Category Archives: EN

Thu 22nd October 2015
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Verisign Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. Third Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of ... read more ...
 
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours - Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to use the domain to divert Internet users seeking [Complainant’s] official website online to Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 million and diluted EPS of $0.69 for the same quarter in 2014. The operating margin was 58.1% for the third ... read more ...
 
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Verisign considers Early Access for "IDN .Coms" - Popular model for landrush phase of new TLDs might find its way to Verisign. Verisign is considering some sort of “Early Access” period when it launches IDN .com transliterations, company executives explained today on the company’s 3rd quarter conference call. In response to an analyst’s question, CEO James Bidzos said the rollouts will begin with the mandated sunrise period. After that, the company might have “Early Access” opportunities for those that want to “get in the door early”, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations final quarter - Verisign drives new registrations, grows overall base in .com and .net. Verisign reported earnings this afternoon, and disclosed that it handled 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3. The number of new registrations per quarter is typically in the 8-9 million range. On its investor conference call today, Verisign executives said the growth was driven internationally, particularly in Asia (including China and India). The company expects the pace of activity in the 3rd quarter to slow sequentially ... read more ...
 
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5 Questions To Select The Right Structure For Your International Websites - The most frequent question I am asked, both online and off, is: “What’s the best Web structure for my international site?” This question might seem quite basic and fundamental, but unfortunately, there is no clear-cut “right” answer. Although there are general best practices, the truth is that if you’re in a relatively competitive industry, the selection of the best international Web structure should take more into consideration than what Google suggests. The ... read more ...
 
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How to not remove your shirt investing in domain names for China - Video explains what makes domains good — and bad — for the Chinese market. Allegravita, a consultancy for doing business in China that has worked with a number of domain name companies, has published three info-packed sessions from the DomainFest Asia conference held in September. The company has packaged them together as a “Boot Camp” on the Chinese domain name market, and one video in particular is worth watching for any domainer thinking about investing in domains that might appeal to ... read more ...
 
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers - The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems to be some registrants in Sunrise by Companies that are not lawyers. There are registrants of domain names ... read more ...
 
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Media Options' WI.com domain name save in UDRP - Complainant offered to buy the domain name for $400.00. Media Options has successfully defended a UDRP against its domain name WI.com, but the panel declined to find complainant Brian Fera of Germany guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Domain name brokerage Media Options originally brokered the domain name on behalf of Masterlock. The company found a buyer toward the end of 2014 for $375,000. Media Options financed the deal, holding the domain name until the buyer made all payments. The buyer ... read more ...
 
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It is all about a eights - The Sedo auction for 8888828.com was paid and hit the Sedo sales wire, the name sold for $5,103, yes a 7N.com. The seller is local to me actually about 30 minutes away in King of Prussia, DomainDakini.com purchased the domain name back in 2014, it looks like from a Chinese registrant who hand regged the domain back in 2013. The domain was dropped twice previously. That is the tricky thing with these names, people tend to get bored with no action and drop a domain name, there certainly was little ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #24: GGG-Lemieux and Terence Crawford - Gennady “GGG” Golovkin–David Lemieux didn’t quite turn into the Hagler-Hearns slugfest everyone was hoping for; however, GGG delivered a punch-perfect performance. Diego and I also break down Roman Gonzalez-Brian Viloria and preview Terence Crawford-Dierry Jean. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: Gennady Golovkin bludgeoned a game and brave David Lemieux in eight one-sided and brutal rounds. It was a flawless performance from GGG; we consider where GGG goes ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2015
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These 19 companies bought aftermarket domain names final week - From bitcoin to car care to family entertainment, here are some of the end users that bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 624 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.7 million, a bit more than usual. While the list includes a number of four letter domains, it’s a lot fewer than two weeks ago. Among the end users snapping up domain names: a city in Ontario buying the name of one of its landmarks, a Chinese astronomical group buying its acronym and an Australian bitcoin company ... read more ...
 
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DNF.com Has Sold -

DNF.com has sole a domain that forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China.

The domain recently stopped forwarding to a forum and was parked during SEDO.

The volume is undisclosed.

The domain name was purebred in 1996.

The domain is now purebred during a Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com

Registrant Contact

Via: thedomains.com

 
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After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com - Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but not because it failed the Identical or Confusingly Similar requirement of a UDRP. Actually this panel, and maybe ... read more ...
 
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New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are "Invented Names" - A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. “The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch’s data showed that 88% of startups have .com domain names.” “However, with various alternate domain options, some emphasize ... read more ...
 
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New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com - There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how the company describe itself: “Lendvo is a Alternative Lending and Financial Technology startup headquartered in Alexandria, VA. At Lendvo we believe that eCommerce ... read more ...
 
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Does something siphon about This.Sucks? - Vox Populi helped This.sucks get off the ground. Is there more to it than that? Site design brought to you by Vox Populi.A couple weeks ago, a new company popped up on the scene called This.Sucks. The business model is remarkably similar to one that .Sucks registry Vox Populi hoped would be created, offering .sucks domain names to users at a reduced annual price (many for free) in return for using a specialized platform. It’s so similar, in fact, that some have questioned if Vox Populi is behind ... read more ...
 
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Company bringing multi-level selling to domain names - Trademark filing reveals plans for RealDomains. Do multi-level marketing and domain names mix? A California company has filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “RealDomains”, and the description of services is interesting. Multilevel marketing services, namely, providing marketing and income opportunities to others through the monetization of domain names and brand, logo, and trademark development and through the development of marketing organizations… Education services namely, online ... read more ...
 
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Australia's Domain Administration (auDA) Proposes To Allow Direct .au Registrations - According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain,  Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example www.abc.au in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains ending with com.au, net.au etc would remain available but direct registrations under .au “would create more options” “They ... read more ...
 
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Google Engineering Deep Dive - Posted in Arts Features, Arts News By Naomi Caldwell October 21, 2015 Googley: a term used to describe a person characterized by passionate curiosity, fearless inquiry, and a fiendish work ethic. In other words, the typical Swat student. On September 28, the Monday before fall break, Phil Koonce ’12 and Nick Felt ’13 returned to Swarthmore to talk about their work as Google employees as part of a student recruitment for jobs ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD -   The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today  .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to over 445,000 on October 19th an increase of more than 50%. .Wang has now become the third most registered new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Internet mushrooms toward 300 million domains and boosts its language diversity - There are now almost 300 million domain names in the world, but just 2 percent are internationalized domain names (IDNs) with non-Roman characters such as Arabic script or the Chinese writing system. For example, Japanese people on the Internet currently access the world’s most popular search engine at google.co.jp. But in the future, Google (based in Mountain View, California) could pivot to use of the domain suffix .グーグル, which it already owns and is pronounced “Guguru” ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7million led by oka.com during $60,000 - 624 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: oka.com at 60,000 USD Top ccTLD: treu.de at 30,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: beijing.biz at 3,398 USD New gTLD Sales: werbeartikel.kaufen    2,100    EURthecrossing.church    1,999    USDaffinity.solutions    1,400    USDseo.academy              798    USD There were 52 LLLL.com sales ... read more ...
 
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MyRescue.Dog Awards A Total of $100,000 to 16 Local Dog Shelters - Petfinder Foundation announced the winners of the MyRescue.dog fundraising campaign, a month-long effort to celebrate rescue dogs and raise funds for the shelters and rescue organizations that save them. The campaign began on National Dog Day August 26 and ran through Sept. 26 www.MyRescue.dog a site built on a new domain extension of the new gTLD domain name registry Donuts. The “top dog,” a dachshund named Cora-Bella, won a $25,000 donation for Midwest Dachshund Rescue based in Highland,IN Lori ... read more ...
 
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Lucky 8's: Rick Schwartz Tops $10.5M in Sales For 2015: Sells 989.com For $818,181.81 - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King just sold the domain name 989.com for $818,181.81, topping $10.5 Million in domain name sales in 2015. For Rick who always talked about having a 20 year plan, 2015 marks the 20th year and its been a record setter. For a guy who made a reputation for saying NO to offers,  has said Yes for the 4th time in 2015: Rick previously announced the sales this year of shows that “8” is his lucky number too: Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is still by far the highest reported ... read more ...