Monthly Archives: December 2015

Thu 17th December 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
TRUSTED GLOBALLY TO PROTECT BRANDS ONLINE - The internet is changing, fast - mobile, social media and the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are fuelling exponential growth and fragmenting the landscape. This creates huge opportunities for companies wanting to optimize vital online channels, but also increases their exposure to serious and continuously evolving threats such as counterfeiting, phishing, cybersquatting ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sunday competence be a best day of NamesCon - Topic tables, networking and a wine bar greet attendees on Sunday. I typically get to Las Vegas for NamesCon on Sunday evening, and I’ve already booked the same travel for this year. Now that I’ve taken a closer look at the schedule, I regret the timing. If you haven’t booked your travel yet, try to get there earlier. Sunday, January 10 might be the most informative day for conference-goers. Multiple topic tables will be set up from noon to 6 pm, giving people the chance to chat with experts ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines has finished 1/3 of designed £15 share buyback - Company purchased another two million shares yesterday, bringing total to 59 million. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines bought another two million of its own shares for cancellation yesterday, pushing its total buybacks to £5.1 million to date. The company announced an up-to £15 million share buyback program in September, and has now spent about a third of the total within the first three months. To date, the company has purchased approximately 59 million shares, reducing its total ... read more ...
 
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SEC questioning Endurance International Group - Webhosting and domain name company reveals SEC investigation. Endurance International Group, a rollup of domain name and webhosting companies, announced today that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed: Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance”) received a subpoena dated December 10, 2015 from the Boston Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), requiring the production of certain ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Cuenta atrás para que las grandes bodegas se hagan con el ′.wine′ - Cuenta atrás para que las grandes bodegas se hagan con el '.wine' / Expansión / La libre asignación de este dominio y la posible desprotección jurídica de los vinos de denominación de origen europeos ha salpicado de polémica y ha retrasado la llegada de esta nueva extensión. El sector vitivinícola español fue en 2014 el líder mundial en exportaciones de vino con ventas superiores a los 22 millones de hectolitros. Frente a estos resultados, no cabe duda de que la llegada de los nuevos ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com's At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction - Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I’m not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these 11 domain names have a retail value of over $200,000 and they are all at no reserve (minimum bid of $300 each). Here ... read more ...
 
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.Club has sole 2,000 reward domain name so distant today - .Club registry gets solid results from release of 13,000 premium names. .Club has sold 2,000 premium domains in less than a day through its registrar channel. [Update: 4,000 sold within 24 hours.] This morning, the company started offering 13,000 domain names through its premium program that were previously registry reserved. This means the names are available at participating registrars with a premium price. 5,000 of names retail for $100 or less, and all of the domains renew at standard prices. Some ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 21 au 27 décembre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Ouverture à tous :21/12 – .reitSi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est registrar accrédité pour toutes ces extensions. Nos chargés de clientèle sont à votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire ou pour commander vos noms de domaine. N’hésitez pas à nous contacter en utilisant notre formulaire en ligne, par email domaines@safebrands.com ou téléphone au +33 (0)1 80 82 82 60. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Congresso americano continua a tentar impedir perda de controlo da Internet - Os Republicanos aprovaram medidas de contenção orçamental para 2016 e entre elas está uma que impede a National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a entidade que gere o ICANN, que por sua vez gere a IANA, de gastar qualquer verba com a transferência de responsabilidades nas funções relacionadas com o sistema de nomes de domínio Internet.  Ao que indica o The Verge, contudo, os Republicanos esqueceram-se de todo o tempo que ainda vai ser necessário para o governo avaliar ... read more ...
 
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Sharks.TV, 420.agency and other End User domain name sales - A condo board, marijuana company and rugby site bought domain names last week. Is the low-hanging fruit in short domain names gone? Sedo’s sales and dollar volume dropped this week. It turned in 602 transactions totaling $1.1 million. That’s nothing to sneeze at, but is lower than previous weeks. No matter. This column is about end user domain name sales. YogaShop.com and TheHairShop.com are still in escrow, but at $20k each, they’re definitely end user purchases. Sharks.tv sold for $15,000, ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com wants to keep Trust while improving a service - GM Jackson Elsegood says support and usability enhancements are key initiatives for leading escrow service. Jackson Elsegood, GM for Escrow.comEscrow.com is under new ownership. With a change at the top, there’s been a bit of concern over making sure the core escrow product remains intact. Yesterday I spoke with Jackson Elsegood, the new General Manager for Escrow.com. His message is pretty clear: the core product and pricing will stay, and service and usability enhancements are on the way. What’s ... read more ...
 
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2015 in Review: The Year That Was in New TLDs - In looking back at what has occurred in the new TLD world in 2015, it is hard to believe that it's all taken place in just a short 12 month period. As an industry, we set off into this year realising that we had a hard game ahead — as with all innovation, we knew that each step forward would require significant effort, knowhow and collaboration. We'd made big steps in 2014 to get started, but would 2015 move us forward or fizzle out? On the whole, 2015 has been an incredibly successful ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Radioihead Backs Community-Based Application for the New gTLD ‘.Music’ - Ed O'Brien, guitarist from the band Radiohead, is the latest musician expressing support for DotMusic's community-based application for the new gTLD .music, reports Kevin Murphy from Domain Incite. "In a letter to ICANN today (pdf), O'Brien said that if DotMusic loses its ongoing Community Priority Evaluation, it will 'be setting back the world's chances of a Fair Trade Music Industry by many years'. 'I challenge The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers views that the global ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 million - Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: thehairshop.com yogashop.com at 20,000 USD (tie) Top ccTLD: sharks.tv at 15,000 USD Top “other” TLD: pricecompare.org at 4,280 USD New GTLD sales: 1.direct 2,500 USDcrosspoint.church    1,999    USDmaster.degree    1,499    EUR800.club    1,451    USDxiu.xyz    1,250   ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
55 Three Letter .Com's From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China - I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com’s. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored by Chinese domain investors those without vowels or the letter “v” Some repeaters are included. The ... read more ...
 
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Sete domínios do Pirate Bay foram suspensos - Mais domínios do popular site de torrents The Pirate Bay foram suspensos. Os problemas, que estão relacionados com o sistema de verificação do ICANN, já afetam pelo menos sete domínios, incluindo o ThePirateBay.com e o navegador anticensura Pirate Browser. Na semana passada, o The Pirate Bay teve um problema sério com um dos seus domínios-chave, quando o ThePirateBay.org original foi suspenso pelo seu registrador, o EuroDNS, devido a um problema na verificação da Corporação da Internet ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx - The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. Of course there are a ton of other trademarks on the term from cookies to clothing to bean bag chairs. The domain recently transferred which often will be cause a UDRP filing. The domain name is parked and has been parked for a long time. We will keep ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Top-Level-Domains – Markenschutz beachten – www.wirtschaft - Bildrechte: Flickr Domain Name Extensions Tristan CC BY 2.0 Bestimmte Rechte vorbehaltenWeltweit gibt es über 960 Millionen Webseiten. Ein absolutes Erkennungsmerkmal einer Homepage ist ihre Domain, unter der man sie im Internet finden kann. Besonders wichtig sind dabei Endungen, die für viele Menschen ein Qualitätsmerkmal darstellen. Die meisten davon enden auf klassischen Top-Level-Domains (TLD) wie .de, .net oder .com. Seit vergangenem Jahr gesellen sich zu diesen bekannten Endungen nun ... read more ...
 
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Yes, gTLDs Can Rank Just as Well as .com Domains in Google - The last couple of years there are have been a ton of wild and wonderful gTLDs unleashed, and some of them see a little on the crazier side.  Want to proclaim yourself a .guru?  Have a restaurant and want to use .bar or .menu? Want to be a .ninja?  While all these new gTLDs have mixed popularity, what about their value from an SEO perspective? Google has commented previously in a blog post that they treat all gTLDs the same as any other when it comes to their search index, something that both ... read more ...
 
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Winners from China - A look at some of the winners from the Chinese domain name boom, from last week’s Domain Name Wire newsletter. Do you subscribe to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter? If you don’t, here’s what you’re missing. This was published as part of the newsletter that went out last week. You can sign up for the newsletter by sending a blank email to domain_name_wire@getresponse.net or use the signup box in the right column of this page. China is making it a great year for the domain name industry. Few ... read more ...
 
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Women in Domaining earnings to NamesCon - One of the most important events during NamesCon is returning for next month’s event in Las Vegas. Women in Domaining, a networking event for women in the domain name industry, will take place on Tuesday, January 12. This year’s event will be poolside at the Tropicana and feature a full buffet. Although the number of women in the domain name industry is growing, it’s still an industry made up primarily of men. This event is a great way for women to network before the evening’s Waternight ... read more ...
 
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.brands – the growth of new domains - In 2013, agreements were signed for the first batch of new sponsored generic top-level domains (gTLDs) under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) expansion policy. Among the applicants for new gTLDs were 594 brand owners, seeking ownership of 675 of their own ‘.brand’ domains. .brand domains are defined specifically as those where the operator of the domain’s registry service is also the owner (or affiliate of the owner) of a trade mark registered with the Trademark ... read more ...
 
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500 European banks join rush for .bank domains - News: TLD offers extra security. Over 500 European financial institutions have registered for .bank top level domains (TLDs). The domains have additional security functionality built in, and the hope is that they will help reduce cyber crime and make the internet safer.Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic who issued the data said: "Restructuring the aspects that allow cybercrime in banking is a priority and tackling the domain element will significantly reduce the chances of online intellectual property ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
 
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.Eco crook files heading focus for .Eco - What is planet.ECO up to with its latest trademark filing? A company that appears to be out of the running for the .Eco top level domain name has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “.Eco”. planet.ECO LLC was one of four applicants for the .Eco top level domain name. Rival applicant Big Room won a Community Priority Evaluation for .Eco, meaning it will get rights to run the domain name exclusively. Two other applicants, Donuts and Minds + Machines, filed with ICANN for the Independent ... read more ...