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Mon 23rd February 2015
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Robot. Lufthansa et le Taxibot de Israël Aerospace Industries (IAI). - La compagnie Lufthansa a annoncé utiliser « en grandeur réelle » à Francfort le nouveau système Taxibot. Ce véhicule hybride semi-robotique sous la conduite d’un pilote, conçu pour le tractage des avions de la porte d’embarquement à la piste et vice-versa, a été développé par Israël Aerospace Industries (IAI), et est fabriqué par le Groupe TLD. Son utilisation doit permettre de une réduction significative la consommation de carburant, des émissions de CO² et de NOx, et du bruit. ... read more ...
 
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African ICANN Delegates Call for More Help Bridging Digital Divide - Commerce of the future will take place, increasingly, on the internet. But African countries worry they won’t be equipped to embrace this brave new digital world without help from outsiders and one another. Not enough Africans are getting online and developing websites, especially for businesses, delegates from the continent said earlier this month at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Singapore. “We are in an information economy and the internet ... read more ...
Sat 21st February 2015
 
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Mali offers free .ml domain names in Malaysia, hoping for a global presence - Mali is offering its country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ml, to the 20 million Internet users in Malaysia, capitalizing on the popular use of “ML” as an abbreviation for the Southeast Asian nation.Internet use in French-speaking Mali, in West Africa, has been low. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, and has a high level of illiteracy.Meanwhile, Malayisa has recently prioritized ICT to ensure it contributes 17 percent to its GDP by 2020, up from 11 percent now. The .my domain is ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2015
 
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SIDN releases 2014 growth rate figures for ‘.nl’ domain names -

SIDN, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry obliged for ‘.nl’, a ccTLD for a Netherlands, has announced that it had seen increasing expansion in 2014, with 5,531,186 domain names underneath government during a finish of a year. This represented an boost of 2.7% compared to a total from 2013.

During 2014, scarcely 900,000 new ‘.nl’ domain names were…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Thu 19th February 2015
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Start Spreading the .News – Rightside Acquires One of the Most Attractive New … - the crowd in a big way. Everyone is touched by news in one way or another - people want to hear and see it, businesses and organization want to spread it and the web is the most efficient way ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 on Losing New … - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding … - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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Das Internet wird bunter: Jetzt sind .lgbt-Domains erhältich - “Der großen und vielfältigen LGBT-Community steht nun eine Internetadresse zur Verfügung, die der Community einen exklusiven Kommunikationsraum bietet”, so Philipp Grabensee von der Vergabestelle Afilias. “Die neue .lgbt-Domain bietet Email- und Website-Adressen, die sofort als ‘LGBT-freundlich’ erkannt werden können.” Deutsche Internetnutzer können sich ihre .lgbt-Domain über fünf Anbieter registrieren lassen. Bislang gibt es rund eine Handvoll von ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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Le fichier des drivers GeForce 349.65 en téléchargement sur TLD - Nous vous informions dès cette nuit de la disponibilité sur Windows Update de nouveaux drivers Nvidia GeForce 349.72 349.65 spécialement optimisés pour Windows 10 grâce au support de WDDM 2.0 et de DirectX 12. Ces drivers sont destinés aux GPU Nvidia des familles Kepler et Maxwell à savoir les GeForce GTX 600, les GeForce 700 et les GeForce 900. On remarque en revanche que les GPU mobiles sont quasiment tous absents alors que Nvidia les indiquait initialement comme compatibles. Cette version ... read more ...
 
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2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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Troy Lee Designs 2015 KTM-Licensed Apparel Catalog Now Available - This is a press release from Troy Lee Designs... Corona, CA - (February 17, 2015) "I can?'t even put into words how excited we are to be teaming up with KTM. We dream big over here at TLD, and, in order to get to where we want to be, we needed a company that not only lives and breathes, and, most importantly, believes in racing, but also one that has the infrastructure and equipment to help us reach our immediate, near and long-term goals in the sport. Not only is this new relationship a positive ... read more ...
 
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Domains registrieren: Der gute Name im Netz - Veröffentlicht am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2015 um 18:30 (dpa/tmn/mk) - Der persönliche Blog, eine Firma - es gibt viele Gründe für den eigenen Internetauftritt. Wichtig dabei ist die Webadresse. Die Seite soll ja gefunden werden und im Gedächtnis bleiben. Bevor der Name gewählt wird, steht die Entscheidung der richtigen Endung an. Die sogenannte Top Level Domain (TLD) ist die Endung jeder Webadresse. ... read more ...
 
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Howard Lefkowitz Keynote Speech at NamesCon (Video) - I published an interview with Howard Lefkowitz, who recently launched a new venture using new gTLD domain names. Yesterday, Tech Cocktail published an article about Lefkowitz and his new company, and it’s worth a read. Lefkowitz gave an animated keynote speech during NamesCon last month, and the video of his speech was uploaded to YouTube. When you have half an hour, I think you’ll enjoy watching the video I embedded below. I don’t regularly attend the keynote speeches at domain conferences, ... read more ...
 
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Some considerations for second-round ‘.brand’ applicants to ponder - Trevor Little A couple of weeks ago we reported on the official launch of the ‘.cancerresearch’ TLD, with Tony Kirsch, head of global consulting at ARI Registry Services (which worked with the Australian Cancer Research Foundation on its application), expressing a belief that the TLD can help other applicants by providing a real-world example of ... read more ...
 
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Wysokie ceny odnowień spowalniają rozwój domeny .pl - NASK, instytucja zarządzająca końcówką .pl, opublikował raport podsumowujący wyniki tej domeny w ostatnim kwartale. Niestety na tle innych rozszerzeń krajowych polska domena wypada blado. Głównie za sprawą wysokich cen odnowień.Na początku tygodnia na stronie DNS.pl pojawił się raport Naukowej i Akademickiej Sieci Komputerowej podsumowujący wyniki końcówki .pl za ostatni kwartał 2014 r. Cykliczne opracowania NASK przyzwyczaiły nas do niewielkich oczekiwań dotyczących rozwoju ... read more ...
 
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Domena .pl z niższą dynamiką wzrostu - NASK, czyli Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa, to instytucja zarządzająca domeną .pl. Raz na trzy miesiące publikuje ona raport stanowiący podsumowanie jej działalności i wyników polskiej końcówki krajowej w minionym kwartale. Ostatnie takie opracowanie ukazało się 16 lutego i dotyczyło okresu od października do grudnia 2014 r. Czego możemy dowiedzieć się z raportu NASK? Wyniki polskiej końcówki Podstawowa informacja dotyczy liczby adresów (nazw) utrzymywanych w domenie ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2015
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Radix Wins Rights to .Store New gTLD, Beating Amazon and Google - Radix, a Dubai-based company which has most of its operations in India, recently won the rights to the .store new gTLD, beating out Internet giants like Amazon and Google. With Asia becoming a bright prospect for the ecommerce sector, what does this win mean for Radix? “From a domain name perspective .store adds a new dimension to the ecommerce market,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head of Radix. With an audience that would largely consist of merchants and other ecommerce players, ... read more ...
 
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How Committed Is Google To The New gTLD Program? Applied For 101; Now … - Google was the 2nd largest applicants of New gTLD’s applying for 101 of them and spending $18.6 Million dollars in application fees catching the eye of many publications outside of the domain space Here, Here, and Here Non-domainer publications wrote about how Google would basically get everything they applied for basically because they could afford to. Wired.com called  Google’s support of the New gTLD program was a PR dream for ICANN and the new gTLD program. However Google’s participation ... read more ...
Mon 16th February 2015
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Online Banking Alert: Registration For .bank gTLD Opening Soon - The much-anticipated .bank generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) may be available to verified members of the banking community as early as June 2015. .bank is being touted by the operator, fTLD Registry, LLC. (“fTLD”), as a protected, trusted space on the Internet for the banking community and its customers with enhanced security controls that exceed most existing and new domains. While the addition of this new domain opens up real estate on the Internet and provides new marketing and branding ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Hiring Project Manager for Amazon Registry Services - Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new gTLD domain name extensions, having applied to manage 76 new TLDs. Although the company is not going to operate all 76 of these extensions, the company is looking to hire a Project Manager for its Amazon Registry Services, Inc. According to a job posting on Amazon.com, here’s the first paragraph of the Project Manager job description: Over the next several years, the fabric of the Internet is going to fundamentally change, and Amazon will ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola … - Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than a generic. Here is what Google had to say about .Moto in its application to ICANN: “Charleston Road Registry ... read more ...
 
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I 10 cambiamenti nel mondo dei domini nel 2014 – Zeus News - Analizziamo con Jerome Sicard di MarkMonitor cosa è accaduto durante lo scorso anno nel mondo dei nomi di dominio. Negli ultimi cinque anni per vedere quante cose sono cambiate, considerato soprattutto che l'attenzione si è spostata verso argomenti collegati al lancio e all'uso di nuovi gTLD. È anche vero, però, che molte cose sono rimaste identiche, ad esempio problemi importanti come quelli relativi alla sicurezza dei nomi didominio e alla gestione dei relativi portafogli. Ma vediamo in ... read more ...