Monthly Archives: December 2015

Wed 9th December 2015
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The late Igal Lichtman, aka Mrs Jello, loses a terrible UDRP decision - Panel re-writes UDRP and “registered in bad faith” requirement. The heirs of the late Igal Lichtman, commonly known in domain name circles as Mrs Jello, have lost a UDRP decision for the common name Camilla.com. The case was filed by Australian clothing company Camilla Australia Pty Ltd, which uses the domain Camilla.com.au. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel determined that, even though the domain name was registered prior to the Complainant having rights in the (common ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Weekly Transactions sum $1.4 million led by Tonic.com during $80,000 -

Over a past week, 654 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4M.

60% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

HIGHLIGHTS OF PUBLIC SALES ARE:

· Top .com: TONIC.COM during 80,000 USD

· Top ccTLD: CAM.TV during 13,000 USD

· Top “other” TLD: LEARNINGMACHINE.ORG during 6,150 USD

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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"China" is #1 trending word in .Com - Thousands of registrations over two days help “China” spike. It turns out the Chinese aren’t just buying numeric and short .com domain names. “China” was the #1 trending word in new .com registrations last month according to .com registry Verisign. It seems that there was a spike in domain name registrations containing China followed by three letters (e.g. Chinadjr.com) on November 13-14. Drone was also a trending term last month. And no research is necessary to understand why “Friday”, ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20% - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.” According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted pre-tax profits of just over £1mln (A$2.1mln) on turnover of £7.11mln (A$14.8mln). CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD's Domains In Auction @ No Reserve - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD’s, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD’s, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain names have been offered to the pubic before and include single letter and numbered domains like 8.Link,  e.gift, and b.sexy, as well as two letter words like We.Help,  plus category killers like Real.Property, Stock.Photo and Web.Hosting Frank Schilling CEO of ... read more ...
 
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Domínio .org do Pirate Bay está suspenso - Visitantes do site "thepiratebay.org" estão sendo recebidos com a mensagem "Este nome de domínio está pendente de verificação no ICANN e foi suspenso. Se você for o proprietário deste domínio, pode reativá-lo entrando em sua conta". Mesmo que este não seja mais o principal nome de domínio para o site, ele ainda estava sendo utilizado por muitas pessoas como um redirecionamento para os novos endereços do Pirate Bay.  Conforme explica a mensagem no site, o domínio parou de funcionar ... read more ...
 
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Another record-buster during NameJet - November was a great month for NameJet. During 2015, NameJet surpassed itself several times. July had a record-setting 6-figure sale, but then September broke that record within weeks. And in many ways, October was the auction platform’s strongest month ever. That is, until November. November set 2 new records. Each month, NameJet reports sales above $2000. (Most fall below that threshold.) In total, these top auctions have beaten the million-dollar mark just 4 times – starting in July, every ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic acquires Instra for $24 million, sells $3.6M in domains, and skeleton to lift $15M - CentralNic buys another domain name registrar. CentralNic is buying Instra for USD $24M.Publicly traded domain name registrar and registry CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has agreed to acquire domain name registrar Instra Group for AU $33 million (USD $24 million), the company announced today. The purchase price includes AU $30 million in cash and AU $3 million in stock, with AU $5 million held in escrow and paid out over the next five years. To fund the acquisition, CentralNic plans to issue 25 million ... read more ...
Mon 7th December 2015
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My Sale to Godaddy - By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can’t get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain industry in my opinion. Let me start by saying this transaction was prompted for personal life reasons, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
2016 Domain Name Wire Media Kit now available - Domain Name Wire is nearly 11 years old, and I couldn’t do it without the support of the many sponsors of this site. I’ve just completed a new media kit explaining sponsorship opportunities, ranging from traditional graphic ads to podcast promotions. If your company targets the niche Domain Name Wire market, please contact me at andrew (at) domainnamewire.com and I’ll send the media kit to you. Here are some of the types of people that visit Domain Name Wire daily: Domain name investors Corporate ... read more ...
 
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The current state of ‘.brands’: an infographic - Tim Lince Momentum is building on the use of ‘.brands’. Barclays Bank has transferred its primary website to a branded domain string (‘home.barclays’), while Sony has been promoting the new James Bond film, Spectre, on its ‘.sony’ string (‘assistmoneypenny.sony’). As more enter the fray, we thought it was a good time to summarise the ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs, Whois and IANA with Michele Neylon – DNW Podcast #61 - The perspectives of a mid-sized domain name registrar. Michele Neylon runs Irish hosting and domain name company Blacknight. On today’s show, he gives thoughts on new TLDs from the perspective of a mid-sized domain name registrar…and you’ll find his perspective to be really interesting. We also discuss WHOIS and the IANA transition. Also: China clamps down on .com domain names, a banner month for .Club, big Rightside investors and an agency that .Rocks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy acquires Mike Berkens' WorldWide Media domain name portfolio - Berkens sells majority of domain names to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has acquired the majority of Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio; the company announced today. Berkens writes the blog TheDomains.com and his portfolio was under the company Worldwide Media. GoDaddy acquired the vast majority of Berkens’ domain names, about 70,000 names in total. “GoDaddy is focused on making sure our customers get the perfect online name for their business or passion, so we’re always looking at ways to improve ... read more ...
 
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Domain Owner sues National Arbitration Forum and complainant after losing UDRP - Lawsuit names UDRP complainant and National Arbitration Forum. VirtualPoint, Inc., which operates the site UDRPSearch.com, has filed a lawsuit after losing a UDRP for the domain name WindCreek.com. The company filed the suit (pdf) against not only the complainant in the case but also the National Arbitration Forum. Against complainant Poarch Band of Creek Indians, VirtualPoint alleges that the group fraudulently obtained its Wind Creek trademarks and manipulated evidence by searching for a specific ... read more ...
 
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Twitter only went "all in" with Periscope domain names - Company registers 75 domain names related to Periscope. Twitter’s Periscope AppTwitter’s Periscope live-streaming app is proving to be a hit. Someone at the company decided it was time to go all in on brand protection for the app. On Friday, Twitter registered 75 domain names related to the app, ranging from PeriscopeCats.com to PeriscopeValentines.com. I guess it’s not just the Chinese that continue to register .com domain names en masse. Here’s the entire list: periscopeair.com periscopeball.com ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2015
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million - According to a report appearing  in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at the domain name registrar MAFF Inc. until December 5th when the whois information was updated to reflect LinXiaoFeng of DotMedia Limited as the new owner.  The domain ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ asks Verisign to compensate $1.6 million in fees from lawsuit - The .XYZ domain name registry has asked a court (pdf) to force Verisign to pay $1.6 million in fees and expenses related to the lawsuit Verisign filed against it. Verisign, the $10 billion (market cap) company that runs .com, sued XYZ for false advertising claims. The judge overseeing the case eventually granted XYZ’s motion for summary judgment. But that was after XYZ paid $1.6 million in fees and expenses to defend itself, a massive sum for the startup. XYZ claims the ongoing costs of the suit ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2015
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Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client - The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain. Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range. In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2015
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SK Lubricants Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on ZiC.com - SK Lubricants Americas of Houston, Texas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the three letter .com domain name ZIC.com The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com The Domain Name was originally created on September 6, 2003 but the current owner obtained the Domain Name on February 28, 2015 and is offering it for sale, and is in the business of selling domain names. The domain name is parked. The Complainant offered $3,000 to buy the domain and then filed this UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Security Firm Predicts Unprecedented Series of New gTLD Failures by 2017 - The cybersecurity firm, IID, is anticipating an unprecedented series of domain registry failures due to lack of gTLD popularity by 2017 in the form of bankruptcies and abandonment, leading to demise of websites relying on them. "Most new gTLDs have failed to take off and many have already been riddled with so many fraudulent and junk registrations that they are being blocked wholesale," said IID President and CTO Rod Rasmussen. "This will eventually cause ripple effects on the entire domain ... read more ...
 
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Simplicidade, velocidade e a revolução da Internet - A- A+ No cenário competitivo da Internet, a simplicidade e o acesso rápido à informação são considerados fatores fundamentais para o sucesso. É com esse propósito que as novas gerações de domínios de primeiro nível, também conhecidos como TLDs (“top level domains”), vêm ganhando espaço e prometem revolucionar o cenário mundial da Internet. Atualmente, as extensões de domínios mais populares já estão saturadas, sendo cada ... read more ...
 
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November Top Stories and Podcasts - A look back at November in the domain name business. In a roundabout way, China accounted for 3 of the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month. This makes sense given the unprecedented runup in prices for short and numeric domain names is driving the domain name business. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Be careful of domain name pumping – People with ulterior motives are pumping the prices of certain domain names. Be skeptical. 2. Booking.com buys .Hotels ... read more ...
 
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How a artistic group switched from .Com to .Rocks - A New York web design agency took precautions when it decided to switch to a .rocks domain name. Earlier this year, web design and marketing firm Huemor decided it wanted to switch its online presence from HuemorDesigns.com to Huemor.rocks. “SEO folks told me I was crazy to switch from a long-standing domain,” Huemor co-founder and President Jeff Gapinski told Domain Name Wire. “However, the new extension really appealed to us from a branding perspective. It summarized how we feel in one little ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 9 au 13 décembre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Début période Sunrise :09/12 – .auto09/12 – .car09/12 – .carsSi 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 ...
 
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Where did China go? - Where did China go? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing China claim around 40% of the top 20 sales; and Chinese-style domains usually rank very high in these charts – #2 last week, #1 the week before, etc. stretching far back into 2014. This time, however, none of the top 16 results are Chinese – none. Why? Human error is 1 explanation. My sampling at NameJet is never 100% complete. But that limitation affects all my weekly reports, and I would expect spotty data collection to cause ... read more ...