Category Archives: EN

Tue 24th February 2015
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Sedo Transactions Total Led By Heika.com For $300K - Over the past week, 514 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $900,000 All sales were led by Heika.com I of course did a Google search and it looks like a “lovely shrubbery” as Monte Python would have said like 100 years ago, when I was like 100, I’m told that is also translates to “black card” but that is a whole different issue. Nice sale for the seller If you looking for my pick as the great buy off this list for the week OnlineChat.com sold for $24K ... read more ...
 
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Millenials Drive Mobile Ecommerce Growth in Canada: CIRA Report - One in five Canadians aged 18-34 has made a purchase from a mobile device, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) research. CIRA released its fourth annual .CA Factbook 2015 on Tuesday, in which it says mobile devices are taking a central role in ecommerce among Canadian youth. The .CA Factbook presents numerous statistics and findings related to the .CA TLD, which CIRA administers, as well as Canadian internet adoption and practices. Canadian enterprises sold $136 million ... read more ...
 
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How can trends in cybersquatting inform policing policy? - Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained momentum and increasing support from the executive suite. Online brand policing is evolving from a strictly legal approach to one that encompasses marketing, e-commerce, compliance, security and profit and loss responsibilities. Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained ... read more ...
 
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New podcast available: Evicting the typosquatters - Trevor Little In the second World Trademark Review podcast we talk to Nick Nikiforakis, co-author of a groundbreaking new study into the rise of online typosquatting abuse. We talk about the scale of the typosquatting problem, what trademark owners can do to minimise the damage to their brands and the effect that new gTLDs could have on typosquatting ... read more ...
 
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The .Me Registry Declares Mar 16th As .Me Day At South by Southwest Festival - The .Me registry has decided that March 16th will be the first-ever “ME Day” in the U.S., as a day to celebrate and share what makes each of us unique and to indulge, nourish and develop our personal passions and skills. The Domain.ME community will celebrate the first-ever ME Day at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 16th with a ME Day Party. ME Day ambassadors will be live tweeting the event. Anyone celebrating his or her own ME Day is invited to the conversation ... read more ...
 
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.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark - According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA becomes the first country domain in Africa to reach 1 million registrations. The bulk of registrations continue to be in co.za, which accounts for a little more than 971,000 registrations as of 19 February 2015, and continues to grow by a few thousand new ... read more ...
 
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Click Fraud? Report Says Bots Made Up To 98% Of Charged Ad Clicks on Google - A paper published by Oxford BioChronometrics SA, which is a company that sells click fraud protection to clients published a report last month concluding that: “Our research found that at best, 88% of the ad-clicks were made by bots on the LinkedIn ad platform, while at worst, 98% were from bots on the Google ad platform” The company said it set up pages as follows: How the research was conducted In order to limit the level of non ad-platform bot activity being recorded, individual web pages ... read more ...
 
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.Science soars to 10,000 registrations in 3 hours - Famous Four’s latest launch is off to a fast start. Famous Four Media launched the .Science top level domain name this morning, and registration activity has been brisk so far. At roughly three hours after launch, 9,680 .science domain names have been registered. The company expects the number to top 10,000 within the next half hour. Why is .science doing so well? It’s not all rocket science: some registrars are giving the domain names away free or cheap, spurring extra demand. Kind of like .casa ... read more ...
 
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.Club Offering Free Domains & $10K In Prizes At LAUNCH Hackathon in San Francisco - .Club announced today that they will be is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year’s LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27- March 1, 2015 in San Francisco. .CLUB is offering every LAUNCH Hackathon participant a free .CLUB domain name from GoDaddy, and any teams that choose to use a .CLUB domain name for their LAUNCH Hackathon project are automatically eligible to win the $10,000 prize for the best project in the .CLUB. The winning entrant (best project using a .CLUB domain name) ... read more ...
 
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.Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free - .Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name you will see the cost is $0.00. By comparison Godaddy.com is charging $9.99 for a .Science registration. I don’t know what the limits are or how long it will last. ... read more ...
 
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February 2015 Web Server Survey - In the February 2015 survey we received responses from 883,419,935 sites and 5,135,229 web-facing computers. Microsoft showed the largest growth in terms of hostnames, with an additional 12 million sites taking its total up to 253 million. This has increased Microsoft's market share to 28.7%, but Apache continues to lead with a 38.8% share, despite a loss of 5.9 million sites. Web-facing computer growth was fairly even across the board, with the top three server vendors all showing ... read more ...
 
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Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn free - Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many X-rated Blogger accounts might cease to exist in the near future, as Google will no longer allow anyone to post sexually explicit or nude videos and images starting on March 23rd, 2015. It doesn’t end there, though: Mountain View also wants old account ... read more ...
 
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Oh my, Verisign is indeed frightened of new tip turn domains! - Company sues .XYZ and claims its marketing is hurting .com. If you listen to any of Verisign’s quarterly investor calls, you’ll often hear analysts asking what new TLDs are doing to .com. Well, new TLDs are creating confusion, the company says. That confusion isn’t really hurting .com. Maybe .net gets caught up in the confusion, but that’s about it. Actions speak louder than words, though, and Kevin Murphy wrote about proof today that Verisign must actually be a bit concerned about .com in ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions - Big 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations of its domains picked toward the end of the year as it released more of them. Here are some highlights: Auctions – Grossed $36 million from losing 21 private auctions for new top level domain names last year; spent $25.9 million to acquire 6 contested ... read more ...
 
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.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark - According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA becomes the first country domain in Africa to reach 1 million registrations. The bulk of registrations continue to be in co.za, which accounts for a little more than 971,000 registrations as of 19 February 2015, and continues to grow by a few thousand new ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Hermes recuperates domain name under ‘.clothing’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a obvious conform residence has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.clothing’.

The complainant was Hermes International, a obvious French…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Marijuana Now Legal In Alaska – A Few Related Domains Registered - Huffington Post along with several other news outlets covered the legalization of Marijuana in Alaska. From the article: Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska. Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, officially putting into effect Ballot Measure 2, approved by 53 percent of state voters in November. Alaskans age 21 and older may now legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana, grow as many as six marijuana plants in their homes (with no more than three ... read more ...
Mon 23rd February 2015
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UDRP Filed Again The Domain Name Major.com Bought For € 48,000.00 EUR In 2010 -     Major Wire Industries Limited has filed a UDRP on the domain name Major.com. The domain name Major.com is owned by DigitalOne AG and seems to have bought the domain using Sedo, in November 2010 for € 48,000.00 EUR. It appear according to Screenshots.com, the domain was parked until November 2011. The domain resolves currently to a blank page. The company Major Wire Industries Limited uses the domain name MajorWire.cc, for its website, however that domain name is owned by Les Industries Fil ... read more ...
 
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Mali Offers Free .ML Domains in Malaysia to Grow User Base - Mali is offering free .ml domains in Malaysia to help promote its ccTLD, becoming the first African country to look abroad for domain name distribution. AGETIC, the government agency responsible for Mali’s public infrastructure, is offering domain names at no charge to Internet users in Malaysia for a 12-month period. Malaysia already has its own ccTLD, the .my domain, but according AGETIC, a combination of high registration costs and required paperwork has stalled the process for Malaysians ... read more ...
 
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Operators of NameBright.com & HugeDomains.com Launch Expire.com Domain Auction Service - According to a press release out today, TurnCommerce Inc., operators of NameBright.com (an ICANN accredited domain name registrar), HugeDomains.com (a domain name aftermarket), and DropCatch.com (a domain back-order service) announced the launch of Expire.com, a Dutch-style auction service that will sell between 15 and 30 premium domain names per day on a first-come first-served basis. A Dutch auction is a type of auction where the initial price starts off at a pre-determined amount and is lowered ... read more ...
 
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Expire.com launches as dutch auction for domain names - Domain name prices start at $500 and drop from there. The team behind HugeDomains, DropCatch.com and NameBright launched a new service called Expire.com today. It has nothing to do with expired domains, however. The name refers to domain name buying opportunities that are about to “expire” (i.e. end). Expire.com runs dutch auctions, a model that has worked well for new top level domain name companies that have run so-called early access phases. Domain names on Expire.com start at $500, and then ... read more ...
 
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Quickly building domains with Bruce Marler – DNW Podcast #21 - Learn how you can quickly develop your domain names into web businesses. Want to develop your domain names into websites? Bruce Marler has done it on a number of domains. In this episode he explains his process for building out sites, including how he built a starter site on credit.club in just four hours, including content and a logo. Bruce also explains how listening to his customers helped him create a viable business model for a local site (hint: it’s not ads). Listen now and start turning ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings Sells Almost $31 Million In Domains In 2014; Over $8M In 4Q - Domainholdings.com in a company blog post today, said they brokered almost $31 Million dollars in domain names in 2014 Domain Holdings issued its combined Q4 and Annual 2014 report today In the 4th Quarter  Q4 Domainholdings.com sold  $8,086,642 in total domain name sales. Some of the sales brokered in 2014 included: Some of the main highlights from Q4 include: $622,049 Average Weekly Sales $26,323 Average Domain Sales. 72.38% of ALL Sales End Users ** The top two markets for buyers of domains ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings sells $8.1 million of domain names in Q4 - Company brokered over $30 million worth of domain names last year. Domain Holdings reported today that it sold $8.1 million worth of domain names last quarter, bringing its 2014 tally to $31.0 million. The fourth quarter number was down slightly from a strong Q2 and Q3 ($9.9M and $9.6M, respectively) but still strong compared to Q1 2014 and prior. 77% of the company’s sales in Q4 were .com domain names, and the same percentage of names had 10 or fewer characters. The company doesn’t report ... read more ...