Category Archives: EN

Mon 27th July 2015
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A Crazy Cybersquatting Lawsuit with Jason Kneen – DNW Podcast #43 - The inside story of a baseless cybersquatting lawsuit. Imagine that you’re an app developer who has registered a handful of domain names over the years. One day your twitter feed and phone lights up with people discussing how you’re being sued over one of the domain names you own. That’s exactly what happened to Jason Kneen. A new business starting up in 2014 filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against the domain name WorkBetter.com, which he registered way back in 1999. Jason is on the show today ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Doc.com, Fans.com, XT.com And More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move that have been recently purchased, registered or on the move for one reason or another. The majority of the following domain names have ownership by large corporations or are simply high value domain names. These are often early detections and being reported on for the first time. These domain names can lead to new products, companies, services, advertising and more. I heavily rely on whois data to tell the story of these movements, ... read more ...
 
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Vox Populi wants heading for .Sucks - Controversial new top level domain name registry wants to trademark “.sucks”. Vox Populi, the domain name registry for .Sucks, has applied for the trademark “.Sucks” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. The goods and services for the mark are “Domain name registration services; registration of domain names for identification of users on a global computer network.” The USPTO does not grant trademarks for top level domain names, so I’m not sure what Vox Populi hopes to accomplish ... read more ...
 
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The .Site Contest Sponsored By Radix has resolved and we have a Winner - The .Site Contest that was sponsored by Radix and created by TheDomains.com has concluded, the winner is Marian Tutelea who was notified by email. Marian will receive a brand new Apple Watch.  Radix and TheDomains.com want to thank everyone who entered and got the word out on social media. We look to continue to bring you new promotions in the future. The contest winner did not receive a domain, the contest was a social contest where people tweeted out what would be their ultimate .site address ... read more ...
 
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Future Hosting Comments on the Search Impact of New Generic Top-Level Domains … – Virtual - Future Hosting has commented on the confusion surrounding the search performance of new generic top-level domains to mitigate the impact of a misunderstanding of the search performance of new gTLDs. Southfield, MI (PRWEB) July 27, 2015 Future Hosting, a leading VPS, application, and dedicated server hosting provider, has commented on the confusion surrounding the search performance of new generic top-level domains. In light of recent clarifications from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John ... read more ...
Sun 26th July 2015
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Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead - Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should spend whatever it takes to buy one of my .com names because they could rest easy knowing their acquisition/investment ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling On New gTLD's and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead - Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should spend whatever it takes to buy one of my .com names because they could rest easy knowing their acquisition/investment ... read more ...
Sat 25th July 2015
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UDRP Filed on The 25 Year Old Domain Name Cambridge.com By University of Cambridge - The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge has filed a UDRP on the domain name Cambridge.com. The domain is owned by Kirkland Holdings LLC of Brookline MA since March 2012. The prior owner of the domain name is “MHL” also of Brookline who got the domain around September 2009. The domain has an original creation date of September 21, 1992 making it just about 25 years old. As you can see on the screenshot the site Cambridge.com asks users to “click to Choose Your Cambridge. The ... read more ...
 
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Google Morocco hacked along with parked domains of Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs … - 1,965903007 domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma hacked by hackers belonging to The Exploit3rs Hackers belonging to a group who go by the handle of The Exploit3rs hacked and defaced the official domains of Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs all three designated for Morocco. All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan ... read more ...
 
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Google Morocco hacked along with parked domains of Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs - 0944009 domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma hacked by hackers belonging to The Exploit3rs Hackers belonging to a group who go by the handle of The Exploit3rs hacked and defaced the official domains of Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs all three designated for Morocco. All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan hackers ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
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Australia’s .AU Reaches 3 Million Registrations Solidifying Its Place Among … - Australia's Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, recognized .AU's achievement  noting, "The Internet is the most transformative ... read more ...
 
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BMW Files UDRP on The Domain Hack B.MW - BMW has filed a UDRP seeking control of the domain name hack B.MW with the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO. .MW is the country code (ccTLD) for Malawi. According to the whois record for the .MW registry the domain name B.MW has a creation date of 07-06-2004 but was updated in On March 10, 2015, with the domain possibly changing hands. The domain name B.MW is resolving to A.MW which is owned by Living By Blue, Co. TLD out of Japan, which lists hundreds of domain names for sale with prices ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for … - In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst – Topeka Capital Markets): But we don’t see them abandoning their .com.” Jim Bidzos (Executive Chairman, President and CEO): Added: “And just to clarify — for example, if we were to employ .verisign, we would never abandon verisign.com. Like most brands, we’ve invested heavily in promoting it. And everybody is familiar with it,  we would probably ... read more ...
 
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3 "New" Risks to Verisign's Business - Company includes additional risks in its most recent quarterly filing. .Com registry Verisign released its earnings and filed its quarterly report with the SEC yesterday. Using Intelligize, I compared Q2’s SEC report to Q1 to look for changes. I found three interesting risk factors added to the most recent report. Some of these aren’t new risk factors, but they weren’t disclosed in the Q1 report. 1. China – newly enforced regulations for business licenses for selling domains in China For ... read more ...
 
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Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
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Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline | Purecontent Blog - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Co. That Owns Apartment.com/Apartments.com Buys Land.com - The ultra premium domain name Land.com has been purchased by CoStar Realty Information, Inc. according to whois records who also goes by CoStar Group and is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (CSGP) and has a market cap of almost $7 Billion Dollars. CoStar is no stranger to premium generic domain names as they also own Apartment.com and Apartments.com. According to Wikipedia: “CoStar Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate information and marketing provider with headquarters in Washington, ... read more ...
 
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API.Info Lost in UDRP - Colegio Oficial de Agentes de La Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Barcelona of Barcelona, Spain, just won control of the domain name API.info Most of us in the tech space know API to stand for Application Program Interface, which “is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.” and is typically used to integrate data from one site or a database into a website. The Complainant whose website is API.Cat, is a public and regulated body that integrates and represents the real ... read more ...
 
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Are IDN .com owners about to get screwed? - Verisign finds way to sign ICANN contract, but it might come at the expense of IDN investors. [Update: see comment from Verisign at end.] It’s been a long, long wait for owners of internationalized domain names under .com. The idea was that they’d get rights to IDN.IDN-as-transliteration domain names to match their IDN.com names when they came out. So they registered IDN.com domain names and held on to them for a decade, waiting for their investment to pay off. Given that the IDN-as-transliteration ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don't See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD." - In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst – Topeka Capital Markets): But we don’t see them abandoning their .com.” Jim Bidzos (Executive Chairman, President and CEO): Added: “And just to clarify — for example, if we were to employ .verisign, we would never abandon verisign.com. Like most brands, we’ve invested heavily in promoting it. And everybody is familiar with it,  we would probably ... read more ...
 
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.africa domain remains in limbo - After over two-years two companies continue to fight tooth and nail to become the official registry operator for .africa. You might need to wait another three to six months to gain access to a .africa domain name as the process remains suspended following an ongoing battle over who gets to run the geographic top-level domain (gTLD). The battle for who gets to be the official registry operator for .africa has been going on for more than two years. South Africa's ZA Central Registry (ZACR) ... read more ...
 
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Verisign to travel .Net prices 10% - Domain registration bills increasing. Verisign announced that it is raising its wholesale price for .net domain names in February. The current fee is $6.79, and this will jump 10% to $7.46 effective Feb. 1, 2016. Verisign is able to increase the price of .net domain names annually. A 2012 contract extension for .com domains keeps that price fixed at $7.85 for the duration of the contract. That means the wholesale price for .com is now less than long time competitors such as .biz and .org, which also ... read more ...
 
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How do you buy a domain name? - DIVYANK TURAKHIA, founder CEO, Media.net, and co-founder, Directi. "In the offline space, you can still buy great real estate. But on the internet, that wasn't the case until new gTLDs (generic toplevel domain) came in. Now with new gTLDs, you can get your own .website or maybe .tech if you are tech company." "Since there is already heavy demand during gTLD auctions, treat it like a poker game. Investment in this space at this early stage makes sense. Think of it as buying real estate in a market ... read more ...
Thu 23rd July 2015
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Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015. Second Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up 4.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $93 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the second quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $100 ... read more ...
 
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Theralase achieves almost perfect kill-rate of cancer cells - Toronto-based,Theralase Technologies Inc. (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), has recently announced the results of testing of bladder cancer treatment that received a 98% kill rate in an animal model.The treatment includes the company's patent-pending drug, known as TLD-1433, and laser light application which is used to activate the action. The 98% kill rate is the highest destruction rate seen in tests of any the Photo Dynamic Compounds, and comes after an extensive period of optimizing both the processes ... read more ...