Category Archives: EN

Wed 17th June 2015
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CentralNic raises £2.3m in placing to improve balance sheet - Internet platform CentralNic Group has raised £2.3m through a placing of shares to strengthen its balance sheet. The group issued 5.75m shares at 40p each, bringing in £2.3m before expenses. The raising represents a premium of 16% to the current share price. CentralNic has been focusing its strategy in the developing markets and in the inventory of top-level domains (TLDs). It said new acquisitions have been becoming available for each of its wholesale, retail and enterprise business ... read more ...
 
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Debate rages over future extension of URS to legacy TLDs - Trevor Little Noting that it wishes to “increase the consistency of registry agreements across all gTLDs”, ICANN has proposed that the renewal of the ‘.travel’ sponsored TLD registry agreement be based on the approved new gTLD Registry Agreement as updated on January 2014. One of the results of this approach is that the registry operator would ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic raises £2.3 Million - CentralNic pads bank account with institutional placement. Publicly traded domain name registry and registrar CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) has raised £2.3 Million by placing 5,750,000 new ordinary shares. The shares were sold at 40 pence each, above yesterday’s closing mid-market price of 34.5 pence. Shares are trading between 37.50 pence and 39.00 pence today. The shares will represent 8.58% of the company’s ordinary share capital. CentralNic can boast being the #2 backend registry for new top level ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Group plc Raises £2.3 Million at 16% Premium in Placing - CentralNic Group Plc LON:CNIC the internet platform that derives revenue from the worldwide sales of internet domain names, has this morning announced that it has raised £2.3 million, before expenses, through the placing of 5,750,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each at 40 pence per share.   The Board of CentralNic is focussed on delivering a step change in its growth both organically and through the continuation of its proven acquisition strategy as deals are becoming available for each of ... read more ...
 
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Pricing & Promotions of TLDs – Is Your Billing System Holding You Back? - As the leading consulting firm to the Domain Name industry, we work with many of the existing gTLDs, ccTLDs and new gTLDs. During our engagements we do a lot of listening (as well as work) and this gives us a unique perspective on the key challenges the industry is facing. Recently, we are hearing feedback from many leading registries and registrars about their need for more dynamic pricing and promotions and their concern that there may not be enough flexibility in their billing systems to ... read more ...
Tue 16th June 2015
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An Open Letter to All New TLD Operators - Dear TLD operators, As many of you will know from my previous posts, I'm pretty passionate about our new TLD industry and genuinely believe we are all working towards a goal that will provide something truly special for future generations to embrace. However, speaking candidly (as is the Australian way), I think we'd all agree that there is much to do to get new TLDs into the mainstream in a timely manner. And as new TLD applicants, we all have a responsibility to work together to ensure ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong during $2.2million led by NKB.com - Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1million. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: nkb.com at 31,000 USD Top ccTLD: tires.ae at 22,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: dami.net at 18,000 EUR New gTLD Sales for the week included: service.bike    5,000    EURx.lighting    3,999    USDmedien.haus    1,980   ... read more ...
 
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Companies play ‘wait and see’ in the ‘.brand’ desert - Tim Lince ‘.brand’ use has long been cited as potentially giving new gTLDs a positive profile boost amongst consumers, with Barclays recently generating headlines over the announcement that it plans to migrate its online presence to the ‘.barclays’ TLD. However, two other ‘.brand’ applicants have adopted a more cautious stance, with a Richemont ... read more ...
 
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10 new domain names we can register for $1.50 or less - Register these domain names without burning a hole in your wallet. Want some inexpensive domain names? You’re in luck. At least 10 new TLDs can be registered today for just $1.50 or less, and only two of them have any sort of limits on registrations. While some registrars, notably 11, offer .com and other TLDs at a big discount, the offer is typically limited to one registration per customer. Except for the first two on the list below, I believe there are no limits in place at the registrars. I ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
AT & T Researchers Look during Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation - In recent years, vulnerable hosts and maliciously registered domains have been frequently involved in mobile attacks. In this paper, we  explore the feasibility of detecting malicious domains visited on a cellular network based solely on lexical characteristics  of  the domain  names. In addition to using traditional quantitative features of domain names, we also use a word segmentation algorithm to segment the domain names into individual words to greatly expand the size of the feature set. Experiments ... read more ...
 
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Commercial Connect fails miserably in Community Priority bid - Proving a community for “shop” proves very difficult. .Shop top level domain name applicant Commercial Connect has been denied (pdf) in its bid for Community Priority, scoring just five points out the necessary 14 required to prevail. Like GMO, which also applied for community status, Commercial Connect didn’t score any points for “community establishment” and nexus. GMO got six points in its evaluation. Commercial Connect has been a harebrained mission to eliminate competition for .shop. ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN to Delete URS from .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just told ICANN to drop the notion of applying the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) dispute resolution system to .Travel and other legacy gTLDs without undertaking a full Policy Development Process (PDP). In a June 12 letter, EFF stated: ICANN should not apply URS to the .travel domain, or to any additional domains, by the unaccountable means of staff inserting new conditions into the renewal of the registry operator's contract. Rather, the public ... read more ...
 
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Global generic domains for financial institutions: worth the price of admission? - In 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), the non-profit organization responsible for creating and maintaining internet domains, approved a program to create new generic top level domains ("gTLD"). In response, an international consortium of financial institutions, financial services trade associations and insurance companies founded fTLD Registry Services, LLC ("fTLD") to obtain ownership of the .bank and .insurancegTLDs. In May 2012, fTLD submitted applications ... read more ...
 
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Dot Brands Should Not Rush to Market, but Build Effective Strategies First - Brands applied for their new gTLDs to protect their brand and ensure they didn't miss an important new opportunity, but few had a clear business case for how they would use the gTLD platform when they applied. As brands approach the July 29th contracting deadline, the inevitable question is arising: "What do we do with this?" While a few brands like Barclays have rolled out HOME.BARCLAYS or Marriott has made an announcement about its use of .MARRIOTT deep inside their MARRIOTT.COM page where ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD - On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD.  The domain was not registered by North Sound Domains. FTD is represented by CSC Domains. The domain name Pro.Flowers ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy vs. Uniregistry – a Great Debate - Uniregistry is increasingly competing with GoDaddy, and stronger competition is good for everybody. Increasingly competing with each other for domain investors’ business.Last week Doron Vermaat, a domain investor who writes the blog DNGeek, wrote a post explaining why he was moving his 600 domain names from GoDaddy to Uniregistry. His post sparked a lot of comments, including from representatives of the two registrars. That many of the “which registrar is best?” conversations now mention the ... read more ...
 
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Kaspersky spam and phishing report: some fears about new gTLDs have … -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System. At a time of writing, over 630 new gTLDs have been substituted and approximately 400 have been launched.

New gTLDs were introduced by ICANN to…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Domain Movers: LeapButton.com, Bra.com and More Domains - If this is your first time seeing Domain Movers, you are in for a treat! Domain movers is an exclusive series where domain detective Jamie Zoch scours the web and finds recently registered domain names, recently acquired and domains moving for one reason or another. These domain names often lead into new products, brands, advertising campaigns, services, tv shows and much more. These are often early detections, so often times very little information is available to what “the terms” really mean ... read more ...
 
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Neustar's Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37 - What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provider for a lot of new TLDs. On this episode, Neustar VP of Registry Sean Kaine talks about these top level domains and how he sees the internet naming landscape changing in the coming years. What’s the future of .US? Why is .Co still growing in the face ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Sucks and .Markets - .Sucks hits general availability and the company that spent $4.7 million for a .com launches a new top level domain name. It will be a controversial week for new top level domain names, assuming Vox Populi doesn’t delay the start of .sucks general availability a second time. .Sucks domain names become available to the general public on Saturday at a suggested retail price of $249. Companies can also block their domains at participating registrars for about $199. The much-maligned “consumer advocate” ... read more ...
 
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New domain names are just better…right? - When searching online, Google gives you three opportunities to work out if a result is worthy of your click. The page title – that’s the blue bit in a larger font. The green bit – that’s the domain name. The grey bit – that’s the page description, words that describe what the page is all about. The domain name is a key chance to persuade a visitor to click. And thanks to launch of new gTLDs towards the end of 2013, every website owner has an opportunity to make their domain more relevant, ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest is Coming to South Florida As Part Of THE Domain Conference - The organizers of THE Domain Conference announced today that DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th as part of its conference, from Saturday, September 26 through Tuesday, September 29 Jothan Frakes, co-founder of NamesCon, will be bringing the renowned DOMAINfest networking and content, which will be a compliment to THE Domain Conference, with its Premier Sponsor .CLUB Registry Voluntary donations will be accepted in support of the Internet Commerce Association and the Water ... read more ...
 
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Some of Kim Dotcom's Mega Domains Expired and are adult for sale - According to TorrentFreak.com some of the domains belonging to Kim Dotcom have expired and are now listed for sale. Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak the domains were not supposed to expire. “This should not have happened,” he says, adding that someone else in his team handled the registrations. Huge Domains picked up one of the domains. From the article: After the seized Megaupload and Megavideo domains ran malicious ads last month, there is more Mega domain strangeness to report. Various domain ... read more ...
Sun 14th June 2015
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GoDaddy: Alleged discriminatory email not authentic - GoDaddy says it didn’t send email calling job applicant an obese Christian. GoDaddy has formally denied allegations that it sent an email to a job applicant explaining that it wouldn’t hire him because he was an obese Christian. The denial included detailed steps the company took to determine the email wasn’t authentic. Keith Connolly applied for a job with GoDaddy. He later received a rejection email. In addition to the form rejection email he received, he said the bottom included a forwarded ... read more ...
 
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How to name your startup - No one knows the value of a great domain as much as a startup. That is why some of the most successful new startups shell out upwards of $500,000 for a category killer premium name. But where does that leave everyone else? According to Wakefield Research, 52 percent of people would change their name if they had a chance to. Naming a startup is often an exercise in frustration. It is hard enough to find an acceptable name that is not already in use. But the really frustrating part ... read more ...