Wed 4th March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
2015 Domain Name Wire Survey: By a Numbers - Here’s who took this year’s survey. The submission period for this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey, the tenth annual version of the survey, is now closed. You may recall that I changed the format of the survey last year. The topics are no longer “stuff the ballot box” questions; they focus on overall trends in the domain name business. Survey takers also have to provide some identification details. That means fewer — but higher quality — responses. About 200 people took this year’s ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Domini .uk: gli effetti del nuovo ccTLD per il Regno Unito - E' la tua prima volta qui? Allora iscriviti GRATIS ai nostri feeds! Lo scorso mese di Giugno è stato uno alquanto movimentato per i proprietari di siti e aziende operanti nel Regno Unito. Nominet aveva annunciato qualche mesi prima che avrebbe lanciato i nuovi domini .uk, una versione più corta e facile da ricordare per i domini di questo paese, ma comunque compatibile con lo storico .co.uk e gli altri domini fino adesso disponibili. Inevitabilmente quindi, tutti quelli che hanno siti online orientati ... read more ...
 
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.PORN and .ADULT Join .XXX to Form Unsexy Threesome for Brand Owners - Yesterday marked the sunrise launch of the .porn and .adult generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which join .xxx in the top-level domain name space as gTLDs targeted mainly at online purveyors of adult entertainment.  As with .xxx, the introduction of these adult-themed gTLDs presents yet another annoyance for trademark owners already fatigued by the weekly onslaught of gTLDs introduced over the past couple of years pursuant to ICANN’s expansion of the domain name space.  Also as with ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Insider Transaction Update: Rightside Group, Ltd. Director Sells Company Shares - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), The Director, of Rightside Group Ltd, Panos E David had unloaded 685 shares at $7.01 per share in a transaction on February 25, 2015. The total value of transaction was $4,802. The Insider information was revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) suffered a loss, declining 0.42% in its share price. The bears locked in total control while fighting the bulls throughout the day, ... read more ...
 
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Radix Adds .Online to Growing Portfolio of New gTLDs – .CO.COM Happy With … - Radix Registry is celebrating the addition of .online to their portfolio of solely owned new gTLDs that already includes .website, .host and .space among others. Radix originally joined ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX; TSX:TC) and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. "Online" is the most commonly used word to end domain names, with over 550K .com ... read more ...
 
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Choose a gTLD for Love or for Added Value? - The decision to bid for a new gTLD can be driven by reason or by love. Either the applicant practices strategic and financial valuation, or the applicant falls for an idea implicit in the gTLD. The second group had better be very lucky or have some motivation besides profit. They enjoy little chance of economic viability. Worse, they follow up their poor initial selection with similar bad calls about their marketing message. They listen to their hearts, and their hearts keep making things worse. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Sales Total $1.4 million for a week, led by Ezpr.com -

Over a past week, 581 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 50% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.   

 Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: ezpr.com at 14,500 USD
  • Top ccTLD: moon.co at 6,000 GBP
  • Top “other” TLD: legend.net at 13,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The DNS Still Isn’t a Directory - Back in the mid 1990s, before ICANN was invented, a lot of people assumed that the way you would find stuff on the Internet would be through the Domain Name System. It wasn't a ridiculous idea at the time. The most popular way to look for stuff was through manually managed directories like Yahoo's, but they couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing World Wide Web. Search engines had been around since 1994, but they were either underpowered and missed a lot of stuff, or else produced a blizzard ... read more ...
 
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Google buys .app domain for $25m - Google has bought the .app domain name for $25m, using it as “a domain space for application developers”. The deal means that Google will be able to create web addresses like “google.app” or “android.app.”  Google has its own domain registry where users can buy their own web addresses. The .app TLD may become available through that route, though Google hasn’t confirmed those plans. Google beat competition from 12 other bidders including Amazon for control of the domain name, meaning ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Hillary Clinton Used Her Own Domain to Conduct Communications - The Washington Post and New York Times covered a story on former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the domain name ClintonEmail.com. It seems that on the day of her Senate hearings she registered the domain name ClintonEmail.com. This is important because only official government email accounts have their content retained under the Federal Records Act. The domain is currently parked at Network Solutions and registered until 2017. That domain is probably getting some traffic today, ads on the site are ... read more ...
 
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Last week's NameJet Expired Domain Sales - Joseph Peterson details recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. After a couple of weeks during which Chinese purchases topped the expired domain auction list at NameJet, English is back. In the driver’s seat sits an exact-match domain that defines a ubiquitous commercial category: SignPrinting.com ($4.9k). ChicagoDivorce.com ($2.8k) called shotgun – an EMD as well yet geographically specific. Although this duo was fairly expensive, both are ultimately worth more. You can’t walk ... read more ...
 
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ICANN shuts two new Generic Top-Level Domain (g-TLD) after vulnerability risks -

Q1: What is a inlet of this issue?

A1: An emanate was reported that could potentially impact users of a New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals. Under certain circumstances, an real portal user could potentially perspective information of, or associated to, other users. Access to, and information in, these portals is singular to New gTLD Program field and New gTLD registry operators.

Via: techworm.net

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namejet.com Reports Over $600,000 In Domain Name Sales In February -

Namejet.com expelled a domain name sales for Feb for domains that sole for $2,000 or more.

The sum of such sales is only brief of $615,000.

Here are a sales:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Might Not Like Your Naturally Generated Links - Julie Joyce wrote a very interesting article on Search Engine Land about an hour ago on Google and natural links. We always tend to think of natural links as the prize or reward for creating engaging content. You didn’t pay for them, you did not manipulate the system, someone just liked your content and either included it in an article or on a forum or blog comment. Julie points out that SearchEngineLand.com is one of her best sources for client referrals and yet it seems Google has flagged those ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
February's tip 5 stories: Taylor Swift, Rangers and Google - Taylor Swift’s strange domain name registration was the most popular story on Domain Name Wire last month. February was a very cold and snowy month for much of the northern hemisphere, but a few domain name stories heated things up a bit. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Taylor Swift’s domain name registration – after her former guitar teacher registered a domain name with her name in it, Swift’s peeps registered a rather, um, dirty domain name with her name. 2. ... read more ...
 
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PORN Comes To The Internet - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .WhosWho and 4 EAPs - There aren’t many who’s registering this new domain name. Only one non-brand new top level domain name goes live this week in general availability, and it’s a rather unique one. .Whoswho went live yesterday. It appears to have only gotten about a dozen registrations on its first day and only has 22 names in the zone file so far. This isn’t too surprising. First of all, .whoswho is somewhat akin to .CEO. You can argue it fails the douche test. Second, whoswho is a somewhat strange term. I ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Google dá 25 milhões de dólares pelo domínio de topo .app - A Google adquiriu, por 25 milhões de dólares (cerca de 22 milhões de euros), os direitos do domínio de topo (Top-Level Domain) .app, noticia o site Business Insider.Em 2012, a empresa de Mountain View candidatou-se a novos TLD, incluindo .docs, .android, .free, .fyi, .foo, e .app. A Google não revelou os planos para o novo domínio, mas especula-se que poderá servir para promover aplicações para dispositivos móveis.Via Geeky-Gadgets, Business Insider. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN switches off dot-word admin portal amid security leak scare - Global domain-name overlord ICANN has found another security hole in its systems. This time, confidential data on companies vying for new dot-word domains may have been snooped on by rivals logged into ICANN's catch-all portal – meaning commercially sensitive information as well as important technical details on the internet's expansion were at risk. The org has since taken the vulnerable web apps offline. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Des entreprises locales dans la course - L'Airbus du Touraine : à bord d'un château volant gros planTels des remorqueurs, les tracteurs de TLD, l'équipementier aéroportuaire installé à Sorigny, tirent les avions A400M pour les rentrer dans leurs hangars gigantesques. Un tracteur peut tirer une masse maximale de 180 t ! Mecachrome, installé à Amboise, fabrique les cases ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. “Online” is the most commonly used word to end domain names, with over 550K .com domain ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The Dot Green gTLD and the Domain Name Delusion That Foretells General … - I admire Annalisa Roger. I know from my single email interaction with her that she means well. Nonetheless, dot Green apparently ranks below 330 in the list of operational new gTLDs with an apparent total of 117 domains, give or take a few. Why is this the case? It seems to me that dot Green is one the few new gTLDs that actually deserves support. Annalisa states the following in her CircleID item on February 27 that "With [Dave Maddocks'] analogy, it's easy to understand that a brand name ... read more ...
 
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Google wins $25 million-worth .app Top Level Domain Name - Google Inc., is now the official owner of the .app Top Level Domain (TLD). The search giant company headquartered in Mountain View, California — Google Inc. — bought the .app Top Level Domain (TLD) for a whopping $25 million. Google’s massive acquisition of the .app domain name is the most that any company has ever paid for a domain name. The domains are auctioned off by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) as new names are created. The current round of ... read more ...
 
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Radix Assumes Full Ownership of .online - TORONTO, March 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radix, one of the leading registries in the new gTLD space, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows (Nasdaq:TCX) (TSX:TC) and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched some of the most recognizable new gTLDs with .website, .host, .press and .space. With .online, they now own the first truly generic, truly global, viable alternative to .com. "Online" is the most commonly used word to ... read more ...