Category Archives: EN

Thu 19th February 2015
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Food Truck entrance to Austin during SXSW - Sedo to promote top level domain name choices during SXSW. Sedo is bringing its “gTLD frozen yogurt” marketing idea to Austin next month during the SXSW conference. The company partnered with registries for a similar program during dmexco in Cologne last September. Sedo served frozen yogurt with toppings, and the toppings were all named after different TLDs. For example, someone who wants their froyo topped with chocolate sauce and sprinkles might have to order it “with .club and .sexy on top”. In ... read more ...
 
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2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding To Its Huge Vertical - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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How to Get a Lowest Prices during GoDaddy - GoDaddy has a bunch of pricing tiers and discounts. The best deal depends a lot on the size of your domain name portfolio. If you’re a domainer, you shouldn’t be paying list price for domain name registrations at GoDaddy (or any registrar, for that matter). Since a lot of readers use GoDaddy, I thought it worthwhile to run down the various discount options at the registrar. Price is one of the most important considerations when choosing a domain name registrar, according to last year’s Domain ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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39 some-more End User domain name sales - 39 recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. Over the past week, Sedo’s network sold 538 domains totaling $1.2 million. As usual, I’ve done some research and compiled this list of 39 transactions where I’ve detected a specific end user. Some domains actually sold during a prior week but have only just emerged from escrow for inspection. At the moment, several of last week’s larger purchases – including Shein.com ($95k) and HOOQ.com ($50k) – remain indeterminate. 1Bridge.com ($999) ... read more ...
 
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2 More New gTLD's Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L'Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...
 
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Under Armour Looking to Kick A Little Ass - The Baltimore Sun’s Lorraine Mirabella published an article on local athletic apparel maker Under Armour. It seems that Under Armour has not taken kindly to a company started in 2013 called Ass Armor. The company also apparently did a play on the Under Armour tagline “Protect This House” with one of their own “Protect Your Assets”. From the article: Snowboarder Casey Scherr started a company called Ass Armor in 2013 to sell shock-absorbing athletic shorts designed to protect the tailbone. ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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Troy Lee Designs 2015 KTM-Licensed Apparel Catalog Now Available - This is a press release from Troy Lee Designs... Corona, CA - (February 17, 2015) "I can?'t even put into words how excited we are to be teaming up with KTM. We dream big over here at TLD, and, in order to get to where we want to be, we needed a company that not only lives and breathes, and, most importantly, believes in racing, but also one that has the infrastructure and equipment to help us reach our immediate, near and long-term goals in the sport. Not only is this new relationship a positive ... read more ...
 
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Howard Lefkowitz Keynote Speech at NamesCon (Video) - I published an interview with Howard Lefkowitz, who recently launched a new venture using new gTLD domain names. Yesterday, Tech Cocktail published an article about Lefkowitz and his new company, and it’s worth a read. Lefkowitz gave an animated keynote speech during NamesCon last month, and the video of his speech was uploaded to YouTube. When you have half an hour, I think you’ll enjoy watching the video I embedded below. I don’t regularly attend the keynote speeches at domain conferences, ... read more ...
 
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Some considerations for second-round ‘.brand’ applicants to ponder - Trevor Little A couple of weeks ago we reported on the official launch of the ‘.cancerresearch’ TLD, with Tony Kirsch, head of global consulting at ARI Registry Services (which worked with the Australian Cancer Research Foundation on its application), expressing a belief that the TLD can help other applicants by providing a real-world example of ... read more ...
 
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.College To Offer Trademark Holders & Universities Free Registrations - XYZ.COM LLC, the company behind the .xyz domain extension, announced the global launch of the .College domain extension today offering for the first time free Sunrise registrations for trademark holders and a special early access program for universities in which they can also get their .college domain registered for free. .College also announced a four stage roll out of the extension that will be live for general availability on September 29th, 2015 Here is the press release: “”XYZ has announced ... read more ...
 
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Tech.Co "What's In A Domain Name ?" - Ann Diab wrote a piece on Tech.co that featured Howard Lefkowitz who keynoted NamesCon 2015. The article delves into the deeper meaning of a brand, that it is not just the advertising or how catchy it sounds. The article also includes a video of the NamesCon keynote speech. In a very interesting analysis, Lefkowitz points out that books .com, shoes .com, and even search .com are rarely used and barely known. It’s the brand that dominates these spaces that matters. “Brand is not just advertising. ... read more ...
 
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SnapDeal Acquires Exclusively.com - Exclusively.com Acquired Medianama.com published an article on Exclusively.com getting acquired by SnapDeal, the company was originally Exclusively.in before getting the .com. From the article: Exclusively.in started as a flash sales site  but pivoted to a standard e-commerce model offering designer apparel and accessories in 2011. The company used to ship products only to the US and UK catering to but now ships to destinations in India and other global destinations too. Under the partnership ... read more ...
 
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.Top domain apparently regulating spam to get to a Top - New TLD registry sends spam to people who have registered other new TLDs. [Update: See statement from the .Top registry below.] How do you get attention for your new top level domain name in a crowded field? One new top level domain name company has apparently resorted to sending lots of unsolicited email — and likely scraping Whois to do it. .Top is currently ranked #9 in terms of registrations, surely helped by a 99 cent price tag at some registrars. The company behind it, Jiangsu Bangning Science ... read more ...
 
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Amazon goes large on city .Delivery domain names - Company registers major city domain names in new .delivery top level domain name. Whether by drone or by truck, Amazon is improving delivery. Just expect more innovation in Denver than Detroit.Amazon.com is obsessed with improving delivery, from its local locker pickup to Sunday delivery to delivery by drone. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that the company registered a bunch of city.delivery domain names when they became available earlier this month. Here are some of the top 30 ... read more ...
 
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Jered Kenna The Man Who Lost The Rights To Bitcoin.com And How He Bounced Back - Coin Desk/ ZapChain  Interview with Jered Kenna Jered Kenna is someone who got into Bitcoin early and not only did he get into Bitcoin, but his company according to the interview says his company Trade Hill owned the mother of all domain names, Bitcoin.com. The confusing part in the video he uses the words we owned Bitcoin.com, but had an agreement with the owner that if the exchange closed down he would get the domain back. So it may be fair to say they were leasing the domain but he used the word ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Yoga 1,546; .Sydney 1,508; .Party 1,105; .Vote 264: .Cricket 167; .Voto 124 - Six new gTLD’s had its first day of general availability (GA)  yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis and from the 6 new gTLD’s we have around just 4,500 registrations. Including any Sunrise registrations by trademark holders or any pre-registration period here are the totals after the first day: .Yoga 1,546 .Sydney 1,508 .Party 1,105 .Vote 264 .Cricket 167 .Voto 124 .Sydney maybe effected by time zone changes, so we may see a big second day tally. .Cricket ... read more ...
 
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Scottish Government Jumps on a new gtld train - Scottish Government switches to a .Scot domain Herald Scotland published an article that the Scottish government is switching to a .Scot domain with the older scotland.gov.uk continuing to function. It makes sense not to do away with the old address which I would imagine will eventually become a redirect. From the article: THE Scottish Government has switched its website to a new “dot Scot” internet domain address. The site will be accessed via www.gov.scot, though the old www.scotland.gov.uk ... read more ...
 
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Canada's Largest Bitcoin Exchange Shutting Down After Security Breach - The hits just keep coming in the exciting world of cryptocurrency, The Next Web is reporting thatCavirtex, the largest Canadian Bitcoin exchange is shutting down after a security breach. This adds on to $1.75 million worth of BTC stolen from Chinese exchange BTER last week. Bitstamp lost $5million in January. Cavirtex said it did not lose any customer funds and will be returning them. Canadian Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex has announced that it may have suffered a security breach and is shutting down ... read more ...
 
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Channel 4 U.K. "roughly one in each thousand tweets is a racy image" - AVN.com published an article that dealt with Twitter and porn. The article focused on a recent investigation into Twitter and pornography conducted by Channel 4 in the U.K. Twitter is one of the few social networks that allows porn pics and videos, Vine which is owned by Twitter does not allow it, Facebook and Instagram do not permit it either. Tumblr would be the other prominent social networking platform where you can view porn. The investigation delves into how to protect under age viewers who ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2015
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Sedo Sells $1.2million in domains for a week led by Shein.com during $95,000 - Over the past week, 538 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: shein.com at 95,000 USD Top ccTLD: whitstable.co.uk at 12,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: augenlidstraffung.net at 3,850 EUR I emailed Sedo if the price was correct on ZFE.com that seems cheap.     ... read more ...
 
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Donuts launches Name.Kitchen to marketplace new domains - Site promotes alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts, the largest new top level domain name company, promised it would rev up its marketing in 2015. Here’s one example of that, in the form of content marketing: Name.Kitchen. The new site has articles and ideas about new domain names and promises: …a kitchen atmosphere around the subject of name creation. It is especially geared toward entrepreneurs (aka “business chefs”) scratching their heads for ideas. We offer inspiration on cooking ... read more ...
 
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Radix Wins Rights to .Store New gTLD, Beating Amazon and Google - Radix, a Dubai-based company which has most of its operations in India, recently won the rights to the .store new gTLD, beating out Internet giants like Amazon and Google. With Asia becoming a bright prospect for the ecommerce sector, what does this win mean for Radix? “From a domain name perspective .store adds a new dimension to the ecommerce market,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head of Radix. With an audience that would largely consist of merchants and other ecommerce players, ... read more ...