Monthly Archives: October 2015

Mon 5th October 2015
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This week: .Film tip turn domain name launches - It’s more restricted than the already-available .movie. array of registrars. In order to register .film domain names, you must be a member of one of these organizations. You also have to have a close tie to the name(s) you register at the second level. In other words, no speculating in .Film. .Film will compete with Donuts’ .Movie, which has about 650 registrations so far without registration restrictions (but at a hefty $300 retail price). ... read more ...
 
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A mixed week for consumers in ICANNland - ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. The action that strengthens the position of consumers was allowing the inclusion of the Uniform Rapid Suspension to be added to the renewal contracts of several “legacy” (non-new-gTLDs), such as .travel. ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. ... read more ...
 
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Richard Lau's Journey, Resume.com and NamesCon – DNW Podcast #53 - Richard Lau tells his story and what to look forward to at NamesCon 2016. Richard Lau’s life hit bottom in 2000. His business was essentially wiped out in one week. Worse, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since then he has perservered in both business and in health. On today’s show, he discusses his journey. He also talks about his Resume.com business and why he started the NamesCon conference, which returns to Las Vegas in January. Also: ICANN heads to Panama, Taco Bell goes with ta.co, .NYC ... read more ...
 
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DollarBank.com Moving Banking Internet Operations To Dollar.Bank -   DollarBank.com announced today it was going to be moving its online banking operations to the domain name Dollar.Bank in October: “.BANK is a new, more secure Internet domain for banks. It is an easily identifiable channel for trusted communications between banks and their customers. Since the .BANK environment is exclusive to the banking industry, it provides a level of security unmatched in traditional Internet environments such as .COM. The strict controls in place help to mitigate cyber ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Remodeling.com, TrueFan.com, Helix.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is always exciting as it is every changing. Large corporations spending some $$$ to secure a brand and you get an early insight into this because of domain name? YES! Large corporations SELLING domain names they already own… it happens and today proves it happens more than just once or twice.. Here is an “insiders view” of some recently purchased, registered and sold domain names by large corporations. These are often future brands, new products, new advertising campaigns and ... read more ...
 
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Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page. According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
 
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.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in June. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June. As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses. But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month ... read more ...
 
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Comcast Launches "Watchable" Video Service, Paid Reported "Six Figures" For Domain Name - Comcast has launched a new digital video platform to take on YouTube, Facebook and more with the brand name of Watchable. Comcast has secured the exact matching .com domain name to use for its newest video brand, with the stand alone website being at: Watchable.com The latest product, Watchable.com, is a free video service and focuses on videos from online services like Vice, BuzzFeed, GoPro and more via an iPhone app, web-based player or directly on Xfinity. So when did Comcast buy the domain name ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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What track is National Car Rental shopping fixing rights to? - A new stadium for the St. Louis Rams? In 2013 I scooped that Levi’s was buying naming rights to a stadium based on domain name registrations. It turned out to be for the NFL 49ers stadium. Recent domain name registrations suggest its National Car Rental’s turn. The company just registered: nationalcararena.com nationalcardome.com nationalcarentalfield.com nationalcarfield.com nationalcarrentalarena.com nationalcarrentaldome.com nationalcarrentalfield.com nationalcarrentalpark.com nationalcarrentalstadium.com nationalcarstadium.com nationalrentalarena.com nationalrentaldome.com nationalrentalfield.com nationalrentalpark.com nationalrentalstadium.com ncrarena.com ncrdome.com ncrfield.com ncrpark.com ncrstadium.com National ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Autodesk, Inc. Purchases Graphic.com Domain Name From GoDaddy.com - Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap. The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015. How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at ... read more ...
 
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Netflix Loses It's 2nd URS This Week & Why This May Kill Off The URS - Netflix has lost it’s 2nd Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) decision of the week this time on the domain name Netflix.news A few days ago we wrote about Netflix losing the URS on the domain name Netflix.website in what we described as the strangest decision of the year, which was decided by the same Examiner as this case, David J. Steele Esq. Here we go again: The domain name doesn’t resolve but the domain holder said “I registered this domain with the intention of creating a fan site, with news ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Miami Gets Almost 5,000 Registrations After It's 1st Day Of Availability - The new domain name extension .Miami , which had it’s first day of General Availability yesterday, where it could be registered on a first come, first served basis got almost 5K registration including around 200 in Sunrise. According to ntldstats.com, .Miami had 4,959 domain names in the zone after its full day of GA. The Godaddy family of registrars, dominated the top 10 of domain registrars of .Miami taking 8 out of the top 10 spots and getting over 55% of all .Miami registrations. .Miami is ... read more ...
Fri 2nd October 2015
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Stolen Domain Name XAG.com Returned Via UDRP - Michael Evans and Chord Consulting Inc. d/b/a XAG (“Complainant”), represented by John Berryhill,just got the stolen domain name xag.com returned in a one member panel UDRP decision: John J. Upchurch found the Complainant has common law rights in the XAG mark through dating back to 2009 and found the domain holder registered and used the domain name in bad faith because it obtained the domain name through theft. “Complainant has provided evidence of previously owning the domain name in dispute, ... read more ...
 
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Three Letter Domain ABG.com Held By Brand Protection Company CSC Hit With UDRP - The three-letter domain name ABG.com has gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name is being held under brand protection company CSC Corporate Domains, Inc on behalf of an unknown client The domain is not resolving at the moment. It appears the domain was sold in the past few days having been listed for sale at igloo.com It’s not uncommon for the big corporate brand protection companies like CSC or Mark Monitor to hold domains for their clients in their own name for a period of time. The company ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales Is Hiring Again; But You Still Have to Move To The Cayman's - I got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com that they are expanding their 25 person sales team once again. A little over 2 years ago we put out the message that DomainNameSales.com was hiring and a bunch of people made a life changing move to the Cayman Islands and join the company. Well DomainNameSales.com is hiring again and they asked us to let people know they are looking for “aggressive/talented sales people and they do NOT have to have industry experience” “If your looking ... read more ...
 
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Theralase Technologies Moves Toward Cancer Cure - Innovations in treating cancer have improved dramatically in the past 50 years. However, medical research continues to move toward an ultimate goal: finding a cure. As it happens, one Toronto-based company is now very close to making this goal a reality. Theralase Technologies (TLT:CA) , a leading biotechnology manufacturer focused on commercializing medical technologies to eliminate pain and destroy cancer, has made a great deal of progress moving towards Phase Ib human clinical trials. ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #22: Adrien Broner, Lucas Matthysse & more - Adrien Broner-Khabib Allakhverdiev and Lucas Matthysse-Viktor Postol previews are on tap for this week’s edition of The Living Daylights boxing podcast. Diego and I also recap Deontay Wilder‘s second title defence against the overmatched but inhumanly rugged Johann Duhaupas. Also, how excited are you about the prospect of a Roman Gonzalez-Juan Francisco Estrada rematch? Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode:  We start with Deontay Wilder, the current WBC heavyweight ... read more ...
 
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Here are Some .NYC Collision Domains That Won't Be Available To Be Registered Next Week - .NYC updated it’s list of domain names it will be releasing from the collision list next week. The collision domains will be release on 8 October 2015, these domains are being offered on a first come first served basis at normal registration fees with no premium renewal fees. There will be no auctions other than possibly at the registrar level for these domain name. The applicable names will be released in random order beginning at 3:00pm EDT and will be completed by 5:00pm EDT or sooner. Someone ... read more ...
 
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Namejet Sells Over $1.3 in Domain Names in September -

Namejet.com only reported over $1.3 million in domain sales in September.

Only sales of $2,000 or some-more are enclosed in a news and over 50% of a sales were from a sale of one domain name GJ.com that sole for 694,095.00

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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ICANN will approve extension of URS to legacy TLDs, but only in particular … - Trevor Little This week the ICANN board approved the proposed renewal of the registry agreements for the .travel’, ‘.pro’ and ‘.cat’ legacy TLDs, giving the green light for use of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system (URS) to be extended to the strings. However, addressing previous opposition to such a move, it stated that extension of the ... read more ...
 
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Gevaarlijke nieuwe extensies: Blue Coat slaat de bal volledig mis - Zoals u ongetwijfeld weet, zijn er de afgelopen 2 jaar allerlei nieuwe extensies bijgekomen op het Internet, de zogenaamde new gTLDs. Een onderzoek van Blue Coat waarschuwt nu voor meerdere van deze nieuwe extensies. Volgens hen zouden deze extensies gevaarlijk zijn omdat ze zich bezig houden met phishing of spam. Hierbij alvast enkele bedenkingen vooraleer u besluit, op basis van dit onderzoek, bepaalde extensies niet te registreren. De extensie die volgens Blue Coat de gevaarlijkste extensie ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: RSL.com, WakeUpHappy.com, RealEstate.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is an exciting series that uses domain names as a driver to breaking and interesting news relating to some of the largest companies in the world. Welcome, enjoy and spread the word about this cool and always interesting series. 4 new domain names have been registered by the “Bic” brand? The whois details on each domain name are generic at this time but contain the Bic brand name in some of the domains, which may be who the actual owner is. The domain names are: BicTrailer.com, BillionsTrailer.com, ... read more ...
 
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September's Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories - A look back at last month’s top domain name news. Ashley Madison, domain name liquidity and a domain parking lawsuit were popular topics last month. 1. Ashley Madison takes down WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com – the company got it by filing a UDRP. 2. How can we bring liquidity to the domain name business? – with nearly 100 comments, there was lots of debate on this issue. 3. Expired Domain Report: What are 6 digit domains worth? – a couple sold for over $7,000! 4. Huge victory for Domain Registrars ... read more ...
 
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.Miami domain names go on sale today - Miami gets its own domain name today. I didn’t get around to my usual weekly roundup of domain name launches, but there’s a big one happening today at noon ET: .Miami. .Miami joins .NYC and .Vegas as the only .city domain names in the United States. Unlike many of the other geo domain name launches, it’s also quite cheap. 11 is offering first year registrations for $11.99 ($22.99 renewal) and GoDaddy has a first year price of $14.99 ($24.99 renewal). 101Domain has an everyday price of $18.99. All ... read more ...
 
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PassItOn.com sells for $64,000 on Sedo - PassITon.com sold for $64,000 on Sedo,when I saw it I wondered if Mike Berkens owned it because Mike does well with popular phrases. Just yesterday Mike sold LoseYourShirt.com for $10,000 on Go Daddy. The owner was not Mike but a company called Commerce Stream. The domain has been registered since 1997 and it looks like it has had a few corporate owners over the years. In 2000 a company called SoftLock owned the domain name, then in 2003 a company called Internet Retail Billing owned it for about ... read more ...