Category Archives: EN

Mon 12th October 2015
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New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates - The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a London-founded SaaS company, which is “creating powerful, easy-to-use products to help businesses and retailers take control of their digital signage. Screen.Cloud has built the new. cloud into its entire company branding, recognizing the relevance of the domain over a standard .com alternative.” “Pioneers range from market leaders ... read more ...
 
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Company Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) Rally 3.06% - Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) rose by 3.06% in the past week and 8.89% for the last 4 weeks. The shares have underperformed the SP 500 by 0.19% during the past week but Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) has outperformed the index in 4 weeks by 5.99%.Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) rose 0.75% or 0.06 points on Friday and made its way into the gainers of the day. After trading began at $8.05 the stock was seen hitting $8.34 as a peak level and $7.83 as the lowest level. The stock ... read more ...
Sun 11th October 2015
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Community bid for ‘.gay’ web domains rejected again - A group representing the LGBT community has had its bid to control ‘.gay’ domains rejected by internet watchdog ICANN. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handles the creation of new top level domains (TLD) to rival .com and .org – from .ninja to .eco. The body was criticized last year when it refused to hand over control of the ‘.gay’ ... read more ...
 
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Application for .gay web domain turned down - It wants to run .gay as a "community TLD", meaning it would operate the registry of websites on behalf of the gay community. But its evaluation, carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of ICANN, said the .gay string did not match the community that dotgay claims to represent, which includes "male or female homosexuals, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, ally and many other terminology" according to its application. "The Community Priority Evaluation panel has determined that ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures - .Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd. .Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP) .Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names. Godaddy has had a policy for all new gTLD launches, if more than 1 person pre-registers a domain name and they catch the domain, then the domain ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces New Registry Termination Webpage – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces New Registry Termination Webpage / LOS ANGELES - ICANN launched a new gTLD Registry Agreement Termination Information Page on icann.org. This webpage will be the source of all current information related to any requests for termination of a gTLD Registry Agreement, a press release by the Corporation stated. Under the gTLD Registry Agreement, a Registry Operator or ICANN may terminate pursuant to certain requirements. ... read more ...
Sat 10th October 2015
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Better Pay Attention As ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Changes To UDRP & URS - “The report makes it clear that UDRP reform is going to be on the table and well as the addition of NEW RPM meaning its possible that a new procedure in addition to The UDRP and the URS might be recommend. “The UDRP was created in 1999 to resolve disputes concerning disputes over entitlement to domain names registered at the second level of the DNS. It is an ICANN Consensus Policy that is applicable to all gTLDs, including those launching under the New gTLD Program. The uniform operation of ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List - .NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage of the list contains a lot of nonsensical domains, containing random letters and/or numbers or are otherwise ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Sunrise periods now open – September 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 Periods 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: .corsica .film .krd .game .study .studio .live .gdn .sex .xn--hxt814e ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start - We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don’t see on a website of one the largest corporation’s on earth: ... read more ...
 
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Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700 -   A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. According to its site, “Engage, is a division of INHS, is one of the largest MEDITECH hosting partners in the United States. With 20 years of extensive MEDITECH experience, Engage provides a wide range of infrastructure solutions including hardware refresh, virtualization, data migration, data center migration and implementation. Engage leverages ... read more ...
 
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Hilton rising "True" Or "Tru" hotel brand - Domain name registrations point to name for new hotel brand. It seems that Hilton’s next hotel brand will be called True or Tru. The company just registered a number of domain names for this new brand yesterday: truebyhilton.com truehotelbyhilton.com truehotelsbyhilton.com truhotelbyhilton.com truhotelsbyhilton.com The hotelier recently launched the Canopy brand aimed at millennials. Hilton has also discussed a new low-to-mid-tier brand to fill a void in the company’s brands. Once again, domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Brokers The Domain Adopting.com For $125,000 -   DomainHoldings.com has brokered the domain name Adopting.com for $125,000 according to a blog post. The purchaser of the domain name is Adoptimist.com. The blog post gives a few  details on the negotiation and sale. The post also says: On par with adopting of the single word variety there are: Adopt.com Adoption.com Adopted.com I think there are a few more including adopts.com adoptions.com. However to note adoption.com doesn’t seem to be going anywhere unless you buy the whole company nor ... read more ...
 
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Now this is a good UDRP panelist… - Panelist spends a few extra minutes to avoid an injustice. A UDRP panelist who doesn’t take the easy way out in a case where the respondent doesn’t reply? Meet Nick J. Gardner. Gardner decided a recent case in which German company MAGIX Software GmbH filed a UDRP against the U.S. owner of MusicMaker.com. The domain name was registered in 1996. Given that it was so long ago, the whois lists the owner as The Music Connection, and Music Maker is a descriptive term, Gardner decided to do some basic ... read more ...
 
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Wow: DropCatch adds 300 some-more registrars, now has 752 - Company increases stable of registrars going after dropping domains. The company behind expired domain name catching service DropCatch.com has adding 300 more accredited registrars to its arsenal, and now has a whopping 752 registrars. This is according to ICANN’s public list of accredited registrars. DropCatch.com, which is owned by the same people behind HugeDomains and NameBright, is a traditional expired domain service that goes after domain names when they fully delete after pending delete. ... read more ...
 
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.Gay fails village test, again - Queue the complaints about ICANN again…even though it’s not its fault. dotgay LLC, an applicant for the .Gay top level domain name that was seeking community status, has once again failed (pdf) to convince an independent panel that it qualifies. The company lost its Community Priority Evaluation last year, with the panel ruling in part: “The applied-for string neither matches the name of the community as defined by the application nor does it identify the defined community without over-reaching ... read more ...
 
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2016 Troy Lee Designs Adventure Gear First Look-Photos - MotoUSA takes a trip to Mammoth Lakes to check out the all new Troy Lee Designs Adventure Gear. Read the full article. 10 Photos Dr. Frazier’s Globe Killer KLR650 Part 7 Photos 2015 Brittney Ride for St. Jude’s Photos ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2015
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Frank Schilling (FTS, Corp) Now Owns 5.5% Of Rightside - According to a SEC filing (Schedule 13D), a corporation out of the Cayman Islands FTS, Corp (FTS) now owns over 5.5% of the outstanding shares of publicly traded Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME). FTS is the initials of Frank Schilling and the form is signed by a Ria Scott Blyth who according to their Linkedin page is an Executive Assistant for Uniregistry. According to the filing FTS, Corp owns 1,008,142 shares representing 5.5% of the outstanding shares of Rightside. According to the filing, ... read more ...
 
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A Frank Schilling association owns some-more than 5% of Rightside - SEC filing discloses interest in company. Some people say the domain name business is an incestuous industry. They might be right. An SEC filing this afternoon discloses that a company associated with Frank Schilling now owns 5.5% of the company. The filing was made by FTS, Corp in Grand Cayman. Schilling’s middle name is Taylor, hence FTS are his initials. The filing was made by Ria Scott Blyth, Administrative Assistant of FTS Corp. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she works for Frank Schilling’s ... read more ...
 
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World Trade Centers wins 89 domain names, including 9/11 names - Group takes over domain names registered on and after 9/11. World Trade Centers Association, Inc. has won 89 domain names in a cybersquatting dispute. The group filed a cybersquatting complaint with Czech Arbitration Court over 90 domain names, all of which included some reference to WTC or World Trade Center, such as 9-11WTC.com, RememberWTC.org and WTCForum.com. A panelist ordered that 89 of the domain names be transferred to World Trade Centers Association. It declined the transfer of ZWTC.com, ... read more ...
 
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An refurbish on a Adam Dicker allegations - Progress is being made settling issues brought to light earlier this week. Earlier this week I wrote about accusations made against domain name investor Adam Dicker. Since that time, a few things have happened that I think warrant posting an update. First, a number of people have come forward with stories about how they believe Adam deceived them or broke promises. Second, Adam is now responding to some of these claims. Third, it appears Adam has paid money to many of those that believe they were ... read more ...
 
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.NYC One Year Anniversary Is Today; Collision List Drops & City Issues Updated Stats - To mark the one-year anniversary of .nyc, the City of New York published the latest statistics on the state of the .nyc domain name. The ICANN Collision list for .NYC is being released today for registration today as well. It will be interesting to see how many get registered. Here are the more interesting stats from the report which can view in its entirety here. To date there are just over 85,000 .nyc registered domain names, more than any other city new gTLD. The average retail cost paid for a ... read more ...
 
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CSC October's New gTLD Utilization: 5,340 New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M - CSC’s Published Its October New gTLD Utilization Report,  showing the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since their September report. The report was prepared by Here is the top 10: .link.tokyo     ... read more ...
 
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Here's what those Amazon AWS domain name registrations were for - Amazon’s domain name registrations this week indeed were for AWS announcements, but some are still to come. On Monday I wrote about Amazon.com’s domain name registrations that foreshadowed services it was likely to announce at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. Now that the conference is underway, we know what many of these domain names are for. Monday domain registrations: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com, awsiotservice.com ... read more ...
 
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.Club to auction dual minute domain names - Registry wants to tap into Chinese buyers with auction on EachNic.com. .Club is auctioning a number of two letter .club domain names, along with the single letter C.club, at auctions beginning later this month. Most of the two letter combinations, such as TB.club and DS.club, have $5,000 reserves. A couple have $10,000 reserves and C.club starts at $50,000. Here are a couple observations about the approach .Club is taking to selling its two character domain names: 1. Hoping to take advantage of Chinese ... read more ...