Thu 2nd April 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How domain name bonds did on GoDaddy's IPO day - Competitors also get bump as GoDaddy soars. GoDaddy went public yesterday and shares immediately shot up 30%, giving the company a $4 billion market cap. In very early trading today it’s up another 3%. There are a number of similar public companies out there. I think the two closest comps are Endurance International (which owns Domain.com and a number of shared hosting companies) and Web.com. Endurance International Group (EIGI) shares were up about 4% yesterday, giving the company a $2.6 billion ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google flips out for April Fool’s Day -

MAGNIFICENT: The blueprint is recognizable though everything’s in counterpart mode, from hunt box to corporate graphic, typing and beyond. – Google

Via: thestar.com.my

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
22 finish user domain name sales from final week - Car.info and Portfolio.me highlight this week’s list. Sedo’s marketplace handled 669 transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million in sales. The top public sale was Car.info, a staggering price for a .info in light of all of the new top level domains available. Yes, “car” is a great second level domain, but it’s still a surprising purchase. Be sure to tune in Monday to the Domain Name Wire Podcast, when my guest will be Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. We’ll discuss trends in domain name ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
It’s the Brand Name: Cybersquatting Unleashed -   A strong brand commands respect - it is the public face of a business and delivers an emotional message about a product. In short, strong brands drive profit.   Brands are first represented on the internet through the owners' choice of domain name but, with 228 million registered top-level domains (TLDs) and 134 million country-code TLDs, the internet is a crowded market place. So the creation of thousands of new domains by the internet regulator, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Donuts’ marketing offensive tops list of most-read WTR stories in March - Trevor Little The online world features prominently in the top-10 list of most-read WTR blogs last month, with coverage of the marketing campaign launched by Donuts, the largest registry for new generic top-level (gTLD) domain names, taking top spot. The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Donuts’ selling descent tops list of most-read stories for Mar on WTR - Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning point in terms of wider public awareness of new gTLDs, the campaign will do no harm in spreading the gTLD message and will be welcomed by registrars. We argued that it is also a development worth noting by brand owners. Elsewhere in the gTLD world, there ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Farmacias habilitadas para requerir nombre de dominio - Pharmacy TLD brinda a los consumidores una forma fácil de identificar farmacias LaSalud.mx.- A partir del 1 de abril  todas las farmacias estarán habilitadas para requerir un nombre de dominio, la National Assocition of Boards of Pharmacy, NABP(Asociación Nacional de Juntas de Farmacias), comenzará a aceptar las solicitudes, por lo que el programa Pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD), ha aprobado unos 275 nombres lanzados en 2014. La NABP lanzó pharmacy TLD para ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Freedom of Expression Chilled by ICANN’s Addition of Speech Restrictions in DNS - "Public Interest Commitments" Amount to Illegitimate Usurpation of Bottom-Up Policy Freedom of expression on the Internet is at risk from ICANN's recent decision to prohibit anyone but one specific type of doctor from using the word within the .doctor new gTLD space. Last month, ICANN's New GTLD Program Committee decided that only "medical practitioners" would be allowed to register a domain in the .doctor name space. ICANN's decision to exclude numerous lawful users of the word, including ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google’s April Fool Day prank will force you to ‘reflect’ - SAN FRANCISCO — The net firm played an April 1 prank with a TLD trick ending in .google. “Sometimes it’s important to reflect,” remarked Google’s Twitter account, kicking off a day of levity and cunning across the web. Using its own Top Level Domain, all-comers were invited to visit com.google instead of the usual google.com. The layout is recognisable but everything’s in mirror mode, from search box to corporate graphic, typing and beyond. That’s just the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Go Daddy Off to the Races With Fast IPO Start – .CLUB Registry Reaches … - While the Go Daddy IPO has been met with skepticism from many quarters, Colin Campbell, CEO of the top selling new gTLD on the Go Daddy platform, .CLUB, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Die neue .nrw-Domain: regionale Zugehörigkeit zeigen -

Diskutieren Sie mit!

Damit Sie Artikel kommentieren können, muumlssen Sie sich einmalig registrieren — bereits registrierte Leser muumlssen zum Schreiben eines Kommentars eingeloggt sein. Beachten Sie unsere Diskussionsregeln, die Netiquette.

Via: aachener-nachrichten.de

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
CentralNic gets .love (and other sought-after domain name extensions) - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new Internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up a number of the most sought-after new domain extensions including .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the competitive tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
CentralNic gets .love (and plenty of other sought-after domain name extensions) - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new Internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up a number of the most sought-after new domain extensions including .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the competitive tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD’s - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M - WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website not just a domain name. WallStreet.com was the first publicly reported domain name to sell for more than $1 Million dollars. Monte Cahn brokered the domain for $1.02 Million dollars 1999. The domain name resold for $1,030,000 in 2005. According to the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Dubious New Domain Name Extensions Available – Protect Your Brand! - 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 ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Eerste websites met gTLD .amsterdam staan live -

De nieuwe top-level domeinnamen komen eraan. Of beter gezegd: ze zijn er al. De eerste websites met de gTLD-naam .amsterdam staan namelijk live.

Via: winmagpro.nl

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent - It appears Daniel Negari of  .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by  DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is still currently listed as DERRent, LLC, which won the extension in a two-way battle with Donuts who withdrew their application,  however Daniel Negari is now listed as the primary contact as well as Mr. Negari’s email address and physical address, so it would ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google joins the fun on April Fool’s Day - Using Google's own Top Level Domain, all-comers were invited to visit com.google instead of the usual google.com, where everything is in mirror mode. — AFP picSAN FRANCISCO, April 1 — The net firm played an April 1 prank with a TLD trick ending in .google. “Sometimes it’s important to reflect,” remarked Google’s Twitter account, kicking off a day of levity and cunning across the web. Using its own Top Level Domain, all-comers were ... read more ...
 
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Launches Backwards Google Search - There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.Any search you do is reversed or backwards.Google announced this on Google+ as an April Fools joke saying:We’re always thinking about what’s ahead, but sometimes it’s important to look backwards. In that spirit, we’re proud to introduce http://com.google, available today. Made possible by new gTLDs (http://goo.gl/HolXqe), http://com.google gives us an ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
March's Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at March 2015 in the domain name business. Was March a slow news month? Looking over the top stories from last month, there wasn’t a lot of breaking, hard-hitting news. But there were some interesting domain name sales and other developments. Here’s a rundown of the top stories from last month: 1. 2 Things that could harm domain names – the value and importance of domain names is always under threat. 2. The most influential person in the domain name industry is… – this was ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy Is Up Over $6 a Share In Early Trading - Godaddy (GDDY) which went public today at $20 IPO price is trading as of publication at $26.30, up $6.30 Godaddy’s first trade was at $26.18 then slipped as low as $25.49 before bouncing to its inter-day high of $26.84. Over 10,500,000 shares of Godaddy were traded in less than the 1st hour of trading. Godaddy sold 22 Million shares at $20 a share so more than 50% of the amount of shares available to be traded have been traded already in the first hour.     ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD's - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law - Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO of .Law. Carl Jaeckel, founder of Lawyer Central and CMO of Morgan Morgan will also join as COO and John Morgan, Founder of Morgan Morgan, renowned businessman, philanthropist and political power broker will serve as Chairman. Minds + Machines has ... read more ...