Thu 19th March 2015
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Buys .FREE Domain - Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has won the rights to a new top-level domain and it is in sharp contrast to the company’s recent purchase of the ‘.buy’ top-level domain. Amazon has acquired the rights to the  ‘.free’ top-level domain. Amazon beat Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free. Amazon made a number of very general statements on the company’s application for ‘.free’, which do not shed any light on the ... read more ...
 
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.Uno domain launches Uno Social Site - Site gives .uno domains away for free, but ensures free domain names will be used. An example Uno Social SiteThe company behind the .uno top level domain name has launched a new social media aggregator called Uno Social Site. Uno Social Site aggregates your data from various social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) in one place. It also allows you to add additional media. Notably, the free service comes with a free .uno domain name. Registries have been working hard to get people to register ... read more ...
 
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Eight genuinely useful tools for domain name generation - Thinking of a name for your new website is difficult, and the longer you leave it the harder it gets. Here’s the situation I’m in… Me, my wife and few of our friends have decided to pool together our various digital skills and resources to start a new website in our spare time. We know what the content will be (stupid, rambling), we know roughly what our strategy is (hit and hope) and we know what our goals are (free beer). Planning sessions have gone well, we’ve got loads of ideas for articles, ... read more ...
 
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Hip-Hop Artist Wiz Khalifa Files UDRP On TaylorGang.com, Registered in 2007; TM Filed 2014 - Hip-Hop artist and rapper Wiz Khalifa whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, filed a UDRP again the owner of the domain name TaylorGang.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The domain name was first registered in August 2007 according to DomainTools.com but according to Screenshots.com there was a site on the domain going back to 2005. However again according to Screenshots.com, going to the domain appears to have been going to a parked page from 2008 until 2014 and now is going ... read more ...
 
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ICANN bill offer shows new TLDs weaker than expected - As registrars predicted, 2015 forecast was too rosy. ICANN released its 2016 draft FY16 Operating Plan Budget for the fiscal year beginning this July, and it shows weaker-than-expected new top level domain name results in the current year. The group expects just $14.1 million in revenue from new TLDs for FY 2015 (which ends in June). That’s well below the budgeted $19.8 million. That $19.8 million number itself was a shadow of its original proposed forecast after ICANN slashed the number of new ... read more ...
 
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Author Asks Security Expert To Steal His Godaddy Domain/Account & He Does - csoonline.com, just published a Troubling post on  how easy it was to gain control of a domain name and access to a Godaddy account they did not own.  The author of the story, Steve Ragan, tells the tale of how he asked the CEO of Night Lion Security Vinny Troia, to try to take control of the author’s domain name and account at Godaddy. The story entitled “GoDaddy accounts vulnerable to social engineering and Photoshop” and subtitled “GoDaddy’s layered verification protections defeated ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy sets IPO range, skeleton to lift $400M during adult to $3B valuation - Company sets anticipated range in SEC filing. GoDaddy revealed a planned IPO range of $17.00-$19.00 per share in an SEC filing this morning. At the mid price point of $18.00, GoDaddy will raise $396 million. If it prices at the high end, and its underwriters exercise and option to purchase 3.3 million more shares, it could reach $481 million. If it prices at $19.00 per share, the IPO would value GoDaddy at just shy $2.9 billion. On the low end it will be about $2.6 billion. The private-equity investment ... read more ...
 
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Débrayages chez TLD Europe - Depuis mardi, la production des usines TLD de Montlouis et de Sorigny est perturbée par un mouvement de grève perlée. A l'appel de la CGT, des débrayages de 45 minutes sont organisés deux fois par jour, le matin et l'après-midi. Le mouvement est suivi par près de 95 % des salariés en ateliers à Montlouis. La participation est légèrement inférieure dans la nouvelle usine d'Isoparc à Sorigny où le groupe TLD Europe est en train de transférer une partie de ses activités ... read more ...
 
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Restricting .doctor TLD to Physicians Unfair, Donuts Tells ICANN in … - Restricting .doctor TLD to Physicians Unfair, Donuts Tells ICANN in Reconsideration Filing By Joseph WrightMarch 16 — A newly required public interest commitment (PIC) would place the .doctor top-level domain in a unique, “ultra-highly sensitive” category in violation of ICANN's policy of nondiscrimination in the namespace, according to a reconsideration request filed by Donuts Inc. subsidiary Brice Trail March 12.The challenged ... read more ...
 
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Watch Out, Brands: The Controversial .Sucks Domain Is Almost Here - Marketing Land explains that early registration begins later this month, but brands that want to register their trademarked names before the general public can will pay a hefty price. Among the 500+ new, generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have been approved, few have generated as much concern and consternation as .sucks. Before he left office, US Senator Jay Rockefeller told ICANN — the international organization that manages the internet’s domain name system — that the domain has “little ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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No Easy Solutions to TLD Branding and Labeling - The introduction of unlimited numbers of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) has increased customer and company confusion about the role of brand names and their product labels, as noted in an earlier post. This essay outlines the various possible scenarios for coupling TLD branding and labeling, and it explains why duplicating the benefits of branding under.com may be difficult. Let's look at the benefits of having default solutions for decision making. Harvard Law Professor Cass R. Sunstein ... read more ...
 
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HipHop.com Redirecting to KanyeWest.com - Back on March 4 we posted an article about the owner of Loser.com redirecting that domain to the Wikipedia page of Kanye West. Elliot Silver actually spoke to the owner and got some insight behind the move. You can read Elliot’s post here Well now it seems the registrant of HipHop.com who lives in the U.K. is redirecting HipHop.com to KanyeWest.com. This looks to have been a recent change, maybe it was done by the registrant to counteract the loser.com redirect. Maybe Kanye’s people did some ... read more ...
 
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Chris Owen :Investing in .Sucks Could Be the Best $2500 Companies Might Ever … - It was announced this week that the sunrise period for the new top level domain (TLD) '.Sucks' will launch on March 30th, prompting marketing managers across the world to start firing off emails to their bosses to cough up the expected $2,500 needed to secure '[theirbrand].sucks'. And perhaps rightly so - short of ICANN, the outfit which controls TLDs, announcing swearword laden domain suffixes, '.sucks' has universal appeal to anyone wanting to ... read more ...
 
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Investing in .Sucks Could Be the Best $2500 Companies Might Ever Spend - It was announced this week that the sunrise period for the new top level domain (TLD) '.Sucks' will launch on March 30th, prompting marketing managers across the world to start firing off emails to their bosses to cough up the expected $2,500 needed to secure '[theirbrand].sucks'. And perhaps rightly so - short of ICANN, the outfit which controls TLDs, announcing swearword laden domain suffixes, '.sucks' has universal appeal to anyone wanting to ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball (MLB) Wins the New Domain Extension .Baseball … - In what only can be described as win for the new gTLD program, Major League Baseball (MLB) has won the rights to operate the new domain name extension .Baseball. Donuts was the only other applicant. Donuts had won many sports extensions including .football, .Hockey, .Run and .Soccer. .Baseball was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. Here is what MLB plans for the new gTLD  .Baseball according to its application with ICANN: Major League Baseball (“MLB”) is the oldest professional ... read more ...
 
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Can Hollywood Stop Popcorn Time ? - Andy Greenberg did a story on Wired that was a great read for those interested in the intellectual property battles around the Internet when it comes to piracy and how each side plays the game. The article centers around Popcorn Time and Greenberg interviewed one of the programmers under an alias. The programmer discussed how they are looking to go p2p so that no matter how many domains are suspended it won’t matter. These guys so far are not making any money they seem to be doing it for the admiration ... read more ...
 
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Who’s buying the new top-level domains? - In fact, the company has said that it will indeed begin operating as a registry and charging people to lease domain names under the various top-level domains that it has bought. So far it either owns, or is in the process of buying, domains including .PhD, .how, .meme and .new. But who else is buying-up top-level domain names? Amazon recently beat Google in the auction for the .buy domain, but it ended up costing them a reported $4.6m. Uniregistry bought the .mom domain and issued a statement ... read more ...
 
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Donuts unveils marketing offensive in drive to promote gTLD expansion - Trevor Little This week Donuts, the largest registry for new generic top-level (gTLD) domain names, unveiled its first advertising campaign, 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 ... read more ...
 
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Goldman Sachs and other finish user domain name buys - A Goldman Sachs company was among those buying domain names at Sedo last week. Sedo handled 675 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million. The top sale was TheRecRoom.com for $89,888. This was clearly an end user purchase, but the domain name’s whois record is protected by privacy. As for the ones that appear with open whois records…Goldman Sachs bought one of the domain names for its AYCO company. Other buyers include a dog breeder, an RV seller, and a storage company. (You ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks Wins .DIY Beating Google: Now Owns 11 gTLD’s - Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. part of the Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., and Scripps Networks, LLC (“Scripps”) won the rights to operate the new domain extension .DIY beating Google who withdrew its application. The company operates the The DIY Network.com, as well as many other Television networks including the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel, HGTV and the Travel Channel. Of course DIY stands for Do It Yourself. Scripps originally applied to operate 13 new gTLD and with the exception ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google To .MBA; Google Wins .PHD - Two more new gTLD strings that were scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week, have been settled privately. Donuts won rights to operate the .MBA new domain extension, beating out Google and a company known as Your Dot Phd, Inc. Yourdotphd.com Google won the rights to operate the new gTLD, .PHD beating out Your Dot Phd, Inc. There are plenty of new gTLD’s in the education vertical including .education,  .school, and .university all owned by Donuts  and .College which is owned by ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball (MLB) Wins a New Domain Extension .Baseball Beating Donuts - In what only can be described as win for the new gTLD program, Major League Baseball (MLB) has won the rights to operate the new domain name extension .Baseball. Donuts was the only other applicant. Donuts had won many sports extensions including .football, .Hockey, .Run and .Soccer. .Baseball was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. Here is what MLB plans for the new gTLD  .Baseball according to its application with ICANN: Major League Baseball (“MLB”) is the oldest professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins new gTLD .GMBH Beating Google & 3 Other Applicants - Donuts has won the rights to the new domain extension .GMBH beating Google, Straat (.Co) as well as InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH, and TLDDOT GmbH which had applied and lost its bid to win the extension on a community basis. GMBH is a a type of legal entity very common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking Central European countries and would be equivalent to .INC and even LLC in the United States. Here is a link to a story where you can learn more about GMBH’s I have ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks Wins .DIY Beating Google: Now Owns 11 gTLD's - Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. part of the Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., and Scripps Networks, LLC (“Scripps”) won the rights to operate the new domain extension .DIY beating Google who withdrew its application. The company operates the The DIY Network.com, as well as many other Television networks including the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel, HGTV and the Travel Channel. Of course DIY stands for Do It Yourself. Scripps originally applied to operate 13 new gTLD and with the exception ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google To .MBA; Google Wins .PHD - Two more new gTLD strings that were scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week, have been settled privately. Donuts won rights to operate the .MBA new domain extension, beating out Google and a company known as Your Dot Phd, Inc. Yourdotphd.com Google won the rights to operate the new gTLD, .PHD beating out Your Dot Phd, Inc. There are plenty of new gTLD’s in the education vertical including .education,  .school, and .university all owned by Donuts  and .College which is owned by ... read more ...