Category Archives: EN

Wed 26th August 2015
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Above.com hires Aaron Kvitek to lead marketing - Former Oversee.net VP will lead marketing for domain investing tools provider. Former Oversee.net VP of Marketing and Communications Aaron Kvitek has joined Above.com, which is best known for its domain name parking optimization service. Kvitek was most visible in the domain name business for his work on Oversee.net’s DomainFEST conferences. He is now tasked with improving Above.com’s messaging to the domain name community. The company found that many people didn’t understand that it’s ... read more ...
 
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Pop Artist, Songwriter, Producer & DJ Calvin Harris Files UDRP on CalvinHarris.com - British born music artist Calvin Harris has filed a UDRP on the domain name CalvinHarris.com Calvin Harris is a songwriter, record producer, remixer and DJ and his  second studio album, Ready for the Weekend, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and earned a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry within two months of release. Its lead single, “I’m Not Alone”, became Harris’s first number one on the UK Singles Chart. Calvin Harris holds the record for the ... read more ...
 
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GeekWire Looks during a brands regulating .News - Sometimes when you read an article on a technology website you need to make sure the author is not related to the company in a sponsored content or guest blogger type deal. Many times when I read new gtld stories I see these types of articles, nothing wrong with them but they don’t carry any weight since the author has a vested interest in promoting the topic. I read an article on GeekWire that gave .news and registry owner Rightside a little plug, the author Jacob Demmitt is a staff writer for ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Avia.com, Prelaunch.com, Protect.com & More Domains - Welcome to the ever exciting Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move for one reason or another. The vast majority of these domain name movements are by some of the largest companies in the world! Some are just valuable domain names in general and startups also join the mix! These are often early detection’s that are being reported for the first time and often lead to new brands, services, products and advertising campaigns. Here we go! Vum.com which had a for sale price of $75,000 ... read more ...
 
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18 finish user domain name sales including a .Science domain name - End user domain name sales from the past week. You are getting sleepy…very sleepy…you will visit Domain Name Wire several times a day and visit the advertisers’ sites… Oh, excuse me. I’ve gotten carried away after writing about Hypnosis.science selling for $3,000 to an end user this past week. Sedo had a great week, selling $1.7 million worth of domain names. That total must include a big one that isn’t disclosed. As for what’s disclosed and was purchased by an end user, here’s a ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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The PGA Loses UDRP On The Domain PGAgolfpassport.com - A one member UDRP panel rejected the complaint of the The Professional Golfers’ Association of America of Florida on the domain name pgagolfpassport.com which was registered sometime in 1995 or 1997 Complainant is the largest golf association in the United States, and for decades has used in commerce the mark PGA and of course own domain PGA.com At the time the Complaint was filed, the Domain Name resolved to a website featuring the greeting “Welcome to the Golf Passport.” The “Golf Passport” ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7million led by H123.com - Sedo had 474 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: h123.com at 21,500 USD Top ccTLD:  nachbarschaft.de at 12,700 EUR Top “other” TLD: hypnosis.science at 3,000 USD New GTLD sales: hypnosis.science    3,000    USD carsharing.wien    850    EUR Names like NeckWallets.com or 001mm.com show you how random the name game can be. ... read more ...
 
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Ralph Lauren Launching New PoloTech Shirt, Domains Registered In The 90's - Ralph Lauren is getting ready for an August 27, 2015 launch of a “smart shirt” using the moniker of PoloTech according to BrandChannel.com. As a domain name investor, I often read articles like the above mentioned and pick out generic terms and check the availability of the them as domain names. This often results in most terms as domain names being registered in .Com’s but it’s simply amazing that often times, the terms are registered already and for how long many of them are! So, using ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Talks Domain Values and Market Data on StartUpStud.com - StartupStud.com conducted an interview with Sedo, on topics such as what determines a domain’s value, how should an entrepreneur go about getting the best domain ? .Com vs new gtlds when it comes to value and sales data. A couple questions from the interview: StartupStud.com: What are the primary factors that determine a domain’s value? Sedo: A few of the major categories we take into consideration when placing a value on a domain are the TLD, length of the domain, linguistic suitability, and ... read more ...
 
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Google’s Rebranding at abc.xyz - MrASulaiman: For Google, which is the largest search engine in the world, to believe in the new gTLD enough to switch to one is a big signal that Daniel Negari definitely knows his onion.This is well within Google's forte - the company that was bidding prime numbers, pi, and other fancy mathematical constants for Nortel's patents and eventually lost to a consortium consisting of Apple, Microsoft, and others. All things considered, the purchase of abc.xyz can be attributed to their general ... read more ...
 
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Domainers competence wish to check unclaimed income databases - I found some money waiting for me from a domain name company. You’ve probably seen promotions from your state for its unclaimed funds databases. States maintain a database where you can claim money owed to you, such as a utility deposit refund, forgotten bank accounts, insurance premiums, etc. I saw an ad for Texas’ unclaimed money database the other day and decided to search my name. I was surprised to find that I had $33.96 waiting for me from Endurance International Group (EIGI). EIGI is a ... read more ...
 
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The dot-com era is over, welcome to .anything - For both new and existing businesses, new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) offer increased flexibility and opportunities for an expanded online presence. A gTLD is the part of a web address that comes after the “dot” (“.”). Historically, gTLDs were limited to only a few, such as “.com,” “.org” or “.net.” However, in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new gTLDs, and the first new gTLDs went live in 2013. Some ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Talks Domain Values and Market Data on StartUpStud.com - StartupStud.com conducted an interview with Sedo, on topics such as what determines a domain’s value, how should an entrepreneur go about getting the best domain ? .Com vs new gtlds when it comes to value and sales data. A couple questions from the interview: StartupStud.com: What are the primary factors that determine a domain’s value? Sedo: A few of the major categories we take into consideration when placing a value on a domain are the TLD, length of the domain, linguistic suitability, and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon wins: .Shop and .通販 not confusingly identical after all - Duh. Are the top level domain names .shop and .通販 likely to confuse a reasonable internet user? Certainly not visually. Nor aurally. They also don’t mean the same thing. According to fluent Japanese speakers, 通販 used to be the term for catalog/mail order shopping, and later encompassed online shopping. Yet panelist Robert Nau found them too similar in a string confusion objection filed by Commercial Connect against Amazon.com, applicant for the Japanese string. It was perhaps the most ... read more ...
 
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.Club's proceed to lapsed domain names - An example of how one new top level domain registry is releasing its expired domain names. Last week, .Club domain names that were registered at the beginning of general availability over a year ago started dropping. The company reported a 75% day one renewal rate. It hasn’t published rates post day one, but that’s certainly a good start. .Club CEO Colin Campbell told Domain Name Wire that he told investors to expect a 60% renewal rate. He doesn’t think it will stick at 75% in the long run ... read more ...
 
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Syntax Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs Presented in Accuracy Reporting System … – ag-IP - Home / Syntax Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs Presented in Accuracy Reporting ... / LOS ANGELES - ICANN published the Phase 1 report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS), which provides information about the syntax accuracy of WHOIS records in generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as compared to the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAAs), a press by ICANN stated. Using the obligations of the Registrar Accreditation ... read more ...
 
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TLD’s Aaron Gwin | 2015 Downhill MTB World Cup - TLD’s Aaron Gwin Clinches 2015 DH MTB World Cup Val di Sole, Italy – August 24, 2015 Aaron Gwin dominated the field again this week at the final round of the 2015 World Cup, taking home gold. With the win, Gwin also locked up the overall series title which came down to the wire. The track in Italy is known to be one of the fastest and roughest on the circuit and it took its toll on both riders and bikes this weekend. Course designers added an additional section of track above the old start ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
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From Microsoft to BMW, big brands are buying up .news web domains in a hurry - Online domain provider Rightside expected “.news” to become one of its top new domain extensions since the application window first opened to create — and own — alternatives to the usual website endings like .com or .org. The Seattle company has already launched more than 30 different domains — called generic top-level domains, or gTLDs — including .sale., .dentist and the ever-famous .ninja. But .news has been something special all along. More than 1,000 domains ... read more ...
 
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The Dot-com Era Is Over, Welcome to .Anything - [author: Meryl Hulteng] For both new and existing businesses, new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) offer increased flexibility and opportunities for an expanded online presence. A gTLD is the part of a web address that comes after the “dot” (“.”). Historically, gTLDs were limited to only a few, such as “.com,” “.org” or “.net.” However, in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new gTLDs, and the first new ... read more ...
 
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Add ABC.cm to the list of Google Names - Looking at whois records for other cctlds on the heels of the .mx purchase, it looks like ABC.cm changed hands on 8/7. The domain looked to have been owned by a Chinese registrant. Of course .cm has been in the news before, Kevin Ham was once profiled in a Business 2.0 article that is published on CNN. Maybe Disney will care about this name if Google is indeed the buyer. The domain was dropped and registered in 2014 so a quick flip. From the article: And what few people know is that he’s also the ... read more ...
 
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Vote: .Website or .Online? - Radix announced that its .Website new gTLD extension surpassed the 100,000 registration mark. According to the company, “.website has become one of the top nTLD domain choices of corporations across the world. Consistently in the top 10 fastest growing nTLDs, .website crossed 100k domains to be the 11th largest new gTLD.” Last week, Radix announced that it expected that its .Online extension would see 15,000 registrations in the first day of general availability. The company even targeted ... read more ...
 
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Do New gTLDs Disrupt .com? - This post examines whether the new gTLDs program is a disruptive innovation to the dominance of .com. I then use the idea of disruptive innovation to explain the relative adoption failure of previous generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .biz, .info and .mobi. Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption explains battles between market entrants and incumbents. Examples of markets transformed by disruptive innovations include classified ads (Craigslist), long-distance calls ... read more ...
 
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Add ABC.cm to a list of Google Names - Looking at whois records for other cctlds on the heels of the .mx purchase, it looks like ABC.cm changed hands on 8/7. The domain looked to have been owned by a Chinese registrant. Of course .cm has been in the news before, Kevin Ham was once profiled in a Business 2.0 article that is published on CNN. Maybe Disney will care about this name if Google is indeed the buyer. The domain was dropped and registered in 2014 so a quick flip. From the article: And what few people know is that he’s also the ... read more ...
 
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Questionable investment: RetailMeNot spends $4.3 million for new domain names - Company has common investor with new top level domain company Donuts. Struggling Austin internet company RetailMeNot spent $4.3 million to acquire second level domain names under a new top level domain name, an SEC filing revealed. The purchase was first reported by George Kirikos, and OnlineDomain wrote about it earlier today. While the SEC filing doesn’t disclose the top level domain or registry, it almost certainly is Donuts. The common denominator is Austin Ventures, which backed both RetailMeNot ... read more ...
 
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.Website Crosses 100,000 Registrations - Radix announced that .Website has crossed 100,000 registrations, this makes it the 11th largest new gtld Fun Facts Figures about .website 2,61,84,980 DNS queries the .website zone receives in 4 days! 18,900 domains have an SEO percentage score of 80% 333+ domains sold at an Annuity Premium price 6th Most Popular nTLD choice of Corporations They also put out an infographic highlighting the .Website story. ... read more ...