Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Sat 18th January 2014
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Le délire des nouveaux domaines Internet de top niveau - Il y a quelques années, l'ICANN a décidé de lancer un vaste chantier pour la création de nouveaux domaines Internet de premier niveau, en anglais Top Level Domains, abrégé en TLD. Après son appel à propositions, l'ICANN a reçu près de 2000 dossiers de candidature, que vous pouvez consulter sur son site dédié. Les 1930 extensions proposées émanent de 60 pays et de tous les continents : l'Amérique du nord a été la plus prolifique avec 911 demandes, suivent l'Europe avec 675, ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds - Zero for 5 in my book .In case you want to know what desperate looks like, we are starting to get glimpses. As long as they keep demeaning and insulting professional domain investors it demonstrates that it is OUR FAULT that few want their .Crap. Unreal! You can start with Need, Want and Desire of which there is NONE and not a single one has come to challenge that premise for a very good reason. Then you can jump to the end user who has no interest whatsoever ... read more ...
Fri 17th January 2014
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Sunrise Begins for Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website - Today, January 17, 2014, is the sunrise of a new era on the Chinese internet. The clear leaders in new Chinese TLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are now open for registrations. Our ICANN-mandated Sunrise period begins today. Trademark owners which are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse may reserve fully Chinese domain names in Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website. The opening of our Sunrise period coincides with an auspicious day in ... read more ...
 
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Photos & Highlights From the Last Two Landmark Days at the Inaugural … - With close to 600 registrants on hand, the inaugural NamesCon Conference completed its run with 6 keynote speakers, 30 business sessions (featuring 100 speakers) and a variety of social and networking ... read more ...
 
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Google grabs slice of interwebs for EVERYONE (who speaks Japanese) - Spare us five minutes for a short survey about end user computing? Google has announced its first successful move into new gTLDs with the launch of .みんな for the Japanese market.The registration is the world’s first open top-level domain in hiragana, one of the three scripts used to read and write Japanese, according to the web giant. Written in the Roman alphabet as “minna”, the word literally means “everyone” ... read more ...
 
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Juan Diego Calle of .CO: Want to Control Your Brand Experience? Look to Top … - <!-- --> Jan 17, 2014 - Ronald Barba for the National Edition With the gradual release of new top-level domains (TLDs), 2014 is going to be a big year for the Internet. It’s all very exciting for Juan Diego Calle, the CEO of .CO, who believes that access to new TLDs will bring about new business innovation and improve control of a business’ brand experience. Beginning in 2012, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has ... read more ...
 
Thu 16th January 2014
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Google Registry Tells ICANN They Should Finish Off Last Resort Auctions In Six … - Uniregistry told ICANN in its comment filed on the subject,  that one year was too short of a period. Google Registry also makes a very good point that under the proposed ICANN Last Result Auction rules, there is a  30 days prohibition, once the date of a Last Resort auction is scheduled, from the parties to the auction to communicate. In the case  of applicants that have a many strings in contention like Google, if they are in an auction for March for one string, lets say against Amazon, Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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Registering Your Trademark with the Trademark Clearinghouse – Is Your House … - “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet since its inception” is how the president of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division has described the new gTLD Program being implemented by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and rightfully so. The new program will result in the expansion of available generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .COM, .NET or .ORG, from the list of 22 that we’ve all become familiar with through the years, to a list of possibly ... read more ...
 
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Miért ne használjuk a .local TLD-t még otthoni hálózaton sem? - Inkább csak magamnak, emlékeztetőként...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local Itt van egy-két ok, amiért ne, de tegnap belefutottam valamibe, ami szintén alátámasztja, hogy a .local használata nem célszerű. Szóval be volt állítva egy GUI nélküli Debianon az /etc/apt/apt.conf-ban, hogy proxy-t használjon. Csak ő, senki más. Felkerült a gépre egy gnome a függőségeivel (köztük a network-manager). Reboot és ettől kezdve az apt-get, később az iceweasel nem találta a ... read more ...
 
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Organic growth drives revenue rise at NCC Group - IT security business NCC Group has reported one of its strongest first half performances for "a number of years" with revenue rising beyond the £50m mark. The Manchester-based company's sales were £54m for the six months to 30 November 2013, up from £48.1m for the same period a year earlier. Organic growth during the period was 11 per cent. Meanwhile, NCC posted a rise in pre-tax profit from £7.5m in 2012 to £11.1m. The company said Artemis, ... read more ...
Wed 15th January 2014
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The New gTLD Program: Latest Updates on Brand Protection and the Trademark … - The most significant development in the Internet space in recent years is the ongoing generic top-level domain (gTLD) expansion. (As a reminder, a TLD is what appears to the right of the “dot” in a domain name (i.e., .COM, .ORG, .GOV).) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on an aggressive plan to expand the Internet from just 23 gTLDs to more than a thousand gTLDs, culminating in an application process in 2012 that allowed any organization with an ... read more ...
 
 
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SWITCH äussert sich mit Stellungnahme zur Gründung der Registrar Alliance - Nachdem die Registrar Alliance am Mittwoch ihre Pläne in Sachen zukünftigem Betrieb der Registry der .ch-Domains bekannt gegeben hat, lässt eine Antwort der bisherigen Betreiberin nicht lange auf sich warten. Die Stiftung SWITCH äussert sich mit der folgenden Stellungnahme:   "Am 15. Januar 2014 hat die Genossenschaft "Registrar Alliance" bekannt gegeben, dass sie sich als Registry für die Top Level Domain (TLD) .ch bewerben will. SWITCH ist seit über 25 Jahren Registrierungsstelle für ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - ICANN has today issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN explains the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible solutions. Domain name collisions ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule - Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it “is disappointed that ICANN changed the “5-TLD-per-month” cap from its initial proposal.” “On the current draft schedule, Uniregistry has three months in which it will have seven TLD applications ... read more ...
Tue 14th January 2014
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Top Level Domain Hldg Ltd : gTLD Portfolio Update – 4 - gTLD Portfolio Update January 14, 2014 The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to provide an update on the progress of its uncontested gTLD applications, Minds + Machines' OPEN Priority Reservation programme and the private auction process. Progress of uncontested TLDH and client applications Of the 24 uncontested applications in which TLDH has an interest, the Company is delighted ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot Partner on Live Auctions of New gTLD … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars … - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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Name Collisions Could Pose Potential Problem for Web Hosts - Much of the coverage on new gTLDs in the hosting industry has focused on the scope of opportunity it presents for web hosting providers looking to grow their business. From extensive marketing campaigns to new tools and platforms to help customers reserve their top choices, web hosts have been busy over the past few years preparing for this growth phase of the Internet. But one issue that perhaps hasn’t seen as much coverage when it comes to new gTLDs is the concern around name collisions. ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New … - Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, Poker.Vegas, Concert.Tickets, and on, across the spectrum of recently created new domain space. The partnership ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Ltd Announces Starting Roster of 26 Chinese and International … - TLD Registry Ltd the owner-operator of the Chinese New gTLDs Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) announced today its starting roster of registrars. The registry's international network of partners comprises 26 leading domain name registrars serving every continent and major region of the world. "According to our research, we have made domain name history", said CEO Arto Isokoski from Hong Kong. "No other Chinese language New gTLD registry has achieved such ... read more ...
 
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Wake up and smell the sunrise: the new TLD era has arrived - As we previously reported to you (click here to view the article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot").  While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here.    Over 1,900 applications were received by ICANN (the internet's governing body) from entities who ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker - Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for the new advertising program. The program is strictly limited to 2o strings in 2014. At the moment we ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Inc : Demand Media Announces Filing of Form 10 Registration … – 4 - A significant milestone in preparing Rightside Group to become an independent, public company Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. ("Rightside"), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent ... read more ...