Category Archives: EN

Mon 8th June 2015
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Domain Movers: Huggle.com, Brand.com and More Domains - Domain Movers is a very interesting series that is exclusively on TheDomains.com that features recently acquired, registered and simply domains on the move by some of the largest companies in the world. These are often very early detections and many lead into new brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Microsoft has registered the domain names GetASmartStart.com / .net as well as AzureAppServices.com /.net . Several acronym type domains like ... read more ...
 
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu – DNW Podcast #36 - A discussion with the CEO of Rightside, the company behind eNom and Name.com, a whole bunch of top level domain names, and part-owner of NameJet. My guest this week is Taryn Naidu, CEO of publicly traded domain name company Rightside. Rightside owns domain name registrars eNom and Name.com and is a part-owner of expired domain name marketplace NameJet. The company also owns a portfolio of 300,000 domains. Rightside is the biggest backend registry for new top level domain names and has launched its ... read more ...
 
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When Will The 2nd gTLD Round Open? ICANN Puts Out RFP For Study; Final Report Jul 2017 - 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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Company regulating .Today domain name raises $8 million - Jeff Dachis’ latest company, currently using a .today domain name, raises $8 million. One Drop, a diabetes management platform that uses the domain name OneDrop.today, has raised $8 million in a round led by RRE Ventures. One Drop is the latest startup from Jeff Dachis, who was the founder and CEO of .com darling (and ultimately bust) Razorfish. He later was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Austin Ventures, where he then created social media company Dachis Group. He ran that company until early ... read more ...
 
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Growing Awareness for New Domain Names - At least 46% of users are aware of new domain names, according to a recent survey commissioned by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, Phase One, carried out by Nielsen in February, showed that 46% of respondents were aware of at least one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). While 65% of those surveyed had visited a new gTLD, such as .email, .photography, .link, .guru or .realtor. The ... read more ...
 
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Can Your Name Determine Your Entire Future ? - We talk about naming all the time in domaining, an article on Mic.com talked about the topic of names as it pertains to your first name, and how it can affect your entire life. From whether or not a weird names affects your chances at success to whether it may lead to being racially profiled. Included in one study was the effect your name had on getting into Oxford University. If your name is Eleanor you got a good chance, if your name is Shane, you got 0 chance according to the study. From the ... read more ...
Sun 7th June 2015
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Want Milk.com? The Owner Might Sell It For $10 Million - Interesting story today in Vice.com about the o domain name Milk.com which is still owned by the original registrant Dan Bornstein who registered the domain way back in July 1994 when domain names were free. In an interview with Mr. Bornstein he revealed he registered Milk.com just to use as a cool email address, never thought it would be worth a lot millions and he would probably sell it for ten million dollars but it “wouldn’t be an easy decision.” Here are the other highlights from the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO Fadi Writes On Huffington Post "A Critical Moment for a Future of a Internet" - In a story just published by the HuffingtonPost.com, entitled “A Critical Moment for the Future of the Internet” the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, who has already announced he will be stepping down next year, makes the case for  ICANN leaving US oversight: Here are some highlights “The Internet, the greatest invention of our generation — several generations in fact — is in many ways a reflection of the American Dream. ” “It’s vast and open, unlimited in its potential reach. “It’s ... read more ...
 
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Report: Digital.NYC Chief Named Chief Digital Officer of New York City - Fast Company is reporting that New York City will Name Jessica Singleton as its Chief Digital Officer who is currently the city’s digital director. “”Singleton, who was a member of President Barack Obama’s digital team during his 2012 campaign and served as digital director for Mayor de Blasio’s run for office, had been leading NYC Digital as digital director since January 2014, taking the lead on the all-encompassing tech resource base Digital.NYC Singleton’s new position is being touted ... read more ...
Sat 6th June 2015
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Inc.com Says Guru & Ninja Are 2 of the 12 Worst Things You Can Call Yourself … - An interesting post by Inc.com on the worst things you can call (or refer) yourself on Linkedin and out of the 12 words you can use the authors says that two of the words are also new gTLD’s. “There are so many terrible words people use to make themselves sound exciting on LinkedIn.” Guru and Ninja both make the list. If these words are bad to refer to yourself on linked in by the same logic if you buy it they would also be bad to use as your domain name. Anyway here is what the Inc.com has ... read more ...
 
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Inc.com Says Guru & Ninja Are 2 of a 12 Worst Things You Can Call Yourself On Linkedin - An interesting post by Inc.com on the worst things you can call (or refer) yourself on Linkedin and out of the 12 words you can use the authors says that two of the words are also new gTLD’s. “There are so many terrible words people use to make themselves sound exciting on LinkedIn.” Guru and Ninja both make the list. If these words are bad to refer to yourself on linked in by the same logic if you buy it they would also be bad to use as your domain name. Anyway here is what the Inc.com has ... read more ...
Fri 5th June 2015
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Another internet landmark as public registration opens for seven new gTLDs - Trevor Little Today, the first seven of Donuts’ new gTLDs have opened for public registration. While the extent of both public and brand owner engagement in these first strings will become more apparent in the coming weeks, for gTLD supporters and sceptics alike, today marks the first real opportunity to judge the wider appetite for the online ... read more ...
 
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How The Internet Will Change - Fox News and their “Tech Take” sat down with Amish Shah of SierraMaya 360. The talk deals mostly with the Internet of Things and how the Internet will change. Shah starts out talking about smart houses and then moves on to smart cars, mentioning the Apple iCar which you can read more about here. Shah moved on to talking about things like 3D printing and refrigerators that order food. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ... read more ...
 
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46 Percent Of Internet Users Are Aware Of New Domain Extensions [Survey] - Almost half of internet users say they’re familiar with the new, generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have become available to website owners in the past 18 months, while legacy domain extensions like .com, .net and .org have almost universal awareness. That’s from an ICANN-sponsored, Nielsen-conducted online survey in February of more than 6,100 adults across 24 countries. The survey targeted consumers that spend a minimum of five hours a week online. ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Sunrise period extended for .sucks gTLD registration - As we indicated in our Bulletin .sucks gTLD – Should you Protect Your Brand on this Top Level Domain? of May 8, 2015, the Internet Corporation of Names and Numbers (ICANN) has now delegated nearly 550 new gTLDs as part of the New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. One of the latest additions is .sucks. Vox Populi, operator of the .sucks. registry, marketed the new gTLD as a forum “designed to help consumers find their voices and allow companies to find the value in criticism”. Initially ... read more ...
 
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Automobile TLDs next off the production line - The sunrise periods for three new TLDs targeting the automobile industry will launch in the next few weeks. New TLDs .cars, .car, and .auto are scheduled to launch their sunrise periods for trademark owners in June or July, with general availability scheduled for September. The registry behind the popular .xyz extension and Uniregistry, which runs its own portfolio of extensions, bought the rights to .car from Google for an undisclosed sum. Cars Registry Limited was formed to manage the three ... read more ...
 
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ICANN speak clearly now .gay has gone – Council of Europe - An alliance of 47 countries has called on ICANN to respect privacy and freedom of expression when allocating top level domains. The Council of Europe (CoE) has no legal power to force ICANN to change its procedures, but does have official observer status with ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), recently accepted applications ... read more ...
 
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Embrace.com during $18.9k and other lapsed domain name sales - A weekly roundup of expired domain name sales at NameJet. As a branding consultant, I love this week’s top seller: Embrace.com ($18.9k). It means so much more than a hug. When we “embrace change”, we’re not giving the future a cuddle. If we “embrace challenges”, we’re not being squeezed by Grandma; we’re Davids slaying Goliaths. The word “embrace” is positive, courageous, and social. … And I hate Elliot Silver for buying it instead of me! Oh, well. China and the rest of ... read more ...
 
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Salen a la venta hoy para el público general .PORN y .ADULT - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida, 5 de junio de 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, operador de registro para los dominios de nivel principal (TLDs) .XXX, .PORN y .ADULT, anunció hoy, 4 de junio de 2015 a las 12:00pm EDT / 16:00 UTC, el lanzamiento de su periodo de disponibilidad general para .PORN y .ADULT. Los nombres de dominios de estos nuevos TLDs ya están disponibles para ... read more ...
 
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33 of a best new .Porn websites - A look at some of the more interesting .porn web addresses that have been registered. The .Porn top level domain name came out yesterday, and already over 10,000 domain names have been registered. I sifted through the list of .porn domain name registrations to find the best ones. Here’s what I envision each website featuring in the near future. (Yes, all of these .porn domain names were actually registered.) ChicagoCubs.porn – this tantric love site features lowly Cubs fans who have waited over ... read more ...
 
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.Porn Ends Its 1st Day Of With 10,038 Domain Registrations; .Adult 8,277 - According to the ICM Registry as of midnight EST, the first day of general availability (GA) the number of registered .porn domain names totaled 10,038. This number includes all domain name registered in Sunrise by trademark holders which numbered around 4,000 and the number of .porn domain names registered in the matching program for .XXX domain holders which was around 3,500 so basically .porn got over 2,500 registrations on the first day of availability. As far as .adult the first day of general ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
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Airline Uses a .WS To Make a URL Strictly out of Emojis - Adweek published an article about an airline that was trying to reach millenials, They decided to use a .WS in the campaign and make the url entirely out of Emojis. From the article: Norwegian Airlines decided its target millennial audience was probably up to the challenge, though, so earlier this week it partnered with several Danish influencers on Instagram to spread the cryptic URL shown above. Coca-Cola used a similar approach recently with its ad campaign featuring URLs made of one emoji each. ... read more ...
 
 
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.CA team calls on Canadian cities to seize the opportunity of municipal domains -

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.Porn & .Adult Rack Up Around 4K Registrations In 1st Hour - According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the operator of .XXX, .porn and .adult registry about 4,000 domain names were registered in the 1st hour of general availability today of the new gTLD’s .porn and .adult that went live at noon EST today. Of today’s registrations about 60% where for .porn and 40% were for .adult The first .porn domain that was registered was large.porn The 2nd .porn domain name registered was freehd.porn The first .adult domain registered was casino.adult The ... read more ...