Category Archives: EN

Mon 23rd March 2015
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Mike Mann Is On Fire Selling $76K in Domains That Cost Him Less than $750 Total - Mike Mann has been reporting some very impressive domain name sales the last few days on his Facebook page Mike just announced today he sold the domain name MissCandy.com for $30,000 a domain he purchase on July 30th 2012 for $75 Last week Mike reported selling Jazz.co for $22,000 a domain he purchased on July 19th 2010 as well as the domain TakeTheChance.com for  $15,000 which he purchased on August 1, 2013 for $300 The previous week Mike announced the sale of CityMarkets.com for $9,000 a domain ... read more ...
 
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Shocking? Google Domains Now Listed Organically Number 1 On Google For "domains" -                 Just a little over 2 months after launching out of Beta, Google new domain name registrar Google Domains is showing as the number one organic entry under Google when you search for the term “domains” replacing registrars like Godaddy.co,, Network Solutions.com, 1and1.com, NameCheap.com and Domain.com Google Domains is also ranking organically, number 2 under the term “domain registrar” number 4 for the term “domain” number 6 for the term “domain registrars” Not ... read more ...
 
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How Major League Baseball can Boost New Domain Names - If it actually uses its new TLDs, Major League Baseball can have a profound affect on awareness of new domain names. On today’s Domain Name Wire Podcast, Michael Berkens discussed some of the recent new top level domain name auction results. One that I think is interesting is .Baseball, which was won by Major League Baseball (MLB). MLB has been aggressive about buying .com domain names that match team names. It currently owns all but three team names in .com after acquiring Rangers.com for $375,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Suffers the 1st Overall Negative Domain Day -   The new gTLD Registry, Donuts suffered its first net negative domain day since becoming a registry; where the number of new domain names registered were exceeded by the number of new gTLD deleted or removed from the zone file for non-renewal. According to ntldstats.com Donuts had a net loss of 63 domain names yesterday on  March 22nd. You can see this by checking out this chart and mousing over yesterday. Donuts is now reporting its renewal stats on its company blog and updating it daily. Donuts ... read more ...
 
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2 engaging new TLD-related videos - .Rocks, not .com, and .XYZ. I don’t have any cute cat videos to share with you this Monday, but I have a couple new top level domain name-related YouTube videos might interest readers. In the first one, one of the ten-year-old members of music band V² explains that their website is vsquared.rocks. Not .com, his brother explains: The second video is some footage of .XYZ’s #XYZsquad, commonly known as the purple people, at SXSW in Austin. .XYZ definitely upped the game with its purple people ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Auction Results with Michael Berkens – DNW Podcast #25 - What do the winners and losers of new TLD auctions mean for the program? Google, Amazon, Donuts…lots of big companies are duking it out in auctions to control top level domain names. The results include a lot of surprises. On this week’s show, fellow blogger and new TLD consultant Michael Berkens talks about who’s winning and losing these auctions, and what the implications are for the new top level domain name program overall. Also: SXSW recap, GoDaddy IPO update, and Donuts launches “Freedom ... read more ...
 
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NAE.com Saved in UDRP But No RDNH Despite Domain Reg 6 Years Before TM - National Automotive Experts, L.L.C. just lost its bid to grab the three letter domain name NAE.com in a UDRP, from Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented as usually by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The three member panel of Ho-Hyun Nahm,  Diane Thilly Cabell and Sandra J. Franklin easily found in favor of the Domain Holder concluding that the Complainant didn’t establish that they had an exclusive rights to the term NAE and that the domain was registered 6 years prior to the date the  that Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Donuts' initial new domain names are starting to drop… - Donuts’ first domain name registrations are starting to drop. Here are initial numbers. Donuts is releasing renewal numbers for its new TLDs daily as the first batch of names exit the auto-renew grace period. Yesterday, Donuts COO and Co-Founder Richard Tindal blogged results for the 6,352 Donuts domains that exited the grace period as of Saturday. Of these, 85.3% were renewed. About one third of these domain names were sunrise registrations, which should have a higher-than-normal renewal rate. ... read more ...
 
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Weebly introduces module for domain name registrars and hosts - Reseller program allows hosts and registrars to offer Weebly website builder tools. Website builder Weebly launched a new program for domain name registrars and webhosts today, enabling them to offer Weebly’s website creation tool to their customers. NameCheap and Endurance International Group (which owns a number of hosting companies and Domain.com) are initial customers of the new Weebly for Hosts. Weebly for Hosts is essentially a reseller program, allowing companies to offer a simple website ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Wins Important Section 230 Case - Eric Goldman published an article on what he deemed an important legal victory for Go Daddy. Go Daddy won a Section 230 case which involved some Teamsters Union members. Section 230 is a part of the Communications Deceny Act and it provides immunity for providers like Go Daddy hosting. From the article: GoDaddy won a Section 230 case in the Second Circuit. It’s a short and efficient ruling, but it’s a published opinion and the court says it’s the first Second Circuit opinion on Section 230 ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Buys Up Porn Domain Names? - Is Taylor Swift getting into the porn biz? According to CNN.com, the pop star has purchased a pair of adult domains to prevent Internet trolls and porn companies from using her name to sell XXX-rated material online. Among her purchases include Taylorswift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult. The purchase comes after a 2011 decision by ICANN to expand top-level domains, or gTLDs, such as .com and .net. The number of gTLDs have increased from 22 to to over 547. Companies and anyone else who don't want their ... read more ...
Sun 22nd March 2015
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Butterfly Twists Is Every New gTLD Operator’s Dream – Company Creates 100 … - Butterfly Twists is a shoe company based in the U.K. Steve Hall wrote a story on Marketing Land that should be of interest to those dabbling in the new gltd space. The company went out and registered 100 different new domains and created a custom website for each one. They even did a video which is basically an introduction to the new gtlds for their customers. Every registry should hope that other companies emulate Butterfly Twists.     The .com extension is celebrating its 30th anniversary this ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com - There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn’t make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name TaylorSwiftAdult.com remains unregistered today which leads me to believe it was not the Ms. Swift who registered the domain. It ... read more ...
 
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So, Taylor Swift totally bought domain names for porn sites - (Larry Busacca/Getty Images) Ever the savvy businesswoman, Taylor Swift has gone and purchased the domain names TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult. Now before you get any wrong ideas, it’s clearly in Taylor’s best interest. According to CNN Money, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has expanded its number of generic top-level domains (or gTLDs), which include the basics such as .com, .net and .org. With more repugnant domains like .porn, .adult and .sucks being added ... read more ...
 
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Butterfly Twists Is Every New gTLD Operator's Dream - Butterfly Twists is a shoe company based in the U.K. Steve Hall wrote a story on Marketing Land that should be of interest to those dabbling in the new gltd space. The company went out and registered 100 different new domains and created a custom website for each one. They even did a video which is basically an introduction to the new gtlds for their customers. Every registry should hope that other companies emulate Butterfly Twists.     The .com extension is celebrating its 30th anniversary this ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com - There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn’t make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name TaylorSwiftAdult.com remains unregistered today which leads me to believe it was not the Ms. Swift who registered the domain. It ... read more ...
 
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So What Happened to that whole Do No Evil ? - The Verge published an article that painted Google in a very bad light. When your motto is “Do No Evil” being accused of blackmail can be very upsetting. The article discusses certain findings by the FTC back in 2012. Apparently one of the findings was that Google  lifted product rankings and placed them in their own search results for those products. When the companies complained to Google about the process, Google threatened to remove them entirely from results. From the article: In 2012, ... read more ...
Sat 21st March 2015
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Just Transferred Last Week -             A UDRP has been filed on the domain name Kite.com The registrant of the domain is currently Escrow.com under the email address of dnholding@escrow.com. While I have no details about Kite.com I can tell you that Escrow.com uses that email address when its holding a domain name that has been sold typically while payments are still being made by the buyer to the seller, through escrow.com The domain was owned under privacy at Godaddy and transferred to Escrow.com on March 15th. In ... read more ...
 
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China Denies Any Involvement in Cyber Attack on Register.com - An article on TheHill.com says that China has denied they had any involvement in a cyberattack on Register.com. The crazy thing is that the hackers were in Register.com’s system for over a year. From the article: China has denied involvement in a cyberattack on Register.com, which manages more than 2 million domain names worldwide, Reuters reported. The Financial Times reported earlier this week that the FBI was investigating possible Chinese military involvement in the digital hit, which could ... read more ...
 
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IP Alert: Brand Owners Must Consider Whether to Pay Hefty Fees to Preempt … - Also facing March 31 Sunrise deadline for .ADULT and .PORN .SUCKS Make no mistake—the new generic top level domains (gTLDs) are big business. Witness Google’s purchase last month, at auction, of the .APP gTLD for $25 million. Nearly 550 new gTLDs have been delegated, with over 800 more still in the pipeline. Vox Populi Registry Ltd., which paid $3 million+ for the .SUCKS gTLD, completed its registry agreements with ICANN and announced a Sunrise Period of March 30, 2015 to May 29, 2015 ... read more ...
Fri 20th March 2015
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Trademark Watch: Nike, Qualcomm, Washington Redskins and More - On June 1st, ICANN will release .porn and .sucks. In good efforts to protect their brand many have swooped in to buy .porn and .sucks before web haters and trolls got to them. Microsoft has already registered Office.adult and Office.porn. Steve Miholovich, SVP of marketing at Safenames, a domain registrar and advisory firm for websites, commented to CNN, "At the end of the day, a TLD is really a brand." We can’t see anything positive coming from those TLD; brands may want to consider following ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Registry Audits Begin Next Week. Are You Prepared? - New Top-Level Domain (TLD) operators should be on alert next Monday 23 March when ICANN will formally notify the Registries it has selected to form part of this year's contractual compliance audit program. Clients of ARI Registry Services' recently launched Operational Services Program will have their ICANN Registry audit completed for them at no charge, enabling them to have the confidence of partnering with a proven provider of compliance services. After completing the ICANN audit ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s revenue estimate downgrade isn’t a new gTLDs disaster story - Trevor Little In its annual operating plan and budget for fiscal year 16, posted this week for public comment, ICANN has significantly reduced its estimated revenues from new gTLDs for the current fiscal year (FY). While a negative for the organisation, it shouldn’t be read as a significant statement on the gTLD programme. The draft FY16 document ... read more ...
 
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Purchase .Sucks Domain? - We are all familiar with .Com, .Edu, .Mil and .Org; however, you may have noticed that these so-called “Top Level Domain” (or TLD) name extensions have been expanding.  Soon the .Sucks, .Porn and .XXX suffixes will be available for  the general public.  At first glance this is giggle-interesting but likely deemed irrelevant by most of us; however, this may be a mistake. The .Sucks domain name is being billed as the consumer advocate’s extension and if you go to the Vox Populi Registry, ... read more ...
 
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The many successful chairman in a domain name attention is… - No surprise at the top, but it gets interesting after that. How most people probably envision dinner with Frank Schilling.This year’s Domain Name Wire Survey asked respondents who the most influential person is in the domain name industry, as well as who they’d most like to have dinner with. Unsurprisingly, domainer-turned-registry/registrar/parking/sales person Frank Schilling was the top vote. 38% of people said Schilling was the most influential person in the industry. Rick Schwartz came in ... read more ...