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Thu 12th March 2015
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NIRA Restates Commitment to Populating Nigeria’s Domain Name - President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), manager of the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, has reiterated its commitment to populate the country's domain name. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who stated this at a media training on .ng domain name, organised NIRA, encouraged Nigerians to register their businesses with .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in the cyberspace, ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2015
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Don’t Confuse Brand and Category-Label New gTLDs - The domain name industry gets brand and label confused. A brand sums up what makes a company unique to its customers. A label tells what category a company goes in; it sums up what the product has in common with other products of that type. Sedan and SUV are category labels; Volvo is a brand, one that means safety to customers. Similarly Tesla Motors has its distinctive "Tesla" brand, but it introduces products to its users as "electric vehicles." Another way of saying the above: generic Top-Level ... read more ...
 
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Google paga US$ 25 milhões por todo o domínio .app - A Google pagou US$ 25 milhões pelos direitos exclusivos de todo o domínio .app. A empresa já havia se candidatado para comprar novos domínios de alto nível (TLD, Top Level Domain) em 2012, quatro anos antes do ICANN decidir aumentar o número de TLDs da web. A Google resolveu disputar vários desses domínios, incluindo .docs, .android e .free. O ICANN vem leiloando esses domínios periodicamente. A Amazon comprou o .buy por US$ 5 milhões e .spot por US$ 2,2 milhões no ano passado. ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string for Macao. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
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Free Visual Map of the Domain Universe Charts the Birth of the 800+ Extensions … - Sunday (March 15) will mark the 30th anniversary of the first domain name ever registered - Symbolics.com. Since that day back in 1985 more than 284 ... read more ...
 
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Oberberger „Taxibot“ schleppt Passagiermaschinen - Waldbröl.  27 Tonnen ist er schwer und 8,70 Meter lang – der sogenannte „Taxibot“. Noch befindet sich das Gerät in der Testphase, doch bald schon soll es auf Flughäfen sogar größere Passagiermaschinen mit einem Gewicht von mehr als 100 Tonnen zur Startbahn schleppen. In dem Schlepper, in dem ein 950 PS starkes Hybridsystem mit zwei Dieselmotoren zwei Stromgeneratoren antreibt, steckt auch ein großes Stück Oberberg: Das Getriebe kommt von der Firma ... read more ...
 
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Adidas, Nike & Auditing hreflangs For Explosive SEO Results - Fierce competitors Nike Adidas make for a compelling study of differing approaches to internationalizing your website… and salutary lessons in what can go wrong for even the biggest brands’ international SEO campaigns. Fundamentally, there are two domain architectures to consider for your international brand: a single top-level domain (TLD) or multiple TLDs (e.g., .com, .co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.). In theory, both are equally valid options and can deliver exactly ... read more ...
 
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New ‘.bank’ domain available in mid-2015 - New opportunities for the banking community are coming this year. In the fall of 2014, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for coordinating internet domain names, granted fTLD Registry Services, LLC’s (fTLD) application to operate a new generic top-level domain name (gTLD). fTLD will begin operating and managing the domain name “.bank,” which will be made available to members of the banking community in the summer of 2015. fTLD has ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update: .adult and .porn on the horizon - The Internet was in a tizzy back in 2011 when ICM Registry began selling .xxx domain names for use by adult entertainment providers, selling nearly 250,000 addresses and netting more than $50 million. Just last year the registry sold sex.xxx for $3 million dollars, the highest price paid for a non-dot-com address. Which leads us to wonder if the addition of .adult and .porn will generate the same concerns and profits. ICM Registry has set aside nearly 1,000 domain names such as sex.porn, ... read more ...
 
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The New Generation of Multi-Level Internet Real Estate - 2014 witnessed dramatic expansion in Internet Domain Names. Applicant’s ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 businesses were delegated the authority by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate registries for new top level dots. Once under contract with ICANN these new registry operators are licensed to sell through registrars, second level names to the left of new TLDs such as .photo, and .dance, as well as non-ASCII internationalized domain names (IDNs) ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
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Rightside Group, Ltd. Insider Transaction Update: Wayne Maclaurin Sells 1295 … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), Maclaurin Wayne M., Officer (Chief Technology Officer) of Rightside Group, Ltd., unloaded 1,295 shares at an average price of $7.35 on March 5, 2015. The total amount of the transaction was worth $9,518, according to the disclosed information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Maclaurin Wayne M. now owns 99,426 shares of Rightside Group, Ltd.. Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the trading session with a loss ... read more ...
 
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Vision 15: bNamed - Naar aanleiding van 15 jaar Smart Business geven wij een aantal 'opinion leaders' uit de ICT-sector de kans om hun visie te geven op 15 jaar ICT. Hoe zien zijn IT business de komende 15 jaar evolueren, en hoe zal hun bedrijf hier op inspelen? Bart Mortelmans, Managing Director bNamed: De domeinnaam-sector is vorig jaar een nieuwe periode ingegaan die nog wel even zal nazinderen en die bepalend zal zijn voor minstens de volgende 15 jaar. Waar we tot voor kort enkel websites en e-mail onder bijvoorbeeld ... read more ...
Sun 8th March 2015
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Que pensent les experts du référencement des nouveaux gTLDs? -   Partager cet article :Afin de bien capter l’attention des professionnels, nous sommes allés poser la question directement à un groupe d’échange dédié au référencement au sujet d’une extension bien précise : le .SEO (“seo” signifie “Search Engine Optimization” ou “Référencement” en français). Pour rappel, il n’existe pas d’extension Internet .SEO.LinkedIn a cet avantage de permettre aux professionnels d’une industrie de se retrouver pour échanger sur des questions ... read more ...
 
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Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow – ag-IP - Home / Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow / By Staff Writer   AMMAN – The Regional Vice President in the Middle East of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mr. Baher Esmat stated that the number of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) could reach 1000-1400 which imposes some technical challenges on the Corporation.  In a press conference organized today for launching the second ... read more ...
Sat 7th March 2015
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD’s; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins … - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
 
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Auction of a live gTLD could pave way for domain-name shakeup - The first new top-level domain name to be sold with live websites attached to it has been picked up by registry giant Donuts at auction. The rights to sell domains under the name ".reise" – which is German for "travel" – represents a sea-change in the way the domain-name system will run in future, with generic top-level domains (gTLDs) becoming tradable assets rather than the core focus of a business. ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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TLD fête ses 16 ans: Participez au jeu concours SteelSeries - Hé oui le temps passe, voila déjà 16 années que TousLesDrivers.com existe. C'est en effet à la fin du mois de Février 1999 que la toute première version de TLD était mise en ligne et nous n'avons cessé, depuis, de vous tenir informés quotidiennement de la sortie de nouveaux pilotes de périphériques et de mises à jour d'équipements high-tech en général. Pour fêter ça, nous organisons un jeu concours en partenariat avec la marque SteelSeries que vous connaissez sans doute déjà ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2015
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.SO Registry Bans More “KickassTorrents” Domains - With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents has become a prime target for copyright holders, many of whom would like to see the site taken offline. Among other tactics, copyright holders ask domain name registries to suspend pirate site domain names. For a long time the Somalian .so TLD appeared to be a relatively safe haven, but this changed last month when the Kickass.so domain was “banned.” Initially the action appeared to be an isolated incident, but the .SO registry wasn’t ... read more ...
 
 
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La Somalie n’aime pas KickAss - KickAss a du faire face à une série de coups durs le mois dernier. Après s’être fait bannir de Somalie, la plateforme a du trouver refuge au Royaume de Tonga, et donc au beau milieu de l’océan Pacifique. Enfin pas elle, plutôt son nom de domaine et toute l’histoire est expliquée en détails dans cet article. Oui, et le truc c’est que le registar en charge du TLD .so a voulu aller encore un peu plus loin, sans doute pour brosser les ayant-droits dans le sens du ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to launch land grab in cyberspace - Are you aware of the new generic Top Level Domains launch by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)? It has been claimed that this launch will revolutionise and change the face of the internet. This note explains what all the fuss is about. Many new generic Top level Domains are about to enter cyberspace. To explain this, we must first explain what a top-level domain (TLD) is. Every domain name ends with a TLD. It is the two or more letters that come after ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2015
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Google’s Domain Name Land Grab: Consumer Convenience Or Coercive … - Internet naming decisions are the sort of Internet plumbing inside baseball that only interests policy wonks and marketing mavens. That is until an 800 pound gorilla like Google Google decides to pay $25 million for a single generic top-level domain name (gTLD). Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about the strategy behind Google’s expansive and expensive domain name land grab. Although the most costly, .app is ... read more ...
 
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Google Chose to Win .APP in an ICANN Auction for $25m – Why? - For those who don't know, there are typically 3 methods of resolving contention sets in the new gTLD world: 1. Private deals – This method is used often for small contention sets of 1 to 3 applicants where straightforward negotiation is possible. Sometimes, revenue sharing deals are agreed, a fee can be agreed in exchange for other parties to withdraw their applications, or other types of barter deal are used such as 'swaps' where one party withdraws from one application and another withdraws ... read more ...