Fri 24th April 2015
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Digging into .xyz's domain name registrations - A look at how .xyz domain names are being used. .xyz is big — about 900,000 domains — but it’s also controversial since many of the domains were given away for free. Even stripping away the freebies, .xyz is still big. I called upon dataprovider.com to run some numbers. (Earlier this week I used dataprovider to compare usage in .London and .NYC.) Using data from last month, dataprovider was able to reach about 550,000 .xyz domain names (the rest were inaccessible in their spidering). Here are ... read more ...
 
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Orient Express Travel Group intent in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. The travel company filed an aUDRP against the domain name etg.com.au. It uses the domain name etg.travel. The panel found that Orient Express Travel Group was less-than-forthcoming in its aUDRP filing. It didn’t disclose ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers - Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will have noticed that the chart can be divided into Chinese purchases and non-Chinese purchases. The split is fairly clean. GEAI.com ($8.2k)? China. HNBC.com ($6.4k)? China. DAIG.com ($2.8k)? China. DUVI.com ($2.5k)? Probably not China. And why is that an exception? ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Awarded Netsol.Domains in UDRP - A one member panel ruled in favor of Web.com with regards to the domain name Netsol.domains. The registrant was based out of Spain and it seems tried to sell the domain for $5,000. The registrant did say that the name along with other infringing domains were registered  as part of an automated list generated from software created by Respondent that was designed to generate a list of “best search terms in the AdWords Keywords search engine”.  Respondent indicated that he did not personally review ... read more ...
 
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‘We werken volgens de olympische gedachte’ - Ternat / Herzele - De Ternatse wielerfreak Danny Limbourg zette een stapje terug bij TLD-Express-Willems.co, maar hij bleef wel sponsor en gaf de fakkel door aan de gedreven Herzeelse ploegleider Jurgen Diependaele waardoor de toekomst van het team verzekerd lijkt. TLD-Express-Willems.co richt zich vooral op de piepjonge rennertjes?Jurgen Diependaele: ‘Wielerjeugdteam TLD Express-Willems.co ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Verisign Reports First Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015. First Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $258 million for the first quarter of 2015, up 3.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $88 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.66 for the first quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $94 ... read more ...
 
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Will New gTLDs be to the Internet what Cable was to Television ? - Jennifer Wolfe published an article on ClickZ that used an analogy that I myself have thought about to a certain degree when it comes to the new gtlds. Will the new gtlds be to the Internet what Cable TV was to Television ? There is something there, COM, NET and ORG would play the roles of ABC, CBS, and NBC, but the comparison imo doesn’t stay completely true, that is because when cable tv started we all got to know who the new stations were. Whether you were young or old, you quickly came to know ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDS – Semaine du 27 avril au 3 mai 2015 -   Partager cet article :Les sorties des nouvelles extensions ont été calmes en avril mais finissent en apothéose, avec le lancement de 9 nouvelles extensions les 27 et 28 avril. Afin de ne manquer aucune date, notez les sorties de vos futures extensions pour la semaine 17. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :27/04 – .review27/04 – .faith27/04 – .date28/04 – .gold28/04 ... read more ...
 
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Walmart Files UDRP on New gTLD Domain Walmart.LGBT -       Walmart has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain Walmart.lgbt. The new domain extension .LGBT,  for those that may not know,  “is the first internet address created specifically for connecting with the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender community.” and is operated by Afilias. Interestedly just a couple of months ago Walmart came out against the “Anti-LGBT Bill“, a piece of legislation in Arkansas where Walmart is headquartered that “opponents say sanctions discrimination against ... read more ...
 
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KickassTorrents Shifts To .im TLD - KickassTorrents has shifted its domain name to Isle of Man TLD (Top-Level Domain) and it has started serving its pages from this new .im domain. All of the requests to original .to domain are now being redirected to this new domain kickasstorrents.im. TorrentFreak reports that KAT’s domain change was not made as a result of any issues related to registry problems, rather the move was planned by KAT. KAT does so ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4%; .Com/.Net Increase 3.1%: Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015 after the market closed. Verisign Registry Services added 1.51 million net new names during the first quarter, ending with 133.0 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base, which represents a 3.1% increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2014, as calculated including domain names on hold for both periods. In the first quarter, Verisign processed 8.7 million new domain name registrations ... read more ...
 
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Will New gTLDs be to a Internet what Cable was to Television ? - Jennifer Wolfe published an article on ClickZ that used an analogy that I myself have thought about to a certain degree when it comes to the new gtlds. Will the new gtlds be to the Internet what Cable TV was to Television ? There is something there, COM, NET and ORG would play the roles of ABC, CBS, and NBC, but the comparison imo doesn’t stay completely true, that is because when cable tv started we all got to know who the new stations were. Whether you were young or old, you quickly came to know ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds - Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the first quarter, up from 8.6 million in the same quarter last year. It’s not a big jump, but it’s headed in the right direction. That netted out to 1.51 million more names after accounting for deletions. Revenue for ... read more ...
 
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Donuts remporte le gTLD .THEATER -   Partager cet article :Lors d’une enchère privée qui s’est tenue le 16 avril dernier, le registre Donuts Inc a encore investi dans une nouvelle extension à fort potentiel : le .THEATER.Le registre KBE gTLD Holding Inc of Brooklyn New York était l’autre candidat en lice pour cette extension, fortement intéressé et pour cause. Son secteur d’activité tourne autour de l’entertainment, spécialiste de Broadway avec son site principal www.broadwayacrossamerica.com. Face à un concurrent ... read more ...
 
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Hockey teams possess 9 of 30 NHL group domain names - NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at which NHL team names domain names are owned by the teams (or the league). Team names tend to be common words, which makes them more expensive to acquire and difficult for teams to claim trademark rights. Major League Baseball has spent a lot of money ... read more ...
 
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14 Year Old 4 Letter .Com Lost in UDRP To Trademark Filed in 2012: GECU.com - A one member UDRP panel has just handed over a 14 year old, four letter .com domain, GECU.com to GECU of Texas The domain holder registered the domain gecu.com on June 29, 2001. Terry F. Peppard the Panelist found the credit union had common law trademark rights going back to 1998 even though the trademark was not filed until 2012. Interestedly GECU.org is owned by another credit union, Gulf Credit Union which seems to go back to 1996 meaning they were in business, the same business as the Complainant, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Blocker.com, MaxGrip.com and More - I can dig and dig the same amount of time that I do every day but that doesn’t mean I always find great domain names moving. This week has been a bit of a downer type week relating to “big” domain movers. I almost always can find several great one word .com domain movers that have been acquired by large companies but in this domain movers list, the big boys are lacking a little. With that said, there are a lot more domains that are important than just the “eye candy” one word domains. Here ... read more ...
 
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Another feign TLD sighting: .Calm - Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling around his neighborhood the other day when he came across this Corona ad: It’s cute and clever. But I have to wonder, as new top level domain names ranging from .apple to .wtf proliferate, will these create a lot of confusion? Presumably, once marketers understand ... read more ...
 
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More Amazon new TLD reg's and Google's peculiar domain names - I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to particular pages on its site. Many of these domains were registered when the TLDs launched but just recently had their whois record switched to reveal Amazon. I really don’t understand what Amazon.com is up to here. These domains just popped up in my DomainTools ... read more ...
 
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Controversial Bill To Fight Piracy Passes in Florida Senate - The Florida state Senate has passed a bill that would require websites who distribute commercial movies and music to give out the identity of their owners. Bradenton.com posted the news from the Associated Press: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Websites that distribute commercial movies and music online would be required to identify their owners under legislation passed by the Florida Senate. The Senate passed the bill Wednesday despite opposition from some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies. The ... read more ...
 
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Stop YourLawFirm.sucks From Surfacing on the Web - Haynes and Boone has no plans to register its own name defensively with a company that’s marketing “.sucks” as a new Internet domain name suffix. Moreover, Jeff Becker, a partner in the Dallas-based firm’s home office, has rethought the advice he previously gave corporate clients to register defensively any names associated with their brands with domain-name purveyors. Why? The proliferation of what’s known as a generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs, including the “.sucks” ... read more ...
 
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Domains.com Moving To A Couple New Web Addresses - Domains.com is moving to a new name, not a .domains name or a .website, but rather to a .net, for existing customers and GetYour.com for new customers. When going to Domains.com you will see the following: It will be interesting to see what happens with Domains.com. Tip of the cap to Christopher Hofman ... read more ...
 
 
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Half a BILLION dollars later and, PHEW, we’re all done buying up dot-word … - The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four. In the past week, four other gTLDs - .map, .living, .search and .fun - has also been resolved, with two of them going to Google. Over the past year, domain-name overseer ICANN has run monthly auctions for multiple competing applications for the same name. ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds … - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...