Monthly Archives: October 2015

Wed 21st October 2015
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New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com - There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how the company describe itself: “Lendvo is a Alternative Lending and Financial Technology startup headquartered in Alexandria, VA. At Lendvo we believe that eCommerce ... read more ...
 
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Does something siphon about This.Sucks? - Vox Populi helped This.sucks get off the ground. Is there more to it than that? Site design brought to you by Vox Populi.A couple weeks ago, a new company popped up on the scene called This.Sucks. The business model is remarkably similar to one that .Sucks registry Vox Populi hoped would be created, offering .sucks domain names to users at a reduced annual price (many for free) in return for using a specialized platform. It’s so similar, in fact, that some have questioned if Vox Populi is behind ... read more ...
 
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Company bringing multi-level selling to domain names - Trademark filing reveals plans for RealDomains. Do multi-level marketing and domain names mix? A California company has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “RealDomains”, and the description of services is interesting. Multilevel marketing services, namely, providing marketing and income opportunities to others through the monetization of domain names and brand, logo, and trademark development and through the development of marketing organizations… Education services namely, online ... read more ...
 
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Australia's Domain Administration (auDA) Proposes To Allow Direct .au Registrations - According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain,  Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example www.abc.au in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains ending with com.au, net.au etc would remain available but direct registrations under .au “would create more options” “They ... read more ...
 
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Google Engineering Deep Dive - Posted in Arts Features, Arts News By Naomi Caldwell October 21, 2015 Googley: a term used to describe a person characterized by passionate curiosity, fearless inquiry, and a fiendish work ethic. In other words, the typical Swat student. On September 28, the Monday before fall break, Phil Koonce ’12 and Nick Felt ’13 returned to Swarthmore to talk about their work as Google employees as part of a student recruitment for jobs ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD -   The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today  .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to over 445,000 on October 19th an increase of more than 50%. .Wang has now become the third most registered new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Internet mushrooms toward 300 million domains and boosts its language diversity - There are now almost 300 million domain names in the world, but just 2 percent are internationalized domain names (IDNs) with non-Roman characters such as Arabic script or the Chinese writing system. For example, Japanese people on the Internet currently access the world’s most popular search engine at google.co.jp. But in the future, Google (based in Mountain View, California) could pivot to use of the domain suffix .グーグル, which it already owns and is pronounced “Guguru” ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7million led by oka.com during $60,000 - 624 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: oka.com at 60,000 USD Top ccTLD: treu.de at 30,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: beijing.biz at 3,398 USD New gTLD Sales: werbeartikel.kaufen    2,100    EURthecrossing.church    1,999    USDaffinity.solutions    1,400    USDseo.academy              798    USD There were 52 LLLL.com sales ... read more ...
 
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MyRescue.Dog Awards A Total of $100,000 to 16 Local Dog Shelters - Petfinder Foundation announced the winners of the MyRescue.dog fundraising campaign, a month-long effort to celebrate rescue dogs and raise funds for the shelters and rescue organizations that save them. The campaign began on National Dog Day August 26 and ran through Sept. 26 www.MyRescue.dog a site built on a new domain extension of the new gTLD domain name registry Donuts. The “top dog,” a dachshund named Cora-Bella, won a $25,000 donation for Midwest Dachshund Rescue based in Highland,IN Lori ... read more ...
 
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Lucky 8's: Rick Schwartz Tops $10.5M in Sales For 2015: Sells 989.com For $818,181.81 - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King just sold the domain name 989.com for $818,181.81, topping $10.5 Million in domain name sales in 2015. For Rick who always talked about having a 20 year plan, 2015 marks the 20th year and its been a record setter. For a guy who made a reputation for saying NO to offers,  has said Yes for the 4th time in 2015: Rick previously announced the sales this year of shows that “8” is his lucky number too: Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is still by far the highest reported ... read more ...
 
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Verizon wins initial .Porn domain name dispute - Verizon.porn, for all of your telecom porn needs. Verizon has won a cybersquatting dispute with the registrant of Verizon.porn, the first such dispute to be resolved since the .Porn domain name became available in June. A New York real estate agent registered the domain name on June 4, the day both .Porn and .Adult were offered for sale by registrars. Verizon apparently did not take advantage of being able to register domain names matching its trademark before the domains became available to the ... read more ...
 
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Afilias is Likely "One and Done" with 101Domain Acquisition - Company doesn’t expect to acquire other domain name registrars any time soon. Last Friday, domain name registrar 101Domain disclosed that it had been acquired by domain name registry Afilias. It’s Afilias’ first acquisition of a domain name registrar. An Afilias spokesperson told Domain Name Wire that the company does not plan to acquire any other registrars in the near future, so don’t expect a big roll up from the company. Although it is the company’s first acquisition, Afilias already ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2015
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Another Great One Word .Com Domain Name; Raisin.com Sells -   The domain name Raisin.com just sold for what is as of now,  an undisclosed amount. The domain which had an original creation date of 1995 was owned by a  “T Clayton” of San Fransisco for what seems to be just a few years. The domain name came out of Sedo Escrow and the new owner of the domain is SavingGlobal GmbH of Berlin whose website is SavingGlobal.com According to Bloomberg.com, “SavingGlobal GmbH operates as an online marketplace for foreign fixed deposits in Germany. The company’s ... read more ...
 
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5 Expired Domain Tips with Jonathan Tenenbaum – DNW Podcast #55 - Learn how to buy the best expiring domain names. Want to master the expired domain name game? NameJet GM Jonathan Tenenbaum discusses how NameJet acquires expired domain names, and provides 5 tips to crush it with NameJet. Also: ICANN gets tipsy in Dublin, Afilias acquires 101Domain and University of Cambridge gets schooled about trademarks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play below or download to begin listening. (Listen to previous ... read more ...
 
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Sometimes Shorter Is Not Better: StreetHub.com Rebrands to Trouva.com -   TechCrunch.com published a post about a UK startup, Streethub.com raising another $2.4 Million in funding. StreetHub.com “helps independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online,  including offering ‘click and collect’ functionality via its mobile app and 90 minute local delivery”. “It’s also launching a new brand and consumer-facing offering: Trouva is an e-commerce site that promises to curate and make available items to buy from its 350-strong network of independent ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Law, .Abogado - Two restricted legal top level domain names become available today. Minds + Machines releases the highly-anticipated .law and .abogado (Spanish for lawyer) domain names today. There’s no room for speculation in these domain names unless you are a lawyer. You have to be a licensed lawyer to register the domain names. The domains aren’t cheap, either. At NamesCon last year, Minds + Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering said the wholesale price of .law domains would be about $150. It’s possible that’s ... read more ...
 
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There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars - During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah,  the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars in the world. ICANN has accredited 579 domain name registrars just since the last ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires 53, which was held June 21-25, 2015. ICANN has also dropped the requirement that a domain registrar carry liability insurance which should great increase domain registrars ... read more ...
 
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Australian domain marketplace adult in arms over Netfleet behest scandal - Australia gets its own type of “Halvarez”. The Australian domain community is still reeling from a controversy that emerged in late September. Haven’t heard? Then you’re not an Aussie. But if private bids are shared to attract competing bidders, then that matters everywhere. The Context In order to understand this upside-down story, let’s visit the “Land Down Under”. You’ll want to pack this background info: Australia’s ccTLD is .AU – most commonly registered as .COM.AU. Outside ... read more ...
Sun 18th October 2015
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Lágrimas y emoción: Así cantaron Los Pumas el Himno argentino … -

El seleccionado nacional de rugby enfrentó este domingo a Irlanda en Cardiff, por los cuartos de final de la octava Copa del Mundo de rugby que se desarrolla en Inglaterra y Gales. En la previa del partido se vivió un momento muy individual en un estadio dominado por hinchas irlandeses. Los Pumas no ocultaron su emoción al momento de entonar las estrofas del Himno nacional argentino. Mirá el imperdible video. 

Via: lanoticia1.com

Sat 17th October 2015
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HopScotch.com Hit With UDRP By Owner of HopScotch.fr - This is a weird one for sure. A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Hopscotch.com The Complainant is listed as the Hopscotch Group, which is a french PR company whose website is on the domain name hopscotchgroupe.com The company also owns the domain Hopscotch.fr, but that domain isn’t even being forwarded to the company main website at hopscotchgroupe.com As you can see the word “groupe” in the company’s URL is spelled the “french way” with an “e” at the end. However according ... read more ...
Fri 16th October 2015
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IAC To Spin Off Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid.com + 42 More To IPO Of The Match Group (MTCH) - IAC/Interactive (IACI) is spinning off 45 sites including Match.com, Okcupid.com and Tinder into a new public company called the The Match Group which filed for an IPO Friday, applying to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker “MTCH.” The company has filed to raised up to $100 million in the IPO. According to the S-1, The Match Group had 4.7 million paying subscribers worldwide at the end of the third quarter. The company is reporting trailing twelve months revenue of $1 billion ending June ... read more ...
 
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Premières analyses pour l’élaboration du 2e cycle des nouvelles extensions génériques -   Partager cet article :En juin 2015, dans l’optique du 2e cycle du programme de lancement de nouvelles extensions, l’ICANN avait débuté un grand chantier en récoltant les premières données du 1er cycle, qui est toujours en cours. Si le planning est maintenu, l’analyse complète devrait être disponible courant 2017 comme annoncé dans un article que nous avons rédigé en juin dernier : “A quand le 2e cycle du programme des nouveaux gTLDs ? “.Même si la date est encore lointaine, ... read more ...
 
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2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS - This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”)  in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (“URS”) the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for both those organizations we can see what the case loads in terms of decisions in 2014 for UDRP and URS ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Total Number Domination! - Numeric domains take the lead in this week’s Expired Domain Report. A few days ago, while reviewing the month of September, I measured China’s contribution to high-end sales at NameJet. (Hint: It wasn’t small.) And in my previous weekly article, I discussed the ongoing appetite for 6-digit .COMs and other numerical domains that “traders are obsessed with” these days. Well, folks, the market is gluttonous. This past week, between NameJet and SnapNames, numerics took up three out ... read more ...
 
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Unblock.com Saved In UDRP But Panelist Should Have Found Reverse Domain Hijacking - NetProtect, Inc. just lost its attempt to grab the domain name unblock.com in a UDRP in a silly case that should have resulted in a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) but the panelist was IMHO lazy and decided just to throw out the case. Calvin A. Hamilton was the sole Panelist for the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) who rejected Complainant argument that it had acquired unregistered common law trademark rights. “In order to acquire rights in an unregistered trademark, Complainant ... read more ...