Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Fri 26th December 2014
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NamesCon Session: “All About Chinese Numeric Domains” - I have not sold many numeric domain names, but I have witnessed the rise in values of numeric domain names during the last few years. I believe much of the rise in value of these domain names has been fueled by Chinese investment in that sector. Mitch Watkins from TLD Registry emailed me this afternoon to share some information about the Chinese Domaining Masterclass that is being offered at NamesCon. One of the sessions that was just announced is called All About Chinese Numeric Domains, ... read more ...
Thu 25th December 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Dentist 907: .Rehab 293 - Two new gTLD went into General Availability yesterday on Christmas eve day. Including all registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an additional fee to register domain names before GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations after the first day of GA: .Dentist 907 .Rehab 293 We noted yesterday on Twitter that only 25 domain names in .Rehab were registered in Sunrise and the EAP period combined, going into GA There is already a .Dental new ... read more ...
 
 
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Nissan Loses Its 2nd Domain Proceeding In a Row on New gTLD Nissan.email - Nissan has lost the 2nd URS in the last three days after winning 10 in a row. This time Nissan lost the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name Nissan.email The examiner Kendall C. Reed held: “The Respondent holds the domain name as inventory, which is not inherently wrongful and can represent a legitimate interest, provided however that, at a minimum, the intended use would not constitute a bad faith use. As is noted below, Respondent’s intended use is not inevitably a bad faith use. Registrant ... read more ...
Wed 24th December 2014
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Survey Of Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm … - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google to The New gTLD .Tours As Google Withdraws .Tour - Another indirect new gTLD contention set was resolved as Donuts won the new gTLD .Tours against Google’s application for .Tour. Google has withdrawn its application for .Tour which is applied for Donuts which applied for .Tours was put into a indirect contention set with Google’s application for .Tour At the end of the day Google withdrew its application for .Tour, leaving Donuts the only applicant for .Tours There will be no .Tour We do not have any information as to how the contention set was ... read more ...
Tue 23rd December 2014
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He Loves .LA! Page Howe Sets Up Shop on Hollywood Boulevard in Bid to … - Howe is using the aptly-named  IiLove.LA website to educate and inform local businesses, developers and companies about the .LA namespace, best practices ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s … - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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.Club Passes .Berlin & Moves Into 2nd Place As The Most Registered New … - .Club has just passed .Berlin and is now the second most registered new domain extension. According to ntldstats.com, .Club now has 156,821 domain names registered passing .Berlin which has 155,123 domain names registered. .Berlin offered free domain names for approximately 2 days and about 75,000 of the 155,000 domain names were registered for free. The .Club team have literally been traveling the world, several times over, during 2014. (In terms of disclosure our regular readers know that a consulting ... read more ...
 
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Addition of a top-level domain can make a trademark distinctive - FactsDecisionComment In an October 14 2014 decision, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that while the term 'SeLoger' on its own was descriptive in relation to real estate, it was distinctive when combined with the top-level domain (TLD) '.com'. Facts The claimant, Pressimmo On Line and SA Se Loger.com, was a group of companies operating the website www.seloger.com, the first French property website. The defendant, Janny B, was an estate agent based in the Paris suburbs. The claimant registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Joins Global Companies’ Hit By Cyber Hackers - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the internet regulator that manages the global top-level domain system (TLDs), last week joined a long list of major global companies that have been compromised by cyber hackers this year. The attack affected vital systems belonging to ICANN and accessed the system that manages the files with data on resolving specific domain names. ICANN said it is investigating a recent intrusion into its systems and believed a “spear phishing” ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2014
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In Depth Article About ccTLDs on Moz Blog - It shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, but I don’t have a great deal of experience with ccTLD domain names, aside from seeing them in my travels. I know that Ron Jackson breaks out the ccTLD sales from other domain names in his sales reports, and there are frequently solid sales reported (ie $40,000 last week for SC.TV). If you are interested in ccTLD domain names, you will want to read an article on The Moz Blog that was published this morning. Eli Schwartz, Online Marketing Manager ... read more ...
 
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Attacco informatico contro l’ICANN - L'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), cioè l'organizzazione no profit che gestisce i gTLD (generic Top Level Domains) a livello internazionale, sarebbe stata recentemente vittima di un attacco infomatico grazie al quale i crackers sarebbero riusciti a compromettere in parte i sistemi colpiti.E' probabile che l'obbiettivo dell'incursione sia stato il grande database di registranti dei nomi a dominio a dispositizione della corporation, l'azione malevola sarebbe inoltre la ... read more ...
Sun 21st December 2014
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Glossário Geek: URL, WWW e TLD - Foto por: Reprodução Você deve estar se perguntando o que são essas letrinhas, mas logo tudo fará sentido: no glossário de hoje, vamos aprender o que são e como funcionam algumas peças-chave da Internet: URL “Uniform Resource Locator” (“URL”) ou, popularmente, “endereço web” é, como o nome sugere, uma série de caracteres específicos que geram uma referência para um elemento disponibilizado na Web. Basicamente, imagine ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on Afilias - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon exhibitors and sponsors. The 2015 NamesCon event will take place at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 11-14. Over 500 people have registered to attend NamesCon so far, and over 800 attendees are expected. Today’s NamesCon Spotlight interview is with John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services at Afilias. You are welcome to post comments and questions for John in the comment section if you would like to ask about ... read more ...
Sat 20th December 2014
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Young New Yorker Invests In First Kuhn Mower Conditioner – Agri - Chad Carpenter is 31 years old and just bought his first Kuhn product this spring, a Kuhn FC 3560 TLD side-pull disc mower conditioner, an exciting milestone in this young farmer’s life.“I’ve only been farming two years,” says Carpenter, a Boonville, N.Y. native. He rents his uncle’s barn to milk 50 cows and grows a variety of crops on 200 tillable acres, which he leases from his father, John, and other family members.Eventually, he will relocate the entire ... read more ...
 
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Die Top 10 der neuen Domainendungen - Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende, und die GERWAN Redaktion möchte Ihnen ein letztes Mal einen Blick darauf bieten, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen der neuen Domainendungen im Jahr 2014 entwickelt haben. Wir können Ihnen versprechen, es hat sich auch dieses Mal viel getan in den letzten 30 Tagen. Viele Positionen wurden getauscht, einige Neueinstiege haben die Top-Ten durcheinander gebracht. Als kleinen Bonus bieten wir Ihnen heute zusätzlich die Registrierungszahlen der Top-20 und der beliebtesten ... read more ...
 
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Die Top 10 der neuen Domainendungen - Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende, und die GERWAN Redaktion möchte Ihnen ein letztes Mal einen Blick darauf bieten, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen der neuen Domainendungen im Jahr 2014 entwickelt haben. Wir können Ihnen versprechen, es hat sich auch dieses Mal viel getan in den letzten 30 Tagen. Viele Positionen wurden getauscht, einige Neueinstiege haben die Top-Ten durcheinander gebracht. Als kleinen Bonus bieten wir Ihnen heute zusätzlich die Registrierungszahlen der Top-20 und der beliebtesten ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2014
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Rightside Partners with BaseKit to Bring Website Builder to Domain Registrars - Website building platform BaseKit announced last week that it has partnered with domain name services provider Rightside Group to provide its website building tool to its domain registrars. The agreement will give customers of eNom, eNom Central, Bulk Register and Name.com access to BaseKit’s website building platform. In a statement, BaseKit said the partnership with Rightside represents its efforts to support the growing trend of new gTLDs. New gTLDs are giving service providers more opportunities ... read more ...
 
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Des victimes d’un attentat à Jérusam exigent le .ir de l’Iran - Il y a un an, le 27 novembre 2013, la justice américaine avait reconnu l'Iran responsable d'un attentat-suicide commis en 1997 au marché Mahané Yehouda de Jérusalem, et condamné le pays à verser 9 millions de dollars d'indemnités à cinq familles de victimes. L'explosion du kamizaze qui avait fait 14 victimes civiles avait été revendiquée par le Hamas, cependant le centre de droit israélien Shurat HaDin qui a monté les actions judiciaires en responsabilité avait pu démontrer le ... read more ...
 
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Le suffixe .baby adjugé à une société pharmaceutique pour 3 … - Depuis 2011, la création de suffixes personnalisés pour les adresses web est autorisée par la société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN). Plusieurs domaines de premier niveau (TLD) sont alors apparus, comme .buy, .book, .kid, .shop, .music, .cloud, .game, .mail ou encore .shop, en plus des extensions plus classiques comme .com, .net ou .org. Pour les entreprises, ces suffixes peuvent avoir une valeur économique considérable dans le secteur où ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2014
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.Club takes 6 out of the top 10 New gTLD Sales on Sedo in 2014 - Sedo reported their top 10 new gTLD sales of 2014 and .club dominated the list with 6 out of 10. Things seem to be on the upswing as the company raised another $3million according to DomainNameWire. Upswing in new gTLDs such as .club and .berlin More than 300 new TLDs have been launched in the market in 2014 and currently there are more than 3.5 million new domains registered.  The trading among new gTLD domains is already in full swing and the development of sales at Sedo’s marketplace has ... read more ...
 
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Google swears no search leg up for new dot-word sites: We drill into claims - Google has reiterated its claim that there is no inherent advantage to new top-level domains – such as .london or .book – when it comes to topping search rankings. The position, posted on Google+ by the web giant's trends analyst John Mueller, more or less restates what Google SEO head honcho Matt Cutts insisted more than a couple of years ago. ... read more ...
 
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The Empire Strikes Back: "New" Verisign Hums a Familiar Tune - Losing your monopoly must be hard. True, few companies ever experience that particular breed of angst, but if Verisign's reply to even modest success in the new gTLD marketplace is any indication, it must be very hard to say goodbye. We understand why they're worried: New .COM quality is abysmal. The quality of newly registered .COM names is dropping and has been for years. And there is nothing Verisign can do about it. So welcome to the fire sale. New .COM is as cheap as .XYZ. The average ... read more ...