Tue 27th January 2015
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Namecheap.com Jumps On #GodaddyPuppy Outrage With PUPPYLOVE $3.98 Transfer w/$1.50 To Humane Society - Wow Godaddy… Transfer yr domains to us for $3.98 using coupon code “PUPPYLOVE” we’ll donate to @HumaneSociety pic.twitter.com/04jU2bGysc — Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) January 27, 2015 Namecheap.com has jumped on the outrage from Godaddy’s Super Bowl commercial and is offering a $3.98 special using the transfer code of  PUPPYLOVE to anyone to transfer in any .com, .net .org or .info and Namecheap will contribute $1.50 to the Humane Society for each domain name transferred. As we noted ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN … - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
 
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¿Cuáles son los dominios argentinos de Internet más caros? - Sedo, el mercado de dominios y proveedor de monetización más grande del mundo, anunció su lista de 2014 de las principales ventas de dominios públicos del año. Encabeza la lista mm.com, que cerró el año con 1,2 millones de dólares, tras arrebatar el lugar más alto del podio a true.com con 350.000 dólares. En la lista de este año también también crecieron los ccTLD, entre ellos kaffee.de con 100.000 euros ("café" en alemán), chat.fr con 99.999 euros ("gato" en francés) y musik.de ... read more ...
 
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Featured Technology Stocks – Verisign, (VRSN), Juniper Networks, (JNPR), Intuit … - Las Vegas, NV – Jan 27, 2015 — (TechSonian) – EquityObserver.com continuously monitors and scans the markets for day trading and swing trading signals on NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, OTCBB and Pink Sheet companies for its free e-newsletter subscribers. To receive real-time SMS alerts, Just Text the Word EQUITY To 555888 from Your Cell Phone. Verisign, Inc.(NASDAQ:VRSN) a worldwide leader in domain names and Internet security, publicized four million domain names were added to the Internet in the third ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Looks Like They Have A Disaster On Its Hands; People REALLY Hate Their Super Bowl Ad - Its been less than an hour since we posted Godaddy’s new Super Bowl Ad and social media is already weighting in on what might go down as one of the worst marketing blunders of all time. Just go to Twitter and search for the hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy and you will see that the vast majority of people who are commenting, hate the commercial. I know hate is a strong word. But that is the word. Now we have a outcry against the commercial for promoting puppy mills with hash tags like #boycottGoDaddy #BanPuppyMills ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy's Super Bowl Commercial will be the many argumentative nonetheless [Watch] - Here’s proof you can have controversy without nudity. [Update: GoDaddy won’t run this ad after all.] GoDaddy made a name for itself with controversial Super Bowl commercials. If you thought its move from sexy commercials to one featuring a puppy dog meant the company was shying away from controversy, you’re in for a bit of a surprise. This year’s commercial (embedded below) features an adorable puppy dog that gets tossed off a truck, yet perseveres and finds its way home. Yet “Buddy” ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Space, Google's .How and .RIP - 6 new top level domain names will be released on Wednesday. A number of new top level domain names are being launched in general availability this week, all on Wednesday. Radix’s .Space hits registrars’ shelves at a price of about $10. It’s a generic domain, but also conjures up the idea of your “space” online. Their site markets it as “A .space domain is for passionate and driven individuals and groups who want to carve out a personalized space online. It specially caters to freelancers, ... read more ...
 
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Here Is a Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial; Not Risque But Downright Risky - The Godaddy.com Super Bowl commercial has been released and as promised for the first time features a dog, name buddy, with a VERY brief appearance by Danica Patrick Although there are no sexy, barely clothed women, I would say this commercial is as risky a commercial as the company has ever run on the Super Bowl. Other Godaddy.com Super Bowl ads have been Risque, but I think this is just risky IMHO. When I say risky I think there maybe a lot of push back on this commercial from the public.  I also ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN Last Resort Auctions For January - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows by 4 mln domain names to 284 mln Q3 - VeriSign, a provider of domain names and internet security, announced 4 million domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 284 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 September 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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Valideus Lures 15-Year Veteran Jeff Neuman Away from Neustar to Help … - London based management consultancy Valideus decided to launch a sister company in the United States and they have certainly gotten off on the right foot by appointing veteran ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post Takes A demeanour during Flipping Websites on Flippa - The Washington Post ran a story a couple hours ago on flipping websites. Caitlin Dewey took a look at some people who have taken to Flippa to try to make something off a website they no longer have the time or passion for. From the article: It helps, of course, that Flippa has a precedent in real life. People who buy struggling or neglected Web sites in the marketplace generally want to improve them — a process pretty similar to, say, any given episode of HGTV’s “Flip or Flop.” “Essentially ... read more ...
 
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Poster Boy For Frivolous UDRP Cases: Booked.xyz Guilty Of RDNH: TM Filed 16 Yrs After Domain Was Registered - Booked Ltd of London which owns the domain Booked.xyz and Bookedxyz.com was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Booked.com in one of the most baseless UDRP cases we have ever read. Its too bad there is not any penalties for those who bring frivolous UDRP cases other than a finding of Reverse Domain Name hijacking which the three member panel rightfully found. The domain owner represented himself in the UDRP which is just silly on its face. The domain Booked.com was ... read more ...
 
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Over half of domains registered in Spain in 2014 were .es - Monday 26 January 2015 | 15:15 CET | News The number of domain names registered under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain, .es, increased by 3.46 percent in 2014 and for the first time accounted for over half of all internet domains registered in the country, according to internet development agency Red.es. The total number of .es domain name registrations in 2014 reached 1,755,224, compared to the 1,696,538 registered the previous ... read more ...
 
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Sizzling News:Verisign (VRSN), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Chambers Street … - Las Vegas, NV – January 26, 2015 — (TechSonian) –Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN)updated four million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 284 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Sept. 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.During the third quarter of 2014, Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was 114 billion across all TLDs operated by ... read more ...
 
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Photo.com – sole for over $1 million twice – saved in UDRP - Complainant makes interesting allegations in UDRP. A three person WIPO panel has handed down a decision in a UDRP for Photo.com in a case I wrote about in October. The complainant owns Foto.com, but there’s a lot more to the story than just a company using UDRP to go after a great domain name. According to complainant Fotocom Société Anonyme: Complainant contends that Respondent is actually controlled or influenced by its former Chief Executive Officer (hereinafter “Panos”). According to ... read more ...
 
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Photo.com Saved In UDRP But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Fotocom Société Anonyme of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, just lost its bid to grab the generic domain Photo.com. Although the three member panel threw out the case out finding the Complainant failed on the first element of not proving trademark rights the panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). Here are the highlights: Based in Belgium, Complainant describes itself as “a market leader in the online digital photo industry,” serving 186 countries. Complainant holds ... read more ...
 
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To Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of .Com Verisign Is Giving Away Over $100K In Cash Prizes - 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of .Com and I’m proud have been asked to  judge Verisign’s  #InternetOfficial .Com Domain Name Contest which will be awarding over $100,000 in cash prizes. Here are some details: Make your idea #InternetOfficial. Come up with the most descriptive, memorable and original .COM domain name(s) you can imagine—and register it! Submit your registered .COM domain name(s) with a brief explanation of why yours is the greatest thing since sliced e-bread Here is where ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs with Donuts' Richard Tindal – DNW Podcast #017 - A discussion about new top level domain names with the biggest new TLD company. Donuts Inc doesn’t sell baked goods by the dozen — it sells new domain names. But like Krispy Kreme, it sells a lot of varieties of its product. In this episode, I chat with Donuts co-founder and COO Richard Tindal. Donuts is the largest new TLD company with over 300 applications and nearly 200 domain names released. We discuss why Donuts thinks new TLDs are better than .com and what the company will do this year ... read more ...
 
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Valideus launches in US with Neuman hire - Print Close Email a friend Your name: Your email: Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address. Recipient email(s): Recipient name(s): Email yourself a copy? ... read more ...
 
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The Next Global Name Branding Boom - There are some million new cyber brands about to appear on the global e-commerce, big or small they will skate all around the globe. The influx of new dot names called gTLD cyber brands creating new name identities like wine.club, flat.paris loans.london or tax.kpmg jim.pharmacyThe bottom line; the global domain name expansion is unstoppable, the global hunger for brand name visibility is irresistible and the clash of the two is now inevitable.The new gTLD owners of 2000 such game changers armed ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP On ElectricFootball.com; Acquired When Complainant Let it Drop - A three member UDRP panel has awarded the domain name ElectricFootball.com to Tudor Games, Inc. of Sammamish, Washington which owned the domain name until 1997 when they “unintentionally” let it expire and that is when Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm, acquired the domain on the drop. The Complaintant did not apply for the trademark with the USPTO until 1999 but found the term was not a true generic but related to a particular type of game the kind currently featured ... read more ...
 
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APC’s .ng Domain Name, Website is Active, Says NIRA - By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, which maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has maintained that the website of All Progressives Congress (APC), was never shutdown for any reason. NIRA said the party's website, which was registered since February 7, 2013, under the internet domain name, www.apc.com.ng, was not shutdown by NIRA, and reiterated that the website is still ... read more ...
Sun 25th January 2015
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Coinbase Receives Approval to Launch Regulated U.S. Bitcoin Exchange - Coinbase to launch regulated Bitcoin exchange Monday Coin Desk reported that Coinbase will be rolling out a regulated Bitcoin exchange that has been approved by half of the nation’s state regulators. The Winklevoss  Twins announced on Friday that they plan to start a regulated Bitcoin exchange called Gemini, which they are financing out of their own pockets. They will only be dealing with American banks. From the article: Coinbase has until now acted largely as a brokerage for bitcoin users. By ... read more ...
 
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.Co names seems to be behind adult and using only fine - Dot Co was having some problems yesterday it was affecting some Twitter links. The Next Web reported on the issue with the .co extension which now seems to have gotten fixed. If you are still having a problem, they posted Update: Some are reporting that .co domains are beginning to work again. Flushing your DNS cache may fix the problem. Here’s how on Mac or PC. From the article: Noticed that none of the links on Twitter are working today? It’s not just you! It looks like there’s a very serious ... read more ...