Category Archives: EN

Thu 5th March 2015
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OpenDNS Working On A System To Quickly Detect Cyber Crime - Interesting article on ComputerWorld.com about a new system for detecting domain names and websites used for cyber crime. The company OpenDNS has been around since 2005 and has created something they call Natural Processing Language. From the article: A security system undergoing testing by a San-Francisco-based company aims to speed up the detection of websites and domains used for cybercrime. The technology is being developed by OpenDNS, which specializes in performing DNS (Domain Name System) ... read more ...
 
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.SO Registry Bans More “KickassTorrents” Domains - With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents has become a prime target for copyright holders, many of whom would like to see the site taken offline. Among other tactics, copyright holders ask domain name registries to suspend pirate site domain names. For a long time the Somalian .so TLD appeared to be a relatively safe haven, but this changed last month when the Kickass.so domain was “banned.” Initially the action appeared to be an isolated incident, but the .SO registry wasn’t ... read more ...
 
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Survey: domain name registrars contingency concentration on confidence and price - Domain name registrars must offer strong security and price to attract customers. There are some questions I’ve asked on the Domain Name Wire Survey over the past ten years that have predictable answers year after year. One of these is “Rank the importance of these items when choosing a domain registrar.” Just about every year, security and price are the top two. That was the case again in 2015. The weighted score for these two factors was essentially a statistical dead heat for the most important ... read more ...
 
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Domain Sales Data Website SimilarSales.com Launches - Rudin Web Solutions out of Switzerland has a new site up on SimilarSales.com. The site provides historical sales data and I don’t know if they are just using NameBio.com to collect their data or if they have their own proprietary system for gathering sales data. The site is not as up to date yet as NameBio as the recent sales data was not showing anything for 3/3 or 3/4. They are incorporating data from BuyDomains and NetFleet.com.au along with Flippa, 4.cn and Park.io. One of the problems with ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to launch land grab in cyberspace - Are you aware of the new generic Top Level Domains launch by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)? It has been claimed that this launch will revolutionise and change the face of the internet. This note explains what all the fuss is about. Many new generic Top level Domains are about to enter cyberspace. To explain this, we must first explain what a top-level domain (TLD) is. Every domain name ends with a TLD. It is the two or more letters that come after ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2015
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Google’s Domain Name Land Grab: Consumer Convenience Or Coercive … - Internet naming decisions are the sort of Internet plumbing inside baseball that only interests policy wonks and marketing mavens. That is until an 800 pound gorilla like Google Google decides to pay $25 million for a single generic top-level domain name (gTLD). Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about the strategy behind Google’s expansive and expensive domain name land grab. Although the most costly, .app is ... read more ...
 
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Google Chose to Win .APP in an ICANN Auction for $25m – Why? - For those who don't know, there are typically 3 methods of resolving contention sets in the new gTLD world: 1. Private deals – This method is used often for small contention sets of 1 to 3 applicants where straightforward negotiation is possible. Sometimes, revenue sharing deals are agreed, a fee can be agreed in exchange for other parties to withdraw their applications, or other types of barter deal are used such as 'swaps' where one party withdraws from one application and another withdraws ... read more ...
 
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Forbes Chats About Google's New gTLD's & Mucks It All Up - Forbes just published a post about Google’s new gTLD initiative and well basically mucked it all up. The story covered Google’s acquisition of .App for $25 Million but a quick read through the 1st paragraph of the story and you can see the author hasn’t really kept up with developments of the new gTLD program or Google’s applications Here is the 1st paragraph of the story: “Buying “.app” for almost four-times the previous record for a gTLD not only raised eyebrows, but questions about ... read more ...
 
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Daniel Tosh Sparks A Domain Regging Frenzy - I watch the Tosh.o show every Tuesday on Comedy Central, last night was the third new episode for this season. Daniel ended the show on a note that domain investors would take an interest in. Daniel promised to make domain recommendations that would help you get rich. Daniel recommended some hilarious domains and the power of having a following got them all registered. LadyPresidents.com Analbeeds.com Misspelling FreeDanielTosh.com SexyAsiansAtTheBusStop.com HotGirlInMyDaughtersClass.com BlackPeopleMeetWhiteWomen.com FamousAnuses.com Illuminati.org JasonIsAPedophile.com For ... read more ...
 
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Radix portion adult Grilled Cheese during SXSW - New top level domain name company hopes to reach tech audience at SXSW this month. Radix is giving out t-shirts, such as this one for .tech, along with grilled cheese sandwiches at SXSW.People love free food, especially during a busy conference. I recently wrote about Sedo’s Froyo truck at SXSW; new TLD company Radix is also giving away free food at the event in Austin later this month. The company will have a large booth at the SXSW Tradeshow and will be handing out free .space-branded grilled ... read more ...
 
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Don’t be caught off guard when the .bank top-level domain launches in June! - The .bank top-level-domain (TLD) is scheduled to open to the general public on June 1, 2015. As previously reported in the December 2014 issue of this newsletter, only verified members of the banking community will be able to register .bank domain names, such charter verification to be accomplished through applicants’ local and/or national regulators. In addition, .bank registrants will be required to adhere to several additional requirements, which can be found at http://goo.gl/K64qjG (See, Nos. ... read more ...
 
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Worst gTLD Like Ever, Ever: .Whoswho Has 21 Registrations 2 Days After Launch -       .Whoswho a new gTLD went into general availability on March 2nd. Today on March 4th. According to ntldstats.com there are a whopping 21 registrations two days into GA, including any domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period. A .whoswho domain name registration is priced at $90 at 101domain.com and $99 at encirca.com The new gTLD is not being carried by any of the top 10 domain name registrars. Like any other new gTLD the applicant paid $185,000 for to ICANN for ... read more ...
 
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Loser.com Owner Has a Problem With Kanye West - Sometimes owners of short, generic .coms use those domains for a different purpose. The domain name Loser.com currently redirects to the Wikipedia page for rapper/entertainer Kanye West. The story is getting plenty of coverage even though it is a simple redirect with not much else going on. USA Today Which pointed out that Kanye did dis Beck at the Grammys, Beck famously wrote a hit song called Loser HollywoodReporter.com noted he did apologize to Beck: West has been on a bit of a make-good mission ... read more ...
 
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Miami cook alleges web engineer is holding domain name hostage - Personal chef claims he can’t get his domain name back and former web marketing firm is sabotaging his new website. Chef Stuart Shaw switched his domain name to TheMiamiPersonalChef.com (pictured) and claims his former web firm is holding his old domain hostage.A Miami personal chef has sued the owner of a web design/marketing company, alleging (pdf) that the company held his domain name hostage after he canceled services. Stuart Shaw says he contracted with Need Marketing Group in 2007 to develop ... read more ...
 
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InternetTraffic.com & Parked Pages Down? - I got a couple of emails overnight from people that have domain names parked at  InternetTraffic.com that says both their parked pages and IT are down since early last night I just checked some of my domain names and they appear to be down as well. I’ve been in contact with InternetTraffic.com who tells me they are now looking into the issues, based off my my report but from there side they are not seeing issues, but clearly there are issues. If you have a domain parked at IT please try one that ... read more ...
 
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UDRP losses count as damage in TM Dispute - Rebecca Tushnet wrote on her blog about a case that included UDRP expenses being counted as injury in a recent TM case between Migliore Associates, LLC v. Kentuckiana Reporters, LLC. From the article: Intro: “The court reporter game is a tough racket. It’s tougher still when a competitor registers an internet domain name that is confusingly similar to your business name then links it to its own website.” Migliore’s website is at miglioreassociates.com. “Searches on popular internet search ... read more ...
 
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2015 Domain Name Wire Survey: By a Numbers - Here’s who took this year’s survey. The submission period for this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey, the tenth annual version of the survey, is now closed. You may recall that I changed the format of the survey last year. The topics are no longer “stuff the ballot box” questions; they focus on overall trends in the domain name business. Survey takers also have to provide some identification details. That means fewer — but higher quality — responses. About 200 people took this year’s ... read more ...
 
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.PORN and .ADULT Join .XXX to Form Unsexy Threesome for Brand Owners - Yesterday marked the sunrise launch of the .porn and .adult generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which join .xxx in the top-level domain name space as gTLDs targeted mainly at online purveyors of adult entertainment.  As with .xxx, the introduction of these adult-themed gTLDs presents yet another annoyance for trademark owners already fatigued by the weekly onslaught of gTLDs introduced over the past couple of years pursuant to ICANN’s expansion of the domain name space.  Also as with ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
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Insider Transaction Update: Rightside Group, Ltd. Director Sells Company Shares - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), The Director, of Rightside Group Ltd, Panos E David had unloaded 685 shares at $7.01 per share in a transaction on February 25, 2015. The total value of transaction was $4,802. The Insider information was revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) suffered a loss, declining 0.42% in its share price. The bears locked in total control while fighting the bulls throughout the day, ... read more ...
 
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Radix Adds .Online to Growing Portfolio of New gTLDs – .CO.COM Happy With … - Radix Registry is celebrating the addition of .online to their portfolio of solely owned new gTLDs that already includes .website, .host and .space among others. Radix originally joined ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX; TSX:TC) and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. "Online" is the most commonly used word to end domain names, with over 550K .com ... read more ...
 
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Choose a gTLD for Love or for Added Value? - The decision to bid for a new gTLD can be driven by reason or by love. Either the applicant practices strategic and financial valuation, or the applicant falls for an idea implicit in the gTLD. The second group had better be very lucky or have some motivation besides profit. They enjoy little chance of economic viability. Worse, they follow up their poor initial selection with similar bad calls about their marketing message. They listen to their hearts, and their hearts keep making things worse. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sales Total $1.4 million for a week, led by Ezpr.com -

Over a past week, 581 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 50% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.   

 Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: ezpr.com at 14,500 USD
  • Top ccTLD: moon.co at 6,000 GBP
  • Top “other” TLD: legend.net at 13,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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The DNS Still Isn’t a Directory - Back in the mid 1990s, before ICANN was invented, a lot of people assumed that the way you would find stuff on the Internet would be through the Domain Name System. It wasn't a ridiculous idea at the time. The most popular way to look for stuff was through manually managed directories like Yahoo's, but they couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing World Wide Web. Search engines had been around since 1994, but they were either underpowered and missed a lot of stuff, or else produced a blizzard ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app domain for $25m - Google has bought the .app domain name for $25m, using it as “a domain space for application developers”. The deal means that Google will be able to create web addresses like “google.app” or “android.app.”  Google has its own domain registry where users can buy their own web addresses. The .app TLD may become available through that route, though Google hasn’t confirmed those plans. Google beat competition from 12 other bidders including Amazon for control of the domain name, meaning ... read more ...