Category Archives: EN

Fri 18th September 2015
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Global Domain Registrations Edge Closer to 300M: Verisign - The number of domain names registered around the world grew by 2.2 million, or 0.8 percent, to 296 million at the end of June according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. With similar growth, the 300 million mark should be reached around the end of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year over year. The growth, the envy of many industries, was a marked slowdown from the first quarter when six million domains were added to the ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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City of Miami 3rd in US to Launch Dedicated TLD - Miami to become third city in the United States to launch dedicated top-level domain – General Availability for public to purchase .MIAMI domains commences Oct. 2 (Click to Visit)Today, City of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado announced that starting Oct. 2, Miami will become the third city in the U.S. to have a dedicated top-level Internet domain name. .MIAMI will join New York (.nyc) and Las Vegas (.vegas) in creating a global Internet identity through which the city's businesses, communities ... read more ...
 
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Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names in Q2 2015 - Domain Name Industry BriefClick to DownloadWe have released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief reporting that the Internet grew by two million domain names in the second quarter of 2015 and closed with a base of 296 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs). This is a 0.8 percent increase over the first quarter of 2015.[1] .com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 133.5 million ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: What are 6 number domains worth? - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. China is no stranger to these weekly charts, usually sitting as guest of honor or even at the head of the table. Pinyin, LLLs, short numerics …of course. Yet certain Chinese subcategories – notably 6-digit numeric domains – have traditionally been relegated to children’s folding chairs at the far end. Until now! Last week, NNNNNN.com domains kicked Mommy and Daddy out of their chairs and claimed both the #1 and #2 spots. Those ... read more ...
 
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Dot dot dot… Observations from the first two years of ICANN’s new gTLD programme - It's been about two years since the first of hundreds of new gTLDs began trickling out. New Sunrise Periods continue to open, and new registries are still being delegated by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). To date, more than 300 alternatives to .com have launched. It's fair to say new gTLDs have not displaced .com as the top-level domain of choice. Uptake has been patchy, especially for some of the more 'niche' extensions like .tattoo and .coupons. Many registries ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs get primary bearing during Dmexco - Sedo leads effort to spread awareness of new domain name options at large conference in Germany. Sedo teamed up with a number of new TLD registries for this booth at dmexco in Germany.New top level domain names are getting lots of exposure at this week’s dmexco digital marketing conference in Cologne, Germany. Sedo has a large booth themed after Times Square, with top level domain names filling in the signage. As with last year’s dmexco, Sedo is also offering frozen yogurt. The toppings are ... read more ...
 
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Alibaba Teams Up With China's 2nd Largest TV Station To Launch Hitao.top -   According to the .TOP registry the biggest IT/E-commerce company in China, Alibaba.com, together with the second biggest Chinese TV Station Hunan TV, (second to only CCTV) combined to launch a website on a .Top domain name for its new B2C website, 嗨淘全球, which targets female customers aged between 18 to 35 with imported cosmetics and mother baby products. The sublinks of their .com website are all redirected to .top links. According to the .Top registry this is the biggest company using ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 296 mln domain names in Q2 – VeriSign - A total of two million domain names were added to the internet in the second quarter of the year, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 June, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. The increase equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015, significantly below previously quarterly growth rates of 1.9 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent. Worldwide ... read more ...
 
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Finally! Google sues robocallers Local Lighthouse - Google files trademark infringement suit against bothersome SEO/SEM company. Google has sued Local Lighthouse Corp, which has undertaken a massive robocall and telemarketing campaign and, from personal experience, tried to trick callers into thinking it was associated with Google. It’s likely you’ve received a robocall from these this group, even if you didn’t know who was behind it. The calls suggest the caller is from Google, or representing Google, and needs to talk to you about your search ... read more ...
 
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HBO Buys 9 "Outcast" Domains For Upcoming Cinemax TV Series Outcast - Robert Kirkman’s “Outcast” which is a paranormal drama has been ordered as a series by Cinemax. The show Outcast was featured during Comic Con 2015 with OutcastCinemax.com which was registered November 24, 2014 and owned by HBO. The domain name is in use as a redirect to HBO.com featuring information from SDCC in July 2015. They are also using #outcastcinemax on Twitter. Both HBO and Cinemax are subsidiaries of Time Warner. Home Box Office, Inc. registered 9 new domain names related to “Outcast”. ... read more ...
 
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Huge Number of TLDs Used to Support Malicious Web Practices – Blue Coat - Security vendor Blue Coat carried out research for months and then revealed that a number of TLDs (top-level domains) are used almost fully to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing.Blue Coat noted that domains are no more restricted to .com, .org and nation of origin; instead, operators of websites can select from a wide range including .edu, .link, .review, .mil and .work amongst others.However, the employment of several TLDs is far from genuine; instead, the researchers say that more than ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Verisign: There are 296 Million Domains Up 5.9% Year to Year: Only 2% Are New gTLD's - Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as of June 30th 2015: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015, equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 133.5 million domain names in the domain name base in Q2, representing ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Q2 ’15 DNIB Report – Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names - Verisign is out with their latest industry brief, they also published an infographic to go along with the report. The infographic is in pdf format so you can view it here. Highlights of the report include: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, ... read more ...
 
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The new TLD era: status update – what have we seen and what should we expect? - As we have previously reported, the internet is in the process of expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs), the management of which is delegated to the internet's governing body, ICANN.  Examples of TLDs (as we are likely most familiar with) include .com, .net, and .org - i.e. the term that is to the right of the "dot."  We are now more than halfway through the new TLD launch and many are still left to wonder:  Where is this vast new world of information exchange we had been ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #21: Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto & more - In this episode, Diego and I deliver our Floyd Mayweather–Andre Berto postmortem, including a detailed look at the excellent undercard. We reserve a judgement of Mayweather’s legacy for a later date, but there’s still plenty to discuss about the event itself. Adonis Stevenson-Tommy Karpency is also on deck, as well as a slew of Premier Boxing Champions fights. If this was indeed Floyd Mayweather’s farewell fight, you could argue that he went out with a whimper. In winning a predictable ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Results of New gTLD Universal Acceptance Analysis - ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced this week the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. The study focuses on the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. "These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Sells Around 800 Two Character New gTLD's Domains In The Early Access Program - According to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names last week,  meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and two numbers (NN). The Early Access Program allowed customers to register domain name head of General Availability for an extra fee. General Availability of two Character New ... read more ...
 
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Pepsi Launches "Unlock The Tailgate" Trailer Giveaway Sweepstakes - Pepsi Co, an official sponsor of the NFL has launched a new sweepstakes called  “Unlock The Tailgate” but registered the domain name UnlockTheTrailer.com to get sweepstakes entries. Inexplicably Pepsi did not register the domain matching the name of the contest UnlockTheTailgate.com No one has. As of publication the domain name matching the domain of the contest, UnlocktheTailgate.com is available to be registered by anybody and I’m sure will be register once this story publishes. Pepsi named ... read more ...
 
 
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GoDaddy says there's still upside for registrars and domain investors - Most very small businesses don’t have websites yet, but many plan to create one. GoDaddy released results from a global survey today, showing that the vast majority of very small businesses (5 or fewer employees) still don’t have a website. The survey included 4,000 businesses in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States. 59% of businesses said they don’t have a website. The upside: 55% report they intend to create a website in the next two years. The ... read more ...
 
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Nice Try But Givkwik Failes To Get GiveQuick.com in UDRP - Givkwik Inc.just lost its bid to grab the domain name givequick.com in a UDRP Nathalie Dreyfus was the sole panelist who found although givequick.com was confusingly similar to Complainant’s GIVKWIK IMPULSE PHILANTHROPY mark the domain holder did not act in bad faith in registering or using the domain that they bought from BuyDomains.com in April 2014. givequick.com was registered on February 13, 2009, and purchased by the domain holder form buydomains.com April 3, 2014. Here are the highlights: “Respondent ... read more ...
 
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Sedo has some inestimable Marketplace auctions right now - Buyers are bidding up four character domain names at Sedo. It’s not every day that Sedo Marketplace auctions have intense bidding wars, but this week seems to be an exception. You might want to take a look. Much of the excitement is a rush on four letter .com domain names. FFRR.com just closed at $5,500. Names including bhxj.com, kgld.com and xqym.com all have multiple bidders and prices over $600. There are many other four letter domain names also on auction, presumably being snapped up by Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Sells 899.com For $801,000: Now Has 1st & 3rd Largest Reported Sales Of 2015 - Rick Schwartz, the Domain King, has sold the domain name 899.com for $801,000 which becomes the 3rd largest reported domain name sale of 2015.  (DnJournal. com is the official keeper of all reported domain name sales) Earlier this year Rick sold the domain name Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is the highest reported domain sale of 2015. The 2nd highest reported domain sale is PX.com which was sold by MediaOptions to ReviMedia for $1 million just last week. Before the PX.com sale the 2nd highest sale ... read more ...
 
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Wine.co for $25,000 and other finish user domain name sales - Wine.co tops list of public domain name sales at Sedo for the week. Sedo handled $1.4 million worth of domain name transactions last week, with 56% of them resulting from “buy now” sales. The top public sale was Wine.co, purchased by the wine store at Wine.com.br, for $25,000. A lot of interesting sales are still in escrow. I’m curious who paid $2,000 for nepotism.org and $12,500 for CloudStore.com. Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the psat week: (You can view previous lists ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces New COI Amendment Service – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces New COI Amendment Service / In December 2011, ICANN published guidance to help Registry Operators calculate the estimated costs for the operations of a TLD based on their projected domain registrations under management (DUMs). Since that time, the launch of new gTLDs has provided Registry Operators with market-driven data points on which to base their projected DUMs. With the COI Amendment Service, Registry Operators ... read more ...