hunt results - Google issues details on how new top level domain names affect search engine results. (In short, they don’t.) Google has posted to its Webmaster Central Blog about how it handles new top level domain names in search. Because of the importance of this issue to the industry, I have republished the questions answered in the post along with my commentary. Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they really in search? A: Overall, ... read more ...
 
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Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD's: .Brands Get No Extra Weight - Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD’s. “”With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we’d like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they ... read more ...
 
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E-Renter.com nailed for retreat domain name hijacking - Background check company filed complaint in abuse of cybersquatting policy. A background check on this company won’t come back clean anymore.E-Renter USA Ltd, which operates a background screening site for renters at E-Renter.com, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name ERenter.com. The company filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization against Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis. The owner of the background check company registered the domain ... read more ...
 
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PresseBox > NetNames GmbH > Neue ".sucks"-Domain: NetNames reicht … - (PresseBox) (London/München, 21.07.2015) NetNames (http://www.netnames.de), führender Spezialist für Online-Markenschutz, hat bei der EU-Kommission Beschwerde gegen Vox Populi Registry Ltd. eingereicht. Das Unternehmen bittet, die Preisstrategie des kanadischen Betreibers der generischen Top-Level-Domain (gTLD) ".sucks" zu untersuchen. Stein des Anstoßes: Vox Populi hat eine Preisstruktur entwickelt, durch die Markeninhabern - unabhängig ... read more ...
 
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Neue ".sucks"-Domain: NetNames reicht Wettbewerbsbeschwerde bei EU-Kommission … - (PresseBox) (London/München, 21.07.2015) NetNames (http://www.netnames.de), führender Spezialist für Online-Markenschutz, hat bei der EU-Kommission Beschwerde gegen Vox Populi Registry Ltd. eingereicht. Das Unternehmen bittet, die Preisstrategie des kanadischen Betreibers der generischen Top-Level-Domain (gTLD) ".sucks" zu untersuchen. Stein des Anstoßes: Vox Populi hat eine Preisstruktur entwickelt, durch die Markeninhabern - unabhängig ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Owner of e-renter.com Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on erenter.com - E-Renter USA Ltd. of Bellingham, Washington, represented by Brownlie Evans Wolf Lee, LLP, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name erenter.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc.and was represented by ESQwire.com The three member UDRP panel of Nicholas Smith, Debra J. Stanek and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that since the domain name registrations are first come, first served and this erenter.com was registered in 2003 and the corporation that owns e-renter.com ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Tops 6,000 Registrations: Will It Be The Most Profitable New gTLD? - .Sucks has now passed  6,000 registered domain names. According to ntldstats.com .Sucks has 6,153 domain name registered. We know that around 3,400 domain names were registered in Sunrise for up to $2,000 wholesale. That is almost $7 Million dollars if they were all at $2K, which they should be since the Sunrise period was only opened to those in the Trademark Clearinghouse (THCH) and all those in the TMCH had their domains priced at the premium $2K figure (wholesale). Since Sunrise closed, there ... read more ...
 
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Google May Offer Custom Gmail Addresses for as low as $2 A Month - Kishalaya Kundu wrote on AndroidHeadlines.com that Google may start offering custom Gmail addresses for as low as $2 a month. Kundu referenced a report from GSM Arena who actually got screenshots before Google removed the information. From the article: Google is seemingly prepping to offer custom email addresses to Gmail users for as low as $2 per month, if a new report on GSMArena is to be believed. The website claims that Google is going to offer a whole new plan for $2 alongside its existing ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Silicon Valley’s Naming Problem and How to Fight it - The global startup scene is more turbulent than ever and this makes it quite hard for new companies to build their reputation both online and offline. The former, of course, seems to be a tad more important given the potential of web marketing and online service delivery models most startups now experiment with. In fact, for most modern startups, the web presence is everything. With minimum investment, they can reach worldwide consumers and build a global name. Provided that they choose a good ... read more ...
 
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Silicon Valley’s Naming Problem and How to Fight it – Tech.Co - The global startup scene is more turbulent than ever and this makes it quite hard for new companies to build their reputation both online and offline. The former, of course, seems to be a tad more important given the potential of web marketing and online service delivery models most startups now experiment with. In fact, for most modern startups, the web presence is everything. With minimum investment, they can reach worldwide consumers and build a global name. Provided that they choose a good ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
XR.com Hits The Auction Block on NameJet - On the heels of the biggest auction ever on NameJet, SX.com, XR.com will now be hitting the aution block. The domain has been registered since 1999 and the most recent screenshot shot showed an asking price of $749,900. XR.COM NameJet just recently had our biggest auction ever with sale of SX.COM at $555,050! Now we have in our inventory another unique and extremely valuable domain name, XR.COM! These 2 letter names have great liquidity, are highly sought after and are very rare. There are only 2 ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
"A fragmentação da Internet só vai servir para reverter as vantagens económicas e a dinâmica da inovação" - O tema da governação da Internet tem dividido posições pelo mundo fora quando se fala no futuro da grande rede, e a transição da IANA está agora nas prioridades do debate, até porque existia uma data definida para  processo, que deveria estar concluído a 30 de setembro.A propósito do tema, o TeK falou com Andrea Beccalli, Stakeholder Engagement Team do ICANN, que se tem deslocado por várias vezes a Portugal em conferências e que explicou o ponto de situação do processo e as opções ... read more ...