Fri 16th January 2015
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Roadcam.com Saved in a Very Interesting UDRP With A Very Good Lesson In TM Law - In a very interesting UDRP decision Roadcam, Inc. lost its bid to grab the domain roadcam.com The domain holder is Jon Smejkal of Pittsburg, California Actually there were three domain names in disputed domain names, roadcam.com and roadcam.net dashcamlab.com The case is really interesting because of the allegations of the parties which I have highlighted below the fact that the “trademark holder” alleges common law rights, there is an relationship of some sort between the parties and a finding ... read more ...
 
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
 
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
 
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China to set adult $6.5 Billion Government Venture Capital Fund - China is looking to set up a $6.5 Billion venture capital fund. The Financial Times mentioned that, the launch of the government-sponsored VC fund will be apart of China’s efforts at financial reform. China will set up a government venture capital fund worth 40 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) to support start-ups in emerging industries, in its latest move to support the private sector and foster innovation. “The establishment of the state venture capital investment guidance fund, with the focus to ... read more ...
 
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Day 3 Photos & Highlights from NamesCon – Live Domain Auctions Live Again … - Above: The Tuesday (Jan. 13) schedule began with a trio of simultaneous sessions at 9:55am including the one above covering Data Science for the Domain Name Industry that ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains Now Available for Businesses - Credit: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock Starting a website? Google's new domain registry service can help. Previously launched last summer as an invite-only service, Google Domains is now available to all Web users in the United States. The service lets users purchase domains, create ... read more ...
 
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Sick of these new dot-words? Join the .club – it’s the only one challenging .com - Round-up Las Vegas loves a show. And so it was earlier this week when domain-name conference NamesCon held an auction for more than 100 high-value names. The auction has been hailed as a success, especially given two headline sales: homecare.com for $350,000 and wine.club for $140,000. But we thought we'd dig into the results to see what it says about the state of the new dot-word domains that have gone live in recent months. ... read more ...
 
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“Legitimate companies don’t censor their hit details” - Is using whois privacy or proxy services a red flag? I was reading a story this morning about problems at Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay. The author noted that the EgoPay.com website is devoid of contact information and that the domain name is protected by whois privacy. The author concludes that “Legitimate companies don’t hide their contact details.” I agree to an extent. A combination of not disclosing contact details on a site and using whois privacy ... read more ...
 
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More new TLD complexity: transferring reward domain names - Article points to further complexities with new top level domain names. With new top level domain names now entering their renewal cycle, you might be tempted to transfer domain names from one registrar to another. This could prove challenging if the domain name you bought is a “premium” domain name in which the registry charges higher than standard pricing. That’s what Kevin Lisota found out while testing out Google Domains: Google Domains does sell .tips domains, ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
SICUREZZA IT – Blog Post Kaspersky: i criminali informatici mirano ai nuovi gTLD - I criminali informatici di tutto il mondo mirano ai nuovi gTLD, generic Top Level Domains, approvati da ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) e offerti agli utenti interessati all’acquisto di un nuovo dominio. Recentemente Kaspersky Lab ha scoperto diverse attivita dannose in questo senso, tra cui malware e pagine di phishing registrate con i domini .club, .berlin, .blue, .computer, .camera, .futbol, .link, .pink, .report, .travel, .vacations e .xyz. Abbiamo scoperto ... read more ...
 
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Branding with New gTLDs: The Next Marketing Frontier - New gTLDs can be an efficient way to immediately propel a registrant's online relevance and profitability. Registrants are the companies, organizations and individuals who seek to better utilize the Internet to reach their goals. Marketing Professionals acting on their behalf should understand that protection mechanisms for new gTLDs have been created by ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. New gTLDs are powerful and inexpensive marketing tools that have improved measures ... read more ...
 
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Top Trends That Impacted VeriSign’s Performance in 2014 - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) is the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name. It is the leader in the Domain Name market with a 47% market share. Though the company registered a ~5% increase in sales to $754 million in the first nine months of 2014, the growth rate has declined considerably. VeriSign’s sales grew by ~12% in the first ... read more ...
 
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Google Domains throws open its doors as gTLD registrations break the 4 million … - Trevor Little The level of new gTLD registrations, which this month broke through the 4 million mark, should receive a boost following Google’s announcement that it has opened its domain registration service to US-based registrants. A year ago we posted a blog titled “Another internet landmark as public registration opens for seven new gTLDs”, ... read more ...
 
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Theralase (V.TLT) names lead photo dynamic compound for human clinical … - Theralase Technologies (TSX: V.TLT, Stock Forum) continued its journey toward bringing its ground-breaking cancer treatment to market when the company announced today that it had identified the lead Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”) for human clinical trials.   According to the news release, the lead PDC has been identified as TLD-1433, a Ruthenium-based PDC. The company plans to enter this PDC into a Health Canada Clinical Trial Application (“CTA”) / Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ... read more ...
 
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Google launches domain registration service - Google has publicly opened its Domains (Beta) service, which allows top-level domains (TLDs) to be rented for a year at a time or alternatively for a fixed amount of years. The Domains service was announced by the company last June, and has been an invitation-only affair until now. Some of the TLDs available for rent include ‘.cc’, ‘.co’, ‘.company’, ‘.enterprises’, ‘.haus’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org’. Online shopping giant Amazon hit headlines last September ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie … - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million - The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official total according to ntldstats.com is 4,010,951. Not too much has changed since our post when the number of new gTLD domain name registrations passed 3.5 million million mark. Over 350,000 of the 500,000 additional domain registrations have been added by the registry that is operating the IDN of .网址 which Translates to “website/net address” ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158 - Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day,  including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and including those domain names registered for an extra fee in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the total number of registrations: .World 5,081 .Degree 160 .Gives 158 We have already written twice about .World as we saw that .World was going to be a pretty hot extension coming out of the gate. Donuts made quite a bit of money on .World ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications -

Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a display during NamesCon that took a demeanour behind during 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is positively value reading and saving if we have any seductiveness in a new extensions. Download a PDF here

Via: thedomains.com

 
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White papers say arrival of new gTLDs will fragment Internet users into … - The Internet Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the body in India representing the online and mobile value added services industry, and NetNames, the global leader in online brand protection and corporate domain name management  have published two white papers stating that the current restructuring of the Domain Name System (DNS), and the introduction ... read more ...
 
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View The Space Gets $3.3 M Investment From Blackstone & Buys/Rebrands As VTS.com - VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX). The company also announced they have re-branded View The Space as VTS.  The company acquired the domain name VTS.com around January 8th. The previous owner of the domain was the Del Mar Electronics Show of La Jolla, California. I did not see the domain sale for VTS.com reported anywhere. ViewTheSpace.com still resolves but to the same ... read more ...
 
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Sofia Vergara Wins Rights To SofiaVergara.org - Sofia Vergara has won control of the domain name SofiaVergara.org which the domain owner alleged was a fan site for the Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated actress who currently stars in the Emmy Award winning television series, Modern Family. Ms. Vergara appears to own SofiaVergara.com which is registered to the World Entertainment Agency of Miami. Here are the  relevant facts and findings from the one person UDRP panel decision issued by WIPO Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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Quiksilver Ready To Surf The New gTLD Wave - Brand Channel published an article today about Quiksilver, the largest surfwear brand in the world, adding a .surf into the mix. The company released a press release that they were going to use the new gtld for social media (they have millions of followers) and to differentiate their business segments. This is how I have envisioned new gtlds being used, the .com or cctld being the hub and then using new gtlds as satellites for campaigns or certain business segments. Roxy is a sister brand of Quiksilver ... read more ...