Sat 10th January 2015
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These guys suspicion Mike Berkens was toying with them… - Podcast tells the story of guys who tried to buy a domain name from Michael Berkens. I just listened to a very interesting podcast called Reply All. This particular episode talks about two guy’s effort to buy a domain name from Michael Berkens. The guests run a site at Longform.org and wanted to buy Longform.com. But Berkens owned it. After many failed attempts to buy the domain, they tried one last time. The last time, they let is slip that they owned the matching ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2015
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Best Reverse Domain Hijacking UDRP Decision Of 2015: SpeedTest.Org: This Is What We Are Talking About - A three member National Arbitration Forum UDRP panel has finally done like Spike Lee long suggested, do the right thing and called out an attempted theft of a domain name for just what it is, in the case of SpeedTest.org Scene LLC, d/b/a Ookla represented by Jeff Nelson of Miller Nash Graham Dunn LLP, of  Washington, USA have just been found to be guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in the case of Speedtest.org The domain holder, Innovation HQ, Inc. was represented by Zak Muscovitch ... read more ...
 
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Renames Its Job Classified Section As RJJobs.Vegas - The Las Vegas Journal Newspaper, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the the state of Nevada has named its classified job section as RJJobs.Vegas. Although the domain name RJJobs.Vegas forwards to the reviewjournal.com/jobs, it seems that the newspaper is using the branding opportunity that a Geo domain like .Vegas brings. If your wondering the domain name Jobs.Vegas is registered reserved by the .Vegas Registry. There are several .Vegas registry owned domain names in the RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
 
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Auctions.com Reserve Price At Namescon is Around What Auction.com Sold For 6 Years Ago - Back just about six years ago to the date the domain name Auction.com sold for $1.7 Million dollars to Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC) Next Tuesday at the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon, the domain name Auctions.com will up for sale and the reserve price is right around that same price that Auction.com sold for 6 years ago. Of course REDC has grown its business tremendously since acquiring Auction.com six years ago the company is now the largest online real estate dealer ... read more ...
 
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Report: Google To Sell Car Insurance: Google Compare Auto Insurance Licensed in More Than 25 States - According to TheVerge.com, citing a a  new report from an analyst named Ellen Carney at Forrester says that Google maybe getting ready to sell car insurance in the United States, through Google Compare. Google does own the domain name GoogleCompare.com since 2005, but it currently does not resolve. “A company called Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc. is already licensed to do business in more than 25 states, and licensed to sell on behalf of a handful of major insurers like Metlife, Dairyland ... read more ...
 
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xHamster regulating Bitcoin as a primary approach to accept online payments – A demeanour during a tip sites regulating Bitcoin - CryptoCoinsNews.com took a look at the top 100 sites using Bitcoin. The article started off looking at Xhamster.com the popular adult tube site. Mega porn site xHamster has not only accepted Bitcoin as a prime way to receive online payments, but is very happy with the results and is looking to expand services with the leading digital currency. Over the last six months, xHamster and many others have joined Bitcoin as a new way to pay online going forward. The article went on to list the top 100 sites ... read more ...
 
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Qihoo 360 Re-brands Its Search Engine So.com To Haosou.com - According to chinainternetwatch.com, Qihoo 360 has taken a shorter brand and made it longer, launching its new search brand Haosou.com and re-directing the traffic from  its previous search engine domain So.com to Haosou.com. “360 changed its search engine brand name and its logo trying to help users easily remember and understand. One insider believed that Haosou is more applicable in mobile internet market and Haosou could be sub-brand of Qihoo 360 which can make it an independent search brand. Qi ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder Who Loses UDRP, Files Federal Court Case Over DirectorsChoice.com - Back in late December we wrote about the domain name DirectorsChoice.com which was lost in our opinion in a very bad UDRP decision. Today the domain holder, Russ Smith, pro se, filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court For The District Of New Jersey pursuant to Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”) 15 U.S.C. § 1114 (2)(D) (iv) and(v) to obtain a declaration of lawful use of the domain name and obtain a declaration that the Defendant made materially false statements ... read more ...
 
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How to get a many out of NamesCon - A few quick tips to get the most out of your conference-going experience. Heading to NamesCon next week? You’re not alone. More than 800 people are expected to attend the conference, unless mother nature gets in their way. (We’re even expecting a little ice in Austin tomorrow!) Here are some tips for getting the most out of the event. Content There are more than 150 speakers and panelists at the event, and there will be multiple content sessions going on at the ... read more ...
 
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Categorizing Top Level Domains: “nTLDs” - Joseph Peterson asks, “when is new not really new,” and proposes new terminology to clarify it. Going into the new year, I decided to make a little glossary of domaining definitions. That includes words many people use already, some terms I’ve been tossing around privately for years, and a few I’ve invented on the fly to clarify what (to me) seems vague. This sounds presumptuous, but I’m not insisting on any of this lingo. This isn’t the “right” ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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Rightside to Bring Five New TLDs to Market in First Quarter of 2015 - GlobeNewswire2015-01-08 Diverse Options like .GIVES and .BAND Bring New Possibilities to Online IdentitiesKIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, announced it will usher in the new year with the launch of five new Top Level Domains (TLDs). This will expand its in-market portfolio that includes professional options ... read more ...
 
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New .POKER Web Domain Launched - !– (S) – !– –!– –DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global registry services provider Afilias today formally announced the 1st phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain for one of the world’s favorite card games: “dot POKER” or .POKER. The 1st phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from February 5 through March 7, 2015. .POKER is the 1st and only Internet domain dedicated to the game of poker. It is the most logical ... read more ...
 
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Andrew Rosenser Launches Ganjapreneur; Cannabis Domain Name Market -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that owns over 75,000 domain names and whose sell site is during MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Real Madrid obtains transfer of domain name under ‘.tienda’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), obvious sports group Real Madrid Club de Futbol has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.tienda’, that means ‘store’ in Spanish.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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MediaPost: $20M A Year AdEase Changes Its Domain To a .Agency But Credits Google Not Donuts - Mediapost.com just published a story tonight about San Diego-based ad shop, AdEase which they say has grown into a company with 35 employees and $20 million-plus in annualized billings. According to the story it is remaking itself as a cause-focused agency. As part of the makeover it is changing its name to Civilian. Also as part of the redo, the agency is adopting a .agency domain name. “Google added .agency as a Generic Top Level Domain name option about six months ago. “ “The agency believes ... read more ...
 
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NCC Group’s new ‘.trust’ domain promises Internet security overhaul - With a flood of new general top-level domains (gTLDs) reaching Internet users in 2014, security UK firm NCC Group and a clutch of large Internet brands have announced a new secure domain they hope will turn out to be the most significant of them all. Called ‘.Trust’, at first it’s not clear that this is anything cleverer than a bit of security engineering for businesses that want to stick .trust on the end of their e-commerce websites and emails.  Does the world need yet another gTLD, even ... read more ...
 
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What’s in a top-level domain name? - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently in the process of evaluating 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), in the hope of ushering in a new era for the Internet and enabling organisations to register domains such as .shop or .bank alongside existing gTLDs like .com and .org. Why would anyone care about their Web address? I hear you ask. Surely, in the age of search engines and social networks, a URL carries about as much weight as a telephone ... read more ...
 
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AsiaOne: “Major firms to use names as website domain suffixes” - AsiaOne.com wrote an article today that talked about brands in Asia that will be adopting their own brand extension and using it over .com or say .co.jp. One company mentioned in the article was Dai Nippon Printing Co, the company is publicly traded in Japan. The company said that the new domain has been attractive for regular consumers, but, still uses its previous domain at dnp.co.jp. Of course that makes sense for any company that switches to a new gtld, but for me the confusion was what to use ... read more ...
 
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Women in Domaining earnings during NamesCon - 15 sponsors support Women in Domaining event. One of the most important social gatherings at next week’s NamesCon conference will be Women in Domaining. More women work in the domain name industry than before, but it’s still a relatively small number. It’s nice to see an event for women who work in the industry to get together. The social takes place Monday, January 12th from 7pm-9pm in the Whoisology Room. 15 companies are sponsoring the event, which is being ... read more ...
 
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ROTD auction during NamesCon will sell a lot of domain names - Sell-through rate at next week’s auction is guaranteed to be high. Right of the Dot (ROTD) is hosting a live domain name auction next Tuesday during NamesCon. From the looks of it, they’re going to sell a lot of domain names. The only question is how much they’ll sell for. Already 31 domain names have pre-bids that have met their reserves (mostly on no reserve domain names). That means the auction is already at about a 30% sell-through rate on a planned inventory ... read more ...
 
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DQZ.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - DQZ.com among the leaders at NameJet over the past week. When it comes to 3-letter .COM domains, value is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough domain investors agree to pay within a certain range based on scarcity, observed sales, and the opportunity to resell to one another that a given LLL.com is often purchased without reference to any conceivable use or meaning. That could easily be the case with NameJet’s $12.4k sale of DQZ.com last week; ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions implements bidder verification - I think this is fairly ironic news, considering how much trouble they have with the simplest things such as auto charging a paypal account. My partners and I have a Paypal agreement with GoDaddy and have for some years. We keep a balance of a min of $30k in it at all dues as a float. Due to sales, etc., sometimes it even has over $100k in it. Yet GoDaddy auctions consistently fails to auto charge it several times a month. I’m on many platform, and depend on these pieces of software ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2015
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877.com Gets A $200K Bid At The RightoftheDot/ Names Con Auction - On the heels of the $800,000 sale of 345.com, a pre-bid has just been placed for the domain name 877.com for $200,000 at the RightoftheDot.com auction that will be held at Namescon on January 13th, at 4:30Pm Pre-Bidding is currently ongoing online through SnapNames.com You of course will have to have an account at SnapNames.com to make a pre-bid online or online during the live system, so if you don’t have a snapnames.com account go sign up for one now. There will be a special link that you will ... read more ...
 
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EscrowHill.com Adds US Based Escrow Services Through Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC -       According to a press release we just received, EscrowHill.com announced they added the U.S. based attorney firm, Greenberg Lieberman, LLC, in addition to the New Zealand registered Financial Service Provider, Escrow Hill Limited. “Andee Hill, CEO of EscrowHill.com stated, “I am very pleased to be offering the domain escrow services of Greenberg Lieberman at EscrowHill.com. Stevan Lieberman is a trusted domain attorney with a vast knowledge of domains, the domain industry and domain ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Releases 3 Weeks Of Transactions Totaling $2.6 Million Led By TV.AE For $95K - Sedo just issues its transaction report covering the past 3 weeks including the Christmas and New Years holiday weeks In those 3 weeks 1,067 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.6 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All .com sales were led by one of our domain names FindYourCalling.com which sold for $30,000 but all domain sales were led by Tv.Ae which sold for $95,000 .AE is the ccTLD for the United Arab Emirates. The highest other ... read more ...