Category Archives: EN

Thu 4th June 2015
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Watch Stuart Lawley urge .Porn and .Adult - The man behind .porn, .adult and .xxx is asked to defend his business model. ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg yesterday. Bloomberg’s Emily Chang asked him to defend the business model of selling .porn and .adult domain names. Doesn’t this force celebrities and brands to pay up to protect themselves? Lawley talked about how new top level domain names in general provide more choice for businesses. He also noted that brands also have to protect themselves in bricks-and-mortar businesses. ... read more ...
 
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St. Louis bank sues to take over dispute domains - Bank and board member file cybersquatting claim over two domain names they call defamatory. Midwest BankCentre, a bank in St. Louis, has filed a lawsuit to get control of the domain names MidwestBankCheated.com and JerryScheideggerCheatedMe.com. Jerry Scheidegger is a board member of the bank. Both domain names lead to content making allegations about the bank and a foreclosure. The allegations are made in response to a foreclosure in which the person claims Scheidegger was enriched after buying ... read more ...
 
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.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today - New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been registered prior to public launch with the highest amount of domains being registered with CSC Corporate Domain registrar ... read more ...
 
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An engaging Google domain name parking obvious application - Idea sounds a lot like zero click monetization. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just published a Google patent application related to domain name parking. Named Systems and Methods of Providing Parked Domain Content, application 13/631472 (embedded below) should give pause to providers of zero click domain monetization solutions. Essentially, the patent application describes a system in which a total advertising value is assigned to a parked page. An advertiser can then bid to be the exclusive ... read more ...
 
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Interview: Why Shaun Smith bought JiuJitsu.com - An interview with Shaun Smith, who just acquired JiuJitsu.com on a creative payment plan. Shaun Smith locked down the premium domain JiuJitsu.com for $75,000 about month ago…for much less than $75k. Here’s his story. First things first, what’s Jiu Jitsu? Martial arts pops into my head, but that’s all I know. Jiu Jitsu originated in Japan and migrated to Brazil in the early 19th century. Unlike, say, Karate, in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) there is no striking. It’s primarily focused on joint ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .School 1,933; .Football 1,730; .Casino 1,447 - Three new gTLD domain name extensions  launched into General Availability  (GA) yesterday,  where domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including the domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain name ahead of GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the number of domain names in the zone file after the first day of GA are as follows: .School 1,933 .Football 1,730 .Casino 1,447 Keep in mind that ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: MyM.com, NowTrending.com and More Domains - This is Domain Movers! The series by Jamie Zoch who discovers recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain names mainly all by large corporations. These are often very early detections and can result in new companies, brands, services, products, advertising campaigns and much more. Sit back and enjoy! Time Inc. has registered the domain name SportsIllustratedPlay.com, adding to its domain name portfolio of over 9,000+ domain names. OfficeMVP.com has been acquired by a currently unknown ... read more ...
 
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Tucows' batch in on fire - Shares up over 50% since May 1. If you bought shares of Tucows at the opening price on May 1, just a month ago, you’ve already realized a return of a whopping 57%. Shares in Tucows are on fire on the NASDAQ, where it trades under the ticker TCX. It’s not entirely clear what’s behind the surge. The company reported earnings on May 7, but the stock didn’t start to surge until a week later. Here are some possible reasons behind the price pop: 1. Share buybacks. Tucows is buying back up to $20 ... read more ...
 
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.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today - New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been registered prior to public launch with the highest amount of domains being registered with CSC Corporate Domain registrar ... read more ...
 
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A small 6number.com Frenzy on Namepros and a demeanour behind during 5n.com - Ali Zandi formerly of Flippa and currently with his own shop at Perception.com, wrote a blog post on Namepros that listed 370 available 6n.com domain names. Ali has been publishing a series he calls the “Daily Dose” which lists names available for registration. A couple members regged one or two names before someone came in and took the lot, registered them and put them under privacy. This started a discussion on whether or not people buying and selling 6n.com are perpetuating hype around a ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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Fred Krueger: "Why we Hate ICANN" - 1. ICANN spends something like 100 Million dollars a year on travel (more if you count the total waste spent by all ICANN participants) on various boondoggles in places like Cartagena, Columbia. The *exact same people* show up at these meetings, begging the question as to why they don’t meet in a more cost efficient location such as Playa Del Ray, California, where ICANN is headquartered. And the answer is — that would be favoriting the US. These other countries deserve their own galas, opening ... read more ...
 
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Media Options Acquires MJ.com to be detached of Ganjapreneur Network - In a tweet a few minutes ago Media Options announced they acquired MJ.com to add to their growing Ganjapreneur network. Congratulations to Andrew. For those who may not be familiar MJ is used in some circles to refer to Marijuana/Mary Jane. Plus you never know if one day Michael Jordan comes a calling he has the bankroll to pay maximum end user price. MediaOptions is proud to say it has acquired the http://t.co/l4pM59ygw3 domain name as part of its Ganjapreneur Network! @GanjapreneurCom — MediaOptions.com ... read more ...
 
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Unprecedented Move: Vox Populi Extends Sunrise Deadline For ".sucks … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Registry Lock – or EPP With Two Factor Authentication - For the last couple of years, the most common attack vector against the DNS system is the attack against the registrar. Either the attack is on the software itself using weaknesses in the code that could inject DNS changes into the TLD registry, or social engineering the registrar support systems and the attacker receives credentials that in turn allows the attacker to perform malicious changes in DNS. DNSSEC is the common security mechanism that protects the DNS protocol, but by using the registrar ... read more ...
 
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Recent finish user domain name sales - A photographer, bicycle manufacturer and illustrator bought domain names last week. Sedo had 605 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.1 million in sales. A number of the higher sales are still going through transfer, so some big end user sales might be missing from this list. .Club has a couple entries and there’s a good .me domain name, as well. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales from last week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how ... read more ...
 
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Search Engine Journal: If The .Com You Want Isn’t Available; Find Another .Com - Searchenginejournal.com,  just wrote a post asking What is “The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available” and seems to conclude it’s another .com “”What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?”” “You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org domains. As well as the restricted gTLD’s, which includes, biz, name, and pro domains.” If ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Registry To Release 924 Previously Reserved For Normal Reg Fees: Here is The List - The .Buzz registry announced that is will rolling out of a select number of previously reserved  .buzz domain names, which will become available in June. “In all 924 of our previously reserved domain names will become available to the public for registration at standard pricing, on a first-come first-served basis” The names are expected to be available on June 17, 2015. Included in the list are names such as attractions.buzz, funding.buzz, neighborhood.buzz, a number of Geo names and many more” It ... read more ...
 
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The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available - What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?Finding the perfect domain name to represent your business can be harder than you think. A frustrating problem for many new businesses and startups, the domain-name competition is only getting more intense.According to Netcraft, there are currently 850 million active websites on the Internet. With that kind of volume, it’s no wonder domain name competition has become the aggressive duel it is today.Luckily, if you find yourself ... read more ...
 
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.Com winners and losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in February. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from February. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy 912,763* 2. Rightside 203,096** 3. Tucows 106,910 4. PublicDomainRegistry 92,847 5. Network Solutions 62,104 When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars with retail operations for February. These numbers are ... read more ...
 
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Name Jet Reports $355K In Sales For May 2015: Of Top 16 Sales 12 Were LLL.com or NNNN.com -

Namejet.com usually released a monthly news for May 2015 stating over $355,000 in domain name sales all of that are a outcome of domain auctions.

As usual, usually domain names that sole for $2,000 or some-more are enclosed and remuneration had to be perceived by a finish of May to be included

Out of a tip 19 spots 3 domains were LLL.com domains and 9 were NNNN.com domain names

Here is a list:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Go pro with your own email address - It’s time to face facts: the only people who look professional with a Gmail address are those who work at Google. If you don’t believe us, think back to the last time you were stuck behind a plumber’s van in slow-moving traffic. It was almost certainly plastered with mobile numbers, and probably a webmail address. How much more professional would it look if they had their own domain?  Registering a domain is cheap – typically £10 or less – and setting it up to handle your email is easy. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo touts Direct Auction successes - Top Direct Auction sale so far is $26,500. Sedo launched a new feature called Direct Auctions at the end of April, allowing anyone to start an auction for a $59 fee. 150 orders for Direct Auctions were placed on the first day. So, how is it going? Sedo has released a few highlighted auction results that were started with the Direct Auctions option: 8255.com $26,500 USD mexico.tv $9,000 USD blumenversand.com (flower delivery) €4,200 p-k.com $3,900 USD 434.net €3,452 These are good results. Of ... read more ...
 
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Search Engine Journal: If The .Com You Want Isn't Available; Find Another .Com - Searchenginejournal.com,  just wrote a post asking What is “The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available” and seems to conclude it’s another .com “”What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?”” “You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org domains. As well as the restricted gTLD’s, which includes, biz, name, and pro domains.” If ... read more ...
 
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University of Florida gets FloridaGators.com…18 years later - Site owner changed use to one about alligators after receiving cease desist letter. The University of Florida will soon own the domain name FloridaGators.com after winning a cybersquatting dispute. The domain name was registered by a Florida man as far back as 1997, 18 years ago. For years, it was a site about the University of Florida’s sports teams. Here’s a screenshot from Screenshots.com from a couple years ago: In March, the university sent a cease and desist to the site’s owner. According ... read more ...
 
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Apple Loses Trademark Case in a Philippines - PhoneArena.com reported that Apple lost a trademark case in the Philippines. Apple was not applying for a tm but rather objecting to a tm filing from Solid Broadband who was looking to get a tm for my|phone name. PhoneArena.com wrote: When Solid Broadband attempted to trademark the my|phone name in the Philippines, Apple objected saying that it was “confusingly similar” to the iPhone and was “likely to deceive or cause confusion.” And while the Philippines’ Intellectual Property Office ... read more ...