Category Archives: EN

Fri 4th December 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
November Top Stories and Podcasts - A look back at November in the domain name business. In a roundabout way, China accounted for 3 of the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month. This makes sense given the unprecedented runup in prices for short and numeric domain names is driving the domain name business. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Be careful of domain name pumping – People with ulterior motives are pumping the prices of certain domain names. Be skeptical. 2. Booking.com buys .Hotels ... read more ...
 
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How a artistic group switched from .Com to .Rocks - A New York web design agency took precautions when it decided to switch to a .rocks domain name. Earlier this year, web design and marketing firm Huemor decided it wanted to switch its online presence from HuemorDesigns.com to Huemor.rocks. “SEO folks told me I was crazy to switch from a long-standing domain,” Huemor co-founder and President Jeff Gapinski told Domain Name Wire. “However, the new extension really appealed to us from a branding perspective. It summarized how we feel in one little ... read more ...
 
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Where did China go? - Where did China go? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing China claim around 40% of the top 20 sales; and Chinese-style domains usually rank very high in these charts – #2 last week, #1 the week before, etc. stretching far back into 2014. This time, however, none of the top 16 results are Chinese – none. Why? Human error is 1 explanation. My sampling at NameJet is never 100% complete. But that limitation affects all my weekly reports, and I would expect spotty data collection to cause ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namejet.com Reports $1.56 Million In Domain Sales In November -

Namejet.com usually released a sales news for Nov stating $1,561,991.00 in domain names sold.

Namejet.com usually news sales of $2,000 or some-more and for that remuneration was done by a finish of  a month.

The tip 16 sales had 4 characters or less:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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China to make Real Name Verification on .Com Domain Names - The government of China is clamping down on registrants of .com domain names. Regulations that have prevented Chinese residents from using many new top level domain names will soon affect .com and .net domain name registrations, too. The rules will apply to .com and .net domain name registrations starting March 1, 2016, according to documents obtained by Domain Name Wire. At that time, domain name registrars in China will have to obtain Real Name Verification and Domain Name Verification for each ... read more ...
 
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.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains - .Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 million in Premium Name sales, with strong deals coming from two auctions, our registrar channel, registry direct ... read more ...
 
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The Latest .Com Winners and Losers - Uniregistry and China continue to show good transfer results. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from August. As I do every month, I crunched the numbers to see which registrars performed best. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three-month delay. So this post is about August’s results. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 891,979 2. eNom** 213,291 3. HiChina 146,490 4. PublicDomainRegistry ... read more ...
 
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Smart and timely selling from .XYZ - Company continues to jump on demand from Chinese investors. The market for short and numeric domain names is hot right now, and smart top level domain name registries are marketing to this opportunity. Consider .XYZ, which posted a page showing availability of its short domain names — and even providing downloadable lists of available domain names in each category: Short, generic domain names that have priced themselves aggressively (especially in China) seem to be reaping the benefits of the ... read more ...
 
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How to deposit in domain names by an IRA or 401(k) - Investing in domain names through a retirement account might allow you to defer taxes. A nest egg full of domain names?Earlier this week I introduced UpMoney, my new site about investing, spending and saving. In one of the posts I interviewed Kirk Chisholm, Principal of wealth management firm Innovative Advisory Group, about investing retirement funds in alternative assets. I was a bit surprised when he mentioned domain names as a potential investment. I asked him for more information about this ... read more ...
 
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.Club sells $1.6 million in reward domains in one month - In one month, Chinese buyers more than double .Club’s premium sales to date. Boom! .Club sold over $1.6 million in premium domain names last month alone, more than it had sold in entirety since its launch. The registry has China to thank. The company sold a seven-figure package to a Chinese domain name investor, including 1.club, 6.club and 9.club. .Club sold 246 domain names in package deals during the month, including some keyword names as well as N, NN, NNN, L and LL names. It also held successful ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Sunrise periods now open – November 2015 - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.  Please contact us or see our December 2013 newsletter for information as to what the Sunrise Period is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period. As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: .kyoto .feedback .OFFICE .family .cloud .REIT .wine .vin ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment is securing domain names… - Do domain name registrations signal something new? On this week’s end user domain name report, I noted that AmblinProduction.com sold for $998. The domain name currently shows Mark Monitor as the registrant, so it was likely purchased for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Yesterday, the company also registered these domain names: amblindigital.com amblinfest.com amblinfestival.com amblingames.com amblininteractive.com amblinmovies.com amblinsocial.com amblintelevision.com amblintv.com amblinvr.com This ... read more ...
 
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Mobile phone association Digicel fails to take down "sucks" site - Cybersquatting complaint against gripe site fails. The non-commercial gripe site at DigicelSucks.com.Mobile phone company Digicel, which is based in Jamaica, has failed to take down the gripe site DigicelSucks.com through a cybersquatting complaint. The site consists of commentary abut the mobile carrier along with aggregated tweets of people bashing Digicel. Digicel was quick to file a UDRP cybersquatting complaint against the domain name. DigicelSucks.com was registered on October 12 of this year, ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String ... / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string in Cyrillic script for the European Commission. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD Fast Track Process ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
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TLD Podcast #28: Klitschko-Fury, Bute-DeGale, Jacobs-Quillin -

Apr 24, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Caleb Truax (left) and Daniel Jacobs (right) quarrel during a Premier Boxing Championships during UIC Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports

Via: thelivingdaylights.co

 
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IoT Botnets Will Be Major Problem By 2017: IID - The botnets are coming! According to cybersecurity firm IID, Chinese and Eastern European hackers are likely to take control of millions of new devices connected to the Internet of Things, and create a botnet army out them for various nefarious purposes. No, this is not the script for a new Terminator or James Bond movie, this is the projection of a major, well-regarded internet security organization. IID argues that there is simply no way that cybersecurity will be able to keep up with the ... read more ...
 
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Radix Closes Holiday Sales With Over 35K Paid Registrations - Radix closed the holiday sales with 35,000+ paid registrations across the .online, .site, .website, .space, .tech, .press and .host TLDs. Radix has been actively working behind the scenes to create a splash across the domain name market with aggressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Domainnamewire recently reported that there were sales expected across over 20+ registrars last week. "With customers on the look-out for attractive offers across all products, we wanted to ensure that ... read more ...
 
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.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st -   .Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today’s free domain name is LowFare.Global. .Global does not have a premium renewal fee so all these premium domain names will renew ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Appraisal fraud still creation a rounds - After all these years, it’s still going strong. It’s one of the oldest scams in the books, and apparently it’s still working. The domain appraisal scam goes like this: someone says they’re interested in buying your domain name, and they think it’s worth a lot of money. But before they can go through with the purchase, you need you to get an appraisal from a specific service. Once they get a validation of the value, they promise to buy the domain name. Once you pay for the appraisal, however, ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling invests another $1 million in Rightside - Domain name investor buys more shares, and has made a small profit. A company connected to domain name investor Frank Schilling has purchased another 150,000 shares of Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) stock, increasing his interest in the company to 6.1% of shares outstanding. An SEC filing reveals that Schilling has paid a total of $8,387,181, including brokerage commissions, to acquire his stake. That means he has paid an average of $7.24 per share. Shares are trading for about $8.00 right now, so Schilling ... read more ...
 
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales expostulate 35,000 Radix domain name registrations - New TLD company reports holiday sales drove increase volume. Deep discounts and added exposure helped new top level domain name registry Radix get 35,000 registrations over four days. The company deeply discounted prices on its domain names, with many registrars offering its domain names for as little as 99 cents, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Many registrars offered .Tech and .Online for about $5.00, with $1.00 pricing for .website, .space and .site. The company also benefited from added exposure ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Cox Media, Steinway and other finish users bought final week - From DoorMint.com to SouthernKitchen.com, here are some end user domain name purchases from the past week. Sedo had yet another strong week of sales led by short domain names. It handled 832 transactions for $1.4 million in sales. Sales to end users included some new TLDs, such as Robots.life and Production.club. Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the past week on Sedo: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on ... read more ...
 
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Verisign CEO discusses 2018 .com agreement renovation and cost increases - Bidzos says it’s early to speculate about contract renewal, but cites two factors that might allow it to raise .com prices in the future. Will Verisign be able to increase .com prices when it renews its contract for the domain name in 2018? Verisign’s 2006 contract gave it the right to increase .com prices 7% in 4 out of the 6 years of its contract. It agreed to a similar deal with ICANN in 2012, only to have the U.S. Department of Justice step in and say that the new six-year contract shouldn’t ... read more ...
Tue 1st December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 million - Over the past week, 832 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 66% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: farma.com at 40,000 EUR Top ccTLD: shoop.de at 40,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: verity.org at 16,500 USD New Gtld Sales: 988.xyz 3,000 USDrobots.life    2,500    USD888.link    1,888    GBPproduction.club    1,250    EURlaunch.agency    1,000    USDhomecare.guide   ... read more ...
 
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IID Predicts Massive Botnet Takeover of IoT Devices by 2017 – Virtual - TACOMA, WA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/01/15 -- IID, the source for clear cyberthreat intelligence, today announced its predictions for 2017 and beyond. After analyzing billions of pieces of cyberthreat data, IID anticipates Internet of Things (IoT) devices will increasingly become part of large-scale botnets, websites utilizing many of the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will go dark and China-based cybercrime will undergo a marked shift. IID ... read more ...