Tue 13th January 2015
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.Buzz domain names to be featured on Wheel of Fortune - Multiple sites on .buzz domain names will be promoted on popular game show. .Buzz domain names are about to get a lot more buzz. Howard Lefkowitz presented his plans for almost 400 .buzz domain names today during a NamesCon presentation. The majority of his domain names are city names, but also include travel.buzz. For two weeks starting February 2, particular .buzz domain names will be the prize sponsors for Wheel of Fortune, one of the most-watched TV shows in America. Lefkowitz ... read more ...
 
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[Video] An sparkling speak during NamesCon - Howard Lefkowitz wakes up hungover crowd at NamesCon. Let’s face it, sessions at domain name conferences are usually less than stimulating. Sure, there’s good information, stuff you can learn…but they usually feature a couple people sitting down holding a mic. Not today at NamesCon. Howard Lefkowitz’s talk about what he’s doing with new TLDs featured showgirls, lighting effects and confetti cannons. Lefkowitz is doing some bold things with new top level ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy SVP explains because new TLDs are struggling - Head of domains at largest domain name registrar says new TLD registries are failing small business owners. Why are new top level domain names struggling to grow their registration bases? GoDaddy Senior Vice President of Domains Mike McLaughlin told a large audience at NamesCon today that registries are making it difficult for small businesses to buy their domain names. Registries need to focus on accessibility and usability if they want to see their domains succeed, ... read more ...
 
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Company creates Magical Mystery claims, loses UDRP - Motive behind creating ad agency website and trademark claims are questioned. San Francisco company Hippie Tours LLC has lost a UDRP against the domain name HippieBus.com. It made a number of Magical Mystery claims in its UDRP. John Berryhill represented domain name owner Mansour Elseify in the case. On the surface, this case appeared to be one where a clueless complainant went after a domain name registered many years before the complainant started its business. ... read more ...
 
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$55k Stolen domain name CIN.com returned around UDRP - Company paid $55,000 for domain name before it was stolen. Corporação Industrial do Norte, S.A (CIN) has recovered the domain name CIN.com, a domain name it says was stolen from it, through a UDRP. The company acquired CIN.com for $55,000 last summer. It alleges the domain name was then stolen and transferred to domain name registrar eName. (eName has apparently become a favorite registrar for domain name thieves. I see lots of allegedly stolen domain names ending ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2015
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Worst URS Decision of 2015: Telethon.Club Ordered Suspended On Complaint Of French TM Holder - The Association Francaise Contre Les Myopathies of Evry, France has won a Uniform Rapid Suspension on the seemingly very generic domain name Telethon.Club The Examiner Ahmet Akguloglu, who received the Complaint on January 6th issued the decision today January 12th although the domain was just registered on December 9th. Here are the finding of Facts: The Complainant claimed that TELETHON is a French fund-raising event which takes place the first week-end of December every year with the help of hundreds ... read more ...
 
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B2B Digital Marketing Trends for 2015 - In a post on BDB.co.uk the author Rachael took a look at digital marketing trends for the upcoming year, the changing or possible extinction of the homepage was number two on that list. The premise behind the end of the homepage stems from our mulit device universe. How sites act and react with smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc… Personally I think the homepage will stay in tact, I do agree about using certain naming conventions or new gtlds for specific campaigns. I think this is how the new gtlds ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s New Global TLDs Might Get Scrapped - ICANN’s New Global TLDs Might Get Scrapped Naseem Javed wrote us some feedback on the article “Reasons Why Nobody Uses Tailored Top Level Domain Names“, posted a few days ago, to inform us of ICANN’s new Global Top-Level Domain names, and why they may get scrapped before they even become available: The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names Numbers, ICANN, is up against the wall, and here are the top five reasons for which ... read more ...
 
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.World Gets 285 Registrations On Day 5 OF Early Access Making Donuts $45K In Just EAP Fees - At least 285 domain names were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program for the new gTLD .World. At Godaddy.com a day 5 EAP registration for a .World domain has a rack rate of $179.99 That’s around  $45,000 just in Early Access Fees that Donuts collected on Sunday based off of Godaddy’s price. The regular price to register a .World domain name is $23.99 at Godaddy.com once it opens up for general availability on Wednesday. Of course many of the domain name registered on day five were ... read more ...
 
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Google Sees Its Search Share Slip and Yahoo Sees A Rise On Mozilla Deal - StatCounter reports that Google has seen its search share slip to its lowest level ever in the U.S. In the meantime Yahoo is being buoyed by their new deall with Mozilla that makes them the default search engine. NewsEveryday reported: Google search share has slipped to lowest ever in U.S. – 75.2 percent from 79.3 percent last year, according to an independent analytics firm. On the other hand, Yahoo Search has managed to score its highest share in five years – 10.4 percent, up by 3 percent ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: We are a .World - .World among this week’s new top level domain launches. A few new top level domain names hit general availability this Wednesday, and an intriguing domain name enters the early access program. On Wednesday, Donuts’ .world exits the early access program and becomes available at regular prices. There are lots of good SLD-TLD combos on this one, similar to .place, .zone and similar generics. Also on Wednesday, two of Rightside’s domain names hit general availability: ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions finalizes list for disdainful Feb Auction - Auction will have just 30 lots. Heritage Auctions has finalized the list of 30 lots it will auction off in next month’s domain name auction. This is probably the smallest number of domain names to be auctioned in a live auction event, and it will be interesting to see how this approach works. Some of the more interesting domain names include: NL.com AT.com Future.com SmartWatches.com Quick.com Import.com Equity.com Arcade.com Classic.com Corn.com An LLL .net Portfolio ... read more ...
 
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eBay takes down over 1,000 domain names with a singular UDRP - eBay wins a massive UDRP case. eBay has successfully taken down over 1,000 domain names containing its trademark, many of which were set up as commerce sites. The online auction company filed a UDRP against the owner of 1,153 .com and .net domain names. All of the domain names contained “ebay” followed by a series of numbers, such as ebay962.com, ebay623.net and ebay389.com. The domain names were protected by a privacy service. When the privacy was removed, the ... read more ...
 
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2015 Domain Name Predictions – DNW Podcast #015 - Domain name industry experts predict what will happen in 2015. In this special episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast, 9 domain name industry experts look into the crystal ball and make predictions for what will happen in the industry in 2015. You’ll hear from representatives of Escrow.com, Rightside, Donuts, Sedo, DirectNic, .Club, dotTBA and InternetX and ParkLogic. Also: GoDaddy adds bidder verification, Afilias cancels IPO and an existing TLD goes to the auction ... read more ...
Sun 11th January 2015
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Our Top 10 Picks From The ROTD Auction At NamesCon For .Vegas; .Wiki, .XYZ & .ink Domains - Here are my top 10 picks from the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction to be held at Namescon on Tuesday for a few new gTLD’s; .Vegas, .Wiki/.Ink, and .XYZ. Of course .XYZ has more domain names registered than any other new gTLD. .Wiki and .ink are owned by the same registry so we combined them and .Vegas speaks for itself Most of the domains are at no reserve although some do already have pre-bids on Snapnames.com .Vegas .Wiki/.ink .XYZ   ... read more ...
 
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After 10 UDRP Wins On “Tractor Supply” Domains, This Co. Now Wants To Own The Word “Traveller” Too - Tractor Supply Co. of Texas, has filed and won 10 UDRP’s on domain names that include the term “Tractor Supply” which is  a pretty generic term by nature, but clearly in the domain world they control that term. Now the company has their eye’s set on the word Traveller which is the alternative to the word Traveler. I say alternative because if you search for traveller in Google it returns about 122,000,000 results. The Texas company filed a UDRP on the domain name traveller.tools I have no ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wow’s Us & Beats Google and Rightside To Win The .Wow New gTLD - Amazon (AMZN) is the proud owner of the new gTLD .WOW as both Google (GOOG) and Rightside (NAME) have withdrawn their applications. .Wow was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Remember that  Amazon originally applied to operate all the new gTLD’s they applied for, all 74 of them, on a closed basis which the Governmental Advisory Counsel to ICANN,  otherwise known as the GAC put the breaks on. I’m not sure how Amazon plans to .Wow us but I’m sure they have something ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google (Again) & Wins a New gTLD .Plus - Donuts has won another new gTLD, .Plus that was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Google in the form of Charleston Road Registry Inc. has withdrawn their application for .plus leaving Donuts as the sole applicant. Honestly I have no idea of why anyone applied for .Plus, much less two companies. Not sure why anyone in a world of 1,000+ domain extensions would choice to use a .Plus Computers.plus Cars.plus Sports.Plus Plus what? Sorry just don’t get this one guys. Having ... read more ...
 
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Radix Asks “Whats Your Bid for Bets.WEBSITE?”? XXX.Website is during No Reserve - Radix the registry for .Website, .Press and .Host announced today that it  is releasing some of its most valuable reserved names up for auction in the upcoming RightOfTheDot Live and Online Domain Auction at NamesCon powered by leading domain name auction platform SnapNames.com. More than $175,000 worth of premium names (with annual renewals) have been sold by Radix already, however the domain names that are being auctioned off by Radix at Namescon will not carry any premium renewal fee. Sandeep ... read more ...
Sat 10th January 2015
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Life Lesson: Here is How NOT to Do Business - So I was minding my own business yesterday and getting ready for namescon, working on the auction, packing, answering emails, pretty much what you would expect when I got this email: “”It’s Mark Bradford, hope you’re doing well. I’m emailing to see if you’d be interested in buying: DOMAINBLOG.CO www.DomainBlog.co The cool thing is that whoever develops this domain will be the first one to “own” the brand DOMAIN BLOG, and they may own it for quite a while, because… DomainNameSales ... read more ...
 
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Peter Thiel Invests In The Marijuana Business - Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal has is diving into the world of legalized marijuana, through his Founders Fund he has made an investment in Privateer Holdings who is the first private equity firm to invest solely in the legal cannabis niche. In the domain world 2014 saw many domain investors getting into the niche of marijuana related domains. Over the last 30 days 1782 marijuana .com domains have been registered. USA wrote about the investment: Founders Fund announced Thursday that it has made ... read more ...
 
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At Least 16 .World Domains Registered On So Far On Day 4 of EAP @ Up To $1,228 Per - We are on the 4th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .World which are priced at $1,222.99 at enom.com (rack rate). This $1,222 fee is assuming there the domain names are not premium domain names, which actually some of these,  are meaning that the registrants paid the premium renewal and registration fee in addition to the Early Access Fee. The biggest registrant of .World domain names so far today is Chad Wright of Webquest who bought several of these domain names. Day 4 of EAP continues ... read more ...
 
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DNS Policy Notes for January 9, 2015 - DNS POLICY NOTES FOR JANUARY 9, 2015 Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for January 9, 2015. URS, UDRP Numbers for 2014As everybody knows, the new top-level domains now being released are accompanied with protections for intellectual property owners that are not found in the so-called "legacy" ... read more ...
 
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The First Director of .IFFOR, Set Up By .XXX Registry; Clyde Beattie Resigns & The Money Went? - Clyde Beattie, who was one of the founders of the non-profit company set up by ICM the operator of the .XXX extension, IFFOR, (The International Foundation for Online Responsibility) which was set up as “a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing policies for Top Level Domains that maximize benefit to global Internet users, domain holders and domain registry operators.”   has left the association as of December 31, 2014. When .XXX was approved by ICANN, $10 of every active (but not ... read more ...
 
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#OpCharlieHebdo, le compte à rebours qui affole la toile - Mais quel est donc ce mystérieux compte à rebours et qui est derrière ce site ? Que se passera-t-il Dimanche 11 janvier ? MAJ : voici toutes les explications concernant ce site qui est en fait un hoax : Un étrange site portant le nom de l’opération des Anonymous (qui ont décidé de lancer une attaque contre des sites terroristes après les événements relatifs à l’attaque contre Charlie Hebdo) présente un compte à rebours. Mais « Il ne fait ... read more ...