Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Tue 19th August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
TLD internet : Le .paris brule t’il … les planches ? - 97 à la date du 18 août 2014 ! Certes le .paris est encore en “sunrise“ c’est à dire une période de pré-réservation plus onéreuse, et devant être accepté par l’entité gérant ce tld (ici la ville de Paris elle même.)  Il n’empêche nous sommes loin des discours fanfaronnants faisant croire à un réel engouement sur le site, moche et ringard dédié à cet événement http://mondomaine.paris     les nouveaux noms de domaines génériques (371) autorisés par l’ICANN, ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.CHURCH Launching September 17 - The number of premium domain names available to churches and related religious organizations is about to increase significantly. On September 17, 2014, the domain name extension .church – a new alternative to domain name extensions like .com and .org – officially opens to the general public. As explained below, churches and related organizations should consider taking advantage of this new opportunity to expand the reach of their marketing and communication efforts. If your organization ... read more ...
 
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Hamburg-Domain: Viele Rechte, wenig Pflichten - Ab Ende August gibt es im World Wide Web die Domain-Endung .hamburg. Betrieben wird sie von einer privaten Firma – doch die Stadt kann großen Einfluss nehmen. von Andreas Grieß Hamburg Rundumsicht  |  © PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images Auch Hamburg darf jetzt ins World Wide Web: Am 27. August geht die neue Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .hamburg online. Unternehmen und Privatpersonen ist es künftig möglich, ihre Website statt auf eine der gängigen Endungen wie .de oder .com auf .hamburg ... read more ...
 
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Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains - According to ntldstats.com,  .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains. Personally I like .Fund I’m sorry I missed out on the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN stellt neue Methode für Namenskollisionen vor - Künftig soll ein Warnhinweis auf Konflikte hinweisen. Administratoren bleiben damit nicht mehr im Unklaren, sollte ein interner Server plötzlich nicht mehr unter seinem gewohnten Namen erreichbar sein. Zudem wendet sich das neue Framework auch gegen eine Vergabe der konfliktträchtigen gTLDs .corp, .home und .mail. Für das Problem von Namenskollisionen durch generische Top-Level-Domains hat die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ... read more ...
 
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ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension … - ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to “business websites”  which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked domains are defined on the site as any domains which has a traditional parked page which also seems to include ... read more ...
 
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ICANN führt neue Methode für Namenskollisionen ein - Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hat eine Lösung für das Problem von Namenskollisionen durch generische Top-Level-Domains vorgeschlagen. Das Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework (PDF) hilft, wenn interne Server angesprochen werden sollen, die Namensbestandteile wie .guru oder .hamburg haben – und nach Freischaltung der gleichnamigen Top-Level-Domain plötzlich nicht mehr erreichbar sind. Die ICANN schreibt: “Das Framework dient dazu, den Effekt von ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
ICANN nabízí řešení pro kolize TLD - Root.cz (www.root.cz), informace nejen ze světa Linuxu. ISSN 1212-8309 Copyright © 1998 – 2014 Internet Info, s.r.o. Všechna práva vyhrazena. Powered by Linux. Přepnout na mobilní verzi Kontakt| Reklama| Podmínky užívání| Podpořte Root.cz| Win8 app| RSS exporty ... read more ...
Sun 17th August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The Next Shot Fired - Sunday, August 17, 2014, 3:00am Since 2011, the banking and insurance industries have been advocating for industry control over the generic top level domain (gTLD) names .bank and .insurance, to assure the integrity of the naming process as the number of available domain names is expected to expand ... read more ...
Sat 16th August 2014
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How people are using the web’s newest corners - It’s been half a year since the web’s first new top-level domains (gTLDs) went live, a moment Quartz called “the biggest land rush in history.” The web is in the process of moving from fewer than two dozen TLDs (such as the .com in qz.com) to over a thousand. Nearly 200 have already gone live. Now that the dust has settled, it is possible to look back over the past few months and see what effect these new TLDs are really having on the web. Verisign, the company that administers ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
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ICANN offers fix for domain name collisions - I recently got a call from a friend whose business was having problems with an internal network whose web server had a URL that included .guru. One day, their staff had trouble reaching it. They'd made no changes and you could still reach the server using its IPv4 address; it was a mystery. It took me hours — and you still owe me guys! —but I finally discovered that there was a public internet website with a .guru top-level domain name that was conflicting with their private ... read more ...
 
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Certificate Authority Security Council backs SSL server rules taking effect Nov. 1 - Trending: Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video Cisco cutting 6,000 jobs Androids gain in enterprise Security nightmares Resources/White Papers Rows network world Securitynavigateright ... read more ...
 
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Call for ICANN to Educate and Not Mislead GAC - I read with interest the recent blog written by Theresa Swinehart a Sr. Advisor to the President on Strategy. She wrote: "The most critical element of this [ICANN Transition] process is trust and alignment. To ensure success on this accountability track, we must as a community work closely together to make sure that the final process is meaningful. There is plenty of work to be done in an ambitious period of time." Post the completion of the ICANN 50 London meeting, I wrote a Commentary on ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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New Canadian-backed .club web domains getting snapped up by 50 Cent, Demi … - Michael OliveiraTORONTO — Guessing a website address used to be so simple. Stick a .com or .ca at the end of a company or organization’s name and most of the time, that would do it.But there’s a flood of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) hitting the web, which could eventually leave consumers struggling to remember which of more than 1,400 web suffixes to type in.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the process of gradually rolling out all ... read more ...
 
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Last Lap of .WEBSITE, .PRESS and .HOST Sunrise - The Sunrise of Radix's first three TLDs .website, .press and .host is receiving great acceptance. Brands registered with the TMCH have the last 10 days left to take advantage of this Sunrise opportunity. Only 10 days are left before Radix's first three TLDs, .website, .host and .press exit Sunrise on 22nd August '14. The three extensions were launched on 26th June '14 with more than 75 Accredited Registrars on board including Sunrise focused Registrars like MarkMonitor, 101Domain, Com ... read more ...
 
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Sued Yesterday As Part of BestRegistrar, Jeff Smith Is Also Applicant For New … - Yesterday we reported that Simon Property Group (SPG) sued domain name registrar BestRegistrar along with a few alleged resellers and its principals individually including a Jeff Smith to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by SPG, and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful attempts to exact a “ransom” from SPG for the ... read more ...
 
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Brands Concerned by Risks Associated With New Domains - Photo by Descrier Images Creative Commons license As generic top-level domains (gTLDs) become more widespread, brands have admitted to feeling concerned about their rollout over the next five years. Research released from brand protection firm Netnames as part ... read more ...
 
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Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs - A recent study, by EURid and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre, set out to better understand the most common usage of websites that are linked to domains, and we thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. So, we analyzed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs according to published zone files on June 29, 2014. Verisign utilizes our own proprietary process for classifying websites, which results in similar classifications to those ... read more ...
 
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Firms are very worried about new generic top level domains - We have updated our privacy policy. In the latest update it explains what cookies are and how we use them on our site. To learn more about cookies and their benefits, please view our privacy policy. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies. By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy unless you have disabled them. ... read more ...
 
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Study reveals new gTLD usage patterns, but treat figures with caution - New research from Verisign has revealed that only 3% of the second-level domains registered in new gTLDs contain business websites, with pay-per-click (PPC) usage dwarfing that level. However, there are some caveats to consider.   In previous blogs we have looked at overall registration levels in the new gTLD space (1,875,612 at time of writing) but haven’t drilled down to look at how these sites are being used. Verisign’s study analysed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs ... read more ...
 
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For The 1st Time, There Are More Than 114 Million .Com Domain Names … - According to Verisign, (VRSN) which operates the .Com and .Net registry,  the number of .Com domain names passed the 114 Million mark for the first time in history today. The number of .Com domain names according to the Verisign Daily Zone Count is 114,017,341. Just a few days ago Verisign published the Domain Industry Brief for the 1st Quarter of 2014. According to the report, as of March 31, Verisign reported there were 113.2 Million registered .Com domain names. So the number of registered .Com ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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1 & 2 Character.GD and .VG Domains Will Be Charged A Higher Registration Fee - The registry for the .GD and .VG ccTLD announced today that beginning on September 2, 2014,  all 1 and 2 character domains under .GD and .VG will be considered as premium domain names and will be charged with a higher domain registration fee. The renewal fee for these domains will remain on standard pricing. Currently registered 1 and 2 character domain names will remain registered to their domain holders until deletion by them and will be renewed on standard pricing. After the deletion these domain ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money … -   In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD’s and ccTLD’s, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won’t be booked until Tucows 3rd Quarter, Tucows increased their guidance of profit for the 3Q by by $1 Million Here are the highlights: “As ... read more ...
 
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5 mn domain names added to internet in Q1CY14 - Five mn domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 mn globally all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2014, Verisign, domain names and internet security solutions provider, said. Worldwide registrations have grown by 19.3 mn, or 7.5 percent, year-over-year and the rise of five mn domain names globally equates to 1.7 percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2013. The .com and .net ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Verisign: Worldwide domain name registrations up by 19.3M - With an increase of 7.5 percent or 19.3 million in worldwide registrations, the base of registered domain names has grown to 276 million worldwide year-over-year, while .com TLD remains to be most popular extension accounting for 113.2 million domain names, claims Verisign. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief report, 5 million domain names have been registered just in the first quarter ending as of March 31, 2014, equating to a growth rate of 1.7 percent over Q4 2013. Around ... read more ...