Wed 29th April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Competition for Monopoly gTLDs - The essay examines some of the new domain name managers' unjustifiable obsession with owning monopoly gTLDs when they should devote more energy and thought to making domain names more value adding. For the last three decades, the discourse regarding competitive advantage has focused on the need to rely on rare/unique resources and capabilities. However, more recently, the focus has shifted to the imperatives of efficient utilization of nonunique resources that are readily available on the ... read more ...
 
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.Video Hits EAP Today & 85% Of All Premiums Are Priced during $200 or Less - .Video is entered the Early Access Program (EAP) today (day 1) and based on the volume of Sunrise registrations and search data it would seem to be a pretty hot new gTLD. We counted some 460 domain registrations by trademark holders in the Sunrise period which is one of the largest to date. Beyond the number of Sunrise registrations the registrations themselves are telling The CBS family which includes Viacom, Showtime, MTV and Nickelodeon registered a lot of domains not just of the networks but ... read more ...
 
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El Lanzamiento Estadounidense Oficial del Dominio .LAT Crea una … - NIC México, la organización sin fines de lucro que gestiona la asignación de espacio de direcciones IP para los Proveedores de Servicios de Internet en México, anunció hoy el lanzamiento estadounidense oficial del TLD, .LAT, dirigido a ayudar a los usuarios latinos de Internet a establecer una presencia en línea con identidad latina en los EE. UU. y en todo el mundo.El anuncio fue realizado durante AHAA de 2015: La Voz de la Conferencia Anual de Comercialización Hispana de 2015, celebrada ... read more ...
 
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Addiction.com launches after domain name sole final year - Rehab company launches site at great domain Addiction.com. Addiction.com sold last year and was recently launched.Elements Behavioral Health recently launched the site Addiction.com, and the company’s comments about the high cost of the domain name should be reassuring to domain name investors. Vera Appleyard, Elements Behavioral Health’s chief internet and media officer, told publication Behavioral Health that the domain name was very expensive but the organization considered the expense part ... read more ...
 
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150 Sedo Direct Auctions started on initial day - Domain name owners jump on Sedo’s new Direct Auction option. Apparently there’s quite a bit of demand to start an auction on the Sedo marketplace. Sedo’s new Direct Auction, which lets anyone start a domain name auction, had 150 orders on launch day yesterday. You can see many of the domains on Sedo’s Marketplace Auctions page. There’s no clear delineation between Direct auctions and others, but the scheduled auctions and some of the auctions with six days left include many owner-initiated ... read more ...
 
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.Fit Launches Today: Here's Our Picks For The Best Domains But They Are Not Cheap - The new gTLD .Fit is launching into general availability today and thought I would let you know my top picks because I won’t be registering any of them. .Fit seems to be a limited extension when it comes to natural terms as Fit is falling on the wrong side of the dot. However I did find some good domain names that are naturals,with .Fit,  the problem is they are pricey in my opinion. I did check out the Sunrise registrations for .Fit and found only 76. One of the best trademark terms would have ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Ends Sponsorship Deal With Danica Patrick No. 10 Team After 2015 Season - According to sbnation.com, GoDaddy will no longer sponsor Danica Patrick, No. 10 team following the 2015 season, however she will remain a Godaddy spokeswoman. But after the 2015 season we won’t be seeing Danica in the Godaddy Green car SBNation reports: “The move comes as Patrick is in the final season of her contract with SHR, though both sides have openly said they would like to sign an extension. In recent years GoDaddy, an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, has shifted its ... read more ...
 
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How The Arrival Of gTLDs Could Shape The Future - Visited: 318Not rated by Anand SrinivasanApril 29, 2015 Ever since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened up the internet to new generic TLDs, there has been a spate of new registrations from big corporations like Google and Amazon. The rationale behind some registrations is quite obvious. For instance, Google owns the rights to the .app TLD. As you can expect, .app is used to target the smartphone app markets. Similarly ... read more ...
 
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24 End User Domain Name Sales - End user sales including a couple new TLDs. Sedo handled 569 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million, a pretty solid week for the domain name marketplace. A number of German companies bought domain names, sometimes finding shorter alternatives to their hyphenated domains. A popular golf equipment company picked up a descriptive domain for used golf clubs, a bath products company bought a creative domain, and the company behind Twix candy bars bought a brand-related domain. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board Gives Go Ahead To Hotels/.Hoteis Contention Set In Denying Booking.com Reconsideration Request - The ICANN Board has rejected Booking.com request for reconsideration and thereby is allowing the Contention set of Hotels/.Hoteis to move forward to being resolved. Basically the ICANN Board is saying sorry Booking.com we will try to do better in the next round, and fix the problems that the Independent Review Proceeding (IRP) admitted were present in the Applicant Guidebook “The ICANN Board directs the President and CEO, or his designee(s), to ensure that the ongoing reviews of the New gTLD Program ... read more ...
 
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Happy Birthday dotLondon – brand - Happy Birthday dotLondon RSSS Tweet Email April 29, 2015 in -e.online Today, the city of London will celebrate the first birthday of its digital offspring, the dotLondon domain. Since London and Partners launched the new Top Level Domain there have been over 60,000 registrations, making it the 13th most popular new generic TLD. Whilst London lags behind some of its global counterparts – dotBerlin (156,000 registrations so far) ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.2 million led by PAX.com $200,000 - Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: pax.com at 200,000 USD Top ccTLD: 1.am at 6,500 USD Top “other” TLD: restaurant.info at 14,300 USD 4 new gtld sales made the sales report, Entrepreneur.Business was the top sale at $2,500. Dot Am took the top two spots for cctlds, .CH (Switzerland) had a nice showing as well. ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest Is Back; Returns To Europe in June -                           Introducing DOMAINfest 2015 Sofia! The teams at NamesCon and DomainForum are happy to announce DomainForum and DOMAINfest Sofia, which will be held June 1-3, 2015, marking the exciting return of DOMAINfest to Europe. Having already operated a number of widely attended European DOMAINfest events in Amsterdam, Barcelona (x2), Paris, and Prague, the people who bring you NamesCon are proud to announce DOMAINfest Sofia, Bulgaria for 2015 to coincide with the 2015 ... read more ...
 
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Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US - One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One,  announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners (“ATP PEP”), one of Europe’s largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com’s launch into the U.S., its ongoing product innovation and the acceleration of its growth in new regions in Europe. Terms of the investment ... read more ...
 
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.xyz, a spammer tld -

Persze, de eléggé könnyen írható szabály ami blokkolja, felpontozza vagy bárhogy nehezíti az xyz végződésről küldőtt maileket.

Via: hup.hu

 
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79% Of The Attendees Of The Collision Startup Conference Using "Risky" Domains - Startup Domain Name Analysis (detail from infographic) (PRNewsFoto/Name Ninja)                 Bill Sweetman President of NameNinja.com, sent out a press release today saying that 79% of 491 Startups that will be participating at the Collision Startup Conference being held in Las Vegas on May 5-6 are using domain names that are counter intuitive and likely pose marketing challenges. Bill also found that more than two-thirds (68%) of the startup domains failed the Radio Test, meaning the names ... read more ...
 
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StormGuard.com Saved In UDRP - Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC v.just lost its bid to grab the domain name StormGuard.com which was just registered on February 6, 2014 The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com A majority of the three member panel of Willem J. H. Leppink, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was generic and since the registrant was located in South Korea is was unlikely that they knew about the trademark of the Complainant. However, panelist Nicholas Weston disagreed with the majority and filed ... read more ...
 
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Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US - One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One,  announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners (“ATP PEP”), one of Europe’s largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com’s launch into the U.S., its ongoing product innovation and the acceleration of its growth in new regions in Europe. Terms of the investment ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like Namejet.com Is Down -

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I looks like a domain name marketplace Namejet.com is down during a moment.

We are removing an blunder page on 3 opposite browsers.

We only sent off an email and we will let we know when they are behind online.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Startup domain name fails: 68% destroy radio test - Majority of companies attending startup conference have problematic domain names. Name Ninja recently performed an analysis of the domain names used by startups going to the Collision conference in Las Vegas next month. The domain name consultancy found that only 21% of companies have the “ideal” domain name for their business. A whopping 68% of company’s domain names fail the “radio test”, meaning they are not spelled the way they sound. It’s pretty easy to spot some of these names ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Post Reports Earnings For 2014: Up Almost 15% in Trading - CentralNic Group (CNIC) today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and shareholders loved the report sending shares up 14.75% in trading today to 35p Shares have a 52 week high of 73p and a low of 23p: Operational highlights Net revenue grew by 99% to £6.07m (2013: £3.05m) – growing revenues from registry, registrar and enterprise services Adjusted EBITDA grew by 70% to £1.72m (2013: £1.02m) – reflecting strong revenue growth offset by additional costs invested ... read more ...
 
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Sedo now lets clients start their possess domain name auctions - Domainers can start their own reserve auctions…for a fee. Sedo is offering domain name sellers a new option to start an auction on its domain name marketplace. Called Direct Auction, clients can now select domain names to be auctioned, when they start and a reserve price. It costs $59 to start a Direct Auction. Previously, sellers could start an auction in response to an offer on their domain (aka “push to auction”) or by submitting it through Great Domains. They could also work with an account ... read more ...
 
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Are Zombie TLDs entrance this year? - Some of these TLDs can’t string along much longer. Hundreds of new top level domain names are now available. Some are doing reasonably well while others are not (to put it mildly). Will 2015 see the first new TLD “failures”, in which a top level domain operator calls it quits? We might have seen it already. The companies I’m most concerned about are the ones that operate just one or two TLDs and have a big staff (i.e., lots of overhead). If they aren’t getting traction after about a year, ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic doubled income in 2014 - Company posts big gains, likely due to acquisition of domain name registrar last year. Domain name services company CentralNic doubled its revenue in 2014 and increased its adjusted EBITDA by 65%. The company grew its topline from £3.891 million to £6.067 million. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes acquisition deal fees and non-cash charges, grew from £1.015 million in 2013 to £1.724 in 2014. Its actual profits before tax dipped for the year. CentralNic doesn’t break out results from each division, ... read more ...
 
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Lessons from .Build One Year After Launch: Q&A with CEO and Founder George … - The .build domain namespace opened in General Availability in April 2014, as a domain name designed specifically for the online needs of the building industry and beyond. As the appointed technical provider for .build, ARI Registry Services powered the launch and continued technical operations for this global domain name. A year into the life of the namespace, ARI Registry Services' Head of Global Consulting Tony Kirsch caught up with George Minardos, CEO of .build to talk about his insights ... read more ...