Category Archives: EN

Mon 2nd November 2015
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Endurance International acquires Constant Contact for $1.1 billion - The acquisition machine continues. Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) has acquired email marketing company Constant Contact for $1.1 billion in an all-cash deal. Shares in Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT) closed Friday at $26.10, for a market cap of about $840 million. Endurance is paying $32.00 per share, and shares in Constant Contact have jumped in pre-market trading. Endurance is paying for the acquisition with debt financing of up to $1.085 billion from Credit Suisse AG and an affiliate ... read more ...
Sun 1st November 2015
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Owner of Realestate.com.au Offers To Buy iProperty.com For $750 Million - According to themercury.com.au,  Online property advertiser REA Group which owns and operates of Realestate.com.au has launched a $750 million takeover bid for Southeast Asia-focused iProperty.com REA Group’s subsidiary Realestate.com.au today said it was proposing to purchase all iProperty Group’s shares at $4 per share, or $1.20 a share plus 0.7 shares in a newly formed unlisted company with an indirect interest in iProperty. The $4 per share offer represents a 55% premium to iProperty’s ... read more ...
Fri 30th October 2015
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Google Upset With Symantec Over False Security Certificates - According to PCMag.com Google is rather peeved at Symantec for issuing fraudulent security certificates for numerous domains, including Google. This started out with just a few bad certs and then Google started looking into it themselves. Google found more bad certs than what Symantec first quoted, a few weeks later Symantec found more on their own after their own audit. From the article: So Google issued an ultimatum: Starting next summer, all Symantec-issued certificates must support the Chromium ... read more ...
 
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One Robocaller badmouthing another… - Pot calling kettle black. The robocalls to my cell phone continue, and occasionally I play along. This morning I received a robocall from my “local Google specialist” informing me it had a first page location available for me. I wondered if it was Local Lighthouse, the company being sued by Google for misleading customers. I pressed 1 to speak with a representative. As he started talking, I told him I was already talking to a company about a front page position, and wanted to know if he was with ... read more ...
 
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The Economist on a state of association naming - Do you agree with The Economist’s viewpoint? There’s only one print publication that still makes its way to my mailbox, at that’s The Economist. Last week’s Schumpeter column talks about the state of company naming, and paints a rather bleak picture. You should read the entire article, but here are a few interesting parts: Copyright law is a pain: companies have to go to great lengths to make sure that nobody has staked a claim to their favourite names. C’mon, Economist. I expect better ... read more ...
 
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Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 Are From China; 38 out of Top 50 - According to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7 registrants of domain names using the new domain extensions, 3 of those are affiliated with new gTLD registries, that only leaves 4 out of the top 30 new gTLD registrants from coming from a country other ... read more ...
 
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Web.com: New TLDs are not relocating a needle - Contribution from new top level domain names isn’t significant, CEO says. Web.com CEO David Brown was asked about new top level domain names on yesterday’s investor conference call. Brown said the company isn’t doing “back flips” over the results, and says it’s not moving the needle for the firm. He suspects new domains aren’t moving the needle for competitors, as well. Here’s what he said: So in the gTLD space, that continues to be positive, but we’re not doing back flips here. ... read more ...
 
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Here's Something Scary, Namescon Early Bird Ticket Offer Ends Tomorrow On Halloween - The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of NamesCon will be by far the biggest ever. Co-Founder Richard Lau is forecasting more than 1,000 attendees will be ... read more ...
 
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Zajo.com: A good 4 minute UDRP decision - Owners of four letter domain names should take note. The owner of Zajo.com, who bought it for its value as a four letter domain name, has successfully defended the domain name in a UDRP. Domain owner Jay Dove of Deep Frontier represented himself. Sporting goods company Juraj Králik-ZAJO of Slovakia threw everything it could at the case, citing the common cases and issues that complainants use when they are trying to bend the purpose of UDRP: Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, the ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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Expired Domain Report: Three Cheers for China! - Once again, China dominates expired domain name buying. And the Chinese feeding frenzy continues. Those who hype have cranked their hype knobs up to 11 in order to take advantage of the moment. Strike while the iron is hot! Oh, but this market demand is real nevertheless. Domains will probably never be more liquid than these China-favored categories are today; and prices (for now at least) are consistently high … possibly still climbing. 12 of the top 20 expired domain auctions at NameJet and ... read more ...
 
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IEC.com saved in UDRP - NGO loses attempt to get valuable domain name. International Electrotechnical Commission, a non-governmental organization, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of IEC.com. Although the respondent is listed as IEC Communications Ltd., it appears it’s really a domain name investor. The respondent said it acquired the domain name because of the value of rare 2 and 3 letter domain names, not to target International Electrotechnical Commission. This is most likely the case, and the three person ... read more ...
 
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Verisign gets obvious for Domain Name Exchange - Company proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for domain name exchange”. The system would allow someone to trade in their existing domain name for another, perhaps on an unlimited basis. Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to offer such a service in April 2010, noting that it would be helpful to webhosts who offer trials and monthly subscriptions to customers. If the customer ... read more ...
 
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What domains Birchbox and 22 other companies bought final week - Makeup sample subscription service buys a domain name. Birchbox, one of the most successful subscription services, bought a domain name through Sedo this past week. It was just one of many companies buying existing domain names last week, including an SMS company that bought SMS.me, a negotiation coach that dropped the hyphen from its name, and a company with a .CH domain name buying the matching .com. Overall, Sedo handled 672 transactions last week for a total of $1.2M. Here’s a look at end ... read more ...
 
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1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223 - Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for each new domain extension after the first day of GA where domains could be registered on first come, first ... read more ...
 
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Verisign warns new dot-word domains could make internet unstable - Verisign, operator of the .com and .gov registries as well as two of the internet's 13 root servers, has warned that the "unprecedented" introduction of hundreds of new dot-word domains may make the internet unstable. In a quarterly filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week, the tech biz included extensive details about the new generic top-level domain program run by domain overseer ICANN under "risk factors" that could impact ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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Another UDRP FAIL! As Panel Refuses to Transfer a Domain Used for Phishing - Another interesting UDRP where a domain name was found to be used for Phishing and fraud but the panel refuses to transfer it because the trademark wasn’t identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant had rights. Yes its a head scratcher. Bridgewater Associates, LP (“Complainant”), brought a UDRP on the new gTLD bwater.site The sole panelist David E. Sorkin found although the domain was registered and was being used in bad faith and that the domain owner ... read more ...
 
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IBM is Buying Weather.com - According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)  has agreed to acquire the Weather Company’s data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren’t disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn’t include Weather’s primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. “In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group — led by Comcast’s NBCUniversal and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: new TLDs are inspiring .Com growth - Company makes admission for first time in latest SEC filing. Verisign made a subtle, but important, change in its risk language in its third quarter 10-Q report filed with the SEC. I picked up on this change using the Intelligize SEC document comparison tool. Here’s the relevant content from the Q2 report: We do not yet know the impact, if any, that these new gTLDs may have on our business, including if or how the introduction of these new gTLDs will affect registrations for .com and .net and therefore ... read more ...
 
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CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains adult 1.6% - CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was 1.6% which in terms of absolute values was fairly evenly split between the ccTLDs, new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs. Generally ... read more ...
 
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Twitter and opposition Tencent competence have to quarrel over "Moments" - Tencent files trademark applications, presumably in response to Twitter launching new “Moments” feature. On October 6, Twitter launched “Moments” in an effort to attract more users to trending topics. It’s a pretty cool feature, but Twitter might run up against Chinese social networking giant Tencent over the name. Tencent has a number of services including microblogging. On October 16, Tencent filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Moments”. ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2015
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Expired Domain Drop Catcher BackorderZone.com + 42 Domain Registrars Are for Sale - Backorderzone.com is for sale. Backorderzone.com competes with Namejet.com, Snapnames.com, Pheenix.com and DropCatch.com. Last week Namejet lowered the price of a backorder on a pending delete domain, the only type of domain names BackOrderZone.com catches, to $39. Included in the sale is the BackorderZone.com website, the drop catching software and 42 ICANN Accredited Registrars in good standing registered in US. “Every portion may be sold separately. Registrars maybe sold or rented out. Buyer ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com - The “Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola” just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to “Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese” yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: “Following the Stresa meeting of all major European experts in the dairy sector, an agreement was entered into on ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.2million though a genuine story is 9107.com - 672 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: farmfacts.com at 15,000 USD Top ccTLD: prediction.de at 8,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: lilo.org at 12,000 USD New Gtld Sales: Cool.club 5,000 USD 9999.Club 999 USD We may have had one of the best buys of the year, right up there with RQH.com. 9107.com sold for $2,500. I have emailed Sedo to see if this is legit ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames is compelling an auction during NameJet for LTD.com - Co-branded auction is likely the first of many. NameJet is currently hosting an auction for LTD.com. This is obviously a good domain name. Not only is it three characters, but it’s also a common company ending for “Limited”. With a reserve under $50,000, it’s a no-brainer. But the real news here is that the auction is co-branded with SnapNames and NameJet, and SnapNames is helping to promote the auction even though it is taking place at NameJet. Why would one of the biggest expired domain ... read more ...
 
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KTM hand US 250 team to TLD - Start the conversation - Add your comment Sorry, due to abuse from people posting SPAM, we no longer allow web addresses to be posted in comments. Please login or register before adding your comments. Although the administrators and moderators of this website will attempt to keep all objectionable comments off these pages, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express ... read more ...