Category Archives: EN

Sat 18th July 2015
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations – TheDomains.com -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Sells The Domain 9595.com for $180K: Highest Reported 4 Number Domain Sale - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again, setting yet another record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000. This is the highest reported four number (NNNN.com) domain sale of all time and only the 5th reported NNNN.com domain to sell in the six figures. Rick hand-registered the domain name in 1998 for $70. The only four number domain names  that sold in the six figures before this sale were: 0060.com sold for $120,000 in December 2014. 8788.com sold for $106,000 in February ... read more ...
 
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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The Loser on a Thesis.com UDRP Give His Story - I brought up the trademark to Larry because even though I own the mark on thesis.com, it could be used for another business so long as it wasn’t a website software business. Automattic couldn’t use the mark unless they suddenly started selling tractors. There was more back and forth, and Larry revealed that Matt had allegedly offered $100,000 for the domain. I still thought this was phony and just intended to get me to agree to a deal, but at least I now knew thesis.com could be had for far less ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2015
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Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart. Thursday doesn’t even start. Friday I’m in … - Today, Friday, sees the launch of one of the more interesting new internet top-level domains that has been approved by ICANN: .love. The TLD has passed from "sunrise" – during which trademark holders get first dibs on their names for a premium – to "general availability." Which means that you can now buy a domain ending in .love right now. Plus you can actually buy Friday, I'm In .Love (you know, ... read more ...
 
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UK Creative Ideas Limited; Wins Rights To .Art New gTLD - The new gTLD .Art has been settled by private auction. The string was schedule to go to an ICANN Last Resort later this month. UK Creative Ideas Limited has won the right to operate the .Art new gTLD, beating out 9 other applicants including Donuts, Minds + Machines, Uniregistry and Top Level Designs. The Board of Directors of the company are listed in the ICANN application as follows: Andrey Chuykov Elena Chinyaeva Sergei Shumsky Ulvi Kasimov The registry in its application said the total number ... read more ...
 
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New .LOVE Domain Names Launch Today on the Internet with Giveaway For … - London, UK (PRWEB UK) 17 July 2015 A well-known lawyer is promoting the launch of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free domains to couples who want to create their own website. So we hope to help newly ... read more ...
 
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Online Gambling Company 888.com Buys Bwin.Party For $1.4 Billion Dollars - According to The BBC,  Online gambling firm 888 said it buying  Bwin.party Digital Entertainment in a cash and stock deal valued at £898m or  $1.4 billion dollars. Bwin.Party website is bwinparty.com and the company’s name was created long before the new gTLD’s If you’re wondering, the new gTLD domain name Bwin.Party is owned by the company and is being forwarded to bwinparty.com. The offer is 104.09 pence per share which is at a 1.2 percent premium to Bwin.party’s close on Thursday ... read more ...
 
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John Ferber's Bidtellect Raises $22.35 Million Dollars In Series B Funding - Bidtellect just raised $22.35 million in new capital to help the company build out its technology platform, product development, and sales and marketing teams. John Ferber formerly of Advertising.com and DomainHoldings.com is the Chairman of the company. The Series B funding round was led by new investors Blue Chip Venture Company and G20 Ventures and also included existing investor Valhalla Partners. Bidtellect, which was founded in 2011, previously raised $4.4 million in Series A funding in 2012. Bidtellect ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE – satprnews.com - TORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for Internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info — and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public availability as of today. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free .LOVE domains to couples who want to ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE | news.sys-con.com – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>New .LOVE Domain Names Launch on the Internet with Free Giveaway to CouplesTORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web.Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info -- and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public ... read more ...
 
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.Love Launches & Is Giving Away 2,015 Free.Love Domains -     .Love launched into General Availability today where it can be registered on a first come, first served basis, making .Love, I believe, to be the first new gTLD to launch on a Friday. The Dot Love Registry announced it will be giving away 2,015 Free.Love domain names this year to couples “Newly Engaged or married couples”, thereby completing with .Wedding and .Wed. Here is from the announcement: In celebration of the year of .LOVE launch, we are giving away 2,015 free .LOVE domain names ... read more ...
 
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Last Day To Enter – Chance to Win a Free Apple Watch Courtesy of Radix - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...
 
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Results from 100+ lapsed domain name auctions - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. Dilíu is Romanian for “madman”, which is what you’d have to be to believe DiLiu.com sold for $4.9k for any reason other than China. In Chinese, dì liù means “sixth”; dī liú is a “trickle”; and dī liū would be to “carry”. While the domain remains under whois privacy, we can only be 99.9% sure of this rationale; but China is never absent from these charts, and expired Pinyin domains have recently sold ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rejects "Renewal Of A Domain Resets Bad Faith Clock": BabyBanana.com Saved - Live-Right, LLC has just lost its attempt to grab the domain name BabyBanana.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by represented by Esqwire.com. I believe is a particularly important win for domain owners. The decision affirms the business of investing and reselling domain names is legitimate use under the policy/ More importantly, the panel emphatically rejected the Playland Decision which, found quite dangerously and incorrectly for every domain holder, under ... read more ...
 
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Last Day To Enter - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...
Thu 16th July 2015
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Minds + Machines and ALM Media Announce Strategic Partnership on .law - Exclusive .law domains available Fall 2015Click to Learn MoreMinds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, announces a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain ".law" across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product ... read more ...
 
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Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a … - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...
 
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Google adult large in After Hours after violence expectations - Google reports better than expected earnings Google posted second-quarter net income of $3.93 billion, or $6.43 per Class C share, up from $3.35 billion, or $ 4.88 per Class C share, a year earlier. Excluding certain costs, the company had earnings of $6.99 a share in the latest quarter; analysts had projected earnings of $6.70 per share on that basis, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue rose 11% to $17.73 billion. Excluding traffic-acquisition costs–the revenue Google shares with other companies ... read more ...
 
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Where Has the Domain Name Growth Gone? - It is pretty common knowledge now that domain name growth started to drop around two years ago and is falling still. At this rate there is every chance that TLDs that have only ever seen growth will start to see a decline sometime in the next few years. What follows is a theory on where that growth has gone. It is widely stated that the greater choice provided by hundreds of new gTLDs means that demand is dissipating across them and that's where the growth has gone. But the 6.5+ million registrations ... read more ...
 
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TLD Profile: .Vote - .Vote gains traction with states and presidential hopefuls. This is the first in a series of articles in collaboration with ICANNWiki, the wiki for the domain name industry. Each article, written by Editor and Community Manager Dustin Phillips, will provide an in-depth profile of a top level domain name. The new .vote gTLD is a joint venture between Afilias and two investors based in Utah, creating Monolith Registry. Its mission is to create a segment of the internet that provides reliable political ... read more ...
 
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Bill Hartzer Releases “Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality” - Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and pulled a lot of other interested data. We were able to find the best New gTLDs based on quality. Globe ... read more ...
 
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Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a .London Domain - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...
 
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ParkingCrew acquires NameDrive - Domain name parking consolidation continues as Team Internet nabs NameDrive. ParkingCrew has acquired the NameDrive domain name parking business from KeyDrive. The acquisition includes the Overdrive service as well. Starting tomorrow, NameDrive customers will access their parking accounts through ParkingCrew. There is a account claim procedure in place; NameDrive customers should have received an announcement about it today. Last year KeyDrive divested SnapNames, which it acquired from Oversee.net ... read more ...