Thu 22nd January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Internet Grows to 284 Million Domain Names in the Third Quarter of 2014 - RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - January 22, 2015) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today announced 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. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
NABP Reviewing .Pharmacy Domain Name Applications for Sunrise … - PRESS RELEASE The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) is currently reviewing .pharmacy domain name applications received from trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The Sunrise Application period, which ended January 19, 2015, preceded the TMCH Sunrise Registration Period, which will end March 16, 2015. Only those companies who submitted qualifying applications during the Sunrise Application ... read more ...
 
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My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com - Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have written about Donuts attacking .Com to sell their own new gTLD’s before and even discussed it in our 2014 year recap. I think its a bad move. First of all its false. In 2014 .Com grew by some 3.3 million domains  which is slightly less than the total number of new gTLD registration but is more than the number of paid third party new gTLD registrations. .Com ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
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 ...
 
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Trademark Clearinghouse Releases New Numbers: 34,400 Trademarks Registered - The Trademark Clearinghouse release some new numbers today. There are now 34,400 trademark submitted to the trademark clearinghouse. Just over 50% were submitted for more than one year for a total of almost 86,000 trademark years. Over 128,000 claim notice have been sent out to trademark holders notifying them of a registered new gTLD covered by their marks. Its seems just less than 5% of all submitted marks did not meet the requirements and were not verified. Here is the infographic published today:   ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Trademark Clearinghouse bundles Porn domains with use during discount - Deal with ICM Registry cuts pricing if you sign up for TMCH and protect a brand in adult domain names. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) will cut you a deal on its services, if you take a little TA with it. On a webinar about the new ICM Registry domains .Adult and .Porn today, ICM General Counsel Sheri Falco announced it has partnered with TMCH to create special bundled pricing. She said it’s the first deal of its kind for the Trademark Clearinghouse. The TMCH doesn’t set pricing for domain ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Why, Even After A Year, There’s Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains - It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market.  These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014, when a regulatory change opened the door to these fresh extensions — snazzy end-tags like .apple, .guru, .pizza, .bike, and .singles — which were added to the familiar existing domain suffixes — like .com, .net, .org, and .edu.  At that ... read more ...
 
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.XXX registry releases Domain Check for code owners - Tool checks brand across more than just ICM Registry’s top level domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx and the forthcoming .porn and .adult domain names, has released an online tool for companies to check their brands across hundreds of new top level domain names. Domain Check, of course, provides status information related to ICM’s own top level domain names. But it also checks the domain name across many TLDs, providing launch phase and registration status. For example, here’s ... read more ...
 
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Donuts ” after such a long run, it’s about time to hand .COM a gold watch” - Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft had plenty of options for example to register Hololens.newgtld but they still paid to buy the .com and handregister the .us. The article is worth a read, especially for those all in with the new gtlds. The leave a comment link does nothing  and there is no possibility to leave a comment on the post. I believe that .com will lead the future ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Vlaanderen 3880; .Brussels 3742; .Forsale 2197 - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are the totals after the first day of GA. The totals include all domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and those who paid an extra fee to get early access in a landrush period or in an Early Access Program (EAP). Any domain that received more than one landrush application for the two Geographic extensions (.Vlaanderen; .Brussels) ... read more ...
 
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Braintree now lets all U.S. merchants accept Bitcoin - Braintree will now make it possible for all merchants in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin. Venture Beat is out with an article that Braintree after making partnerships earlies in the year with Coinbase and Pay Pal will make it possible for all merchants in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin. I guess for those not that savvy when it comes to Bitcoin but still want to seem modern and cool, this will be an attractive feature. From the article: Today, Braintree announced that merchants in the U.S. can now accept ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Forbes Asks "Why, Even After A Year, There's Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains" - Forbes just published an article on the new gTLD”s and its less than glowing. Here are some of the highlights of the piece written by Roger Kay: “It’s been nearly a year since a whole set of spanking new Internet domain names first came to market. These names —which in technical circles are called “generic top-level domains” or gTLDs — were just becoming available in January 2014…fresh extensions — snazzy end-tags like .apple, .guru, .pizza, .bike, and .singles — which were added ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com - Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have written about Donuts attacking .Com to sell their own new gTLD’s before and even discussed it in our 2014 year recap. I think its a bad move. First of all its false. In 2014 .Com grew by some 3.3 million domains  which is slightly less than the total number of new gTLD registration but is more than the number of paid third party new gTLD registrations. .Com ... read more ...
 
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NABP Reviewing Pharmacy Domain Name Applications for Sunrise Registration … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Jan. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) is currently reviewing .pharmacy domain name applications received from trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The Sunrise Application period, which ended January 19, 2015, preceded the TMCH Sunrise Registration Period, which will end March 16, 2015. Only those companies who submitted qualifying ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Do we need new domain names for genuine estate? - Many domain names used in real estate are still available in .com. There are lots of new top level domain names coming out (or already released) for real estate purposes: .Realtor, .realty, .realestate, .casa, .immobilien, .immo and probably a few others I’ve missed. This week Rightside released .forsale, a domain it is pitching for real estate purposes, i.e. 123Anystreet.forsale. Domain names purchased for real estate marketing are big business. GoDaddy has frequently touted domain names as a ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Donuts " after such a prolonged run, it’s about time to palm .COM a bullion watch" - Donuts posted a blog post yesterday about looking to the future and that .com is that old stodgy utility that is staid but it is unremarkable. Yet Microsoft had plenty of options for example to register Hololens.newgtld but they still paid to buy the .com and handregister the .us. The article is worth a read, especially for those all in with the new gtlds. The leave a comment link does nothing  and there is no possibility to leave a comment on the post. I believe that .com will lead the future ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
22 Year Old Makes $85,000 in 9 Days Selling ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com - The auction for ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com ended last night on Flippafor USD $85,000 – a mere 9 days after the site was launched on January 12th. Today there is a press release out on it already “ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com, a mere 9 days after the site was launched on January 12th. The site managed to secure over $20,000 in sales and 2.5 million visits in its first 24 hours of operation after it was launched by 22 year-old Australian entrepreneur and web developer, Mathew Carpenter. The site ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Vlaanderen 3,880; .Brussels 3,742; .Forsale 2,197 - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are the totals after the first day of GA. The totals include all domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise Period and those who paid an extra fee to get early access in a landrush period or in an Early Access Program (EAP). Any domain that received more than one landrush application for the two Geographic extensions (.Vlaanderen; .Brussels) ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
İşte Apple’ın 1995 Yılında Çıkardığı Saati - 20 Yıl önce Apple tarafından üretilen ilk saati görmüşmüydünüz ? 1995 senesinde üretilen saati Macintosh işletim sistemini yükseltenlere parasız şekilde verildiği ve bir youtube kanalı tarafından günyüzüne çıkarılan saatte kullanıcılara sunulan en etkin özellikler ise gökkuşağı renkteki Apple logosu ile metalik mavi bir gövde.. TLD YouTube kanalının bizlere hatırlattığı Apple saati, Macintosh System 7.5’e yükseltenlere parasız şekilde veriliyor, tek ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
NABP revisa las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy de la … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois, 21 de enero de 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- La Asociación Nacional de Juntas de Farmacia (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy®, NABP®) está revisando actualmente las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy recibidas de titulares de marcas registradas que se encuentran registradas en la Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark ... read more ...
 
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NABP revisa las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy de la Solicitud … - MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois, 21 de enero de 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- La Asociación Nacional de Juntas de Farmacia (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy®, NABP®) está revisando actualmente las solicitudes de nombres de dominio .pharmacy recibidas de titulares de marcas registradas que se encuentran registradas en la Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Team TLD’s Ascent to the Top of American Motocross - Supermoto came to America in 2003, as the Red Bull AMA Supermoto Championship. The discipline, a combination of motocross and superbike racing, had gained serious popularity in Europe, and the decision to bring it to America via an AMA championship seemed logical, since Americans love their motorcycle racing. In 2004, Troy Lee and Jeff Ward (a seven-time AMA MX and SX champ) set out on an effort to compete for the newly-formed Supermoto championship, and their success was decisive and immediate. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
Apple Watch Mart ayında geliyor… - Apple Watch Mart ayında geliyor... Apple Watch Mart ayında geliyor... Apple'ın son zamanlarda çok konuşulan akıllı saati Apple Watch'ın 1995 yılında üretildiği teknoloji haberlerinde yer alsa da günümüz teknolojisine uyarlanan 15 Mart 2015 itibariyle piyasada olması beklenen çok fonksiyonlu saat için epey ses getirecek bir reklam kampanyası da yolda. Apple dünyada halen zirvedeki yerini korurken İlk olarak akıllı cihaz konusunda adım atan şirket ... read more ...
 
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İlk Apple Watchın özellikleri güldürdü - Dünya markası Apple'ın 20 yıl önce tasarladığı saat. İlk Apple Watch'un diğer özellikleri arasında Disney'i andıran yelkovanı var. Saat bazı girişimciler tarafından 200 lira civarında fiyatlara satılıyor olsa da, bu saatler şimdilik tükenmiş görünüyorlar. Apple'ın ilk saatinin 1995'te, önümüzdeki Mart ayında piyasaya sürülmesi beklenen Apple Watch'tan 20 sene önce ortaya çıktığını biliyor muydunuz? ... read more ...
 
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Teknoloji devinin ilki… - 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, tekbaşına satılmıyordu. Saat, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi gibi özelliklere elbette sahip değildi, dolayısıyla akıllı telefonlarla eşitlenme, dokunmatik ekran ve sesli kontrol gibi özellikler de Watch'a çok yabancıydı. ... read more ...