Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Mon 16th December 2013
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Centralnic Group PLC : An Interview With Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic – 4 - CentralNic is one of the world's largest domain registries, currently distributing popular domain names such as .uk.com, .us.com and .cn.com. But their portfolio is rapidly expanding with 60 gTLDs coming soon, including .wiki, .bar and .xyz. To get some insight into this expansion, we reached out to Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic and asked a few questions. iwmn: The elephant in the TLD room is obviously .com. As fun and creative as other TLDs are, people ... read more ...
 
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Icann divulga orientações para reduzir a “colisão” de domínios - Icann divulga orientações para reduzir a “colisão” de domínios Detalhes Publicado em Segunda, 16 Dezembro 2013 19:03 Relatório do órgão apresenta soluções de migração para FQDNs A Icann divulga as orientações para profissionais de TI do mundo inteiro sobre como proativamente identificar e administrar vazamentos do espaço de nomes privado para o Sistema de Nomes de Domínios (DNS - Domain Name System), e eliminar as causas de colisões ... read more ...
 
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Holy .cow!! - Sponsored ArticleThe deluge of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) has begun! Top level domains are the ones after the dot. Examples:-    .com-    .org-    .travel-    .netAlmost 2000 new applications for TLDs were filed in 2012/13 with ICANN. One of ICANN’s many duties is to ensure healthy competition in the Domain Name System (DNS) for registrars and the adequate meeting of the changing/growing needs of consumers as the internet continues to expand in size and importance. Certainly the huge ... read more ...
 
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Update on Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) - ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse, the first centralized, international repository of trademark data designed to help rights holders around the world protect their trademarks across all new gTLDs is up and running, although hard to say it is a success given only 10,000 trademarks were entered as of October 14, 2013. New gTLD registries are also gearing up to start their Sunrise and Trademark Claims programs. The Sunrise program allows trademark owners that have recorded their ... read more ...
 
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ICANN quer evitar ‘colisões’ de domínios na Internet - Home - Internet ICANN quer evitar 'colisões' de domínios na Internet :: Convergência Digital :: Convergência Digital :: 16/12/2013 A ICANN divulgou nesta segunda-feira, 16/12, as orientações para profissionais de Tecnologia da Informação do mundo inteiro sobre como proativamente identificar e administrar vazamentos do espaço de nomes privado para o Sistema de Nomes de Domínios (DNS - Domain Name System), e eliminar as causas de colisões entre nomes com a inclusão ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay’s domain hopping tour takes it to Peru’s .pe - Seemingly always on the run, The Pirate Bay's latest stop in search of safe harbour is inside Peru's top level domain space. Read this Pirate Bay releases block-bypassing PirateBrowser Read more The Pirate Bay, now operating from thepiratebay.pe, has arrived in Peru after a brief moment last week as thepiratebay.ac — .ac being the country code top level domain (TLD) of the Ascension Islands, which is British territory. The .ac stopover en route to Peru followed the seizure of ... read more ...
 
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Brandmarking: December 12, 2013 • Volume 2, Number 5 - PAGING MR. CHARBUCKS... Someone once said that the American legal system guarantees every corporation its decade in court. That came true with a vengeance for two corporations whose 12-year-long battle recently (and perhaps mercifully) came to an end when an appellate court ruled for the third time that the mark MR. CHARBUCKS for coffee did not violate the famous STARBUCKS trademark. In 1997, a small New Hampshire coffee company called Black Bear Micro Roastery released a blend that it called ... read more ...
 
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Web. A chi servono nuovi domini Tld? - Dada sta consolidando il proprio posizionamento nel core business dei servizi digitali professionali per la registrazione di nomi a dominio e di hosting, per la creazione, la gestione e la visibilità di siti web e di e-commerce e per la protezione del brand in Rete, rivolti principalmente a piccole e medie imprese a livello europeo. Il gruppo , che ad oggi conta più di 1,7 milioni di domini in gestione, 500 mila siti web ospitati sulle proprie piattaforme, opera in Italia attraverso Register.it ... read more ...
 
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The Mosque and the Bazaar: Islam, ICANN, and the New gTLD Program - The launch of the new gTLD program in January, 2012 was undoubtedly one of the finest moments for ICANN; and rightly so. The launch was a culmination of thousands of hours of hard work by thousands of people from various countries, interests, and walks of life. In the end, a 338-page Applicant Guidebook with details about how the new gTLD program was to be implemented was produced. Thus was set the stage for the greatest cyberland rush in history. The Bazaar Although ICANN was expecting ... read more ...
Sun 15th December 2013
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Are You Ready For The Coming Explosion Of Cybersquatting? - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know about the New .REALTOR Domain - In 2011, NAR applied with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate a NEW branded .REALTOR top level domain (TLD). Soon hundreds of new domains will be available on the Internet, but only .REALTOR means the trusted source in real estate. The goal of .REALTOR is to create a name space where home buyers, sellers and investors can go to find the most credible, trusted real estate information, resources, and professional services on-line — and ensure they are ... read more ...
 
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Gambling on gTLDs - During some free time at the TRAFFIC conference last June in Las Vegas, I won a bit of cash at the Bellagio playing blackjack. A few hours before my flight took off, I played blackjack again at Aria, and I went on a nice run. I walked away after winning a big hand, and the entire trip was financed by my blackjack winnings. I enjoy playing blackjack, and this was one of the few times I left ahead. Although I think it will be difficult to pick out the winners when it comes to new gTLDs, I ... read more ...
Sat 14th December 2013
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New .UNO Domain Announced: Designed For Latino Websites Worldwide - As we all know, the interent has dramatically expanded in the past few years, and with it, the number of websites. But with a few top-level domains, like ".com," ".org," and ".net," the proliferation of websites necessitated longer, moer complicated, and harder-to-remember website names. Now there's a new domain for Latino websites, along with a slew of other domains, to help organize the increasing mess on the World Wide Web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the ... read more ...
 
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.Brand Registry Agreement Addendum Published For Public Comment - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
Fri 13th December 2013
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How to Transform Your Dormant Sites into Fabulous Sources of Passive Income - If you actually took the time to follow the advice of domain services experts in regards to buying and protecting your domain name, then you probably have a few dormant websites lying around. This is because these experts often advise us to buy as many TLDs of our chosen domain name as we can to protect our brand. So, let’s say you were lucky enough to get the .com TLD for your preferred domain name and chose to buy the .org, .net, and .biz TLDs as well. What do you do with the three ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay Switches to .AC ccTLD Following Domain Seizure, Pressure from … - by Nicole Henderson on December 13, 2013Add Your Comments The Pirate Bay switched its domain this week, relocating to a new address on the .AC ccTLD, after pressure from Dutch anti-piracy agency Brein forced the domain registry of Sint Maarten to seize its .SX domain name. Initially reported on Torrent Freak on Tuesday, The Pirate Bay users were unable to use the site in places where DNS entries were not cached, ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Adds 14 Domain Extensions At GoDaddy - Donuts, the global top level domain (gTLD) registrar which has operations and connections to Los Angeles, has rolled out fourteen of its domain extensions via GoDaddy. According to GoDaddy Thursday, it has begun accepting pre-registration on fourteen new domain name extensions, including .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. The domains are part of a bit extension of GoDaddy in the new ... read more ...
 
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Livre blanc : tout savoir sur les nouvelles extensions de noms de domaine - Leur annonce avait fait grand bruit il y a deux ans. Leur arrivée se rapproche de plus en plus et certaines avaient même été annoncées au printemps dernier. Les nouveaux gTLDs, autrement dit les extensions de noms de domaine qui vont venir compléter la vingtaine déjà existante (.com, .net, .info…) et celles relatives à chaque pays, ne vont pas tarder à arriver. Plus de 1 800 candidatures restent en lice pour plus de 1 400 extensions différentes. Elles ne vont pas toutes arriver en ... read more ...
 
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Do we really need new net names? - Late last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took the radical step of approving nine new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs): .bike, .clothing, .guru, .camera, .lighting, .voyage, .holdings,  .equipment and .singles.  These gTLDs, while available to registered companies with the appropriate trade marks, will only be released to the public in January 2014.These are part of a list of over 1400 gTLDs that will be released by ICANN in the next few years at a rate of ... read more ...
 
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.Brand Registry Agreement Addendum Published for Public Comment - On December 6, 2013, ICANN posted for public comment a proposal requested by the Brand Registry Group to incorporate a new Specification 13 to the new gTLD Registry Agreement, which would be available to a registry operator that operates a top-level domain (TLD) that ICANN determines qualifies as a ".brand TLD." Specification 13, otherwise known as the “.brand Addendum,” would be added to the standard Registry Agreement that was finalized and approved by the ICANN Board of Directors in July ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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The Domain Masters Radio Show Returned Wednesday With a Controversial … - For nearly nine years the Domain Masters radio program could be heard at WebmasterRadio.fm every Wednesday evening. The groundbreaking show debuted in December 2004 with Monte Cahn as the host ... read more ...
 
 
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GoDaddy Opens Pre-Registration For 14 New Domain Name Extensions - Scottsdale, Arizona-based domain name registrar GoDaddy is extending out its inventory of domain name extensions, ahead of the ICANN's move to new global top level domain (gTLDs)The story you have requested is only available to paid members of the Techrockies.com web site. Stories newer than 15 daysare restricted to paid members only. Please login in order to access this members-only content, or become a member. ... read more ...
 
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Shopping For New Generic Top-Level Domains Made Simple By Easyspace - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest domain name providers, has created a brand new website where customers can register their interest for free in the new ICANN generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs).Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 12 December 2013 -Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest domain name providers, has created a brand new website where customers can register their interest for free in the new ICANN generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). The website,http://www.easyspace.com/domain-names/new-gtldshas ... read more ...
 
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.ruhr: Das Ruhrgebiet geht online - Die Ruhr ist nicht nur eine Krankheit, sondern auch ein Fluss in Deutschland und Namensgeber des Ruhrgebiets. Jetzt bekommt sie eine eigene Top Level Domain (TLD): .ruhr. Der Ruhrpott, einst das industrielle Herz der Bundesrepublik, wird die erste Region Deutschlands sein, die eine eigene TDL erhält. Seit dieser Woche ist .ruhr online. Noch ist jedoch nur eine Domain freigeschaltet: nic.ruhr. Weiter Domains können ab Anfang 2014 bestellt werden. Kostenpunkt: 30 bis 60 Euro. Noch tiefer in die Tasche ... read more ...