Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Thu 12th December 2013
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First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated - Each week ICANN has been delegating more new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs) and it's been somewhat entertaining to watch the list of delegated strings to see what new TLDs will enter the domain name space starting sometime in early 2014 when they become generally available for people to register new domains under. I haven't written about the new strings as I did in the past largely because this is now getting rather routine and those who really care can just watch that list of designated ... read more ...
 
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Nouveau serveur de téléchargement - Vous l'aviez constaté, le téléchargement des fichiers hébergés par TLD était devenu particulièrement lent ces dernières semaines essentiellement en fin de journée. La bande passante du serveur était en effet complètement saturée du fait d'un nombre de téléchargements trop important à certaines heures. Un nouveau serveur de download a été mis en place cette semaine pour mettre fin à cette situation et un autre serveur supplémentaire sera activé dans les prochains jours afin d'améliorer ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse to offer ongoing claims notification services - 12 Dec, 2013 ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has today announced that it will offer an ongoing claims service, where trademark holders (and/or their agents) will be notified of potential intellectual property infringement indefinitely, beyond the original 90 day period. Whenever a domain name in a new gTLD that exactly matches a term recorded in the Trademark Clearinghouse, the trademark holder will receive ... read more ...
 
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Der Ruhrpott im Netz: .ruhr ist online - Sie ist als letzte der deutschen Regional-TLDs gestartet, jetzt ging sie als erste ins Netz: Seit dem 11.12.13 ist .ruhr online. Eine kleine TLD, etwas abseits des großen Hypes, dafür mit einer Vorregistrierphase verspricht regiodot-Geschäftsführerin Anja Elsing. .ruhr ist die erste deutsche Top Level Domain, die seit dem Start von .de in die Rootzone eingetragen wird. Nic.ruhr ist bereits online, die ersten Namen gibt es aber nicht vor Anfang nächsten Jahres. Voraussichtlicher ... read more ...
 
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Supercross 2014 profiles: TLD Red Bull Honda - Cole Seely – Now or Never Since Cole Seely is most likely moving up to a 450 in 2015, this upcoming season will probably be his final chance to earn a 250SX Championship. While Seely’s not a shoe-in for the title, nobody would be surprised if he was holding the lead after the season finale in Las Vegas. He’s won multiple 250SX races in the past, he’s healthy and the two people who bested him last year, Ken Roczen and Eli Tomac, have graduated to the 450 Class. Look for Seely to be stacking ... read more ...
 
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Shopping for New Generic Top-Level Domains Made Simple by Easyspace - New Easyspace website for generic Top-Level Domains "Customers should not be paying to register their interest in the new gTLDs at the moment unless they own the trademark for their brand." Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 12 December 2013 Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest domain name providers, has created ... read more ...
 
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Procédure de pré-enregistrement des noms de domaine avec les nouvelles gTLDs - Erreur : Aucun billet. Nom de domaine .tv est un blog sur l'actualité des noms de domaine - Propulsé par DotClear - hebergement sur serveur dedie Netissime Partenaires: Actualit People ... read more ...
 
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New Top Level Domains Becoming Available, Prepare For .Music, .Band, .Club - .music has been a point of discussion at Hypebot over the last couple of years regarding such topics as who will administer it and RIAA piracy concerns. I'm not clear on the progress of .music but it appears to still be in contention. Time To Start Tracking Your Preferred New Domain(s) What I do want to share is that some of the long awaited generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are already in a preregistration phase and others will be following at undeclared future dates. If you want to dig into ... read more ...
Wed 11th December 2013
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ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires: What Happened and What’s Next? - Last month, some of my colleagues at MarkMonitor and I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina for ICANN 48. With the recent delegation and launch of the first new gTLDs, the atmosphere had an air of both excitement and anxiety. In my opinion, there is much to be done before brand owners should begin to feel comfortable in the post-new gTLD Internet environment, which brings a host of new challenges, as companies attempt to scale monitoring and enforcement to the new (huge) domain name space. Thankfully, ... read more ...
 
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If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins Instead His Investment … - Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would have that $185,000 investment be worth today? Just about $30,000,000. So why would I tie new gTLD’s and Bitcoin’s together? Last week while I was in Argentina on ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Launches Pre-Registration for 14 New gTLDs - Pre-registration is available for 14 new domain name extensions from GoDaddy, the company announced Wednesday. GoDaddy is able to offer the pre-registration after coming to an agreement with Donuts Inc., the registry responsible for the 14 extensions. The extensions are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS, and .HOLDINGS. While domain names with these extensions are available to any individual ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - Home News Article Dec 11 2013 more articles from Middle East - 11 December 2013 - ICANN 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 ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay, un dominio in ogni porto - Roma - Nessuna prospettiva di stanzialità per i pirati della Baia: dalle acque dei Caraibi all'Isola di Ascensione, nel mezzo dell'Atlantico, per sfuggire alle incursioni dei detentori dei diritti. The Pirate Bay, ormeggiata per sette mesi presso thepiratebay.sx, è approdata sul dominio nazionale .ac.A costringere The Pirate Bay a salpare le ancore è stato l'intervento di BREIN, associazione olandese che opera a favore dei detentori dei diritti, che ha chiesto e ottenuto un blocco imposto dal ... read more ...
 
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Sunrise periods for first wave of gTLDs are now open - ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for release. The introduction of new gTLDs triggers a mandatory 30-day "Sunrise Period" to give trademark holders the opportunity to register their existing marks for any new corresponding domains. In order to take advantage of the Sunrise Period, trademark holders need to have their trademarks registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse. After the ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay Dodges Authorities and Resurfaces with .AC Following Domain … - <!--Like us on Facebook --> "We expressly point out that by registering domain names and using these and/or allowing these to be used by The Pirate Bay, you infringe on the rights of Rights Owners. Therefore, the Rights Owners hold you liable for the damages that they have suffered and will suffer from your actions," read the letter to TPB. In 2013, this is the fourth time that The Pirate Bay had to switch the domain to avoid being shut down for good. The ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Opens Up Pre-Registrations on 14 Donuts New gTLD’s With 6 Levels … - Godaddy.com is now taking Pre-registrations for domain names on 14 of  Donuts new gTLD’s The new names are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. Godaddy is accepting normal Pre-Registrations starting at $24.99 up to $99.99 which varies by the extension, but the real story is Godaddy is offering 5 other levels of Priority pre-reservations for each of the 14 new gTLD strings for up to ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay relocates to thepiratebay.ac - The Pirate Bay's .sx was seized this morning, and the site has relocated to thepiratebay.ac. The .AC top-level domain is controlled by Ascension Islands, a UK territory, and a Pirate Bay spokesperson announced that the change was only temporary, with another new domain (.pe, in Peru) in the wings. This is the fifth time that The Pirate Bay had its domain seized in 2013. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Everywhere the Pirate Bay Set Up Shop in 2013 - View The Year in Pirate Bay Domains in a larger map Pirate Bay is back on the URL lam. After its Sint Maarten .SX domain was shut down last night, it’s now available at thepiratebay.AC, a ccTLD for Ascension Island, which is a British overseas territory that’s a volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic. It’s been that kind of year for the torrent site, which now adds its Sint Maarten address to a list of national domains that have been blocked, along with domains ... read more ...
 
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Register for Free WHIR Webinar on New gTLDs with LogicBoxes - by Nicole Henderson on December 10, 2013Add Your Comments In a WHIR webinar on Weds., Dec. 11, 2013, Siddharth Taliyan of LogicBoxes will be presenting on how web hosts can grow by leveraging new gTLDs. Riding the New gTLD Wave to Achieve 10x Hosting Growth from 2 – 3 pm ET will give web hosts the opportunity to ask questions about how your business can profit from new gTLDs. During his presentation, Taliyan ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay : nouveau nom de domaine péruvien, le 6e en 2013 - C'est reparti pour un tour pour le jeu du chat et de la souris entre The Pirate Bay et l'industrie du divertissement. Le dernier nom de domaine sur lequel le site d'échange de torrents opérait a été saisi aujourd'hui, mais ce dernier en a aussitôt adopté un autre. La bataille entre The Pirate Bay et les ayants-droits ou leurs représentants se joue au tour par tour cette année. Faute de parvenir à remonter à la source, le site s'étant blindé accusation après accusation, les industriels ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. “As the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes.” “According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, 80% (more than double the global rate) ... read more ...
 
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The world is your domain - 12 December 2013 | Edwina McDowallAt the end of October the doors opened on the new dawn of 
the internet as our 300 or so current domain name suffixes started to expand. By the end of 2015 they will have increased four-fold. Brand-holders, as well as the likes of you and me, can now become proud owners of our own .camera, .estate and .guru. The internet name space will never look back as each week up to 20 new generic top-level domains (GTLDs) become available for us to own.This is not ... read more ...
 
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Das Xmas DomainGame von InterNetX – spielerisch die Welt der Domains … - (PresseBox) (Regensburg, 10.12.2013) Von .AC bis .XYZ: Die Welt der Domains ist vielfältig - und wird in den kommenden Monaten rasant wachsen. Mit dem Xmas DomainGame (www.internetx.com/domaingame) nähert sich InterNetX dem komplexen Thema "Domains" über einen unterhaltsamen Ansatz: Das Spiel vermittelt verständlich Wissen über etablierte und neue Top-Level-Domains. Als zusätzlichen Anreiz sind für die besten Spieler attraktive ... read more ...
Mon 9th December 2013
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Domain Name Event: "The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet" - Check out “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet” http://t.co/N2GlPa38HC via @eventbrite — Josh Bourne (@joshbourne) December 9, 2013   Fairwinds and The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society are hosting an event next week called “The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet,” and the event is open to the public. This free panel, moderated by David McAuley of Bloomberg BNA, will be held on Monday, December 16 at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC at noon. Panelists who will ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Registry Agreement under the microscope as brands make their voices … - ICANN’s new gTLD Registry Agreement has become the centre of attention of brand owners, with the organisation opening a new comment period on proposals to tweak the agreement to better reflect the operating nature of ‘.brands’. Meanwhile, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPOA) has voiced trademark owner concerns over elements of the current agreement. On Friday ICANN has opened a new comment period centred on a proposal requested by the Brand Registry Group to incorporate ... read more ...