Category Archives: EN

Sun 5th July 2015
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Whose domain? - Whose domain?The domain name space was the hot topic at the annual European Communities Trade Mark Association conference in Hamburg, Germany Brands have suggested several areas where the new gTLD programme needs to be improved, a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said at the European Communities Trade Mark Association conference in Hamburg. Fabien Betremieux, senior registry services and engagement manager in the global domain division at ICANN, ... read more ...
Sat 4th July 2015
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NameJet.com Reports Over $700K In Sales In June Led By Ringtones.com At … -

Namejet.com usually reported $723,500 in domain name sales for a month of Jun 2015

Namejet.com usually reports sales of $2,000 or some-more and for usually those that were paid for by a finish of a month

All sales were led by Ringtones.com that sole for $105,000

5 of a tip 10 sales were 3 minute .com’s

Here are a sales:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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NameJet.com Reports Over $700K In Sales In Jun Led By Ringtones.com At $105K -

Namejet.com usually reported $723,500 in domain name sales for a month of Jun 2015

Namejet.com usually reports sales of $2,000 or some-more and for usually those that were paid for by a finish of a month

All sales were led by Ringtones.com that sole for $105,000

5 of a tip 10 sales were 3 minute .com’s

Here are a sales:

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN
Happy Fourth Of July - Happy Fourth of July to all our readers celebrating in the U.S. and to all our other readers may you have less competition on the various domain auction houses. A look at domain names around the July Fourth holiday. July4.com – Registered in 1996 – Reflex Publishing owns the domain and forwards it to CyberFinder.com. The net/org/biz/info and .us are regged. FourthofJuly.com– Registered in 1997 – Versimedia.com owns the domain and has Go Daddy nameservers, no website. The net/org/info and ... read more ...
Fri 3rd July 2015
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Blacknight Launches Trailblazers Irish Podcast Series - Blacknight July 3rd, 2015 By:THN News(The Hosting News) – Being Irish is more than just geography: it’s a state of mind. That’s the message of a new podcast series launched by the Irish web hosting and domain names company Blacknight. Trailblazers.Irish is a series of exclusive interviews with the people behind websites using the new .IRISH Top-Level Domain (TLD) which launched last week. The new .IRISH registry is among hundreds of new Top Level Domains, like .TECH and .DESIGN, which have ... read more ...
 
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Could Apple Surpass Google in Search One Day ? - There was an interesting article on of all places LearnBonds.com with regards to Apple going after Google in search. The article discussed the fact that Applebot has been crawling the web for close to a year and that back in May, Apple made that clear. The article also delves into why Apple cannot collect as much data as Google does due to their differing policy when it comes to privacy. From the article: Apple sticks its head into search Applebot has been crawling webpages for the better part ... read more ...
 
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.SUCKS: protecting your good name - General Availability Registration Period for Brand Owners Began on June 21 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has the responsibility for the administration of domain names. In 2011, ICANN developed a program for the expansion of new generic top-level domain names (new gTLDs) beyond the standard .com and launched the first of the new gTLD registries in 2013.  The .SUCKS registry, owned and operated by Vox Populi, is one of the most controversial of the new gTLDs. The ... read more ...
 
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EDR: Puka.com + 200 other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales in this Expired Domain Report. Some time passed without China topping our list of expired domain auctions; first Insurance1.com and then DataTrack.com took 1st place – both English and U.S.-focused. This week China once again snags the tape at NameJet’s finish line, coming in 1st with PUKA.com ($9.0k). While it isn’t the $62k monster of 3 weeks prior, this sale nevertheless nearly doubles the price of its runner up. You’ll ... read more ...
 
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WorkBetter.com owners fights behind opposite ACPA lawsuit - Jason Kneen fights motion for preliminary injunction and points out plaintiff’s apparent shenanigans. Earlier this week I wrote about how New York company Office Space Solutions, Inc. had filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against Jason Kneen of the UK over the domain name WorkBetter.com. Kneen registered the domain name in 1999, well before Office Space Solutions had any idea of using the name in 2014. Office Space Solutions also asked for a preliminary injunction on the domain name. [Update 7/7/15: ... read more ...
 
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Get.Club: First New gTLD Vanity License Plate? - Abdu Tarabichi uploaded a photograph of his new vanity license plate this afternoon, and it is advertising a new gTLD domain name. The license plate is from the state of North Carolina, and it says “Get.Club.” Got my car a vanity plate for @getDotClub! 1st #NewgTLD plate in the world? Visit http://t.co/bbqKE0SzkW today!! pic.twitter.com/XZ9EGJ8Cu4 — Abdu Tarabichi (@AbduTarabichi) July 2, 2015 It’s interesting that North Carolina allows plate owners to have a dot within their license ... read more ...
Thu 2nd July 2015
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.Org Wholesale Price To Top $9 At The End of July - I just received a notice from enom.com informing me that the wholesale cost of that the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry Operator for the .ORG domain, will be increasing its annual registration price by $0.80 USD. As a result of this, eNom will raise pricing for the .ORG domain name extension by $0.80 USD on July 31st. The last price increase by the .Org registry was in 2013 to $8.25. Therefore with this increase the wholesale cost of a .Org domain name will rise to $9.05. The wholesale ... read more ...
 
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Global domain name count hits 294 million mark - 0 by Ravi Mandalia in Technology · Web — 2 Jul, 2015 VeriSign has revealed that the total number of registered domain names has hit 294 million mark globally across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015. The internet security company revealed that as many as six million domain names were were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2015 alone – a 1.9 per cent increase over the last quarter of 2014. According ... read more ...
 
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Walmart Files UDRP For Walmart.vodka & Walmart.beer; Beyonce For BeyonceShop.com & Beyonceshopping.com - A bunch of UDRP have been filed in the last couple of days Walmart which previously filed and won a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.horse just filed  a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.beer and Walmart.vodka. Google filed a UDRP on the 11-year-old domain name GoogleArt.com Beyonce filed two separate UDRP for the domain names BeyonceShop.com which was registered in 2009 and Beyonceshopping.com which was registered last year. Beyonce.com does own Beyonce.com. Elizabeth Arden filed a UDRP on the domain ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Matching TLD Not Subject to Failure to Function Rule, Descriptive … -

Trademark Matching TLD Not Subject to Failure to Function Rule, Descriptive Anyway

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How to Register a Domain Name Under 10 Minutes - Registering your domain name is one of the first things (building your website being the first) you will do to establish your online presence and reach out to your audience. In this article, we will discuss easy to follow steps to select and register a domain name, while also helping you to avoid making common “mistakes”. Your domain name is your identity on the Internet and it looks something like “www.yourdomain.com.” Most people choose a domain of their own name, or a nickname, especially ... read more ...
 
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Projects.com Sells for $87,550 On SnapNames.com - The expired domain name auction for Projects.com just ended at Snapnames with  the domain name selling for $87,550. The winner bidder has the ID of: qursan There were 5 bidders at $80,000 or more including the winning bidder. We wrote about the auction when it started on Monday. There were 196 bidders in the domain auction.     ... read more ...
 
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Presidential Candidate & Governor Of Wisc Scott Walker Gets SW.Gop Domain - The Republican Presidential Candidate Governor Of Wisconsin,  Scott Walker has gotten a new gTLD domain name SW.Gop. The domain name is currently resolving to the Governor’s instagram account. The Governor already owns the domain name ScottWalker.com so it will be interesting to see what he does with SW.gop. According to the Governor’s Twitter account @ScottWalker  the site on the domain is due to launch today at 5:59PM CT. We will let you know what the SW.Gop site is carrying later today. We ... read more ...
 
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294 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter - The total number of registered domain names in the first quarter of 2014 was 294 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2015 says VeriSign. Six million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2015. The increase of six million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.9 percent over the fourth quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 17.8 million, or 6.5 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs ... read more ...
 
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eNom adds 2-factor authentication - Make your eNom account more secure. Domain name investors who use eNom can now turn on two-factor authentication to secure their accounts. Setting up two-factor authentication is fairly simple. Once you log into your account, look for “Two Step Verfication” (sic) under the Account Overview: Click edit to start the process. eNom uses the Google Authenticator app, which is simple to set up. It’s also easier to use than a text message system since there are no network delays. After setting up ... read more ...
 
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Lens.com fails in cybersquatting censure over Lens.in - Lens.com not seeing so clearly. Online contact lens retailer Lens.com has failed to win a cybersquatting claim (pdf) against the domain name Lens.in. Lens.com filed the dispute under the .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP). The panelist determined that Lens.com doesn’t have any rights in the term “lens”, just lens.com. That would not give it rights to Lens.in, and this caused the rest of the case to fail. INDRP is very similar to UDRP, except that the third element of use in bad ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Poker.net, Benders.com And More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where I detect recent domain name movements, mainly all by large companies. These include domain name registrations, domain name acquisitions and domain names simply moving for one reason or another. My main source is the whois database on these changes and whois doesn’t always reveal the exact or whole story so I try to back things up with other means but whois information are the main factor of information stated below, so keep that in mind! Here we go with the latest ... read more ...
 
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BearingPoint pays $100k+ for Net.Work domain name - New TLD sells for $100,000 plus premium renewal rates. Consulting firm BearingPoint has paid $100,000 to Minds + Machines for the domain name Net.work, and that’s just for the first year. It will pay an undisclosed premium renewal to continue using it after the first year. Minds + Machines took a different tack with .work, offering registrations for a just a couple bucks at retail. It also offered up to ten free .work domain names per customer at its own registrar, helping to boost overall registrations ... read more ...
 
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Time To Look during Online Education names as University of Phoenix Sees Drop off - The University of Phoenix is owned by Apollo Education Group which trades publicly under the symbol of APOL. The company reported dismal earnings and is now laying off 900 employees. The company has watched half of their enrollment drop in 5 years. Online Education, Classes and Degree have always been high paying keywords, back in 2011 WordStream released the 20 highest paying keywords for Google AdWords. They recently did a list for Bing where education did not make the top 20. From 2011 Google ... read more ...
Wed 1st July 2015
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‘.brand’ new gTLDs – lessons learned and looking ahead to a second round - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for Internet Protocol addresses and the domain name system (DNS). Among other DNS-related matters, ICANN is responsible for introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) into the DNS and overseeing their management. About 34%, or 664, of these... ... read more ...
 
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FTC responds to ICANN over ‘.sucks’ pricing policies - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) referral of concerns over the pricing policies in the ‘.sucks’ new generic top-level domain (gTLD), but did not actually answer the specific question posed by ICANN. In April ICANN referred the Intellectual Property Constituency’s (IPC) concerns... ... read more ...