Category Archives: EN

Fri 13th March 2015
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To … - TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol).” Many of of the new gTLD’s  domain extension have already launched including .ninja. “Unfortunately, some of the more useful ones may end being locked up behind Google’s ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grew by 4 Million Domains in 4Q 2014, Reaching 288 Million Worldwide - The fourth quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 288 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.3 percent over the third quarter of 2014, according to Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief. Registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2 percent, year over year. Total country-code TLD (ccTLD) registrations were 134.0 million domain names, a 1.5 percent increase quarter over quarter, and an 8.7 percent increase ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL -       Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monitoring company that it announced earlier this year, or perhaps it could be used as a hub for all the company’s services currently being promoted under the “social enterprise” banner. Well in fact the domain name is being forwarded to ExactTarget.com, which is a ... read more ...
 
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD's: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened - TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the very near future, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol).” Many of of the new gTLD’s  domain extension have already launched including .ninja. “Unfortunately, some of the more useful ones may end being locked up behind Google’s ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Expired Domain Report - Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auction prices and speculated about the intermixture of wholesale and retail purchases at NameJet going back at least a year. So why does it matter (and it does) that Frank Schilling calls the present an “interesting moment where the line between wholesale and retail is getting closer ... read more ...
 
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in a Serps - Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the article Graham provides some tips on how to avoid the competition between sites. From the article: Lots of companies have different international domains serving similar content and pages, but are they working against each other?  Here, I’ll show examples ... read more ...
 
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Where to find Domain Name Companies during #SXSW - Find at least seven companies in Austin at #SXSW. Over the next 10 days about 400,000 people will come to Austin for SXSW and the many unofficial events that surround it. Here are some of the places you can find domain name companies in Austin during SXSW. .Co – .Co always has a big presence in Austin during SXSW. You can find a number of events that .Co will attend and/or sponsor at Go.co/austin. .Club – .Club is also making a splash, sponsoring a number of events. The company is sponsoring ... read more ...
 
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MarkMonitor: we won't distinction on .Sucks - Company will charge modest service fee on “Extortion domain”. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor says it understands its clients will feel compelled to pay for a .sucks domain name, but it won’t profit from the registrations. The company says it will charge just $25 above wholesale for the domain names. The registry has set a suggested retail price of $2,499 for a .sucks sunrise registration. Even without charging a mark-up, brand holders should expect to pay well over $1,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts hurdles ICANN's .Doctor decision - Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee determined that .Doctor should be a namespace restricted only to “legitimate medical practitioners”. This eliminates a number of possible uses of the .doctor domain name. For example, brands like Rug Doctor and Lawn Doctor wouldn’t ... read more ...
 
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Estimating Trademark Claims Notice Suppression of Non-Infringing New gTLD … - On February 2nd ICANN staff announced the release of a Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review that is open for public comment until May 1st. This Draft Report is preliminary to an Issues Report requested by the GNSO Council that is due to be delivered by September 30th, and that may set the stage for a Policy Development Process (PDP) on Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) that could commence in 2016. Such a PDP could consider comprehensive reform of these RPMs as well as of the Uniform ... read more ...
 
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.ng domain name doesn’t impress - .ng domain name doesn't impress Almost three years after Nigeria's .ng Country's Code Top Level Domain Name (ccTLD) officially became available, the level of uptake has been below the target set by the Nigerian Internet Regulatory Association (NiRA). Late last year, Mary Uduma, President of NiRA projected the total number of registered domain names in the country would soon hit 60,000. However, a cross section of web developers who spoke to ITWeb Africa ... read more ...
 
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The .DOCTOR Quarantine - ICANN should reconsider its decision to quarantine .DOCTOR, given that it's not even sick. In an utterly surprising move, ICANN staff and the Board's New gTLD Program Committee ("NGPC") recently informed the applicants for .DOCTOR that it has singled out the gTLD as a test case for controlling content and limiting speech on the Internet. In the epitome of top-down policy making, ICANN issued an edict that it will implement nearly year-old advice from the Government Advisory Committee ("GAC") ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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VeriSign Inc.: Internet Grows to 288 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter … - Tickers: VRSN MANT YNDX IACI NICE HPQ DELL AKAM  RESTON, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/12/15 -- VeriSign, Inc.(NASDAQ: VRSN) , a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced four million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four ... read more ...
 
 
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of … - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 288 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter of 2014 - RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - March 12, 2015) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced four million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 ... read more ...
 
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Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number … - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of Dec 31 - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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VVV.com sells for $136,400 - One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between members VVVcom and First, in the end First won the name at $136,400 There were six bidders who bid $100,000 or more. A total of 515 bids. ... read more ...
 
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Brand TLDs: five potential benefits - Recently introduced, brand top level domains (TLDs) offer a range of potential opportunites for brands.  Our latest report, A Marketer’s Guide to Brand Top-Level Domains, will help brands to understand these new TLDs and decide on a strategy.  It was authored by Martin Talks, Founder of Matomico.  Here are some of the potential benefits of brand TLDs... Trust A brand has complete control over who uses the .brand part of the domain.  Customers would therefore know that any .brand is authorised ... read more ...
 
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Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLD's To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations? - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearinghouse (TMCH) program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read and I think Phil maybe on to something. As an unintended consequence of trying to protection legitimate trademark holders, there is a lot of game-playing at the TMCH where words like “the” “great”, “cool” “luxury” and hundreds of more ... read more ...
 
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Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: "2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class" - In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of  11, and two word domains was their most popular selling Category of domain name Here are the details including some of the domain names they sold: ... read more ...
 
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Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191 - Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new gTLD’s that the ntldstats.com number were not current nor correct. The corrected registration numbers including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to register a domain in the Early Access Program after ... read more ...
 
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Survey: .Club and .Web domain names are favorites - .Club is In Da Club. .Club is a favorite new top level domain name, according to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey. The survey asked which top new level domain name was the respondent’s favorite, as well as which TLD they thought would get the most domain name registrations. .Club was the runaway answer to both questions. Its heavy marketing and early results (about 200,000 registrations to date) certainly put the domain top of mind. Responses weren’t limited to already-released domain names, ... read more ...