Category Archives: EN

Thu 28th January 2016
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
There Is a New Digital Gold Rush Called gTLD’s Happening Right Now; Thanks to New Services from Leads.Plus … – Virtual - The face of the Web has changed forever, and most people have not even recognized that there is a new gold rush happening right under their fingertips with new gTLD's. The birth and discovery of this new virtual land for pioneers to claim for their own is in this new digital economy and is accessible, thanks to new big data technology provided by Leads.Plus. (PRWEB) January 28, 2016 The face of the Internet has changed forever, and most people have not even recognized that there is a new gold ... read more ...
 
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Plans for .gay top-level domain at risk - ( New York, NY ) With claims from the Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) that the word 'GAY' is "not a well-known abbreviation for the community of LGBTQIA people," the international organization responsible for maintaining the Internet's global domain system has denied dotgay LLC's community application proposal to operate the .GAY top-level domain ( TLD ). Lexus Nexus search, Google search, global community supporters, and common sense point to GAY as the best-known abbreviation for the community ... read more ...
 
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Results Available for 27 January 2016 New gTLD Program Auction – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES - On 27 January 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .SHOP. This set was previously identified as an indirect contention set consisting of both the .SHOP and .SHOPPING strings. ICANN stated that the applicants for .SHOPPING have resolved their contention amongst themselves, eliminating the linkage between .SHOP and .SHOPPING. ... read more ...
 
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Hopscotch.com saved in UDRP, though no RDNH - PR firm filed UDRP after failing to buy domain name. A three-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel hasdenied a UDRP for the domain name Hopscotch.com. It did not find the complainant to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain name, however. Joseph Lee bought the domain name for over $10,000 in 2010 with plans to create a game site. Complainant Hopscotch Group of Paris is a PR company. The complainant uses the domain name hopscotchgroupe.com and also owns domains ... read more ...
 
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Can we make clarity of $41.5 million for .Shop? - GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfront cost for any top level domain name. I’m not alone. Of the seven participants in yesterday’s auction for .Shop, only two were willing to pay more than $15 million for the domain name. Clearly, GMO is in this for the long term. Any company that invests $41.5 ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD ‘.shop’ Sells for 41.5 Million at Auction, Highest Sale to Date - GMO Registry, Inc, a Japanese domain name registry business, has won the rights to a single new top-level domain, .shop, for $41.5 million. Google and Amazon where among contenders bidding for the TLD however only two bidders, GMO and an unidentified rival, were prepared to pay over $15 million, reports Kevin Murphy in Domain Incite. GMO says .shop will be an open, unrestricted namespace however the company is forbidding speculation and trading of domains under the TLD. "Registration of ... read more ...
Wed 27th January 2016
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Breaking: .Shop tip turn domain sells for towering $41.5 million - $41.5 million spent for rights to a single new top level domain name. An auction to determine which company will control the .shop top level domain name has concluded with a record price of $41,501,000. GMO Registry, a Japanese domain name company, was the last bidder standing. It defeated six other bidders, including Amazon.com and Google. Only GMO Registry and one other company bid above $15 million for the name. The final bid price is sure to turn heads with the lackluster results of other new ... read more ...
 
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XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail - We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names  were being rejected due to a technical error, however we just received a note that the error has been fixed and that all domain names are available for registration (unless of course already registered) None of the domain name have a premium renewal rate Here is the email we received:   ... read more ...
 
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.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains - Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domain names. In December 2015, thousands of .WS domain names were registered in China. The entire 4 number Chinese Premium .WS space sold out over a three-day period in December. Global Domains International which runs the .WS registry, announced it  has partnered ... read more ...
 
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2015 Domain Year in Review - 2015 was a challenging yet exciting year for brand owners. While new gTLDs continue to consume much of the news in the domain industry, there were other notable highlights. Global domain registrations reached nearly 300 million; ICANN had several initiatives in motion that were of particular concern to brand owners; and companies continued to face threats to their brand reputation, revenue and customer trust. Here's my top 5 domain highlights from 2015: * * * 1. Strong Growth in Domain Market Verisign ... read more ...
 
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2015's Top 5: Taylor Swift - A story about Taylor Swift goes viral. Taylor Swift had some Bad Blood with a guy who claims he taught her how to play the guitar. A resulting story on Domain Name Wire went viral, coming in at the #2 most-read story on the site last year. The backstory: T Swift’s former guitar teacher registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Swift’s management company didn’t like this and threatened him. When I heard about the issue with the guitar teacher, I did a couple of searches on Verisign’s ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3 million led by Rostrum.com -

589 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m.

64% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: rostrum.com at 40,000 EUR
  • Top ccTLD: an.cc at 10,000 USD
  • Top “other” TLD: cec.net at 10,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Wiz Khalifa's record tag and other businesses buy domain names - Rostrum Records and other end users bought domain names last week. Wiz Khalifa’s record label, Rostrum Records, paid 40,000 euros to pick up the shorter domain name Rostrum.com this past week. Its official website is RostrumRecords.com. Rostrum Records was one of many companies that bought domain names over the past week at Sedo. Sedo handled 589 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million. A higher-than-usual 64% of transactions were “buy now”. Here’s a look at these end ... read more ...
 
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Lendvo enters Domain Name Financing business - Company offers capital to owners of domain names and online businesses. A new company has entered the domain name lending space, offering loans to domain name owners and digital businesses. Lendvo was founded by Patrick Izzo and Ben Lichtman, nephew of the late Igal Lichtman (Mrs Jello). The company has a number of creative financing options for buying and selling domain names, as well as unlocking the equity built up in existing domain name portfolios. The most straightforward loan is for the purchase ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines, FFM make pull into China - Companies setting up subsidiaries in China. Two more new top level domain name companies are establishing ties in China to tap into the growing appetite for domain names there. Today, Minds + Machines announced it has appointed ZDNS as its local infrastructure partner in China. The company is also establishing a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in China called Beijing Ming Zhi Mo Si Technology Company Limited. Allegravita is advising Minds + Machines on its China strategy. Yesterday, Famous Four Media ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2016
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
US Bank New Ad Campaign Around "The Power Of Possible"; .Com Owned T StatOil.com - According to MediaPost.com “U.S. Bank has launched its most extensive brand-building campaign to date around the phrase,  “The Power of Possible” including TV, radio and newspaper ads, as well as social media engagement and other digital pieces. The domain name ThePowerofPossible.com is owned by another big company StatOil.com, which is represented by CSC. “Statoil is an international energy company present in more than 30 countries around the world” The domain name does not resolve so ... read more ...
 
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2015 - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, has released the year-end ranking of the Top 100 Hits of 2015, the year's top .FM sites and brands. dotFM’s year end top 100 ranking, “.FM Top 100 Hits of 2015” lists the top sites and ... read more ...
 
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2015's Top 5: WordPress sues domain name owner - A WordPress lawsuit was the third most-trafficked story on Domain Name Wire last year. Coming in at #3 on last year’s most-read posts was a lawsuit filed by WordPress foundation. WordPress Foundation sued the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com (and other domains), alleging the domains infringed WordPress’ trademarks. The group has guidelines for how people can use the WordPress trademarks. One of the rules is that they can’t be used in second level domain names. WordPress Foundation has filed ... read more ...
Mon 25th January 2016
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Rightside Lays Off "Around 6% of It's Employees" -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open - According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture. “Curb.com, Luxe.com, Hemisphere.com and Gazelle.com are great examples. .com is ideal. Short is preferred. Generic words, with no suffixes are best. Curbs.com is not ideal. Fencing.com is not ideal. Fence.com would be perfect. Short acronyms of 2-4 ... read more ...
 
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Mark your calendars for…NamesCon? - You just got home from NamesCon 2016 and you can now register for NamesCon 2017. Just a week after the final curtain closed on NamesCon 2016, show organizers have already opened registration for the January 2017 show. Next year’s event will take place January 22-25 in Las Vegas. The show will take place at the Tropicana again. Rooms are available for $95 plus resort fees. The dates later in January will put more distance between CES and NamesCon, which will make it much easier for early arrivers. Super ... read more ...
 
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After 11 years Victoria Beckham gets her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com - A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham.com The domain was first registered in 2004 so its been kicking around for quite a while making someone presumable some PPC money over the years Here is the highlights: “The Complainant is Victoria Beckham, a former Spice Girl and currently a fashion designer and businesswoman. The Complainant’s eponymous label was launched in 2008, and a diffusion ... read more ...
 
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2015's Top 5: A Scandal - The fourth most-read post on Domain Name Wire last year. On Friday, I published the first of five posts covering the most-read stories on Domain Name Wire last year. Coming in at #4 is an unfortunate story: DNForum owner and prominent domain conference speaker Adam Dicker fell from grace. It all started when Shane Bellone published an expose post about Dicker’s business activities. Bellone posted a link to it on NamePros, and that thread has over 3,400 replies and a whopping 250,000 views. In ... read more ...
 
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Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015 - Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O’Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharmaceutical ads violating Google’s healthcare policy, which doesn’t allow misleading claims or products that haven’t been approved. Scammers – more than 30,000 of them – peddling supplements that promised impossible-to-achieve weight loss Nearly 7,000 phishing ... read more ...
 
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Buying and Selling Websites with Rick Latona – DNW Podcast #68 - Make money by buying or selling websites. We buy and sell domain names — but what about developed websites? Rick Latona’s brokerage Latonas.com specializes in established websites and is very successful at connecting buyers and sellers. Last year Latonas.com handled 13 sales over $1 million, and already has $3 million in sales this month. Rick discusses what makes a site valuable, how to value it, and other considerations when you buy or sell an existing website. Also: A China update, Domaining ... read more ...