Tue 31st March 2015
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Google Inc. Acquires YT.com Domain Name - Google Inc. has acquired the 2 letter .com domain name YT.com. The domain came out of Privacy Protection at Dynadot on 3/30/2015 and transferred into MarkMonitor revealing Google as the buyers. Based on what I can tell and whois history records, the transaction likely took place on 1/29/2015 when the domains registrant data changed from Cyber Trading Co. at Tucows and transferred to Dynadot under privacy. Was the domain name YT.com acquired for YouTube.com? That is what I am thinking it was for ... read more ...
 
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Zarejestrowana domena a ochrona znaków towarowych - Nowe domeny są dostępne do rejestracji od ponad roku. Niektórzy internauci upatrują w nich nowe możliwości, inni – doszukują się zagrożeń. Wśród tych ostatnich są m.in. właściciele znaków towarowych. Jakie konkretnie niebezpieczeństwa niosą nTLD dla brandów?Program nTLD (new Top Level Domains) został zainicjowany przez ICANN (organizacja zarządzająca systemem DNS) pod koniec 2013 r. Jego założeniem jest urozmaicenie oferty rozszerzeń, w których można rejestrować adresy ... read more ...
 
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nTLDStats Reports Over 1.25 Million People Have Registered The 4.8 M New gTLD Domains - nTLDStats.com is reporting that the number of Unique Registrants of a new gTLD domain name is just over 1.25 Million registrants. The total number of new gTLD domain names registered are now over 4.8 Million. Some other interesting  numbers from ntldstats.com about the registrants of new gTLD’s: Frank Schilling North Sound Names has the largest number of new gTLD registration with over 183,000 registrations of as far as we can tell all in new gTLD extensions of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry ... read more ...
 
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Tidal.com, TastyBrands.com and More Domain Movers - Welcome to the latest round of domain name movers. The domain movers series digs to find domain names recently acquired, registered and moving for one reason or another by large companies around the web! These are often early indicators into new brands, services, acquisitions of other companies and much more. Here we go: BL.com has just been sold at Sedo! Finlead AG were the sellers and they actually recently acquired the domain about 5/3/2014 when the domain went into whois privacy at eNom. It came ... read more ...
 
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Rightside batch adult 50% this year - Shares rebound from tough 2014. 2014 was miserable for owners of Rightside stock. Its shares sank 58% from $15.82 after being spun off from Demand Media to $6.72 at the close of 2014. Ouch. 2015 is seeing a big reversal. Shares opened today at $10.11, up 50% from the January 2 open of $6.76. The fundamentals of the business don’t seem to have changed, but people are buying the stock. I suspect a lot of the sell-off in 2014 was from people who invested in Demand Media and didn’t care to own a ... read more ...
 
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Why Donuts is divulgence domain name renovation rates - By predicting and revealing renewals, Donuts hopes to get registrars and domain name investors on board. Donuts has posted an update on its renewal rates, showing an overall 68.4% rate after ten days. The update also highlights a reason Donuts predicted its renewal rates ahead of time and has continuously revealed its rates now that domains are expiring: It’s marketing. Co-founder Richard Tindal explains that renewal rates on Donuts domains are much higher than those of .com domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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Motley Fool Ponders if Go Daddy is Cheap - Alex Dumortier on Motley Fool took a look at the Go Daddy IPO and honed in on the history of operating losses and whether or not the stock is cheap based on projections. From the article: We have a history of operating losses and may not be able to achieve profitability in the future. That is one of the prominent risk factors that greets prospective investors in GoDaddy’s most recent prospectus. On a GAAP [generally accepted accounting principles] basis, GoDaddy has lost $622 million cumulatively ... read more ...
 
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Supercross: Shane McElrath To Step Up To 450 Class - TLD/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shan McElrath will compete in the 450 class at the New Jersey Supercross. For the first time since its inception, the TLD Team will compete in an eastern round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series when championship makes its stop in New Jersey on April 25. Shane McElrath, who normally competes in the 250 West Championship on the TLD KTM 250 SX-F Factory Edition, will move up to the 450 class, and the entire TLD staff and crew will be there to support him. According ... read more ...
Mon 30th March 2015
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This .Sucks: The Newest New gTLD - Two years ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that runs the Internet, launched a controversial program to expand the number of top-level domain names (TLDs).  Until recently, the real estate on the Internet was confined to traditional TLDs like .com, .net and .org; country code TLDs like .fr for France and .es for Spain; and a small number of sponsored TLDs like .xxx for adult entertainment and .aero for the airline industry. Under ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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10 Red Flags on a Go Daddy IPO according to Pando Daily - On the heels of the upcoming Go Daddy IPO, Pando Daily listed 10 red flags for those thinking about investing. Some in my opinion are valid and some are not. Asking the question in red flag #3 “And besides, how much longer are small businesses going to need Web sites in an era when most are engaging with customers on Facebook, Twitter or other mobile apps?” Small businesses need to control their content on their own site, anyone advising them to use a walled garden with holes in privacy and data ... read more ...
 
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Royal Caribbean files lawsuit to constraint typos - Cruise line goes cruising for typos. Cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against two typos of its RoyalCaribbean.com domain name. The two domains — RoyalCaribean.com and RoyalCarribean.com — forward to another domain name that is a lead gen site for cruises and is branded with “Royal Caribbean”. I wouldn’t be surprised if these domain names get a good bit of traffic. While writing this story I’ve confused the typo and correct version multiple times. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26 - Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many domains (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast. Many of the tips are universal and can be used to sell more of anything, not just domains. Also: Donuts’ renewal rates, .PING and Verisign-supported study suggests .com domains perform better than new TLDs. Subscribe via ... read more ...
 
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IP owners make last-ditch effort to derail “predatory” ‘.sucks’ rollout - Trevor Little ICANN’s IP Constituency has called on ICANN to immediately halt the “‘.sucks’ predatory registration scheme designed to exploit trademark owners”, and questioned the unique registry fees that could see ICANN benefit financially, to the tune of $1 million, from the TLD.  Sent to ICANN late on Friday (and available online courtesy ... read more ...
 
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UPS.com expires in 9 days - UPS and other big companies have domain names expiring soon. 9 days until this domain name expires.OK, so they surely have auto renew turned on. But isn’t this cutting it close? UPS’ main domain name UPS.com, the one it uses to run its company, expires on April 8 and hasn’t been renewed yet. UPS isn’t the only big company with a domain name that expires fairly soon. As I did a couple years ago, I ran through the Fortune 100 list of companies to see which ones have domains expiring soon. ... read more ...
 
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Giovanni Laporta CEO of Yoyo.Email Loser of 37 UDRP/URS's Rants About Domains, TM & More - Giovanni Laporta the CEO Yoyo.Email has made an extensive post on UDRPSearch.com, venting his thoughts about the UDRP/URS process the panelist, the process, domain names, trademarks and his motivation behind YoYo mail and his defense of what he says is around 50 UDRP/URS cases. According to UDRPSearch, YoYo has been the subject of 39 UDRP/URS cases and lost all but 2. These comments were made by Mr. Laporta in response to one of those lost decisions on Mysql.email and a comment made by a Mr. Levy ... read more ...
 
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Chehadé : It was only a misunderstanding - ICANN CEO explains domain “hogging” comments made during the Davos Annual Meeting. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has responded (pdf) to a letter from Internet Commerce Association (ICA) regarding domain “hogging” comments he made in a Huffington Post interview. In a video interview with Huffington Post in January, Chehadé said: “The reality is, the more there are names, the less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them. Because if somebody took your name on dot-x, ... read more ...
 
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Interesting UDRP: FIMO.club - Potential use as a fan site for a product saves domain name for respondent. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Staedtler Mars GmbH for the domain name FIMO.club. Staedtler Mars GmbH sells a clay called FIMO that’s apparently popular with hobbyists. The respondent was an unauthorized distributor of the product at a different business and admits to registering a number of domain names with FIMO in them. She said she registered this domain to ... read more ...
 
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Daniel Negari Quoted in South China Morning Post on Upcoming Go Daddy IPO - The South China Morning Post did an article today on the upcoming Go Daddy IPO. In the article Daniel Negari from .XYZ is quoted on the public offering and gives some insight on .xyz, the market in China for domain names and said the he feels dot com has it a peak. From the article: “GoDaddy is as close as it comes to being a consumer recognised brand for domains,” Daniel Negari, CEO of domain company XYZ, told the South China Morning Post. Despite warning from some experts that the GoDaddy ... read more ...
Sun 29th March 2015
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Investing in Education Domains ? University of Phoenix has mislaid half the Students - For those domain investors out there that have a big chunk of education related domains, especially online education, the latest news out of University of Phoenix may be of interest. Enrollment is on the decline. Enrollment at America’s largest for-profit university was about 460,000 students five years ago. Now it’s 213,000. From CNN Money: What happened: Apollo’s fast fall is another sign of the decline in for-profit education. Last July, one of Apollo’s former competitors, Corinthian Colleges, ... read more ...
 
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Avella Approved for .Pharmacy Domain Name - Avella Specialty Pharmacy has been approved by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) to register a .pharmacy domain name for its website. The pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) was created to provide consumers around the world with a means for easily identifying safe and legal online pharmacies and related resources. To be approved, applicants must demonstrate that they adhere to standards and policies that were developed by a global coalition of stakeholders, including the International ... read more ...
Sat 28th March 2015
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AT&T Plans To Watch Where You Go Online - ATT may be able to out do Google when it comes to serving targeted ads according to an article on Ars Technica. Apparently ATT watches everything that their customers do. In some areas you can pay more apparently and that allows you to get some privacy back. From the article: If you have ATT’s gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so affordable, here’s the reason—ATT is boosting profits by rerouting all your Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzing your ... read more ...
 
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How Donuts Is Playing a Big Role in the New gTLD Era - With $100 million in VC funding and well over 100 new top-level domain names, Donuts has emerged to become the pre-eminent vendor in the new era of Internet domains. For much of the Internet's history, top-level domains (TLDs) were few in number, but that has changed over the course of the past year as new generic TLDs (gTLDs) have emerged. TLDs are the naming suffix for Internet addresses and include dot-com (as in eWEEK.com), which recently turned 30 years ... read more ...
 
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MicrosoftZoom.com, T0.com & More Domain Movers - Welcome to Domain Movers which is a series that digs deep and detects domain movements by large corporations and companies around the web! These are often early indicators of upcoming new brands, services and more. The domain names have been either recently acquired in the domain name aftermarket, private purchases, new domain registrations and more. Here we go: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. has registered the domain name SpeakingColors.com for a currently unknown client. The domain name was registered ... read more ...
 
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Buzz.com Domain Acquired by Domo Inc. From YP.com - YP.com (Yellowpages.com LLC) has sold the premium generic domain name Buzz.com to Domo Inc. (Domo.com) according to whois records! YellowPages.com had a website on the Buzz.com domain name up until the early morning hours today, until Buzz.com started showing a mirrored site of Domo.com with the Buzz.com domain name. I didn’t see any press on it myself, but I did find a recent listing page on SnapNames.com for the domain name Buzz.com that was listed on February 19, 2015 with a $50,000 minimum ... read more ...
 
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Die beliebtesten neuen Top-Level-Domains im März - Viel hat sich in unseren Top Ten der meistregistrierten neuen Top-Level-Domains nicht getan. Interessant ist es jedoch darauf zu schauen, wie sich die einzelnen Konkurrenten wachstumsmäßig entwickeln. Die einzige Veränderung bringt ein "Neueinsteiger", den viele von Ihnen allerdings schon kennen dürften. Ein Neueinsteiger? Ein Pseudo-Neueinsteiger lockert das Ranking der 10 beliebtesten neuen Domainendungen auf. Grund dafür ist aber nicht, dass die Endung erst jetzt allgemein verfügbar ... read more ...