Category Archives: EN

Thu 12th March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Google Mobile deadline approaching, though we don't wish to use .Mobi - Responsive design, not a separate website, is key to going mobile. On April 21, Google’s search rankings will undergo a “significant” change on mobile devices. Websites that are mobile friendly will get a big leg up on those that aren’t. The .Mobi domain name wants to take advantage of this, and tweeted this today: Major Google update: mobile-friendly sites will rise in ranking! Get your .MOBI now – the mobile-specific domain. http://t.co/tdAgND00zE — dotMobiOfficial (@dotMobiOfficial) ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder - The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 56 years The Complainant claims to own the ANN LANDERS trademark as assignee of the trademark registration with the USPTO (Reg. No. 831, 048, registered June 27, 1967). Respondent failed to submit a Response in this proceeding. Complainant ... read more ...
 
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18 End User Domain Name Sales - Wyndham Hotels, Business Insider and 23 and Me buy domain names. Sedo handled 602 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.4 million in sales. Among the purchases were some typos and famous brands, but also companies buying up great generics for their industries. Writer wanted: Joseph Peterson has been writing the end user sales lists for the past month, but the weekly expired domain reports alone are taking up enough of his time. I’m looking for a writer to handle this weekly post. ... read more ...
 
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Wall Street Journal covers domain name theft - Article shines light on growing problem for businesses. Domain name theft is getting mainstream exposure today thanks to a Wall Street Journal article. The article focuses on the recent theft of ShadesDaddy.com, but also discusses other companies that have fallen victim to domain name theft. It also quotes the ICA’s Phil Corwin and attorneys Enrico Schaefer of Traverse Legal and David Weslow of Wiley Rein. It also refers to domainers, but describes them in a much better light than the typical article ... read more ...
 
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NIRA Restates Commitment to Populating Nigeria’s Domain Name - President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), manager of the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, has reiterated its commitment to populate the country's domain name. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who stated this at a media training on .ng domain name, organised NIRA, encouraged Nigerians to register their businesses with .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in the cyberspace, ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Don’t Confuse Brand and Category-Label New gTLDs - The domain name industry gets brand and label confused. A brand sums up what makes a company unique to its customers. A label tells what category a company goes in; it sums up what the product has in common with other products of that type. Sedan and SUV are category labels; Volvo is a brand, one that means safety to customers. Similarly Tesla Motors has its distinctive "Tesla" brand, but it introduces products to its users as "electric vehicles." Another way of saying the above: generic Top-Level ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K - The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auction is opened which means people can join and bid at any time. We will let you at the end of the day tomorrow how it all turns out. If you want to join or follow the auction you can click here You can vote for how much the domain will sell for at domaininvesting.com, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate a 30th anniversary of a initial .com - Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary. You can enter the  #InternetOfficial contest by clicking here ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and .Limo so .Taxi make the car transportation hat trick. According to ntldstats.com .Cab has lover 3,800 registrations. .Limo has over 3,300 registration ... read more ...
 
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Rightside to Release 20K+ Two Character New gTLD Domain Names On Mar 18th - Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), announced that it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such popular extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. on March 18 These two-character domain names, such as 2b.social, 21.rocks, and A1.lawyer, offer more than 20,000 new URL options for businesses and consumers to share their identities, interests, and brand personalities with short, memorable web addresses. Rightside included the following ... read more ...
 
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The one thing that matters for a domain name escrow service - Reputation, reputation, reputation. This year’s Domain Name Wire Survey asked respondents why they use the domain name escrow service they do. The question offered a number of options, from pricing to licensing to customer service. It turns out that people really only care about one thing. The rest is just details: Yes, 61% said reputation was the most important factor. The next biggest factor had only 6% of the vote. Reputation was also top on last year’s poll. True, reputation encompasses ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string for Macao. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual ... read more ...
 
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Hollywood seeking a assistance of Domain Registrars in a conflict opposite piracy - Jeremy Malcom and Maira Sutton wrote an article on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website that deals with Hollywood trying to influence domain registrars. The article is well written and gives a peek into the behind the scenes battles taking place on the IP front. Domain registrars actually became what was called a “New Issue Focus” by the United States Trade Representative (USTR). It looks like industry groups would like the registrars to be on their side in the fight against piracy. From ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Free Visual Map of the Domain Universe Charts the Birth of the 800+ Extensions … - Sunday (March 15) will mark the 30th anniversary of the first domain name ever registered - Symbolics.com. Since that day back in 1985 more than 284 ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Fifty, Shades among tip trending domain registrations final month - Fifty Shades of Gray inspires domain name registrations. Verisign’s monthly “Trending Keywords” report is out for last month, and it appears a certain book-turned-movie was quite popular in .com domain names. The terms “Fifty” and “Shades” both made the list, no doubt due to the release of the Fifty Shades of Gray movie. As for some of the other terms, I’m a bit at a loss as to why they suddenly spiked. Holo? Roof? Here’s the list of top ten trending terms in .com and .net for February: The ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sales Total $1.4Million, led by Generational.com during $70,000 -

Over a past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 52% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.  

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: generational.com at 70,000 USD
  • Top ccTLD: expekt.gr at 20,000 EUR
  • Top “other” TLD: egb.net at 9,888 USD

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Adidas, Nike & Auditing hreflangs For Explosive SEO Results - Fierce competitors Nike Adidas make for a compelling study of differing approaches to internationalizing your website… and salutary lessons in what can go wrong for even the biggest brands’ international SEO campaigns. Fundamentally, there are two domain architectures to consider for your international brand: a single top-level domain (TLD) or multiple TLDs (e.g., .com, .co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.). In theory, both are equally valid options and can deliver exactly ... read more ...
 
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New ‘.bank’ domain available in mid-2015 - New opportunities for the banking community are coming this year. In the fall of 2014, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for coordinating internet domain names, granted fTLD Registry Services, LLC’s (fTLD) application to operate a new generic top-level domain name (gTLD). fTLD will begin operating and managing the domain name “.bank,” which will be made available to members of the banking community in the summer of 2015. fTLD has ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update: .adult and .porn on the horizon - The Internet was in a tizzy back in 2011 when ICM Registry began selling .xxx domain names for use by adult entertainment providers, selling nearly 250,000 addresses and netting more than $50 million. Just last year the registry sold sex.xxx for $3 million dollars, the highest price paid for a non-dot-com address. Which leads us to wonder if the addition of .adult and .porn will generate the same concerns and profits. ICM Registry has set aside nearly 1,000 domain names such as sex.porn, ... read more ...
 
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Two Letter Domain Lost In UDRP "Bought As Part Of A $1M Domain Portfolio Purchase in 2014" - In an interesting  UDRP decision today  the domain holder Futurename of Paris said they purchased a 1,000 domain name portfolio for  $1,000,000 in August  2014. Some of the domain names purchased according to Futurename have the following values:  colis.com USD 7,600, though.com, USD 59,000, monnaie.fr – EUR 10,000, bons.com – USD 12,000, milkshake.net – USD 4,000. The domain at issue in the UDRP is VW.qa The complainant Volkswagen said the price paid for the portfolio was “not credible” ... read more ...
 
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Owners bullish on domain name values in 2015 - Domain name owners think domain name values will increase in 2015. Despite all of the changes in the internet naming landscape, or perhaps in spite of it, respondents to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey are bullish on domain name values. 61% said they think domain name values will go up in 2015, compared to just 9% that think they’ll go down. The rest think they’ll stay about the same. The initial question did not distinguish between existing TLDs and new ones. In a subsequent question, ... read more ...
 
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The New Generation of Multi-Level Internet Real Estate - 2014 witnessed dramatic expansion in Internet Domain Names. Applicant’s ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 businesses were delegated the authority by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate registries for new top level dots. Once under contract with ICANN these new registry operators are licensed to sell through registrars, second level names to the left of new TLDs such as .photo, and .dance, as well as non-ASCII internationalized domain names (IDNs) ... read more ...
 
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Owner of TechGuruit.com sues Owner of TechGuru.com For Trademark Infringement on Tech Guru - A. Preliminarily and permanently enjoining and restraining the Defendants and Defendants’ directors, officers, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, and all persons in active concert or participation with, through, or under Defendants: From using in any way the trademarks TECHGURU or TECH GURU, or any other marks, words or names confusingly similar to Plaintiff’s mark, as the name or mark for any of Defendants’ services; From committing any acts of unfair competition and from ... read more ...
 
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A Hot Winter during NameJet - It’s cold in most of North America, but this winter has been hot at NameJet. Winter at NameJet has been hot. In January the auction venue set a record with more sales above $2k than during any previous month. February racked up 121, which makes it the 3rd month in a row surpassing 100. Apart from December, 2014 ranged between 61 and 95 monthly sales $2k … with a mean of 76. So if your impression has been that bids are climbing into higher price ranges more frequently, well, the data agrees ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: Mo Money, Mo Domains - Four domain names launch this week, including .money. Donuts releases four new top level domain names this Wednesday: .Money, .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach. Ironically, .Money costs the least money of the four. A couple registrars I checked are offering the domain name for $28 per year. .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach are all priced about $50 retail. Many of these domain names are similar to other existing domains. .Money will compete with .Cash (4,200 domains) and .Finance (2,600 domains). .Legal is ... read more ...