Category Archives: EN

Wed 1st April 2015
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Google Launches Backwards Google Search - There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.Any search you do is reversed or backwards.Google announced this on Google+ as an April Fools joke saying:We’re always thinking about what’s ahead, but sometimes it’s important to look backwards. In that spirit, we’re proud to introduce http://com.google, available today. Made possible by new gTLDs (http://goo.gl/HolXqe), http://com.google gives us an ... read more ...
 
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March's Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other developments. Here’s a rundown of the top stories from last month: 1. 2 Things that could harm domain names – the value and importance of domain names is always under threat. 2. The most influential person in the domain name industry is… – this was ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Is Up Over $6 a Share In Early Trading - Godaddy (GDDY) which went public today at $20 IPO price is trading as of publication at $26.30, up $6.30 Godaddy’s first trade was at $26.18 then slipped as low as $25.49 before bouncing to its inter-day high of $26.84. Over 10,500,000 shares of Godaddy were traded in less than the 1st hour of trading. Godaddy sold 22 Million shares at $20 a share so more than 50% of the amount of shares available to be traded have been traded already in the first hour.     ... read more ...
 
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After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD's - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law - Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO of .Law. Carl Jaeckel, founder of Lawyer Central and CMO of Morgan Morgan will also join as COO and John Morgan, Founder of Morgan Morgan, renowned businessman, philanthropist and political power broker will serve as Chairman. Minds + Machines has ... read more ...
 
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.Club Tops 200K Domains Is Godaddy's #1 Selling New Domain Extension - In less than a year from its launch,  .CLUB has sold more than 200,000 domain names. .Club is still one of just a handful of new gTLD’s that are adding hundreds of registrations a day. According to a Press Release out today by the .Club registry, .CLUB is recognized globally as a meaningful, memorable word that expresses community and shared passion. .CLUB is the most popular new domain extension introduced thus far as part of the Internet’s recent namespace expansion. Those now using a web ... read more ...
 
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WIPO sees UDRP increase - Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaints increased 2 percent in 2014, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Trademark owners filed 2,634 cases concerning 5,591 domain names through the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. WIPO also speculated that registrations in new gTLDs have triggered UDRP cases. Registrations in new gTLDs represented 3.9 percent of domain names in WIPO’s caseload compared to 65.2 percent in .com in 2013. The US was the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy shares cocktail 30% during open - So far, so good for GoDaddy’s IPO. It’s not an April Fool joke — GoDaddy is off to a great start in the public markets. Shares began trading at about $26 today, 30% over where the IPO priced. The $20 pricing was itself above the expected range of $17-$19. At $26 a share, the company is being valued at about $4 billion. The nice open might be affecting shares of rival Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW), which are up close to 3% today. Other domain name stocks are mixed. Tucows shares are up about a percent ... read more ...
 
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Are You Bullish or Bearish on Go Daddy Stock ? - With Go Daddy shares set to start trading today, are you going to buy stock or are you negative on the offering ? James Gellert from Rapid Ratings told CNN he is not high on the stock. ‘Elevated’ financial risk: Investors want to know: Will GoDaddy shares be off to the races like Patrick’s No. 10 car or will they crash and burn? “I would say the caution flag is up,” said James Gellert, CEO of Rapid Ratings, a firm that rates the financial health of public and private companies. Even though ... read more ...
 
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Marketers warned of new .sucks domain - Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The worst nightmares of brands and the freelance marketers who look after them could become a reality in June, when hundreds of questionable web domain names go up for grabs. In fact, .sucks, .porn and .adult are just some of the 500 TLDs that will become available, and online ... read more ...
 
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IBM's Softlayer strike with ICANN crack notice - Notice appears to be triggered by customer complaint. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer, citing multiple contract infractions. Softlayer was acquired by IBM in 2013. According to the most recent .com registry report from November, Softlayer’s domain business is meaningful. It had about 90,000 .com registrations at the time. The breach appears to be triggered from a dispute about the domain name southaustralianweddings.com and maintaining registration ... read more ...
 
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.Club tops 200,000 domain name registrations - .Club domain marks big milestone. The .Club team is celebrating after crossing the 200,000 registration barrier less than a year after launch. The numbers can be attributed to a good domain, low pricing, broad distribution and aggressive marketing. Although officially #3 in the zone file rankings, I believe .Club is #2 in arms-length registrations, behind only .xyz. GoDaddy, which featured .Club on its home page for several weeks after it launched, is the number one registrar for .Club. Customers ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy goes open today, raises $460 million - Company prices above expected range, valuing company at over $3 billion. GoDaddy will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the symbol “GDDY”. The company priced at $20 per share and sold 23 million shares, raising $460 million. This was above its planned price range of $17-$19, and values the company at just over $3 billion. The initial public offering should bring a lot of attention to the domain name industry today. It will be interesting to see if it has an effect on other ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic update on gTLDs - StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic has issued an update on generic top-level domains (gTLDs) - the new alternatives to .com, .net and .org. CentralNic says that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic picks up new batch of top level domains - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which  will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched nine gTLDs including wiki, .ink, .bar, .rest, .press, .host, .website, ... read more ...
Tue 31st March 2015
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National Association of Realtors® and Move, Inc. Reach Agreement Over Use Of … - The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Move) announced today that they reached agreement over the use of top level domains outside of the United States. Accordingly, the complaint filed by NAR with the Chancery Court in Delaware on November 10, 2014 seeking clarification on this matter has been dismissed. Move was acquired by News Corp for $950 Million Dollars and the acquisition was completed on November 14, 2014. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Nothing related ... read more ...
 
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National Association of Realtors® and Move, Inc. Reach Agreement Over Use Of New gTLD's Outside The US - The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Move) announced today that they reached agreement over the use of top level domains outside of the United States. Accordingly, the complaint filed by NAR with the Chancery Court in Delaware on November 10, 2014 seeking clarification on this matter has been dismissed. Move was acquired by News Corp for $950 Million Dollars and the acquisition was completed on November 14, 2014. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Nothing related ... read more ...
 
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Highest Reported .info Sale Since 2007; Car.info during $76K Leads Sedo's $1.3 Million Week - Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million dollars. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: cyberobics.com at 22,500 USD · Top ccTLD: portfolio.me at 10,700 USD · Top “other” TLD: car.info at 76,000 USD According to Dnpric.es,  Car.info ranks as the 3rd highest reported .info sale of all time. Sex.info sold at a Sedo auction in August 2007. Travel.info sold for ... read more ...
 
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.Org Domains Rose 1.3% in 2014 - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard,” detailing the worldwide growth of .org in 2014. The report reveals that the number of .org domain names registered in 2014 rose 1.3 percent, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to more than 10,500,000 worldwide. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include: Registrations in international markets continue to experience ... read more ...
 
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.SUCKS actions really do - In 2009 intellectual property owners, facing the possibility of hundreds of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), which would open the floodgates for cybersquatting, worked with ICANN to create a Trademark Clearinghouse (“TMCH”). The TMCH provided trademark owners a central database that would valid their marks when each new gTLD went online. Registering their marks on the TMCH would relieve both trademark owners and the new administrators of gTLDs the burden of validating trademark ... read more ...
 
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Sedo augmenting smallest offers and commissions - Low-ball offers now must be a bit higher. Domain name marketplace Sedo is increasing the minimum offer people have to make on a domain name as well as the minimum commission sellers pay. Effective April 9, the minimum offer for most domains will increase from $60 to $90 (or EUR) or 75 GBP. Sellers will pay at least a $60 commission on all sales. The minimum offer price will likely be greeted positively by those people frustrated about getting $60 offers on their domains. I’m not sure that $90 will ... read more ...
 
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.Club & .Bar Team Up To Exhibit during The Nightclub & Bar Show Being Held in Las Vegas - .CLUB   .BAR domain names are teaming up for the first time to offer the nightclub and bar industry the opportunity to get the perfect web address for their club or bar at the  Nightclub and Bar Show being held in Las Vegas March 31-April 1, 2015 .CLUB Domains, which owns and operates the #1 selling new generic top-level domain “.club” and Punto 2012, the domain company that operates “.BAR” will be in booth # 232 at the in . According to a press release we received today, the .club and ... read more ...
 
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Google Inc. Acquires YT.com Domain Name - Google Inc. has acquired the 2 letter .com domain name YT.com. The domain came out of Privacy Protection at Dynadot on 3/30/2015 and transferred into MarkMonitor revealing Google as the buyers. Based on what I can tell and whois history records, the transaction likely took place on 1/29/2015 when the domains registrant data changed from Cyber Trading Co. at Tucows and transferred to Dynadot under privacy. Was the domain name YT.com acquired for YouTube.com? That is what I am thinking it was for ... read more ...
 
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nTLDStats Reports Over 1.25 Million People Have Registered The 4.8 M New gTLD Domains - nTLDStats.com is reporting that the number of Unique Registrants of a new gTLD domain name is just over 1.25 Million registrants. The total number of new gTLD domain names registered are now over 4.8 Million. Some other interesting  numbers from ntldstats.com about the registrants of new gTLD’s: Frank Schilling North Sound Names has the largest number of new gTLD registration with over 183,000 registrations of as far as we can tell all in new gTLD extensions of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry ... read more ...