Category Archives: EN

Sat 29th August 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New gTLDs: preparing for the next round of the online expansion - The end of the first-round roll-out of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is in sight. While some of the most highly sought-after strings have yet to hit the market, detailed assessments of Round 1 are underway as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) lays the groundwork for a second application window. For brand owners, the online shake-up has created both opportunities and challenges. In this exclusive roundtable discussion, three trademark ... read more ...
 
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Google Buys ABCAlphabet.com, Alphabet.kr: Domain Costs Are Mounting - Google Inc. continues it’s onslaught of buying and registering domain names relating to its announcement on August 10, 2015 of it’s  new holding company, Alphabet Inc. So much talk has been behind the ABC.xyz domain acquisition, yet Alphabet Inc. has been on a domain buying spree every since buying many other domain names related to “ABC” and “Alphabet”. I’m not sure how much Google has spent on acquiring all the versions of “ABC” or Alphabet” domains it has but it has to be ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Group Stock Rating Reaffirmed by N+1 Singer (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating reiterated by investment analysts at N+1 Singer in a note issued to investors on Thursday, MarketBeat reports. Shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.25 on Thursday. Minds + Machines Group has a 52-week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52-week high of GBX 13.75. The stock’s market capitalization is GBX 68.97 million. The stock’s 50 day moving average is GBX 7.81 and its 200 day moving average is ... read more ...
 
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Here’s how to choose a domain extension for SEO and users - Like most online businesses around Asia, inevitably, your website needs to be focused on an audience larger than just one country. As a result, you probably have (or should have) spent some time thinking about the best ways to organize and optimize your site for different countries. One of the first and most important decisions most people need to make when expanding their horizons to an international audience is determining which domain structure should be used for additional languages and ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2015
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After 24 Hours of GA .Online did 37,544 Regs - Radix reported to us that number of registrations after 24 hours of General Availability was 37,544. The winner who guessed closest to the actual number was: John Aitken says AUGUST 20, 2015 AT 11:59 AM 32,670 registrations in first 24 hours. Congrats John, we will get Radix in touch with you for your free domain name. ... read more ...
 
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Apple Is Going Head to Head with iHeart Music Festival With Apple Music Fest: Domain Regs Say So - Is Apple planning on going head to head with Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio.com which has its music festival called iHeart Radio Music Festival? Well, Apple Inc. registered 11 new domain names relating to a Music Festival on August 4, 2015. Those new domain names are: AppleiTunesMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicConcert.com, AppleMusicConcerts.com, AppleMusicEvents.com, AppleMusicFest.com, AppleMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicFestivals.com, AppleMusicReviews.com, AppleMusicShow.com, AppleMusicTicket.com and ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: LifeMoment.com, TrackKey.com & More Domains - Here are the latest Domain Movers that I have detected that are all corporate related. These domain names will often relate to a future project of some sorts, like a future advertising campaign, new product or service etc. Check.com GmbH has acquired the domain names Ceck.com and Check.co ($10,099) both at Sedo. Check.com was acquired in September 2014 for $1 Million in a private transaction. SuperFix.com has come out of privacy at GoDaddy and using GoDaddy name server to transfer to MarkMonitor ... read more ...
 
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This week's Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. Turns out this is my 100th article for DomainNameWire.com. Saying “Domain.TLD sold for $$$ because ???, implying Blah” – that’s the easy part. What’s tricky, as a writer, is finding ways to vary that sentence 50 times in a row without going nuts. Harder still: inventing transitions to move through the sentences. After all, looking at a list of prices in descending order, there really are no segues. “Flow” ... read more ...
 
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New .LOVE TLD Enjoying Strong Sales - The new .LOVE TLD [Top Level Domain] has successfully launched on the Internet (more details available at http://www.get.love) and is rapidly selling web domain names to couples, individuals, and businesses. Beijing, China (PRWEB UK) 28 August 2015 "We are delighted with the growth of our domain sales, especially in the past week. Beginning with the Qixi Festival on August 20 (which falls on the ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity ? - A couple years ago after some famous website hack, I was sitting in a Chipolte and said to a friend that somewhere down the road companies are going to get sued big time for getting hacked if they were lax in their security. My friend told me I was an absolute moron. His take was that a company did not ask to be hacked and would have no way of knowing if they would be hacked. So today I was reading an article on AboveTheLaw.com, the headline “Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity? (Spoilers: ... read more ...
 
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From .COM and .NET to .XYZ and .WTF? - A gTLD is a generic-use top level domain extension (e.g. com, .org, .net, .gov, etc.) available to registrants for use regarding any purpose and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).  Most people have come to think of “.com” as the most credible gTLD to tie to our business-related website, but recently, buzz has been generated regarding the new gTLD application system, which launched in 2012.  The new gTLD system may allow for the registration ... read more ...
 
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Meet The Owners of The Domain Twins.com And It's Not MLB, Actual Twins - Grantland.com did a long and very detailed article about “the website MLB couldn’t buy” and that website in reference is to one of only 3 domain names NOT owned by Major League Baseball (MLB), Twins.com. The story states: The Millers told me that they staked their claim to Twins.com so early that they got it for free. It was the era of Internet land grabs, when all one had to do to rope off a URL was be the first one with the impulse. (They admiringly mention a friend of theirs, Jeff, who “scored,” ... read more ...
 
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One Guys Registered 15 Domains At $12,500 On .Loans/.Credit - .Loans and .Credit were two of the new gTLD extensions that went into the 1st day of the Early Access Program for collision domain names (EAP) Period yesterday and one guy, Ken Bramon of KB Productions Kirkland Canada spent around $180,000 registering new gTLD domain names. The wholesale cost to registrars a domain name is day one of EAP is $10,000. As each registrar sets the retail price I’m not sure what Mr. Bramon paid, he registered the domains with Enom.com and he could have a discounted ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy introduces dual cause authentication outward U.S. - Security tool expanded to 185 countries. Non-U.S. customers of GoDaddy can now activate two-factor authentication to add security to their accounts. The service has been available in the U.S. for several years, and international customers have been asking for it. The SMS-based system sends a text message to customers after they enter their standard login credentials. They must enter a code from the text message before gaining access to their account. In theory, this means someone would have to obtain ... read more ...
 
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.Online domain name registrations by a numbers - A look inside .Online’s strong debut. By all accounts, .Online had a great first day yesterday. It got over 30,000 registrations. Its overnight zone file now sits at about 35,000 names. I dug through the zone file to look for patterns. Here’s what I found… Here are three companies that registered a lot of domains. There might be others, but these companies pointed the names to their corporate nameservers: Microsoft – 40 domains including msn.online, skype.online and windows10.online Bank ... read more ...
 
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Progressive Specialty Glass Company nailed for RDNH - Company fails to even make a prima facie of lack of rights or legitimate interest. Specialty drinkware company Progressive Specialty Glass Company has engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. National Arbitration Forum panelist Darryl C. Wilson came to this determination after the glass company filed a UDRP against Progressive Specialty Co Inc, a swag maker. Both companies have been in a business for decades, and Progressive Specialty Co Inc. registered the domain name back in 1999. It seems that, ... read more ...
 
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RightoftheDot/4.CN Domain Auction from DOMAINfest.asia is Live & Over 30% Have Bids - The online auction that RightoftheDot.com along with 4.CN are holding, in conjunction with DOMAINfest.asia, went live yesterday  afternoon and out of the 531 domain names in the auction, as of publication 165 of them have  bids which over 30% of the domains in the auction. Moreover 50 of the 165 domain names with bids have more than one bid. There are 14 days to go to auction starts to end. The auction will close over a 4 hour staggered period in blocks of domain names starting on September 10th ... read more ...
 
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Cha-ching: Minds + Machines picks adult another $3.5 million from losing auctions - New TLD company reaps millions from losing .art and .data auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has padded its bank account with another $3.5 million as a result of losing two more top level domain auctions. The company got the money from losing private auctions for .art and .data. Minds + Machines still has an interest in 7 contested strings, so it might pick up even more cash from losing auctions in the future. With about $50 million in its bank account, the company is considering ... read more ...
 
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Thomson Reuters Acquires Premium Domain Name TR.com - According to whois records, MarkMonitor’s parent company, Thomson Reuters has acquired the premium two letter domain name TR.com from Wolters Kluwer US. Wolters Kluwer has owned TR.com since August 2005 and was using the domain name for Telecommunications Reports under the business name CCH Incorporated. Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York City and Toronto according to Wikipedia. Thomson Reuters is a publicly ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Picks Up $3.5 Million For Withdrawing New gTLD Apps For .Art & .Data - Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), today announced the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of over $3.5 million (approximately £2.3 million) for withdrawing its applications for .data and .art. The new gTLD .Art was won by UK Creative Ideas beating 9 other applicants in a private auction including Minds + Machines .Data is still showing on ICANN site as being in contention between Minds + Machines (Top Level Domain Holdings) with Donuts and Dish Networks but apparently that string has been ... read more ...
 
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Challenges for .brands – From Strategy to Implementation Planning - This is the fifth 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 turn your ideas into a .brand TLD strategy, which you can read here. While your strategy and objectives speak more broadly to why you're launching a .brand TLD, your implementation plan covers the all-important 'how'. Once you complete your strategy workshop session to agree upon objectives ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2015
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.Online Breaks All New gTLD Records With 28000 Registrations in 1st 30 Minutes - Radix the registry behind .Online entered General Availability earlier today announced that .Online has smashed the record for a new gTLD launch by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1,130 Early Access Program (EAP) orders, the highest number of EAP registrations recorded by any new gTLD domain extension. “Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, ... read more ...
 
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.ONLINE GA Launches with 28000 Registrations in the First 30 Minutes - Radix's much awaited and probably its biggest TLD, .online entered General Availability earlier today. .online has smashed .club's launch record by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1130 EAP orders — the highest EAP registrations recorded by any new domain extension. Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, menus.online, seoul.online, ... read more ...
 
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.Online Breaks All New gTLD Records With 28,000 Registrations in 1st 30 Minutes - Radix the registry behind .Online entered General Availability earlier today announced that .Online has smashed the record for a new gTLD launch by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1,130 Early Access Program (EAP) orders, the highest number of EAP registrations recorded by any new gTLD domain extension. “Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, ... read more ...
 
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.Online gets 28,000 registrations in initial 30 minutes - New domain name likely sets launch record for new domain names. The new .online top level domain name received over 28,000 registrations in the first 30 minutes of general availability today. It now has over 30,000 registrations, including 1,130 high priced registrations during the early access period. In addition to being a very popular word tacked onto the end of existing registrations in .com, .Online registry has been heavily promoting the domain name. I received two promotional emails yesterday ... read more ...