Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Mon 16th March 2015
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“.sucks” registrations begin soon—at up to $2500 per domain - The number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) available for use has climbed into the hundreds, and ".sucks" will soon be added to the list. However, angry customers eager to get their hands on brand-specific domains like "bestbuy.sucks" or "comcast.sucks" shouldn’t get their hopes up; according to MarketingLand, the domains will cost far more than most consumers will want to pay. The pricing situation around .sucks domain names is complicated. Companies with registered trademarks ... read more ...
 
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Shocker? Latin American Telecom LLC Beats Google To The .Tube New gTLD - • Provide all those interested, world-wide, in disseminating or seeking information, whether non-commercial or commercial, about current issues, news, culture, lifestyle, entertainment, sports or any other topic with a convenient and recognizable domain name that associates them and⁄or their information with particular topics presented primarily through a video format.• Provide all those interested, world-wide, in selling or purchasing goods or services of any kind, or providing information, ... read more ...
 
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Merchant & Gould hires Nancy Lutz - Merchant Gould has hired Nancy Lutz as partner in its Washington DC office. Lutz’s has spent her carer protecting clients' trademarks, copyright, and domain names, including within new gTLDs, on a global basis. She has filed and prosecuted trademarks in every jurisdiction in the world. She evaluates and counsels on acquisitions of intellectual property, and supervises investigations of infringers. Brian Batzli, managing director and CEO of Merchant Gould, commented: “Lutz is a nationally ... read more ...
 
Sun 15th March 2015
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30 let „komerčního Internetu“ - 30 let „komerčního Internetu“ Dnes je to přesně třicet let, co byla zaregistrována první doména v TLD .com. Její držitel se však tohoto výročí nedožil, na doméně nyní běží web s historií Internetu. Neděle, 15. březen 2015 | Autor Lukáš Jelínek | známka 1,00 doména, historie, jelínek, usa reklama Nahoru ... read more ...
 
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Novidade do TLD Group em equipamentos aeroportuários, TaxiBot … - Novidade do TLD Group em equipamentos aeroportuários, TaxiBot chega em breve ao País Novidade do TLD Group em equipamentos aeroportuários, TaxiBot chega em breve ao País Categoria.: Veículos  Fonte/Autor.: Michele Carvalho :: Fonte/Autoria.: Michele Carvalho  _ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: No ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com at 30: will the world’s best-known web domain soon be obsolete? - Meanwhile, the internet had rapidly evolved from an unknown phenomenon used primarily by academics and researchers to a global communication, commerce and information-sharing channel that few could imagine life without. Today, dot-com websites are accessed trillions of times each day. Millions of entrepreneurs have built their businesses online with dot-com, and the biggest names in business have branded their companies with dot-com addresses. Some believe that dot-com is now almost synonymous ... read more ...
 
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Timeout, Time Lords: ICANN says there is only one kind of doctor - Domain-name overseer ICANN has decided that only one kind of doctor may be allowed online – and that is a medical doctor. In a decision made late last month but challenged on Friday by one of the companies vying for the rights to run the internet registry .doctor, ICANN will insist that all dot-doctor domains be verified as belonging to "legitimate medical practitioners." The dot-doctor top-level ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com at 30: will the world’s best-known net domain quickly be obsolete? - Dot-com is the world’s most recognised net suffix, with over 115 million dot-com domains registered worldwide, representing about 42 per cent of all net addresses. But 30 years just after its inception, quite a few people are questioning regardless of whether it can continue to retain its dominance. Initially launched by the US Department of Defence – in the similar year as Live Aid and the release of the first Back to the Future film – dot-com was initially intended as an world-wide-web ... read more ...
 
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Domain name system expansion - It’s “the biggest change to the Internet since its inception” according to the President of the Generic Domains Division at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN) referring to the expansion of the Domain Name System, the unique identifier with a set of properties attached to it so that your computer can convert a specific domain into an IP (Internet Protocol) ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2015
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts … - Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon plans to do with .free. Other than sometimes .free shipping I’m not sure what Amazon offers for free, except for a ... read more ...
 
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside - Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ — Proverb Mothers are the most celebrated members of our society. They give birth, provide nurture and comfort, ... read more ...
Fri 13th March 2015
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Thanks a lot, Google, for snatching .dev for yourself. It’s not like the rest of us … - Comment The internet is gradually gaining a whole lot of new top-level domain names, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol), thanks to ICANN's dot-word gold rush. Most of these dot-words are available to world + dog to register fresh domains, such as theregister.science. However, some owners are keeping their gTLDs to themselves – for example, Google has nabbed the rights to .dev domains, although it's for the US ad giant's ... read more ...
 
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To … - TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol).” Many of of the new gTLD’s  domain extension have already launched including .ninja. “Unfortunately, some of the more useful ones may end being locked up behind Google’s ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grew by 4 Million Domains in 4Q 2014, Reaching 288 Million Worldwide - The fourth quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 288 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.3 percent over the third quarter of 2014, according to Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief. Registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2 percent, year over year. Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) registrations were 134.0 million domain names, a 1.5 percent increase quarter over quarter, and an 8.7 percent increase ... read more ...
 
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Estimating Trademark Claims Notice Suppression of Non-Infringing New gTLD … - On February 2nd ICANN staff announced the release of a Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review that is open for public comment until May 1st. This Draft Report is preliminary to an Issues Report requested by the GNSO Council that is due to be delivered by September 30th, and that may set the stage for a Policy Development Process (PDP) on Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) that could commence in 2016. Such a PDP could consider comprehensive reform of these RPMs as well as of the Uniform ... read more ...
 
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.ng domain name doesn’t impress - .ng domain name doesn't impress Almost three years after Nigeria's .ng Country's Code Top Level Domain Name (ccTLD) officially became available, the level of uptake has been below the target set by the Nigerian Internet Regulatory Association (NiRA). Late last year, Mary Uduma, President of NiRA projected the total number of registered domain names in the country would soon hit 60,000. However, a cross section of web developers who spoke to ITWeb Africa ... read more ...
 
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The .DOCTOR Quarantine - ICANN should reconsider its decision to quarantine .DOCTOR, given that it's not even sick. In an utterly surprising move, ICANN staff and the Board's New gTLD Program Committee ("NGPC") recently informed the applicants for .DOCTOR that it has singled out the gTLD as a test case for controlling content and limiting speech on the Internet. In the epitome of top-down policy making, ICANN issued an edict that it will implement nearly year-old advice from the Government Advisory Committee ("GAC") ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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VeriSign Inc.: Internet Grows to 288 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter … - Tickers: VRSN MANT YNDX IACI NICE HPQ DELL AKAM  RESTON, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/12/15 -- VeriSign, Inc.(NASDAQ: VRSN) , a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced four million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four ... read more ...
 
 
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of … - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 288 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter of 2014 - RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - March 12, 2015) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced four million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 ... read more ...
 
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Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number … - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Key-Systems ist Aussteller bei den WorldHostingDays 2015 - St. Ingbert (ots) - Die Key-Systems GmbH wird bei den WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) vom 24. - 26. März 2015 in Rust ihre Metaregistry[TM] RRPproxy[TM] vorstellen. RRPproxy bündelt eine Vielzahl an Domain-Endungen und Dienstleistungen in einem einfach zu bedienenden, leistungsstarken Echtzeit-System und ermöglicht den Wiederverkauf von Domains mit zahlreichen Endungen wie .DE, .COM, .NET, .CLUB, .BERLIN oder ... read more ...
 
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Brand TLDs: five potential benefits - Recently introduced, brand top level domains (TLDs) offer a range of potential opportunites for brands.  Our latest report, A Marketer’s Guide to Brand Top-Level Domains, will help brands to understand these new TLDs and decide on a strategy.  It was authored by Martin Talks, Founder of Matomico.  Here are some of the potential benefits of brand TLDs... Trust A brand has complete control over who uses the .brand part of the domain.  Customers would therefore know that any .brand is authorised ... read more ...