Monthly Archives: September 2015

Mon 28th September 2015
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TLD .hiv Transfers Admin to New Ownership - First charitable Top-Level Domain Registry, jointly announce today that the .hiv TLD will change ownership to Uniregistry. The two organizations plan to conclude the transition prior to December 1st 2015 – World AIDS Day. The .hiv TLD made history last year as the first open charitable TLD, dedicated to the global fight against AIDS. These names help raise awareness around HIV and generate funds for verified HIV projects. The TLD opens up a dedicated namespace that brings website owners together ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry takes over .HIV domain name - Company takes over struggling top level domain name. Top level domain name registry Uniregistry has taken over ownership and management of the .HIV top level domain name. .HIV launched as a “social cause” TLD about a year ago. It came with a high registration price of about $200, but the registry promised to donate money to HIV/AIDS charities with each visit to a .hiv site. The idea didn’t take off, with only about 500 registrations in the zone file to date. So earlier this year the .hiv backers ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Takes Over New gTLD .HIV - According to imstilljosh.com, who seems to be involved with the .HIV registry,  the new gTLD string .HIV is being transferred to Uniregistry. “”Today, Uniregistry takes over the lead in this unique journey to use a top-level domain to promote a social good. The dotHIV charity will continue its work for .hiv and focus on community support. The creative agency thjnk from Hamburg, Germany, longstanding partner of the initiative, will continue to work on behalf of the .hiv top-level domain, exploring ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Aftermarket with Paul Nicks – DNW Podcast #52 - Paul Nicks, who manages GoDaddy’s aftermarket, discusses the state of domain resales and the GoDaddy platform. Paul Nicks runs the aftermarket for GoDaddy, which includes Afternic and GoDaddy auctions. Paul discusses the current state of the domain aftermarket, including which direction sales and sale prices are moving. He also discusses changes the company is making in the aftermarket and how they’re trying to remove friction from the domain selling and buying process. Paul also provides stats ... read more ...
 
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Study on Facebook Users: 14% Check It During A Funeral; 15% in The Shower - Stop Procrastinating published the results of a survey of 2,000 people that use Facebook Regularly and it contains some pretty interesting results: 56% described their Facebook use as compulsive and of these, 68% were worried by their inability to control their use of Facebook. Examples include: Leaving a restaurant meal with friends or their partner to visit the bathroom or toilet to check Facebook. Checking Facebook at the cinema during a film. Commenting on a post at their own wedding or a friend’s ... read more ...
 
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Another .Co win: Taco Bell regulating Ta.co - Taco Bell is promoting ta.co domain name. The .co domain name extension continues to rack up big name customers, the latest being Taco Bell. The fast food restaurant chain is now promoting ta.co and an upgrade to its website. Now you can order completely customized tacos and other menu items through your mobile phone. Taco Bell bought the domain name directly from the .co registry. For now, typing in ta.co merely forwards you to Taco Bell. When I watch Taco Bell’s introductory video (below), it ... read more ...
 
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UDRP finds laches and that heading is also generic - Panelist questions why case was filed 16 years after domain was registered, and notes that the trademark is also generic. When is a trademark also generic? You probably didn’t know that the hardware chain True Value Company has a trademark on the term “Green Thumb”. It has a registered trademark on the term dating to 1987. I always thought the term meant someone who is good with gardening. I’m not alone, either. Apparently, in the same year of True Value’s trademark registration, a dictionary ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines starts share buybacks - Company bought its own shares on Friday. On Friday, Minds + Machines made the first purchase under its share buyback program. The company plans to acquire up to £15 million worth of shares over the next 12 months. The first purchase was just £21,875 for 250,000 ordinary shares. Companies do share buybacks as a way to return capital to shareholders. Generally speaking, the company will cancel the shares it bought back, thus boosting earnings per share and other metrics for the remaining shares. ... read more ...
 
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TripAdvisor.com Loses UDRP On a Domain Tripadvosor.com - TripAdvisor, brought a UDRP on two domain names, tripadvosor.com and trpadvisor.com and walked away winning one and losing the other David A. Einhorn as Panelist awarded the domain name Trpadvisor.com to TripAdvisor but refused to hand the domain name tripadvosor.com over to the company. The same person owned both domain name and didn’t bother filing an answer. CitzenHawk represented TripAdvisor. Tripadvosor.com was created on June 11, 2004 and tripadvisor.com was created on April 14, 2004. Here ... read more ...
 
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DNpric.es Compares Aftermarket For .Guru, .Expert & .Ninja -

Having pronounced that here are a reported sales of $150 or some-more for any of these 3 new gTLD’s according to DNPric.es.

Also to be transparent these are Aftermarket sales and does simulate what people spent in Early Access Periods to acquire domains in these extensions

Here are a reported sales for .Expert:

Here are a reported sales for .Guru:

Here a reported aftermarket sales for .Ninja of $150 or more:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general Internet users. While 65% of general Internet users said they had visited a domain in a new gTLD, 64% of registrants ... read more ...
 
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Holaira organisera un symposium au Congrès de l’ERS sur la … - AMSTERDAM, PAYS-BAS--(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2015) - Holaira, Inc., un développeur de dispositifs médicaux destinés à traiter les maladies pulmonaires obstructives, a annoncé qu'il organisera un mini-symposium sur la dénervation pulmonaire ciblée* (TLD) chez les patients atteints de BPCO modérée ou sévère, lors du Congrès international de la Société respiratoire européenne (ERS) qui se tiendra le 28 septembre. Le programme sera présidé par les professeurs Felix Herth, MD, PhD, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. According to ICANN, the study demonstrates, among other things, that domain name registrants are more familiar with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) than general Internet ... read more ...
Sun 27th September 2015
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How Is Your Brand Handling the New gTLDs? - The following is a guest post by Mark Skoultchi, Principal, Catchword Branding The past two years have seen a dramatic expansion of domain-name alternatives. Before the rollout of hundreds of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that began in 2014, new businesses looking to secure a web address typically faced the gold-standard (but often expensive or unavailable) choice of .com or a country code TLD (ccTLD) co-opted to have meaning beyond its country of origin—like .ly, .me, .io or .tv. The ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Sat 26th September 2015
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Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story - DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as they were unhappy about the way the highest bidder conducted himself, who at the end offered the asking price ... read more ...
 
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20 year Old Bart.net Lost in UDRP to Owner of Bart.org & Bart.Gov - The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“Complainant”), which is known As BART and owns the domain Bart.org and Bart.gov, just won the rights to the domain name Bart.net The sole panelist Dennis A. Foster awarded that the domain name which was registered initially in 1995 and has been sold and resold by a number of entities until Respondent acquired the name in June 2015 where is now going to a non-resolving page. The panelist also took note that within days of acquiring the domain ... read more ...
 
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Blackjack.com UDRP Thrown Out With Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling - Complainant Cary Pinkowski, Darren Little, and Joe Whitney (together the “Complainant”), which were represented by Eric Misterovich of Revision Legal, Michigan, USA, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Blackjack.com The three member UDRP panel of Sandra J. Franklin, Dawn Osborne and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC  quickly dismissed the complaint finding that the Complainants which previously owed a company, Hanger Holdings Limited, which previously ... read more ...
 
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Volkswagen registers "sucks" and "blows" domain names - Here come the defensive domain name registrations… This week I wrote about how Volkswagen registered a number of domain names related to its diesel emissions scandal. The domains, such as VWdieselinfo.com, were likely registered to disseminate information about recalls. While those domain names weren’t defensive, the company is now going on the defensive with a handful of domain name registrations. Here are some domain names the company registered yesterday: VWBlows.com VWDieselBlows.com VWDieselreall.com ... read more ...
 
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DotHealthy_IDN TLD Launches Sunrise Period - HONG KONG, Sept. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Stable Tone Limited, the operator of the new DotHealthy_IDNtop-level domain, today announced the launch of Sunrise for the DotHealthy_IDN new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Sunrise period will last 30 days, starting from September 22 and ending on October 22, 2015. According to theInternational Monetary Fund in December2014, Chinasurpassed the US in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP), becoming the most prominent ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2015
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New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447 - Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses  which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don’t know much about has 447 registrations All of these numbers include Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and any landrush or any Early Access periods ... read more ...
 
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The new and softened Expired Domains Report! - Now with SnapNames, too. Domains expire all over the place, day in day out. Some expirations are shadowed by backorders, which can lead to auctions. Depending on the TLD, the registrar, and – yes – even chance, those auctions may take place at NameJet or at another venue … like SnapNames, which will be contributing sales data to these reports henceforward. Scroll down, and say hello! Some readers may remember that, until last December, most of the results I reported in these articles came from ... read more ...
 
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InternetX Lambo Races to First Place - Car finishes first…at first. This past weekend the InternetX race team had strong podium finishes at the ADAC GT Masters in Zandvoort. InterNetX Reiter Engineering had two cars (initially) place in first and third place. Here’s a picture: Unfortunately, after the race, a 30 second penalty was inflicted for a breach of rules after the safety car phase. I’m not entirely sure what that means. But I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that .Club CEO Colin Campbell was seen running around throwing ... read more ...
 
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.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD's -   The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August. I ... read more ...
 
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Ashley Madison takes down WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com - Arbitration panel awards domain name to dating site owner. Avid Dating Life Inc, the company that operates the AshleyMadison.com site for affair dating, has successfully convinced an arbitration panelist that it should get the domain name WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com. Avid Dating Life filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that the registrant of the domain name was cybersquatting. Panelist John Swinson agreed. The domain name was registered to someone listed as “Calico ... read more ...