Category Archives: EN

Tue 18th August 2015
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.ONLINE Sees the Biggest Generic Sunrise Ever - The .online Sunrise ended earlier today 775 Sunrise registrations, breaking the Sunrise record of popular extensions like .news, .london, .nyc, .clothing, .global, .club, .company etc., only behind frisky risky extensions like .sucks, adult, .porn and a few geo extensions. Below is a overall summary of the Sunrise numbers: Data Source: Sunrise reports published on The Domains and Draft RPM review report published by ICANN in Feb, 2015 Radix is ecstatic about the success of the .online ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Alphabet Fuels .xyz Domain Name Growth - Google's adoption of an .xyz domain name has spurred August .xyz domain registrations, with nearly 10,000 occurring in a single day alone. A week ago, Google surprised the world by restructuring itself under the Alphabet umbrella. A key surprise was the simple fact that Google did not buy Alphabet.com, which BMW currently owns, and instead opted for the Alphabet.xyz top-level domain (TLD). The move is sparking a surge of interest in .xyz domain registration ... read more ...
 
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Radix Predicts 15000+ .Online Registrations at Launch - Radix sent out a press release touting its .Online new gTLD domain extension. The company reported that there were 775 registrations during the Sunrise period. It’s email stated that this figure is strong, and it ranks as #6 behind .Porn, .Adult, .Sucks, .Brussels, and .Melbourne. The email also made a pretty bold prediction. According to the accompanying press release I was sent, Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head at Radix stated, “We expect to start off with at least 15,000 registrations ... read more ...
 
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Sorry Google The .XYZ Registry is Not For Sale - Reuters.com, is reporting, despite some rumors in the domain space that the .XYZ registry is going to be bought by Google, after its purchase of abc.xyz, the CEO of the .XYZ registry said today its not for sale. The CEO of the .XYZ registry Daniel Negari was quoted by Reuters that his company is not for sale. “I believe I was put on the earth to do .xyz, and to bring it to the market. “My work is nowhere near done” Negari added the .XYZ registry has seen interest from large technology players ... read more ...
 
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BitcoinWallets.com is live - Back in February of 2014 BitcoinWallet.com sold for $250,000. Coin Desk reported on the story, Younts, who confirmed the sale to CoinDesk but declined to comment, also noted in the post that he is close to selling the domain BitcoinWallets.com for a similar asking price. The domain asset was a part of the NeverLoseVision.com investment portfolio, a seven-figure incubator portfolio with startup projects and investment domain assets. A search of the WHOIS domain record-keeping database revealed that ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: Verisign perplexing to intimidate, brag competitors with .XYZ lawsuit - New top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in the .com registry’s lawsuit against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Donuts fought back, asking the court to quash the subpoena. The judge ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling's North Sound Names Registers 23K Uniregistry .LOL Domains Now Up To 230K+ - Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names just registered 23K domain names in Uniregistry’s .LOL new gTLD domain name extension. We noted that .LOL which launched last week, had under 800 registrations after its first day of availability. On the following day, .LOL wound up with  23,779 registrations and now has 24,341 registered domains. North Sound Names which had just over 207K+ domain names registered until last week now has over 230,586 with the difference coming from .lol registrations last ... read more ...
 
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Make Money Online with Eric Borgos – DNW Podcast #46 - Lessons from a guy who has sold over $3 million in domain names. Eric Borgos developed one of his best domain names, Bored.com, and sold the site for $4.5 million. He went on to sell over $3 million of domain names after that. On today’s show, he’ll explain how he developed his sites, what has worked…and what hasn’t. Eric will also explain why he bought two bricks-and-mortar flower shops site unseen, and about the toy he created that was sold at Toys”R”Us. He will also discuss his new ... read more ...
 
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Donald Trump May Own Over 3K Domains But Doesn't Own Trump.org & Isn't Happy About It - Several mainstream websites recently wrote about how many domain names the Trump Organization owns, including BusinessInsider.com that said  the Trump Organization owns 3,153 domain names. boingboing, weighted in  with a story entitled “Donald Trump owns vast numbers of web addresses”. Suntimes.com, published a story entitled “Donald Trump probably already owns your anti-Trump domain name” Probably is right! One domain name that was not mentioned in any of these stories is the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Back to school…for your domain name portfolio - It’s a great time to take action for your domain name portfolio. Your Facebook newsfeed will fill up with lots of “Back to School” posts over the next few weeks as millions of students head back to the classroom. I’ve always thought of the beginning of a new school year as a time to start fresh. A new backpack, new books…a clean start. It’s a great time to take a fresh look at your domain name portfolio, too. Here’s are thing I’m going to do over the next few weeks: 1. Run a PL for ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Says It Is Top Of The Chart For TLDs At ntldstats.com - LONDON (Alliance News) - CentralNic PLC on Monday said it is currently the top ranking "registry backend" of new TLD domain names globally, another boost to the company after the .xyz top level domain it sells was chosen by Google Inc for its new Alphabet holding company's website.The company, which makes money by selling domain names, was citing the domain industry statistics website ntldstats.com.Shares in CentralNic are up 7.6% at 65.66 pence on Monday morning.The stock jumped last week when technology ... read more ...
 
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THE Domain Conference Opens Up Nominations For 2015 Domain Industry Awards Today - The Organizers of THE Domain Conference announced this morning that Nominations are now open for the 2015 Domain Industry Awards “which will be presented to the winners in each category at THE Domain Conference Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 in the .CLUB Ballroom of the beautiful Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel. Once the nominations are received, all balloting will be handled by Escrow.com. THE Domain Conference will be held on September 26th-29th 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 ... read more ...
 
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U.K. advertisers Looking for a Universal clarification for Ad Fraud - With a recent study by Integral Ad Science, claiming bot traffic cost advertisers as much as £277m a year in the UK alone, with 12.2 per cent of all ad impressions there found to be fraudulent between April and June. Advertisers are looking to establish a common definition as to what constitutes ad fraud. TheDrum.com reported: Efforts are being led by blue-chip brands including Nationwide, Procter Gamble and Unilever, which aim to grapple with the thorny issue collectively through a specialist ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Group Plc Recognised As Number One Globally in New TLDs - CentralNic Group plc, (LON:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, is pleased to announce that it is currently ranked number one “registry backend” (ie. Wholesaler) of new TLD domain names globally, on the domain industry statistics website ntldstats.com. CentralNic attained the top position on Friday 14 August after having ranked number two for the previous twelve months. As at 7am on Monday 17 August, 1,444,210 ... read more ...
Sun 16th August 2015
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Making Sense of Google’s .xyz gTLD Branding - Google has a newly created parent, a holding company that is now its official owner. Of course, Google will keep using its extremely well-known name for its core search and related businesses. But the company now operates under an entity known as Alphabet — to give its name with extension, Alphabet.xyz. Here specialists in gTLDs may be scratching their heads. Why .xyz? Why this little-known domain for one of the world's great corporations? My theory: Google is trying its hand at a new style ... read more ...
 
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Is Google Alphabet .xyz The New .com? - Google’s surprise use of the .xyz domain for its new holding company, Alphabet, has led to a rush on new registrations under the domain. Is .xyz the new .com?(Photo : Google | Tech Times) Google surprised everybody this past week by announcing it plans to restructure its business and fold itself into a holding company known as Alphabet, hosted at the url "Abc.xyz." What surprised some observers even more, however, was the new company's use of the .xyz domain, rather than the old ... read more ...
 
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Steve Kaziyev of City Partners and Your Brand Discusses .NYC Purchases. - Steven Kaziyev is a New York based domain investor who operates sites at CityPartners.com, YourBrand.com, and DomainCrunch.com (I do write at Domain Crunch). Steve recently won the auction for the 112 domain portfolio of .NYC domains on Flippa. The auction closed at $3,780 and you can see a list of the domains here. Steve told me he was really interested in about 30 of the names on the list, he currently holds closes to 500 .NYC domains. A name like MensWatches.nyc he said was one of interest. He ... read more ...
Sat 15th August 2015
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Frank Schilling Sells Domains Floid.com To Revlon, Tonix.com To Tonix Pharma Co - Frank Schilling, the owner of Name Administration Inc, Uniregistry continues to sell domain names to end users and the following three domain names proves it. Revlon Consumer Products Corporation acquired the domain name Floid.com from Frank Schilling. The domain name was listed for sale at Afternic with a $29,000 Buy Now price although the listing on Afternic remains. The domain name has been registered since February 4, 2004. FLOÏD as mentioned on TheColomerGroup.com with a “Revlon Professional ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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DotConnectAfrica Trust Response to John Jeffrey’s ICANN Legal Blog Posting - Posted here on behalf of DotConnectAfrica Trust in response to ICANN's General Counsel Secretary, John Jeffrey's recent article. The attention of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) has been drawn to a recent blog posting by John Jeffrey, the ICANN General Counsel and Company Secretary, who wrote to clarify what he termed as "misinformation and erroneous reporting that have framed parts of the discussion" regarding the recent DCA vs. ICANN IRP Final Declaration. As we can't see a way of ... read more ...
 
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Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names - According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system. In layman’s ... read more ...
 
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Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names - According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system. In layman’s ... read more ...
 
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Dot Brand address boost from Google? - Dot Brands are a relatively new addition to domain name choices, and their full marketing and SEO potential has yet to be revealed. Google recently announced that it will not give any advantage to the newcomers over more traditional TLDs such as dot com, but an organic search approach may still see them reap a benefit. Google Blog In their own Webmaster Central Blog, Google answered the question “Will a .BRAND TLD be given any more or less weight than a .com?” with a clear “No.” “Those ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Name Sales Review - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales. A French fur trader freezing his fingers to collect beaver pelts up in 19th-century Canada and I might see eye to eye. His days are spent in isolation touring rivers and ponds, recovering his catch, and re-setting the traps. Mine are spent staring into a frigid screen, recovering auction results, and re-setting backorders for next week’s data. Sometimes the traps misfire, as they did this week, and my beaver haul is half as ... read more ...
 
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Soccer Star Lionel Messi Files UDRP Seeking Control of 2 Domains Including Messi.com - The Soccer Star Lionel Messi, who may regard to be the best Soccer player in the world, has Filed UDRP Seeking Control of two Domain names Messi.com and Lionelmessi.com The UDRP was filed by the soccer star whose full name is Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini. Messi.com has been owned under privacy since January but privacy was lifted to once the UDRP was filed and the domain name is owned by Lewis Jumpp of the UK. Prior to January of this year, domain investor Andy Booth of the UK, has owned the domain ... read more ...
 
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Verisign sues CentralNic and .XYZ over .Theatre, .Protection and .Security - Company upset that Verisign was dropped as registry services provider in favor of CentralNic. Earlier this week I noted a lawsuit Verisign filed in Virginia against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Thanks to a request by the defendants to remove the case to federal district court, I now have a copy of the lawsuit (large PDF). As it turns out, Verisign originally sued Key Brand Entertainment, applicant for .Theatre, and CentralNic back in March in Circuit Court in Fairfax County. The basis of the lawsuit was ... read more ...