Sun 25th January 2015
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those “Hogging … - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That … - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
 
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those "Hogging" Domains" - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That Runs .Bar/.Rest - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Sells 941 domains for $5,984,520 -

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NameJet sole tighten to 1000 domains during $2,000 or some-more (941) in 2014, these sales totaled $5,984,520 USD.

41 LLL.coms sole on a list, with a tip sale being a altogether tip sale Liu.com during $155,688.

6 Numeric domains done a list led by 472.com during $43,700.

Here are a 5 and 6 figure sales:

Via: thedomains.com

Sat 24th January 2015
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling … - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
 
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Jeff Dunham's New Wife is Suing His Old Wife Over Domain Names - Here is one you don’t see everyday Jeff Dunham the famous ventriloquist who shows up every other weekend on Comedy Central in three hour blocks of programming, has an interesting situation going on in real life. It seems that the ex-wife of Mr. Dunham, Paige Dunham decided to play the domain game and register the names of his future wife under privacy. Then the ex-wife looked to sell those names to the new wife for a substantial sum. The Washington Post covered the story: [Audrey] Dunham v. [Paige] ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling Co. Ladbrokes - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
 
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Flippa Weekly Sales led by Coolant.com during $8,500 - Flippa released its sales from the past week, Coolant.com led the list at $8,500. The name was listed as exclusive to Flippa and sold at the buy it now. In new gtld sales, there was a package of 3 one letter .domains sold. A.domains,M.domains and U.domains sold for $701. The seller listed the premium at $77.88. In the comments he said ” My account shows $77.88 per year for each domain.” That was at Dynadot. Notable Flippa Domain Sales from This Past Week Coolant.com  @ $8,500  (Flippa Exclusive ... read more ...
 
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Internet alcanza los 284 millones de nombres de dominio en el … - RESTON, VA–(Marketwired – 22 de enero de 2015) – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), líder mundial en nombres de dominio y seguridad en internet, anunció hoy que se agregaron a internet cuatro millones de nombres de dominio en el tercer trimestre de 2014, alcanzando un total de 284 millones de nombres de dominio de primer nivel (TLD) registrados a nivel mundial al 30 de setiembre de 2014, según el último Resumen de la industria de nombres de dominio. El aumento de cuatro millones de nombres ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in shop for on the internet - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming readily available for the very first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) designed new on line actual estate. Place extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more common names ndash like .Photography and .Specialist ndash changed the internet forever, and created it easier for organizations to discover a location on line to call home.But what are the crucial trends set ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in shop for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming accessible for the first time. The new gTLDs (best-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) developed new on the web genuine estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more basic names ndash like .Photography and .Expert ndash changed the internet forever, and made it a lot easier for enterprises to find a place on the net to call residence.But what are the essential trends set to shape 2015, and what do ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in retailer for on line companies - By David Fisher on November 4, 2014. Gordon Nixon joins the Board of Directors of BCE Inc. BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) today announced the appointment of Gordon M. Nixon, CM, O. Ont., as a director of BCE… ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com is dead. Long live dot-com - As you probably know, the internet's domain names are dominated by a single three-letter ending: "com". What you probably don't know is the sheer scale of dot-com's dominance. There are roughly 116.5m domains ending in ".com" - more than all of the 25 next largest registries combined. When the industry draws bar charts of registrations, they let dot-com run off the top of the page, put it on a logarithmic ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Our Top 3 Policy Priorities for 2015 - 2014 was a big year for us and for our clients. The new gTLD program forced us to rethink, reprioritize and implement new and different strategies to protect our brands online. The uncertainty largely behind us, and with more information at our fingertips about just how well (or not) brands are faring in the new environment, it's time to look forward to what we can do in 2015 to fix what's broken, throw away what's useless, fight for what's important and generally continue to try and make navigating ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2015
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Latest Quarterly Verisign Report Shows Continued Growth in Worldwide Domain … - Verisign, the administrator of the .com and .net registries has issued their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering the 3rd quarter of 2014. Always a treasure trove of ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in store for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming available for the first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) created new online real estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and more general names – like .Photography and .Expert – changed the web forever, and made it easier for businesses to find a place online to call home.But what are the key trends set to shape 2015, and what do the next twelve months have in store for those ... read more ...
 
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.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But just for 8 Days - The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. “This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January.” For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here. It doesn’t matter which registrar that sells .global registrations you use to get the cash back bonus. The $25 per domain will be sent by the registry to your paypal ... read more ...
 
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.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But only for 8 Days - The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. “This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January.” For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here. It doesn’t matter which registrar that sells .global registrations you use to get the cash back bonus. The $25 per domain will be sent by the registry to your paypal ... read more ...
 
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Apple 20 yıl önce saat üretmiş! - Apple'ın ilk saatinin 1995'te, önümüzdeki Mart ayında piyasaya sürülmesi beklenen Apple Watch'tan 20 sene önce ortaya çıktığını biliyor muydunuz? TLD YouTube kanalının bizlere hatırlattığı Apple saati, Macintosh System 7.5'e yükseltenlere ücretsiz olarak veriliyor, tek başına satılmıyordu. Saat, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi gibi özelliklere elbette sahip değildi, dolayısıyla akıllı telefonlarla eşitlenme, dokunmatik ekran ... read more ...
 
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New TLD association Architelos sued after melancholy IP Law Firm - Architelos sent cease and desist letter to intellectual property law firm, with a predictable result. What happens when you send a cease desist letter alleging trademark infringement to an intellectual property law firm? You get sued. That’s what happened after new top level domain name services company Architelos sent a CD to California-based Cotman IP this month. DeSantis Law Firm, which represents Architelos, sent the CD (pdf) to Cotman IP earlier this month, claiming Cotman was infringing ... read more ...
 
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SelfieSticks.com sells for $29,100 and some-more lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson runs down the latest expired domain name sales at NameJet. If you’re as un-with-it as uncool me, then you’ll look at the $29.1k high bid for SelfieSticks.com and say, “Huh?” Apparently, selfie sticks are rods that attach to a camera phone so that you can hold it far enough away to take a picture of yourself and the grinning people next to you. Asking a stranger to snap a photo please wasn’t that onerous, was it? Trends move fast. Already the market for these devices generated a ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Over 75% of All Top-Level Domains (TLDs) Now Signed With DNSSEC - As I was entering in data for the weekly DNSSEC Deployment Maps, I was struck by the fact that we are now at the point where 617 of the 795 top-level domains (TLDs) are now signed with DNSSEC. You can see this easily at Rick Lamb's DNSSEC statistics site: This represents 77% of all current TLDs! Now, granted, most of that amazing growth in the chart is because all of the "new generic TLDs" (newgTLDs) are required to be signed with DNSSEC, but we are still seeing solid growth around the ... read more ...
 
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Apple Akıllı Saati 20 Yıl Önce Piyasaya Çıkarmış - So zamanlarda piyasa çıkmaya hazırlanan akıllı saat hakkında gelen haber şaşırttı.Apple'ın ilk saatinin 1995'te, önümüzdeki Mart ayında piyasaya sürülmesi beklenenApple Watch'tan 20 sene önce ortaya çıktığını biliyor muydunuz Anasayfa » Teknoloji » Apple Akıllı Saati 20 Yıl Önce Piyasaya Çıkarmış 2015-01-21 23:58:22 - ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports 3Q 2014 Closed With 284 Million Domains Up 6.8% - Verisign issued its Domain Name Industry Brief for the Third Quarter of 2014. The third quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 284 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.1 million, or 6.8 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 132.1 million domain names, a 2.5% increase quarter over quarter, and a 10.7% increase ... read more ...