Monthly Archives: January 2016

Tue 12th January 2016
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Uniregistry digs into sum of new Market - Uniregistry team explains how the new Market system will work. This morning at NamesCon in Las Vegas, Uniregistry unveiled more details about its new marketplace that will be integrated with the Uniregistry registrar. John Smrekar, VP of Product of Uniregistry, explained that there are some issues with the existing Domain Name Sales (DNS) platform that will eventually be fully replaced by the Market. It was essentially built to manage Frank Schilling’s portfolio and was then adjusted to work for ... read more ...
 
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Choosing the right domain structure for SEO - When starting a website you will be faced with a number of decisions regarding its domain structure – the information to the left of the full stop in a web address (domain name) and the combination of letters to the right (domain extension). Different structures There are three broad approaches to domain structure that big companies use across their international sites, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The first is using separate top-level domains (TLDs) such as Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Adds .boston to geo-TLD Portfolio - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) today announced its agreement to acquire a 99% interest in Boston TLD Management LLC ("BTM"), the owner of rights to the .boston geo-TLD, and the agreement of its subsidiary, Minds + Machines Limited, to act as the Registry Service Provider for the geo-TLD ("the Acquisition"). Boston Globe Media Partners LLC ("Boston Globe Media") transferred into BTM its ownership rights to, and operating responsibilities for, the .boston geo-TLD. Boston Globe ... read more ...
 
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Lighting association Interlight is a retreat domain name hijacker - Poorly formed case was dead on arrival. Indiana company International Lighting Corporation has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Interlight.com. The company uses the domain Interlight.biz, and wanted to upgrade to the .com. However, its case was extremely poorly formed and it was dead on arrival: The owner of Interlight.com has owned it since 1997, well before the complainant received registered rights in the name. It claimed use of the mark dating to 1993 but ... read more ...
 
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This is what it looks like when Frank Schilling throws a celebration in Vegas -

Frank Schilling and Uniregistry hosted a celebration during Hakkasan in Las Vegas final night for NamesCon 2016 attendees. Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Statton Hammock of Rightside were guest DJs.

There’s another large celebration for discussion goers tonight, as a gift Water Night takes place during a venue Tropicana Hotel.

Via: domainnamewire.com

 
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Minds + Machines adds .boston to portfolio - Internet domain specialist Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) has added the .boston address to its portfolio. M+M is taking a 99% stake in Boston TLD management, which took on the  rights and operation of the name from Boston Globe Media Partners. The launch of .boston as an internet address is planned for later this year following receipt of required documentation for the acquisition by ICANN, the domain name overseer. Antony Van Couvering, M+M’s chief executive, said it ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globe sells .Boston domain name to Minds + Machines - Boston Globe sells .boston rights to new TLD company. Minds + Machines has acquired the .Boston top level domain name from Boston Globe Media, the company announced today. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The Boston Globe retains a 1% interest in the domain name, and it appears it will assist with promoting the domain name or using it. As a city domain name, Minds + Machines will also work with the city. Among its media properties, Boston Globe Media owns the Boston.com domai name. Minds ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Snaps Up .Boston Domain In Boston TLD Management Buy - LONDON (Alliance News) - Internet domain operator and owner Minds + Machines Group Ltd on Tuesday said it has acquired Boston TLD Management LLC, the owner of the .boston domain name.No financial details on the transaction were disclosed, but the deal will mean Minds + Machines will own and operate the .boston name."We look forward to working with BTM, Boston Globe Media, the City of Boston and our distribution partners to ensure the successful launch of .boston later this year, which we believe ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2016
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Länderspezifische Top-Level-Domains: China überholt Deutschland - Produktiver arbeiten mit Unified Communications Collaboration Mit Unified Communications Collaborations können Unternehmen die Produktivität der Anwender steigern, die Effizienz der IT verbessern und gleichzeitig Kosten sparen. Damit die unbestrittenen Vorteile einer UCC-Lösung sich in der Praxis voll entfalten können, müssen Unternehmen bei der Implementierung die Leistungsfähigkeit der Infrastruktur überprüfen. ... read more ...
 
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.Club Sells Over 5,500 Premium Domains In Dec For Almost $615K - .Club just released it premium sales report for December 2015. On December 16th .Club released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower In all, 5,525 premium names were sold in December. Total premium name sales for December, from all sources, came to $614,071.90. Total premium name sales for Q4 2015 came to $2,350,116.47. As of December 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $3,398,167.27. The highest single sale ... read more ...
 
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NamePros to Broadcast Domain Auction from Namescon Live - NamePros will be broadcasting the live RightoftheDot domain auction from Namescon in real-time on Monday starting at 2PM PST. Shortly before the auction, NamePros will  publish a blog post that will include an embedded video of the live stream. If anyone arrives late to the live stream, they’ll be able to rewind it and watch from the beginning or watch it live. Once it’s over, the video will become a standard YouTube video for indefinite playback. All seamlessly offered within a single embedded ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling unveils marketplace during keynote - Marketplace to replace Domain Name Sales solution. Frank Schilling unveiled the new Uniregistry marketplace during his keynote at Namescon today. Uniregistry users will be able to to manage sales of their domain names from within their Uniregistry account, rather than a third-party system. It’s designed to be a better experience than the company’s Domain Name Sales platform. The service will be available in early access starting Monday, January 18, with full access available February 1. Also ... read more ...
 
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How will a Right of a Dot auction go? - Big live domain name auction takes place this afternoon in Las Vegas. Right of the Dot’s live domain name auction is finally here. The auction will take place this afternoon at 2 PM PST at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Online bidding is available but not on NameJet — you must register through a separate system. 130 lots will be auctioned today, many of them without reserve. Some of my favorites that don’t have reserves are: Multilevel.com NannyCams.com Katie.com ArtLessons.com Tuscany.com Stock.photo With ... read more ...
 
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Board shakeup during Minds + Machines - Major board changes and executive appointments at new TLD company. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced major changes to its Board of Directors today. Non-executive directors Keith Teare, Elliot Noss (CEO of Tucows) and David Weill are stepping down, as is executive director Caspar von Veltheim. Von Veltheim will now be Director of European Operations for the company. The company also announced that Guy Elliott, an existing non-executive director, will take over the role of ... read more ...
 
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Building Buzz with Bill Doshier – DNW Podcast #66 - How Bill Doshier built buzz around .buzz. How do you build buzz for a top level domain name .buzz? Bill Doshier has done a remarkable job as a mostly one-man show, building the domain name up and finding a loyal following of registrants. One user has given .buzz attention on Wheel of Fortune and in the L.A. Times, and Doshier found an interesting type of registrant he hadn’t thought about when he first applied for the domain. Also: An insincere $500k offer, .com in China, and NamesCon. Subscribe ... read more ...
 
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Test your skills with GoDaddy's Bought or Not - Fun game asks you to guess if a domain is registered or not. GoDaddy released a fun (and rather eye-opening) app at NamesCon today called Bought Or Not. Bought or Not is similar to hot or not, except players guess if a domain name has been registered or not. It’s available online at BoughtOrNot.com and as an iPhone app, with Android coming soon. GoDaddy is giving away prizes if you play the game at its booth during NamesCon. A group of GoDaddy interns came up with the idea over the summer. GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The Domains For The Live Auction From Namescon - RightOfTheDot will conduct the live auction on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon Conference, at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, NV. 130 domain names will be auctioned. The domain names not chosen for the Live auction will continue to be up for auction on Namejet.com until January 21st. Over 50% of the domain names in the Live auction already received bids over reserve and will sell tomorrow. Any domain names not sold in the Live auction will be added back ... read more ...
Sun 10th January 2016
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Apple to launch dating service, Forex trading - Apple car domains mean nothing. Just like its registration of .dating and .forex domain names. Hey mainstream tech press: STFU about these Apple Car domain names, will you? Last week everyone from MacRumors to Business Insider was having an Apple fanboy freakout over Apple registering Apple.car, Apple.cars and Apple.auto. “This means the Apple Car is coming!” they yelled. You know what? The Apple Car might be coming. But these domain names don’t mean anything at all. Apple registers or blocks ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Blows Past .US that Had a 28 Year Head Start - This week the new gTLD .XYZ past .US, the ccTLD of the United States, in the total number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com the number of .XYZ registration is 1,726,541 compared to .US which has 1,670.478. Keep in mind that .US, which is the country code for the United States, has been in operation for 30 years, launching on February 15, 1985. .XYZ launched on June 2, 2014. .US had basically a 28 1/2 year head start on .XYZ and now finds itself some 60,000 domain names behind ... read more ...
 
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The ICA Is Having a Coming Out Party At Namescon; Come Join US -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

Sat 9th January 2016
Fri 8th January 2016
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Another unfortunate Whois information service - Internet marketer selling access to whois data. Many people are selling cheap access to whois information culled from recently registered domain names. Now an internet marketer is getting into the act. A new service called FreshDomainLeads.com promises members daily sales leads in the form of whois records of newly registered domain names. A video for the service says it provides ‘legal access’ to the bulk information and that ‘domain name registration info is public by law’. I think they’re ... read more ...
 
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Now anyone can be a ‘.pro’ -

The ‘.pro’ general top-level domain (gTLD), creatively marketed in 2002 for only a handful of professions in a few name countries and latterly limited to approved professionals in any margin worldwide, was non-stop adult to all registrants on Nov 16 2015. This pierce follows a merger of a ‘.pro’ registry by Afilias in 2012 and a successive expostulate to raise…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Thu 7th January 2016
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Here is How To Bid in The Live Namescon/ RightoftheDot.com Auction - I understand this might be a little confusing but I’m trying to lay out how you can bid on the  domain names in the RightoftheDot.com auction at Namescon, while the live domain name auction underway on Monday January 11th starting at 2PM PST So there are over 400 domain names in the auction, but only 125 or so will make the cut for the live auction on January 11, 2016 stating at 2:00 PM PST at NamesCon at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, NV. There is almost $7 Million dollars in pre-bids ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domain Insights for Q4 2015 - 2015 has been a busy year for the new gTLD industry and 2016 will undoubtedly, be another interesting year. Anticipation of the General Availability for some of the highly contentious TLDs, the development of existing generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) in terms of registrations, and business proposition with the majority of the first round of applicants reaching delegation by the end of the year. While 2015 had over 7 million new gTLD domain registrations, the top 25 Top Level Domains accounted ... read more ...