Monthly Archives: October 2015

Fri 23rd October 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
CONSÓRCIO RESPONSÁVEL PELA CONSTRUÇÃO DO FPSO DE … - O campo de Libra é a principal área a ser explorada no pré-sal brasileiro e os preparativos para que o Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) seja realizado em 2017, conforme o cronograma estipulado, já estão sendo realizados. Nesta semana, a inglesa PJ Valves fechou um contrato para fornecimento de válvulas para o FPSO que realizará o TLD com o consórcio formado pela Odebrecht Oil Gas e Teekay, responsáveis pela construção e afretamento da embarcação. A empresa irá fornecer válvulas ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free - The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to Zone file records .XYZ crossed back over 1,000,000 domain registration mark for the first time today, since ... read more ...
 
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Dublin.Pub: Smart New gTLD Case Study from Rightside - If you attended the ICANN Dublin meeting or if you have been following along with the reports from the meeting, chances are good that you know about Dublin.Pub. If you have not heard about Dublin.Pub, go have a look. The website was created by Rightside in conjunction with Basekit and Tapastreet. I wanted to learn more about the Dublin.Pub website, the partnerships with local pubs on related micro sites, and the objectives of launching Dublin.Pub. I reached out to Bill Glenn, Vice President ... read more ...
 
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Bogotá ICANN Forum Underscores Internet Developments, Reveals Fundamental … - The Internet Corporation For assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has concluded its inaugural forum on September 28 in Bogotá, held to address topics related to the Domain Name System, internet infrastructure, and the new gTLD program. The LAC-i-Roadshow is part of the regional strategic plan developed by the different stakeholder groups represented at ICANN from the LAC (Latin America/Caribbean) region designed to raise awareness across the region on key topics related to the DNS critical infrastructure ... read more ...
 
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36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name - fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. “Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a trusted, verified and more secure location online for their banking services.” “In the United States ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit - The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant for the domain name rentmypartybus.com. It’s a pretty interesting case, since the “trademark holder” was first incorporated on May 1, 2014 but in its trademark application to the USPTO it alleged first use in 2002. Although the domain holder first ... read more ...
 
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JinSe.com for $30k and other lapsed domain name sales - A weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. 59 bidders saw a golden opportunity when JinSe.com expired, yet it was the enthusiasm of just 2 of them that lifted it above $10.1k to finish 3 times higher at $30.2k. That made this piece of Chinese Pinyin NameJet’s top expired domain auction during the past week. Oh, in case you haven’t guessed already, jīn sè (金色) = “golden”. It also happens to be the name of a Korean actress. Think about this … Had 1 out of the 2 high bidders ... read more ...
 
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California Car Dealers Head to Court over Domain Names - Ford dealer claims rival is stealing its web traffic. Two neighboring car dealers in California are heading to court over cybersquatting claims. El Centro, California Ford dealer El Centro Motors alleges (pdf) that Rogers Rogers, a Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge dealer on the same road less than a half mile away, is cybersquatting its brands and diverting web traffic. El Centro Motors registered ElCentroMotors.com in 2001. Rogers Rogers registered ElCentroMotor.com (singular) and ElCentroFord.com last year. ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Verisign Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. Third Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of ... read more ...
 
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours - Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to use the domain to divert Internet users seeking [Complainant’s] official website online to Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 million and diluted EPS of $0.69 for the same quarter in 2014. The operating margin was 58.1% for the third ... read more ...
 
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Verisign considers Early Access for "IDN .Coms" - Popular model for landrush phase of new TLDs might find its way to Verisign. Verisign is considering some sort of “Early Access” period when it launches IDN .com transliterations, company executives explained today on the company’s 3rd quarter conference call. In response to an analyst’s question, CEO James Bidzos said the rollouts will begin with the mandated sunrise period. After that, the company might have “Early Access” opportunities for those that want to “get in the door early”, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations final quarter - Verisign drives new registrations, grows overall base in .com and .net. Verisign reported earnings this afternoon, and disclosed that it handled 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3. The number of new registrations per quarter is typically in the 8-9 million range. On its investor conference call today, Verisign executives said the growth was driven internationally, particularly in Asia (including China and India). The company expects the pace of activity in the 3rd quarter to slow sequentially ... read more ...
 
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5 Questions To Select The Right Structure For Your International Websites - The most frequent question I am asked, both online and off, is: “What’s the best Web structure for my international site?” This question might seem quite basic and fundamental, but unfortunately, there is no clear-cut “right” answer. Although there are general best practices, the truth is that if you’re in a relatively competitive industry, the selection of the best international Web structure should take more into consideration than what Google suggests. The ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 26 octobre au 1er novembre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Voici le calendrier de cette fin octobre. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Fermeture période EAP :28/10 – .live28/10 – .studioFermeture période Domain Matching :30/10 – .sexOuverture à tous :26/10 – .srl28/10 – .live28/10 – .studioSi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est registrar accrédité pour toutes ces extensions. Nos chargés de clientèle sont à votre disposition ... read more ...
 
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ICANN wil niet voor politie spelen - Fadi Chehade ICANN, de organisatie die op aanwijzing van de Amerikaanse overheid de operationele organisatie van het internet organiseert, moet weerstand bieden aan politieke druk om zich ook te gaan bemoeien met de inhoud van het internet. Dat bepleitte ICANN's ceo Fadi Chehade gisteren bij de opening van de 54e plenaire vergadering van de 'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers', in Dublin. ... read more ...
 
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How to not remove your shirt investing in domain names for China - Video explains what makes domains good — and bad — for the Chinese market. Allegravita, a consultancy for doing business in China that has worked with a number of domain name companies, has published three info-packed sessions from the DomainFest Asia conference held in September. The company has packaged them together as a “Boot Camp” on the Chinese domain name market, and one video in particular is worth watching for any domainer thinking about investing in domains that might appeal to ... read more ...
 
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers - The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems to be some registrants in Sunrise by Companies that are not lawyers. There are registrants of domain names ... read more ...
 
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Media Options' WI.com domain name save in UDRP - Complainant offered to buy the domain name for $400.00. Media Options has successfully defended a UDRP against its domain name WI.com, but the panel declined to find complainant Brian Fera of Germany guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Domain name brokerage Media Options originally brokered the domain name on behalf of Masterlock. The company found a buyer toward the end of 2014 for $375,000. Media Options financed the deal, holding the domain name until the buyer made all payments. The buyer ... read more ...
 
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It is all about a eights - The Sedo auction for 8888828.com was paid and hit the Sedo sales wire, the name sold for $5,103, yes a 7N.com. The seller is local to me actually about 30 minutes away in King of Prussia, DomainDakini.com purchased the domain name back in 2014, it looks like from a Chinese registrant who hand regged the domain back in 2013. The domain was dropped twice previously. That is the tricky thing with these names, people tend to get bored with no action and drop a domain name, there certainly was little ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #24: GGG-Lemieux and Terence Crawford - Gennady “GGG” Golovkin–David Lemieux didn’t quite turn into the Hagler-Hearns slugfest everyone was hoping for; however, GGG delivered a punch-perfect performance. Diego and I also break down Roman Gonzalez-Brian Viloria and preview Terence Crawford-Dierry Jean. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: Gennady Golovkin bludgeoned a game and brave David Lemieux in eight one-sided and brutal rounds. It was a flawless performance from GGG; we consider where GGG goes ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
These 19 companies bought aftermarket domain names final week - From bitcoin to car care to family entertainment, here are some of the end users that bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 624 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.7 million, a bit more than usual. While the list includes a number of four letter domains, it’s a lot fewer than two weeks ago. Among the end users snapping up domain names: a city in Ontario buying the name of one of its landmarks, a Chinese astronomical group buying its acronym and an Australian bitcoin company ... read more ...
 
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DNF.com Has Sold -

DNF.com has sole a domain that forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China.

The domain recently stopped forwarding to a forum and was parked during SEDO.

The volume is undisclosed.

The domain name was purebred in 1996.

The domain is now purebred during a Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com

Registrant Contact

Via: thedomains.com

 
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After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com - Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but not because it failed the Identical or Confusingly Similar requirement of a UDRP. Actually this panel, and maybe ... read more ...
 
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New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are "Invented Names" - A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. “The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch’s data showed that 88% of startups have .com domain names.” “However, with various alternate domain options, some emphasize ... read more ...