Category Archives: EN

Tue 5th January 2016
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Reading Health System, in Partnership With The Leadership Development Group … - READING, PA--(Marketwired - Jan 5, 2016) - Reading Health System (RHS) has announced a strategic partnership with The Leadership Development Group (TLD Group) to offer TLD Group's Applied Physician Leadership Academy (APLA)™, a customized leadership development program designed to engage and develop physician leaders to be positioned for success as the industry moves from volume to value-based care delivery. This multi-year program will kick off in February 2016 with RHS's Department Chairs, ... read more ...
 
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Reading Health System, in Partnership With The Leadership Development Group … - /EINPresswire.com/ -- READING, PA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/05/16 -- Reading Health System (RHS) has announced a strategic partnership with The Leadership Development Group (TLD Group) to offer TLD Group's Applied Physician Leadership Academy (APLA)™, a customized leadership development program designed to engage and develop physician leaders to be positioned for success as the industry moves from ... read more ...
 
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The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time - According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today.   As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names. We are running a poll on the right hand side of our site on how many .com domain names you think will be registered as of January 1, 2017 please feel free to vote and for bragging rights you can put your exact picks in the comments of this post. ... read more ...
 
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December's Top 5 Domain Name Stories - Here’s how 2016 concluded in the domain name world. It’s 2016 and NamesCon is just around the corner. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves–what big news stories broke last month? From a poor UDRP decision to the acquisition of Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio, here are the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. The late Igal Lichtman, aka Mrs Jello, loses a horrible UDRP decision – fortunately, his heirs are fighting back. 2. GoDaddy acquires Mike Berkens’ WorldWide ... read more ...
 
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Jay Westerdal - Just a few days to go until attendees will begin arriving in Las Vegas for NamesCon! We are expecting somewhere around 1,200 conference attendees. There will be attendees from all facets of the domain name business. This morning's NamesCon 2016 sponsor spotlight interview is with the team from the .feedback Registry and Jay Westerdal, founder of .feedback. The team answered questions about .feedback domain names and he shared some thoughts about the new gTLD domain names and NamesCon. If you ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon 2016 Sponsor Spotlight on .Feedback Registry - Just a few days to go until attendees will begin arriving in Las Vegas for NamesCon! We are expecting somewhere around 1,200 conference attendees. There will be attendees from all facets of the domain name business. This morning’s NamesCon 2016 sponsor spotlight interview is with the team from the .feedback Registry and Jay Westerdal, founder of .feedback. The team answered questions about .feedback domain names and he shared some thoughts about the new gTLD domain names and NamesCon. If ... read more ...
 
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Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery - Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for domain owners using the software. The theme gallery, which launched earlier today with five designs, allows domain name investors to host a selection of top-notch For-Sale landing pages that have been fashioned for optimal visitor-to-lead conversion and to sell their domain names through direct navigation without paying a ... read more ...
 
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Are Top-level Domains Property? - On December 28, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief in Weinstein v. Islamic Republic of Iran, a case pending before the D.C. Circuit. At issue is whether country-code top-level domains are the property of those countries’ foreign governments. In 2002, a district court found Iran liable for its role in a 1996 terrorist bombing in Jerusalem. The family of one of the victims, Susan Weinstein, brought the suit against Iran and, following the 2003 entry of default judgment, the Weinsteins ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon registrations tip 1,100 - NamesCon will top its own record for attendance at a domain business conference. Next week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas will be the biggest yet, by far. As of last Saturday morning, registrations crossed the 1,100 mark. I bet a lot more people registered Saturday before prices increased. If you procrastinated, you can still register for $799 before January 10. Walk-up registrations are $999. NamesCon will be a great way to kick off the New Year in the domain name business. If you’d like ... read more ...
 
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Kabei.com, JunGong.com lead lapsed domain report - [Editor’s note: this Expired Domain Report normally would have been published at the end of last week. It was delayed due to the New Year holiday.] After a pair of 5-figure Chinese Pinyin domains topped the previous chart, my first reaction this time around was to assume the same thing had happened. The second highest item, JunGong.com ($8.1k), is Chinese: jùn gōng (竣工) means “project completion”. However, I can find no Chinese match for Kabei.com ($10.1k); and at this stage the buyer’s ... read more ...
 
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I'll compensate $500k for your domain name. Psych! Here's a UDRP. - French company files UDRP after offering to buy a domain name for $500,000. Plug “buy followers” into Google and you’ll get 624,000 results. In a rush to look important online, companies spend lots of money buying low-quality social media followers. A French firm that uses the domain name BuyFollowers.fr to sell followers has failed in its attempt to steal the generic domain name BuyFollowers.com through a UDRP, and it appears it may have been a bit dirty in its tactics. By my reading of the ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales - Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. 23 of the top 40 domain names were for three letter .com (LLL.com) domains, of the remaining 17 domains in the top 40, 5 were two letter .net domains (LL.net) and 4 more were four number domains .com domains (NNNN.com) With the RightoftheDot.com auction from Namescon being ... read more ...
Mon 4th January 2016
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Troy Lee Designs Partners with FMF Factory KTM Offroad - Troy Lee Designs proudly announces that they have entered into a multi-year deal with KTM’s Factory Off-Road effort. TLD will be the official race wear (Jersey, Pants, Gloves and Protection) partner of the Factory Off Road Team. In addition, TLD will support Ivan Ramirez, Taylor Robert and Russell Bobbitt with our industry leading helmets. “This is a monumental moment for TLD as we have been diligently working our way into the Off-Road market. To be a part of the FMF/KTM Factory Off-Road ... read more ...
 
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2015 New gTLD Year in Review (Infographic) - The 2015 infographic reflects some of the intriguing highlights of the new gTLD industry. The data analyzed within the infographic is based on the following: • Revenues are based on the average retail price over four registrars (101domain, eNom, GoDaddy and United Domains) at the end of December 2015. In the case where a TLD was unavailable at all four registrars, one or more alternative registrars were used for the average price • Top five TLDs launched in 2015 are based on TLDs entering ... read more ...
 
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1st Reverse Domain Hijacking Finding of The Year & Bretzel Ditsch GmbH Of Germany is Guilty - Bretzel Ditsch GmbH from Mainz, Germany, represented by Horak Attorneys, Germany was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Ditsch.com which was registered on June 28, 1998. To the best of our knowledge this is the first RDNH finding of 2016 (although the decision was entered on December 24th but just published by WIPO today) At some point the Bretzel Ditsch was offered the domain name for EUR 10,000 but they declined and started this UDRP. The original decision was written ... read more ...
 
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It's 2016 – Let's do this! - It’s a new year. Make it a great one! I love the winter holidays…getting together with family, sipping hot chocolate and reading a few good books. But as a blogger, I feel a bit disconnected, too. A lot of people take time off over the holidays, and many of them unplug. I’m writing for a smaller audience for a couple weeks over the holidays. Now it’s January, and we’re ready to go! Welcome back to the “office”. Let’s make 2016 the best year yet in the domain business! Get started ... read more ...
 
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Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now The High Bid - We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which already have bids in pre-bidding at Namejet.com has removed the reserve price. By removing the reserve prices, the domains are being offered at NO Reserve. Since all of the domain name have bids and the reserves have removed, the high bids are now the winning bids. Here are the domain names which are all open for pre-bidding on NameJet.com certifiedplanners.com metrocard.com doctorlove.com greatadventure.com nannycams.com funtimes.com SouthAmerica.com toytrucks.com Of ... read more ...
 
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PIR CEO Brian Cute – DNW Podcast #65 - CEO of non-profit that runs .org discusses the past, present and future of domain names. Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit that operates the popular .Org domain name. CEO Brian Cute explains the unique nature of his registry, as well as its rollout of .Ngo, .Ong and IDN domain names. Cute explains what needs to happen for these new domain names to be successful, and why he believes validation will be key for domain names in the future. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name ... read more ...
 
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Stanley Pace sues for purported Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Pace sues after losing UDRP to dancewear company. Stanley Pace, a Texas resident who has faced his fair share of UDRP complaints, lost another one last month. A three member UDRP panel ordered the domain name Yumiko.com transferred to dancewear company Yumiko, LLC. He’s fighting back to halt the transfer and is asking for damages under the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act for reverse domain name hijacking. Pace filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas on December ... read more ...
 
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Another UDRP that should have never been filed - iCloak.com was registered many years before the complainant had rights to iCloak. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has rejected a UDRP for the domain name iCloak.com. It’s another example of a case that was dead on arrival, and one that future UDRP rules should prevent from being filed. Simply put, the complainant tried to get a domain name that was registered well before it was in existence. The complainant operates an internet privacy service called iCloak, promoted at the website ... read more ...
Sun 3rd January 2016
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We Are Sorry To Report That Domain Investor Anthony J. McDermott Passed Away - Unfortunately the new year has started out with some very bad news as we learned that Anthony McDermott, who was a domain investor and one of  the early leaders in the legal internet vertical passed away on December 23rd, 2015 Anthony was the founder and president of SWI Digital, Inc., “a Full Service Multimedia and Lead Generation Company primarily focused in the legal space. At the time I knew Anthony he was based on Ft. Lauderdale and had a large office with a lot of employees signing up lawyers ... read more ...
Sat 2nd January 2016
 
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Quick Poll: How Many .Com's Will Be Registered By 1/1/17? - So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com’s increased some 7 Million in 2015 or over 7%. The question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? This year we all know we had a short period of time where millions of .Com’s that were previously unregistered got registered by people in China. 2015 was a very ... read more ...
Fri 1st January 2016
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Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com - Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying  Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, Inc has been acquiring all letter of the Alphabet they could get and now owns 20 of the possible 26 (actually 25 domains since a.com is reserved by IANA/ICANN). As we known Alphabet.com is owned by BMW which still has shown no indication it is willing to sell ... read more ...
Thu 31st December 2015
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Happy New Year - Everyone here at TheDomains.com would like to wish you a Happy and healthy new year. Things will be changing around here, after 8 years Michael will be able to do something other than be on a computer 24/7. The first post on TheDomains was here on December 4, 2007. Since that first post there have been over 9,100 posts, over 93,000 comments and close to 9 million views. I want to thank Michael for everything he has done for the industry and for the opportunity to work with him for 2 years here on ... read more ...