Mon 2nd March 2015
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Donuts Beats Richemont To the New gTLD .Jewelry To Go With .Diamonds - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Jewelry to go with its .Diamonds new gTLD beating Richemont Richemont DNS Inc. is the wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A, the prominent Swiss luxury goods holding company, submitted 14 applications for new gTLD’s of which they now have now withdrawn 4 including .Love For those not familiar with Richemont, they are a public company that own some of the largest luxury brands in the world including Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron ... read more ...
 
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5 Top Themen des Tages: Ebay ändert Gebührenstruktur, Google kauft .app … - Was heute wichtig war: Ebay hat neben dem Rückgabeprozess auch die Gebührenstruktur überarbeitet. Gewerbliche Händler sind davon direkt betroffen. Außerdem: Die TLD .app gehört Google, Otto hat sein Logo verändert, Payback setzt auf digitalen POS und Ebay zahlt in Amerika Entschädigung an Händler. (Bildquelle Abend-News: Anna Demjanenko via Shutterstock) Ebay: Änderung der Gebührenstruktur Mit der Trennung von Paypal muss sich Ebay neu ausrichten. Um ein tragfähiges Geschäftsmodell ... read more ...
 
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THE Domain Conference offers special pricing - Discounted tickets available for two weeks. The inaugural THE Domain Conference, Howard Neu’s follow up to TRAFFIC, takes place this coming September. Compared to TRAFFIC, the show is very inexpensive. And it’s even less expensive if you buy a ticket now. THE Domain Conference is offering passes for only $349 until March 15. To get the special price, enter code MARCH15 at THEDomainConference.club. The conference takes place September 27-29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel and Spa on ... read more ...
 
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Google acquires .app web domain for $25 mn – domain - Google hads acquired the website domain .app in an auction held by the organisation that oversees the running of the net, BBC reported. The search giant bid $25,001,000 which is said to be its highest so far. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will roll out new customised web names and auction them off. Several other web address endings had also been sold including .baby, .tech, .salon and .VIP. The suffixes are called 'generic Top Level Domains' (gTLD). Charleston ... read more ...
 
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2 panelists contend RDNH, other says domain name should be transferred - How did one panelist think a domain should be transferred when the other two say the case was brought in bad faith? It’s fairly rare that a panelist files a dissenting opinion in a UDRP. Usually a three person panel comes to the same conclusion, although occasionally you’ll see a dissent. But a recent decision treads even further into “rare” territory: 2 panelists thought the case was so egregious, it qualified at Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. A third panelist actually found in favor of ... read more ...
 
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Google bids $25 million for .app top level domain - At a recent auction held by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for top-level domains (TLDs), tech major Google bid a whopping $25 million to but rights to .app TLD. The amount bid by Google marks the highest purchase price to be paid till now for a TLD in an ICANN auction. Google's bid for the .app TLD was three-fold higher than the previous record-holder --- Dot Tech LLC's $6.8 million bid in September 2014, for rights ... read more ...
 
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set … - 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 sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
 
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EasyGroup Owner of Easy Jet Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - EasyGroup Limited of London which owns Easy Jet, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name easygroup.com from Easy Group Holdings Limited of Kowloon, Hong Kong, The three member UDRP panel split in its decision, as panelist Jane Lambert did not agree in the finding of RDNH. We have written before about the companies seeming plan to get ownership of the term “easy” which another UDRP panel gave them,  to Easy Train. Here are the highlights: Its EasyJet company ... read more ...
 
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Namescon & THE Domain Conference Discounting Tixs But only for a Little Bit - Namescon 2016 special $199 registration rate ends at 4pm EST, or three hours from publication and is 80% off the price of a full priced ticket. So far more than 200 people have taken advantage of this special offer. NamesCon 2016 will be held on January 10 to January 13, 2016 at The Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. THE Domain Conference, hold its inaugural show September 27-29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel and Spa on the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. is being put on by ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Richemont To a New gTLD .Jewelry To Go With .Diamonds - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Jewelry to go with its .Diamonds new gTLD beating Richemont Richemont DNS Inc. is the wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A, the prominent Swiss luxury goods holding company, submitted 14 applications for new gTLD’s of which they now have now withdrawn 4 including .Love For those not familiar with Richemont, they are a public company that own some of the largest luxury brands in the world including Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron ... read more ...
 
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Konsolidierung im TLD-Markt: .reise geht an US-Gigant Donuts - (Bild: Screenshot) Die Marktkonsolidierung hat begonnen. Mit .reise wurde nun die erste schon gestartete neue Internetendung versteigert. Sie geht an Donuts, den ehemaligen Konkurrenten und mit Abstand größten Player des TLD-Geschäfts. Die Branchen-Endung .reise wird den Besitzer wechseln. Der ehemalige deutsche Betreiber hat sie am Freitag versteigern lassen, als erste schon in Betrieb befindliche ... read more ...
 
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Wearables.com: Benefits of a good domain name with Luis Rincon – DNW Podcast #22 - How a category-defining domain name creates instant credibility. Domain name investors know that great domain names offer a number of benefits to the companies that use them. In this episode, Wearables.com co-founder Luis Rincon gives concrete examples of how using a category-defining domain name has helped his company get instant credibility plus search and branding benefits in the fast-growing field of wearable technology. Also: Google spends $25M on .app, new TLD innovation?, and Google sets ... read more ...
 
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.App and .Blog – a demeanour during domain name registration numbers - Both terms are popular in existing domain name registrations. Google bought rights to the .App top level domain name last week for a whopping $25 million. Also last month, .Blog sold for an unknown number that was certainly 8 figures. App and Blog are certainly very popular terms, and they’re frequently found in newly-registered .com domain names. In fact, over the past six months, 328,271 .com domain names have been registered that include “app” in them, according to Verisign’s DomainView. ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded BIMobject Acquires The Matching .Com Of Its Stock Symbol BIM.com - Publicly traded company BIMobject announced today that the company have acquired the top level domain name BIM.COM. The company is traded on the NASDAQ OMX exchange as BIM. CEO and founder, Stefan Larsson said: “Acquiring BIM.COM is an exciting step toward increasing our market penetration. BIM.COM is an under utilised asset that we can unlock to reach its full potential”, says, “A premium domain like BIM.COM will improve and protect our digital platform as the premier destination. It will ... read more ...
 
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set For Jun 4th - 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 sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
 
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Top-Level-Domain: Google ersteigert .app für 25 Mio. Dollar - Der Run auf die neuen Top-Level-Domains ist groß. Viele zahlungskräftige Unternehmen versuchen derzeit, eines der neuen, begehrten „Objekte“ zu ergattern. In einer Auktion konnte sich der Suchmaschinenriese Google nun gegen seine Kontrahenten durchsetzen und die Domain mit der Endung .app für eine Rekordsumme ersteigern. (Bildquelle URL: Gajus via Shutterstock) Sage und schreibe 25 Millionen US-Dollar legt Google auf den Tisch, um sich mit diesem Geld die Top-Level-Domain .app zu ergattern. ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Search Share Dips for February - Danny Sullivan discussed the February search share stats on Search Engine Land. Yahoo dipped after posting gains in the previous two months. The dip wasn’t that big but the company had some good momentum going over the previous two months. The data from StatCounter shows: Google: 78.7% (+0.1%) Yahoo: 10.1% (-0.1%) Bing: 9.8% (+0.1%) From the article: Yahoo’s share of search in the United States has dropped for the first time since it signed a deal to be the default search engine in Firefox. ... read more ...
 
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Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top-Level Web Domain - What’s $25 million to Google (GOOG)? Apparently it’s not too much to pay to buy a top-level web domain, which the search conglomerate just did to snap up the exclusive rights to the .app appellation in an ICANN auction. Google bested 12 competitors, mostly notably Amazon (AMZN), for .app. Technically speaking, Google’s Charleston Road domain registry won the rights to the top-level .app domain for $25,001,000. ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
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Google Buys Rights to .App Top-Level Domain for $25M - Twenty-five million dollars seems cheap for a top-level domain—bet you didn't think you'd ever see someone say that. Still, when the top-level domain is dot app (.app), and just about every big player in technology has some vested interest in apps, one would have assumed that the ICANN auction for said top-level domain would have gone through the roof. Google prevailed in ICANN's public auction for the top-level domain, paying just a hair over $25M for the rights to .app. It's reportedly the highest ... read more ...
 
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just paid $25 million to buy .app Top-Level Domain - Now the .app top-level domain is completely bought and owned by Google Inc., the search engine giant bid for $25 million to buy the whole rights for the .app top-level domain. The top level domains are similar to .com, .org and .net, they will be at the part of each and every URL under that TLD. Nowadays, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is creating a host of new set of top-level domains and auctioning those domains for a bigger sum. Previously, Amazon has bought .buy ... read more ...
 
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ConnectingNYC.org releases some statistics on Dot Nyc - ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it affected the community. Some of the metrics from the article: Traditional Metrics Let’s start with some stats on the number of .nyc domain names sold. As of February 22, the city’s contractor reported ... read more ...
 
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How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There be by a End of 2015 ? - The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size has voted that way. Today according to nTLDStats the number is sitting around 4.4 million. It certainly makes sense that a lot of robo – registrations will not be renewed, some of the premium renewals will not ... read more ...
 
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Google utratil 25 milionů dolarů za doménu .app - Společnost ICANN oznámila, že je Google oficiálním majitelem domény .app. V dnešní době se jedná o poměrně zajímavou, i když nelze říct zvláštní, investici. Google poté, co ponakupoval několik menších společností, se vydal na nákup domén. Domény jsou dnes ceněnou komoditou, protože každý web se chce odlišit od jiných stránek a zároveň by svou doménou rád vyjadřoval, jaký je jeho obsah. Google by například tuto doménu mohl použít pro svůj obchod ... read more ...
 
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.app gehört jetzt Google - Google hat den bisher höchsten Preis für eine Top-Level-Domain (TLD) ausgegeben, der jemals bezahlt wurde. Nun gehört die TDL .app also zu Google. “Wir sind sehr .app-y”, lässt sich ein Google-Sprecher von Business Insider UK zitieren. Der Internetkonzern überbot damit unter anderem Amazon. Drei Bieter waren bereit, mindestens 19,4 Millionen Dollar für die Domain zu bezahlen. Zwei Bieter waren noch in der letzten Runde im Rennen, die bei 24,3 Millionen Dollar ... read more ...
 
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Google .app 25 Milyon $ Domain Hakları Alıyor! - Google‘ın şimdiye kadar satın alınan en pahalı .app’ı ortaya çıktı.  Üst düzey web etki alanı için özel haklar satın almak adına büyük bir 25.000.000 $ ödediğini açıkladı. 2012 ICANN dünya alan adları kontrol örgüt içinde, genel TLD seçim ve en yüksek teklif kapalı ihalesi olarak biten etki alanı için çeşitli ekler sayısını genişletmeye karar verdi. Google, .doc, .android, .free, .fyi .foo ve bir kaç isim dahil beklediğiniz gibi bu üst düzey alan ... read more ...