Category Archives: EN

Thu 6th August 2015
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Domaincom Launches Latest New Domain Extensions - VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Domain.com, part of Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI), today launched the new domain extensions .TECH and .ONLINE, continuing the expansion of the Internet's domain name system and joining over 300 new domain extensions launched by Domain.com in the last two years. .TECH is the latest vertically focused domain extension, targeting tech startups and software developers. .ONLINE is now available for pre-registration and carries international ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2015
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GoDaddy reports 16.5% YoY income growth - GoDaddy’s topline growth continues. GoDaddy reported earnings after the bell today. The company posted 16.5% earnings growth in Q2 2015 compared to the same quarter a year ago. That’s a slight decline from the 17.5% year over year number it turned in last quarter. Revenue was up 5% in Q2 2015 compared to Q1. GoDaddy reported a heavier net loss of $(71.3) million, but $51.1 million of the loss was due to one time costs associated with the IPO and early termination of debt. GoDaddy, the largest ... read more ...
 
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‘Sunrise Period’ for KRG’s landmark top-level domain - ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced a landmark step in the use of ".krd," a top-level domain (TLD) name like those generally reserved for individual countries.  The KRG's Department of Information Technology (DIT) said Wednesday that the mandatory "Sunrise Period" necessary for adopting the TLD had begun and will end on October 4. This test period is when other entities may pre-register names that are the same or similar in order to avoid ... read more ...
 
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.Com Winners & Losers: Uniregistry posts a large gain - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in April. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from April. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 939,282 2. eNom** 213,549 3. HiChina 173,730 4. PublicDomainRegistry 110,705 5. Tucows 109,715 When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars for April with retail operations. These numbers are the net gains after ... read more ...
 
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Strickling: "Let Your Voice Be Heard": ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Transition From US Control - Lawrence Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator in a blog post yesterday asked everyone to weight in on the ICANN transition away from the United States  Supervisory Roll. “I urge all parties with an interest in the IANA transition to review these proposals and provide feedback to the working groups. This is the best way to make your voice heard and make a difference.  It is particularly important that stakeholders everywhere evaluate whether ... read more ...
 
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Rightside: 2 $100k .Video Sales, $1M from .News and new TLD renovation rates - Rightside reveals three interesting numbers about its new top level domain names. Rightside held its quarterly analyst call yesterday after releasing second quarter results. Here are three interesting notes about new top level domain names that Rightside mentioned on the call: 1. The company has sold two more domains for at least $100,000. The names were not disclosed, but both were under the .Video top level domain. 2. The company has received $1 million cash from .news so far. It recognizes the ... read more ...
 
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Two domain owners win UDRPs notwithstanding not responding - Panelists don’t blindly assume respondents are cybersquatting in two recent cases. Although it’s rare, domain name owners sometimes win UDRP filings despite not responding to the allegations. In these cases, the UDRP panelists actually use critical thinking on the merits of the case to make sure the complainant has met its burden. They don’t assume that a lack of response proves that the domain owner is a cybersquatter. Domain owners won two recent cases despite not responding to the complaints: The ... read more ...
 
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Virtual Network SA Adds To $10 Million Domain Investments W/ Brain.com - Brain.com has been purchased by Virtual Network SA of Switzerland. Virtual Networks CEO Stéphane Pictet confirmed the purchase to TheDomains by stating “Virtual Network has bought Brain.com in Dec 2014 for an undisclosed amount. This highly brandable domain name is now part of our pipeline of premium brands for future internal or external projects.” Brain.com is currently redirecting to Virtual-Network.com’s main website which states that “Brain.com Coming soon. Virtual Network has currently ... read more ...
 
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XR.com sits during $552,000 with 13 hours left -

With 13 hours left XR.com sits with a high bid of $552,000, this leaves a name only $3,050 bashful of where SX.com sole on Jul 9. The names has not reached haven yet. There have been 259 bidders who have done 704 bids. There have been 9 critical bidders who have bid over 6 figures.

Do we consider a name reaches haven ? Leave your best theory on a shutting price.

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 4th August 2015
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Rightside Announces Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results - KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. "In the second quarter, we delivered record revenue and strong performance across our business," said Chief Executive Officer Taryn Naidu. Naidu continued, "New gTLDs create compelling opportunities for online ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Announces Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results – Virtual - Second Quarter Total Revenue Increases 12% Year-Over-Year KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. "In the second quarter, we delivered record revenue and strong performance across our business," said Chief Executive Officer Taryn Naidu. Naidu ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.6million led by Give.com during $500,000 - Over the past week, 550 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Top sales: Top .com: give.com at 500,000 USD Top ccTLD: automile.de at 4,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: 47.org 7,999 USD Only one new gtld sale rwe.international    1,000    EUR VRO.com for $6,500 one of the lower sales prices we have seen recently for a 3L.com. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Wins a Very Weak TLD Lawsuit - Back in the 1990s as the Internet was starting to become visible to the world, several people had the bright idea of setting up their own top level domains and selling names in competition with what was then the monopoly registrar Network Solutions (NSI). For these new TLDs to be usable, either the TLD operators had to persuade people to use their root servers rather than the IANA servers, or else get their TLDs into the IANA root. Attempts to get people to use other roots never were very ... read more ...
 
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Rightside has record income in Q2 - Rightside continues upward trajectory. Domain name company Rightside posted record revenue of $52.2 million in Q2, the company announced today. That compares to $46.7 million in Q2 2014 and $50.5 million in the first quarter of this year. The company posted revenue gains in all three segments compared to Q2 2014. Registrar services revenue, which includes eNom and Name.com, increased 10% to $43.3 million compared to $39.4 million. Registry services revenue, which includes both Rightside’s own TLDs ... read more ...
 
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From Toad to Princess – New TLDs Are No Magical Wand in the Kingdom of Search … - Co-authored by David Hallam, Business Development Director NCC Group and Hans Seeuws, Managing Director OpenRegistry. Google has posted details on Ranking of new gTLDs (new gTLDs) in search. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, said that new gTLD's will be treated the same as other gTLD's such as .com. He stated: "Overall, our systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search." The ambiguous use of the word ... read more ...
 
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July's Hottest Domain Name Stories - Sex.com, a $50,000 cybersquatting settlement and more. Legal stuff continued to make headlines in July in the domain biz. ParkingCrew also made things interesting with its acquisition of NameDrive. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Sex.Com lawsuit – company demands domain name over copyright and trademark claims. 2. Work Better Updates – I wrote several posts about the WorkBetter.com cybersquatting lawsuit last month that made the top charts. The owner ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four launches 5 domain names this week - Five domains on tap this week. Famous Four Media launches another five top level domain names on Wednesday of this week. Registrars will begin selling .racing, .accountant, .download, .win and .loan. 101Domain is offering all of the names for about $30. I’m somewhat surprised that Famous Four has priced all of the names the same, as some very similar domains from Donuts have premiums. For example, .accountants and .loans, plural versions offered by Donuts, cost about $75-$100 per year. .Accountants ... read more ...
 
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Rightside and NameCheap ink longer tenure deal - Deal adds some certainty to Rightside’s future revenue. After frequent short-term extensions, Rightside’s eNom and reseller NameCheap have signed a longer term reseller deal. Many people are surprised to learn that NameCheap, which manages millions of domain names, is actually a reseller. It’s an important one to Rightside; NameCheap represents 26% of its domains under management. The new deal is through December 31, 2018 and will automatically renew for an additional three year term unless ... read more ...
 
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How Did a UDRP Panel In Chooser.com Not Find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking? - Chooser S.A. of Jodoigne, Belgium just lost its attempt to grab the domain name Chooser.com in a UDRP. The Belgium company didn’t have any registered trademark but attempted to grab the domain name based on a “common law mark” they alleged but could not prove, that they owned the domain back in “2010 when due to an error by someone in the IT department they let the domain drop.” The UDRP panel found the Complainant did not prove they owned the domain and even went as far to call the Complaint ... read more ...
 
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Johnson & Johnson Working On An HIV Vaccine Buys HIVAidsVaccine.com Domain - It was reported earlier this month that Johnson Johnson has been showing success with a preclinical trial for an HIV-1 vaccine: The article quotes lead author Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School chatting about Johnson Johnson vaccine: “We are very encouraged by the results of this preclinical HIV vaccine study, and the findings lead to a clear path forward for evaluating this HIV vaccine ... read more ...
 
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Hans Seeuws - From Toad to Princess - New TLDs Are No Magical Wand in the Kingdom of Search Engines Google has posted details on Ranking of new gTLDs (new gTLDs) in search. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, said that new gTLD's will be treated the same as other gTLD's such as .com. He stated: "Overall, our systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search." The ambiguous use of the word "overall" in the statement, may ... read more ...
 
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9th Cir. Dumps Antitrust Suit Against ICANN -      (CN) - An Internet registry specializing in "expressive" top-level domains cannot proceed with antitrust claims against a goverment-linked domain assigner, the Ninth Circuit ruled.     Name.space, which specializes in so-called "expressive" top-level domains (TLD), like .art and .food, challenged the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) round of applications for TLDs to be included in the organization's "root-zone file," in California in 2012.     ICANN, under ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2015
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.Online Tops 550 Sunrise Registrations With 15 Days To Go - Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have exceeded 550 with over 15 days to go. The .Online Sunrise period for trademark holders ends on 17th August, and will be followed by an Early Access Phase from 19th to 26th Aug. General Availability starts on August 26th, 2015. The wholesale price for a Sunrise .Online domain registration is $150. Each registrar sets the retail price to their ... read more ...
 
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.Online Tops 550 Sunrise Registrations With 15 Days To Go - Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have exceeded 550 with over 15 days to go. The .Online Sunrise period for trademark holders ends on 17th August, and will be followed by an Early Access Phase from 19th to 26th Aug. General Availability starts on August 26th, 2015. The wholesale price for a Sunrise .Online domain registration is $150. Each registrar sets the retail price to their ... read more ...
 
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.Online Receives 550+ Sunrise Requests, a Fortnight Still to Go - Radix announced their latest generic launch, .online has already received 550+ Sunrise requests, with 15 more days for the phase to end. The versatile nature of the TLD has attracted participation from brands across varied industry verticals. From automobile and technology, to finance, fashion and food, there are requests for .online from across industries and geos. Apple leads the pack with 50+ Sunrise requests, accompanied by esteemed brands like Bank of America, Deutsche Telekom, Dow ... read more ...