Monthly Archives: July 2015

Fri 17th July 2015
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New .LOVE Domain Names Launch Today on the Internet with Giveaway For … - London, UK (PRWEB UK) 17 July 2015 A well-known lawyer is promoting the launch of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free domains to couples who want to create their own website. So we hope to help newly ... read more ...
 
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Online Gambling Company 888.com Buys Bwin.Party For $1.4 Billion Dollars - According to The BBC,  Online gambling firm 888 said it buying  Bwin.party Digital Entertainment in a cash and stock deal valued at £898m or  $1.4 billion dollars. Bwin.Party website is bwinparty.com and the company’s name was created long before the new gTLD’s If you’re wondering, the new gTLD domain name Bwin.Party is owned by the company and is being forwarded to bwinparty.com. The offer is 104.09 pence per share which is at a 1.2 percent premium to Bwin.party’s close on Thursday ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 20 au 26 juillet 2015 -   Partager cet article :Les extensions ne prennent pas de vacances et continuent d’affluer. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :20/07 -.miamiFermeture période Sunrise :20/07 – .taipei24/07 – .techOuverture période Landrush :23/07 – .taipeiOuverture période EAP :22/07 – .team22/07 – .show22/07 – .jewelrySi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est registrar accrédité ... read more ...
 
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John Ferber's Bidtellect Raises $22.35 Million Dollars In Series B Funding - Bidtellect just raised $22.35 million in new capital to help the company build out its technology platform, product development, and sales and marketing teams. John Ferber formerly of Advertising.com and DomainHoldings.com is the Chairman of the company. The Series B funding round was led by new investors Blue Chip Venture Company and G20 Ventures and also included existing investor Valhalla Partners. Bidtellect, which was founded in 2011, previously raised $4.4 million in Series A funding in 2012. Bidtellect ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE – satprnews.com - TORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for Internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info — and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public availability as of today. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free .LOVE domains to couples who want to ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE | news.sys-con.com – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>New .LOVE Domain Names Launch on the Internet with Free Giveaway to CouplesTORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web.Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info -- and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public ... read more ...
 
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.Love Launches & Is Giving Away 2,015 Free.Love Domains -     .Love launched into General Availability today where it can be registered on a first come, first served basis, making .Love, I believe, to be the first new gTLD to launch on a Friday. The Dot Love Registry announced it will be giving away 2,015 Free.Love domain names this year to couples “Newly Engaged or married couples”, thereby completing with .Wedding and .Wed. Here is from the announcement: In celebration of the year of .LOVE launch, we are giving away 2,015 free .LOVE domain names ... read more ...
 
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Last Day To Enter – Chance to Win a Free Apple Watch Courtesy of Radix - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...
 
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Results from 100+ lapsed domain name auctions - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. Dilíu is Romanian for “madman”, which is what you’d have to be to believe DiLiu.com sold for $4.9k for any reason other than China. In Chinese, dì liù means “sixth”; dī liú is a “trickle”; and dī liū would be to “carry”. While the domain remains under whois privacy, we can only be 99.9% sure of this rationale; but China is never absent from these charts, and expired Pinyin domains have recently sold ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rejects "Renewal Of A Domain Resets Bad Faith Clock": BabyBanana.com Saved - Live-Right, LLC has just lost its attempt to grab the domain name BabyBanana.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by represented by Esqwire.com. I believe is a particularly important win for domain owners. The decision affirms the business of investing and reselling domain names is legitimate use under the policy/ More importantly, the panel emphatically rejected the Playland Decision which, found quite dangerously and incorrectly for every domain holder, under ... read more ...
 
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Last Day To Enter - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...
Thu 16th July 2015
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Minds + Machines and ALM Media Announce Strategic Partnership on .law - Exclusive .law domains available Fall 2015Click to Learn MoreMinds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, announces a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain ".law" across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product ... read more ...
 
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Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a … - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...
 
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Google adult large in After Hours after violence expectations - Google reports better than expected earnings Google posted second-quarter net income of $3.93 billion, or $6.43 per Class C share, up from $3.35 billion, or $ 4.88 per Class C share, a year earlier. Excluding certain costs, the company had earnings of $6.99 a share in the latest quarter; analysts had projected earnings of $6.70 per share on that basis, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue rose 11% to $17.73 billion. Excluding traffic-acquisition costs–the revenue Google shares with other companies ... read more ...
 
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Where Has the Domain Name Growth Gone? - It is pretty common knowledge now that domain name growth started to drop around two years ago and is falling still. At this rate there is every chance that TLDs that have only ever seen growth will start to see a decline sometime in the next few years. What follows is a theory on where that growth has gone. It is widely stated that the greater choice provided by hundreds of new gTLDs means that demand is dissipating across them and that's where the growth has gone. But the 6.5+ million registrations ... read more ...
 
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TLD Profile: .Vote - .Vote gains traction with states and presidential hopefuls. This is the first in a series of articles in collaboration with ICANNWiki, the wiki for the domain name industry. Each article, written by Editor and Community Manager Dustin Phillips, will provide an in-depth profile of a top level domain name. The new .vote gTLD is a joint venture between Afilias and two investors based in Utah, creating Monolith Registry. Its mission is to create a segment of the internet that provides reliable political ... read more ...
 
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Bill Hartzer Releases “Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality” - Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and pulled a lot of other interested data. We were able to find the best New gTLDs based on quality. Globe ... read more ...
 
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Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a .London Domain - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...
 
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ParkingCrew acquires NameDrive - Domain name parking consolidation continues as Team Internet nabs NameDrive. ParkingCrew has acquired the NameDrive domain name parking business from KeyDrive. The acquisition includes the Overdrive service as well. Starting tomorrow, NameDrive customers will access their parking accounts through ParkingCrew. There is a account claim procedure in place; NameDrive customers should have received an announcement about it today. Last year KeyDrive divested SnapNames, which it acquired from Oversee.net ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9788; .News 9122; .Cafe 1727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...
 
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The descending value of a .info domain name - One example of a domain name losing value. Yesterday Pizza.info sold for €2,900 in an auction on Sedo. That’s about $3,150. Unfortunately for the seller, he paid $6,180 to buy the domain name on Sedo in 2014. But hey, he shouldn’t feel too bad. Pizza.info sold for $20,452 on Sedo in 2008, according to NameBio. The value of Pizza.info has apparently dropped 85% since 2008. In real estate, the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices only consider homes that have sold at least twice. This way they ... read more ...
 
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American Automobile Association loses cybersquatting box opposite locksmith - Group went after locksmith in Naples who uses the business name AAA Locksmith. American Automobile Association (AAA) has lost a cybersquatting claim against a Florida locksmith who uses the brand AAA Locksmith. Adam Cooper uses the domain name AAALocksmithNaples.com for his business, and AAA filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to take his web address. The panel agreed that AAA is commonly used in business names and that American Automobile Association did not show that Cooper ... read more ...
 
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Bill Hartzer Releases "Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality" - Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and pulled a lot of other interested data. We were able to find the best New gTLDs based on quality. Globe ... read more ...
 
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Corporations tackle cybersquatters who overstay their welcome | World Finance - Pop sensation Taylor Swift made headlines earlier this year when she was labelled – we can only assume for the first time – a squatter, as the latest in a long line of trademark disputes took hold. Arguably the best-known example of cybersquatting to date, the case was important insofar as it shed a light on what measures affected parties could take to tackle this new and growing phenomenon. The incident was first thrust ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9,788; .News 9,122; .Cafe 1,727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...