Category Archives: EN

Mon 9th November 2015
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Verisign Should Clear Up the Paid "Analysts" Controversy - In recent days it was revealed that analyst Zeus Kerravala, who had written a dozen-some articles, over many years, for Network World promoting Verisign's pro-.COM point of view and disparaging new top-level domains as a bad idea, was in fact a paid Verisign consultant. None of that was disclosed when Mr. Kerravala wrote these articles from January 2013 through October 2015. Articles Mr. Kerravala wrote for Network World included the headlines: .com is still the best choice (January 29, ... read more ...
 
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Rightside turns in record income in Q3 - Rightside posts record revenue, positive adjusted EBITDA. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME), parent company of eNom, Name.com and owner of dozens of top level domain names, released earnings this afternoon. The company generated $54.1 million in Q3, a record for the company. It had a net loss of $(3.4) million for the quarter, but an adjusted EBITDA of $0.9 million. Rightside now expects an adjusted EBITA of $2.0-$3.0 million for the year, up from a break-even forecast. Rightside also received a net $1.7 ... read more ...
 
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I'M Calling It: The New Wholesale On Chinese LLL.com Is Around $50K - The new wholesale value of a Chinese three letter .Com domain name (LLL.com) is now $50,000. Having over 100 LLL.com,  58 of them which are those Favorited by Chinese domain investors, without vowels or the letter “v’ opens me up to a numerous offers all day long which I recently wrote about. When I talk about wholesale offers I’m talking about unsolicited email offers from investors and brokers who appear to live in China and are willing to buy a domain today in what is a very liquid market. Certainly ... read more ...
 
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11 Year Old BrooklynBeer.com Saved In UDRP By Company Who Filed 7 UDRP's - Larry Fischer just defended a UDRP on the domain name BrooklynBeer.com, which may not seem as first as a big deal but consider this is just one of 7 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation and the only one they lost. Of the other 6 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation, they won 2 (brooklynbrews.com, brooklynale.com) and got three others when the owners transferred them after receiving the UDRP (brooklynbeers.com, brooklynpilsner.com and brooklynlager.com).  There is one UDRP pending ... read more ...
 
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URS respondent shoots himself in the foot -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum, a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.online’ new general top-level domain (gTLD) following a registrant’s filing of a response after a default integrity grouping a cessation of a domain name.

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Donuts CEO Paul Stahura – DNW Podcast #58 - With close to 200 TLDs, Donuts is trying to bring choice to the domain name market. Paul Stahura is co-founder and CEO of Donuts, the company that runs more top level domain names than any other company…by far. It currently has nearly 200 domain names available. On today’s show, Paul discusses how the company picked the 307 domains it applied for, the $150M+ it raised, pricing strategies for new domains an how he thinks the market for these domain names will unfold. Also: .Sony, GoDaddy earnings, ... read more ...
 
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Web.com changing ticker pitch from WWWW to WEB - 10 years after listing, Web.com gets matching ticker symbol. Web.com is ringing the closing bell on the NASDAQ today to celebrate its 10 year listing anniversary. The company is also making a big change to its stock — its changing its ticker symbol from WWWW to WEB. The symbol change will be effective tomorrow morning. While Web.com isn’t a household name to many in the domain name investing community, you’ve probably used its products and services. The company acquired SnapNames last year ... read more ...
 
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If You're In NYC Today You Should Check Out "CoInvent Plus" Conference - CoInvent Pulse is a business technology festival that’s scheduled to take place in today in New York City . This event will be featuring 150 exhibitors and an array of business workshops. It’s estimated to be one of the largest technology gatherings with thousands of attendees. The mission of the conference is to help founders, startups, and entrepreneurs grow and thrive in the New York tech and startup ecosystem. There are expected to be around 8,000 people at the conference and many workshops ... read more ...
Sun 8th November 2015
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Farmers Bank & Trust Switches From .Com To .Bank Domain - Farmers Bank Trust which has branches in Arkansas and Texas and approximately $1.2 billion in assets has changed its domain name from .com to a .bank Farmers Bank which was using myfbtbank.com at it’s website has switched to  myfarmers.bank. At this time, visitors can still access the Farmers Bank Trust website through the old web address, myfbtbank.com. The bank encourages frequent visitors to change their bookmarks to the new, more secure myfarmers.bank to optimize secure banking. Farmers ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday - The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of  .Com deleted,  exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number. Well not yesterday. The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000. .Com had over ... read more ...
Sat 7th November 2015
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RightoftheDot/ 4.CN Auction Sells Over $871K in Domains - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction on the 4.cn platform as part of the Domainfest.asia conference generated over $871,000 in sales. All sales were led by a three number .com, 586.com which sold for $416,000 The two next highest sales, zhou.com and 8.xyz were both listed at no reserve. Several of the domain name sales occurred, as they often do after the domain auction concluded which is why it took RightoftheDot.com some time to wind up the auction and first publish the results. To note, the ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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Last Call: 6 Number .Com's: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million - If you’re considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I’m going calling “Last Call’. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge run on numbered and Letter domains in .com, .net, .xyz, .top and .win over the last couple of months. .Com, ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg: "Candidates Continue to Miss Obvious Domain Registrations" - Bloomberg just published another post on presidential candidates and the domain names they failed to register. In a post BNA.com calls out Jeb Bush for failing to register the matching domain of his  “new campaign slogan–“Jeb Can Fix It!” “Jimmy Flanagan, a 2014 candidate for the Austin, Texas, City Council, had registered the domain name out from under the candidate.” “Bush isn’t alone. While no startup company nowadays would launch without making sure it owned its own name online, ... read more ...
 
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IPC president slams registry’s pricing model for new criticism TLD (updated) - Trevor Little (This article has been updated to include comment from Jay Westerdal, CEO of ‘.feedback’. The changes are presented in italics). The ‘.feedback’ TLD, which aims to “solidify a positive and recognisable reputation as the best TLD for finding product information, whether it is positive or negative”, is currently in sunrise. ... read more ...
 
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DHgate.com Deploys Austreme’s Transaction Laundering Detection Solution - Hong Kong, Nov. 6, 2015 /satPRnews.com/ – DHgate, the first and largest cross border B2B e-commerce transactional platform in China, has implemented Austreme’s Transaction Laundering Detection solution. DHpay, the payment platform Provider under DHgate, has a vision to offer a global payment platform for worldwide e-commerce users with multi-channel payment services. Working closely with major card schemes like Visa and MasterCard, DHpay has been following Payment Card Industry Data ... read more ...
 
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URS to ‘.travel’, puts ‘.cat’ among the pigeons and results in ‘.pro'(test) -

Earlier this year 3 bequest general top-level domains (gTLDs) concluded to exercise a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) as partial of a renovation of their registry agreements. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) came in for critique amid claims that it had forced a 3 gTLD registries, ‘.pro’, ‘.travel’ and ‘.cat’, to…

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URS to ‘.travel’, puts ‘.cat’ among the pigeons and results in ‘.pro'(test) 06 … -

Earlier this year 3 bequest general top-level domains (gTLDs) concluded to exercise a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) as partial of a renovation of their registry agreements. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) came in for critique amid claims that it had forced a 3 gTLD registries, ‘.pro’, ‘.travel’ and ‘.cat’, to…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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.ONLINE gTLD: domain name – respondent shoots himself in the foot - In a recent domain name dispute brought under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a panel ordered the suspension of a domain name under the .ONLINE new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) following the registrant’s filing of a response after a Default Determination ordering the suspension of the domain name. the Examiner noted that the Respondent’s reply in response to the claim of registration and use in bad faith was “No way!”, without any ... read more ...
 
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RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions - RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD’sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low reserve price. The reserve price is not the price you would quote to sell the domain if you got an offer on the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy obvious app describes mobile domain name send system - A faster, more secure way to transfer domain names for in-person transactions? Picture this: you’re at NamesCon in January when you strike a deal with a fellow domainer to sell a domain name to them. You both pull out your phones, activate an app, keep the phones near each other, and then click a few buttons to instantly transfer the domain name to them. That’s the basic idea of a patent application (pdf) by GoDaddy that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published yesterday. The application ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Over 200 formula from past week - China dominated expired domain auctions last week, but this week the West reasserted itself. As many as 8 out of the top 20 auctions (40%) can still be laid on China’s doorstep; but previously the figure was 12 / 20 (60%). Since J-C.com ($4.2k) was purchased by someone in St. Louis, Missouri, that means the top Chinese sale – a 6-digit numerical domain – ranks only #7. Normally China wins at least 1 medal: gold, silver, or bronze. Unless this trend persists, I wouldn’t read too much ... read more ...
 
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Report: Vegas.com Bought LasVegas.com in 2005 For Up To $90 Million Dollars - George Kirikos spotted an SEC document showing that Vegas.com purchased LasVegas.com  in 2005, for what could be up to a $90 Million Dollars. “In June 2005 , VEGAS.com, LLC entered into an agreement for the purchase of LasVegas.com on the following terms: The agreement specified that a $12,000,000, one-time payment be made upon execution of the agreement along with monthly payments of approximately $83,000 for 36 months, $125,000 for the next 60 months, and then $208,000 for the next 36 months. Per ... read more ...
 
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Former VP of ICANN Hired By Facebook For "New Domain Name System Strategy & Management Team" - Denise Michel who was formerly with ICANN as VP of Strategic Initiatives and Advisor to the President,  has been hired by Facebook to work on Facebook’s new “Domain Name System Strategy and Management Team” which she says “will help improve the global framework for domain names, IP addresses, numbers and related elements.” Denise “will be working across Facebook departments and collaborating widely with a range of stakeholders to help increase the opportunities and mitigate the risks ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2015
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty addresses cybersquatting, Whois - Countries would need a UDRP-like system for ccTLDs and online access to an accurate Whois. The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty has been released, and it has a couple requirements related to the countries’ country code domain names. Article 18.28 addresses domain names (pdf). Each country that is a party to the treaty must offer a mechanism for handling cybersquatting claims that is along the lines of the UDRP. They also must offer “online public access to a reliable and accurate ... read more ...
 
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Another day, another "Google Listing" call - This time from Utah company Local Verifications. Last week I wrote about another company using robocalls to sell people on search engine services such as updating their Google business listing. Yesterday I received another one of these calls on my cell phone from a different company. This time the perpetrator was Utah company Local Verifications. The robocall, which came from a local number 512-999-7240, started with a message suggesting that I’m not the only person getting barraged with calls ... read more ...