Category Archives: EN

Wed 9th September 2015
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Domain Movers: TDAI.com, Jibo.com, E3.com & More Domains - Welcome to another action packed Domain Movers where we detect recent movement on domain names that have been mainly all acquired by large corporations, some new startups and simply valuable domain names on the move for different reasons. These are often early detection’s that will result in new advertising campaigns, products, services and much more. Here we go: Freedman Electronics PTY LTD which acquired the domain name Rode.com from Tucows back in January 2015 as I reported here, has officially ... read more ...
 
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NameJet's Aug in Review – 3 impression delayed down? - Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house fell far short of July’s million plus. But that was to be expected, since July set the venue’s all-time record for total sales; and more than half a million came from a single record-breaking auction. Looking all the way back, August turns out to be right in ... read more ...
 
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Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker - Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its legacy system to a reseller platform under the ownership of KeyDrive. The new system was confusing to users. Worse, migration errors led to domain names missing from accounts and incorrect account balances. Support and communication during the transition ... read more ...
 
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PR Newswire – Virtual - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...
 
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"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015.The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million led by SGJ.com during $31,500 - Over the past week, 647 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: sgj.com at 31,500 USD Top ccTLD:  jj.de at 7,521 USD Top “other” TLD: 238.net at 9,130 USD New Gtld sales for the week: paul.xyz    1999    USD hallo.taxi    1150    EUR money.solutions    1000    USD A couple of repeating themes from last week, aa1122.com sold for 2,495 ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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An optimistic view on China’s tough new domain name regulations, and more from … - Jacob Schindler Today marked the final day of DOMAINfest Asia, a first-of-its-kind international conference aimed at balancing Eastern and Western perspectives on issues including gTLDs, IDNs and the regulatory challenges unique to the Chinese Internet. World Trademark Review ferried across the Pearl River Estuary for a look at day two of the event ... read more ...
 
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Namejet Publishes Almost $400K In Domain Sales In August -

Namejet.com released a reportable sales for Aug totaling $393,859.

Only those domain names that sole and were paid for by a finish of Aug 2015 are enclosed as good as usually domain name that sole for $2,000 or more.

Here are a domains and a sales prices for August:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Verisign: Trump & Alphabet Both Make tip 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net In August - The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August according to Verisign the registry for the .com and .net extensions. Alphabet is related to Google’s naming of its parent company and Trump I think you can figure that one out for yourself. Trump and Alphabet where the only two trending keywords to make the top 10 of .com and .net Before anyone goes and registers a bunch of Trump domains you might ... read more ...
 
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Trump is still trending…in .com - Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, “trump” made the list of Verisign’s trending keywords in .com registrations. That’s impressive since the list is created by looking at the jump the keyword made over the previous month. And if you think Verisign completely lost out on Google’s ... read more ...
 
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New .LOVE TLD Tops 10000 Domain Sales Due To Strong Sales in Asia - Beijing, China – The new .LOVE TLD [Top Level Domain] has successfully launched on the Internet (more details available at www.get.love) and is rapidly selling web domain names to couples, individuals, and businesses. "We are delighted with the growth of our .LOVE web domain sales, especially in the past two weeks. Beginning with the Qixi Festival on August 20 (Double Sevens on the Chinese calendar), .LOVE has seen phenomenal growth and has increased its overall number of domains by over 30% ... read more ...
 
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ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to possess iPayments.com - In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com The company who brought the complaint used to own the domain name and let the registration lapse which the three member panel found to be “inexcusable”: “The Complainant did previously register the disputed domain name, and was not prevented from doing ... read more ...
 
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Down The Stretch We Come as a ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST - The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 331 domain names have bids as of publication, including many with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all there are are 545 domain names in auction meaning that well over 60% have a bid. The auction starts to close over a four hour staggered period on September 10th at 8pm Hong Kong time,  which is September 10th,  8am EST, which we previous reported incorrectly. As ... read more ...
 
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Symantec released obvious for rating domain registrars - Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells the web security product line Norton, suggests that calculating a registrar reputation score helps determine how much scrutiny to give to websites connected to domain names at that registrar. If a registrar has a high proportion of names distributing malware, responsible ... read more ...
 
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Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49 - Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with lead gen, as well as get Braden’s opinion on new top level domains (he’s invested in some) and the state of the domain name aftermarket. Plus: a new Domain Dunce, .com winners and losers, not quite “emazing”, domain scams and congrats to .Online. Subscribe ... read more ...
 
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.Club banks with some-more reward sales in August - .Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains come with a one time premium rather than annual renewal. Last month it sold 15 premium .club domains through nine different sources, led by 6 sales at GoDaddy. The top sales were Super.club (not supper) for $7,095, and Sea.club and Betting.club for $7,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts releasing 2 impression domain names this week - TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two letter domain names, such as TV.show and NY.pizza, will debut with a seven day Dutch auction tomorrow. This is essentially the same as Early Access, which has been run for all Donuts releases and name collision names. The following Wednesday, names will revert ... read more ...
 
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CSC Sep New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot - The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the entire report here. CSC publishes a New gTLD report every two months, and it’s “designed to update digital marketers and their peers in legal and IT about how new gTLDs are being adopted,we examine how .brand domains are being used and how effectively ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names - Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are key targets for .ski don’t have trademarks, so the Limited Registration Period (LRP) enabled them to get first dibs on domains before they headed to general availability. Among those participating in sunrise or LRP include: The most famous ski resorts ... read more ...
Mon 7th September 2015
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Domain name marketplace Undeveloped launches new gTLD service - ga('create', 'UA-47275228-1', 'getnews.info'); ga('send', 'pageview'); Domain name marketplace Undeveloped launches new gTLD service Posted by admin on September 7, 2015 AMSTERDAM – September 07, 2015 – The domain name marketplace Undeveloped.com today announces rolling out a new gTLD service to more registries. After a successful pilot with the .Amsterdam extension Undeveloped now aims to provide its premium gTLD domain services ... read more ...
 
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Marriott finally finds a use for a top-level domain extension - Seems like an (internet) age ago, but 2011 and 2012 saw a huge marketing campaign for businesses to buy additional web domains. The idea was supposed to be quite simple: web naming regulator Icann wanted to the restrictive 22 domain extensions (such as .com, .co.[country], .biz, etc) and open up the web to an almost infinite number of new forms. The expansion of the so-called Generic Top-Level Domain (GTLD) system would allow companies or individuals to create extensions based on geography, ... read more ...
Sun 6th September 2015
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The Web’s Most Dangerous Domains - Earlier this week, security firm Blue Coat Systems Inc released a list of the 10 most dangerous web domains. Although the list has drawn some high-profile objections, Blue Coat claims that more than 95 percent of the sites on these 10 Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious. What Is A TLD? TLDs are the highest level ... read more ...
 
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100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - domains like.FR (France), and.JP (Japan). As the number of TLDs has increased, so have the opportunities for attackers. Based on data just published (PDF) by the network security and deep packet inspection tool vendor Blue Coat, that’s exactly what happened: some of the new “neighborhoods” open for name registration have become nearly exclusively the domain of people setting up hosts for spam e-mailing, scams, shady software downloads, malware distribution, botnet operations and “phishing” ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Rick Schwartz Sells a NNN.com Domain Putting Him 2nd on The YTD Sales Chart - Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will  land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per DnJournal. The transaction is still in  Escrow,  so the Domain King will not reveal what the domain is or what the purchase price was until the escrow transaction is closed. Rick,  like RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction is using 4.Cn escrow’s service to handle the transaction. Mr. Schwartz already has the highest domain sale of the year with ... read more ...
 
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Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name TN.com - On the morning of September 4, 2015 I had a pretty good hunch that the premium 2 letter domain name TN.com likely sold and now we have confirmation that it did and to who! TN.com is now redirecting to TuftAndNeedle.com, which is a startup founded in 2013 that offers mattresses that are delivered to your door in a box. They are the buyers of the domain name TN.com. Tuft And Needle has the highest rated mattress on Amazon.com and prices start from $600 for a queen and $750 for a California King, delivered ... read more ...