Category Archives: EN

Mon 11th May 2015
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Domain Movers: Residential.com, 50.com, DP.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is an exciting series that is dedicated to domain detective work to uncover domain names on the move that have been registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another. Most of the following domain names have been acquired by large corporations. These are often early discoveries, so I try my best to provide information with each domain name but sometimes due to it being so early, not much data is available. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Covidien LP (Medtronic) ... read more ...
 
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Kite.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - Panelist tells complainant to go fly a kite. A single member National Arbitration Forum panel has denied a UDRP filed on the domain name Kite.com, but has not found complainant Kite Solutions, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Kite Solutions just got a trademark on “Kite” last year, and Kite.com was registered in 1995. It was pretty much a slam dunk case for the domain name owner, but this case introduced some interesting discussion of what happens when a domain name is leased. The ... read more ...
 
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NCC adds domain security with new partnership - What is Bdaily? Bdaily is a regional business news website, covering content in the North East, North West, South East and Yorkshire. We deliver a daily email bulletin directly to your inbox, featuring the latest news and event listings in your area. On the site we have a main news section, where our journalists publish breaking business news throughout the day.  In addition we have a members’ news section, where our members can upload their own stories using the self-publishing ... read more ...
Sun 10th May 2015
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Those Involved With .Sucks Took Care Of Themselves - Since Domainincite.com has been putting out a few stories about the new gTLD .sucks leading up the hearing in Washington on Wednesday here,  here and here,  that the Internet Commerce Association’s own Phil Corwin will be testifying in front of, I thought I would point out some domain names that are not going to be available to be registered in the .sucks extension. It’s not clear if the domain names are registered or if they are reserved or blocked off by the registry but none are available ... read more ...
 
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GetDotBit Has Registered Over 700 Decentralized .Bit Domain Names, and … - Daniel Ternyak, CEO and founder of the “no nonsense” .bit domain name registrar GetDotBit, launched his project on April 23. Since then, he has offered no-cost registrations to his customers for their first domain name. Over 700 .bit domains have been registered so far, and he says an end date for the free registrations is “not yet” planned. He continues: “Anyone even remotely interested in Namecoin should go grab [a .bit domain].” CoinTelegraph spoke with Ternyak to find out about ... read more ...
 
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TeriHatcher.com expires and sells on NameJet – Ex - TeriHatcher.com was auctioned off on NameJet on Friday, the auction closed at $232. The Desperate Housewives star had a dispute with a former partner which may have led to Ms. Hatcher losing her name. The other thing that is odd is the whois, when searching on Domain Tools the whois shows Created on 1998-03-30 – Expires on 2016-03-29 – Updated on 2015-05-07. When you look at the whois history there seems to be a mention that the name was registered in 2007, checking on gwhois.org returns that ... read more ...
Sat 9th May 2015
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UDRP Files on 15 Year Old Domain Name Colins.com By Colins.com.tr - The domain name Colins.com has been hit with a UDRP by the owner of the website Colins.com.tr Colins.com was registered in 2000. Colins.com.tr was registered in 1997 This is what Colins.com.tr describes the company: “”Colin’s, having the mission of “To make people feel better with the products and services exceeding standards in garment industry” was established in 1983. Colin’s, with its product range consisting of daily clothing, fashion and accessories for men women, procures high-standard ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
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Darryn Durham Out for 2015 Motocross Season - Darryn Durham will miss the 2015 Motocross season due to injury. TLD has not confirmed whether a fill-in rider will be chosen to take his place. As the much anticipated 2015 Pro Motocross Championship season rapidly approaches, many riders are out at the track, testing and honing their skills. One rider who will be absent from the prep and the starting line of the Hangtown Motocross Classic is TLD's Darryn Durham. Durham suffered a wrist injury back at Round 1 of the 2015 AMA Supercross Championship ... read more ...
 
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Domain name operator Rightside posts 13% revenue gain, swings to profit - Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside.Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and solid net income for its first quarter. Shares, which are up 28 percent so far this year, gained more than one percent in trading today. The Kirkland company reported total revenue of $50.5 million, up from $44.5 million for the same period last year. Net income was $1.8 million, compared to a net loss of $2.2 million for the ... read more ...
 
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Tucows gets $1.5 million for selling .Online domain name - Registrar gets even figure sum to promote .online for three years. Tucows’ withdraw from a partnership to run the .Online registry has resulted in a $1.5 million gain for the company in return for lending marketing support to the new TLD for three years. The domain name registrar had formed a partnership with Radix and NameCheap to go after the .online top level domain name. The parties ended the partnership earlier this year, allowing Radix to own the top level domain name by itself. Tucows and ... read more ...
 
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China's 51DNS Buys DNS.com: It May Sold For 4th Time In A Year - The company in China known as 51DNS has purchased the domain name DNS.com The domain name 51DNS.com is now forwarding to DNS.com The domain appears to have been sold possibly in March or April and it maybe the fourth time this domain name has changed hands in less than a year. In April 2014, the domain was owned by the Comodo Group, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and registered at brand protection company CSC. which seemed to acquire the domain name in 2012. In June 2014 the domain went under privacy ... read more ...
 
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AdWeek "Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?" - AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and founder of domain name and brand monitoring services company DomainSkate, and Mark Ervin, chief brand officer at Big Communications, based out of Alabama. The one thing I found interesting in the article was that Mitnick said he felt it would be big brands ... read more ...
 
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3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+ - Big sale illustrates value of premium strategy for new TLD operators. Rightside has sold the domain name 3D.software for a six figure sum, CEO Taryn Naidu revealed on the company’s quarterly financial results call yesterday. The domain name was purchased by Visual Dynamics, a company that creates 3D software used for design. 3D.software resolves to a site similar to Visual Dynamics’ original site, VisualDynamics.com. According to DomainTools’ historical whois records, the domain name was transferred ... read more ...
 
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Last month's Top 5 Domain Name stories - Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at Google. Here’s a look back at the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million– Marchex divested its domain name portfolio of over 200,000 domains, and now GoDaddy has its own ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Results - First Quarter Total Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year Signed 4 new gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Year-to-Date KIRKLAND, Wash., May 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. "We had a strong start to the ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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The Buzz | Mitchell Oldenburg to TLD KTM - Mitchell Oldenburg was impressive aboard his ARMA Energy Yamaha this Supercross season.TransWorld Motocross has learned that there are some changes in store for the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM team this summer, as Mitchell Oldenburg has been recruited to field a factory KTM 250 SX-F alongside Jessy Nelson and Shane McElrath. Word has it Darryn Durham’s wrist hasn’t fully healed from the injury that sidelined him at the start of the Monster Energy Supercross Series.Oldenburg completed the ... read more ...
 
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Unmet Fundamental Requisites for a Successful gTLDs Program - New pioneering ideas are not always welcomed or requested by consumers. I outline three such examples: 1. The car. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse," Henry Ford once said, or so goes the story. The quote has never been verified, but what it says is true. In 1903 most consumers gave little sign of wanting to buy cars. The Ford Model A began rolling out and all that changed. 2. ATMs. In the late 1970s, many people were still suspicious of impersonal ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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Squarespace Partners with Rightside to Offer New gTLDs - Rightside and Squarespace have teamed up to offer new gTLDs to users of Squarespace’s website builder. Some of the new gTLDs that will be available include .BAND, .ROCKS, .NINJA, .DANCE, and .LAWYER, among others. Since the introduction of new gTLDs there has been some struggle with raising enough awareness among SMBs and individual users that new gTLDs are available and can be quite affordable. By partnering with Squarespace, a site builder with broad appeal, Rightside could be bringing new ... read more ...
 
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Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com - Qatar Airways has Filed  a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.com address linked to the domain since at least 2012. The domain name appears to have been parked according to Screenshots.com for at least 10 years or so. In 2013 the Airlines launched a service called Discover Qatar “that allows passengers flying with Qatar ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.sucks — Unless You Act Now! - As the INTA Annual Meeting winds down, one memory for me that certainly stuck out was an on-site ad campaign revolving around the new “.sucks” top-level domain (“TLD”). Depending on whom you ask, it’s either ingenious or diabolical. Just outside the San Diego Convention Center, the throngs of orange lanyard-wearing conference attendees were greeted by some rather cheery folks holding white signs with the “.sucks” TLD laid over some speech bubbles. That nice lady who graciously ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing - As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon to be very valuable domain names of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.party ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.party On ... read more ...
 
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Don’t be .sucker punched by the latest domain extension! - Brand owners!  Have you heard about the .sucks domain names? Sunrise registrations for the TLD opened on 30 March and Instagram, Bank of America and Keven Spacey have already secured their .sucks. Controversial domain extensions like .sucks are nothing new. However, the high fees to secure a .sucks are unprecedented. Canadian company Vox Pupuli, the TLD owner, charges nearly USD$2,500 to register during the sunrise period. This makes it a difficult decision, especially for brand ... read more ...
 
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Tucows reports continued expansion as mobile services boom - Ting helps Tucows continue to post strong growth. Tucows reported continued revenue growth in an earnings release after the market closed today. The company posted $40.5 million revenue, up from $34.4 million in the same quarter last year and $38.8 million last quarter. Tucows’ Ting group, which offers mobile phone services and is moving into high speed internet, continues to be the growth driver for the company. Quarterly revenue from these services has nearly doubled in the past year and hit ... read more ...