Sat 11th April 2015
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ICANN Really .Sucks By Saying They Don't Regulate Content: Anyone Remember .XXX? - After collecting over 1/3 of a billion dollars in application fees, ICANN attempted to pass off the whole .Sucks issue to law enforcement this week, asking them for an opinion, which is very unlikely to come, of whether the .sucks roll-out violates US or Canadian federal law. ICANN is quoted as saying it was “concerned about the contentions of illicit actions” by Vox Populi but that it lacks the expertise or jurisdiction to evaluate them”. Really? Basically ICANN just “ratted out” one of ... read more ...
 
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Shocking percentage of consumers do not trust new top-level domains - Security in the Modern World: The ITProPortal Report free to download now: People don’t feel as safe online following the launch of hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). According to a poll from NCC Group, 40 per cent of web users reported feeling less secure online since the introduction of the domains which includes the likes of .shop, .bank and .London. Furthermore, 87 per cent said they do not feel very comfortable ... read more ...
 
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Flippa Weekly Sales Led by FZV.com - Flippa released their sales leaderboard for the week on their blog today. FZV.com at $15,000 led the way and that was followed by another 3L.com, NVL.com sold for $12,600. Both of these sales were negotiated post auction. Flippa continues to be the place for .io domains. Analytics.io sold for $10,000 and Movie.io sold for $6,500. There was also some nice .net sales there this week led by Keyboards.net at $6,800. Flippa Domain Sales Leaderboard for This Week FZV.com  @ $15,000  (Negotiated Post-Auction)NVL.com  ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2015
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Los .com cumplen 30 años y siguen en la punta - Los dominios .com continúan siendo los más demandados en el mercado secundario, acaparando el 50% de las peticiones de entre los 200 dominios de primer nivel disponibles en la internetSex.com ha el dominio que mayor precio ha alcanzado, aunque también hay dominios excelentes en español como amistad.com, genericos.com e hispano.com.Sedo, la plataforma de dominios líder en compraventa y parking de dominios, felicita al .com por su trigésimo aniversario, además de desearle lo mejor, desea informar ... read more ...
 
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Maybe Those .Sucks Domains Weren’t A Good Idea After All - It looks like you might not be able to buy that .sucks domain name after all. Two months before websites under the new top-level domain (TLD) were set to go on sale to the general public, the whole idea is being called into question in a serious way. After a huge outcry from businesses, the International Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is investigating whether or not the plan to move forward with the .sucks domains—and charge brands exorbitant fees to secure them—is ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Registrations Top 5 Million; .Science & .Link Break 100K: We Break … - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs: Domain                Total Reg  % of all Reg Now let’s go behind the numbers. .XYZ as we have spoken about numerous times includes about 375,000 free registrations that were stuffed into Network Solutions customer accounts which represented about 43% of its registrations. The next five top-selling registrars for .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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Das suckt doch: Streit über Top-Level-Domain – FAZ - Tupperware, Android und Ford haben eins gemeinsam: Sie haben sich an diesem Freitag bei .sucks registriert. Auf der Homepage nic.sucks laufen ihre und andere Unternehmensnamen in einer Liste ein, so dass jeder sehen kann, wer sich für eine Registrierung entschieden hat. ... read more ...
 
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We Need a Focused, Cooperative Strategy for Marketing New gTLDs - This essay discusses recent findings on the difficulty of overcoming decision bias, and it argues that this factor, when combined with a diverse and fragmented demand for new gTLDs, makes a focused marketing strategy crucial to the success of the program. In addition, success requires cooperation among registries and resellers when it comes to sales and marketing. Impulse buying aside, a product's sales are driven by the product's utility, which is why some professionals believe that the main ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Purchases Web Design Marketplace Elto - Back in October of 2013 Ophelie Lechat introduced me to a gentleman named Ned Dwyer, Ned ran a company called Tweaky and was looking to change the name of the company and was looking for a new domain name. I submitted a bunch of names both personal and client names. We were close on a couple but nothing that was perfect for the company. Eventually Ned purchased the domain name Elto.com. Today Elto.com was purchased by Go Daddy. Tech Crunch wrote: Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Elto had ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD's Registrations Top 5 Million; .Science & .Link Break 100K: We Break Down a Numbers - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs: Domain                Total Reg  % of all Reg Now let’s go behind the numbers. .XYZ as we have spoken about numerous times includes about 375,000 free registrations that were stuffed into Network Solutions customer accounts which represented about 43% of its registrations. The next five top-selling registrars for .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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ICANN responds to IPC concerns, refers ‘.sucks’ to the FTC - Trevor Little Almost two weeks after the IP Constituency (IPC) formally voiced its concern over pricing policies in the ‘.sucks’ top-level domain, ICANN has swung into action, referring the IPC’s allegations to both the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and, because Vox Populi is a Canadian enterprise, Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA). World ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Is Holding Auction of 36 Registry Owned .Yoga Domain Names - SnapNames.com is holding an auction of  36 .Yoga domain names. About 1/2 the domain names have a reserve range price of $1k or less. Many are at no reserve and only one domain has a high range reserve of $2,500 All of the 36 .Yoga domain names are owned by the registry, Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). The auction closes on May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. As of publication one domain, Practice.yoga has a bid,  but has not hit reserve. Here is the entire ... read more ...
 
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Big brands register .Sucks as ICANN asks FTC for review - Oprah, Apple and Microsoft among companies paying to protect their brands. Intellectual property interests and brands owners are upset about the .sucks domain name and its pricing, but many big brands aren’t taking chances even as ICANN asks government regulators to review it. .Sucks registry Vox Populi continues to advertise which companies are coughing up dough to prevent their .sucks domains from being available to the general public. Some of the latest: Oprah (Oprah.sucks), Verizon (Verizon.sucks), ... read more ...
 
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Global e-Commerce Sales Projected to Hit $994.5 Billion This Year - Thad Rueter reported for InternetRetailer .com that global e-commerce sales are expected to hit $994.5 billion according to A.T. Kearney. The report cited the United States ahead of China for “online market attractiveness.” From the article: Global e-commerce sales will reach $994.5 billion this year, up 18.4% from $839.8 billion in 2014, according to a new forecast from A.T. Kearney. That compares to a 20.8% year-over-year increase in 2014, with a 16.1% increase anticipated for 2016, to $1.155 ... read more ...
 
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Australian Judge releases personal info on over 4700 who allegedly pirated movie - The AP wrote that an Australian judge has apparently agreed to release the names of over 4700 Aussies who downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club. SYDNEY (AP) — Internet providers have lost an Australian court battle to keep secret the names of Internet users suspected of illegally downloading Hollywood movie “Dallas Buyers Club” over file-sharing networks. The Federal Court ruling on Tuesday is a landmark win for copyright holders in a country which has a reputation for being among of world’s ... read more ...
 
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Los .com cumplen 30 años y siguen como líderes en Sedo - Sedo, la plataforma de dominios líder en compraventa y parking de dominios, informó que al llegar a su trigésimo aniversario, los dominios .com continúan siendo líderes del reino de los TLDs. Al punto que de los 18 millones de dominios que la firma tiene a la venta, la mitad son de ese tipo. La compañía destacó su fortaleza aún después de la aparición de una nueva colección de extensiones en el mercado.  "Nuestra experiencia de mercado en los últimos 15 años ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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New Study Says "Consumers Feel Uncomfortable with the ‘New Internet’ and … - With hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) arriving on the Internet – like .shop, .bank and .london – research has revealed that 87 percent of consumers do not feel very comfortable ... read more ...
 
 
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Theralase closer to clinical testing of non-invasive cancer treatment - Thu 3:16 pm by Alessandro Bruno Tthe combination of light and PDC is much less invasive than other cancer treatments; in fact, the penetration of the light source via optic fiber is the only invasive procedure involved. Toronto-based Theralase Technologies (CVE:TLT) is closer to bringing its anti-cancer Photo Dynamic Compound (PDC), TLD-1433, to the pre-commercial production stage, having successfully released ... read more ...
 
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UK users still don’t trust fancy new Internet top-level domains, study finds - Eighteen months into the new era of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .london, .shop and .bank barely one in ten British and US consumers feels comfortable visiting websites using them, according to a large survey by security firm NCC Group. The survey of 10,000 consumers (5,000 from each country) found that 87 percent said that they didn’t feel comfortable visiting new domains, presumably an issue connected to unfamiliarity. Roughly half claimed that their insecurity would be helped by ... read more ...
 
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Suckstobeyou.com - Trademark owners will be thrilled to know that for a short time (until June 1) they have a priority right to register their brands with the generic top-level domain (gTLD) “.sucks.” Top level domains are the suffixes added to a domain name/address.  Generic gTLDs  were intended to be available for general registration by any person or organization within a particular group (“restricted”) and included the very well-known gTLDs “.com,” “.org,” “.net,” etc.  As the qualification ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Holding Auction Of Court Ordered Domains To Be Sold Including FILETMIGNON.COM - Pursuant to Order of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and further at the direction of the US Marshals Service, NameJet is auctioning some terrific steak-related domains, such as FILETMIGNON.COM, along with a few other assorted names, including the following: 1-800-nuts.com azizmerchant.com buykobebeef.com dodgeinnsteak.com dryagedsteaks.com filetmignon.com flowerofthemonthclub.biz flowerofthemonthclub.net flowerofthemonthclub.org flowerofthemonthclub.us flowerofthemonthclub.ws fruitclub.net grandadsbaconrinds.com kobebeef.biz kobebeef.net kobebeefsale.com kycity.net luckyagro.com simonmeats.com steaks-meat-food.com tropicaldental.com wagyusteaks.com wagyusteaks.net wagyusteaks.org These ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs and Universal Acceptance - Universal Acceptance is the topic of the moment, explained in one simple sentence: in the new gTLD world, it means that various groups (the DNS, ICANN and a few others) are working hard to make new domain names better accepted by the existing technical Internet infrastructure. A video extracted from the "ICANN 52" meeting explains it in 50 slides but I suggest a pause on slide 17, because it shows where the issues are and what remains to be fixed to give the ultimate answer to that question: ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Holding No Reserve Auction Of Over 250 Short .BUZZ Domain Names - Namejet.com is holding no reserve auction of over 250.short Buzz domains. All of the domains are short, most are 4 letters  (5 letters is the longest) as well as some 3 letter words. The domain have to be back-ordered by dates starting as soon as April 16th but they are staggered, with the last one’s needing to be back-ordered by May 3rd. Here is the list of domain names, which all require a $69 bid to enter the auction and the date each must be back-ordered by. As usually all back-orders must ... read more ...
 
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ICANN asks FTC and OCA to examination .Sucks - ICANN asks government agencies for feedback on .sucks plan. ICANN has sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA), asking them to consider if Vox Populi’s plans for the .sucks top level domain are violating any laws or regulations these agencies enforce. .Sucks registry Vox Populi has an interesting pricing model that charges some brand owners — including those that have tried to protect their brands in new domain names — a higher fee. The ... read more ...