Category Archives: EN

Wed 3rd December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Auction and Sales Channel Update - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, has announce that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds ... read more ...
 
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Radix Set to Launch .SITE TLD in 2015 - Radix, the UAE based registry operator for a number of new TLDs, has won the rights to operate the popular new gTLD .site for an undisclosed amount, and is looking to launch it in early 2015. This was a big win for Radix as it went up against industry heavyweights including Donuts, Minds+ Machines and Interlink Co. .site is a short, generic, and easily understood nTLD by end consumers. It is already amongst the most pre-registered new gTLDs across several registrars and features in the ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC  of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru,  could have just bought the domain name which was listed on Sedo with a Buy it now price of $6,000. Instead  the company elected to file a $1,500 UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds that the Company will receive from ICANN for withdrawing its applications. Cash ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued in Sunrise. Finally .Gal ended its first day of general availability with 1,140. .Gal has nothing to do with ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2 of 2014 - The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2014.VeriSign has announced that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate ... read more ...
 
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World now has 280 million registered domain names: Verisign - There are now 280 million registered domain names across the world. Global domain names and Internet security company VeriSign, Inc has announced in its latest Domain Name Industry Brief that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, pushing the total to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014. “The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 percent over the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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Global registered domain names reach 280 mln in Q2 - The internet recorded the addition of 4 million domain names in the second quarter, up 1.4 percent from the first quarter, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The additions brought the total number of registered domain names at end June to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). Worldwide registrations grew by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of 128.9 million domain names, up 3.7 percent ... read more ...
 
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Australia Denies Apple’s Bid To Trademark “App Store” In Australia - Jenni Ryall reported for Mashable that Australia has said no go to Apple trademarking the term “App Store” in Australia. This latest ruling was an appeal of their 2013 trademark attempt. The judge did not see app store as distinguishing itself to be Apple centric. From the story: Apple can not exclusively use the term “app store” in Australia after a ruling in the Federal Court on Wednesday. Apple was appealing a 2013 decision by the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks, that rejected an ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com - I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it’s $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code “SAS149COM”. An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That’s the best deal we’ve seen for .com registration from GoDaddy since March, when we saw it for 99 cents. Some ... read more ...
 
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Total Domains Reach 280 Million Worldwide - The second quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 280 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) — an increase of four million domain names or 1.4 percent over the first quarter of 2014 — according Verisign in its latest issue of Domain Name Industry Brief. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. Additionally, the base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) is reported at 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7 percent increase ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pockets another $4.4 million from losing new TLD auctions - Company now has $45 million in cash. New top level domain name applicant Minds + Machines continues to add to its pile of cash by losing new TLD contention set auctions. In a release out this morning, the company said it received $4.4 million for withdrawing applications for .latino, .school and one as-yet-unnamed application. .School was a four way race won by Donuts. Other applicants included Fegistry and Uniregistry. .Latino was a two way race won by Dish. Dish ... read more ...
 
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Exhibit 1: Why Whois corroboration for domain registrations is so stupid - Whois verification is just begging for phishers. A lot has been made about the new requirement this year for domain name registrars to verify certain aspects of Whois contact information provided by registrations. Over a million domain names have been suspended due to the failure by the owner to click a link in an email sent by the registrar for a domain name. But don’t click to quickly. It might be a phishing attempt. In fact, the way it’s set up, this verification ... read more ...
 
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How many people see domain investors - This guy got his name as a domain name, but he wasn’t happy about how it all went down. Want to know how a person trying to get his hands on a domain name sees domain name investors? Here’s a pretty good summary. Brad Frost, a web developer (and speaker, writer, consultant, musician, and artist, according to his bio) recently went through the ordeal of acquiring BradFrost.com. The domain was previously registered by another Brad Frost, and this Brad Frost waited ... read more ...
 
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Meet 8 people who spent some-more than $10,000 on a .NYC domain name - With over 60,000 domain names registered, the new .NYC domain name is off to a roaring start. During the “landrush phase”, over 1,000 .NYC domain names had more than one interested party and were thus headed to auction. Ten domain names, according registry records, sold for more than $10,000. One of the ten on the list appears to be a typo, so I looked up the remaining nine to find out who would spend so much money on a .NYC domain name. A general conclusion: ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NameJet.com Reports $235K In Sales Led By Meixi.com For $27k -

Namejet.com usually sent us over the sales news for Nov for it’s reportable sales.

As customarily Namejet.com usually reports domain names that sell for $2,000 or more.

Here we go:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Verisign: There Are Now 280 Million Domain Names; Up Over 7.2% From Last … - Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7% increase quarter over quarter, and an 11.5% increase year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: There Are Now 280 Million Domain Names; Up Over 7.2% From Last Year - Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7% increase quarter over quarter, and an 11.5% increase year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led by ehaber.com For $45K - Over the past week, 509 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: ehaber.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tanzkurse.de at 8,925 EUR · Top “other” TLD: signup.net at 13,000 USD I like the acquisition of Heated.com for $4K   ... read more ...