Monthly Archives: October 2015

Fri 16th October 2015
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Sedo GreatDomains auction launches with 2 and 3 minute .coms - One domain name has a $425,000 bid already, but hasn’t met its reserve. If you want to have a successful domain name auction these days, stuff it full of two and three character .com domain names. Sedo just started its monthly GreatDomains auction, and short domains are attracting all of the attention. At the top of the list is EZ.com, which has two bids up to $425,000 and a reserve range between $500,000 and $1 million. Two three character domains have already hit their reserves: DCR.com is at ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 19 au 25 octobre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Semaine importante pour les professions juridiques avec l’ouverture à tous des nouvelles extensions .LAW et .ABOGADO. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Fermeture période Sunrise :22/10 – .srlOuverture période EAP :21/10 – .live21/10 – .studioFermeture période EAP :19/10 – .law19/10 – .abogadoOuverture à tous :19/10 – .law19/10 – .abogadoSi vous êtes intéressé, ... read more ...
 
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Afilias acquires 101Domain - Hello, vertical integration. Domain name registry Afilias has acquired domain name registrar 101Domain. Afilias, which manages the .info and .mobi domain names as well as a bunch of new TLDs, now owns a registrar known for carrying every domain name under the sun. 101Domain made a name for itself by carrying just about every domain name, regardless of how challenging their requirements. One of the reasons I quote pricing for new TLDs at 101Domain is because I can be sure they’re carrying it; I ... read more ...
 
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Twitter is meddlesome in a second turn of new gtld applications - TrademarksandBrandsOnline.com published an article that Twitter plans to participate in the second round of new gtld expansion. Stephen Coates is trademark counsel for the social media giant, he told the website that he doesn’t know exactly which extensions they would apply for, but that he would imagine .Twitter being high on the list. Interestingly Coates said the jury was still out on whether or not there are marketing benefits by using a new gtld, but he did think there were other benefits ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2015
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Blackstone's B2R Holdings Rebrands As Lending.com - B2R Holdings, a portfolio company of a Blackstone Group (LPBX ) , announced today that B2R rebranded itself as Lending.com and said it hoped to extend $10 billion in loans over the next three years. According to Jason Hogg, the  CEO of Lending.com, expects to help facilitate $10 billion in loans in the next three years. Lending.com was founded with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities. Blackstone, is the world’s biggest private-equity firm with more than $330 billion under management. The ... read more ...
 
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Tim Schoon Auctioned off 118 4 letter.coms on 4.cn - Tim Schoon of PEJ.com auctioned off 118 four letter .com domains on 4.CN. The auction ended yesterday, some wondered why Tim auctioned them all off on the same day ? There was a discussion about it on Namepros and Tim gave his rationale. I even thought a smart trader would control the supply to get maximum price out of each sales. I’m so wrong. Seems to me the bubble is not ripe yet. I held this auction at 4.cn today. There are some very large buyers out there who do not bother bidding ... read more ...
 
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How we did on a .Miami domain name launch - .Miami is growing quickly, and I’m pleased to have picked up a number of good domains in it. The .Miami top level domain name launched on October 2. It’s off to a good start, with nearly 10,000 domain names in the zone file. It’s growing at a good clip, too. I’m a big fan of geos and went relatively “big” on .miami compared to other domain names. (Granted, big for me in new TLDs isn’t all that much.) I pre-ordered 35 domain, including a couple that had small annual premiums, with several ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board to rethink .Hospital preference subsequent week - .Hospital has been on life support since bad objection decision. .Hospital is on life support.ICANN’s Board of Directors will consider the fate of a .Hospital top level domain name when it meets on Sunday. It’s a chance for the board to right a wrong. .Hospital was killed off after two of three panelists agreed with a Limited Public Interest Objection filed by the Independent Objector. The panelists disregarded the guidelines and essentially created their own standard for if .hospital should ... read more ...
 
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University of Cambridge withdraws heading plea after UDRP loss - Tail between the legs. University of Cambridge has withdrawn a challenge to a trademark application for a Cambridge.com logo after losing a UDRP for the same domain name. As I reported earlier this week, a UDRP panel admonished the 800-year-old university for making some incorrect statements in a UDRP for Cambridge.com. It seems the UDRP and trademark opposition were filed as a way to get the domain name. Once the UDRP failed so miserably, the university backtracked. John Berryhill represented domain ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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TLD Podcast #23: Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux & more - Gennady Golovkin–David Lemieux takes center stage on this week’s podcast. Diego and I break the fight down from every conceivable angle and debate whether Lemieux can pull off a shocking upset of GGG. Viktor Postol and Adrien Broner’s big wins are also up for discussion, as are the slew of sickening knockouts from last weekend. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux is finally upon us. But will the fight live up to its lofty expectations? ... read more ...
 
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Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter .Com Domain Sale Today - The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy.  However the servers did not change and the domain was registered at Godaddy while it was owned by VS Media, Inc. VS.com as recently as 2006 was an adult site Video Secrets according to Screenshots.com More recently the domain was used to sell Customized Live Video Web Communication The domain name’s whois ... read more ...
 
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There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold -   The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance Technologies, who owned the domain since at least 2001. The domain has an original creation date of March 3rd, 1989. The buyer is Xu Caijun of Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co., Ltd. of HangZhou, China. If you’re asking how would anyone know that the domain name was for sale? All you had to do is check out the domain PT.com It looks like ... read more ...
 
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Calvin Harris wins cybersquatting explain for CalvinHarris.com - Famous musician gets .com domain name. DJ and Taylor Swift boyfriend Calvin Harris has won rights to the domain name CalvinHarris.com through a World Intellectual Property Organization proceeding. Harris, whose real name is Adam R. Wiles, successfully argued that the owner of the domain name was cybersquatting. His attorneys sent a demand letter to the domain name owner and didn’t hear back. The domain name led to a parking page, which apparently also offered the domain name for sale for $49,999. Harris’ ... read more ...
 
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.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2% - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard.” The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registrations over the last 12 months, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to 10,547,247. Other findings outlined in The Dashboard include: .org registrations in international markets demonstrate steady growth, particularly in Asia where China has 3.2 percent ... read more ...
 
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What's inside 1 Month of Network Solutions emails? - What is Network Solutions pitching to its customers in all of that email? Here’s the answer. Anyone who has registered a domain name with Web.com registrars Network Solutions and Register.com know that the company sends lots of promotional emails. How many? One per business day. Now, I know a lot of retailers send daily promotional emails to customers. But I’m not aware of other registrars that do this. If nothing else, it shows there’s not much more juice the company can ring out of customers ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September - Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com list. In all 2356 .com domain names were registered that contained XYZ and here is the list of  September .com registrations that contained XYZ Curiously the domain name google-abcdefghijklmnopkrstuvwxyz.com was registered in September before it was ... read more ...
 
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Netflix Finally Wins A URS on Netflix.pics; The Difference?; The Domain Was Parked - Netflix finally won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case on the domain name Netflix.pics Netflix recently lost two URS cases on the domain names Netflix.news and Netflix.website. There were two difference between this case of Netflix.pics and the other two URS they lose One was the Examiner which in this case was Debrett Gordon Lyons. Unlike the other two cases where the domain names did not resolve with the domain holder claiming they were intending to launch sites on Netflix.news and Netflix.website, ... read more ...
 
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N+1 Singer Reiterates corporate Rating for Minds + Machines Group (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating restated by research analysts at N+1 Singer in a report issued on Monday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. In related news, insider Elliott,Guy bought 650,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 23rd. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, with a total value of £52,000 ($79,669.07). Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) ... read more ...
 
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XYZ is trending…in .Com - XYZ makes .com’s trending keywords list. The .XYZ domain name has garnered a lot of attention since Google’s new parent company Alphabet selected ABC.XYZ for its domain name in August. Now XYZ is hot in .com. Verisign released its monthly review of the top “trending” keywords in .com for last month, and sitting at #6 is .xyz. Verisign and .XYZ are due in court early next month for a false advertising lawsuit, in which Verisign claims .xyz’s marketing has hurt .com. Hmmm…perhaps it’s ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2015
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What Makes .Desi Desirable? An Inside Look at an Undiscovered TLD That … - perfect example of what "desi" is all about. He explained, "Desi is derived from Sanskrit and refers to the culture, people and products originating from the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led by SkinWellness.com @ $15K & 0702.com At 10K GBP - Sedo.com published its transactions for the week. Lots of LLLL.com continue to sell in the low $x,xxx range In all 631 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: skinwellness.com at 15,000 USD and 0702.com which sold at $10,000 GBP which is actually higher than $15k · Top ccTLD: lola.co at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: non.org at 9,888 USD   ... read more ...
 
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Application for .gay TLD Rejected for the Second Time - ICANN has rejected the application from dotgay LLC for a second time, saying the .gay string does not match the community that dotgay claims to represent. "The Community Priority Evaluation panel has determined that the applied-for string does not identify or match the name of the community as defined in the application, nor is it a well known short-form or abbreviation of the community. It therefore does not meet the requirements," ICANN said. The decision means that the group, based in ... read more ...
 
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Portfolio Update: October Launches and Renewal Rates - Minds + Machines Group Limited announces the highly successful launch of .MIAMI, the start of the Early Access Program for .law, and initial renewal rates for its geo portfolio. .miami launch Following a co-ordinated marketing campaign with GoDaddy, the world's largest internet domain name registrar, and HelloDotMiami, a registrar specializing in Spanish-language registrations, the Company reported that .MIAMI has secured over 8,000 registrations in its first seven days, making it the ... read more ...
 
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The Web’s 10 most shady neighborhoods - Just like any city or town, the Web has parts -- neighborhoods if you will -- where dubious activities frequently take place: spam, scams, the distribution of potentially unwanted software (PUS), malware, botnets, phishing and other suspicious activity.Enterprise security specialist Blue Coat Systems regularly analyzes hundreds of millions of Web requests from more than 15,000 businesses and 75 million users to track "shady activity" on the Web. In September, it released a list of the 10 top-level ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLD: .Study - You might want to study this domain name. Yep, there only appears to be one new top level domain name launching this week according to the Calzone.org calendar. That means it gets a little extra attention. Open Universities Australia Pty Ltd (OAU) launches .Study in general availability on Wednesday. OUA is a not-for-profit company committed to the provision of online education, especially in Australia. Originally it wanted to restrict the domain name to a number of partners, but it has since agreed ... read more ...