Category Archives: EN

Thu 9th April 2015
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NameJet lapsed domain name review - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in NameJet expired domain name sales. 5-digit numeric domains don’t typically sell for $9,120, but one expired NNNNN.com did just that at NameJet last week. 51513.com = 3 x 7 x 11 x 223, in case you care about prime factorization, which the odds are you don’t. Apart from Chinese cryptographers, neither does China, where numbers matter less than numeral strings. These Indo-Arabic numerals of ours belong equally as much to Chinese children, who can rattle ... read more ...
 
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Nevada Would Like To Regulate Internet Traffic - Nevada wants to be the first state to regulate Internet traffic, in an article on USA TODAY, Anjeanette Damon, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal gave the details. The one take away from the article was that critics and security experts believe the bill would actually aid what it is hoping to prevent. The bill is being pitched as a help with Cyber Security. From the article: Nevada could become the first state in the nation to mandate the physical route government data takes as it travels the Internet ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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Pure Drop PDM.com sells for $30,470 on DropCatch - The domain name PDM.com actually dropped and was caught by DropCatch, the domain sold for $30,470. There were 125 bidders and 297 bids. There was a thread on Namepros that started before the auction when it was clear the name would drop, the majority picked DropCatch to catch the name. Some expressed their displeasure of the whole system and specific issues with DropCatch.com. ... read more ...
 
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Revised Top Level Domain Law in Sweden? - On March 31, Swedish regulatory overview office, Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS), published a 54 pages report on revision of the Swedish Top-Level Domain (TLD) law for internet. The report contains proposals for revision of policy and Swedish law regulating top level domains. This is not a surprise. The issue has been simmering for ten years, at least. However, with increasing dependency of information society, public regulators are increasingly inclined to revise ... read more ...
 
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain name sales adult to $109,000 - End users buy domain names for up to $109,000. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, closing 543 transactions for a larger-than-normal $1.8 million tally. The sales were led by Mercari.com, bought by the maker of the Mercari app. Mercari has been downloaded over a million times. A number of other five figure sales are currently still in escrow or have private whois records. Before we get to the list, be sure to check out this week’s Podcast with Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. (You can view ... read more ...
 
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Uniform Rapid Suspension by a numbers - A look at which new top level domain names are getting hit with the most URS cases. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced along with new top level domains as a sort of faster, cheaper version of UDRP. Companies can make a cybersquatting claim against a domain name in the abbreviated procedure. If they win, the domain name is suspended rather than transferred like it is in a UDRP. Both National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) handle URS cases. ... read more ...
 
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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Your Company About Protecting Its Brand Online - Your company could probably learn a thing or two from Taylor Swift. Earlier this month, the ever business-savvy pop star unwittingly generated a ton of click bait for publishers by doing something smart: She registered her name under the new adult-themed top-level domains .porn and .adult. It's a wise move for any brand, but these salacious-sounding TLDs are just the beginning: The number of available website domain names is about to explode. This coming influx of domains will undoubtedly ... read more ...
 
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Donuts hurdles .Charity decision - Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed community objections against both Donuts and Famous Four Media for their .charity applications. Surprisingly, the panelist ruled that the objection prevailed against Donuts but failed again Famous Four Media. The panelist’s decision was based on a Public Interest ... read more ...
 
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD's: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...
Tue 7th April 2015
 
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What to Know About an ICANN Compliance Audit, and How to Handle One if … - Now that new gTLD registries have been operating for more than a year, a few registries have already experienced going through an audit and a few more are now receiving notifications that they are next in line. For all, the process of going through an ICANN audit is a first. Once you receive the Request for Information (RFI), you will have 15 days to respond, or seek an extension of time. Extensions may be available on a case by case basis. Origins ICANN's ability to request an audit comes ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.8 Million Led By Mercari.com during 100,000 Euros - Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: mercari.com at 100,000 EUR Top ccTLD: feedback.me at 10,000 USD Top “other” TLD: airwave.net at 10,000 EUR 7 of the top 11 sales were three letter .coms ... read more ...
 
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The Bitcoin Foundation is "effectively bankrupt" according to one house member - Ars Technica published an article that the Bitcoin Foundation according to one board member, is bankrupt. The organization was created a couple of years ago to bring some sense of official community face for users and investors of Bitcoin. It seems the wheels are coming off as some of the original members have not had a great go of it lately. Of course some have always held that the beauty of Bitcoin was anonymity and open with no central command so to speak. The flip side of the crypto coin is ... read more ...
 
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Premium Generics, the Domain Industry’s Luxury Goods - Categories. The mere mention of the word risks eliciting groans from any domain industry specialist. In the run up to the new gTLD program, this concept was oft discussed. It seemed obvious to most that TLDs were not a homogenous ensemble but instead, could exist in many different shapes and sizes. Except to ICANN staff. They systematically refused to entertain the notion of categories. Even when ICANN Board members suggested some kind of recognition for different TLD types should be hardwired ... read more ...
 
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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs - In this guest post, Aditya Chauhan of LogicBoxes explains big challenges facing new top level domain name registries. When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet ... read more ...
 
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Google Removes Images To Avoid Being Banned in Turkey - According to BBC.com, Turkey had threatened to ban Google unless it removed links to images of a an Istanbul courthouse where a Turkish prosecutor was taken hostage. Google apparently has removed the image and therefore no ban took place. Other social networks were also required to remove the image and several networks saw brief outages. From the article: Turkey threatened to ban Google unless it removed links to images of a prosecutor being held at gunpoint. The images were taken last week in ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Files Suit Against a FCC - Neustar (NSR) is suing the FCC over the loss of the Local Number Portability contract which it held for 18 years. Neustar which has watched the price of its stock drop close to 50% from August 2, 2013 when the shares were at $55.71, initiated a $150 million share buyback once the contract loss was official. Local Number portability refers to the ability of a “customer of record” of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number ... read more ...
 
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EnCirca announces $39 Price For Matching .XXX, .Porn & .Adult Domains - The domain registrar EnCirca just published a press release with a very catchy title; “Here Comes More X-Rated Domains” EnCirca announced during the month of April, they are offering a $39 package covering one name in all three adult-related extensions: .XXX, .Porn and .Adult. This works out to be $13 per domain name in each extension. Considering they are currently selling stand alone .XXX domain registrations for $99 a year, that is quite a deal. The policies for .Porn and .Adult will be ... read more ...
 
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SEO Benefits Between .Com and Everything Else - This will probably be a controversial post as the topic has certainly been controversial. SearchMetrics.com published an article that took a look at the SEO benefits of .com vs every other extension. Now Google has always said there is no difference and Matt Cutts has debunked the new gtld crowd that said they would have a benefit. Matt wrote on his Google + in May 2012: lsauer.com wrote: Technically, it is not sensible to a priori discredit certain domains based on their domain extension. So far ... read more ...
 
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Slicing a data: Top 50 "Premium" gTLDs - One more way to look at the top level domain leaderboards. Registries have sliced and diced the new top level domain name leaderboards in many ways: paid registrations, registration years, number of domains used, Alexa rankings, etc. Here’s another one courtesy of StartingDot, the company behind .Bio, .Archi and the forthcoming .Ski. StartingDot has ranked the top 50 “Premium” gTLDs, with premium defined as an average retail price of at least $40. Since StartingDot’s domains are priced high, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Its Tax Return; Spends $46M In Salaries; $17M In Travel; Has $300M In Cash/Stocks - ICANN just published its tax return, Form 990, for the year ending June 30, 2014. ICANN Revenue decreased from the year earlier to $127 Million from $236 Million. However salaries compensation rose from $32 Million to $46 Million. Total expenses in 2014 were $124 Million against last years  $150 Million. ICANN ended its fiscal year with $193 Million in net assets up from $168 Million in the prior year. The CEO of ICANN made $842K in reportable compensation and another $56K  from “other compensation” Akram ... read more ...
 
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Skechers Loses URS Bid To Have The Domain SKX.science Suspended - Skechers just lost its bid to have the domain name skx.science suspended in a Uniform Resolution Proceeding (URS) and the domain holder a Joel Williams did not even respond. Skechers was represented by Kleinberg Lerner, LLP of Los Angeles, CA, The examiner Luz Helena Villamil Jimenez, found although Skechers had a trademark in the term “SKX” it “did not submit any arguments to support the grounds of the Claim.” “Skechers simply did not submit one single argument to demonstrate why they ... read more ...
 
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Analyzing NameJet and Short Domain Name Sales - Joseph Peterson reviews recent NameJet sales, and takes a deep dive into sales of 3 and 4-character domain names. After a record-setting Winter, NameJet began Spring with a reduced sales volume for March. Even so, given 94 sales closing at or above $2000, March matches the best month out of an 11-month stretch during 2014. NameJet also scored its 4th highest sale of all time with VVV.com being bid up to $136,400. The real story here is the massive preponderance of 3 and 4-character domains. Out ... read more ...
 
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UC Berkeley, along with other schools, purchases web addresses in adult … - UC Berkeley and other schools, including Harvard University, have bought web addresses in adult-oriented Internet domains to avoid trademark infringement from third parties. Starting in June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, will open several new generic Top Level Domains, or gTLDs — a class of Internet domains such as “.com” and “.net” — to the public, including “.porn” “.adult” and “.sucks.” The imminent release by ICANN, the international ... read more ...