Category Archives: EN

Fri 27th March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Evaluating domain names on ValPak coupons - The majority of advertisers in a ValPak coupon mailer include a web address on their ad. The majority of coupons in this ValPak mailer included a domain name.I recently analyzed a coupon mailer I received to see if local businesses are promoting their websites in advertisements. Today I tore open a ValPak mailer to see if the results would be similar. They were, with some slight differences. Compared to the RSVP coupons, ValPak had a bit more of the national advertisers, such as Omaha Steaks. Here’s ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Another “sweet” Deal Done Right By Sedo - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Boston, Mass. -  Sedo is fresh off a big high from our successful promotion at this year’s SXSW in Austin. Through our free “gTLD-topped” frozen yogurt food truck promotion we were able to connect with tons of both tech-savvy and non-techy savvy professionals while giving out close to 5,000 servings of frozen yogurt and almost 2,000 coffee.club cups of coffee over a five day period. We made huge strides in educating the SXSW audience about domains ... read more ...
 
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Optilead Ltd. intent in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - WIPO panel determined UK company filed domain name dispute in bad faith. UK company Optilead Ltd has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Optilead.com. Optilead Ltd uses the domain name Optilead.co.uk for its shopping cart abandonment services. According the the World Intellectual Property Organization decision, Optilead.com was registered about 9 years before Optilead Ltd shows any trademark rights in the term Optilead. As such, panelist Alistair Payne ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: Liftware.com, OrderPro.com & More - Welcome to the first ever Domain Movers series on TheDomains! If this is the first time you are seeing the series, this is what it’s all about: Domain Movers are domain names that I dig hard to find that have been acquired by some of the largest companies in the world. These discoveries are often the very first time it is being published and may not be made public otherwise. These discoveries often are early indicators of new brands, new products, services and more by companies. The domain names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: “We’ve labelled a product aloft utterly simply since we consider it’s significantly superior,” - Xconomy.com did an article on the new gtlds and had a focus on Donuts and they got quotes from Richard Tindal a co-founder and COO. Again I think some of the quotes are way off base. Tindal talks about Donuts pricing being higher because it is a superior product. No new gtld currently is superior to .com that is just patently false and this type of stuff is what hurts the new gtlds in discussions and debates imo. Tindal does have the good sense to admit that awareness of the new gtlds is still very ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift in Porn Domain Purchases; Singer Takes Preemptive Measure … - Haters gonna hate, hate, hate but songstress and New York City Global Welcome Ambassador Taylor Swift has already put claims on .porn and .adult web suffixes paired with her name. The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has allowed a select list of people and firms to get the first pick before the new set of domain names are opened to the public this summer, a CNN report said. ICANN decided in 2011 to create more generic top-level domains, also known ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TheDomains.com Welcomes Jamie Zoch and His Domain Movers Series - TheDomains.com is pleased to announce that Jamie Zoch from Dot Weekly will be moving his Domain Movers series to TheDomains.com. Jamie will be providing the same research and behind the scenes access that made the Domain Movers series so popular on Dot Weekly. Jamie will continue to operate Dot Weekly and blog about other things that interest him in the world of domains. Everyone here would like to extend a warm welcome to Jamie and we hope to promote the Domain Movers column to even greater popularity. ... read more ...
 
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Aiming to Increase the Appetite for New gTLDs a Free Sedo Food Truck Served … - We're used to getting sales reports from domain industry giant Sedo, but the data that came in today was a lot different than what we usually see with frozen ... read more ...
 
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Filing Fee for .sucks Top-Level Domain Names Really Sucks for Brand Owners - The recent top-level domain name explosion has been of great interest to existing brand owners and new market entrants alike. No longer is a business limited to deciding which of a few top-level domains, such as .com, .net, .org., .us or various country-specific domains, to select when registering for a new Internet address. Under the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the number of top-level domains available ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Supports the CrypTech Project – The Most Ambitious Hardware … - DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--Global domain registry operator and Internet technology innovator Afilias has pledged funding support to the CrypTech Project. CrypTech is an industry effort to address the increasingly challenging Internet security environment, especially as it affects cryptographic algorithms in hardware. The CrypTech team of experts is working to develop an open hardware cryptographic engine design that will enable the highest levels of ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Move Over Cybersquatting Here Comes Soundsquatting - Tim Lince published an article on WorldTrademarkReview.com that has found a new kind of domain infringement. It is being called soundsquatting and the victims are the visually impaired. From the article: Recent research has revealed the extent of a newly discovered type of domain name abuse. Dubbed ‘soundsquatting’, it is based on homophone confusion of popular domains and the authors of the study have urged trademark counsel to take note due to the high proportion of malicious domains uncovered. Currently, ... read more ...
 
 
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Telegraph.co.uk Interviews .XYZ Daniel Negari "Who Has Already Made $6.4 Million" on .XYZ - The telegraph.co.uk has published a featured story on an interview of .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari in a story entitled “Fierce struggle for internet’s future is like Wild West” with the subtitle: “The floodgates have opened for billions of new domain names to rival the iconic dot-coms, prompting a ‘Wild West’ land grab. One successful speculator, Daniel Negari, talks to the Telegraph about the profit – and lawsuits – it’s brought him” Here are the more interesting quotes from the story: “Entrepreneur ... read more ...
 
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Buying web addresses best protection for brands in light of expansion of domains – Out - Brand owners might have lost the battle to prevent the expansion of generic top-level domains (gtlds), but a bit of pragmatism now could massively reduce those companies' exposure to reputational risks. There will be a cost for businesses in registering web addresses rooted at the new domains, but it will be lower than the costs those businesses would face in retrospectively challenging ownership of web addresses that cause damage to their brands. Even then, businesses whose brands are protected ... read more ...
 
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Google Testing No Divider Between Paid and Organic Listings - Barry Schwartz is out this morning with a post on Search Engine Land that Google will be testing removing the divider between paid and organic listings. From the article: Google is testing not displaying the line break or line separator between the search ads at the top of the search results and the organic/free listings below the ads. Frederik Hyldig, a reader, emailed us screen shots, which we cannot currently replicate, but we know Google is constantly testing user interface changes. In addition, ... read more ...
 
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Well Cosmo Kramer This is Why Radio Shack asked for your Phone Number - For years on Christmas Eve I would buy a last minute gift at Radio Shack, it was across the street from the mall and it was open later than other stores. I always couldn’t stand them asking for my phone number or email address when I was just trying to get out of there. For fans of Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer wondered about Radio Shack from this classic clip:   Well it seems now Radio Shack wants to sell that data and as Mike would say, No Bueno. From PC World: For years, RadioShack made a habit of ... read more ...
 
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.Ping fetches $1.5M during auction, .Srl goes for $400,000 - Two two-way races for new top level domain names have been settled. Two top level domain name contention sets were settled in auctions yesterday. Golf company Ping (Karsten) won .Ping for $1,501,000. It was in contention with Radix. Thus, .Ping will become a .brand instead of a generic domain name. InternetX won the auction for .Srl at only $400,000, beating Google. Srl is a corporate identifier similar to LLC for Limited Liability Company. InternetX already runs .LTDA, a similar corporate identifier ... read more ...
 
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Another Case of Cybersquatting Paying off - This transaction takes us all around the globe and shows just how magical the Internet can be. So a Chinese registrant gets a domain that represents a major U.S. brand, in the South African extension. NBAstore.co.za sold yesterday on Sedo for $5,500. The buyer shown in whois is Victor Dutka and Mr.Dutka according to LinkeIn is Sr Director, Enterprise Network Services National Basketball Association. Responsible for voice and data networking for the league. So instead of going the UDRP route, the ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Ping.com Beats Radix To .Ping For $1.5M; InterNetX Wins .SRL For Just $400K Beating Google - ICANN held two Last Resort Auctions today. Ping.com the golf club manufacturer won the rights to operate .Ping by outbidding Radix at $1,501,000. The .Ping auction went into the 4th round until Radix dropped out. mySRL GmbH beat Google to the new gTLD .SLR which is a corporate designation used in Spain like .LLC is used in the USA and .GMBH is used in certain countries principally Germany, who won the auction for just $400,000. This auction only went to the 2nd round of the auction which started ... read more ...
 
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Is This Really a Golden Age of Domain Trolling ? - Caitlin Dewey of The Washington Post wrote an article that centered around the recent Taylor Swift and Ted Cruz domain registrations. Caitlin decided to use the words domain trolling instead of the often used cyber squatting. The lone commenter in the article told Caitlin that it is called cybersquatting. From the article: What is domain trolling, exactly? And how is it even legal? Given the strong anti-impersonation protections that most social networks supply, the ability to register an entire ... read more ...
 
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Miami Heat Guard Tyler Real T Johnson Launches His Site on a .Club - Miami Heat Shooting guard Tyler Real T Johnson just launched his official website on a .club domain The site is at Realtjohnson.club Tyler is averaging 6 points a game and 1.3 assists so far this season and wear number 8 for the Heat Here is some information about Tyler from his site: Hometown: Mountain View, CAHigh school: St. Francis HSCollege:  Fresno StateHeight/Weight: 6’3”/190Position: GBirthdate: May 07, 1992   “His mother Jennifer serves in the United States Air Force, Tyler has ... read more ...
 
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Are we astounded by Donuts' renovation rates? - Latest day was 61%, but it might be too early to draw conclusions. New top level domain name mega-registry Donuts has been blogging daily renewal rate data for its first domain names released nearly 14 months ago. The most recent data show a 71% renewal rate for the 37,857 Donuts domain names that have exited the renewal grace period. This includes 14 top level domains, and the majority of these names were registered in general availability. Comparing day 4 to day 3, the renewal rate dropped to about ... read more ...
 
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Efzed Pty Ltd. & Simulate Pty Ltd. Of Australia Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Efzed Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Efzed”), Simulate Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Simulate”), and Mr. Frank Zimmermann of Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia (“Zimmerman”), were just all found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain airlineonline.com. The domain is owned by AviaDesign Ky, Sami Puro of Vantaa, of Finland, and was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Complainants hold ... read more ...
 
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.Green Windups with 771 Registrations After 1st Day Of General Availability - .Green went though a long and winding road leading up to the  launch of .Green and yesterday was the first day a .Green could be registered on a first come, first served basis otherwise known general availability. After the first day of GA including those domain names registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an extra fee to register in Landrush, there are 771 domain registrations. The cost of a .Green registration is around $60 at Godaddy or about 7X the cost of a .com registration. .Green ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions usurpation submissions for summer domain name auction - Auction house will hold another exclusive auction this summer. Heritage Auctions is planning another live domain name auction for early this summer. The format will be similar to one it held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in February. It will be limited to about 30 high value domain names, primarily .com. It will take place in June in either Dallas (where Heritage Auctions is based) or New York. The February auction brought in over $1.3 million in sales, with many of them coming post-auction. ... read more ...