Category Archives: EN

Mon 21st September 2015
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Rio Becomes First Latin American City to Offer Its Own TLD - Rio de Janeiro has become the first Latin American city with its own dedicated top-level domain (.rio), allowing individuals and entities who want to identify themselves with the Brazilian city to register their desired domain names with the new extension. ICANN approved the .rio domain this year and it took effect on Thursday, the Rio city government said in a statement. Related topics: Top-Level Domains ... read more ...
 
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Endurance CEO takes money compensate cut, with intensity large share payday - Ravichandran could get up to 3.7 million additional shares of EIGI stock. Endurance International Group CEO Hari Ravichandran is taking a big cash pay cut in return for shares in the company if it hits free cash flow targets. Ravichandran’s annual salary will be reduced from $750,000 to $200,000 and he won’t receive any cash bonuses for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The upside: the potential to get another 3.7 million shares in the company over the next three years. Shares currently trade for $14 a share, ... read more ...
 
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.ORG Administrator PIR Calls on Kevin Kopas to Become Their Channel Manager … - Public Interest Registry (PIR), the highly respected non-profit organization that administers the venerable .ORG TLD (as well as new extensions, .NGO and .ONG), has added a key new member to ... read more ...
 
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Troy Lee Designs 2016 Adventure Line - The new collection is the brainchild of Troy Lee himself, who wanted to develop a more technical line of off-road riding apparel for everything from adventure to dual-sport to enduro riding. TLD took more than two years to meticulously design and test the Adventure collection, ensuring fit, function and durability. In the end, TLD developed a line that is very technical and yet extremely functional, all while injecting TLD’s industry leading style into the collection. TLD has also pioneered ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers 6 2-letter domain names - Microsoft registers at least a half dozen short domains. New top level domain name company Donuts released thousands of two character domains under its top level domain names last week. Microsoft was among the buyers. I count at least a half dozen two character domains registered by the company: ad.center ie.domains ie.gallery ie.photos os.expert pc.engineering The top four names are arguably brand domains, while the last two are more generic/descriptive. IE are the initials for Internet Explorer, ... read more ...
 
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UDRPSearch owners gets UDRP win - Company behind UDRP search site wins its on UDRP. Virtual Point, the company that runs UDRP site UDRPSearch.com, has successfully defended a UDRP for the domain name addicting-games.com. Complainant Defy Media runs the online games site AddictingGames.com. Its predecessor-in-interest registered the domain name in 2002; Virtual Point registered the hyphenated version in 2003. The case turned on the trademark dates for “Addicting Games”. Defy Mewdia argued that it was a popular site by the time ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Bows.com, Guest.com, PetBasics.com & More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers! This exclusive, exciting series highlights domain names recently acquired, registered and simply moving by large corporations. These are often early finds and often lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products services and more. Here we go with the latest Domain Movers: A currently unknown MarkMonitor client using generic whois data registered several domain names relating to “video” and aerial, with domain names like VideoAero.com, VideoAircraft.com, VideoAviation.com, ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling – DNW Podcast #51 - Frank Schilling returns to the podcast to discuss domain name liquidity, new TLDs and more. Can Frank Schilling help domain name owners sell more domain names? He’s on the show today to talk about the improved sales platform he is creating. Although he doesn’t spill all the beans, he promises something big will be released by NamesCon in January. Schilling also gives his latest thoughts on new TLDs, the value of .com domain names, and reveals how his domain sales in 2015 compare to last year. ... read more ...
 
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PlanetHoster receives ICANN accreditation for top-level domain (TLD) name … - LAVAL, QC, Sept. 21, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - PlanetHoster®, a company providing web hosting and other related services, announces today that it has successfully achieved ICANN certification. This certification enables the company to register top-level domain names such as .com, .net, .org, etc. PlanetHoster is the first company in Quebec to become ICANN accredited.   PlanetHoster will offer very competitive rates and better protection for high value domain names, as well as direct ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Name 588.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars - The domain name 588.com has sold for $1 Million dollars. The domain sale comes on the heals of Rick Schwartz announced sale of 899.com last week for $801,000 and the sale earlier this year of 345.com at $800,000 by our company MostWantedDomains.com The sale of 588.com was brokered by Goldenname.com (4.CN) The domain was in pending transfer status on August 19th and transferred to the Chinese domain name registrar ename.com around August 25th. The Chinese domain market remains on fire despite problems ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Tickets, .Rent, .Courses - Several top level domain names become available this week. From learning to entertainment, here a the top level domain names launching this week. .Tickets launches today for the ticket sales business. Domain investors will need to be judicious; one year registrations start at over $500. .Courses enters general availability on Wednesday. This domain name is pretty good for online education, although it faces competition from domains such as .education, .university, and .college. Speaking of .College, ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 296 million domain names in Q2 2015 - Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 per cent, year over year. Two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 million domain names in 2Q15 - VeriSign, Inc., the domain names and Internet security provider, announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.Representational image. Agencies The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide ... read more ...
Sun 20th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Here Comes .Bloomberg: Say Hello To Mike.Bloomberg and Michael.Bloomberg - .Bloomberg is .Brand new gTLD which is looking like its getting to launch as they have created over 50 domain names ending in .Bloomberg Bloomberg covered some of the products and topics its known for and of course it’s CEO with the domain names Michael.Bloomberg and Mike.Bloomberg (which both seem to be forwarding to mikebloomberg.com. Most noticeably missing from the list is stocks.Bloomberg and Commodities.Bloomberg but I’m sure they are coming. Here are the first .Bloomberg domain names: about.bloomberg admin.bloomberg affiliate.bloomberg anywhere.bloomberg asia.bloomberg bba.bloomberg bcause.bloomberg benefits.bloomberg beta.bloomberg bgov.bloomberg blaw.bloomberg blpprofessional.bloomberg bmia.bloomberg bna.bloomberg bnef.bloomberg bpipe.bloomberg briefs.bloomberg bunit.bloomberg business.bloomberg businessweek.bloomberg careers.bloomberg charityday.bloomberg contentservice.bloomberg current.bloomberg email-settings.bloomberg emea.bloomberg foundation.bloomberg indexes.bloomberg institute.bloomberg intelligence.bloomberg invite.bloomberg jobs.bloomberg labs.bloomberg latam.bloomberg law.bloomberg link.bloomberg manhattanwest.bloomberg markets.bloomberg michael.bloomberg mike.bloomberg mobile.bloomberg nep.bloomberg news.bloomberg philanthropy.bloomberg polarlake.bloomberg politics.bloomberg procurement.bloomberg professional.bloomberg pursuits.bloomberg radio.bloomberg sef.bloomberg service.bloomberg software.bloomberg space.bloomberg startup.bloomberg stayconnected.bloomberg surveillance.bloomberg sustainability.bloomberg tech.bloomberg terminal.bloomberg tradebook.bloomberg tradingsolutions.bloomberg vault.bloomberg ventures.bloomberg view.bloomberg wbbr.bloomberg willettadvisors.bloomberg ... read more ...
Sat 19th September 2015
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Pre-bidding open for Namepros Live Auction #3 - The third live auction for Rami Steitieh will take place on Namepros on Monday at 12 noon Eastern. This auction will strictly be 4 letter domain names, .com and .net. The turnout Friday was very good with over 300 people in the chat which lasted over 5 hours.  Pre-bidding was put in place for auction #2 and the auction raised over $5,000. Below is the list of names for live auction 3 that will take place in the Chatroom on Namepros. You can prebid now,URL: http://goo.gl/forms/FqRzyWgzup Lot Number ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is Back Over 900,000 Registrations & Netsol Regs Once As High as 85% Are Under 15% - The new gTLD is back over the 900,000 domain mark in the zone file. The first time the .XYZ new gTLD crossed the 900,000 domain registration mark was in May of 2015.  At that time the percentage  .XYZ domain names registered at NetworkSolutons.com was over 41% The extension which had as many as over 1.13 million registrations according to https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz, fell below 800K registrations as the “free” .XYZ domain names given to Network Solutions customers expired and started going ... read more ...
 
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George Hong of Guta.com Brokers DD.com Domain Name Sale - In what very likely is another strong 7 figure domain name sale IMO, the domain name DD.com has been sold. Two letter .com domain names are rare with only 676 of them but Double repeating two letter .com’s are even more scarce with only 26! I reached out to George Hong, founder of Guta.com and he has confirmed the sale of DD.com but was not able to share any details of the domain name sale due to a non-disclosure agreement. Guta.com was the exclusive broker of DD.com, which was owned by WebMagic ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
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Internet Doomsday scenario: How the web could suddenly fall apart - Analysis Engineers have recommended a small but important change to the internet's underlying structure in order to avoid a possible doomsday scenario. A report [PDF] from the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) argues that a key parameter in the internet's address books – namely, how long the information should be stored – needs to be increased in order to avoid a possible shutdown of parts of the global network. ... read more ...
 
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Apple Gets Ready to Migrate to .Apple gTLD - According to an application submitted under ICANN's new gTLD program on January 31st 2015, Apple should take control of the .apple gTLD in the near future to help it better promote its products and services on the Internet. gTLD is short for Generic Top Level Domain, and it is a domain name extension with three or more characters. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the organization that manages the Internet's DNS, IP addresses, and ASNs. As spotted by The Domains' ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 million domain names in the Q2 2015 - VeriSign has announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use New .apple gTLD Domain Extension? - Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what “will be” URL’s using the .apple gTLD as a typographical cover! IMO, these following 29 new domain name registrations maybe domain names used by Apple ... read more ...
 
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End User Stories: How Parachute bought Parachute.co - Delivery service decided .co was better than a longer .com domain name. College campus delivery service Parachute recently acquired the domain name Parachute.co. In our continuing series on end user domain name purchase stories, Parachute co-founder Zev Lapin explains why his company selected Parachute.co and how it bought it. DNW: What is Parachute? Parachute (formerly CourseLoads) is a last mile delivery layer within college campuses. We make it simple for students to get what they need, delivered ... read more ...
 
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Anheuser-Busch Buys BestDamn.com Domain, Registers BestDamn.Beer For Apple Ale - Anheuser-Busch, LLC has purchased the domain name BestDamn.com with the help of domain buy service The Treadstone Group, Inc. / Ross Bulla about July 27, 2015 according to whois records. The domain has been registered since June 23, 2000 and prior whois records showed the domain owned by “Best Damn Dot Com” and a registrant email address of “jsullivan@gpac.net” To go along with the BestDamn.com domain name, Anheuser-Busch also registered the new gTLD domain name BestDamn.Beer in an apparent ... read more ...
 
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Check out InterNetX's Lamborghini R-EX - Lambo is part of European marketing tour. Domain name and hosting company InterNetX is running a great awareness program at several European conferences and even a car race in Netherlands. Dubbed “InterNetX Online Racing Days”, the marketing campaign features a domain logo-laden Lamborghini R-EX making pitstops at three European conferences: dmexco in Germany this week, Hostingcon Europe in Amsterdam next week and Bits Pretzels, one of the largest founder conferences in Europe, from September ... read more ...
 
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ZenPayroll.com Rebrands To Gusto.com! Secures Domain 8 Days Prior To Launch - Early last week (about September 9, 2015) I started noticing “Gusto” domain names on the move from MarkMonitor to GoDaddy under whois privacy but I was holding off announcing anything because I simply wasn’t sure the reason behind the movements. I felt they likely changed ownership but didn’t have any confirmation or who the potential buyers were. Well, on September 17, 2015 ZenPayroll.com made an official announcement that they were changing names to Gusto.com and now offering health benefits ... read more ...