Category Archives: EN

Thu 23rd July 2015
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Theralase achieves almost perfect kill-rate of cancer cells – Toronto … - 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 ...
 
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4.9%: 133.5 Million Registered .Com/.Net Domains - Financial Highlights Verisign ended the second quarter with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.9 billion, an increase of $460 million as compared with year-end 2014. Cash flow from operations was $175 million for the second quarter of 2015, compared with $121 million for the same quarter in 2014. Deferred revenues on June 30, 2015, totaled $932 million, an increase of $41 million from year-end 2014. Capital expenditures were $9 million in the second quarter of 2015. During the ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 5,500 Applications For a .Bank Domain At $1K+ Per Domain - fTLD Registry Services announced today that more than 5,500 .BANK applications have been received from members of the global banking community at a retail price of $1,000 + depending on the registrar. Unlike most domain names, .Bank is restricted so if you want to register a domain you have to fill out an application and provide proof that you qualify to own a .Bank domain Top locations for .BANK registrations have come from banking institutions across the United States, as well as countries including ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globe Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Mucks It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up – TheDomains.com - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
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Patent goblin relates for domain name government patent - Intellectual Ventures wants patent related to managing domain names and web hosting. Some big companies in the domain name space have lots of patents. Despite threats, no major players have tried to extract money out of their competitors. But registrars should be concerned about a recent patent application because of the company behind it: Intellectual Ventures. Through its company III Holdings 1, LLC, the company has applied for a patent for “System and Method for Domain Management and Migration”. The ... read more ...
 
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.Brand Domain Names: Does Risk Outweigh Reward? - In a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog a couple of days ago, there were several questions asked and answered about Google’s treatment of websites that use new gTLD domain name extensions. I had already understood how Google treats new gTLD extensions, but I wasn’t really sure about how Google would treat .brand domain names, such as .Google or .Barclays domain names. In the aforementioned blog post, a question about .brand domain names was posed and answered: Q: Will a .BRAND ... read more ...
 
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Casino.net, LB.com, Micronauts.com and More Domain Movers - Welcome to Domain Movers where we detect domain names being registered, purchased and more by large companies. These domain names are often early indicators of new advertising campaigns, new services, new products and potential other unknown movements. We rely heavily on the whois system to provide accurate data, so the majority of the following information is based on whois data, so please keep that in mind as it doesn’t always reveal what it appears but we try our best to provide accurate information ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Hosting 1st Southern CA Domainers Meetup Tomorrow W/ Frank Schilling - The first Southern California Domainers Meetup of the year will take place in tomorrow Friday July 24th at 7pm PST at the offices of Uniregistry. Frank Schilling will be in attendance. Drinks and appetizers will be served on the deck. The offices of Uniregistry are located at 12015 E. Waterfront Drive, Los Angeles, CA 70 people had already RSVP as of yesterday. To RSVP please click here. “Join us, lets talk about the future of .com and the new gTLD’s !” Sound like a cool event. Hope everyone ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globe Covers .Sucks & New gTLD's & Mucks It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
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"Spa Community" gets .Spa domain name - Group wins Community Priority Evaluation for .Spa. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited has won (for now) the sole right to operate the .Spa top level domain name after winning a Community Priority Evaluation for the name. The group scored 14 points (pdf) out of 16 to prevail. It lost one point for “Content and Use” and one for “Community Endorsement” under support. According to its application, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited “is the regional coordinating body ... read more ...
 
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Domain name registrar's cessation stayed after it files for arbitration - OpenTLD argues it should have received a formal breach notice first. Domain name registrar OpenTLD, which had its ability to register new TLDs suspended by ICANN, is back in action for now. ICANN suspended the registrar for cybersquatting on other registrar’s brands. OpenTLD has filed for arbitration in the matter, and ICANN has agreed to stay the suspension. The company’s complaint against ICANN is that it didn’t first serve it with a formal breach notice allowing it time to remedy before ... read more ...
 
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Google registers domain names for Google Play's lapse to China - Domain name registrations suggest Google is indeed going back to China with Google Play. It appears that Google Play, the search giant’s app store, is indeed making another play for the Chinese market. There have been rumors about a return to China in recent months. Google registered a number of domain names related to Google Play in China yesterday and today, including: googleplaychina.com, googleplaychinaedition.com, googlechinaaccount.com, googlechinaedition.com, gcaapis.com, gcaauth.com, gpceauth.com, ... read more ...
 
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Record Setter: Bidding on Dropped Domain 358.com Reaches $430K With 2+ Days to Go - The domain name 358.com dropped yesterday and shortly after the closed auction started on Snapnames.com,  bidding reached $80,000. This morning the high bid on the domain name is $430,000. As you can see there are 7 bidders who bid $250,000 or more. While three number .Com domain names are extremely valuable,  I would hope at this level that SnapNames  has verified all of these accounts that are now bidding well into the six figures. Any sale in this area would break all records for any domain ... read more ...
 
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This Week's Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain names sales, including a look at what’s happening in China after the stock bubble burst. After the Chinese stock market began its downward spiral on June 15, domain investors and brokers began speculating about how the Chinese domain market would respond. For my part, I examined June sales above $2k at NameJet, looking for any short-term recoil among domain buyers. Now that July has given us 3 weeks of additional data, we can assess the ... read more ...
 
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Sweeney, Collins back on deck for TLD Gympie round - TEAM TLD will be looking for two returning riders to continue their good form when they line up in this weekend's fourth round of the Queensland Road Team Series. The five-round series moves to Gympie this weekend for the round four Giro D'Mary Valley. Racing starts tomorrow with a 94km stage one road race. Sunday's stage two event is a 107km Gympie to Maleny road race. TLD will be without leading over 35 rider Trent West this weekend as he sits out as part of the team rostering. ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Portfolio of 111 Domains Closes on Flippa during $3,780 - A portfolio of 111 .NYC domains were auctioned on Flippa, and the auction closed on Wednesday selling at the buy it now of $3,780. There were 6 bidders who made 23 bids. Some of the names included: (Seller description provided) BusinessSchool.nyc     |      The best business schools are in NYC! List all of them and get advertisement from them. Or sell it to a business school. (LawSchool.nyc is owned by New York Law School!! ) Berk.nyc    |      Super brandable, short and easy to remember Billiard.nyc  ... read more ...
Wed 22nd July 2015
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UDRP Panel Returns Stolen Domain EHT.com To Owner: Privacy Creates Presumption Of Bad Faith - John Dilks represented by John Berryhill, just won control of the domain name EHT.com in a UDRP, which was stolen from Mr. Dilks account at Tucows. The UDRP panel of Houston Putnam Lowry, ordered the domain returned to the owner finding that “A domain holder cannot have legitimate interests in a domain name acquired by theft.” However the panel gives some disturbing language for those that use privacy on their domain name registrations and I’m not sure where the panelist gets the authority ... read more ...
 
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John Berryhill gets stolen EHT.com domain returned by UDRP - Panel orders domain name stolen in 2013 to be returned to previous owner. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has successfully won the transfer of the domain name EHT.com for his client, in a rare case in which he acted on behalf of the complainant. John Dilks has owned EHT.com since 1997. The domain name was apparently stolen from Dilks in late 2013, but he didn’t know this until just recently. That’s because the thief kept the nameservers posted to Dilks’ hosting while he transferred the ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Catches The Dropping Domain 358.com & Bidding Is At $80,000 - The domain name 358.com dropped today and Snapnames.com won the lottery grabbing the domain where its currently in closed auction with 221 bidders. The high bid as of time of publication is $80,000 and the auction has almost 3 days left. I’m not sure the last time I saw a pure dropping three numbered domain (NNN.com) but its pretty rare and there is no vertical in the domain space hotter right now than three number domains (well two letter domains). We are going to open up the poll to see what ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen's Telepathy Settles Federal Lawsuit On SDT.com Getting a $50K Settlement - Back in November we told you that Nat Cohen’s Telepathy filed a Federal Lawsuit over the domain name SDT.com which he owned after a UDRP was filed. Nat has informed us that the case has now been settled and SDT paid $50,000 to settle it. After a UDRP was filed on SDT.com, Telepathy filed a federal lawsuit in federal court requesting statutory damages for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, a statement that its ownership of SDT.com was lawful, and attorney’s fees. SDT was advised by represented by ... read more ...
 
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Google’s John Mueller: New TLDs Have No Magical SEO Bonus – Search Engine … - John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push out about TLDs and SEO. He has time and time again said they play no role in ranking at Google. But that didn't stop John and Google from posting something official on the Google blog yesterday. John said Google has heard "questions and misconceptions" about the new TLDs and wanted to set the record straight. On Google+ John said the short version: Somewhat simplified: if you spot a domain ... read more ...
 
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Google: New TLDs Have No Magical SEO Bonus - John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push out about TLDs and SEO. He has time and time again said they play no role in ranking at Google. But that didn't stop John and Google from posting something official on the Google blog yesterday. John said Google has heard "questions and misconceptions" about the new TLDs and wanted to set the record straight. On Google+ John said the short version: Somewhat simplified: if you spot a domain ... read more ...
 
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$50,000 chastisement for filing a whimsical UDRP! - Company pays big bucks after filing losing UDRP. A Belgium maker of ultrasound equipment has paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a frivolous UDRP it filed. SDT International filed a UDRP for the domain named SDT.com last year. The domain name is owned by Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, and SDT had tried to purchase the domain name before filing the complaint. (Cohen was on the Domain Name Wire Podcast recently, discussing similar frivolous cases). Upon receipt of the UDRP, Cohen reached out to ... read more ...