Category Archives: EN

Wed 10th June 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Verisign Lowered to Sell at Zacks (VRSN) - Zacks lowered shares of Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report released on Tuesday morning. According to Zacks, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong first-quarter 2015 results with both earnings and revenues growing year over year. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long ... read more ...
 
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How to Maximise Registrations Through Effective Registrar Relationships - There are some surefire ways to get channel engagement and drive registrations, but doing what everyone else is doing is not going to cut it in the world of new TLDs. Successful Registrar engagement requires an investment of time far in advance of what some Registry Operators appear to be expecting, both in terms of ongoing relationship management as well as continually providing tools which make it easier for Registrars to sell your extension over other TLDs. There are a number of methods ... read more ...
Tue 9th June 2015
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New Internet Domain Names for Banks: What You Need to Know Now - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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New .insurance domain names expected later this year: McCarthy Tetrault -

The site director has been notified, and a blunder has been logged.

Please go behind and try again. If a problem persists, greatfully try again later.

Via: canadianunderwriter.ca

 
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Will .music Domains Make the Internet Better or Just More of a Crowded … - Mario Tama, Getty ImagesA few years ago, ICANN, the little-known non-profit corporation that runs the internet, significantly expanded the number of top-level domains. Top-level domains are the highest part of the web domain hierarchy — they’re the –.com, –.net and –.org part of web addresses. Smaller top-level domains are nothing new. My favorite website of all time, cashcats.biz, uses a TLD released in 2001. And lots of above-board sites use TLDs like .info and .fm (including, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By NBT.com For $50K - Over the past week, 560 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars. 55% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are:                                                                    ·         Top .com: nbt.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: roasted.de at 8,888 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: pulses.org at 9,000 EUR Here are the new ... read more ...
 
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Tesla Is The 5th Top Keyword Registered In .Com in May - Verisign just published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET for May and noticeably Tesla is sitting at number 5. Of course Tesla is a car maker and a trademarked term. So it seems very interesting that this term would be in the top 10 keyword registered domain names in .com for May The word “Option” led both the .com and the .net list pdf is another trademarked term by Adobe which is the 2nd top 10 keyword term in .net Here are some of the domain name registered in May with ... read more ...
 
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Make Sure Your Brand Doesn’t .suck ! - The .sucks domain name registry is preparing to launch, queuing up what promises to be an epic battle between those who build brands and those who condemn them. Touted as a platform "designed to help consumers find their voices and allow companies to find the value in criticism," .sucks is one of the latest -- and most controversial -- generic Top-Level Domain ("gTLD") strings recently made available by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"). A gTLD is the term to the right ... read more ...
 
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How genuine estate agents use domain names - A look at domain names in home listings. Earlier this year I wrote about domain names used to market homes for sale. This week I received a glossy magazine advertising homes for sale in Austin, and I decided to see how many of the homes had a domain name in their description or title. Of the 95 homes featured in the magazine, 51 had a domain name specifically for the home. That’s 54%. (It’s possible other homes have a unique domain name but their agents did not include them in the magazine.) I ... read more ...
 
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IANA Transition, Accountability Will Remain Central at June ICANN Meeting in … - IANA Transition, Accountability Will Remain Central at June ICANN Meeting in Argentina By Joseph WrightJune 8 — Plans to transition remaining U.S. oversight of key domain name system functions to the global multistakeholder community and to enhance ICANN's accountability in the process will be front and center at the organization's public meeting in Buenos Aires later this month.The meeting will take place at a pivotal point in ... read more ...
 
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Users Are Still Unaware of New TLDs, Study Reveals - A study conducted by Nielsen at the request of ICANN shows how most people are still unaware and distrust new Top Level Domain (TLD) extensions like .email, .link, .party, .photo, .systems, .tips, or .wiki. Introduced in late 2013, the new wave of generic TLDs now comprises over 600 entries, from the weirder .xyz and .ninja, to common extensions like .marketing, .club and .agency. Questioning over 6,100 users in 24 countries, the Nielsen study reveals what we expected. Old domain extensions ... read more ...
 
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Important UDRP precedent shows that TLDs are carrying more and more weight -

In a new preference underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a London-based investment government association has successfully performed a send of a domain name reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.capital’. 

The ‘.capital’ TLD is one of the…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Court earnings stolen 224.com, 605.com and 452.com domain names - Three number domain names returned to rightful owner after lawsuit. A U.S. Federal Court has ordered the domain names 224.com, 605.com and 452.com be returned to Traffic Names, Ltd. Ian Andrew of Traffic Names filed suit last year alleging the domain names were stolen from his eNom account. He found out about the theft after the domain names were listed for sale on domain name marketplace 4.cn. 4.cn noticed the recent ownership change and contacted Andrew to make sure he was aware. ESQWire.com and ... read more ...
 
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DNW Rewind: 10 years ago this month - Take a trip back in time in the domain name business. Domain Name Wire is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at what I was writing about ten years ago this month. In looking back at the June 2005 archives, I realize I wrote some pretty crappy stories back then. But there was a lot of interesting stuff going on, and it’s amusing to take a trip back in time… .Com and .Net domain names totaled 76.9 million names as of the end of Q1 2005, ... read more ...
 
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Fred Krueger sells about 1/5th of his interest in Minds + Machines - Former chairman sells 24.5 million shares in three transactions. Former Minds + Machines chairman Fred Krueger has sold about a fifth of his stake in the new top level domain name company since leaving at the end of last month. Krueger has sold 24.5 million shares in three transactions, netting him close to £2 million, assuming he sold for just over 8 pence per share. [Update: Minds + Machines announced on 6/10 that Krueger sold another 4 million shares, on 6/11 that he sold 10,750,000 shares and ... read more ...
 
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MM.com Domain Sells After $1.2 Million Purchase - The domain name MM.com has been confirmed sold! The transaction took place last Wednesday, June 3, 2015 with the domain name being acquired by Jinxin Wang Luo of Fujian, China according to whois records. I did try and get a purchase price but the buyer did not wish to share the details publicly. Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co.,Ltd, owners of the popular 4.cn website acquired the domain name MM.com in a $1.2 Million dollar purchase that was brokered by Sedo.com’s Dave Evanson as reported by DomainInvesting.com’s ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD program continues to gain momentum – nearly 6 million new domain … - The new gTLD program, considered to be one of the most important Internet developments in recent years, continues to gain momentum since ICANN delegated its first new gTLD back in October 2013. ICANN has delegated more than 600 new gTLDs to date. Of those delegated strings, 365 are open to the general public. A little more than 1 million new domains had been purchased at this time last year; now, that number is nearing the 6 million mark. And don’t expect things to slow down. New gTLDs continue ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa - According to an email we received today from Minds + Machines they are offering free domains in the new gTLD’s .Work .Casa only on the Minds + Machines Registrar “The offer is only valid for one more week, exclusively on Minds + Machines and the offer expires on  June 15th, 2015” The offer is valid for 10 .Work and 10 .Casa non-premium (standard names) domains “per customer” Under the offer the first year registration is free, and renews at $5/yr thereafter. Discount is applied at checkout. It’s ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Top 6 Million Domain Registrations & We Break Down The Numbers - The number of new gTLD registrations has topped 6 million according to ntldstats.com Lets break down the numbers by looking at the difference from our last report published on April 10th, when new gTLD domain registrations broke the 5 Million mark (Referred to as the April Report or April numbers) .Science owned by Famous Four Media added 200,000 registrations. .Science was launched and heavily promoted by AlpNames.com which gave away 50K or more free domains and has been selling them for $.49 thereafter. .Party ... read more ...
 
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Last month's Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at the past month in the domain name business. A big sale in a new top level domain name, a Chinese domain name auction, and a new top level domain name partnership were among the most-read stories on Domain Name Wire last month. Here’s a list of the top 5: 1. 3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+ – Rightside sold this two letter new TLD for a bundle. 2. Scenes from a domain name auction in China – This domain name auction in China looks a lot likes ones in the West. 3. New ... read more ...
 
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When Will The 2nd gTLD Round Open? ICANN Puts Out RFP For Study; Final … - There has been much discussion on when ICANN would open up a 2nd round of new gTLD’s. We at thedomains.com, already went on record last year predicting 2018 would be the earliest and its looking like we were right. ICANN has put out a Request for Proposal  (RFP)  to conduct a technical study examining the impact of the New gTLD Program (the Program) on the DNS root system. According to ICANN “This will be the first analysis of the impact of the addition of significantly more TLDs to the root ... read more ...
 
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Banks and insurers get their own internet domains - Banks and insurers will be able to start registering for the financial services industry’s two new generic top-level domains, .bank and .insurance, on June 24, 2015. “What sets .bank and .insurance apart from other gTLDs, including .com and .ca, is that they will offer a trusted, protected and secure internet environment for participating organizations and the customers they serve,” write Ana Badour and Sophie Gupta  in McCarthy Tétrault’s snIP/ITs blog. “Only banking and insurance ... read more ...
 
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Survey: Are people aware of the domain changes? - Dive Brief: According to a new survey, nearly half (46%) of Internet users are familiar with the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) -- compared to 98% familiar with legacy domains like .com, .net and .org.  The survey, which is sponsored by ICANN and conducted by Nielsen, focused on the top seven most popular new gTLDs: .email, .photography, .link, .guru, .realtor, .club and .xyz. Respondents ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD's Top 6 Million Domain Registrations & We Break Down The Numbers - The number of new gTLD registrations has topped 6 million according to ntldstats.com Lets break down the numbers by looking at the difference from our last report published on April 10th, when new gTLD domain registrations broke the 5 Million mark (Referred to as the April Report or April numbers) .Science owned by Famous Four Media added 200,000 registrations. .Science was launched and heavily promoted by AlpNames.com which gave away 50K or more free domains and has been selling them for $.49 thereafter. .Party ... read more ...
 
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Parking association monetizes typos – with a TM holder's permission - Brand-approved typosquatting? Sort of. A new domain name parking service promises to help people monetize brand related domain names, such as typos, in a way that brand owners support. Protected Parking “enables domain owners to monetize brand related domains with the full knowledge and explicit agreement from the brand owner,” according to the company. If you have typos or traffic domain names that include trademarks, the company will monetize them through the respective company’s affiliate ... read more ...