Monthly Archives: July 2015

Mon 20th July 2015
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" – SAPO Tek - 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 ...
 
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Want TO Be The Next CEO Of ICANN? Here's How To Apply - ICANN just published details regarding how to apply to become the next CEO of ICANN. The CEO of ICANN is currently making close to $900K in Salary and Bonus plus gets to travel at least 3 times a year to ICANN meetings which are usually held in some nice locations. The deadline to submit an application is September 20, 2015 Here is the info: Following the announcement by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé, that he will be departing ICANN after the ICANN Public Meeting in March 2016, the ICANN Board of Directors ... read more ...
 
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UDRP's and Fan Sites: Outcome is a Roll of a Dice - Like with most gambling, Bally Gaming, Inc. just won a few and lost a couple in a UDRP it filed over 8 gambling related domain names winning the rights to: caribbean-stud-poker-online.com crazy4pokeronline.com let-it-ride-online.com mississippi-stud.com texas-holdem-bonus.com ultimate-texas-holdem-online.com And losing the UDRP on: 3‑cardpokeronline.com 4-cardpokeronline.com The decision goes on to a detailed explanation of the varying views of Fan Sites and UDRP panels which makes for an interesting ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
My thoughts on .Co branch 5 - Driven by good marketing, .Co celebrates success on fifth anniversary. Five years ago today, on July 20, 2010, the .Co domain name entered general availability. I remember sitting at a table at the Austin Convention Center during HostingCon, trying to track general reaction to how the domain name launch was going. It certainly looked positive, especially since Overstock had just paid $350,000 for O.co. Five years later, it’s safe to say .Co is a success. Hands down. The business sold for over $100 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA – CircleID - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust application for .AFRICA - INTERNET | July 20, 2015, 12:38 p.m.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting last week to quickly address an independent review panel's declaration that held in favor of DotConnectAfrica Trust regarding certain claims about its .AFRICA top-level domain application. During the meeting, the ... read more ...
 
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5 Tips to Sell More Domains, with Shane Cultra – DNW Podcast #42 - Sell more domain names with these great tips. Want to sell more domain names? Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com gives 5 tips to sell more domains on today’s episode. Learn how to buy the right domains, figure out which of your domain names are in high demand, get more attention for your Flippa listing and more. Also: A legal smackdown, ParkingCrew acquires NameDrive, the falling value of a domain name, .news and .site, and Microsoft registers new domains. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain ... read more ...
 
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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in … - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States • New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered • Twitter® ... read more ...
 
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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding … - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States • New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered • Twitter® ... read more ...
 
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Sedo creates improvements to Direct Auctions - Auctions will now trigger alerts to people who previously placed offers on the domain. Sedo has made a couple improvements to to its Direct Auction service, a recent option that lets customers start an auction for their domain name whenever they’d like for a $59 fee. One of the changes should be appealing to anyone who has received lots of previous offers on a domain name. If the domain name is placed in auction with the Direct Auction service, all people who have previously placed an offer on ... read more ...
 
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Las Vegas Sun Covers .Vegas In A Largely Negative Story On "Lagging Numbers" - The LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is “lagging” behind other City new gTLD’s The Sun quotes Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto who blasted .Vegas: “”Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto, believes the .Vegas domain is a bad bet and doesn’t advise his clients to buy a .Vegas domain. Not only are alternative domains unfamiliar to the public, he said, they do nothing to improve a website’s ... read more ...
 
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Catch.com, RF.com and More Domain Movers - If this is your first visit to Domain Movers, it’s a series where we detect domain names that have been acquired, registered or are simply moving by mainly all very large companies. These detections often are an early indicator of something new. Maybe a new advertising campaign, a new product or service etc. We heavily rely on the whois database which doesn’t always present the whole story, so please keep that in mind but we try our best to provide accurate information. Here we go with the latest ... read more ...
 
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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in 2015 - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States • New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered • Twitter® ... read more ...
Sun 19th July 2015
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ICANN 53: Accountability, Brand Policy & New Round of New gTLDs - In June, MarkMonitor joined our colleagues once again at the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 53rd public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several high-profile and contentious issues were on the agenda, many of which have significant impact on the interests of intellectual property and brand owners. Among these are the ongoing ICANN Accountability issues and the impending departure of ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé; registrant information (Whois) transparency, accuracy ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ's Daniel Negari Is So Done With .Com He Put His Own Last Name Up For Sale: Negari.com - It’s no secret that the Founder of .XYZ Daniel Negari has gone all in on being a new gTLD registry operator as he continues to shed his .Com holdings. Just to show how done Negari is with .Com he has put up his the. Com domain of his last name up for sale on Namejet.com at no reserve, Negari.com which is being forwarded to XYZ.com I reached out to Daniel when I saw the domain name in NameJet.com pre-release who confirmed it was his domain name and he did in fact put it up for sale, because he ... read more ...
 
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Ontspanning en gezelligheid op de DHPA Techday - De Fokker Terminal in Den Haag stond op 21 mei geheel in het teken van ICT en techniek. Ruim 400 professionals uit de ICT-sector bezochten de DHPA Techday, de dag voor én door technici, georganiseerd door de Stichting Dutch Hosting Provider Association (DHPA). Ontspanning en gezelligheid stond op deze dag centraal.  De goed bezochte dag werd afgetrapt door Michiel Steltman, directeur van Stichting DHPA, en Roelof Meijer, directeur van SIDN. Hierna was ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for .AFRICA – ag-IP - Home / ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.  ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting on 16 July 2015 to quickly address an independent review panel's ... read more ...
Sat 18th July 2015
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations – TheDomains.com -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Sells The Domain 9595.com for $180K: Highest Reported 4 Number Domain Sale - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again, setting yet another record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000. This is the highest reported four number (NNNN.com) domain sale of all time and only the 5th reported NNNN.com domain to sell in the six figures. Rick hand-registered the domain name in 1998 for $70. The only four number domain names  that sold in the six figures before this sale were: 0060.com sold for $120,000 in December 2014. 8788.com sold for $106,000 in February ... read more ...
 
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
The Loser on a Thesis.com UDRP Give His Story - I brought up the trademark to Larry because even though I own the mark on thesis.com, it could be used for another business so long as it wasn’t a website software business. Automattic couldn’t use the mark unless they suddenly started selling tractors. There was more back and forth, and Larry revealed that Matt had allegedly offered $100,000 for the domain. I still thought this was phony and just intended to get me to agree to a deal, but at least I now knew thesis.com could be had for far less ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2015
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Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart. Thursday doesn’t even start. Friday I’m in … - Today, Friday, sees the launch of one of the more interesting new internet top-level domains that has been approved by ICANN: .love. The TLD has passed from "sunrise" – during which trademark holders get first dibs on their names for a premium – to "general availability." Which means that you can now buy a domain ending in .love right now. Plus you can actually buy Friday, I'm In .Love (you know, ... read more ...
 
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UK Creative Ideas Limited; Wins Rights To .Art New gTLD - The new gTLD .Art has been settled by private auction. The string was schedule to go to an ICANN Last Resort later this month. UK Creative Ideas Limited has won the right to operate the .Art new gTLD, beating out 9 other applicants including Donuts, Minds + Machines, Uniregistry and Top Level Designs. The Board of Directors of the company are listed in the ICANN application as follows: Andrey Chuykov Elena Chinyaeva Sergei Shumsky Ulvi Kasimov The registry in its application said the total number ... read more ...