Monthly Archives: September 2015

Wed 23rd September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRP row doesn't give behind OnlineMBA.com, stolen from Moniker - Company says domain name was stolen from its Moniker account, but UDRP panel determines it didn’t prove trademark rights. An Austin company that once owned OnlineMBA.com has failed to recover the allegedly stolen domain name through a UDRP. Mascot Media Circle, LLC has owned the domain name since 2010. This summer it realized it was no longer in control of the domain name, and alleges that it was stolen from its Moniker account. This sounds plausible, given the number of security issues discussion ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
My Most Ridiculous Domain Pricing Award In The New gTLD Space Goes To Mind & Machines - I just got a renewal  bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD’s, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to  my registrar, Hexonet. Along the way in the registration process the retail price got screwed. Unlike mostly every domain ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Group Given "corporate" Rating at N+1 Singer (MMX) - N+1 Singer reissued their corporate rating on shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday, Marketbeat reports. Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.25 on Tuesday. The firm’s market capitalization is GBX 68.94 million. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 8.13 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 8.17. Minds + Machines Group has a 52-week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52-week high of GBX 12.50. Minds + Machines ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Apple Uses the .NEWS TLD for Its News Platform - Apple has elected to use the .NEWS top-level domain for its new app on iOS 9. The 'apple.news' domain will also be used within the app for shortening news links. CEO of Rightside, the company that manages the TLD, says: "This is just the start, but Apple.NEWS is the most significant use of a new top-level domain (TLD) yet, and I am very excited at the promise and potential that this development signals. Whether they're used as a complementary domain, content-sharing links (bit.ly, but with ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Group Given corporate Rating at N+1 Singer (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating reissued by analysts at N+1 Singer in a research note issued on Tuesday, MarketBeat reports. Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) traded up 5.8462% during trading on Tuesday, hitting GBX 8.6000. 3,444,201 shares of the company were exchanged. The company’s market capitalization is GBX 71.89 million. Minds + Machines Group has a 12 month low of GBX 6.75 and a 12 month high of GBX 12.50. The stock’s 50-day moving ... read more ...
 
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MySchool.com lawsuit moves brazen with several twists and turns - Lawyers withdraw, defendant asks for attorneys fees based on comment on DNW. A lawsuit over the domain name MySchool.com is heating up, with the defendant’s lawyers citing a comment made on Domain Name Wire as grounds to recover attorneys fees. Joseph Carpenter, who runs the site MySchool411.com, filed a federal lawsuit to get the domain name MySchool.com. This was after he lost two separate UDRP cases for the domain name. Carpenter has switched lawyers in the case multiple times. Most recently, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million led by v68.com during $44,000 - Sedo had 615 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: v68.com at 44,000 USD Top ccTLD:  tutu.de at 6,800 EUR Top “other” TLD: tgl.net at 10,000 EUR New Gtld sales: sportsbetting.tips    4,700    EUR com.ink                       1,250    USD sun.energy                     999    USD abnehmen.club             ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
DNS.pt convida para a constituição formal da LusNIC - A constituição formal da LusNIC, Associação de Registries de Língua Portuguesa, realiza-se no próximo dia 23 de setembro, no decorrer do eShow Portugal, no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa. O CENTR é a organização europeia, do qual o .pt é membro, que agrega 52 dos registos da Europa. O evento vai dar destaque à existência de organizações como a Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs, a Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Association e a African Top Level Domain Association.');}googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-DESKTOP_IN_ARTICLE-0");});document.write('');}})(jQuery); Esta ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines set for strong second half - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT COMMENTS--- Half-year results from Internet domain name specialist Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reveal a company that is changing gear. The company has been laying the groundwork for some time, applying for the rights to generic top level domains (gTLDs) – the part of an Internet address after the final dot - in the land grab that followed the relaxation of restrictions on the range of gTLDs that are available. It is still in the running for some more domains ... read more ...
 
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Kaiser registers "killing" domains - Will these defensive domain name registrations actually deter detractors? A Mark Monitor client has registered a bunch of defensive domain names about how the company killed mom, dad and grandma. Although the registrations are protected with whois privacy, I can only assume the registrant is healthcare company and Mark Monitor client Kaiser Permanente. A number of sites have been set up to criticize the company, including KaiserKills.com, KaiserPapers.org and kaiserthrive.org. The domain names registered ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
After 50 DNW podcasts, here are a tip Five - This week I published my 51st weekly Domain Name Wire Podcast. The podcasts are a lot of work to produce, but it’s been very rewarding. It has given me the chance to sit down for extended, in-depth conversations with key people in the domain name industry and provide these to you. You can listen to all previous episodes from your browser here. You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes (just search for “Domain Name Wire” in podcasts). Android users can use Stitcher. There’s not much ... read more ...
 
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Did You Know That New gTLD's .Men: & .Lotto Launched & .Game Got Delayed? - I read Andrew’s post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week;  Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized  that a couple of  other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will set you back $1,899 a year per domain. The .Lotto domain extension was offered, not over a 5 day Early ... read more ...
 
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JC.com, KC.com and MW.com 2 Letter Domain Names All Sell - It seems I have been reporting A LOT lately on 2 letter .com domain name sales and today is no different with 3 more changing ownership. A couple of things to keep in mind: There are only 676, 2 letter .com domain names Minimum wholesale IMO is riding about $600,000 USD based on a couple recent sales around that price point BrokerageFirm.com who I personally do not know much about prior to recently, had its hand in two of the recent purchases. According to its website: “We’re a confidential digital ... read more ...
 
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Protecting Your Domain – What’s In a Name Anyway? - The start of 2015 has seen a large number of new generic top level domain names (gTLDs) created, in numbers previously unprecedented in the history of the internet. A gTLD is the suffix used in web addresses (for example .com or .co.uk). These had previously been restricted to 22 versions and the number of gTLDs is set to rise from 22 to 617 by the end of 2015.Shortly after the meteoric rise of the internet in the early nineties, domain name squatting became a serious issue. Opportunistic individuals ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss - Minds + Machines Group Ltd  (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a  pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 million, “mostly as a result of lower profit from participating in generic top-level domain auctions”. In ... read more ...
 
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Get a ambience of dmexco in these videos - Videos show large crowd at digital marketing conference. The dmexco digital marketing conference in Germany last week attracted over 40,000 people. Sedo has published two videos from the event. The first shows scenes from the conference, including people interacting with Sedo’s exhibit. Sedo partnered with a number of top level domain name companies to put the exhibit together. As it did last year, the company also offered free frozen yogurt with toppings named after top level domain names. The ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines posts earnings, skeleton £15 million share buyback - Company continues its shift to sales and marketing organization. Minds + Machines released unaudited first half results this morning. The company reported $1.974 in billings for the quarter — this is essentially a revenue number if it didn’t have to recognize domain registration revenue over time. Its adjusted EBITDA using the billings number was -$1.216 million. Using traditional accounting principles, the company had earnings of -$3.695. The company’s board has approved a plan to return ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Leclerc, Sanofi, Maif, Bnp Paribas… Pourquoi achètent-ils tous des … – CIO - Business Arnaud Pessey, -->Le 22 Septembre 2015 2000 nouveaux TLD sont attendus pour un bnfice qui reste dfinir. Retrouvez cet article dans le CIO FOCUS n105 ! La rvolution numrique bouscule les entreprises La rvolution numrique est devenue une antienne, un mantra, un leitmotiv, une rengaine... Il n'en demeure pas moins qu'elle est une ralit incontournable qui se dcline autant sur des thmatiques techniques, ... read more ...
 
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Rio Becomes First Latin American City to Offer Its Own TLD - Rio de Janeiro has become the first Latin American city with its own dedicated top-level domain (.rio), allowing individuals and entities who want to identify themselves with the Brazilian city to register their desired domain names with the new extension. ICANN approved the .rio domain this year and it took effect on Thursday, the Rio city government said in a statement. Related topics: Top-Level Domains ... read more ...
 
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Endurance CEO takes money compensate cut, with intensity large share payday - Ravichandran could get up to 3.7 million additional shares of EIGI stock. Endurance International Group CEO Hari Ravichandran is taking a big cash pay cut in return for shares in the company if it hits free cash flow targets. Ravichandran’s annual salary will be reduced from $750,000 to $200,000 and he won’t receive any cash bonuses for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The upside: the potential to get another 3.7 million shares in the company over the next three years. Shares currently trade for $14 a share, ... read more ...
 
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.ORG Administrator PIR Calls on Kevin Kopas to Become Their Channel Manager … - Public Interest Registry (PIR), the highly respected non-profit organization that administers the venerable .ORG TLD (as well as new extensions, .NGO and .ONG), has added a key new member to ... read more ...
 
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Troy Lee Designs 2016 Adventure Line - The new collection is the brainchild of Troy Lee himself, who wanted to develop a more technical line of off-road riding apparel for everything from adventure to dual-sport to enduro riding. TLD took more than two years to meticulously design and test the Adventure collection, ensuring fit, function and durability. In the end, TLD developed a line that is very technical and yet extremely functional, all while injecting TLD’s industry leading style into the collection. TLD has also pioneered ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers 6 2-letter domain names - Microsoft registers at least a half dozen short domains. New top level domain name company Donuts released thousands of two character domains under its top level domain names last week. Microsoft was among the buyers. I count at least a half dozen two character domains registered by the company: ad.center ie.domains ie.gallery ie.photos os.expert pc.engineering The top four names are arguably brand domains, while the last two are more generic/descriptive. IE are the initials for Internet Explorer, ... read more ...
 
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UDRPSearch owners gets UDRP win - Company behind UDRP search site wins its on UDRP. Virtual Point, the company that runs UDRP site UDRPSearch.com, has successfully defended a UDRP for the domain name addicting-games.com. Complainant Defy Media runs the online games site AddictingGames.com. Its predecessor-in-interest registered the domain name in 2002; Virtual Point registered the hyphenated version in 2003. The case turned on the trademark dates for “Addicting Games”. Defy Mewdia argued that it was a popular site by the time ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: Bows.com, Guest.com, PetBasics.com & More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers! This exclusive, exciting series highlights domain names recently acquired, registered and simply moving by large corporations. These are often early finds and often lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products services and more. Here we go with the latest Domain Movers: A currently unknown MarkMonitor client using generic whois data registered several domain names relating to “video” and aerial, with domain names like VideoAero.com, VideoAircraft.com, VideoAviation.com, ... read more ...