Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Tue 18th February 2014
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Where Policy Fora Collide: Country-Code Top-Level Domains And The TPP - By Susan Chalmers [Note: this article originally appeared on Susan Chalmers' blog, here.] To those familiar with the United States’ approach to intellectual property rights (“IP”) and trade policy, it will come as no surprise that the US is pressing other countries to give IP owners more in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”), that is, more powerful economic rights and more power to enforce them. Some, however, may be surprised by one way in which the United States Trade ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Annual Domain Market Study Shows that .com Remains King for One … - Related: Press Release, News Sedo, the world's largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its fiscal year 2013 Annual Domain Market Study, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. An infographic depicting the findings from Sedo's 2013 Domain Market Study is available at http://bit.ly/1iGj4Ml. In 2013, Sedo powered 37,241 transactions in its domain marketplace with a mean average price of $1,893 across all ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Signs Agreement with Domain Venture Partners - CentralNic signed a deal with Domain Venture Partners as stated in the press release below. Central Nic is a publicly traded company on the London Aim, the stock is up about 2.4 % to 84.5 pence. Domain Venture Partners is a fund that has been set up by new gtld applicant Famous Four Media. Press Release: CentralNic plc (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the worldwide sale of internet domain names, today announces that it has signed an agreement (“agreement”) ... read more ...
Mon 17th February 2014
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“Exciting Times for TLD Holdings as .London Launch Looms” - ProactiveInvestors.co.uk did a small write up on TLD Holdings the company which just recently raised another $33 million and said they would change their name to Minds+Machines. The stock is up 11% today, of course the stock trades for a very low price so it does not take much to get a large percentage move. I can say this is a perfect example of procrastination on my part, as I constantly was having discussion with a couple friends when the stock was at 5 1/2 pence. I felt it was a cheap hedge ... read more ...
 
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SMB demand for .london web addresses looks set to soar - More than 200,000 of the capital's SMBs could register a .london web address when the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) names are introduced on 29 April. That's according to the findings of a new YouGov poll, involving 1,001 SMB business decision makers, which was commissioned by the promotional arm of the London Mayor's office London Partners. Twenty-six per cent of respondents said they were likely to take up a .london web address. YouGov has used this to calculate that more than 200,000 SMBs ... read more ...
 
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.london Top Level Domain Name To Go Live In April With Huge Uptake Expected - The .london Top Level Domain (TLD) suffix will go live on 29 April 2014, it has been announced. With some 25% of small to medium businesses based in England’s capital city expressing their intention to register their company website with the new TLD instead of the traditional .co.uk or .com it is widely expected to be a huge success, although industry analysts are wondering if the range of new domain names has any value beyond the vanity of owners. There has been pressure from major cities ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: a empresa por trás de todo site ".com" - Existe algo em comum entre o Tecmundo, o seu portal favorito de notícias sobre esportes e até mesmo aqueles sites de celebridades que todo mundo diz que nunca acessou. Esse algo é a organização responsável pela cessão dos domínios e protocolos necessários para o acesso de qualquer usuário às páginas. Estamos falando do ICANN, que também ajuda na determinação dos protocolos individuais de cada internauta. ICANN significa “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” — ... read more ...
 
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Navigating additional trademark protection mechanisms in the gTLD universe - While a number of rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) are built into the gTLD application process, several registries have offered additional protection options. For trademark counsel, the challenge is surveying the various offerings and deciding which best suits their needs. Time, then, to consider some of the available services.  As the largest gTLD applicant – which expects to run more than 200 strings – Donuts arguably made the biggest splash with its Domains Protected Marks List ... read more ...
 
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Domini internet ed estensioni gTLDs nel 2014 – Comunicati - Come sappiamo, i gTLDs (generic Top-Level Domains) occorrono a stabilire la provenienza o la tipologia di un sito ed è basilare sceglierli opportunamente all’atto di registrazione dei domini. Adesso, nel corso del 2014, la gamma di possibilità aumenterà di circa 5 volte, dato che sta per diventare disponibile un nuovo centinaio abbondante di “suffissi”. Il che non significa unicamente attingere da una lista ancora più lunga per definire con crescente precisione il proprio progetto, ... read more ...
 
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NCC acquires rights to .trust - IT security business NCC Group has acquired the right to operate generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post. The Manchester-based company plans to use the .trust domain to launch its Artemis internet security service to create a secure environment for selected customers. The service is set to be commercially available from the start of its next financial year in June. It has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire the domain, which was ... read more ...
 
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NCC Group PLC Acquisition of first gTLD .trust - TIDMNCC RNS Number : 1735A NCC Group PLC 17 February 2014 17 February 2014 NCC Group plc Acquisition of rights to first gTLD - .trust NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, or 'the Group'), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post, for an undisclosed fee. Deutsche Post originally obtained the gTLD through ICANN's new gTLD allocation process during 2013 but has ... read more ...
 
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A step closer – impact of new generic top-level domains on brand owner rights - Several generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) recently completed their Sunrise Periods, taking a step closer to realizing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (“ICANN’s”) gTLD expansion project from the existing 22 gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net, .org, .biz, etc.) to potentially 1,300 new gTLDs (i.e. arbitrary top-level domains). Brand owners now face an uphill battle in the enforcement of trade-mark rights on the Internet.  But what are the mechanisms ... read more ...
Sat 15th February 2014
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Time to get generic - The rollout of new generic top-level domain names has begun, with the first seven live as of January 29. The first gTLDs – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures – were followed by the launch of the next seven (.camera, .equipment, .estate, .gallery, .graphics, .lighting, and .photography). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced last summer that it had received a total of 1,930 applications for new gTLDs, ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte vs. Del Monte: Bizarrer Domain-Rechtsstreit abgewiesen - Zwei Unternehmen mit Rechten an der Marke "Del Monte" streiten sich um die neue TLD ".delmonte". Eine Klage gegen das Blockieren des Namens wurde nun abgewiesen. Das US-Bezirksgericht in Kalifornien hat eine Klage abgewiesen, mit der Del Monte International (DMI) sein Recht an der Domain-Endung ".delmonte" gegenüber der Del Monte Corporation (DMC) durchsetzen wollte. Letztere hatte zuvor erfolgreich Einspruch gegen die entsprechende TLD-Reservierung bei der ICANN eingelegt, ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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DomainingSpain Conference Update Comes With a Love Story & A Hard Lesson … - their name. I have seen too many people who have hired someone to build a website for them and also given them access to their domain (or even worse, let them register the name the company wanted in the vendor's name, ... read more ...
 
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“.Baku” – Should Azerbaijan care? - Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 14 By Tim Tal - Trend: For now, Azerbaijan's "whois" service has over 20,000 first-level domains registered, and the number of course grows every year. In January of 2013, there were over 16,000 top-level domains registered - a 24.5 percent increase compared to 2012. In 2011, the figure stood at over 15,000 domain names. From the beginning of 2014, over a thousand of top-level domains have been registered in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, like other countries, has its ... read more ...
 
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“.Baku” is available – would you like to register? - By Tim Tal For now, Azerbaijan's "whois" service has over 20,000 first-level domains registered, and the number of course grows every year. In January of 2013, there were over 16,000 top-level domains registered - a 24.5 percent increase compared to 2012. In 2011, the figure stood at over 15,000 domain names. From the beginning of 2014, over a thousand of top-level domains have been registered in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, like other countries, has its specific conditions for registering ... read more ...
 
 
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New gTLD guide #3: What can you do with Chinese language domains? - 13 February 2014   |   Peter Leung, Hong Kong One of the most notable features of the new gTLDs is the availability of Chinese character domains. Two of the new Chinese-language gTLDs illustrate the opportunities and risks ... read more ...
 
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love.guru, celebrities.sexy Could Soon be Real Websites, BigRock Gears up for … - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India BigRock, one of India’s leading domain registrars and web hosting companies announced that it has begun offering new top level domain extensions such as .bike, .guru, .ventures amongst several others under the aegis of ICANN’s new gTLD program. Indian consumers can now visit the BigRock website and purchase or pre-order a domain name of their choice in minutes. Domain names, the cornerstone of web addresses, are overseen by the Internet Corporation ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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Afilias Announces Its First Internationalized TLD With the Launch of .MOBILE in … - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that March 14, 2014, is the sunrise launch date for its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level: .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese). Transliterated as "Yí Dòng," .移动 is a domain name just like .MOBI, which is also for mobile websites. But this domain is part of a new generation of top-level domains (TLDs) that are written in native languages rather than traditional ASCII-compliant scripts like the .INFO or .MOBI ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Announces Sunrise Launch Dates for 3 New TLDs: .PINK, .RED and .BLUE - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the sunrise launch dates for three new generic top-level domains (gTLD): .PINK, .RED and .BLUE With the .PINK, .RED and .BLUE domains, Afilias is the first registry to offer truly colorful ways to express yourself on the Internet. No longer are site owners restrained to drab domain addresses. Now, your Web address can express your individual enthusiasms! "Afilias has a long history of launching innovative new gTLDs," said Roland ... read more ...
 
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Afilias expands Internet choice with launch of Chinese “mobile” top-level domain … – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that March 14, 2014, is the sunrise launch date for its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level: .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese). Transliterated as “Yí Dòng,” .移动 is a domain name just like .MOBI, which is also for mobile websites. But this domain is part of a new generation of top-level domains (TLDs) that are written in native languages rather than ... read more ...
 
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Afilias adds color and choice to the Internet with three new top-level domains – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the sunrise launch dates for three new generic top-level domains (gTLD): .PINK, .RED and BLUE. With the .PINK, .RED and .BLUE domains, Afilias is the first registry to offer truly colorful ways to express yourself on the Internet. No longer are site owners restrained to drab domain addresses. Now, your Web address can express your individual enthusiasms! “Afilias ... read more ...
 
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NTIA wary of gTLD explosion - The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is concerned that new generic Top-Level Domains being made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers may not be considering consumer protections. Since Jan. 1, ICANN has added more than 70 gTLDs (only a subset are yet accessible) to the Internet's root with the goal of reaching about 1,000 gTLDs in all by 2015. On Jan. 29 the first batch of new domains – including .bike, .guru and .singles – became ... read more ...