Category Archives: EN

Mon 2nd March 2015
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set For Jun 4th - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Search Share Dips for February - Danny Sullivan discussed the February search share stats on Search Engine Land. Yahoo dipped after posting gains in the previous two months. The dip wasn’t that big but the company had some good momentum going over the previous two months. The data from StatCounter shows: Google: 78.7% (+0.1%) Yahoo: 10.1% (-0.1%) Bing: 9.8% (+0.1%) From the article: Yahoo’s share of search in the United States has dropped for the first time since it signed a deal to be the default search engine in Firefox. ... read more ...
 
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Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top-Level Web Domain - What’s $25 million to Google (GOOG)? Apparently it’s not too much to pay to buy a top-level web domain, which the search conglomerate just did to snap up the exclusive rights to the .app appellation in an ICANN auction. Google bested 12 competitors, mostly notably Amazon (AMZN), for .app. Technically speaking, Google’s Charleston Road domain registry won the rights to the top-level .app domain for $25,001,000. ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
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Google Buys Rights to .App Top-Level Domain for $25M - Twenty-five million dollars seems cheap for a top-level domain—bet you didn't think you'd ever see someone say that. Still, when the top-level domain is dot app (.app), and just about every big player in technology has some vested interest in apps, one would have assumed that the ICANN auction for said top-level domain would have gone through the roof. Google prevailed in ICANN's public auction for the top-level domain, paying just a hair over $25M for the rights to .app. It's reportedly the highest ... read more ...
 
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just paid $25 million to buy .app Top-Level Domain - Now the .app top-level domain is completely bought and owned by Google Inc., the search engine giant bid for $25 million to buy the whole rights for the .app top-level domain. The top level domains are similar to .com, .org and .net, they will be at the part of each and every URL under that TLD. Nowadays, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is creating a host of new set of top-level domains and auctioning those domains for a bigger sum. Previously, Amazon has bought .buy ... read more ...
 
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ConnectingNYC.org releases some statistics on Dot Nyc - ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it affected the community. Some of the metrics from the article: Traditional Metrics Let’s start with some stats on the number of .nyc domain names sold. As of February 22, the city’s contractor reported ... read more ...
 
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How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There be by a End of 2015 ? - The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size has voted that way. Today according to nTLDStats the number is sitting around 4.4 million. It certainly makes sense that a lot of robo – registrations will not be renewed, some of the premium renewals will not ... read more ...
Sat 28th February 2015
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Google Paid $25M to Buy the .app Web Domain - Image Source: Whereverwriter Google has paid $25 million for buying the .app top-level web domain. The company hasn’t announced specific plans for .app, but the purchase could provide a creative way to the company to promote apps. As per BusinessInsider report, Google won an ICANN (the organization that controls internet domains) auction for the top level domain (TLD). The company currently owns ‘.how’, ‘.soy’, ‘.minna’, and ‘.foo’, and allows people register for its own ICANN-accredited ... read more ...
 
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Jeffrey Sass Talks Dot Club and a formula of the Dot App Poll - In an article by Laurie Sullivan on Media Post which discussed Google paying $25 million for .app, there was also some commentary from Jeffrey Sass about .club. Sass explained how the pricing works at the wholesale and retail level. He gave a little shout out to Credit.club, the $10.99 hand registration that Bruce Marler was able to jump on. Sass mentioned Credit.club as an example that new gtlds have proven their ability to rank in the serps. Sass said early indications suggest many of the new domain ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years Owner Of The Adult Site Brazzers Files UDRP Against Affiliate Brazers.com - A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Brazers.com which is a typo of one of the most popular adult sites Brazzers.com which uses also uses the domain name Brazzersnetwork.com to which Brazers.com is actually forwarding to. The complaint was filed by Licensing IP International S.à r.l which also owns pornhub.com, youporn.com and redtube.com to name a few.  The company used to be known as Manwin but its now known as MindGeek. The content on the front of the BrazzersNetwork.com is extremely ... read more ...
 
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The MPAA Would Like to Help ICANN set process in targeting Pirate Domains - In an article on Torrent Freak it seems that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is in bed with ICANN and is trying to use that relationship to shape certain policies. These policies center on the handling of domain names used by sites that infringe intellectual property. From the article: The MPAA is one of the ICANN partners shaping future policy for the domain name system. With Hollywood being the driving force behind the group the MPAA is particularly interested in making it harder ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2015
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CMO Offers Fresh View on New gTLDs: "They’re a Channel, Not Just a Label" - Several years ago, I had a very interesting conversation with a talented marketing executive from Portland, Oregon who joined the DotGreen Community, Inc. Board of Directors. When I told him about the new gTLD program, which was then under development at ICANN, Dave Maddocks immediately understood the value of what new gTLDs would mean to all businesses that have an online location. While so many of us in the domain or Internet industry think of website addresses as locations, or as real-estate, ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app internet domain for $25m - Google has procured the web site domain .application in an auction held by the organisation which oversees the jogging of the net. The business's profitable bid for $25,001,000 (£16,234,000) is believed to be the maximum so far. The Net Company for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is rolling out new customised internet names and auctioning them off. Other web deal with endings offered so considerably consist of .newborn, .tech, .salon and .VIP. ... read more ...
 
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Google purchases .app domain for £16 million - Google has bought the .app domain from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation tasked with overseeing the internet. It is part of a new move by ICANN to create new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) for specific types of websites, like .app, .baby and .tech, all sold at the recent auction. Unsurprisingly, .app was the most valuable in the auction, due to its innate appeal to developers. Having an .app domain could come in handy in the few years, ... read more ...
 
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Google Decides To Reverse Ban of Sexually Explicit Material on Blogger - Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step up enforcement against those that do not mark their blogs as adult content and those who may try to use the platform to sell porn. I think they knew people were looking to leave the site, as even people who did not have a blog with anything pornography ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy's latest obvious applications - Company adds to its stack of pending patents. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published a handful of patent applications filed by GoDaddy. Methods and Systems for Recommending Packages of Domain Names for Registration (application 14/500711) is a continuation of patents I wrote about earlier this month. It essentially describes a way to determining which domain names a user will want and presenting them as a package. Two others are related to submitting an offer for a domain name when ... read more ...
 
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LeatherCrown.it, Holder of Italian Trademark Awarded LeatherCrown.com In UDRP Based On Links On Parked Page - Oscar Studio di Cavallin Oscar of Veneto, Italy, which owns an  Italian Trademark  on the term “leather crown” just won a UDRP on matching .com LeatherCrown.com which was owned by Rob Monster of Epik who registered the domain name on July 18, 2012. The Complainant operates its site at LeatherCrown.it and has a Italian trademark registered on November 29, 2010 (filed July 28, 2009) in class 25 for clothing, footwear and headgear.The one member panel of Tony Willoughby, while making it clear ... read more ...
 
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Meet The Man Who Just Received 100,000 Shares in Jet.com - CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is a two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin spent some money to get rich quick. We wrote an article earlier this month about Jet.com, the domain which was sold by legendary domain investor Garry Chernoff, is now looking to take on Amazon in the business of e-commerce. Jet.com was running an interesting ... read more ...
Thu 26th February 2015
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More Evidence Why Doing Good Pays Off and Love Doesn’t - The new gTLDs program can't succeed unless two things happen. The approved registries must do good, and ICANN must weed out applicants who are in love. This is to say that registries should put users' good first, and applicants shouldn't get the nod unless their motive is economic and/or social viability. A recent study reveals that leading companies have enjoyed healthy profits because they made doing good their strategic foundation. The authors analyzed the core values of 34 companies from ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million - The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. It looks like Google was willing to pay over $30 Million based on the info published by ICANN today The previously high price paid for a new gTLD in an ICANN Last Resort Auction was $6,760,000 which was paid by Radix for .Tech. Radix was also a bidder for .APP .APP had the largest ... read more ...
 
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Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play - According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play.” “App discovery plays a critical role in driving your continued success, and over the past year Google has provided best practices to enhance app discovery and engagement, as well as app promotion tools to get the most out of search and ... read more ...
 
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Brands urged to do more to stop ‘predatory pricing’ in next gTLD round - Tim Lince Elisa Cooper, vice president of domain product marketing for MarkMonitor, has urged brands to do more to encourage ICANN to tackle predatory pricing during new gTLD sunrise periods. Failure to do so may mean that trademark owners are further held to ransom during the second wave of new gTLDs. She told World Trademark Review that it’s “not ... read more ...
 
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Jennifer Wolfe Joins a DomainDiction.com Board - According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDiction board of directors. ” As a valuable new addition Jennifer will provide vital strategic guidance and experience with the C-suite among top global brands who are currently launching and creating strategy around their Top Level Domains. “DomainDiction works closely ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling defends DBAT.com in UDRP - Owner of .net domain name filed cybersquatting complaint. Nothin’ but .net!Baseball equipment company DBAT has lost a UDRP it filed against Frank Schilling for the domain name DBAT.com. The baseball company uses the DBAT.NET domain name. According to the decision (embedded below), DBAT originally threatened Shilling with a UDRP in 2009. It then tried to acquire the domain name through an attorney in 2012. While the details of the 2012 discussions are in dispute, it’s clear that the company tried ... read more ...
 
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Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD’s Top 4.5 Million Registrations - .Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost free, very low cost and related party registrations. .Science domain names which just launched two days ago, are still being registered for free at Alpnames.com AlpNames.com now has registered 26,656 of the 27,500 .Science domain names or over 96% of ... read more ...