Category Archives: EN

Thu 20th August 2015
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"Straight Outta" Viral Meme Launched On Days Old Domain By Apple / Beats By Dre - Maybe you have seen those images flying around the web recently on Facebook and Twitter etc with the block term “Straight Outta” and then you can type in the term you wish… Well, that viral meme is the works of Apple Inc. / Beats By Dre / Universal Pictures and was launched on the domain name StraightOuttaSomewhere.com that was registered only 28 days ago on July 23, 2015 at corporate domain name registrar CSC Corporate Domains. At the time and until yesterday, it wasn’t fully clear who ... read more ...
 
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Here are a Exhibit and Witness lists for a Verisign v. XYZ trial - Lists will hit home in the domain name industry. Verisign’s lawsuit against XYZ.com, LLC and Daniel Negari continues to move forward at full speed, thanks to the “rocket docket” in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia. Both parties have submitted their proposed exhibit lists and witnesses for the trial. Reviewing the exhibit lists, it’s clear that if you emailed Daniel Negari about .xyz, there’s a good chance Verisign has reviewed that email. If you wrote or commented about ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Full Developed Puppet.com Domain Name Sells to Puppet Labs? - Puppet.com has been acquired by a currently unknown company Update: suspected buyers Puppet Labs have confirmed the purchase in a reply to a tweet from me and stated in that tweet asking if they purchased the domain “Yes, thanks! We wanted it for years got a good deal. Easier way for people using Puppet at 27K co’s to find docs other help.”. This domain name very likely sold for A LOT of money and this is why I say that. Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Company owned the domain name. Marksmen, a ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Taxi 2,167; .Dog 1,589; .Run 1,260; .Hockey 441; .Theater 405 - 5 new gTLD’s launched yesterday into General Availability (GA) when domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period (EAP) here are the total after the first day of GA: Taxi 2,167 .Dog 1,589 .Run 1,260 .Hockey 441 .Theater 405 It should be noted that .Taxi completes with .Cab which launched a while back ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #18: Miguel Cotto-Canelo Alvarez, Bute & more - Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez have finally agreed to fight each other, and this welcomed news is featured on this week’s episode the podcast. Diego and I also discuss Lucian Bute‘s comeback win, revel in Krzysztof Glowacki’s sensational stoppage of Marco Huck, bemoan Antonio Tarver-Steve Cunningham, and consider where Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin stand in the middleweight picture. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode:  While many remain skeptical ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com? - The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD’s and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD’s daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD’s! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD’s, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: “Who Needs .com? Domains When .Vegas, .PR, .NYC are Trending” The story highlights several companies using gTLD’s like ... read more ...
 
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Verisign presses Network Solutions for sum on .XYZ registrations - Company files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. Verisign is suing .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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Dot Online Starts EAP Today -     At noon Eastern (1600 UTC) EAP starts for .online. A million domains have the word ‘online’ in them. Back when Go Daddy was reporting monthly sales figures, online was always one of the most popular keywords tied to sales. One week from today .Online will enter general availability. Leave a comment with how many .online domains you think will be registered after the first 24 hours of GA. The person closest to the actual number will win a free (non premium) .online domain courtesy of Radix. Radix ... read more ...
 
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Me.TV Registered In 2005 Saved In UDRP Against TM Filed in 2011 But No RDNH - Weigel Broadcasting Co. of Chicago, Illinois just lost its bid to grab the domain name Me.Tv from Hot Media, Inc. of Kirkland, Washington The three member panel of Michael A. Albert, Michelle Brownlee and William R. Towns refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) even though the domain name was registered in 2005 and the trademark was not registered until 2011. Here are the highlights: Complainant owns the federally-registered trademark METV in the United States, which it uses in connection ... read more ...
 
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Did Microsoft Acquire Zikera, Owners of Groove Music App? Appears So! - Microsoft announced the rebrand of Xbox Music to Groove Music back in early July 2015 and ZDNet.com and many other sites questioned if Microsoft had acquired a company called Zikera, which was founded in 2009 and had over 1.5 Million downloads of its app according to CrunchBase. A Microsoft spokesperson said “we have nothing more to share at this time.” according to the ZDNet article in early July 2015. Why would Microsoft want to buy Zikera? Well, Zikera already had a music app called Groove: ... read more ...
 
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Web.com shares dump 12% on information crack news - Shares plummet after credit card information is stolen. It’s a down start to the day for stock markets in general, but domain name and hosting company Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) is having a particularly bad day. Shares are trading down about $3.00 to $20.81 at the time of writing. That’s about a 12% drop. The move appears to be in response to the company’s announcement yesterday of a data breach. The company says credit card details on up to 93,000 cards might have been stolen last week. There’s ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD's & Asks: Who Needs .com? - The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD’s and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD’s daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD’s! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD’s, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: “Who Needs .com? Domains When .Vegas, .PR, .NYC are Trending” The story highlights several companies using gTLD’s like ... read more ...
 
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End User domain name sales including .XYZ - Company buys two .xyz domain names after Google increases awareness of the domain. Want an example of how awareness can propel new top level domain aftermarket sales? An enterprise software company bought Customer.xyz and Customers.xyz, presumably after hearing that Google chose abc.xyz for its new holding company domain name. These domains were two of the 461 transactions on Sedo’s domain name sales platform for the past week. Other buyers include a satellite company, a staffing company and a ... read more ...
 
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Challenges for .brands – Transforming Ideas Into Strategy - This is the fourth post 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 we discussed the importance of engaging stakeholders in the decision-making process around operating your TLD, which you can read here. The importance of engaging with all the necessary stakeholders in your .brand TLD and ensuring you have company-wide buy-in cannot be understated. But once you ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2015
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So What Happens When There Is a .ABC? Disney Applied For It & Its Coming - After announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of “abc” domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD’s that Google registered using “abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club. Also last night Onlinedomain.com spotted 8 more new gTLD’s that Google bought or registered starting with “abc” Which bring us ... read more ...
 
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The Mission Has Already Crept - My speech given at the 15th ICANN Studienkreis in Amsterdam on 14 August. ICANN's mission, and the avoidance of "mission creep", is currently the subject of intense debate in the Internet community. Multiple cross-community working groups are dealing with the proposal by an agency of the United States government, NTIA, to give up the last vestiges of its control of the IANA function. Many of the new organizational structures under consideration purport to deal with ICANN's expanding mission. Even ... read more ...
 
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Web.com breached, 93k credit label sum competence be compromised - Large domain name registrar discloses security breach. Web.com announced today that a security breach might have disclosed credit card information of 93,000 of its customers. The company owns Network Solutions and Register.com. Although most domain name investors use lower-cost registrars, many have accounts with these registrars for expired domain names. The registrars don’t necessarily have your credit card information, though, as domains won at NameJet are paid through NameJet. Update: See FAQs ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1m led by Vybe.com - Sedo had 461 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vybe.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD:  shop.be at 21,100 EUR Top “other” TLD: 06.org at 10,000 EUR New GTLD sales for the week included: forex.club    5,000    USDprofit.one    2,500    USDadventist.church    1,999    USDcustomer.xyz    1,999    USDlux.club    1,500    USDneo.club   ... read more ...
 
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Internet Company Behind .Green Partners with EarthShare on Initiatives … - LARKSPUR, Calif., Aug. 18 /CSRwire/ - DotGreen Community, Inc., stewards of the Internet’s new .green Top-Level Domain (TLD) and EarthShare, a non-profit federation that partners with business and employees to develop innovative programs offering dynamic environmental philanthropic and learning opportunities, today announced a $10,000 grant to the Surfrider Foundation based in San Clemente, CA. The grant is to support the Surfrider Foundation’s Clean Water Initiative, a suite of complementary ... read more ...
 
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eNom joins Sedo Fast Transfer network - eNom clients can now sell their domain names through SedoMLS. Sedo has added eNom to its SedoMLS system in a partnership that opens open millions more potential domains to be sold through Sedo’s sales distribution platform. The deal enables eNom account holders and resellers to list their domains with SedoMLS. These domain listings are then syndicated across Sedo’s network of partners, allowing customers to buy them through partners’ checkout processes and have them instantly transferred. The ... read more ...
 
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So What Happens When There Is a .ABC? Disney Applied For It & Its Coming - After announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of “abc” domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD’s that Google registered using “abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club. Also last night Onlinedomain.com spotted 8 more new gTLD’s that Google bought or registered starting with “abc” Which bring us ... read more ...
 
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eNom.com Is fasten SedoMLS Network - eNom.com  just announced that it is joining  SedoMLS eNom and its’ resellers’ customers will be able to sell their premium domains on the SedoMLS premium network and which includes hundreds of sales partners, including top registrars around the world. As the largest global domain distribution network, SedoMLS offers maximum exposure syndicating listed domains on more than 650 partner websites which now includes eNom. Matt Overman, VP GM, Aftermarket and Premium Domains at Rightside. is quoted ... read more ...
 
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Wikipedia's Traffic From Google is in Decline - Apparently Wikipedia is losing traffic that it receives organically from Google. Founder Jimmy Wales confirmed that traffic is down and that it has been going on for some time now. Most web users are used to seeing Wikipedia show up on the first page of most search queries, so why the traffic is going down is open to a couple theories. Barry Schwartz wrote on SearchEngineLand.com: I noticed this decline back in March, so this has been happening for a long time now. Back in the day, Wikipedia dominated ... read more ...
 
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How Legal Robot picked the name and bought LegalRobot.com - An end user explains how they picked their name and domain name. This is the first of what I hope to be many profiles of companies that have purchased domain names on the aftermarket. This series will help people understand the naming process companies go through, how companies view domain names and domain sellers, and what the purchase process is like in the buyer’s view. Today we’ll look at Legal Robot, a new service from Agnito Labs, which purchased LegalRobot.com for $1,200. DNW: What is ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: A large week for Donuts, Radix - Donuts releases 5 domains in GA and 3 in early access and Radix preps its “big” one. It feels like 2014 again this week, as Donuts releases a slew of new top level domain names to the marketplace. On Wednesday it will release .dog, .theater, .taxi, .hockey and .run at regular pricing as Early Access concludes. It will also begin the early access for .movie, .coupons and .soccer. It’s also a big week for Radix as it begins a seven day early access period for .online. The company is targeting ... read more ...