Wed 7th January 2015
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We Paid Six Figures For SexEducation.com & Its In The ROTD NamesCon Auction At No Reserve - We have placed the domain name SexEducation.com which we paid six figures for,  into the RightoftheDot.com live/online domain name auction at the NamesCon conference at No Reserve. The domain name has an Estibot value of $123,000. It’s a domain we bought as we saw it as one of the only “adult’ type of domain names that you could advertise in mainstream media and would be great for one of the tapes, videos, books and DVD’s you see advertised all the time for “better sex” The domain name ... read more ...
 
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DegreeDirectory.org UpGrades To Learn.Org -

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.

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Troubling Decision: 19 Year Old DesertGolf.com Lost In UDRP To DesertGolfer.com On Common Law Mark - We are only into the first few days of the year we have what I consider to be first horrible UDRP decision of 2015. A one member UDRP panel decision handed by by the National Arbitration Forum by Richard DiSalle as Panelist gave the domain name DesertGolf.com to the owner of the domain DesertGolfer.com The Complainant Pade Publishing, LLC, who has since 2001, published “Desert Golf Tennis, a luxury magazine illustrating golf and tennis lifestyles and activities. Complainant uses the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Existing TLD .Reise headed to a auction block - Top level domain name will be auctioned at the end of February. Innovative Auctions Ltd., the same company handling many private new top level domain name contention set auctions, is holding an auction for .REISE on February 27. What’s unique here is that .reise is an existing top level domain name that’s now available for purchase. I believe this is the second time Innovative Auctions has held auctions for already-released TLDs. Reise roughly translates to “journey” ... read more ...
 
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25 End User Domain Name Sales - End user domain names sales continued during the holidays. Sedo didn’t report domain name sales over the holidays, so this week’s end user sales report includes sales from the past three weeks. Over this period, Sedo handled 1,067 transactions for a total of $2.6 million worth of domain names. Let’s just right into the list of recent end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your ... read more ...
 
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How Correctica done me demeanour smarter - Service finds errors that spell and grammar checkers don’t. When I write a post for Domain Name Wire, I act as researcher, writer and editor. That’s why you occasionally see a typo or two in articles. I review articles before posting, and always pay attention to that red squiggly underline indicating a misspelled word, but some types of errors are harder to catch. That’s why I was intrigued to learn about Knowingly, a new company launched by futurist and former ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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Donuts Beats The Owner Of Gold.Org To The New gTLD .Gold - Donuts, which we can only assume won a private auction for the new gTLD string .Gold against the World Gold Counsel (WGC) which operates Gold.Org The new gTLD .Gold was scheduled to got to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Here is some information from WGC application” “The Applicant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council, a non-profit organisation tasked with the market development for the gold industry (collectively referred to as the World Gold Council Group). ... read more ...
 
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Hackers Get over $5million in Bitcoin from Europe’s Largest Exchange - Europe’s largest Bitcoin Exchange Got Hacked CNN Money reported that Bitstamp, the largest Bitcoin exchange in Europe was hacked. The take was over $5million. The exchange says that most of their reserves are held offline in secure storage systems. From the article: Cyber thieves have run off with about 19,000 bitcoin ($5.2 million) from Bitstamp accounts. The company said it has suspended services after some digital wallets were compromised on Jan 4. Bitstamp told customers not to make any deposits ... read more ...
 
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HABER: Fenerbahçe’den Yarım Sezonluk Kombine Uygulaması … - Bu sezon seyirci sayısının, daha önceki yıllara göre ortalamaların çok altında kalması Fenerbahçe yönetimini harekete geçirdi.Sarı lacivertli yönetim, ligin ikinci yarısındaki üç derbinin de Saracoğlu'nda oynanacak olmasını göz önüne alarak, stattaki doluluk oranını arttırmak için çok önemli bir adım attı ve yarım sezonluk kombineleri satışa çıkarmaya karar verdi. Fenerbahçe kulübünün resmi internet sitesinden yapılan açıklamaya göre, ... read more ...
 
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Porn companies sue ICANN over .XXX domain - Two of the world's biggest porn companies have teamed up to sue the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and ICM Registry over their introduction of the .XXX top-level domain. Digital Playground and Luxembourg-based Manwin, which owns a network of websites including YouPorn.com and manages Playboy's brand on the web, claim that ICANN and ICM are guilty of antitrust violations. The .XXX domain was given the green light by ICANN earlier this year – in spite of warnings that ... read more ...
 
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DigiCert is considering SSL certificates for more Tor hidden services - Certificate authority DigiCert is considering issuing SSL certificates to more Tor .onion address owners after recently providing Facebook with one.However, SSL certificates for pseudo-top-level domains like .onion that don't actually exist on the Internet are in the process of being phased out and the Tor Project has not yet decided if Tor websites getting SSL certificates is a good thing.Last week, Facebook made its website accessible inside the Tor anonymity network by setting up a so-called Tor ... read more ...
 
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Domain name registry Afilias dumps designed IPO - Registry had planned to float in November. Domain name registry Afilias has pulled plans for a $100 million initial public offering, as reported by Domain Incite this morning. A company spokesperson told Domain Incite, “The final decision to cancel the IPO was based on market conditions at the time.” Given that stock markets are at record highs, that’s a euphemism for “investors weren’t interested in our IPO”. While stock markets are doing well, the same ... read more ...
 
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September’s .Com winners and losers - Moniker lost, PublicDomainRegistry gained. ICANN has published official registry reports from September (always three months in arrears), showing that Moniker dropped below one million .com domain names registered. The chart below shows the ten domain name registrars with the most successful .com transfers out, and then compares this against the number of successful .com transfers in. Registrars that “won” for the month will have a blue column taller than the ... read more ...
 
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Garry Chernoff sells Montrose.com for $75,000 - Domain name investor starts the year with a good sale. Longtime domain name investor Garry Chernoff has started 2015 with a nice sale: Montrose.com at $75,000. The domain name now shows CSC Corporate Domains, a brand domain name registrar, as registrant. Chernoff says the company approached him about the domain name. Montrose is a city in Colorado, a neighborhood in Houston and the name of a band. I went through the first 10 results on Google, and none of the sites ... read more ...
 
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How to Use Sched.org to get a many out of NamesCon - Sched.org makes it easier to take advantage of NamesCon’s great keynotes and panel discussions. NamesCon starts on Sunday in Las Vegas. It’s going to be big (800+ people) and packed with content (125 speakers and panelists). With a number of concurrent sessions, planning is required to make sure you don’t miss out on the sessions that most interest you. This year, NamesCon used Sched.org to create the schedule. Attendees have received an emailed invitation to ... read more ...
 
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ICYMI: 2014 in Review - A look back at the past year in the domain name business. Over the past week I released a podcast and five posts covering five big themes in the domain name business in 2014. I know a lot of people travel or unplug over the holidays, so here’s a summary: Consolidation continued in the domain name industry in 2014, from blockbusters like .Co selling for more than $100M to smaller deals such as Agreed Escrow. Conditions for further consolidation exist, so stay tuned ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2015
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2014: Here is Our Thoughts On The New gTLD Program & Some Predictions for 2015 - The new gTLD’s were certain the talk of the domain industry in 2014. I thought it would be a good time to take a look at where the program is in our opinion and make a few predictions for 2015. The new gTLD ‘s ended with lets call it 3,650,000 domain name registrations just to round the numbers off. We did an analysis when the new gTLD’s hit 3.5 million and backing out the free domains and domains registered by the registry or parties related closely to the registry we figured there were about ... read more ...
 
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New .LGBT Domain Sunrise Period Begins - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the beginning of the one-month "sunrise" period for the top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community: dot LGBT or .LGBT. The sunrise period allows trademark holders to register names immediately; after which registration will be open to all LGBT community members and those serving it beginning February 10, 2015. With "LGBT" being most preferred term by the community, the .LGBT web ... read more ...
 
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Go Only for Big Bang gTLD Rebranding - If you're considering rebranding under a new gTLD, go with a comprehensive big bang. A recent study by professors Dale Miller, Bill Merrilees, and Raisa Yakimova ("Corporate Rebranding: An Integrative Review of Major Enablers and Barriers to the Rebranding Process”) finds that success comes when senior management makes an unweaving commitment based on proactive analyses of the entire value-chain, with buy-in and input from employees and suppliers. Rebranding companies should not ignore the ... read more ...
 
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Congress Will Oversight ICANN: And You Can Take That to the Bank - Therefore, I wish to call for the establishment of such a new body that will work in cooperation with the NTIA to exercise supervisory responsibilities over ICANN. Even though the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plays a very important role in the global Internet ecosystem, its activities are not frequently mentioned in the mainstream international media; that is, until ICANN's name is mentioned alongside that of the US Congress in a US$1.1 trillion Omnibus spending ... read more ...
 
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After 14 Years Porsche Finally Gets Around To Filing & Winning UDRP On Porsches.com - Its pretty hard to believe but it took the car maker Porsche over 14 years to go after the domain name Porsches.com The domain name was registered on March 13, 2000 The domain name is of course the plural of the car makers name properly spelled A pretty bang on trademark issue. However the UDRP wasn’t filed until October 23, 2014. The case is not worth discussing except for this portion: “The Panel recognizes that there has been a 14 year gap between the date the disputed domain name was registered ... read more ...
 
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Inc.com Asks “Will New Top Level Domains (New gTLD’s) Even Matter in 2015″ Hint: No - Inc.com just published a post, entitled “Will New Top Level Domains Matter in 2015? Will new URL endings change web design and marketing in 2015?” The Inc.com story is about as negative on new gTLD’s as I read recently and pretty much the opposite of Paul Stahura recent post on Circleid.com “”In 2014, the new Top Level Domains (TLDs) were introduced to much fanfare from the press and tech bloggers. New web address endings were touted as a land rush on the internet and a game changer for ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on Radix - NamesCon is less than one week away, and today we have an interview with NamesCon sponsor, Radix, one of the largest participants in the new gTLD program. NamesCon will be held from January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are now over 750 registered conference attendees, and over 800 people are expected to attend this event. If you have any questions or comments for Radix, please post them in the comment section below. Can you tell us about your company and ... read more ...
 
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This week’s 5 new Top Level Domain name launches - Two IDNs among this week’s TLD launches. It’s the first full week of the new year, and that means a handful of top level domain name companies are releasing domain names. On Tuesday, January 6, موقع. will hit general availability. This string is Arabic for “site”.101Domain has the domains for about $50. On Wednesday, January 7, three domains will launch in Early Access Programs. Donuts launches .world, which I suppose has similar uses to .place and .zone. Rightside ... read more ...
 
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.Club Domain Names with Colin Campbell, Jeff Sass – Podcast #14 - How .Club has soared to the top. .Club has jumped out on the leaderboard with registrations, with over 150,000 to date. That’s part of the reason the company is valued at $25.4 million in its latest funding round. On this episode, we chat with .Club founder and CEO Colin Campbell and CMO Jeff Sass about what the company is doing to make sure .Club is a success. We also discuss the current state of top level domain name rollouts. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to ... read more ...