Monthly Archives: October 2015

Sat 31st October 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 2 au 8 novembre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Le mois de novembre commence en douceur avec quelques extensions dédiées aux entreprises. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Début période Sunrise :04/11 – .officeFermeture période Sunrise :08/11 – .spreadbetting08/11 – .cfd08/11 – .tradingOuverture à tous :04/11 – .sexSi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est registrar accrédité pour toutes ces extensions. Nos chargés ... read more ...
 
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Près de 300 millions de noms de domaine, et le classement qualitatif SafeBrands -   Partager cet article :CENTR, l’organisme de coordination et de concertation pour les extensions ccTLDs européenne, a établi un rapport sur l’évolution des noms de domaine au 3e trimestre 2015. Voici les chiffres importants qui en ressortent.Bilan du volume des noms de domaine au 3e trimestre 2015A ce jour, on comptabilise plus de 1000 extensions, avec 298.4 millions de noms de domaine enregistrés, soit 1.6% de croissance globale au 3e trimestre 2015, équitablement partagé entre ccTLDs, ... read more ...
Fri 30th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Upset With Symantec Over False Security Certificates - According to PCMag.com Google is rather peeved at Symantec for issuing fraudulent security certificates for numerous domains, including Google. This started out with just a few bad certs and then Google started looking into it themselves. Google found more bad certs than what Symantec first quoted, a few weeks later Symantec found more on their own after their own audit. From the article: So Google issued an ultimatum: Starting next summer, all Symantec-issued certificates must support the Chromium ... read more ...
 
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Lanzan el dominio “.srl” en la Argentina - La multiplicidad de dominios “.com” hace que diferenciarse en la web y proteger el nombre de una marca o compañía en la red sea cada vez más difícil. Por esa razón, la alemana InterNetX Corp sumó el “.srl” a la oferta de dominios disponibles en la Argentina. A través de una alianza con la empresa local DonWeb, la extensión destinada a sociedades de responsabilidad limitada ya se encuentra disponible por $ 549 anuales. Para Guillermo Tornatore, CEO y fundador de la ... read more ...
 
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One Robocaller badmouthing another… - Pot calling kettle black. The robocalls to my cell phone continue, and occasionally I play along. This morning I received a robocall from my “local Google specialist” informing me it had a first page location available for me. I wondered if it was Local Lighthouse, the company being sued by Google for misleading customers. I pressed 1 to speak with a representative. As he started talking, I told him I was already talking to a company about a front page position, and wanted to know if he was with ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
The Economist on a state of association naming - Do you agree with The Economist’s viewpoint? There’s only one print publication that still makes its way to my mailbox, at that’s The Economist. Last week’s Schumpeter column talks about the state of company naming, and paints a rather bleak picture. You should read the entire article, but here are a few interesting parts: Copyright law is a pain: companies have to go to great lengths to make sure that nobody has staked a claim to their favourite names. C’mon, Economist. I expect better ... read more ...
 
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Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 Are From China; 38 out of Top 50 - According to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7 registrants of domain names using the new domain extensions, 3 of those are affiliated with new gTLD registries, that only leaves 4 out of the top 30 new gTLD registrants from coming from a country other ... read more ...
 
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Web.com: New TLDs are not relocating a needle - Contribution from new top level domain names isn’t significant, CEO says. Web.com CEO David Brown was asked about new top level domain names on yesterday’s investor conference call. Brown said the company isn’t doing “back flips” over the results, and says it’s not moving the needle for the firm. He suspects new domains aren’t moving the needle for competitors, as well. Here’s what he said: So in the gTLD space, that continues to be positive, but we’re not doing back flips here. ... read more ...
 
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Here's Something Scary, Namescon Early Bird Ticket Offer Ends Tomorrow On Halloween - The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of NamesCon will be by far the biggest ever. Co-Founder Richard Lau is forecasting more than 1,000 attendees will be ... read more ...
 
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Tor, il dominio a cipolla è un caso speciale - Roma - La Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ha ufficialmente pubblicato lo standard RFC 7686, un documento che in sostanza sancisce in via definitiva quanto già avvenuto il mese scorso con i domini di primo livello (gTLD) .onion: i gTLD della darknet Tor sono ora a tutti gli effetti domini a carattere speciale, inaccessibili alla Internet pubblica e non gestibili da ICANN come fonte di business con l'assegnazione dei singoli indirizzi.Lo standard RFC 7686 è una pietra miliare che sancisce ... read more ...
 
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Zajo.com: A good 4 minute UDRP decision - Owners of four letter domain names should take note. The owner of Zajo.com, who bought it for its value as a four letter domain name, has successfully defended the domain name in a UDRP. Domain owner Jay Dove of Deep Frontier represented himself. Sporting goods company Juraj Králik-ZAJO of Slovakia threw everything it could at the case, citing the common cases and issues that complainants use when they are trying to bend the purpose of UDRP: Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, the ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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.SRL: InterNetX lancia la nuova estensione di dominio per le … - Il nuovo TLD si rivolge a tutte le aziende che operano come Società a Responsabilità Limitata (S.R.L.). Dal 26 ottobre 2015 i domini .SRL sono disponibili per la registrazione InterNetX lancia in Italia la nuova estensione di dominio .SRL. Questo nuovo dominio di primo livello generico (gTLD) è stato creato appositamente per tutte le imprese legalmente registrate come Società a Responsabilità Limitata (S.R.L.). InterNetX è una sussidiaria di InterNetX GmbH, uno dei principali ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Three Cheers for China! - Once again, China dominates expired domain name buying. And the Chinese feeding frenzy continues. Those who hype have cranked their hype knobs up to 11 in order to take advantage of the moment. Strike while the iron is hot! Oh, but this market demand is real nevertheless. Domains will probably never be more liquid than these China-favored categories are today; and prices (for now at least) are consistently high … possibly still climbing. 12 of the top 20 expired domain auctions at NameJet and ... read more ...
 
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IEC.com saved in UDRP - NGO loses attempt to get valuable domain name. International Electrotechnical Commission, a non-governmental organization, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of IEC.com. Although the respondent is listed as IEC Communications Ltd., it appears it’s really a domain name investor. The respondent said it acquired the domain name because of the value of rare 2 and 3 letter domain names, not to target International Electrotechnical Commission. This is most likely the case, and the three person ... read more ...
 
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Verisign gets obvious for Domain Name Exchange - Company proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for domain name exchange”. The system would allow someone to trade in their existing domain name for another, perhaps on an unlimited basis. Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to offer such a service in April 2010, noting that it would be helpful to webhosts who offer trials and monthly subscriptions to customers. If the customer ... read more ...
 
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What domains Birchbox and 22 other companies bought final week - Makeup sample subscription service buys a domain name. Birchbox, one of the most successful subscription services, bought a domain name through Sedo this past week. It was just one of many companies buying existing domain names last week, including an SMS company that bought SMS.me, a negotiation coach that dropped the hyphen from its name, and a company with a .CH domain name buying the matching .com. Overall, Sedo handled 672 transactions last week for a total of $1.2M. Here’s a look at end ... read more ...
 
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1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223 - Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for each new domain extension after the first day of GA where domains could be registered on first come, first ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Uitbreiding topleveldomeinen: ‘risicovol’ en ‘geldpikkerij’ - ",c,""].join("")}var c="body",e=h[c];if(!e)return setTimeout(q,100);a.P(1);var d="appendChild",g="createElement",i="src",k=h[g]("div"),l=k[d](h[g]("div")),f=h[g]("iframe"),n="document",p;k.style.display="none";e.insertBefore(k,e.firstChild).id=o+"-"+j;f.frameBorder="0";f.id=o+"-frame-"+j;/MSIE[ ]+6/.test(navigator.userAgent)(f[i]="javascript:false");f.allowTransparency="true";l[d](f);try{f.contentWindow[n].open()}catch(s){a.domain=h.domain,p="javascript:var d="+n+".open();d.domain='"+h.domain+"';",f[i]=p+"void(0);"}try{var ... read more ...
 
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Verisign warns new dot-word domains could make internet unstable - Verisign, operator of the .com and .gov registries as well as two of the internet's 13 root servers, has warned that the "unprecedented" introduction of hundreds of new dot-word domains may make the internet unstable. In a quarterly filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week, the tech biz included extensive details about the new generic top-level domain program run by domain overseer ICANN under "risk factors" that could impact ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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Another UDRP FAIL! As Panel Refuses to Transfer a Domain Used for Phishing - Another interesting UDRP where a domain name was found to be used for Phishing and fraud but the panel refuses to transfer it because the trademark wasn’t identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant had rights. Yes its a head scratcher. Bridgewater Associates, LP (“Complainant”), brought a UDRP on the new gTLD bwater.site The sole panelist David E. Sorkin found although the domain was registered and was being used in bad faith and that the domain owner ... read more ...
 
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IBM is Buying Weather.com - According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)  has agreed to acquire the Weather Company’s data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren’t disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn’t include Weather’s primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. “In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group — led by Comcast’s NBCUniversal and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: new TLDs are inspiring .Com growth - Company makes admission for first time in latest SEC filing. Verisign made a subtle, but important, change in its risk language in its third quarter 10-Q report filed with the SEC. I picked up on this change using the Intelligize SEC document comparison tool. Here’s the relevant content from the Q2 report: We do not yet know the impact, if any, that these new gTLDs may have on our business, including if or how the introduction of these new gTLDs will affect registrations for .com and .net and therefore ... read more ...
 
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CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains adult 1.6% - CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was 1.6% which in terms of absolute values was fairly evenly split between the ccTLDs, new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs. Generally ... read more ...
 
 
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Twitter and opposition Tencent competence have to quarrel over "Moments" - Tencent files trademark applications, presumably in response to Twitter launching new “Moments” feature. On October 6, Twitter launched “Moments” in an effort to attract more users to trending topics. It’s a pretty cool feature, but Twitter might run up against Chinese social networking giant Tencent over the name. Tencent has a number of services including microblogging. On October 16, Tencent filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Moments”. ... read more ...