Category Archives: EN

Mon 13th July 2015
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Monte Cahn Named As One Of Top 400 CEO's to Follow On Twitter - StrategicObjectives.com, published The Ultimate List of Social CEO’s on Twitter @SO_pr and my partner in RightoftheDot.com made the very impressive list of 400. If you check out the top 20 you can see its a very impressive list to make: 1. Oprah Winfrey @Oprah (24,518,272 followers) –CEO of OWN 2. Bill Gates @billgates (16,282,164 followers) – CEO of Bill Melinda Gates Foundation 3. Richard Branson @richardbranson (4,230,000 followers) – CEO of Virgin Group Bio: Tie-loathing adventurer and ... read more ...
 
 
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Mike Mann – DNW Podcast #41 - BuyDomains founder discusses domain names. My guest today is Mike Mann. Mike Mann founded BuyDomains, built it up to 500,000 domain names, and then sold it to investors. Now he’s at it again with DomainMarket.com. Mike explains how he used technology to find the best domain names and beat competitors in expired domain name auctions. In addition to using “robots” to win auctions, he has also been called the “human robot”. Find out why on this episode. Also: Cybersquatting lawsuit dropped, ... read more ...
 
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Nominet: the force is with Disney - A UK fancy dress retailer has been told to give up six .uk and .co.uk domains containing the famous ‘Star Wars’ movie title to The Walt Disney Company. Nominet, through its dispute resolution service covering the .uk and .co.uk TLDs, issued the order on 5 July. Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars movie franchise, which was bought by Disney for $4.06 billion in 2012, requested the transfer of the ‘Star Wars’ domains, all containing variations of the registered trademarks, ... read more ...
 
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.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over 1,000 - The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the whole price of the EAP fee is $100. This means that Rightside (NAME) just made over $40,000 in just EAP fees in ... read more ...
 
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Feeling some .Love for .Site? Check out these reward prices - .Site is an appealing generic, but pricing on premiums is a big turn-off. The unique .Love domain name launches on Thursday.Five top level domain names become available for registration this week. The most notable is .Site, a good generic domain name that launches Wednesday. Radix, the same company that owns .website, is behind .site. What does this mean for the value of .website domain names now that an arguably better and shorter domain has come along? Radix certainly thinks .Site is better. Some ... read more ...
 
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A Brandable Name That Got Unlucky - The situation going on in Greece has been in the news for the last few years. Back in 2011 a new software company decided to name itself Grexit. With all the talk back and forth on whether or not Greece will leave the Eurozone, some have coined the phrase ‘Grexit” QZ.com reported that all the attention is screwing up the traffic analytics and Grexit is considering a rebrand. From the article: As millions clamor to the Web for news of a Grexit, many will mistakenly land on the website of Grexit—a ... read more ...
Sun 12th July 2015
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Some New TLDs fire a whole module in a foot - .Ooo registry Infinibeam takes back 9-month-old domain names. New top level domain names aren’t exactly flying off registrar’s shelves. They face decades of head start from .com and county code domains, universal accessibility challenges, and problems getting slotted in registrar search results. That’s bad enough, but some registries are giving the new domains an even bigger black eye. Consider .ooo, the crazy registry that predicted 1 million registrations in the first year and couldn’t ... read more ...
Sat 11th July 2015
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1000 - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed To Gain Control Of KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com - Two Separate UDRP’s were filed yesterday for the domain names KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com. The complainants are listed as Kylie Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Inc. and Whalerock Celebrity Subscription LLC. Both KendallJenner.com and KylieJenner.com were registered on the same date October 18, 2007, however the registrants are not the same, although both domains are registered to someone in India. KylieJenner.com goes to a parked page full of links to Kylie and has an Alexa ranking of 1.7 million ... read more ...
 
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BLU.com Domain Suspended For Ownership Verification - The 3 letter domain name BLU.com is currently suspended pending ownership verification at the domain name registrar Network Solutions. The domain name’s status is clientTransferProhibited but that status alone wouldn’t indicate the domain name is suspended. Visiting Blu.com directly there is a message in the right-hand top corner stating: “If you are the owner of this domain name, click here to verify” According to current whois records, the domain name is owned by “Blue Chip Value Fund” ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2015
 
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ilove.La Launches VipDomains.La - According to a press release we received today, iLove.LA announced today that its new site, VipDomains.LA According to the press release, the best available .LA domain names are now searchable on VipDomains.LA “Great names available including Yoga.LA, Selfies.LA, HealthInsurance.LA, HipHop.LA and Couture.LA Featured Names also include over 100 first and last names, dominant business categories, real estate and legal names and dictionary word names. Many options for Short Names (1-3 characters), ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new … - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new gTLD .Jio - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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RethinkDinner.com, FBAN.com And More Domain Movers - Domain Movers detects recently acquired, registered and domain names simply on the move for one reason or another. These domain movements are almost all by large companies and often reveal a future brand, product, service, ad campaign, new business or more. If this is your first time to Domain Movers, you can click that link to view more stories in the series. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Chemtura Corporation has allowed the domain name BackyardEssentials.com to expire. The domain had ... read more ...
 
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Happy Birthday .Org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate - Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org  the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org,  launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these websites and organizations have changed throughout the past 30 years. Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry ... read more ...
 
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Illness.com during $12.7k and other Expired Domain Name sales - Joseph Peterson recaps the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. Not sure why the previous owner of Illness.com permitted his domain to expire – illness perhaps? At any rate, after slipping into a coma, this 19-year-old was heroically resuscitated by the efforts of 151 NameJet bidders. Now, after an injection of $12,742, the kid’s got a new lease on life; but he’s leaving home. Among expired domain auctions, the second highest result last week at NameJet was HuiChen.com. ... read more ...
 
 
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LL.com 2 Letter Domain Name Sell? - The two letter .com domain name LL.com has had a change in whois records from REFLEX PUBLISHING, INC. to a HANGZHOU MIDAIZI NETWORK CO., LTD. with a GoldenName.com email address. Reflex Publishing owns some great domain names like Baseball.com, Motels.com and many more and states not only in whois records its domain names are not for sale, it also states it on its website Reflex.com. Here is the whois record that updated this morning on LL.com: In January 2015 I had reported that Reflex Publishing ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain | ET Telecom - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1,000 • The … - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
Thu 9th July 2015
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Merchant Law Group | Businesses love .LOVE – CNW Group - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Businesses love .LOVE - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...