Category Archives: EN

Mon 9th March 2015
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Rightside Group, Ltd. Insider Transaction Update: Wayne Maclaurin Sells 1295 … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), Maclaurin Wayne M., Officer (Chief Technology Officer) of Rightside Group, Ltd., unloaded 1,295 shares at an average price of $7.35 on March 5, 2015. The total amount of the transaction was worth $9,518, according to the disclosed information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Maclaurin Wayne M. now owns 99,426 shares of Rightside Group, Ltd.. Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the trading session with a loss ... read more ...
 
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How Colin Campbell (Dot Club) Raised $7million in 30 Days - Colin Campbell wrote a very interesting article on StartUpBeat.com, he went into detail on how he raised $7million in 30 days for Dot Club. Colin gives the timeline that led from start to finish and is a very good read imo. From the article: I had a problem. A problem that almost every startup faces: Raising money. I had to raise $7 million fast for a concept that hadn’t yet generated any revenue, but I had to do it in 30 days, all without a broker, and all on my own. In 2013 I had applied for ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Auction on Sedo May Go Without a Sale - 58 .HIV new gTLD’s are at auction at Sedo.com in a themed auction which ends tomorrow. I believe all of the domain names are owned by the .HIV registry, however the registries whois does not seem to be working, even resolving for that matter. As of publication only 4 domain names have bids and none are close to meeting reserve. Test.Hiv not surprising leads the list with a $500 bid but the reserve range is $10,000-$25,000 The other 3 bids are all at the $99 minimum but the reserve ranges start ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Wire is 10 years old - Happy Birthday, Domain Name Wire. Domain Name Wire celebrates a decade today.Today is a special day for Domain Name Wire. Ten years ago today, I wrote a post about Local.com selling for $700,000. It was the first post on Domain Name Wire. Domain Name Wire started as a hobby but has become a business. Over 8,000 posts later, the DNW archives are like a time capsule for an industry always in transition. Ten years ago I was more likely to write about domain name parking than top level domains. 8 years ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Releases Pricing With "Premiums" For Trademark Holders Up To $2,499 A Year -         Vox Populi Registry Ltd. the owner of the new gTLD .Sucks, made headlines last year when as one of several applicants for .Sucks announced pricing of up to $25,000 per domain, per year. Now that Vox won the private auction to operate .Sucks their site went live on Friday with suggested pricing with 5 price and qualification classes ranging from $9.95 to $2,499 per domain, per year (prices are suggested retail, but each registrar can set their own price). I had a chance to chat with John ... read more ...
 
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Going .Green with Annalisa Roger – DNW Podcast #23 - .Green domain names are available this month after a long journey. The .Green top level domain name comes out this month. In this episode, DotGreen Community CEO Annalisa Roger discusses the long road to .green and how she hopes companies, groups and individuals will use the domain name. Also: how we choose domain name registrars, Google joins Afternic, and U.S. names a domain name registrar to its “Notorious Markets” list. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your ... read more ...
 
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.Com's biggest winners and losers - Uniregistry wins and Moniker loses when it comes to .com domain name transfers in November. ICANN has published the most recent monthly report from ICANN showing .com transfer wins and losses from November. Uniregistry had the biggest net inflow of transfers for a public registrar, while Moniker had the biggest net outflow. As bad as the number was for Moniker (23,847 lost to only 3,136 gained), it wasn’t as bad as its October outflow. Here are the top 5 winners*, measured by net transfers-in (transfer ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Makes Lotsof.Money in Early Access: .Money Has 327 Registrations, Launches Wed - Donuts seems to have made lots of money In the Early Access Program (EAP) grabbing 327 registrations including a handful of trademark registrations made in  Sunrise. In the EAP people pay extra.money to gain early access to register domain names ahead of general availability. .Money launches into general availability on Wednesday Here are some of the registrations that stood out to us: accident.money accounting.money add.money ads.money advance.money affiliate.money app.money apps.money atm.money auction.money autos.money bank.money best.money bet.money betting.money big.money bingo.money bond.money bonus.money borrow.money borrowing.money budget.money budgeting.money capital.money cars.money cash.money casino.money change.money chicago.money chinese.money click.money cloud.money coin.money coins.money collect.money converter.money crazy.money crowd.money crowdfunding.money crypto.money currency.money deposit.money dirty.money donate.money earning.money email.money escrow.money estate.money euro.money exchange.money extra.money family.money find.money for.money forex.money fundraising.money gambling.money give.money gold.money good.money great.money hard.money iam.money immediate.money ineed.money intelligent.money internet.money investing.money investment.money investor.money invests.money jet.money kids.money lease.money lend.money lending.money loan.money loaning.money loans.money london.money lost.money lotsof.money love.money mad.money makeextra.money makemore.money makes.money making.money manage.money mega.money micro.money mint.money missing.money more.money need.money news.money newyork.money next.money nyc.money old.money onthe.money pay.money play.money poker.money private.money raise.money raising.money receive.money reit.money russian.money saudi.money save.money saved.money saving.money send.money smart.money startup.money stockmarket.money super.money the.money trade.money transfer.money travel.money unclaimed.money usa.money use.money vegas.money wire.money xxx.money young.money ... read more ...
 
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Mega List: 67 finish user domain name sales - Joseph Peterson tracks down 67 recent end user domain name sales. During the previous week, Sedo’s network handled 581 domain transactions totaling $1.4 million. Compared to last week, whose top 3 public sales at Sedo added up to $500k, a high of $14.5k seems pitifully small. But the total volume is up 56%. This time, I tracked down end users for 67 domains. As usual, I’m mixing domains that just sold with others that closed earlier but just emerged from escrow. Additive-Manufacturing.de (€3610) ... read more ...
 
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TheRegister.co.uk Reports: Enom Suffers Huge DNS Outage, Taking Down Sites - TheRegister.co.uk,  is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours. The story says: “”Domain name registrar eNom appears to have gone titsup worldwide since the early hours of this morning, according to reports from furious customers who – at time of publication – were yet to get a response from the Washington-based firm.”” The story goes on to say: “Some customers reported ... read more ...
Sun 8th March 2015
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Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow – ag-IP - Home / Second Middle East DNS Forum Takes Place in Amman Tomorrow / By Staff Writer   AMMAN – The Regional Vice President in the Middle East of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mr. Baher Esmat stated that the number of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) could reach 1000-1400 which imposes some technical challenges on the Corporation.  In a press conference organized today for launching the second ... read more ...
 
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Will The Namespace Be Shaken Up By Live Registry Buys ? - Kieren Mc Carthy wrote an article on TheRegister.co.uk relating to Donuts winning the rights to .reise. Now .reise is already live, so Donuts picked up a registry with existing registrations and websites. Mc Carthy ponders what these types of deals could mean in the future ? One registry buying another and then raising prices. I think that is the important question moving forward, will this shake up the future of the namespace ? Will Donuts eventually buy out a string in a niche they otherwise control, ... read more ...
Sat 7th March 2015
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD’s; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins … - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
 
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Auction of a live gTLD could pave way for domain-name shakeup - The first new top-level domain name to be sold with live websites attached to it has been picked up by registry giant Donuts at auction. The rights to sell domains under the name ".reise" – which is German for "travel" – represents a sea-change in the way the domain-name system will run in future, with generic top-level domains (gTLDs) becoming tradable assets rather than the core focus of a business. ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD's; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins .Hockey & .Run Too - Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what many consider the world’s the most popular sport .Soccer, beating out Soccer United Marketing, LLC better known as Major League Soccer, which is the Professional Soccer Language in the United States as well as Famous Four Media and Minds + Machines. The ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to a new gTLD .Coupons - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machines in a private auction held around June of 2014, for the .Coupon extension. Based on how Coupons.com described itself in its application with ICANN, you really have to wonder how much the bidding got up to for Coupons.com to drop out. Coupons.com described ... read more ...
 
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I pronounced it before Canada is not messing around when it comes to Spam - Back in September of 2014 I wrote an article on DomainCrunch.com that Canada was not playing around when it comes to spam. A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July 1, the law makes sending commercial messages to a Canadian resident without their express consent very costly. According to the legislation, the maximum penalty per violation for an individual is $1 million per violation, and for a business, it is $10 ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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Who Has a Most Valuable Search Traffic ? - Matt Southern wrote an article on Search Engine Journal that included an infographic on who has the most valuable search traffic. His takeaway from the data was: It’s interesting to note that the site with the most valuable search traffic, Wikipedia, is one that does not attempt to generate a profit from its traffic. Besides that one outlier, the results are more or less what you would expect for each vertical. Some other surprises to me was the value of Yellow Pages’ search traffic, and the ... read more ...
 
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LuxeValet.com shortens domain name to Luxe.com for $172,500 - Domain name sold to parking company after auction ended. Heritage Auctions continues to sell domain names that were listed in its auction last month in New York. One of the bigger sales is Luxe.com, which was purchased by on demand parking and valet service Luxe for $172,500. It has been using the domain name LuxeValet.com. Luxe recently raised $20 million in financing. The total from Heritage Auctions’ February auction lots now stands at over $1.2 million. In addition to the Luxe.com sale, the ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pockets $1.68 from 3 some-more auction losses - Company gets cash for losing auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has added $1.68 million to its bank account after losing three more contention set auctions. The money primarily comes from losing .beauty and .soccer, both of which were resolved through a private auction. L’Oreal won the three-way race for .beauty and Donuts won the four company auction for .soccer. The company also received a $37,000 refund from ICANN for withdrawing its .app application. .App was resolved ... read more ...
 
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ASOP gets Tucows named in U.S. Government "Notorious" List - Registrar blamed for domain names used for fake online pharmacies. The U.S. government just released its “2014 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” report (pdf), which calls out markets in which there is apparent widespread counterfeiting or privacy. At the urging of Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), domain name registrar Tucows has been placed on the list. According to the report: Based in Canada, Tucows is reportedly an example of a registrar that fails to take action when notified ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2015
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Facebook Warns Page Owners Their Number of Likes May Drop on Mar 12 - Venture Beat post an article that Facebook will be removing inactive accounts from a Facebook pages’ like stats and that page owners will see a dip in the number of likes on their page. From the article: In a blog post this morning, Facebook said, “To make audience data even more meaningful for businesses, we’re updating the way Page likes are counted by removing memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages’ like counts.” Facebook said there are two main reasons why it ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains joins Afternic - Domains listed on Afternic will show up for searches on Google Domains. Google’s new domain name registrar is now part of AfternicDLS and its fast transfer network, according to an announcement on the Afternic.com website: Google Domains has joined Afternic DLS and will be part of our Fast Transfer network. Afternic domains that are opted into Premium Promotion will be promoted on Google Domains. We are delighted to add Google Domains to Afternic DLS, the world’s largest premium domain reseller ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy names Chief Customer Officer, new CMO - One of GoDaddy’s original employees moves to new position. GoDaddy announced today that long time Chief Marketing Office Barb Rechterman will be the company’s Chief Customer Officer, a newly-formed position. According to a press release, this new position is “responsible for aligning the company’s products, services and engagement models with strategic needs and values of GoDaddy’s unique customer base.” Rechterman has been with GoDaddy since it was founded in 1997. She has been a driving ... read more ...