Category Archives: EN

Fri 5th December 2014
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Porn site user sues cybersquatters - Company goes after alleged cybersquatters of its adult site brands. The company behind PornHub.com, RedTube.com and YouPorn.com has filed multiple lawsuits in U.S. District court against the owners of at least ten domain names it alleges are cybersquatting on its brands. The lawsuit was filed by Licensing IP International S.à.r.l., which is commonly known as MindGeek. Targeted in the suits are typos, country codes and other domains that contain its brands: PoernHub.com, ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com domain name sells for $1 million - Bank sells domain name to another bank for $1 million. Qatar National Bank has paid $1 million to acquire the three letter domain name QNB.com. The deal was disclosed in an SEC filing made by the seller, another bank called QNB Bank. The seller changed its web presence to QNBBank.com. Changing a bank’s domain name is a big deal, and I’m not surprised at the price tag on this deal given the circumstances. Qatar National Bank uses the country code domain name QNB.com.qa ... read more ...
 
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2 weeks of lapsed domain name sales - This article covers a 2-week period on either side of Thanksgiving: 19 November – 2 December. For that reason, you’ll see the sales list crammed full to bursting like a ClownCar.com ($662). I was going to jettison everything below $300 to save space, but I figure readers can quite easily scroll past extra information. GoDaddy’s top expired auction last week comes as a bit of a surprise. Whatever its accrued merits for SEO, the 4-word, 23-letter BarnDoorSlidingHardware.com ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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Shopzilla Acquires Become.com Which Was Sold 10 Years By BuyDomains For $20K - Connexity, the online price comparison and shopping company formerly known as Shopzilla, has agreed to acquire e-commerce aggregator Become.com. TechCrunch reported the deal Thursday Financial terms of the acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Become-com were not disclosed. Become.com, founded by Michael Yang in 2004, had raised $37.2 million in funding from investors who include SV Angel, TPG and the European Founders Fund. Its CEO is Alex Terry and Yang is on the board. Shopzilla, before it became Connexity, ... read more ...
 
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Domaining 2015 In Valencia Spain: 1st 10 Readers That Signup Get 50% Off - The 7th Domain Conference will be hold again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. The first 10 readers of thedomains.com will get a 50% off the price using this code VIPTheDomains Some of the discussions that will be covered include: Geo Tld’s How to avoid your Domain being stolen How is .com doing News on the newGTLD scene Startups and Domains Domain Tools and APPS Domains and SEO The new WHOIS and how it will affect the Registrant News on the Development side for Domains The ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Ltd Welcomes New Board Members - TLD Registry Ltd, the world's leading Internationalized Domain Name "New gTLD" registry, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas (伊可思), Vice Chairman Harri Koponen (柯皓锐), and board member Jari Tuovinen (陶杰瑞). Eräkangas is a 20-year veteran as a business angel investor, advisor, and board member for several different computer-based companies in Finland. She is also the co-founder of Basware, a Finnish e-commerce company ... read more ...
 
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Seven Key Takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and auctions; ... read more ...
 
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Fake Bitcoin Foundation sites scamming cryptocurrency users - We read about phishing emails targeted at domain name owners all the time, things from verification scams to update your payment details and so on. The world of crypto currency is seeing the same thing, with the latest scam detailed on Monday by Liam Tung on ZDnet. It seems people are getting duped into believing they are receiving emails from the Bitcoin Foundation when these are spoofed versions of the foundation website. From the article: The latest ruse to scam Bitcoin owners out of their holdings ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Joins The ICA As A Silver Member - Domain Holdings, has become the latest member of The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) which is a trade group that represents and protect  domain name holders and those with interests in the domain business. Domainholdings.com has entered the ICA as a silver member which requires a annual contribution of $5,000-$9,999 I reached out to Alan Dunn of DomainHoldings to ask him why the company thought it was important to become  a member of the ICA. Here is their statement: “”Joining the ICA ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on Jan 5th - Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT  which is  dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be awarded in a first come, first-served manner; however, eligibility during this period is limited strictly to ... read more ...
 
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow - In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will ring the Closing Bell. Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd Broadway – Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 5, 2014 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ. For photos from ceremonies and events visit our Instagram Page: http://instagram.com/nasdaq For ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in dual weeks - Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is now paying dividends for Yahoo according to new data from StatCounter released earlier today. The analytics ... read more ...
 
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GOOAALLL! Back of the net! ‘Millions of dollars’ score .football gTLD - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines The top-level domain name .football has been auctioned off for, what's expected to be, millions of dollars to upstart registry Donuts.Domain names using the beautiful game's dot-word will be available some time in the new year, along with names ending in .news, .golf, .school and .latino, all of which were snapped in private auctions. The big winner was Donuts – winning ... read more ...
 
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Bulk Sunrise Period for Special Collision List Starts Next Week - The first 12 domain registries have been scheduled for the first special Sunrise Period mandated by ICANN for trademarks on the blocked collision lists (see TLD list at end of article). A total of 328 new domain extensions have launched so far in 2014. Each one of these has its own unique collision list of names that were found to be already in use on private computer networks. Some of these lists have over 100,000 names. All of these registries were required to block these names from being ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2, 2014 - December 3, 2014 BANGALORE, INDIA: Four million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2, 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs), according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief  by VeriSign, Inc. The increase of four million domain names globally ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin? - Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of  domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled  “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign says: “Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear rise in the number of registered .com and .net domain names containing the term “Bitcoin” ... read more ...
 
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Last week’s finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A Hong Kong game developer, investment firm and manufacturer bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 509 domain name transactions last week, for a total of $1.3 million. It was a little bit harder than usual to find obvious end user sales, but there are plenty of them. Once again, many of the sales were to people who owned one TLD version of a domain picking up another. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can ... read more ...
 
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Researchers investigate a “Dark Side of Domain Parking” - A team of researchers says a number of domain name parking companies are up to no good. A group of researchers, mostly from Indiana University, recently presented a study about the “Dark Side of Domain Parking”. The study (pdf) was presented at USENIX Security Symposium in August, but I just became aware of it today and don’t recall this being covered elsewhere. The researchers wanted to understand the domain name parking business and if parking companies were ... read more ...
 
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Companies don’t wish we to use Whois privacy, though they use it themselves - Brands owners benefit from whois privacy, even though they’d prefer their adversaries not be able to use it. There’s a common myth in intellectual property circles that, if it weren’t for whois privacy and proxy services, there would be a lot less bad stuff on the internet. I can bust a hole right in the myth. But instead, I’d like to point out something these companies don’t often admit: they are some of the biggest users of whois privacy. I was reminded ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Hangout to explain Expired Domains - What happens when a domain name expires? GoDaddy is hosting a Hangout this afternoon that will be useful for anyone who wants to learn more about expired domain names. I think this will be a good online event for anyone who doesn’t understand the lifecycle of a domain name and what they should do if they want to acquire an expiring domain. It will also be helpful for domain name investors who want to learn more about GoDaddy’s expired domain purchasing options. ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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"Chinese Domaining Masterclass" to be Presented at NamesCon Las Vegas in … - The second annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, is proud to announce a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world's leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网 ) top level domains. TLD Registry's Chinese Domaining Masterclass will run over all four days of NamesCon, and will be taught by TLD Registry's Simon Cousins and ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC - Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn’t have much information as to what they plan to do in particular with the extension. dotBeauty LLC is affiliated with the applicant who won .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000 - According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired  TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and had the same owner so I’m not sure what to make of it According to the press release, Trucking Unlimited ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four - Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others,  Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don’t know what the string sold for. In my opinion I would  say i.News had to sell for more than $10 million and actually would be surprised if it sold ... read more ...