Category Archives: EN

Tue 19th January 2016
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Donuts Launches .WINE and .VIN Internet Domains - <!-- Paragraph before: BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Wineries, vintners, retailers, and wine aficionados have two new homes on the Internet as Donuts Inc., the largest registry for new "not-com" domain names (known in the industry as generic top-level domains, or gTLDs), today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general ... read more ...
 
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The DNW NamesCon recap - Here are my takeaways from last week’s event in Las Vegas. What a way to kick off the year in the domain name business. Last week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas attracted over 1,000 people. Enthusiasm, driven in part by a strong finish to 2015 thanks to China, was high. That’s a lot of people. The record attendance was a good thing, but it also created a couple of challenges. Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie reveals Escrow.com stats.In general, there were no issues finding a seat at sessions ... read more ...
 
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I'm offered domains on NameJet - For the first time in over 5 years, I’m trying my hand at selling domain names on NameJet. I’ll report back about how it goes. Here are some of the domains I am selling: Cathleen.com – I might have set the reserve too low, but I’ll let the market decide. AfricanAmericans.com – Registered in 1997, this was one of iREIT’s notable domains in one of its acquisitions. VietnamWar.com – another 1997 registration with lots of potential. I also have two good product names — PennyLoafers.com ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: Don't splash and drive - If you don’t like the wine and automotive domain names launching this week, you can leave .feedback. It’s a fairly active week for new to level domain names with six seven domains entering general availability, including a handful that don’t mix. Jay Westerdal’s Top Level Spectrum launched the .feedback domain name on Monday. Each domain comes with a free online feedback platform. MSRP is $39.95 per year. Rightside launches .Family on Wednesday, and you can buy the domains for about $25. After ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon auction was a entrance out celebration for new TLDs - Over 30 domains under nTLDs sold last week, and some for high prices. The live portion of last week’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon delivered about $1.5 million of sales. New top level domain names accounted for just over 20% of this dollar figure. I think this was a huge moment for new top level domain names on the aftermarket. I know a lot of people will point out that some of the domains sold were among the very best for each top level domain. This is true. But to watch domains ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Plans to Track gTLD Marketplace Health - How are top level domain names doing? We might soon have a way to track them. ICANN has formed a working group to create metrics designed to assess the overall health of the marketplace for gTLDs. Preliminary documents indicate that the scope may include all gTLDs rather than just the ones commonly referred to as “new gTLDs.” Could this be the first step toward a tool that allows ICANN to forecast future revenue? Or for ICANN to use in deciding when to open the next round of gTLD applications? ICANN ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2016
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy and passes the magic million – Virtual - AlpNames now has more than 1 million domain names under management and becomes the second largest new gTLD registrar on the planet.Monday 18th January 2016, Gibraltar: According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames (a leading domain name registrar with a special focus on new style domain extensions) has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management.“GoDaddy is by far the world’s largest and most well-known domain registrar,” said Damon Barnard, Chief Operations ... read more ...
 
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New TLD .Feedback Arrived Today with Unique Features Designed by a Familiar Industry Face - While many view new gTLDs as being competitors to the long established .com, Westerdal said that because of its unique characteristics, that is not the case with .feedback . "New registries use phrases such ... read more ...
 
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Domain experts on the slow start for new gTLDS, and what may turn the tide - Trevor Little Opening this year’s Com Laude Domain Conference, managing director Nick Wood acknowledged that “it has been a slow start” for the ongoing expansion of the new gTLDs program. Noting that, as of January 8, there were just over 11.5 million gTLD domain registrations (compared to 290 million across legacy domains) he pointed out that ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar - According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames  has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD’s under management while Godaddy has new gTLD’s 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a 8.81% of the new gTLD market domain registrar market, while Godaddy has 8.87 of the new gTLD market. The largest new gTLD domain name ... read more ...
 
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US Sporting Bodies Flock to ‘.tickets’ Domains - Copyright 2016 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2016-01-18 LONDON, January 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Accent Media sells '.tickets' domains to every team in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as a number of teams in the National Hockey League (NHL)  London start-up building presence in American entertainment, following 'Broadway.tickets' announcement late last year  Trend highlights marketing and rights protection ... read more ...
 
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Google Self-Driving Car: The X? - Google’s .car domain name registrations are more interesting than Apple’s. Everyone got in a tizzy a couple weeks ago about Apple registering .car domain names. This was stupid because Apple registers its brands in just about every new domain name that comes out. Google does the same — it registered Adsense.car, Alphabet.car and Google.car, among others. But it also registered a few generic/descriptive domains in .car, .cars and .auto. It registered SelfDriving.car, Self-Driving.car, Driverless.car, ... read more ...
 
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Tax-advantaged Domain Investing – DNW Podcast #67 - How to boost returns by deferring taxes. Taxes take a big chunk out of domain name investment returns. What if there was a way to defer taxes, and reinvest that money in more domains? It’s possible, and today’s guest Kirk Chisholm of Innovative Advisory Group explains how. Chisholm previously answered questions on a QA with Domain Name Wire. Also: NamesCon recap, Banana.com, Frank Schilling gives away domains, .Boston, GoDaddy investor app and .Club sales. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report – NamesCon edition - Here’s what you might have missed in the expired domain market. Last week, much of the domain industry’s attention converged at NamesCon, including a live auction arranged by NameJet + RightOfTheDot. (Quite a successful auction, I might add.) Yet for all that buzz, in the background business went on as usual. After all, domainers don’t stop paying attention to valuable expired domains simply because registrars have a few new features to unveil! Here’s what sold at NameJet during that ... read more ...
Fri 15th January 2016
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Ziff Davis buys Offers.com - Publisher gets popular website–and killer domain name–with Offers.com acquisition. Offers.com CEO Steve Schaffer says a great domain name doesn’t ensure a successful business, but it definitely helps.Publishing company Ziff Davis, a division of publicly traded J2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM) has purchased Austin company Offers.com. Offers.com is a coupon code and product deals site that attracts five million monthly unique visitors. I caught up with Offers.com founder and CEO Steve Schaffer this ... read more ...
 
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Why we shouldn't go bananas over Banana.com domain name "sale" - There’s a good reason to be skeptical of a $2 million banana.com domain sale. Last month there was a bit of a stir in the domain name industry about the Chinese buying one word English domain names for huge sums. A domain name auction in China resulted in 5 domain name “sales” of $2 million or more USD: Banana.com, House.com, Yao.com, GG.com and HG.com. While GG.com and HG.com might seem plausible, $2 million for banana.com seemed like a ridiculously high price. Some were skeptical. As it ... read more ...
 
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Vodex Communications nailed for retreat domain name hijacking - Serial entrepreneur defends 17-year-old domain name. California company filed a UDRP against a domain name registered many years before it existed.Serial entrepreneur Taro Gold has successfully defended his domain name Vodex.com in a UDRP. The panel found complainant Vodex Communications to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the suit. Business telecom company Vodex Communications uses the longer VodexCommunications.com domain name, which it registered in 2012. The company registered ... read more ...
Thu 14th January 2016
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The Owner Of Rams.com Is Adam Dicker: Does He Want $1.8 Million or $650,000? - According to an article appearing in 4029tv.com, Adam Dicker says he is the owner of Rams.com and he wants a minimum of  $650,000 for the domain although the domain name Rams.com is up for sale with a Buy It Now (BIN) price of $1.8 Million dollars on Afternic.com. According to Estibot.com Rams.com has a value of $119,000 and according to a screenshot it appears the domain was recently for sale for $650,000 but the price seems to have gone up: Here is some interesting quotes from the 4029tv.com ... read more ...
 
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The Real Facts & Stats About ICANN and Its gTLDs: One BIG.FAIL … So Far? - Have you already read Verisign Inc's blog "The Real Facts about new gTLDs." It can be read here, if you haven't. It is now a year later since this post was written, so a much clearer gTLD picture is now developing… The crème de la crème, the good, the bad, even the ugly of the Domain Name Industry are attending NamesCon in Vegas this week. 2016 will be a very challenging, absolutely critical year for those attendees and their corporate employers as the Domain Name System (DNS) faces a ... read more ...
 
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.Club sole $2.35 million in reward domain names final quarter - December not as big as November, but .Club has a great Q4. The Chinese domain name registration boom gave .Club a huge lift in Q4, with the registry selling $2.35 million of premium domain names. The company sold another $614,000 of premium domains in December, on top of the ridiculous $1.6 million it sold in November. Sales were boosted by the release of previously reserved domain names through the registrar channel, each with one-time registration premiums. How does this compare to the rest of ... read more ...
 
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Inside NameJet's record month - The journey to a record December at NameJet. Did you catch that? Maybe not. To really appreciate just how marvelous NameJet’s (podcast) performance was during December – indeed, throughout the whole of 2015 – let’s rewind and play things back in slow motion. Since mid 2011, NameJet has reported domain sales that clear over $2000. Early on, the auction platform announced as few as 49 domains per month; and during its first year the market place never surpassed 92. Less than 1/4 of months ... read more ...
 
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Impressive domain name stats from Escrow.com - Escrow.com provides data on transactions, including the impact of China. Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie (podcast) presented data from Escrow.com at NamesCon yesterday. There are some fascinating stats, especially when it comes to the impact of China. Escrow handled $430 million of payments in 2015: The average sales price of domain names transacted through Escrow.com has appreciated 7.3% per year: 4 letter domains have appreciated 9.3% per year over past ten years: And perhaps the most telling ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
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Garden.org & All Assets Of National Gardening Association, Inc Up For Auction - Hilco Streambank announced today they were accepting bids for all intellectual property assets (the “Assets”) of National Gardening Association, Inc (NGA) The Assets include trademarks, domain names, customer database, established advertising opportunities and content libraries. BACKGROUND National Gardening Association, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Organization founded in Vermont in 1973 to sustain and renew the fundamental links between people, plants and the environment. Through gardening, ... read more ...
 
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Jessy Nelson Injured In Mid Week Traning Crash - AMA Supercross NewsJessy Nelson Injured In Mid Week Traning CrashBy: Aaryn Minerds Posted: Thursday, 14th January, 2016 : 5:03 AM - - 344 Reads TLD Factory KTM rider Jessy Nelson has been injured in a mid week crash while preparing for the second round of the 2016 Monster Energy Supercross Championship that is to be held this weekend in San Diego. Nelson had a flying start to his 2016 season, leading ... read more ...
 
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Wolfram Alpha Owner Loses UDRP To Grab The Domain WolframVentures.com - Wolfram Group LLC has lost its attempt to grab the domain name wolframventures.com Here are the highlights: The Complainant is a provider of computational knowledge and mathematical software with offices in Paris, Tokyo, Lima, Linkoping, Bangalore, Boston and Champaign (Illinois). It has been operating under the name “Wolfram” since 1987. Perhaps, its most well-known service to the general public is the “Wolfram Alpha” search engine. Amongst other things, the Complainant has registered WOLFRAM ... read more ...