Category Archives: EN

Tue 15th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
55 Three Letter .Com's From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China - I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com’s. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored by Chinese domain investors those without vowels or the letter “v” Some repeaters are included. The ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx - The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. Of course there are a ton of other trademarks on the term from cookies to clothing to bean bag chairs. The domain recently transferred which often will be cause a UDRP filing. The domain name is parked and has been parked for a long time. We will keep ... read more ...
 
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Yes, gTLDs Can Rank Just as Well as .com Domains in Google - The last couple of years there are have been a ton of wild and wonderful gTLDs unleashed, and some of them see a little on the crazier side.  Want to proclaim yourself a .guru?  Have a restaurant and want to use .bar or .menu? Want to be a .ninja?  While all these new gTLDs have mixed popularity, what about their value from an SEO perspective? Google has commented previously in a blog post that they treat all gTLDs the same as any other when it comes to their search index, something that both ... read more ...
 
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Winners from China - A look at some of the winners from the Chinese domain name boom, from last week’s Domain Name Wire newsletter. Do you subscribe to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter? If you don’t, here’s what you’re missing. This was published as part of the newsletter that went out last week. You can sign up for the newsletter by sending a blank email to domain_name_wire@getresponse.net or use the signup box in the right column of this page. China is making it a great year for the domain name industry. Few ... read more ...
 
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Women in Domaining earnings to NamesCon - One of the most important events during NamesCon is returning for next month’s event in Las Vegas. Women in Domaining, a networking event for women in the domain name industry, will take place on Tuesday, January 12. This year’s event will be poolside at the Tropicana and feature a full buffet. Although the number of women in the domain name industry is growing, it’s still an industry made up primarily of men. This event is a great way for women to network before the evening’s Waternight ... read more ...
 
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.brands – the growth of new domains - In 2013, agreements were signed for the first batch of new sponsored generic top-level domains (gTLDs) under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) expansion policy. Among the applicants for new gTLDs were 594 brand owners, seeking ownership of 675 of their own ‘.brand’ domains. .brand domains are defined specifically as those where the operator of the domain’s registry service is also the owner (or affiliate of the owner) of a trade mark registered with the Trademark ... read more ...
 
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500 European banks join rush for .bank domains - News: TLD offers extra security. Over 500 European financial institutions have registered for .bank top level domains (TLDs). The domains have additional security functionality built in, and the hope is that they will help reduce cyber crime and make the internet safer.Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic who issued the data said: "Restructuring the aspects that allow cybercrime in banking is a priority and tackling the domain element will significantly reduce the chances of online intellectual property ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
 
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.Eco crook files heading focus for .Eco - What is planet.ECO up to with its latest trademark filing? A company that appears to be out of the running for the .Eco top level domain name has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “.Eco”. planet.ECO LLC was one of four applicants for the .Eco top level domain name. Rival applicant Big Room won a Community Priority Evaluation for .Eco, meaning it will get rights to run the domain name exclusively. Two other applicants, Donuts and Minds + Machines, filed with ICANN for the Independent ... read more ...
 
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Michael Blend – DNW Podcast #62 - How Michael Blend finally struck gold with domain names. The domain name opportunity was staring Michael Blend in the face on two occasions, but he missed it. The third time around he finally pounced on the opportunity…and it paid off. Blend developed the domain parking service HotKeys and acquired some of the world’s best domain names, then sold the business to Demand Media. Hear his story, what he sees for the future of domain names, and learn about TopCoin, the “frequent flyer program” ... read more ...
 
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Google: new gTLDs are not easier to find - Google has reaffirmed that new gTLDs are not given greater weight in its search results. New gTLDs “are not treated any differently than traditional domain name endings like .com or .org”, according to Chad Lancaster, product marketing manager at Google Domains. He explained in a 10 December blog post that owners of .com and other traditional gTLD domains looking to move their websites to new gTLDs need to follow four steps to ensure that they are displayed in search results. Domain name owners ... read more ...
 
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Company says new TLD is "cool", though comes with drawbacks - Classic Engineering has a cool domain name, but founder Eduardo Umaña sometimes has to explain it to people. Classic Engineering promotes its watches on a .Engineering domain name.A couple weeks ago I profiled Huemor, a company that moved from a .com domain name to the new top level domain .Rocks. Today I’m going to look at a more likely scenario: a company choosing a new top level domain name because the .com was registered already. Eduardo Umaña chose the name Classic Engineering for his product ... read more ...
Sun 13th December 2015
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Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski - Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the powerful one letter domain, i.ski are now opened for prebidding on Namejet.com.  Those domain names were reserved ... read more ...
Sat 12th December 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
How does one register a .ng domain? -

If we Google your question, we will see some registrars (those groups offered domains) pop.

Upperlink Limited has a cheapest during NGN13,500 any year. Others sell during NGN15,000.

You should unequivocally bottom your choice on support and options. Getting your domain is one thing, creation certain it works for we is another.

Good fitness with your choices.

Via: radar.techcabal.com

 
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CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month - Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... read more ...
Fri 11th December 2015
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TLD and Seven MX Part Ways - After three successful years together, Seven MX and Troy Lee Designs will go their separate ways. sevenmx.comtroyleedesigns.com Since then, the Troy Lee Designs brand and business has continued to grow, now requiring even more focus to develop and build new innovative products while the dream that has become SEVEN, is a worldwide recognized gear and apparel brand.Troy and James both agree that the best way for Troy Lee Designs and SEVEN to thrive is to separate the businesses. With that being ... read more ...
 
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Constipated.com, Roper.com and some-more lapsed domain name sales - Last time, China was conspicuously absent from the high end of NameJet / SnapNames expired domain auctions; and I proposed 1 theory as to why. Since then, Chinese-style domains have made a comeback; but they’re clearly playing second fiddle. China placed 3 sales among the top 10, ranking #4, #5, and #6. In the top 20, another 5. Reaching out to the top 30, you’ll find just 3 more Chinese domains. That’s a fairly uniform 37% spread – 32% by spending. Compare that to China’s presence ... read more ...
 
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ICA issues matter on terrible Camilla.com UDRP decision - Policy and advocacy group takes unusual step of issuing statement about a particular UDRP case. The UDRP for Camilla.com was truly horrible. A three-person panel essentially stole a valuable, generic domain name from the heirs of the late Igal Lichtman, commonly known in domain name circles as Mrs Jello. It ruled that a company that didn’t have any sort of trademark rights in the name “Camilla” at the time the domain was registered should get the domain name. Internet Commerce Association, ... read more ...
 
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Google files censure to take down Adsense click rascal site - Site purported to offer “no risk” way to increase Google Adsense revenue. Google has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the site AdsenseClickers.com in order to take over the domain name. [Update 1/11/16: Google won the case.] Until recently, the website at AdsenseClickers.com offered a service to help people boost their Google Adsense pay-per-click revenue. The service promised to send only real, natural traffic and promised “zero risk” to customers, but I wouldn’t believe ... read more ...
 
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It was only a bug: .Com by-pass is behind in iOS 9.2 - Shortcut that dissapeared with iOS 9.1 is back in iOS 9.2. Last month I wrote about how Apple changed the functionality of the top level domain shortcut button on its keyboard for iPad devices. When you press and hold the period “.” key, it brings up a list of top level domain name options. Previously, if you didn’t select anything and just released the key, .com was inserted by default. When iPad devices were updated to iOS 9.1, however, the .com default didn’t work as usual. If you pressed ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2015
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Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions - Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance”. Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any new gTLD strings. Here is the statement Donuts gave to thedomains.com exclusively about the “report” “”One ... read more ...
 
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com's - Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com already has a bid of over $1.5 Million in pre-bidding at Namejet. In addition to the 3 two letter .com’s, there are 5 three number .com’s (NNN.com) also in the auction: 380.com 397.com 652.com 708.com 983.com We also recently added the three letter super ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains pitches new TLDs with Q&A post - See a new TLD in action by searching for “coffee club”, company suggests. It’s not from Google’s search team, but a new blog post today from Google Domains seeks to clear up any misunderstanding about new domain names and search. The post answers common questions about new domain name endings, such as will they affect my website’s search ranking (no) and can I move my site to a new domain name (yes). Google uses Coffee.club as an example of how new domain names show up in search. It suggests ... read more ...
 
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Latest podcast available: a new dawn for brands online - Tim Lince For World Trademark Review’s latest podcast we decided to delve further into the landscape of branded top-level domains (or ‘.brands’), following our infographic earlier this week. When ICANN opened the application window for new gTLDs back in 2012, few expected that more than 500 companies would apply for over 600 ‘.brand’ strings ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name sales that happened final week - A bus service, real estate firm and other companies that bought domain names last week. Sedo handled $1.4 million worth of domain name transactions last week. The end of 2015 is helping Sedo finish the year in style. Last week it handled 654 domain name transactions for a total of $1.4 million. Among the end users that bought domain names were a New Zealand company that bought a .co to match its .co.nz, a pharmaceuticals company that is rebranding, and a site that wants to be a gathering place for ... read more ...