Category Archives: EN

Thu 5th November 2015
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There Goes Another Two Letter .Com To China: Telepathy Sells WG.com - The domain name WG.com has sold to a Chinese buyer. WG.com was owned by Nat Cohen’s Telepathy.com and is now over at GoldenName.com (4.cn) Earlier today we reported that the domain name Ak.com appears to have sold as the site where the domain was listed for sale at just short of $5 Million dollars was updated to note that the domain had been sold. A couple of readers to thedomains.com noted that two other, 2 letter .com domain names, EQ.com and ER.com that were previously for sale are now showing ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy sole $1.4 million of domain names from Marchex portfolio final quarter - Company getting early results from domain name portfolio. GoDaddy released its Q3 earnings yesterday, and its 10-Q filing with the SEC gives some insight into how it is doing with the Marchex domain name portfolio. The company paid $28.1 million to acquire the portfolio of about 200,000 domain names in April. It’s also paying an earn-out. GoDaddy acquired three companies this year and discloses in its 10-Q that it recognized a liability of $0.9 million for earn-outs from these acquisitions. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Owner of Houses.co.uk Who Paid £40,000 Blames Sedo For Auction Price of £2,999 - Remember the story a few weeks ago about the domain name Houses.co.uk  which was purchased a few years ago for  £40,000 was on sale for £2,999 on Sedo? The owner of the domain name blames Sedo and its automated valuation tool. Peter Thornton told SellingUp.com, that the domain name Houses.Co.Uk is for sale but it was never actually available for £2,999. “Instead, he has blamed domain name sales website Sedo.com for putting an automated valuation on his domain which he feels was several ... read more ...
 
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Ak.com is tentative sale - Taking a look at AK.com tonight it looks like the domain is now pending sale. Below is a cached version of AK.com from a couple months ago, you will see the $4,995,000 asking price. Below that is the current look of the website showing a pending sale. Current website The domain has been under privacy at Go Daddy since May of 2014, before that it was owned by Utah based Ogio International. ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
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TLD Podcast #25: Timothy Bradley-Brandon Rios -

Dec 13, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Timothy Bradley (red/white trunks) and Diego Chaves (blue/white trunks) box during their welterweight hitch during The Chelsea. The hitch finished in a draw. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Via: thelivingdaylights.co

 
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TLD Podcast #25: Timothy Bradley-Brandon Rios & more -

Dec 13, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Timothy Bradley (red/white trunks) and Diego Chaves (blue/white trunks) box during their welterweight hitch during The Chelsea. The hitch finished in a draw. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Via: thelivingdaylights.co

 
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SEX Sells! - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry's extensions are now available for public purchase. Interested parties can buy available names through registrars listed at: http://icmregistry.com/registrars/. "With over 20,000 names registered in our new adult TLDs this year and over 4,000 ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy May Be The World's Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD's - Godaddy.com, which is the world’s largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains. According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has fallen into the 2nd position worldwide when it comes to domain registered with new domain extensions, known as new gTLD’s. A China based domain registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. whose website is West.cn has passed Godaddy when it comes to domain ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email - Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names at the registry level on the request of China. That number of 40,000 words and phrases seemed to be reduced down to 12K in a Twitter post that now seems to have been deleted. Since the Domainincite post, several publications and organizations jumped on .XYZ for seemly to agree to ban domain names at the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy shares burst after hours on earnings, guidance - Wall Street applauds GoDaddy’s Q3 results. Shares in GoDaddy are up sharply after the company reported earnings this afternoon. GoDaddy shares are trading at $30.00 per share in after hours trading, up around 10% from its closing price today. The company reported a 15% jump in revenue year-over-year for the third quarter, while adjusted EBITDA was up 22.5%. The company bumped annual revenue guidance up as well. In other good news, annual revenue per customer was up 6.8% compared to the same quarter ... read more ...
 
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At what cost would it make clarity to sell a DNW.com domain name? - I’ve never considered it before, but perhaps I should Three letter domain names continue to go up in value, and I receive daily offers from China for DNW.com. For the most part, this is a non-starter for me. After all, I use the domain name for this site. But at what price would it make sense to reconsider selling it? I don’t actually host the site on DNW.com. I use the domain name in a few ways: 1. A type-in shortcut to send people to DomainNameWire.com. 2. As a URL shortener. 3. Word-of-mouth. ... read more ...
 
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International SEO: How to Fix & Prevent Duplicate Content Issues - International SEO is becoming increasingly important for online companies to meet their ultimate aim of growth. Due to the Internet, expanding your business to any country in the world is fortunately a click away. All you need is an optimized website that caters to audience across national borders. However, doing so without duplicate content can be easier said than done. First, there's the major problem of a language barrier. There are also international search engines that go well beyond Google ... read more ...
 
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New U.K. Surveillance Bill includes monitoring users' online habits - BBC.com broke down the details of the new surveillance bill to be passed in the U.K. No surprise there are opinions from all sides with some saying the bill goes too far and are too intrusive, this type of surveillance is not legal in and other European country or the U.S. Those in favor say these measures are needed to keep the country safe. The article goes on to show what is allowed now: What can the agencies do at the moment? They can listen to phone calls, intercept emails and even hack devices ... read more ...
 
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Australia cries foul as Food Network owner seeks exclusive use of ‘.food’ gTLD - Jacob Schindler Ever since ICANN issued a resolution last June making clear that ‘closed/exclusive generic’ gTLDs would not be allowed to sign registry contracts, it has looked like the writing is on the wall for companies hoping to operate such strings – at least until the next round of new gTLDs. But one company has defiantly persisted: Lifestyle ... read more ...
 
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.Sex is Live - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry’s extensions are now available for public purchase. Retail prices vary by registrar but Godaddy is charging $72 for a .sex domain name. According to ntldstats.com .Sex got just over 3,800 domain registrations through Sunrise and the .XXX matching program although the registry told me that .sex had ... read more ...
 
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.Com's latest winners and losers - Registrar results with .com are in for July ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from July. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s monthly look at how registrars performed with .com. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about July’s results. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 893,043 2. eNom** 218,457 3. HiChina 152,135 4. PublicDomainRegistry 117,568 5. Tucows ... read more ...
 
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BRS Media Files Independent Review Process regarding the .RADIO Top Level Domain - SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/afilias-brs-tin-llc-v-icann-2015-10-12-en) ... read more ...
 
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‘Our Own Little Kingdom’: Dot-Brands Are Staking a Claim on Their Bit of the Web - Two years ago, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were introduced into the internet root zone. It marked a transition to expand from the dot-com suffix to dot-everything-else. Since the new program launched, we’ve seen gTLDs like .london and .guru added to the list, not to mention more controversial strings such as .sucks.But it’s not just about hoarding .sexy URLs. ICANN, the non-profit that oversees domain names, looks forward to the new gTLDs leading to further innovation. ... read more ...
 
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End user domain name sales adult to $100,000 including AOL - AOL was among the companies buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Sedo had a great sales week last week, handling $1.7 million of domain name sales on 688 transactions. End users were a big reason for this solid sales week. An Austin company led the public charts with its $100,000 purchase of Material.com. AOL also bought a domain name…for only $700. Even a .taxi domain name was among the 29 end user domain name sales I uncovered. Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from ... read more ...
 
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How the new gTLD regime affects brand owners - When the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme became a reality in 2011 after an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Singapore, a significant number of brand owners expressed concern over the lack of attention paid to the protection of their digital assets. Cybersquatting was a growing problem for organisations within the 300 or so existing gTLDs at the time, and there was a general feeling that the domain name industry as a whole was not doing enough to ... read more ...
 
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eTagsDirect.com Upgrades to eTags.com - November 4, 2015 by Michael Berkens 2 Comments According to a press release out today eTagsDirect.com has upgraded and acquired the domain name etags.com “The company launched as a Florida-based company offering fast and easy online vehicle registration services to people all over The Sunshine State. “Since its launch last year, the company has experienced notable growth with their most recent achievement in the successful launch of services in California after securing a business partnership ... read more ...
 
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3 Applicants For New gTLD .Radio File For Independent Review Process - According to a press release out today, BRS Media, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. Although not mentioned in the press release the other two applicants are Afilias and Donuts. “”On Sept. 10, 2014 ICANN announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Results “Prevailed” ... read more ...
 
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The Knowledge Group Has Scheduled a Live Webcast on Emergence of the New … - New York, NY, November 04, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, announced today that it has scheduled a live webcast entitled: Emergence of the New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD): Revolutionizing Trademark Protection Live Webcast. This two-hour event is scheduled on December 15, 2015 @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET.Event Synopsis:In establishing the .BRAND New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), The Internet ... read more ...
 
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Checklist for how to name a startup - Dharmesh Shah wrote an article on Inbound.org that detailed his checklist for choosing a start up name. Shah writes he has been thinking about naming and branding for 20 years. He also mentions some of the data points he looked at when coming up with his checklist. He looked at over 4,000 start up names, he looked at length of name, starting letters, TLD, etc… From the article: The S.M.A.R.T. Startup Name Checklist So, let’s start with my handy-dandy checklist for what makes for a good startup ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7 million led by Material.com during $100,000 - Over the past week, 688 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: material.com at 100,000 USD Top ccTLD: devils.tv at 10,000 USD Top “other” TLD: steam.net at 17,250 USD New Gtld sales: expeditions.online    2,000    EURbid.taxi    2,000    EURvictory.church    1,999    USDemmanuel.church    1,999    USDmesse.news    1,750   ... read more ...