Category Archives: EN

Thu 5th February 2015
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Google: Become mobile friendly, or else… - Google sends warnings to website owners. Google has a message for you: it’s time to make your website mobile friendly or suffer the consequences. The search giant has started sending notices out to Webmaster Tools users notifying them if their site doesn’t work well on mobile resolutions. The emails warn that “These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.” In other words, if your site doesn’t ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy wants to obvious domain suggestions formed on geography, business type - Patents reflect techniques for better targeting domain name search results. GoDaddy has filed three patents for targeted domain name search results based on the user’s location or business type. Two of the patent applications were filed in August 2013, and the third (continuation) patent (embedded below) was filed in September 2014. All three applications were published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today. The patents explain methods of determining the location, language and business ... read more ...
 
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Today's The Day: RightoftheDot Extended Auction From Namescon Ends Today On Snapnames - The extended auction held by RightoftheDot at the Namescon conference ends today on Snapnames.com at 3:15 PM EST. As of publication 10 domain names have hit reserve and will sell led by Tamales.com which has a high bid of 12,000 The live auction at Namescon did just under $1 Million in domain name sales. There are two bids on 877.com with a high bid of $235,000 but is below reserve. With this years sale of 345.com for $800K and the $17 Million dollar blockbuster sale of 360.com should make all three ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holder of Dana & Spicer Loses URS On Dana.parts & Spicer.parts; Told To File A UDRP - Car parts manufacturer, Dana Limited of Maumee, Ohio, just lost a URS on the domain names Dana.parts and Spicer.parts which are owned by FleetTruckParts.com of Blue Island, Illinois. Dana has a federally registered trademark on both the terms DANA and SPICER. The examiner Anne M. Wallace found despite owning the trademark Dana did “not established through clear and convincing evidence that Respondent has no legitimate right or interest to the disputed domain names. ” “Furthermore, Respondent ... read more ...
 
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40 End User Domain Name Sales - A fashion blog rebrands, a Chinese real estate company pays 6 figures and another company spends €5000 to drop a hyphen from its domain name. Last week Sedo scored a brace of 6-figure sales, one mid-5, and an additional 7 transactions ranging from $10k to $15k. That surpasses their $49k high reported last time – namely, SuperSeats.com, which now resolves to a developed site for concert, theater, and sports tickets. Below is a list I’ve compiled of 40 sales where an end user can be ... read more ...
 
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Monster HR now truly a global monster agency - Recruitment brands:• resume.monster• it.monster• chefs.monster• ceo.monsterGeo-brands:• piccadilly.monster• india.monsterGlocal Agencies Alliances:• james.monster.• roberthalf.monster• manpower.monster Special Recruitments:• walmart.monster• olympics.monsterThey now can create thousands of massive 'simple and cute' traffic generators in any HR categories all over the world. This is achieving image supremacy for the name identity in the global market place...domination and hassle free global ... read more ...
 
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Google To Get Access To The Twitter Firehose - Google will get access to the Twitter firehose once again and tweets should become indexed in Google right after they are posted. This could maybe be beneficial to those tweeting domains for sale if those tweets get indexed under the targeted keyword. Bloomberg Business broke the story. From MarketingLand: Twitter and Google have reached a deal to make tweets easier to find online, according to a report by Bloomberg Business tonight. The deal will give Google access to Twitter’s firehose — the ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2015
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Google’s New .HOW Domains Help You Share Your Expertise With The World … - Google has just released a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) called .HOW and for anyone with some killer tips, tricks or how-to expertise to share, this may be something worth pouncing on. According to the Google .HOW domain launch page, “People use the Internet to learn how things work, how to do something, or how to turn a hobby into a business. They find their answers in great content, created by great teachers like you. Now, there is a new way to help you share: .HOW, a place for thinkers, ... read more ...
 
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Google Wants You to Share Your Knowledge With a .How Domain - Google today released a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) ending to the world. It’s simply .how.The search giant’s aim in offering the newest URL extension in the growing Google Registry is simple: To offer businesses and individuals a more direct, interesting way to share content that teaches people how to do something.With 130 million URLs falling into .com territory, .how offers companies and entrepreneurs a unique way to stand out from the competition. “The Internet is a great equalizer ... read more ...
 
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Chinese Retailers Playing Poker in Empty Malls as Their Customers Shop Online - Online sales are having a real impact in China, and while that is good for companies like Alibaba and JD.com, it is taking a toll on the brick and mortar retailers, along with the property market. Bloomberg published an article that said that Chinese retailers are playing poker in empty malls, their customers have gone online. China Online JD.Com’s Liu started renting a booth in Zhongguancun in 1998 with an initial investment of 20,000 yuan. Back then, China had 2.1 million users connected to ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Earnings Preview: Saturation Of .com And Lack Of Traction For .net … - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leader in the Domain Name market, is set to release its Q4 2014 earnings on February 5th. VeriSign, the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name, enjoys a 47% market share. The company registered a ~5% increase in sales to $754 million in the first nine months of 2014. However, the growth rate has ... read more ...
 
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Getting New gTLDs’ Sales Drivers Right: Simulations Are Key - The new gTLDs won't survive unless registries learn simulation techniques, the only way to understand how sales drivers interact. Some of the new gTLDs have done dismally. Registry critics, including insiders, blame high registration prices, limited supply, and restrictions on usage, competition, and marketing messages. But these drivers connect with each other. You can't talk about prices without talking about price-setting mechanisms and the number of registrations. That's why simulations ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Awareness Remains Low Despite Growing Interest in New Domain … - Internet users around the world are just as comfortable with new gTLDs as they are with the traditional .com and country-code extensions, even though only 25 percent said they are aware of new gTLDs, the Domain Name Association (DNA) said. The DNA announced the results of its Global Domain Name Preferences Study this week. The study was put together by Research Now from 5,000 survey responses across 10 countries, and indicates a number of opportunities in the domain name area. Huge majorities ... read more ...
 
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Google Wants You to Share Your Knowledge With a .How Domain - Google today released a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) ending to the world. It’s simply .how.The search giant’s aim in offering the newest URL extension in the growing Google Registry is simple: To offer businesses and individuals a more direct, interesting way to share content that teaches people how to do something.With 130 million URLs falling into .com territory, .how offers companies and entrepreneurs a unique way to stand out from the competition. “The Internet is ... read more ...
 
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The DNA.org Global Domain Name Preferences Survey: 85% Type Domains … -         The DNA.org, a trade association whose members include new gTLD registries, domain name registrars and consultants to the industry (Disclaimer a company I’m a Director of RightoftheDot.com is a member of the DNA) released the results of a poll conducted by  Research Now a a global firm headquartered in the U.S., the Global Domain Name Preferences Survey. This Domain Name Preference study was conducted during the period of October – November 2014 in 10 countries and had over 5,000 ... read more ...
 
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Meet Two More Judges Of The Verisign 30th Anniversary Contest #internetofficial - Last week I was introduced as one of three judges for the contest Verisign the .Com Registry is running to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of .Com in which they are giving away over $100,000 in cash. Over the last couple of days Verisign announced two other judges (celebrity judge still to be announced) and though I would publish their information so you can see who will be judging the contest By the way you can enter the contest here. Best of luck to everyone. As I mentioned I’m the only judge ... read more ...
 
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January's Top 5 Domain Name Stories - Super Bowl commercials and a two letter domain name registration attracted eyeballs in January. Between NamesCon and GoDaddy’s Super Bowl plans, there was a lot going on in the domain biz last month. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire from January. 1. GoDaddy’s Super Bowl switcheroo – when GoDaddy released its planned 2015 Super Bowl ad, I called it the “most controversial yet”. Apparently, I was correct. GoDaddy decided to yank the ad from the big game. 2. 27 End User Sales ... read more ...
 
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What a DNA news about new TLDs tells us - Few people know about them, but they like the idea of more choice. The Domain Name Association (DNA) released results of a survey this morning designed to understand consumer sentiment toward domain names, and especially new top level domain names. DNA is very much an advocacy group for the adoption of new top level domain names, yet I found its survey to be fair about the challenges to collecting data about new TLDs and its question methodology. A lot of the questions were hypothetical about which ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Marks One Year of New gTLD Availability with More Than 12 Million … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities today, reporting that its 150 live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 million registrations, accounting for nearly one third of the four million total names registered across all new gTLDs. The company, which expects eventually to run approximately 200 gTLDs, said it currently ... read more ...
 
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Neustar grossed about $2 million income from new TLDs in Q4 - Company is “cautiously bullish” about new TLDs over next few quarters, but I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what that means. Domain name registry and telephone services company Neustar (NYSE: NSR) reported 4th quarter 2014 earnings yesterday after the market closed. On the company’s conference call, CFO Paul Lalljie reported that the company pulled in about $2 million in revenue in the fourth quarter from new top level domain names, and much of that came from the .NYC launch. The ... read more ...
 
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The DNA.org Global Domain Name Preferences Survey: 85% Type Domains Into Browsers -         The DNA.org, a trade association whose members include new gTLD registries, domain name registrars and consultants to the industry (Disclaimer a company I’m a Director of RightoftheDot.com is a member of the DNA) released the results of a poll conducted by  Research Now a a global firm headquartered in the U.S., the Global Domain Name Preferences Survey. This Domain Name Preference study was conducted during the period of October – November 2014 in 10 countries and had over 5,000 ... read more ...
 
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ThinkingPhones.com Acquires Klink.com and Contactive & Its 1.5 Million Customers - ThinkingPhones, a three-time Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS “Leader,” has announced its acquisition of Contactive.com, a big data solution that connects profiles and identities created by people and businesses online and associates them with a telephone number to create an identity graph and Klink.com which  leverages big data to provide in-depth customer profiles in real-time before and during calls. Klink.com automates the process of Googling phone numbers and names, scanning public directories, ... read more ...
 
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Flippa.com Sells $2.15 Million In Domains in 2014 - According to a  post on its company blog, Flippa.com sold $2.15 million dollars in domain names in 2014. “It’s been 13 months since Flippa’s Domains division officially put itself on the map. ” Beginning with less than 850 open auctions, our domains platform found itself accommodating over a quarter million by year’s end. We reached $2.15 million in gross sales, a 50% increase from 2013′s slate. ” In its blog post, Flippa.com is point to a DomainSherpa post calling itself one of ... read more ...
 
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.cancerresearch – Can a New TLD Beat a Global Disease? - I wish cancer research didn't exist. Imagine a world without cancer, where a cure existed to eradicate this disease. Today, the best way for us to achieve this is through cancer research, and extremely bold goals like this require game-changing innovation. Fittingly, the .cancerresearch Top Level Domain will launch on World Cancer Day (February 4) and use this fantastic new digital platform to show that cancer, its treatments and its cures, are not beyond us. You can see the promotional ... read more ...
 
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Digital collective for cancer research using top-level domain - The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) has launched what it says is the world’s first charity-driven site using a top-level domain (TLD) naming system. The ACRF plans to use the .CancerResearch domain name as part of a new 'digital collective', which will provide information, awareness movements and research news in collaboration with cancer scientists, research centres, patients, advocates and fundraisers. As part of World Cancer Day today, the ACRF has launched a new awareness campaign ... read more ...