Category Archives: EN

Thu 3rd September 2015
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DomainApps to discharge calm sites, turn only a parking company - Company created to challenge domain parking is now just a domain parking company. It has come full circle. DomainApps, which came to life as WhyPark and an alternative to domain name parking, will now become just a parking company. The company sent an email to customers this morning stating that it will discontinue content sites effective October 1. Instead, DomainApps will “continue to monetize your domains with our top-tier advertising partner, bringing you the highest revenue possible.” In ... read more ...
 
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Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name - The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain names have been registered. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Time Warner and Marriott seemed to register the most .Sex domains to date. With some of the trademarks there are some interesting .sex domains, including Office.sex, JustEat.Sex, Swift.sex; Priceless.Sex; Safari.sex Then there is MTV.sex, which the Network ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ranks # 1 In .in Domain Name Market Share - GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced that it is now number one in .IN domain name market share, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi) .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, and the leading domain name in India, enabling brands, companies and individuals to establish a distinct Indian identity online. ... read more ...
 
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eBay during 20 and a problem of building a market - Building a marketplace is hard, even in the domain name business. It’s crazy to think that it’s been 20 years since the first auction on eBay (then AuctionWeb). 20 years! So much has happened since then when it comes to the internet. eBay created a market of buyers and sellers, much like the two predominant domain name marketplaces (Sedo and Afternic) did. Here are a couple take-aways from this: 1. Creating a market is hard. A lot of people gripe about paying 20% commissions to Sedo and Afternic. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ranks No. 1 In .IN Domain Name Market Share For With 33% Of Registrar Market - http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/godaddy-ranks-no-1-in-domain-name-market-share/45089, Godaddy the worlds largest domain name registrar has the highest market share for selling .IN domain names, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi). .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet. The domain name extension .IN, “is seeing significant uptake among individuals and businesses in India and worldwide, with over 1.7 million websites around the ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Registers Several New iSurvey Domain Names - Apple Inc. may have something new to announce sometime soon? Maybe on September 9, 2015 at the Apple event we may hear a new “i” term, iSurvey? Well the above is speculation but it’s backed up by some solid facts! Apple Inc. has registered the domain names: AppleiSurvey.com and AppleiSurveys.com! They continued with protection domain registrations Apple-iSurvey.com, Apple-iSurveys.com and Apple-Surveys.com. The domain names were registered at corporate brand protection domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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Almost all .science malicious, .cricket rigged, boffins find - Almost every one of the hundreds of thousands of websites in 10 top level domains including all under .review and .zip are malicious, according to research. More than 95 percent of the hundreds of thousands websites in each of ten top level domains (TLDs) including .country, cricket, .science, and .party are flogging spam, malware, or adware. The shocking findings published by security firm Blue Coat ... read more ...
 
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A warning about the “shadiest neighborhoods” on the web - If you wish to keep out of hassle on the internet, you had higher keep away from web sites ending in .zip and .evaluation in addition to a number of others which are bastions of . That’s the discovering of a brand new report from enterprise safety agency . It got here up with the 10 top-level domains (TLDs), the top a part of an internet handle, that have been most related to suspicious web sites. The report discovered that 100 % of the web sites in Blue Coat’s database with the top-level ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Recently Sold $18,400 Three Letter Domain Name Zic.com - A UDRP (D2015-1566) has been filed to gain control of the 3 letter domain name Zic.com . The URDP was filed by the company SK Lubricants Americas, a subsidiary of SK Innovations on September 2, 2015. The domain name Zic.com was acquired during a Ha.com domain name auction in February 2015 for $18,400 USD. SK Lubricants Americas filed a trademark on December 22, 2003 for the term: Zic and the trademark has an active status for good and services: “Lubricating oil, all purpose spray type lubricants, ... read more ...
 
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Challenges for .brands – Launching Your .brand - This is the sixth in a series of blog posts discussing the strategic and operational challenges faced by .brand TLD owners and the processes involved in getting them ready for use. Previously I discussed how to transition your agreed strategy into an implementation plan, which you can read here. One of the consistent themes of this blog series is that despite similarities across .brand TLDs, no two brands will settle on the exact same strategy and process for moving their TLD to launch. As ... read more ...
 
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Any Squatting on Paypal.me Names ? You Betcha - Mike wrote on Wednesday about Paypal rolling out Paypal.me and your chance to reserve a novelty name that will be associated with your account. It is important to note you can’t change it once you pick it. The Daily Dot covered name squatting taking place and while some celebrity names got taken others got reserved like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Politicians did not get reserved status. From the article: PayPal.Me opened up with basically every possible URL available to any enterprising user. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs: Report - A number of top-level domains are used almost entirely to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing, researchers have revealed. On Wednesday, a team from enterprise security firm Blue Coat unveiled the result of months of research into today's top-level domains (TLDs). Domains are no longer limited to .com, .org and country of origin; instead, website operators can choose from a wide selection including .link, .edu, .mil, .review and .work, among ... read more ...
 
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Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs: Report - While new TLDs are gaining in registered websites and visits, some are being used in ways they were not intended for. Among the 10 new gTLDs with the most suspicious sites, over 95 percent are rated as suspicious, a report by enterprise security firm Blue Coat finds. The report is not without its own flaws, however. As The Domains points out, the new gTLD that tops the list, .zip, hasn’t even been launched yet. In addition, another domain in the top 10 isn’t a new gTLD at all, it’s a ... read more ...
 
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A warning about the "shadiest neighborhoods" on the web - This is one of the domains that a new report found was most associated with suspicious websites.(Photo: .Science)If you want to stay out of trouble on the web, you had better avoid websites ending in .zip and .review as well as several others that are bastions of suspicious activity.That is the finding of a new report from enterprise security firm Blue Coat. It came up with the 10 top-level domains (TLDs), the end part of a web address, that were most associated with suspicious websites.The report ... read more ...
 
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Looking for .FOREX or .BROKER Domain to Distinguish Your Brand? Coming Soon - Since Google announced that they were creating Alphabet as its holding company and choosing the URL of ABC.XYZ, it has provided a shot in the arm for new top level domain (TLD) names. At the top of all TLDs is .COM, with other country specific TLDs such as .CO, .IO, .ME and .TV also gaining traction. But, even with other TLDs available, .COMs remain the Park Place and Boardwalk of internet real estate, with all the others relegated to the likes of Baltic Avenue. Sector Specific ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Registers .org "News Publisher" Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly - On June 8, 2015 Apple Inc. announced a new “News” app that will be included in the fall release of iOS 9, that is powered by Apple News Format™. Fast forward to today, September 2, 2015 and Apple Inc. registers the following domain names with MarkMonitor: AppleNewsFormat.org AppleNewsPublisher.org News-Publisher.org NewsPublisher.org All .org domain names. The domain name AppleNewsFormat.com was registered on the day of the announcement (June 8, 2015), but not by Apple Inc. According to whois ... read more ...
 
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The shadiest characters in the world of top-level domains - CNET A number of top-level domains are used almost entirely to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing, researchers have revealed.On Wednesday, a team from enterprise security firm Blue Coat unveiled the result of months of research into today's top-level domains (TLDs). Domains are no longer limited to .com, .org and country of origin; instead, website operators ... read more ...
 
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.Online is fastest to 50,000 registrations - New domain name hits 50,000 registration milestone in record time. People continue to register .online domain names in droves. According to .Online registry Radix, .online is the fastest new domain to reach 50,000 registrations (excluding registries that gave away free domains). It took just 7 days to reach the milestone. According to the company, .Club took 13 days to hit this number and .NYC took 24 days. Nearly 1/3 of .Online domain names have been registered to people in Germany, thanks to 11’s ... read more ...
 
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What domains Under Armour and other companies bought final week - Under Armour wants you to Rule Yourself. Under Armour is getting ready to move into its new Austin office. It also has a new domain name in its portfolio. The company was one of many that bought domain names at Sedo this past week, led by Zoff.com at $25,000. Read about these domain name purchases and others in this week’s DNW End User report. Here’s the list: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this ... read more ...
 
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Paypal Launches New Branded Site on Paypal.Me: Get Your Vanity Address Now - According to Gizmodo.co.uk, Paypal wants “Paypal.Me to Become a Catchphrase” Paypal has launched a site on Paypal.me to allows users to set up a vanity address on Paypal.me so instead of giving someone an email address to send you money you can tell them to send money to paypal.me/blogs (which is what I just set up before publishing this post). If you already have a Paypal account it’s all ready to go today. Clicking on the Paypal.me takes you to a signup page where you choose your username ... read more ...
 
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Web.com: Verisign did a "blatant bait-and-switch" - Company doesn’t want to provide accounting information to Verisign. Web.com is fighting back against a Verisign request for more information about how the registrar accounted for .xyz domain name registrations. Verisign is suing .XYZ for false advertising after .XYZ boasted about its registration volume — which Verisign alleges was inflated by a Network Solutions giveaway. Web.com owns Network Solutions, which gave away hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names to its customers. At issue appears ... read more ...
 
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Here comes .Sex - Trademark holders can now claim domain names ending in .sex. ICM Registry has started the sunrise for its latest adult-themed domain name, .sex. .Sex joins .xxx, .adult and .porn in the company’s stable of top level domain names. As with .adult and .porn, there will be a unique Sunrise B and Domain Matching period. The traditional sunrise is now underway and will end October 1. During this period, brand holders must have a mark registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse in order to claim a corresponding ... read more ...
 
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.SEX is Now Available: .XXX, .Porn & .Sex Premiums Go Tiered-Pricing on Registrars - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT domain names announced that the new gTLD .SEX opened up yesterday for Trademark holders. .SEX launched on September 1, with three distinct phases. The first phase is the TMCH Sunrise phase for trademark owners (Sept 1-Oct 1). The next is a combined Sunrise B/Domain Matching phase for existing .XXX participants (Oct 5-Oct. 30); and the final phase is general availability (Nov 4th). Names in each phase will be available on a first-come, ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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TLD Podcast #19: Leo Santa Cruz-Abner Mares & more - Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares take center stage on this week’s podcast. Diego and I recap what turned out to be a tremendous fight, and speculate where both Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares go from here. We also talk Shane Mosley-Ricardo Mayorga, and preview this weekend’s Premier Boxing Champions action. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s podcast: Leo Santa Cruz-Abner Mares was a fight both boxing fans and pundits had been clamouring for since Santa Cruz joined Mares at ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry steps up awareness campaign as new adult string launches - Trevor Little ICM Registry’s ‘.sex’ string has opened for sunrise, with the company stepping up its outreach to trademark counsel and the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) predicting an uptick in trademark submissions. Earlier this year, with the launch of the ‘.adult’ and ‘.porn’ TLDs imminent, we reported on ICM Registry’s plans to ... read more ...