Monthly Archives: December 2015

Sat 19th December 2015
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Internet grows to 299 mn domain names in the third quarter of 2015 - VeriSign, which is in domain names and Internet security, announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Sept. 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of approximately 3.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1 percent over the second quarter ... read more ...
 
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Digital media is on lane to pass television - Barron’s took a look at advertising for 2016, while 2016 is projected to be stronger than 2015 it could come in below initial expectations. Traditional ad sales are continuing to move lower and digital may be off slightly. From the article: Still, digital media is on track to overtake television as the No. 1 media category for the first time, reaching $68 billion in advertising revenue in 2016, according to Magna Global, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies. The hottest category, mobile, ... read more ...
 
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Perú y Ecuador cierran exitoso ciclo de reuniones binacionales en Jaén - Lizeth Terán Salvatierra Enviada especial a Jaén Una nueva página se suma en la historia actual de Perú y Ecuador. Tras una serie de reuniones de gabinete y encuentros presidenciales, ayer concluyó el Noveno Encuentro Binacional entre los mandatarios de Perú y Ecuador, Ollanta Humala Tasso y Rafael Correa Delgado, en la provincia de Jaén, región Cajamarca. A su llegada a la ciudad, el presidente ecuatoriano resaltó el actual estado de paz luego de los años de conflicto entre ambos ... read more ...
 
 
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Internet groeit naar 299 miljoen domeinnamen in Q3 - In het derde kwartaal van dit jaar werden wereldwijd ongeveer 3,1 miljoen nieuwe domeinnamen geregistreerd. Daarmee komt het totaal uit op ongeveer 299 miljoen domeinnamen, verdeeld over alle top-level domains (TLDs), zo blijkt uit onderzoek van VeriSign.  De groei van het aantal domeinnamen in Q3 komt neer op een stijging van 1,1 procent op kwartaalbasis. Op jaarbasis was sprake van een groei van 14,8 miljoen domeinnamen, oftewel 5,2 procent. Het aantal .com en .net domeinnamen gezamenlijk ... read more ...
 
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PPC pide a Nadine Heredia que respete su alianza con el Apra | El Comercio Perú - El presidente del Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC), Raúl Castro, exigió a la primera dama Nadine Heredia que respete el acuerdo político de su agrupación con el Partido Aprista y que lleva por nombre Alianza Popular. En declaraciones a Canal N, Raúl Castro pidió a Nadine Heredia que, "como primera dama que nos representa a todos", se abstenga de descalificar a sus adversarios políticos tal como lo hizo hoy. Cabe ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
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Sedo has watched buy it now go from 2% to 56% - Sedo put together a graphic in their latest newsletter that chronicled buy it now sales. 2008 saw buy it now at just 2% now they are at 56% with numbers over 65% in recent weeks. Debates go back and forth about whether or not to list your names at buy it now or make an offer. There are pros and cons for both. The biggest con for buy it now is you will never hit that outlier homerun. You don’t know if it is Google hitting the buy it now or little Joe’s thrift shop. The flipside is that many businesses ... read more ...
 
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Neustar’s Career Site Launched Under Its Own Branded TLD: ‘careers.neustar’ - We're proud to announce that Neustar's careers webpage has been re-launched as a stand-alone website: careers.neustar Yep, that's the complete address — thanks to the use of our very own top-level domain (TLD), .neustar. It's not only simple and easy to remember, but also shows that by using a ".brand" domain strategy to connect with a target audience, we're drinking our own Kool-Aid. As the world's leading company in launching and operating TLDs, every day we're seeing more and more ... read more ...
 
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‘.feedback’ and ‘.sucks’ on criticism sites and trademark owners’ concerns … - Tim Lince In the trademark world, the high sunrise fees charged by the registries behind the ‘.sucks’ and ‘.feedback’ gTLDs have been one of the talking points of 2015. While trademark owners lament the potentially budget-busting annual registration fees being charged in sunrise, the registries themselves stress value for money and the desire ... read more ...
 
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BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get's $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner - The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the  Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become the 4th two letter .com in the auction, but it joins AT.com as the second two letter domain that is a word. I had a chance to chat with the owner of the domain, André Eidskrem, about the very interesting history behind the domain name and why he is now ... read more ...
 
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Verisign IDNs: Landrush sum and Premium Domains - Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seemed that the company was considering a declining price “Early Access” model for landrush. Early Access was popularized by Donuts, and is essentially a dutch auction model in which the price to register a domain name decreases over time. Verisign is ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno… - Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll never let me forget that “the splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass”. He’d take a fairly dim view of domaining. Come to think of it, every other sentence the man wrote was a yelp in response to some metaphysical flea bite. So Adorno beats ewoks ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 299 mln domain names in Q3 - Approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 September, according to VeriSign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of approximately 3.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1 percent over the second quarter. Worldwide registrations grew by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year-on-year. ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 299 mln domain names in Q3 – VeriSign - About 3.1 million domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter, taking the total number of registered domain names to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of end 30 September, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase equates to a growth rate of 1.1 percent from the second quarter. Worldwide registrations grew by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in Q3, reaching ... read more ...
 
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Neustar: Linking What Matters - As company continues to evolve, it files trademarks for likely new slogan. Neustar has been shifting its revenue base from a telecom contract to marketing, domain names and more. Based on recent trademark filings, it appears the company will adopt the slogan “Linking What Matters” going forward. The company filed six intent-to-use trademark applications for “Linking What Matters”, and the goods and services descriptions cover basically everything the company offers. That includes, of course, ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #29: Lee-Saunders, Jennings-Ortiz & more -

Apr 11, 2015; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Andy Lee (black and red gloves) punches Peter Quillin during their middleweight quarrel during Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Via: thelivingdaylights.co

Thu 17th December 2015
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Close to 3.1 Million Domain Names Registered in the Third Quarter of 2015 - Approximately 3.1 million domain names were registered in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names close to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Sept. 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief by Verisign. The increase of approximately 3.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1 percent over the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year - Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 135.2 million domain names in the domain name ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out - Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to register of the once 100,000 according to the tracker provided by the registry. The XYZ registry easily allows people to see what domain names are available by clicking the download CSV file on the tracker page, which displays the available domain names ... read more ...
 
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Who Will Be The Big Winners and Losers of the New TLDs? - We’d like to welcome Mark Jeftovic as a guest author. In the domaining world he’s known for stirring up some controversy in the past. Mark lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and daughter, he’s the founder and president of easyDNS.com – the DNS hosting provider domain name registrar, a libertarian and ex- Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). When ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Gazetteer profiles 1,200 tip turn domain names - Guide covers the growing number of top level domain options. Domain name registrar Com Laude and sister company Valideus, both in the business of managing domain names for brands, released the third edition of the Domain Name Gazetteer today. A gazetteer is a geographical index or dictionary, and that aptly describes the publication. It features 1,200 top level domain names, each with information about restrictions, purpose, links to dispute policies, etc. It’s a handy datasheet, if you will, about ... read more ...
 
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Com Laude published the 3rd Report "Gazetteer of Domain Names" - Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, etc.). Here are some interesting observations from the report: “There are now over 300 million registered ... read more ...
 
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Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com - Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com as part of its Alphabet domain name strategy. Google now owns: ABCDEFGHI.COM ABCDEFGHIJ.COM ABCDEFGHIJK.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.COM The ... read more ...
 
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Health Canada Approves Clinical Trial Application for Anti-Cancer Drug - [ACCESSWIRE] TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2015 / Theralase Technologies Inc. ("Theralase" or the "Company") (TSXV:TLT) (OTC:TLTFF), a leading biotechnology manufacturer focused on commercializing medical technologies to eliminate pain and destroy cancer, announced today that Health Canada has approved its next generation anti-cancer drug, TLD-1433, under Clinical Trial Application ("CTA") for evaluation in a Phase Ib clinical trial for patients inflicted with Non-Muscle Invasive ... read more ...
 
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Sedo links adult with .EU whois to sell domains - Name not available? Whois searchers will now see if it’s for sale. EURid is now showing if a domain name is listed for sale at Sedo when someone does a whois lookup, and linking directly to the sale listing. This is a nifty deal. Keep in mind that full .eu whois records are only available at EURid’s website, so many people use the actual website to look up whois records. Now, if they see the domain is registered, they will be notified that it can still be obtained (see picture below). A couple ... read more ...