Thu 26th March 2015
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Google Testing No Divider Between Paid and Organic Listings - Barry Schwartz is out this morning with a post on Search Engine Land that Google will be testing removing the divider between paid and organic listings. From the article: Google is testing not displaying the line break or line separator between the search ads at the top of the search results and the organic/free listings below the ads. Frederik Hyldig, a reader, emailed us screen shots, which we cannot currently replicate, but we know Google is constantly testing user interface changes. In addition, ... read more ...
 
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Well Cosmo Kramer This is Why Radio Shack asked for your Phone Number - For years on Christmas Eve I would buy a last minute gift at Radio Shack, it was across the street from the mall and it was open later than other stores. I always couldn’t stand them asking for my phone number or email address when I was just trying to get out of there. For fans of Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer wondered about Radio Shack from this classic clip:   Well it seems now Radio Shack wants to sell that data and as Mike would say, No Bueno. From PC World: For years, RadioShack made a habit of ... read more ...
 
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Helaas voor bedrijven: vanaf mei kan webadres eindigen op .sucks premium - Met de verkoop van domeinnamen wordt veel geld verdiend - Foto:ANP door Michiel Dijkstra 29 mrt 2015 De handel in domeinnamen is big business. Nu er steeds meer - curieuze - varianten ... read more ...
 
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Helaas voor bedrijven: vanaf mei kan webadres eindigen op .sucks - Met de verkoop van domeinnamen wordt veel geld verdiend - Foto:ANP door Michiel Dijkstra 29 mrt 2015 De handel in domeinnamen is big business. Nu er steeds meer - curieuze - varianten ... read more ...
 
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.Ping fetches $1.5M during auction, .Srl goes for $400,000 - Two two-way races for new top level domain names have been settled. Two top level domain name contention sets were settled in auctions yesterday. Golf company Ping (Karsten) won .Ping for $1,501,000. It was in contention with Radix. Thus, .Ping will become a .brand instead of a generic domain name. InternetX won the auction for .Srl at only $400,000, beating Google. Srl is a corporate identifier similar to LLC for Limited Liability Company. InternetX already runs .LTDA, a similar corporate identifier ... read more ...
 
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Another Case of Cybersquatting Paying off - This transaction takes us all around the globe and shows just how magical the Internet can be. So a Chinese registrant gets a domain that represents a major U.S. brand, in the South African extension. NBAstore.co.za sold yesterday on Sedo for $5,500. The buyer shown in whois is Victor Dutka and Mr.Dutka according to LinkeIn is Sr Director, Enterprise Network Services National Basketball Association. Responsible for voice and data networking for the league. So instead of going the UDRP route, the ... read more ...
 
Wed 25th March 2015
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Ping.com Beats Radix To .Ping For $1.5M; InterNetX Wins .SRL For Just $400K Beating Google - ICANN held two Last Resort Auctions today. Ping.com the golf club manufacturer won the rights to operate .Ping by outbidding Radix at $1,501,000. The .Ping auction went into the 4th round until Radix dropped out. mySRL GmbH beat Google to the new gTLD .SLR which is a corporate designation used in Spain like .LLC is used in the USA and .GMBH is used in certain countries principally Germany, who won the auction for just $400,000. This auction only went to the 2nd round of the auction which started ... read more ...
 
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Co łączy Taylor Swift i Microsoft? Wykupione pornodomeny - Policjant brawurowo śpiewa utwór Taylor Swift. Zobacz nowy hit internetu [WIDEO] Rozszerzenia będą korzystne dla internautów – twierdzi ICANN, instytucja odpowiedzialna za przyznawanie nazw domen internetowych. Jak podkreślają specjaliści, sufiksy opisowe typu .healthcare, .travel, lub .deal ułatwiają szybsze wyszukiwanie i są skuteczniejsze od standardowych, takich jak .com, lub .org. Zasada ma mieć zastosowanie również w odniesieniu ... read more ...
 
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Is This Really a Golden Age of Domain Trolling ? - Caitlin Dewey of The Washington Post wrote an article that centered around the recent Taylor Swift and Ted Cruz domain registrations. Caitlin decided to use the words domain trolling instead of the often used cyber squatting. The lone commenter in the article told Caitlin that it is called cybersquatting. From the article: What is domain trolling, exactly? And how is it even legal? Given the strong anti-impersonation protections that most social networks supply, the ability to register an entire ... read more ...
 
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Top-level domeinnaam .sucks komt eraan - Hoewel de nieuwe generic top-level domeinnamen (gTLD's) veel voordeel bieden, is er ook genoeg controverse over deze namen. Met name de .gTLD .sucks, baart het bedrijfsleven zorgen. De reden voor zorgen komt voort uit de angst om jouw bedrijfsnaam of merk met een .sucks-domeinnaam terug te vinden op internet. Dat deze zorgen mogelijk terecht zijn, is te danken aan Vox Populi Registry die de gTLD mag verkopen. De naam zegt het eigenlijk al, 'Vox Populi' ... read more ...
 
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Miami Heat Guard Tyler Real T Johnson Launches His Site on a .Club - Miami Heat Shooting guard Tyler Real T Johnson just launched his official website on a .club domain The site is at Realtjohnson.club Tyler is averaging 6 points a game and 1.3 assists so far this season and wear number 8 for the Heat Here is some information about Tyler from his site: Hometown: Mountain View, CAHigh school: St. Francis HSCollege:  Fresno StateHeight/Weight: 6’3”/190Position: GBirthdate: May 07, 1992   “His mother Jennifer serves in the United States Air Force, Tyler has ... read more ...
 
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Nieuwe topdomeinen blijken grote teleurstelling - De belangstelling voor de nieuwe gTLD-topdomeinen valt erg tegen. Verhoudingsgewijs veel domeinnaamregistraties onder die nieuwe gTLD's worden niet verlengd. Meer over nieuwe gTLD's Meer dan één op de tien domeinnamen onder de nieuwe topdomeinen zoals .bike of .guru, wordt niet verlengd, constateert het Amerikaanse startersbedrijf die speciaal voor ... read more ...
 
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Are we astounded by Donuts' renovation rates? - Latest day was 61%, but it might be too early to draw conclusions. New top level domain name mega-registry Donuts has been blogging daily renewal rate data for its first domain names released nearly 14 months ago. The most recent data show a 71% renewal rate for the 37,857 Donuts domain names that have exited the renewal grace period. This includes 14 top level domains, and the majority of these names were registered in general availability. Comparing day 4 to day 3, the renewal rate dropped to about ... read more ...
 
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Efzed Pty Ltd. & Simulate Pty Ltd. Of Australia Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Efzed Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Efzed”), Simulate Pty Ltd. of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (“Simulate”), and Mr. Frank Zimmermann of Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia (“Zimmerman”), were just all found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain airlineonline.com. The domain is owned by AviaDesign Ky, Sami Puro of Vantaa, of Finland, and was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Complainants hold ... read more ...
 
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.Green Windups with 771 Registrations After 1st Day Of General Availability - .Green went though a long and winding road leading up to the  launch of .Green and yesterday was the first day a .Green could be registered on a first come, first served basis otherwise known general availability. After the first day of GA including those domain names registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid an extra fee to register in Landrush, there are 771 domain registrations. The cost of a .Green registration is around $60 at Godaddy or about 7X the cost of a .com registration. .Green ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions usurpation submissions for summer domain name auction - Auction house will hold another exclusive auction this summer. Heritage Auctions is planning another live domain name auction for early this summer. The format will be similar to one it held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in February. It will be limited to about 30 high value domain names, primarily .com. It will take place in June in either Dallas (where Heritage Auctions is based) or New York. The February auction brought in over $1.3 million in sales, with many of them coming post-auction. ... read more ...
 
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Eén jaar nieuwe domeinextensies: slechts de helft kent ze - De populairste nieuwe domeinextensies in Nederland:.tips, .club en .today 25 maart 2015 - Slechts 45 procent van de internetgebruikers kent de nieuwe domeinextensies. 54 procent kent ze niet, een procent twijfelt. Dat is het resultaat van een online-enquête van het instituut forsa in Duitsland. STRATO heeft dit onderzoek een jaar na de invoering van de nieuwe TLD’s (Top Level Domains) laten uitvoeren. Meer dan 1.000 internetgebruikers in de leeftijd  tot 69 jaar werden ondervraagd over het ... read more ...
 
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25.03.2014 – Buy Local kooperiert mit Atalanda | Kartons mit Ebay-Logo von … - Buy Local – eine Händlerinitiative mit 600 Mitgliedern – hat die Zusammenarbeit mit Atalanda bekannt gegeben. Das Ziel der Kooperation ist der Aufbau von lokalen Online-Marktplätzen in möglichst vielen Städten. Außerdem: Kartons und Paketklebeband mit Ebay-Logo von Paketplus für gewerbliche Händler und die Anzahl der registrierten Top-Level-Domains steigt auf 288 Millionen. © Marco2811 - fotolia.com Buy Local vereinbart Kooperation mit Atalanda Atalanda und Buy Local sind eine Kooperation ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Nigeria registers 80000 domain names in three years - Nigerian Communications Commission HeadquartersABOUT 80, 000 Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, the .ng have so far been registered in the country since the campaign began in 2012. This was disclosed to The Guardian, by the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the agency incharge of administering domain names in the country, Mrs. Mary Uduma. Uduma however, disclosed that out of the 80, 000, only about 60, 000 are active; stressing ... read more ...
 
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The race to secure .porn domains - On the defensive, a number of celebrities and brands have secured unsavory web domains all in an effort to keep others from destroying their public image. SiliconANGLE takes a look at a few of the more notable domains that were quickly usurped by wary Hollywood and Fortune 500 elite. In 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the entity responsible for top level domains — announced the expansion of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This meant that aside from seeing ... read more ...
 
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Survey says .Com performs improved than new TLDs - Survey says that people more likely to click and recall .com domain names. Interbrand, ostensibly on behalf of Verisign, has released an infographic showing results from a 1,000 person survey about the power of .com. The survey shows that people click on domain names ending in .com more than those in new TLDs. Consumers were shown search results pages with similar web addresses but different domain extensions. When the new TLD was displayed first, 61% still clicked on the .com web address listed ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million: Record 56% of Sales Were Buy It Now - Sedo just reported that over the past week, 674 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I think is the all time high Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: buymyhouse.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: visitdubai.ae at 20,000 GBP · Top “other” TLD: dxb.net at 9,888 USD Although I do like to point out my favorite buy of the week, this week I didn’t find one   ... read more ...
 
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Roger Kay Would Like To See ICANN Slow Things Down When it comes to new gtlds - Roger Kay would like to see ICANN slow down, Kay has written about the new gtld program on Forbes a few times. Today he is out with an article that basically says ICANN should hit the brakes. The greatest expansion so far is confusion. He discusses compatability problems and names not working universally on every platform and every device. From the article: One of the biggest problems is compatibility.  That is, a lot of the new domain names don’t work with existing devices and software.  Browsers ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift And Microsoft Snatch Up .Porn Domains To Ward Off Opportunists … - It may sound strange, but one thing pop music star Taylor Swift and software giant Microsoft have in common is that both are feverishly acquiring .porn and .sucks domains. No, they're not looking to flip their respective brands upside down, nor are they collaborating on a new adult site to rule them all -- they're simply trying to pull the rug out from under the trolls. As the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues to expand the number of generic ... read more ...