Tue 20th January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
İlk Apple Watch Buydu! - Apple'ın ilk saatinin 1995'te, önümüzdeki Mart ayında piyasaya sürülmesi beklenen Apple Watch'tan 20 yıl önce ortaya çıktığını biliyor muydunuz?TLD YouTube kanalının bizlere hatırlattığı Apple saati, Macintosh System 7. beş 'e yükseltenlere bedava olarak veriliyor, yanlız başına satılmıyordu. Saat, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi gibi özelliklere elbette sahip değildi, dolayısıyla akıllı telefonlarla eşitlenme, dokunmatik ekran ve sesli kontrol gibi özellikler de ... read more ...
 
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Theralase Files US Patent Application for Increased Targeting of Photo Dynamic … - [ACCESSWIRE] Toronto, Ontario / ACCESSWIRE / January 20, 2015 / Theralase Technologies Inc. ("Theralase") (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF: OTC Pink(R)) announced today that it has filed a provisional US patent application for "Transferrin Enhanced Photo Dynamic Therapy ("PDT") Cancer Destruction" significantly increasing the targeting of its PDT technology; hence, also the efficacy and safety of the treatment." Transferrin is a substance that naturally occurs in the body (iron-binding blood plasma glycoprotein) ... read more ...
 
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Architelos gets obvious for NameSentry - Certain aspects of abuse monitoring and management solution for top level domain names is now patented in the United States. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office granted U.S. patent number 8,938,801 (pdf) to Architelos today for “Managing domain name abuse”. The patent is related to the new TLD services company’s NameSentry product for monitoring domain name abuse within a top level domain name. As described in the patent and marketing materials, NameSentry is a sort of dashboard for managing ... read more ...
 
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Backend Provider Open Registry Acquired For Up To $22.6 Million -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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17 End User Domain Name Sales - Recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. I’m a week behind on end user domain name sales reports since I was busy at the NamesCon conference last week in Las Vegas. This report contains sales made at Sedo two weeks ago, when Sedo handled 593 transactions worth $1.6 million. Here’s the list. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report.) CapitalConfirmations.com $799 – Capital Confirmation, Inc. ... read more ...
 
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"The Donald" Goes After The Domain TrumpCard.com In A UDRP - Domain Trump has filed a UDRP on the domain name Trumpcard.com The domain name TrumpCard.com was first registered in 1998. While the Donald owns some casinos or at least has his name on them, the term Trump Card has a meaning well before the time there was a Donald Trump and well before he ever owned a casino. The domain is owned under privacy since 2011. The last time it was owned by someone not under privacy it was owned by a E. Dillon, of  London, and  a click on the page by the word Trumpcard.com ... read more ...
 
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Fiesta.com Hit With A UDRP -           The extremely generic domain name Fiesta.com has been hit with a UDRP filing. The complainant is Dean Simmons, Sàrl Heintz Van Landewyck S.à.r.l. which as the best as I can tell has a pending but not yet registered trademark on the term and is actually facing abandonment by April 2015. Del Monte foods  also has a recently filed trademark on the term Fiesta going all the way back to May 14th 2014. As for the domain name it’s registered under privacy at Moniker but was owned prior ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2015
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MaxHardcore.com With a High Bid Of $10K Sells Tomorrow on Namejet.com - The domain name MaxHardcore.com which we wrote about a few weeks ago is at auction at Namejet.com and will sell to the highest bidder which is at the moment $10,000. The closed domain name auction has 85 bidders (including myself who has no intention of bidding) has a high bid of $10,000 by bidder ID “chelsearam” There are only 2 other bidders at over $1,000 at this point,  which anyone in the domain industry will tell you doesn’t mean much with a day to go. The domain name was owned by the ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update: gTLD delegation sluggish after holiday season - ICANN has not started the new year off with a bang, delegating a mere four new gTLDs this January and only 11 in total since our last gTLD update. Those newly delegated gTLDs are: .fit .lat .kddi .bank .shriram .zuerich .flowers .ggee .sale .amerstadam .video Similarly, there are only a small number of gTLDs about to enter or in the sunrise phase this month. These gTLDs are on the horizon: Click here to view the table. And these are in sunrise now: Click here to ... read more ...
 
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51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A .Com: Next is .io - FINALISTSCrate.IO Vorarlberg, Austria Crate.IO has built a new breed of database to serve today’s mammoth data needs. Based on the familiar SQL syntax, Crate combines high availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design that allows you to query mountains of data in real-time, not batches. Crate.IO is easy to scale and simple to use.Hypori Austin, TX Hypori is an enterprise software company providing Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) – accessible from Android and iOS devices. ... read more ...
 
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The best domains in life are free? Freenom partners with ‘.gq’ -

A series of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries offer domain name registrations giveaway of charge. The many famous instance is ‘.tk’, a ccTLD for Tokelau, a tiny organisation of Pacific islands located off a seashore of New Zealand.

This business indication of giveaway domain name registrations has enabled ‘.tk’ to turn a largest ccTLD in terms of series of…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Breaking: Domaining.com Is NOT Sold, Yet - On Friday the daily newsletter of Domaining carried this simple message: “”Game is over. Next week I will announce the new owner of Domaining.com” That one sentence that appeared on the top of the Domaining.com newsletter caused the domain blogosphere to blow up all weekend with posts about the “sale” of Domaining.com even leading to many bloggers and commentator guessing as to whom the buyer was. I reached out on to Saturday to Francois Carrillo who owns and operates Domaining.com to find ... read more ...
 
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A Review of final week’s NamesCon conference - Fantastic content and networking at second annual NamesCon conference. You really missed out if you didn’t make it to Las Vegas last week for NamesCon. About 900 tickets were sold, making it the largest domain name investing conference ever. Here are my thoughts on the show. Venue The Tropicana has fantastic meeting space for an event of this size. The three main session rooms were accessible directly from the exhibit floor. Everyone gathered on the exhibit hall ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy’s Domain Business with Mike McLaughlin – DNW Podcast #016 - A look inside GoDaddy’s domain name business. How is domain name registrar GoDaddy handling the influx of new top level domain names? What is it doing to improve its domain name aftermarket and what’s the latest on Afternic? How does GoDaddy handle a growing number of search results for domain names? GoDaddy SVP and GM of Domains Mike McLaughlin joins us on the show this week to answer all of these questions. Also: a recap of NamesCon including a million dollar ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: Belgium geos, .RIP and a singular landrush - A couple geo domain names are among this week’s new TLD launches. I usually don’t write about landrush phases, but .Space has a landrush this week that is rather unique. It starts today, lasts just one week, and most registrars have it priced at or near the cost of the domain name when it hits general availability. 101Domain, for example, is charging only $10.99 for a .space domain in landrush, the same price as it will ask next week when it hits general availability. ... read more ...
Sun 18th January 2015
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Beware: DefendNames.com Spamming, Trying To Sell Unregistered Domains For $39.95 -     Over the last several days I have been receiving over 20 emails a day offering me domains for sale for $39.95 each. Until tonight I didn’t pay too much attention but the sheer volume of the emails I have received today led to me to check it out. So the emails are coming from support@rosegardenestates.com Here is the email including just one of the many domain names I was offered: “Thank you for your interest in the domain name, clearwateraccident.com. As you are probably aware, domains ... read more ...
 
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Owner of Sols.co Raises $8.5 Million & Buys Sols.com - Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which measures the foot and provider the information to 3d print the shoe. It’s an amazing rags to riches story, about getting a startup off the ground, entrepreneurship, raising seed money and an example of the use of this truly game changing technology of 3d printing. Of course part of the story, concerns domain names as well. The company recently ... read more ...
 
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EZTV packs adult the Virtual Bags and Moves to .Ch from .IT - Just like The Pirate Bay has done several time, EZTV has had to pick up and move, leaving EZTV.it and moving to EZTV.ch. BetaNews wrote: EZTV made a quick comeback, but problems have continued for the service, as Italian authorities closed in on its .IT domain. This has forced the organization to pack up shop and make a move to a new country where things will, hopefully, be calmer. The old site, EZTV.it, has fled to Switzerland, where it now resides under EZTV.ch. According to TorrentFreak, “Over ... read more ...
Sat 17th January 2015
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.ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way - The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both Apple and Microsoft went in heavy into the Sunrise program registering most of their tech product names in .forsale. If your wondering iphone and ipad are not on the list because  Apple bought a trademark block on all Rightside extensionsfor those terms. However, Apple didn’t register iphones.forsale, ipads.forsale or Apples.forsale Someone ... read more ...
 
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Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+ Years Is Not Bad Faith - Well here is something you don’t see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn’t even elect to pay for a three member panel The UDRP was brought by Sports South, LLC on the domain SportsSouth.com which is owned by Fox Sports Networks, LLC and registered at Mark Monitor The Sports South, LLC domain name claimed that there company was formed in 1972 but they just filed for a trademark on the term Sports South in January 2014. Mark ... read more ...
 
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Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net - Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their back vs the interests of telecom companies. President Obama recommended a plan that would reclassify internet providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, giving the government agency more authority to quash telecom giants’ plans to create “internet fast lanes.” This would seem to go around that and take away the power the FCC ... read more ...
 
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A Couple Interesting Websites Getting a lot of attention - Australia and New Zealand each have websites that our causing quite a stir,  ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com which Shane wrote about last night is on Flippa. HackersList is based out of New Zealand and they got a write up on ReadWrite.com. You can check out Shane’s article about the Flippa aspect of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com here, I found an interview on Slate with the 22 year old founder, he explains how it got started in a short interview. The comment section shows how they are already getting copied, ... read more ...
 
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GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with … - GAC Geographic Protections Would Lead To Uncertainty, Inconsistent with Current Law By Joseph WrightJan. 6 — Increased protections for geographic names would create too much uncertainty for future generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants, according to multiple comments received on a Governmental Advisory Committee subgroup proposal.The proposed protection of a broader swath of geographic names also contravenes established international ... read more ...
 
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Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com - Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was the sole  Panelist. Here are the highlights: “Complainant claims Respondent has not provided any bona fide offering of goods or services, or made a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the disputed domain name.  Complainant claims Respondent uses the disputed domain to pass itself off as Complainant. This Panel disagrees after doing ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com - The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in domains were sold on Tuesday at the Namescon show in Las Vegas. There are over 300 domain names in the extended auction that will close on February 5th at 3:15 pm EST subject to Snapnames.com normal closing rules. The extended auction includes the 40 or so  domain names that didn’t sell in the live auction along with over 250 new domain names ... read more ...