Category Archives: EN

Thu 26th February 2015
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Google: Make your website mobile accessible by Apr 21…or suffer - Google says major mobile search changes are coming. Unless you want to lose search traffic, you need to make your site mobile friendly before April 21. Google announced today that it will place more weight on how mobile-friendly a website is when users search from a mobile device starting April 21. The company says this will affect mobile searches in all countries, and will have a “significant impact” on search results. It’s rare that Google uses the term “significant” to describe algorithm ... read more ...
 
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.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here’s Why … - .APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are familiar with. Unlike a online domain auction or live domain auctions where bidders keep raising the bid, outbidding other bidders, within minutes of each other, what you would call a traditional paddles up in the air type of auction, Contention Auctions ... 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 pays $25 million for .App domain - Google pays dearly for rights to control .App domain name. Google has won the rights to operate the .App top level domain name after paying what may be a record-breaking price for a top level domain name. 13 companies applied to run the .app domain name, and 12 of them were still in the running when the ICANN auction started yesterday. The auction was so heated that it continued today, with the final price ending at $25,001,000. Google beat out other big brands, such as Amazon.com, for the domain ... read more ...
 
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Interesting: Minds + Machines obvious app for regulating domain names as currency - Patent application describes a novel way to use domain names as a currency. So far, we’ve seen some innovation in how new top level domain names are distributed and sold, but not much innovation in how they’re actually used. Minds + Machines has an idea that certainly seems innovative: using domain names as a currency. The company filed a patent application on the idea last year, and it was just published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office this morning. (Read the full application embedded ... read more ...
 
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Wow, how was this box not retreat domain name hijacking? - WIPO panelist drops the ball in RDNH decision. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP complaint against the domain name alessandro.com, but failed to find the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Frankly, I’m stunned that panelist Pablo A. Palazzi did not find beauty products company Alessandro International GmbH to have brought the case in bad faith, and his rationale contradicts the facts of the case. Alessandro International GmbH filed ... read more ...
 
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16 Year Old Domain Alessandro.com Saved In UDRP Owned By A Guy Named Alessandro - Alessandro International GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany, just lost its bid to grab the domain name Alessandro.com from a guy named Alessandro In this case Alessandro Gualandi. The one member panel of Pablo A. Palazzi however refused to find reverse domain name hijacking which I thought was appropriate under the circumstances Here are the highlights: “Complainant is a company dedicated to manicure and pedicure products. The predecessor of Complainant, Alessandro Cosmetics GmbH was founded in 1989 ... read more ...
 
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Melbourne IT Acquires Uber Global For Over $12 Million: Australian Cloud Services Co & Domain Registrar - Melbourne IT agreed to acquire the third largest Australian based cloud services provider Uber Global for $15.5 million AU (approximately $12.2 million USD) which also owns a ICANN Accredited domain name registrar. The deal, is expected to be complete by April 30, 2015 Melbourne IT reported the acquisition along with its 2014 financial results yesterday Uber Global, says that it is the country’s third largest cloud provider, and counts 110,000 customers altogether. Uber Global operates the brands ... 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 ...
 
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.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here's Why & What It Means - .APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are familiar with. Unlike a online domain auction or live domain auctions where bidders keep raising the bid, outbidding other bidders, within minutes of each other, what you would call a traditional paddles up in the air type of auction, Contention Auctions ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2015
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Marchex CEO stairs down - A new boss at Marchex and Q4 earnings released. Marchex reported earnings today, and also announced that long time CEO Russell Horowitz has stepped down. Company co-founder Pete Christothoulou has taken over the top post. The company, which derives the bulk of its revenue from performance advertising in which customers pay for phone calls, had a rocky 2014 after losing the bulk of its business from its biggest client. The stock trades for about $4.00 now, well below its 52-week high of $12.84. Marchex ... read more ...
 
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Marchex's Archeo Revenue $14.5M In 2014; Horowitz Steps Down As CEO; Pete Christothoulou Takes Over - Marchex (MCHX)  reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter and the full year of 2014, after the market closed today and also announced that Russell Horowitz who has been the CEO of the company for the last 12 years is stepping down as CEO  but will remain on the board. Marchex co-founder Pete Christothoulou was named CEO. The company also announced that former Market Leader CEO Ian Morris has joined the board. In 2014 Marchex’s Archeo division had revenue of $14.5 million including domain gains ... read more ...
 
 
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EnCirca Becomes 1st Registrar For .Bank & Teams Up With The ICBA - According to a press release just out,  EnCirca.com is the first approved ICANN-accredited registrar for the new gTLD .BANK fTLD Registry Services LLC is the operator of the .BANK top-level domain. The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA)   announced that they will be working together with and EnCirca to help community banks understand and register for the soon-to-be launched .BANK top-level domain. “The new .BANK domain extension, which offers enhanced security, will have a more ... read more ...
 
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.co.com Hits 1 Year Anniversary & 10K Registrations: It Would Be 83rd Most Registered New gTLD - .co.com announced today that it has hit its one year anniversary since launching and has registered over 10,000 domain names. You can read the official post here. The company wrote in part that its 10,000 registrations are “more than most ICANN new gTLDs – and demand is accelerating” So while  co.com is not a new gTLD, since its anniversary is right around when the first of the new gTLD’s started to launch I thought it would be interesting to see how the numbers stack up to new gTLD registrations. So ... read more ...
 
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.co.com: 10k Domains at 1 Year Anniversary - Ken Hansen from the .co.com registry shared some news with me that I want to share with you. The .co.com registry recently celebrated its one year anniversary, and there are now more than 10,000 .co.com domain names registered. .co.com domain names retail for anywhere from $20 – $40, and some registrars have a higher renewal cost. The registry has also sold many domain names at a premium cost, such as Mobile.co.com for $25,000. If .co.com were a new gTLD registry, the extension would rank ... read more ...
 
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The future of domain registration and web hosting - Diminishing domain names and decreased website visibility are changing the landscape of the Internet. Finding a suitable URL that ends in “.com,” “.net,” or “.org” isn’t an easy task. Furthermore, it takes a long time to establish a new website as an authority for a product or service. But all is not lost for website developers and IT enterprisers. By employing strategy to domain name searches, and choosing high-quality web hosting, professionals can see near instant high-traffic ... read more ...
 
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Here's what sole during NameJet this past week - Joseph Peterson reviews the previous week’s expired domain name sales on NameJet. China is perched at the top of our chart – same as last week. The high expired domain sale from NameJet was YuChu.com ($11.9k), which – if experience is any guide – probably has multiple meanings apart from being a proper name. In spite of its resemblance to the English word “symmetry”, SYMM.com ($1.8k) is bound for a Chinese audience also, as are WABB.com ($1.9k), SeHai.com ($713), and possibly 2 or ... read more ...
 
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Five key takeaways from ICANN 52 in Singapore - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently concluded its first public meeting of 2015, held February 8–12 in Singapore. Now that the meeting has concluded, Katten's Internet practice has prepared a summary of the following key takeaways, covering a wide variety of important topics relevant to both brand owners and new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants, including: two-character names and geographic names; Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... read more ...
 
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New claimant for misfortune domain name: Sqeeqee.com - Why would you put your company at such a marketing disadvantage? I’ve written about plenty of poor domain name choices, and I have a new candidate to throw into the mix: Sqeeqee.com Sqeeqee.com is some sort of social networking platform, and it proudly just launched a cloud file hosting service called SqeeBox. How do you think you pronounce these brands? Skee-key? Skwey-key? Squeak-Key? It’s tough to say. On the one hand, the logo has keyholes, so I think something with “key” in it. But ... read more ...
 
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.Science Gets Almost 14,000 (Mostly Free) Registrations - Yesterday we told you that .Science could be registered for free on AlpNames.com, wound up its first day of general availability with almost 14,000 registrations. .Science only had 13 domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and wound up their first day with 13,397. Not surprisingly almost 94% of all .Science domain names were registered for free at AlpNames.com, some 12,590 of the 13,397. The .Science registry  is owned by Famous Four. For the record we registered 3.     ... read more ...
Tue 24th February 2015
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UPDATE – Minds + Machines revenues surge as new domains come online - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totalled £2.9mln in the six months to December, with £2.2mln generated in the last four months. In that time, 107,000 domain names were registered for Minds + Machines' portfolio, of which 10% were sold through its own registrar businesses. Minds + Machines (M+M) offers both registry and registrar services; a registrar ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy releases earnings, picks GDDY ticker - Domain name registrar gets one step closer to IPO. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 statement with the SEC today that revealed fourth quarter and full year 2014 financials, as well as the company’s planned NYSE stock ticker GDDY. Fourth quarter revenue at the company grew to $371.7 million, up from $356.9 million in the third quarter and $305.9 million in the same quarter of 2013. The company reported a net loss of ($26.8) million for the quarter, about in line with the third quarter. For the year, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Wire Survey is shutting soon - The survey period is closing soon… The deadline for completing the 10th annual Domain Name Wire survey is quickly approaching. Complete the survey here Already, people from 25 countries of taken about 5-10 minutes to complete the survey. They’ve answered questions about: Why they chose their current domain name registrar, such as security and pricing Where and how they sell domain names, such as “buy now” or “make offer” The current state of new top level domain names and where they ... read more ...
 
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Domain registration and management strategies for 2015 - More than ever, companies need to balance the need for promotion with protection by making intelligent domain registration decisions. They also need to ensure that domain assets, once registered, are completely secure. Corporate domain registration and management strategies have evolved over the last 10 years. It used to be that registering variations, typo squats and misspellings was a viable approach for protecting brands online. It used to be that the domain name system was ... read more ...