Category Archives: EN

Thu 23rd April 2015
Written by The Domains in EN
Domains.com Moving To A Couple New Web Addresses - Domains.com is moving to a new name, not a .domains name or a .website, but rather to a .net, for existing customers and GetYour.com for new customers. When going to Domains.com you will see the following: It will be interesting to see what happens with Domains.com. Tip of the cap to Christopher Hofman ... read more ...
 
 
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Half a BILLION dollars later and, PHEW, we’re all done buying up dot-word … - The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four. In the past week, four other gTLDs - .map, .living, .search and .fun - has also been resolved, with two of them going to Google. Over the past year, domain-name overseer ICANN has run monthly auctions for multiple competing applications for the same name. ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds … - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...
 
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$59M and Counting: ICANN Board Downgrades Community Say on Use of Last … - ICANN's new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants are unable to reach agreement by negotiation or private auction, with the proceeds going to a segregated ICANN account. With the recent $25 million bid of Google to secure control of the .App registry the total proceeds of those ICANN auctions has swelled to $58.8 million. The final sum by the end of the first round could go higher, perhaps to more than $100 million. That's serious ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD's Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds Movie Self/Less - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...
 
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Owner of WordPress Hit With UDRP On The Domain Name Thesis.com - The owner of WordPress.com, Automattic, Inc, has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name Thesis.com which they seemed to have acquired in September  2014. The domain name is registered through Mark Monitor. The domain was owned by Facultylounge.com Partners until it was purchased by The domain name Thesis.com is being forward to Themeshaper.com which is of course also owned by Automattic, Inc A quick search of the USPTO found 7 live trademarks for Thesis, including one filed in February of 2015 ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.SUCKS – what can a trademark owner do? - Owners of well-known trademarks and brand names are trying to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to block the launch of the new .SUCKS domain name. The .SUCKS domain is scheduled to join more than 1000 other new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .GURU, .WINE, .LOVE, .ADULT and .PORN. Most gTLDs were purchased from ICANN for about $200,000 each. Some popular ones were auctioned off for millions of dollars. For example, Google paid $25 ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay Faces Court Date On Domain Names - Torrent Freak published an article on the upcoming Swedish court case over whether or not The Pirate Bay will get to keep what are arguably their most important domain names. ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se. What is interesting about this case is that the .se registry is also being sued by prosecutors. They want the domains to be forfeited and not to be allowed to be registered again. From the article: Next week in a separate action, a Swedish court will be required to decide whether The Pirate ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...
 
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United States: IP Fridays – Episode 26: Interview with James Bikoff – Litigation Of … - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:06 — 15.2MB) Co-Presenters: Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan Episode 26 – April 17, 2015 RC = Rolf Claessen KS = Kenneth Suzan JB = James Bikoff In this episode we have the chance to interview James Bikoff, who is frequently litgating trademarks of the International Olympic Committee, FIFA and other large sports associations. The we also talk about a podcasting patent that was recently cancelled. And in the end, we tell you about decisions ... read more ...
 
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ECOM-LAC Chooses Sedo As Its Strategic Partner To Launch .LAT - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Creating an Internet Presence with a Latin Identity for Latinos WorldwideBoston, MA and Montevideo, Uruguay – Sedo, a global leader in the domain name space with the largest domain marketplace and monetization capabilities,  has partnered with eCOM-LAC to participate in the launch of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .LAT to provide Internet Presence with Latin Identity. eCOM-LAC selected the domain industry leader Sedo to conduct sunrise auctions, ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name buyers including Univision - Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-language broadcasting company Univision. The most impressive sale for the TLD was Lights.co.uk, which a German lighting company paid £25,000. Now, let’s get to the list: Previous weeks’ lists can be found here. If you’d like to learn how to sell ... read more ...
 
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Effective brand enforcement in new gTLDs - 24 April 2015 More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and ... read more ...
 
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.Marriott Launches New gTLD Site: "A Journey Beyond .Com" -                     Marriott just laid out its vision for its new gTLD brand on a website dedicated to its .Marriott new gTLD entitled “A journey beyond .com” “Marriott is helping to pioneer how businesses use this new type of top-level domain as an opportunity to evolve, innovate and simplify your online journeys. So, whenever you see .marriott, you’ll have even more assurance that it’s from a trusted Marriott affiliation, including our 4,000+ destinations spanning 18 hotel ... read more ...
 
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After 11 Years Google Finally Gains Control Over The Domain GoogleTranslate.com - Google has won control over the domain name Googletranslate.com 11 years after it was registered,  in a one member UDRP panel decision. The domain name undoubtedly got a lot of traffic over the years making its owners a lot of money. The domain GoogleTranslate.com has an Alexa ranking in the US of 226,000 Why Google waited 11 years to go after a direct match .com of one of its popular products is a real head scratcher but not unprecedented. In 2013, Google won control over the domain name GoogleMap.com, ... read more ...
 
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Bolter.com Saved In UDRP Despite an Asking Price of Up To $99K - Impressons LLC of California lost its bid to grab the domain name Bolter.com in a UDRP The domain holder Stanley Pace was represented by Howard Neu. The three member panel of Fernando Triana, Esq, Debrett Lyons, Esq. and David Einhorn, Esq found that the Impression who just filed for a trademark last year did not establish common law rights in Bolter before the domain name was registered in 2013 and that “Bolter” was a generic term. Here are the highlights: “Respondent is in the business of ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...
 
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Breaking down Minds + Machines' domain name Portfolio - Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company has 165,364 registrations as of April 20. The majority of these registrations are for domain names in which Minds + Machines isn’t the outright owner. It either provides backend services or has a partnership. Its wholly-owned domain registration tally ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Sells Its Domain Portfolio Of 200K+ Domains To Godaddy For $28.1 Million - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell its remaining domain portfolio of more than 200,000 domains to GoDaddy Inc.(NYSE: GDDY). Under the agreement, Marchex received cash consideration of $28.1 million from Godaddy, plus additional earn-out payments the terms of which were undisclosed including the maximum additional earn out. Marchex also announced it sold $6.7 million in direct domain sales since January 2015 so the aggregate proceeds ... read more ...
 
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.Poker Winds Up Its 1st Day With 1,342 Registrations & .Science Tops 150K Registrations - .Poker launched into general availability yesterday and including those domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those Landrush applications that were awarded uncontested, .Poker finished the day with 1,342 registrations. .Poker is not one of the cheap gTLD extensions with non-premium domains selling for around $50 and some premium domains selling for into the $x,xxx range About 800 domain names were  registered yesterday. .Science is racked up 5 figures in domain registrations ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy acquires Marchex's domain name portfolio for $28 million - An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy has acquired Marchex’s Archeo domain name portfolio for $28.1 million.GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnout. Marchex has owned the portfolio for a long time, and it includes most of the 100,000 domains it acquired from domain name investor Yun Ye for $164 million in 2005. The company ... read more ...
Tue 21st April 2015
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New gTLDs Make US, UK Web Users Feel Less Secure Online: Survey - Change is scary, and that could be part of why 87 percent of consumers are uncomfortable visiting websites that use new generic top-level domains. According to a recent survey by NCC Group, 40 percent of web users in the US and UK feel less secure online since new gTLDs were introduced. NCC Group surveyed 10,000 consumers in October 2014 in collaboration with IDG Research Services. The responses are part of its “New Internet Study”, released in April. It seems that respondents’ fears aren’t ... read more ...
 
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Metrics for New gTLDs Performance - The essay describes six groups of gTLD performance indicators: (1) the presence of a secondary market; (2) uses of second-level domain names; (3) the identity of the owners of parked and not-in-use domain names; (4) domain name renewals; (5) the market size of the supporting complementary assets; and (6) the character of the person in charge of a given registry. A time-trend of these indicators would convey any price inefficiencies and bubbles, and the health of the industry. However, there ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sales Total $1.2 million led by Houtian.com during $59,000 - Over the past week, 568 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: houtian.com at 59,000 USD Top ccTLD: lights.co.uk at 25,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: drone.academy at 6,000 USD There were a lot of strong country code sales this week with 4 selling in the five figure range. As a longtime fan of .TV, I especially liked Rocket.tv at $6,224. $6,000 for Drone.Academy ... read more ...