Category Archives: EN

Tue 23rd June 2015
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LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350% - LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. .MN is the ccTLD for the country of Mongolia LogicBoxes met Datacom’s requirement for a long-term partner that would help them achieve their business goals. It helped setup Datacom on OrderBox, including web email hosting, website builders ... read more ...
 
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KSregistry shows refreshed website at ICANN Meeting - KSregistry June 22nd, 2015 By:THN News(The Hosting News) – Duly for the 53rd ICANN Meeting that takes place from June 21-25, 2015 in Buenos Aires, the KSregistry GmbH presents its new revised website with clear design, user-friendly structure and comprehensive services. KSregistry, a hundred percent subsidiary of the international registrar Key-Systems, offers customers the customized, technical operation of their registry as well as consulting services for operating of a Top Level Domain (TLD). ... read more ...
 
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Verisign admits: It is formidable to brand fascinating domain names that are available - Patent says it’s hard to find available domains, marketing says most domain lookups are successful. When do your company’s intellectual property efforts contradict your marketing efforts? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just issued patent number 9,065,794 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for providing domain name suggestions”. The patent describes ways of finding domain names based on user preferences and external data sources. I’m struck by a statement in the patent: A distinctive, ... read more ...
 
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Symantec sells .Security and .Protection domains to XYZ - Symantec now left with two .brand domain names. Security software firm Symantec has sold its two non-brand top level domain names to XYZ, the company behind the .xyz top level domain name. XYZ says the .security domain name can be used for anything from private security to building security to internet security, with domains like ComputerSoftware.security and DowntownLosAngeles.Security. The company notes that a lot of security companies use the term protection in their brand names and slogans. Protection ... read more ...
 
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Nominet (.UK) Release Domain Name Dispute Report For 2014 - Nominet, the nonprofit that  behind .UK, released its the annual summary of domain name disputes bought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) which is similar to the UDRP system. A total of 726 complaints were made, up 8% on 2013. However, 2014 also saw a 51% increase in the number of cases where people were able to come to an agreement themselves and with the help of a Nominet mediator, without needing to appoint an expert to make the decision. 55% of cases resulted in the domain name being ... read more ...
 
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Bill Sweetman "Today, to launch a consumer-facing code on something other than a .COM is risky." - CampaignLive.com is a community website focused on the advertising industry, they put out a piece on the new gtlds and looked at the critics and a few who are using the new gtlds. On the critic side there were comments from brands that too much of the profit seems to be coming from a shakedown of those with intellectual property interests. Dot Sucks is discussed in detail, and a mention on Taylor Swift purchasing .porn and .adult. There was upside of Lions Gate Entertainment using a .movie for the ... read more ...
 
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Congress TM Caucus Tells ICANN To Give Amazon; .Amazon If It Wants Its Independence - The co-chairman’s of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, wrote to ICANN telling them they need to approve Amazon’s application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to “rights” asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest and tied the outcome of this issue to the IANA transition away from US oversight that ICANN is seeking: “At this critical stage in which the United States Government prepares to transition stewardship of the JANA functions, we believe it is incumbent ... read more ...
 
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DropCatch offers name-your-own-price bulk backorders - Service lets customers place backorders for as little as $15. Expired domain name service DropCatch.com has launched a beta test of a discount club for customers who backorder a lot of domain names. DropCatch’s standard minimum price is $59 for a backorder. Under the new program, bulk customers can bid anywhere from $15-$58. If more than one bulk customer places an order and DropCatch catches it, the highest initial bid wins out. There are no auctions. There’s a bit of a catch: bulk bids below ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap Launches Respectourprivacy.com To Save Private Whois Registrations - Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they object to the proposed rule that would greatly restrict the use of privacy or proxy services on whois records of domain names. ICANN public comment period closes on July 7th midnight UTC. As of yesterday there were only 8 comments posted to the ICANN site. Today there are 833. The ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains is renewing domain names for free - Select customers who turn on auto renew by July 11 get a free one year renewal. Google Domains, Google’s newish domain name registration service, is renewing domain names for free. The company sent an email to some of its customers today, offering to renew their domain names free for a year if they turn on auto renew. The offer only applies to domain names registered before June 21, so you can’t register domain names today and get two years for one. However, for domains registered prior to that ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Buys The New gTLD .Security From Symantec - According to a post on its Corporate blog last night .XYZ announced that it acquired the new gTLD .Security “Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would like a secure and authoritative online presence.” .Security was originally applied for by three companies, Defender Security Company (DefenderDirect.com), Donuts and Symantec Corporation who won the rights to operate the extension after a private auction. Symantec ... read more ...
 
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TLD Reduces Shimmy Impact on E-bikes - 8:30news Sales Trends WEINSBERG, Germany – Unstable driving behaviour of e-bikes and speed pedelecs caused by the shimmy effect of the handlebar often causes accidents. The TLD inside steering damper can prevent this and ensure a trouble-free ride. Photo: The inside demper prevents shimmy effect with e-bikes. – Photo TLD The shimmy effect generally occurs when the frequencies of various components on the e-bike, like the frame, fork and tires overlay in a mutually reinforcing way. ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
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TLD Security, Spec 11 and Business Implications - After successfully securing your new TLD, launching it, and executing on your meticulously devised marketing plan, the only other concern you face is Security. Unfortunately, predicting exactly when and to what degree a security threat will occur can be difficult but you can take steps to make your new TLD a source of legitimacy and credibility. You may ask: Why security? One obvious reason: Specification 11. As part of the ICANN Registry Agreement, registry operators are required to ... read more ...
 
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Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of … - Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com’s starting  with Barclays recent announcement of the launch of branded domain names .barclays and .barclaycard. Here is the sentence that caught my eye: “There are some interesting whispers from the media and entertainment industry too: Google is ... read more ...
 
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Now You Can Register .sucks Domain Names - Phew, we made it to Monday without the entire corporate world melting down. At midnight yesterday, a new Top-Level-Domain (TLD) went live, joining the ranks of .com, .org and newer upstarts like .london. Now you can register domains with the suffix ".sucks". The TLD has big corporations terrified as it means we could soon see websites like Coke.Sucks, PlayStation.Sucks or BT.Sucks shoot up the Google rankings. According to The Register there have already been allegations that the registrar ... read more ...
 
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Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of The Year - Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com’s starting  with Barclays recent announcement of the launch of branded domain names .barclays and .barclaycard. Here is the sentence that caught my eye: “There are some interesting whispers from the media and entertainment industry too: Google is ... read more ...
 
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This permit image email reminds me of new domain names - Reserved plates being released, just like reserved domains… I received an email a few days ago from MyPlates, the company that administers the personalized (vanity) license plate program for Texas. Notice a similarity to what a lot of new top level domain name companies are doing? Here’s what the email said: Reserved Texas license plate messages up for grabs! Today we are releasing a number of previously reserved license plate messages for immediate sale! Some of these messages have previously ... read more ...
 
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Selling domains on Flippa with Kevin Fink – DNW Podcast #38 - Learn about the Flippa marketplace and its acquisition of Domain Holdings. Learn the best way to get started selling domain names on Flippa in this week’s podcast. Kevin Fink, Director of Domains for Flippa, also discusses what the company’s acquisition of domain name brokerage Domain Holdings means for Flippa users, and what Flippa is doing to improve the integrity of its marketplace. Also: Domains for $1.50 or less, WordPress Foundation files a cybersquatting lawsuit, CentralNic scores more ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: ContentID.com, NNNN.com and More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where Jamie Zoch monitors domain names on the move that are being registered, acquired or simply moving mostly all by large corporations. These domain names can lead to being used for new products, advertising campaigns, services, brands and much more. These are often very early detections and can lead into the first time something is seen publicly relating to it. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Apple Inc. registered 4 new domain names and those include: OSXElcapitan.com ... read more ...
 
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Vox Populi cashes in as ‘.sucks’ registration levels are revealed - Trevor Little In April we noted that brands were rushing to secure their trademark terms in the ‘.sucks’ gTLD sunrise period, despite a hefty price tag. This weekend the sunrise closed, and the string hit general availability, giving us the first opportunity to gauge how successful its sunrise period actually was. On first analysis the Vox Populi ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest.Asia to be hold in Macau in September - Domain name conference heads to China in a few months. I’ve been a bit confused by NamesCon’s strategy with DOMAINfest after acquiring the brand. The one day add-ons to existing domain name conferences haven’t made much sense to me. But now DOMAINfest is hosting a complete conference, this time in Macau, China. DOMAINfest.Asia is being staged by the NamesCon, Simon Cousins’ Allegravita and .Asia. Allegravita has been staging events in Macau for over ten years, and Cousins tells me he hopes ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Irish and .Bank - Two new top level domain names enter general availability this week. Two new top level domain names enter general availability this week, although one won’t be generally available to the public. .Bank domain names become available on Wednesday, June 24. Most readers won’t be able to register them, though. It’s a restricted domain name for banks and savings associations. DomainNameWire.bank isn’t an option. Most big market domain name registrars aren’t carrying the domain for this reason. .Irish ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2015
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Who Doesn't Suck? Kim Kardashian; Justin Bieber; Twitter, FoxNews, CNN Pass On $2,500 .Sucks Domains - While some of the biggest brands  in Entertainment, Sports, Politics,  Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 new gTLD’s in the new .sucks domain extension, in the Sunrise period for up to $2,499 for each domain, there were some glaring misses of some of the most criticized, controversial and most talked about companies, celebrities and public figures. There are not domain registration so far for any of these as of publication: Kanyewest.sucks Kardashians.sucks KimKardashian.sucks JustinBieber.sucks Twitter.sucks FoxNews.sucks NewYorkTimes.sucks CNN.sucks Donuts.sucks LindsayLohan.sucks BillCosby.sucks BarackObama.sucks and ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging  up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499,  with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price,  then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names: markzuckerberg.sucks markzuckerbergreally.sucks mzuckerberg.sucks mzuckerbergtotally.sucks zuck.sucks zuckerberg.sucks zuckerbergreally.sucks zuckerbergtotally.sucks zuckreally.sucks zucks.sucks Guess ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging  up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499,  with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price,  then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names: markzuckerberg.sucks markzuckerbergreally.sucks mzuckerberg.sucks mzuckerbergtotally.sucks zuck.sucks zuckerberg.sucks zuckerbergreally.sucks zuckerbergtotally.sucks zuckreally.sucks zucks.sucks Guess ... read more ...