Category Archives: EN

Wed 22nd July 2015
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GoDaddy contrast "Ad" nomination in hunt results - Search results that are bumped up through marketing agreements get a new label. GoDaddy is testing the use of an “ad” designation in its domain name search results. Search results that have their locations influenced by a registry paying to bump up the result are sometimes labeled with the designation. The label is similar to the “premium” label placed next to aftermarket domains listed by sellers. Here’s an example: GoDaddy has been testing the label for several months. With hundreds of ... read more ...
 
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Neuron SA of Paris Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On 19 Yr Old Neurones.com - Luc Chammard of Nanterre, France, and the company Neuron SA of Paris, France, represented by Mr. Cohen, Lawyer, France was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Neurones.com in a decision handed down by a three member WIPO UDRP panel The domain holder was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom The three member panel consisted of Philippe Gilliéron, Richard G. Lyons and Christiane Feral-Schuhl. It should be noted that the decision was published in ... read more ...
 
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16 End User Domain Name Sales - A look at 16 domain names sold on Sedo last week that were purchased by end users. Sedo handled about a million dollars worth of domain name transactions last week with 499 domains. Many of the biggest sales — such as Frank Schilling’s $66,000 sale of newy.com — are still in the transfer process. At that price, it’s surely an end user purchase. Still, there are some notable sales to report. A three letter .org domain sold for $7,500 and a dermatology company bought a domain matching one of ... read more ...
 
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DomainX Conference Crosses 700 Attendee Mark: Announces Awards & Additional Speakers - The organizers of the DomainX 2015 domain conference will be held August 7-8 at the Taj West End in Bangalore, India told Thedomains.com that they have over 700 attendees signed up and expect close to 1,000 attendees. DomainX is seeking nominations for the recognition of budding Indian Domain Name investor who will be awarded and recognized as the DomainX™ Rising Star 2015 for the Domain Name Magazine 2015 . The nominations for both awards are now open and can be submitted here: Domainxevents.com/conference/#awards DomainX ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Launches "Enhanced Account Balance" Allows Funding Of Account around Wire/CC/Paypal - Uniregistry launched our enhanced Account Balance service. Customers can now fund their Uniregistry account via Wire / CC / PayPal directly from within their Account. To add funds to an account: – Go to Account Settings – Click on Account Balance on the left hand side – Follow the Account Balance instructions Items to note: – Account email addresses must be verified to enable the account balance feature. – Customers must provide us with an address in the account balance section. – Funding ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg Files UDRP To Gain Control Of The Domain That Caused The Twitter Stock Swing - Bloomberg filed a UDRP to take control of the domain name Bloomberg.Market the domain that caused shares of Twitter to rise 8% when it published a fake report that Twitter was being bought out. Bloomberg.Market which you can see a screenshot of here, was taken down by the Registry of .Market,  Rightside (NAME) a few hours after the Twitter story broke per their “normal operating procedures” By filing a UDRP rather than a URS Bloomberg seeks to take ownership of the domain rather than just keep ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Appoints Jason Silverstein as Vice President of Product and Engineering - “A veteran digital executive who has helped a number of teams create online products, services and experiences, Silverstein has worked at both venture-backed start-ups and top Internet companies. He comes to Rightside from American City Business Journals — a premier publisher of local business, sports and auto news — which employs 1,600 people in over 40 cities. As Senior Vice President for Digital Operations at American City Business Journals, Silverstein’s teams developed and supported ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million, led by Newy.com - Over the past week Sedo had 499 transactions take place on the marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.       Top .com: newy.com at 66,000 USD Top ccTLD: stier.de at 7,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: upl.org at 9,888 USD Only one new gtld sale this week Red.Blue for $999. .De and .Co dominated the country code sales. ... read more ...
 
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Google swears blind it doesn’t give SEO advantage to new internet dot-words - Analysis For the third time in three years, Google has reiterated its position that it will not give a search ranking advantage to domain names with new internet top-level domains. In a post to its Webmaster Central Blog, the search engine giant has posted and answered six questions over how it handles top-level domains. Most of the questions reiterate widely known policies, such as the fact that "country ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same – Search Engine Journal - Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.With the sudden surge in the amount of domain extensions available, Google has been receiving questions about how the new top level domains (TLDs) like .expert and .pizza are being treated versus old TLDs like .com and .org.The short answer: When Google crawls, indexes, and ranks URLs it makes no difference whether your domain ends in .com or .sucks.All TLDs are treated the same ... read more ...
 
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Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same - Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.With the sudden surge in the amount of domain extensions available, Google has been receiving questions about how the new top level domains (TLDs) like .expert and .pizza are being treated versus old TLDs like .com and .org.The short answer: When Google crawls, indexes, and ranks URLs it makes no difference whether your domain ends in .com or .sucks.All TLDs are treated the same ... read more ...
 
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Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...
 
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Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search 07/22/2015 – MediaPost - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...
 
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Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs – WebProNews - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) – Search … - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No … - Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD’s. “”With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we’d like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they ... read more ...
 
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Scripps files heading applications for new tip turn domains - Trademarking Living and Lifestyle. Scripps Networks Interactive, through its top level domain name company Lifestyle Domain Holdings, has filed for U.S. trademarks matching a number of the top level domain names it will run. The company filed multiple trademark applications for “Living”, “Lifestyle” and “Vana”, which all match new top level domain names. There are four intent-to-use trademarks for each word, the only difference being the goods and services descriptions. One description ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says … - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says Google - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO – The SEM Post - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
 
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How & because we should use DomainTools' portfolio tracker - DomainTools offers a nifty tool for tracking domain names. DomainTools has a lot of useful features, but most people just barely scratch the surface of its capabilities. One of the tools I find particularly useful is Domain Monitor. Simply put, Domain Monitor monitors domain names and lets you know if changes are made to the whois record. Changes can include expiration dates, lock status, registrar, registrant, etc. It’s pretty obvious how this can help you with your own portfolio. DomainTools ... read more ...
 
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Brand Blunders: Domino's Files UDRP To Get The Domain Dominos.Pizza: Wynn On Wynn.Vegas - Domino’s pizza has filed a UDRP to gain control of the new gTLD domain name Dominos .Pizza. For me its another huge brand failure to protect a brand, on a bang on new gTLD domain. Last week we saw what happened when Bloomberg allowed a third party to register Bloomberg.Market by failing to register the domain name in Sunrise which led to a huge swing in the price of Twitter when a story on that faked Bloomberg site caused shares to rise as much as 8%. As we have chatted about before while I can ... read more ...