Category Archives: EN

Wed 8th July 2015
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A demeanour during Dot Luxury One Year Into The Process - Tony Kirsch of ARI Registry Services posted an interview with Monica Kirchner of Dot Luxury. Tony was looking to get some perspective on how things are going one year into the process. Dot Luxury names are not cheap, checking out a few registrars: TheDomains.Luxury $780 101Domain TheDomains.Luxury $724.99 Name.com TheDomains.Luxury $799.99 Go Daddy According to ntldstats.com there are 1,186 registrations. From the article: What was one of the key challenges you faced and how did you overcome this? Monica: ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2015
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Google Hates ICANN's Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling it "Impractical & Ineffective -   Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google  seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit  commercial domain registrants from using proxy or privacy services calling it unfair to small businesses and individuals. Google even cites it’s own Charleston Road Registry an example of how big companies will still be able to use shell companies to hide ownership of domain names,  something small businesses and individuals will not be able ... read more ...
 
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From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations - The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman of Rightside told TheDomains.com, “out of our entire portfolio of 36 active TLDs, .NEWS had the greatest number of Sunrise registrations, clocking in at 498.” “We placed an estimated 75% of our premium .NEWS domain on a special list of non-premium-priced ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1m for a week led by Vigia.com - There were 501 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vigia.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: charge.it at 7,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: grandstand.net at 6,800 USD New gtld sales: one.vacations    5,500    USD kazino.casino    5,000    EUR   ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Adds .PROMO To Its Expanding List of Top Level Domains – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> Global domain registry operator Afilias announced today they are expanding their new top level domain (TLD) portfolio to include dotPROMO (.PROMO), the new home of promotional offers on the web. Promotions have become an integral part of almost every sales process worldwide, especially branded products. According Razorfish’s 2015 Global Digital Marketing Report, ... read more ...
 
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NetNames files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox … - NetNames.com has filed a  complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10 According to NetNames.com which is a brand protection company representing many trademark holders, Vox Populi created an uneven pricing structure that effectively charges brands a premium fee irrespective of when they applied to register a .SUCKS new gTLD domain ... read more ...
 
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Verisign gets Domain Name Stockpiling patent - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,075,886 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for detecting the stockpiling of domain names.” We’ll call it domaindar for short. The patent explains ways that a registry can determine what a domain name registrar is doing with domain names after they expire. Are they deleting them or keeping them for themselves (i.e., stockpiling.)? To discover what registrars are doing with the domains, Verisign proposes checking site information ... read more ...
 
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NetNames files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS Pricing - NetNames.com has filed a  complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10 According to NetNames.com which is a brand protection company representing many trademark holders, Vox Populi created an uneven pricing structure that effectively charges brands a premium fee irrespective of when they applied to register a .SUCKS new gTLD domain ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames opens its premium domain store - AlpNames targets high-value, prestige domain customers with its new AlpNames Premium brand.Tuesday 7th July 2015, Gibraltar: AlpNames, now the world's second largest new gTLD registrar, is continuing its growth plans with the opening of its AlpNames Premium virtual store which markets highly valuable domain names.The company, which already manages over 500,000 domain names on behalf of its customers, is broadening its range of products to include highly sought after 'premium names'. Premium domain ... read more ...
 
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Andee Hill Joins Donuts As Director of Business Development - Andee Hill has joined Donuts,as Director of Business Development with specific responsibility for relationships with the domain investor community. Andee is a longtime participant in the domain name industry, most recently with her EscrowHill.com business and also formerly of Escrow.com. EscrowHill.com was recently sold. “”As Donuts has long believed, domain investors are a critical element of the industry, one deserving of an emphasis in time and resources. Andee’s leadership will be critical ... read more ...
 
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Andee Hill joins Donuts as relationship to domain name investors - Hill will work with domain name investors. Donuts has hired Andee Hill as Director of Business Development, the company announced today. She will handle relationships with domain name investors and report directly to co-founder and EVP for Business Development Dan Schindler. Hill most recently was founder of EscrowHill, an escrow service for domain names. Prior to that, she worked for Escrow.com. EscrowHill recently closed up shop by selling its escrow application to the law firm Greenberg Lieberman ... read more ...
 
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Carlsberg Group joins Minds + Machines Pioneer Program For .Beer; Gets 150 Domains - Minds + Machines, (LSE:MMX), announced today that Carlsberg, “the world-renowned brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program“. Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that includes their most popular brands such as baltika.beer, tuborg.beer, holsten.beer and kronenbourg.beer, as well as a variety of generic premium .beer names for use in future marketing projects and campaigns. Niels Lund-Johansen, Carlsberg Group IP Director, is quoted as saying: “As one ... read more ...
 
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This association thinks domain name investing violates U.S. law - Company’s response in WorkBetter.com lawsuit suggests that new businesses should be able to get old domain names. Last week I wrote about a cybersquatting lawsuit filed against the owner of WorkBetter.com. A new company has sprung up using the descriptive name Work Better, and it wants the 16-year-old .com domain name. Office Space Solutions asked the court for a temporary restraining order to prevent the domain’s owner, Jason Kneen, from transferring the domain name. Kneen filed a response, ... read more ...
 
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Radix and .Site Want To Give we a possibility to win a giveaway Apple Watch - EAP starts tomorrow for .Site, EAP starts on the 8th of July at 1600 UTC and the GA starts on the 15th of July. So with the launch of one of the more highly anticipated strings, we worked with Radix (an advertiser on TheDomains) and came up with a contest idea to get people enthused about the Dot Site extension. 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 ... read more ...
 
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Amazon's Prime Day Is Jul 15th But The Domain PrimeDay.com May Sell Today - Amazon announced yesterday that its “Prime Day” sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of  Amazon’s 20th birthday will “Bury Black Friday” by comparison. We noticed that the domain name PrimeDay.com was not owned by Amazon. It seems we weren’t the only one that noticed the domain name PrimeDay.com, was registered way back in 2005 and would most likely receive a lot of traffic and wasn’t owned by Amazon. According to a posting on Facebook by a well-known Domain ... read more ...
 
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European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld - Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain” takes a look at several businesses that have ditched their .com or country code in favor of a new gtld. AnimalHealthAssociates.org switched to AHA.vet, I get that one a short easy to remember name where the extension represents your profession. AHA.com would not be attainable so this is not bad imo. Bresse.Fr switched ... read more ...
Mon 6th July 2015
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European Domain Centre Looks during Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld - Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain” takes a look at several businesses that have ditched their .com or country code in favor of a new gtld. AnimalHealthAssociates.org switched to AHA.vet, I get that one a short easy to remember name where the extension represents your profession. AHA.com would not be attainable so this is not bad imo. Bresse.Fr switched ... read more ...
 
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Kansas City's Lead Bank To Switch From .Com To .Bank -       According to the Kansas City Business Journal,  Lead Bank is switching their domain name from LeadBankOnline.com to Lead.Bank. Lead Bank will become one of the first banks to switch their domain from a .com to a .bank. According to the story: “Lead Bank will be one of the first banks with a presence in the Kansas City area to make the switch away from “.com” and onto a new “.bank” domain. On May 14, the new “.bank” domain became available for financial institutions. The ... read more ...
 
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Latest .com Winners & Losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in March. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from March. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 1,001,339 2. eNom** 227,918 3. HiChina 165,567 4. PublicDomainRegistry 127,377 5. Tucows 118,454 When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars with retail operations for March. These numbers are the net gains after ... read more ...
 
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Defending your Domain Names with Nat Cohen – DNW Podcast #40 - How to defend your domain names against frivolous cybersquatting complaints. Nat Cohen has one of the best portfolios of 3 letter .com domains and short generic domains. Because many people don’t want to pay a fair price to acquire them, he’s found himself a target of frivolous UDRP and cybersquatting complaints. In this episode, Nat discusses inherent biases in UDRP, lessons he has learned, and what he does to combat frivolous domain name complaints. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Nen.com, Helium.com, Plaza.com And More Domains - In today’s installment of Domain Movers where I detect domain names that have been newly registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies. As always, these are often very early detections and can lead into future brands, products, services, advertising campaigns and much more. We heavily rely on the whois system to provide accurate data but we can not always tell everything simply based on whois records. Please keep that in mind. A currently unknown ... read more ...
 
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Fore! This week's new domain names - 4 domains available at regular prices, .news and .site enter Early Access. Let’s celebrate .Golf with ridiculous stock art.A number of new top level domain names enter Early Access or regular general availability this week. Rightside’s .news enters early access on Wednesday. The company trimmed the premium domains list, making a number of good domain names available at standard registration prices (assuming they make it unregistered through Early Access, which starts this Wednesday). A Name.com ... read more ...
 
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Africa’s participation in ICANN worrying - Africa's participation in ICANN worrying Africa's participation in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) is worrying with very few countries registering and adopting local domain names. This is according to Pierre Dandjinou, the vice president of Stakeholder Engagement for ICANN in Africa, most countries average around 500 local domain registrations. Kenya has an average of 40,000 .ke domains registered to date. Nigeria is said ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Latest State of Abuse Report Shows .Science leads New G’s when it … - Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May, Ten New gTLDs comprised 77% of the 143 new phishing reports in May 2015. This equates to 24 phishing reports per million new gTLD domains under management. The .xyz TLD had the highest number of phishing reports with 42 followed by .science with 22 and .club with 9. When it comes to spam .Science leads the way, not a ... read more ...
Sun 5th July 2015
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Architelos Latest State of Abuse Report Shows .Science leads New G's when it comes to spam - Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May, Ten New gTLDs comprised 77% of the 143 new phishing reports in May 2015. This equates to 24 phishing reports per million new gTLD domains under management. The .xyz TLD had the highest number of phishing reports with 42 followed by .science with 22 and .club with 9. When it comes to spam .Science leads the way, not a ... read more ...