Happy New Year - Everyone here at TheDomains.com would like to wish you a Happy and healthy new year. Things will be changing around here, after 8 years Michael will be able to do something other than be on a computer 24/7. The first post on TheDomains was here on December 4, 2007. Since that first post there have been over 9,100 posts, over 93,000 comments and close to 9 million views.
I want to thank Michael for everything he has done for the industry and for the opportunity to work with him for 2 years here on ... read more ...
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Thu 31st December 2015
Do You Own Any New gTLD Domain Names? -
The new gTLD domain name program continues to be one of the most polarizing topics in the domain space. It seems that there are passionate people who feel strongly for or against the new gTLD domain names.
There are now over 11 million registered new gTLD domain names. I would imagine that many of these domain names are owned by domain speculators / investors. As we close out the year, I thought I would ask if you bought and still own any new gTLD domain names.
I believe my companies own ... read more ...
Zhuang Jia: Chinese Pump and Dump - Joseph Peterson draws parallels between market manipulators in Chinese stock markets and the domain name market.
An article just published by Bloomberg gives us an x-ray glimpse into a Chinese investment culture reliant on pump-and-dump schemes. The parallels with domain market activity during 2015 are so obvious that even this sentence feels a bit redundant.
A Shanghai accountant sums it all up:
If you want to make a quick buck from the stock market, you’d better look for stocks with manipulators ... read more ...
Are we promulgation 1099 Tax Forms? Here's how to make it easy. - Online services make it easier to remain compliant with 1099s.
If you’re a U.S. domainer that pays freelancers, contractors or a law firm, then you’re likely required to send out 1099s each year.
Fortunately, there’s an easy and cheap way to do it online.
First, here are examples of whom you need to send a 1099 to:
Your web guy you paid to fix up or work on a website
The landlord you pay rent to for your office
The law firm you paid during the year to respond to a UDRP or handle a cease desist
A ... read more ...
The Uniform Rapid Suspension System – ICANN’s fast-track domain name … - ICANN’s Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) seeks to offer trademark holders a quick and cost-effective way of tackling infringing domain names. The URS is designed to sit alongside the existing Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDRP) system, as a quicker, cheaper alternative to the UDRP. However, the high burden of proof in the URS and the limited extent of its jurisdiction mean that the UDRP will continue to be the appropriate forum in many cases.
The expansion of gTLDs and the risk to ... read more ...
Plummeters of Yesterday – Rightside Group Ltd (NAME), CYS Investments Inc … -
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Wall Street dropped on Wednesday as Brent crude slid towards 11-year lows and Apple weighed on the SP 500 index, which clung to a meager gain for 2015.
Heading into Wednesday’s session, the SP 500 was up 19.46 points (0.95%) on the year. The Dow was down 102.09 points (0.57%) on the year. The Nasdaq NDAQ -0.61% Composite is up 7.85%, or 371.88 points. The Nasdaq is benefiting from its exposure to tech names like ... read more ...
Wed 30th December 2015
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15 Year Old Domain StinkySocks.com Saved In UDRP - The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey (“Complainant”), of Massachusetts, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name stinkysocks.com
in a UDRP rather than just pay the domain holder the $6,500 he was asking for the domain.
The domain was registered on February 2, 2000.
The Complainant trademark was registered over 15 years later on September 22, 2015 and at that the trademark was for the term “STINKYSOCKS HOCKEY”
Ho Hyun Nahm, Esq. was the sole Panelist who rules in favor of ... read more ...
Owner of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com Wants "$2 Million At Least" - Back in August we wrote about the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com which is has become Donald Trump’s famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run.
At the time we noted that although “The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012, the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th 2015.
The domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com was first registered in 2009 under the domain name registrar 1and1.com, however the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com ... read more ...
Take-Two Interactive registers Genesis domain names - Company registers 10 “Genesis” domain names.
Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the popular Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock games, registered a number of domain names related to “Genesis” yesterday:
genesis-dedication.com
genesis-home.com
genesis-honor.com
genesis-medic.com
genesis-remote.com
genesis-rise.com
genesis-slab.com
genesis-soul.com
genesis-spring.com
genesis-zmen.com
Oddly, the company didn’t register any of the unhyphenated versions of these domain names.
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StinkySocks.com UDRP was a stinker - Domain registered at least 6 years before hockey league was created.
No surprise here: a National Arbitration Forum panel has determined that a case against StinkySocks.com was a stinker.
Complainant The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey, runs an adult hockey league in Boston. It started using the StinkySocks name as early as 2006.
The problem is that the owner of the domain name registered it in 2000. Thus, there was no way it registered the domain name in bad faith so it could charge ... read more ...
Tue 29th December 2015
2015 se cierra con 11 millones de nuevos dominios registrados -
Han pasado ya 30 años desde que se registró el primer dominio symbolics.com y ya hay registrados aproximadamente 300 millones de dominios de primer nivel (TLD, de Top-Level Domain). Para responder al crecimiento experimentado por Internet en estas tres últimas décadas, ICANN, la máxima autoridad en materia de dominios, ha puesto en marcha un proceso de liberalización de nuevas extensiones, conocidas como ngTLD (new generic Top-Level Domain) o, como se les conoce más comúnmente, nuevos dominios.
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2015 in Review: New TLDs - How new top level domain names progressed this year.
New top level domain names came out with a whimper in 2014, with plenty of birth pangs.
What about 2015?
It wasn’t a break-through year
Hundreds more top level domain names hit the market during 2015. But adoption of new domains didn’t take off, proving what many in the industry have been saying: this is going to be a long, gradual process.
Most top level domain names have fewer than 10,000 registrations. Only 15 have 100,000 or more registrations, ... read more ...
TGW.com saved in uncanny UDRP - No reverse domain name hijacking, but TGW.com to remain with owner.
A three-person National Arbitration Forum panel has denied a case seeking transfer of TGW.com and thegolfwarehouse.com.
The complainant, RG Golf, Inc. (“Complainant”) filed the case against The Golf Warehouse, Inc.
The Golf Warehouse has owned the domain names since 1997. But there’s a bit of history between then and now.
In 2000, The Golf Warehouse filed a UDRP against the complainant in this case for GolfWarehouse.com. The ... read more ...
Mon 28th December 2015
Balanço 2015/Perspetivas 2016: DNS.pt consolida modelo e parte para novos desafios -
Por Luisa Lopes Gueifão (*)
Começando por olhar retrospetivamente, 2015 foi, para além de um ano de consolidação, um ano marcado pelo crescimento do .pt e pelo lançamento de novos serviços e iniciativas que acabam por refletir a dinâmica que sempre quisemos impor à nossa atividade enquanto registry nacional do .pt.
Difícil é destacar o que de mais importante foi feito, desde logo, porque os projetos mais emblemáticos irão prolongar-se para 2016. De qualquer forma, não podemos deixar ... read more ...
Balanço 2015/Perspetivas 2016: DNS.pt consolida modelo e parte para novos desafios - Por Luisa Lopes Gueifão (*)Começando por olhar retrospetivamente, 2015 foi, para além de um ano de consolidação, um ano marcado pelo crescimento do .pt e pelo lançamento de novos serviços e iniciativas que acabam por refletir a dinâmica que sempre quisemos impor à nossa atividade enquanto registry nacional do .pt.Difícil é destacar o que de mais importante foi feito, desde logo, porque os projetos mais emblemáticos irão prolongar-se para 2016. De qualquer forma, não podemos deixar ... read more ...
Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction - Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com, including one that has an Estibot value of over $5 Million Dollars.
That domain name is Penis.com, one of the premier “adult” domains but which is one of those adult words you can say on broadcast television. Penis.com of course can be used as a medical site.
Let’s remember that of the top-selling domain names of all time several are adult ... read more ...
En 2015 se registraron 11 millones de dominios, y en 2016 llegará … - Han pasado ya muchos años (30, para ser exactos) desde que se registró el primer dominio symbolics.com y ya hay registrados aproximadamente 300 millones de dominios de primer nivel (TLD, de Top-Level Domain), según informan en arsys. Esta demanda de dominios ha hecho necesario que la ICANN abra un proceso de liberalización de nuevas extensiones, conocidas como ngTLD (new generic Top-Level Domain). Desde su blog indican:Las primeras nuevas extensiones comenzaron a llegar al mercado a principios ... read more ...
Why we only done a concession to Internet Archive - Do you use a useful website from a non-profit? Consider donating.
I use a lot of tools for research for Domain Name Wire, and many of these are free.
Today I used Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to research the prior use of a website. While I was there, I noticed that Internet Archive is asking for donations to keep its operations running.
It’s easy to overlook such a request. But the reality is that many great resources wouldn’t exist without the support of their users, and Internet Archive ... read more ...
2016 Domain Name Biz Predictions – DNW Podcast #64 - Industry pros give their predictions for 2016.
It’s the annual predictions podcast! Listen to predictions from over a dozen people in the domain name business about what’s on tap for 2016: Bill Sweetman, Michael Castello, Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu, Igloo, Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz, Braden Pollock, Richard Tindal, Giuseppe Graziano, .Club, THE Domain Conference, Christa Taylor, Richard Lau, Public Interest Registry CEO Brian Cute, Dan Adamson, Joe Alagna, Michele Neylon and InterNetX.
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TAG-Domains Becomes an Accredited Registrar for Oman country-code Top-Level Domain (.OM) – ag-IP -
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MUSCAT – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Domain Names (TAG-Domains), a subsidiary of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP), and an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accredited registrar signified a new milestone in its history and became an accredited registrar for the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) of Sultanate ... read more ...
TAG-Domains Becomes an Accredited Registrar for Oman country-code Top-Level … – ag-IP -
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MUSCAT – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Domain Names (TAG-Domains), a subsidiary of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP), and an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accredited registrar signified a new milestone in its history and became an accredited registrar for the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) of Sultanate ... read more ...
BenPao.com during $25.7k in Chinese-dominated week for lapsed domains - Chinese buyers pick up the top spots last week.
Thanks to mulled cider and holiday caroling, this article appears later than usual. Fa la la la la! While these auctions took place the week prior to Christmas (December 16-22), we decided against publishing on Christmas Day.
As you can see, China came back with a vengeance. 10 sales over $2k were 4-letter .COMs, proving that category hasn’t been completely diverted from the expiry cycle after all – not yet. As many as 17 of the top 30 ... read more ...
Sun 27th December 2015
Google Buys More "Letter" .Com's: Now owns 19 of Them; Maybe usually 6 Left - Google bought several more “letter”.com’s yesterday picking up
abcdefghijkl.com
abcdefghijklm.com
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com
All registered in 2004.
Since turning the domain world on its head buying abc.xyz Google now owns:
ABCDEFGHI.COM
ABCDEFGHIJ.COM
ABCDEFGHIJK.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKL.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLM.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY.COM
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.COM
Google ... read more ...
Thu 24th December 2015
TLD vous souhaite de joyeuses fêtes -
Plus que quelques heures avant l’ouverture des festivités. Il est donc and que temps flow TLD de vous souhaiter de joyeuses fêtes 2015 à commencer standard un bon réveillon ce soir.
En espérant, comme d’habitude, que le père Noël soit particulièrement généreux en cadeaux high-tech. Et en attendant son passage, pensez à suivre son parcours à travers la planète.
Via: touslesdrivers.com