Category Archives: EN

Thu 16th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9788; .News 9122; .Cafe 1727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The descending value of a .info domain name - One example of a domain name losing value. Yesterday Pizza.info sold for €2,900 in an auction on Sedo. That’s about $3,150. Unfortunately for the seller, he paid $6,180 to buy the domain name on Sedo in 2014. But hey, he shouldn’t feel too bad. Pizza.info sold for $20,452 on Sedo in 2008, according to NameBio. The value of Pizza.info has apparently dropped 85% since 2008. In real estate, the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices only consider homes that have sold at least twice. This way they ... read more ...
 
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American Automobile Association loses cybersquatting box opposite locksmith - Group went after locksmith in Naples who uses the business name AAA Locksmith. American Automobile Association (AAA) has lost a cybersquatting claim against a Florida locksmith who uses the brand AAA Locksmith. Adam Cooper uses the domain name AAALocksmithNaples.com for his business, and AAA filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to take his web address. The panel agreed that AAA is commonly used in business names and that American Automobile Association did not show that Cooper ... 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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Corporations tackle cybersquatters who overstay their welcome | World Finance - Pop sensation Taylor Swift made headlines earlier this year when she was labelled – we can only assume for the first time – a squatter, as the latest in a long line of trademark disputes took hold. Arguably the best-known example of cybersquatting to date, the case was important insofar as it shed a light on what measures affected parties could take to tackle this new and growing phenomenon. The incident was first thrust ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9,788; .News 9,122; .Cafe 1,727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...
 
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PingIt.com, FareOff.com, OJG.com And More Domain Movers - In today’s latest Domain Movers we detect a lot of newly purchased domain names by some of the largest companies in the world. These “new” domain names can be used in future marketing campaigns, future brands and bunch more. Not only do we detect newly purchased domains that were owned by somebody prior, we present newly registered domain names by large companies and also domains that are just on the move in some fashion for one reason or another. Lets get started: CooperVision has registered ... read more ...
 
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.News and .Site have large initial day - Two new domain names add solid numbers on first day of general availability. Two highly anticipated new top level domain names launched yesterday, and both had a good debut. .News added about 8,000 registrations on its first “zone day”, bringing the total to 9,000. .News had already racked up about 1,000 domain names through sunrise and early access. Rightside provided these stats: – Biggest Rightside Sunrise to date (500 domains) – Biggest Rightside EAP to date (both volume and revenue – ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… – CircleID - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
One of The Most Applied For The New gTLD .Art is Settled By Private Auction - The new gTLD .Art appears to have been settled by private auction. The new gTLD string was set for an ICANN auction on July, 29th 2015 but several applications were withdrawn today indicating that .Art was settled privately. In all there were 10 applicants for .Art and as of publication 5 applications have been withdrawn Since there are 5 applications still pending we cannot say who the winner of .Art is, but since several applications for .Art were all withdrawn today it seems certain the extension ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Better Buy for $20,500 VapeClub.com or MovieQuotes.com? - Two domain names just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire info in the last hour, with both selling for the same price of $20,500, VapeClub.com and  MovieQuotes.com So the question is what is the better buy? In the case of VapeClub there is an alternative Vape.club The domain name Vape.club is for sale at DomainNameSales.com The Vape industry is huge and hot and seems to be getting hotter but is subject to changes by federal law. MovieQuotes.com is an obviously a high search term but with no product ... read more ...
 
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Twitter and Facebook Gaining in Popularity when it comes to News - Twitter and Facebook are becoming go to sources for news An article published today on Marketing Land looked at a recent survey that showed Facebook and Twitter gaining credibility when it comes to getting news. I would say the one cautionary note about all this is the millions of spoof accounts out there, or sites that say they are parody and users still overlook that disclaimer, and treat the news as real. From the article: Americans increasingly see Twitter and Facebook as meaningful sources for ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Judge: "You were perplexing to set him up" in cybersquatting case - Judge rips apart cybersquatting lawsuit. Want to see what it’s like when someone brings a weak cybersquatting case in front of a judge? Domain Name Wire has obtained the transcript from a hearing over a motion for preliminary injunction in the WorkBetter.com case. Office Space Solutions, run by Harsh Mehta, is starting a new business called Work Better. It tried to buy WorkBetter.com from Jason Kneen, who registered the domain name in 1999, last year. Metha then filed a trademark application. ... read more ...
 
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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

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Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS – Update … -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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NF.com domain name saved in UDRP - Panel finds against French group but says it isn’t guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), a French certification company, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of NF.com. AFNOR uses the domain name marque-nf.com. The case decision is in Chinese, so I invite any Chinese readers to chime in if I’ve missed anything key here. The domain name owner is in the milk products business, and NF is an acronym for the Chinese word for milk. The panel ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers generics as they come off collision list - Tech giant registers domains such as desktop.computer and computer.systems. Microsoft has started registering generic/descriptive new top level domain names as they are released from the collision list. Specifically, Microsoft has registered at least a half dozen domain names in Donuts’ domains that were recently released as part of the registry’s phased release of names: arcade.zone 7/1 download.center 7/1 developer.center 7/1 desktop.computer 7/8 datacenter.systems 7/8 computer.systems 7/13 The ... read more ...
 
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A Big .News Day - .News, one of the better new top level domain names, launches today. Rightside launches its .News domain name today, and the company is hoping it becomes one of the highlights of its new top level domain name portfolio. .News has already racked up about 1,000 registrations during the trademark sunrise and early access phases of registration. It becomes available for general registration today at 1 PM EDT. Registrars are offering the domains for about $20-$30. “There’s a real appetite for .News,” ... read more ...
 
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases July 2015 Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands … - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BRS Media Inc., a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that helps traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Web, today announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has released the latest 2015 ranking of the .FM Top 40 Hits, the top sites and brands under the FM Top-Level Domain. dotFM’s latest ranking, “.FM Top 40 Hits” lists the top sites and brands ... read more ...
 
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20 End User Domain Name Purchases - A custom tea machine maker, video game company and swimsuit seller buy domain names. Sedo rebounded from the slow holiday week with good sales results, handling $1.5 million in domain name transactions. It made some good four figure sales to end users, including MyHappy.com, Smartel.com and Clone.org. Here’s a look at 20 domain names purchased by end users over the past week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, ... read more ...
 
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Bodis To Offer Bitcoin as a remuneration option - Popular parking service Bodis will now allow customers to be paid in Bitcoin if they like. Matt wrote you can find the option in payment settings and the minimum payout will be just $10. From the Bodis Blog: Starting today, you may choose Bitcoin as a payment method for your domain parking earnings. As the first domain parking company to offer this feature, we hope to please a range of users that would prefer to receive future payments to their Bitcoin wallet. Payments will be converted from the ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2015
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Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website - Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside,  which is the registry for the new gTLD .Market, issued a statement on its company blog about the events of today: “”Earlier today, we learned ... read more ...
 
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.հայ Approved as Unique Domain Suffix for Armenia - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Unique Internet Domain, .հայ, Approved to Represent Armenia Online - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...