Mon 22nd December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Attacco informatico contro l’ICANN - L'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), cioè l'organizzazione no profit che gestisce i gTLD (generic Top Level Domains) a livello internazionale, sarebbe stata recentemente vittima di un attacco infomatico grazie al quale i crackers sarebbero riusciti a compromettere in parte i sistemi colpiti.E' probabile che l'obbiettivo dell'incursione sia stato il grande database di registranti dei nomi a dominio a dispositizione della corporation, l'azione malevola sarebbe inoltre la ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Aeropostale Wins 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension Appeal On Aeropostale.Uno - The clothing company Aeropostale has won what we believe is the first appeal of a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. Back in April a URS examiner  Alan L. Limbury,denied the Complaint of  Aeropostale Procurement Company on the domain name aeropostale.uno finding that “Complainant here submitted with its complaint copies of the certificates of registration of seven United States AEROPOSTALE trademarks, four of which are in the name R. H. Macy Co., Inc., two of which are in the name Aeropostale ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: Two launch on Christmas Eve - I wonder how many dentists will be registering domain names on Christmas Eve? Two new top level domain names launch this week, both on Christmas Eve and both from Rightside. .Dentist and .Rehab exit the Early Access Program on Wednesday and revert to regular pricing. The .dentist domains appear to be priced a little bit higher than most Rightside domains. GoDaddy is quoting a regular price of $49.99 and a sale price of $34.99. 101Domain quotes a $37.99 price. Compare ... read more ...
 
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My initial .Cards spam, that competence indeed be a good thing for new TLDs - I received some spam today that linked to a pretty good new TLD. Over the summer I received a spam email linking to a .club domain name. The spam didn’t really have anything to do with .club; the domain choice seemed random. The .Club registry acted quickly to take action against the domain name, which is rather unusual for a registry. Today I received the my spam linking to a new TLD that truly takes advantage of new TLDs, and this might actually be good for the ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Aftermarket with Joe Uddeme – DNWP Episode 012 - Domain name sales in 2014 and looking forward. How did new top level domain names affect .com domain name sales in 2014? What impact will they have in 2015? You might be surprised by the answer. Joe Uddeme, Director of Business Development for Domain Holdings, talks about trends the domain name brokerage saw in 2014. Uddeme will discuss how domain sales changed throughout the year as well, and how you can work with a domain broker like Domain Holdings. Also: .Club ... read more ...
Sun 21st December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Glossário Geek: URL, WWW e TLD - Foto por: Reprodução Você deve estar se perguntando o que são essas letrinhas, mas logo tudo fará sentido: no glossário de hoje, vamos aprender o que são e como funcionam algumas peças-chave da Internet: URL “Uniform Resource Locator” (“URL”) ou, popularmente, “endereço web” é, como o nome sugere, uma série de caracteres específicos que geram uma referência para um elemento disponibilizado na Web. Basicamente, imagine ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Goliath vs Goliath as Google Takes On Hollywood in Piracy Wars - More and more tidbits continue to come out of the Sony leak, The Verge reported on a meeting between Sony, Google and Homeland Security. The Verge a week later ran a story about Google being incensed over Hollywood’s anti-piracy measures. Google was especially concerned with “Project Goliath” The project’s goal was to find a way to block pirate sites from appearing online. From the article: After hacked documents revealed that Sony and other media companies were attempting to pass harsh ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on Afilias - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon exhibitors and sponsors. The 2015 NamesCon event will take place at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 11-14. Over 500 people have registered to attend NamesCon so far, and over 800 attendees are expected. Today’s NamesCon Spotlight interview is with John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services at Afilias. You are welcome to post comments and questions for John in the comment section if you would like to ask about ... read more ...
Sat 20th December 2014
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Young New Yorker Invests In First Kuhn Mower Conditioner – Agri - Chad Carpenter is 31 years old and just bought his first Kuhn product this spring, a Kuhn FC 3560 TLD side-pull disc mower conditioner, an exciting milestone in this young farmer’s life.“I’ve only been farming two years,” says Carpenter, a Boonville, N.Y. native. He rents his uncle’s barn to milk 50 cows and grows a variety of crops on 200 tillable acres, which he leases from his father, John, and other family members.Eventually, he will relocate the entire ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Die Top 10 der neuen Domainendungen - Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende, und die GERWAN Redaktion möchte Ihnen ein letztes Mal einen Blick darauf bieten, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen der neuen Domainendungen im Jahr 2014 entwickelt haben. Wir können Ihnen versprechen, es hat sich auch dieses Mal viel getan in den letzten 30 Tagen. Viele Positionen wurden getauscht, einige Neueinstiege haben die Top-Ten durcheinander gebracht. Als kleinen Bonus bieten wir Ihnen heute zusätzlich die Registrierungszahlen der Top-20 und der beliebtesten ... read more ...
 
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Die Top 10 der neuen Domainendungen - Das Jahr neigt sich dem Ende, und die GERWAN Redaktion möchte Ihnen ein letztes Mal einen Blick darauf bieten, wie sich die Registrierungszahlen der neuen Domainendungen im Jahr 2014 entwickelt haben. Wir können Ihnen versprechen, es hat sich auch dieses Mal viel getan in den letzten 30 Tagen. Viele Positionen wurden getauscht, einige Neueinstiege haben die Top-Ten durcheinander gebracht. Als kleinen Bonus bieten wir Ihnen heute zusätzlich die Registrierungszahlen der Top-20 und der beliebtesten ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
C-and-A.com Wins UDRP On C-A.Com Purchased For $3K & Offered To .Com Holder For $340K - Cofra Holding AG of Zug, Switzerland which owns the domain name C-and-A.com, just won the rights to the domain name C-A.Com. The three member panel did not like the fact that the domain owner who purchased the domain name C-A.com in January 2014 for $3k was asking for six figures to the .com holder of the domain name CandA.com Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: T the Complainant owns over 90 trademark registrations in various countries around the world, including the United States ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Partners with BaseKit to Bring Website Builder to Domain Registrars - Website building platform BaseKit announced last week that it has partnered with domain name services provider Rightside Group to provide its website building tool to its domain registrars. The agreement will give customers of eNom, eNom Central, Bulk Register and Name.com access to BaseKit’s website building platform. In a statement, BaseKit said the partnership with Rightside represents its efforts to support the growing trend of new gTLDs. New gTLDs are giving service providers more opportunities ... read more ...
 
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DNA’s First Official “State of a Domains” Newsletter Now Published Completely in Chinese! - TLD Registry the company behind Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website, have released a Mandarin version of the State of the Domains quarterly publication that is published by the Domain Name Association. They published on their website: TLD Registry is extremely proud to be responsible for the full layout and design of the Domain Name Association’s (DNA) first official newsletter, released this past October at ICANN 51 in Los Angeles. The publication provides insight to the use of domain ... read more ...
 
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Des victimes d’un attentat à Jérusam exigent le .ir de l’Iran - Il y a un an, le 27 novembre 2013, la justice américaine avait reconnu l'Iran responsable d'un attentat-suicide commis en 1997 au marché Mahané Yehouda de Jérusalem, et condamné le pays à verser 9 millions de dollars d'indemnités à cinq familles de victimes. L'explosion du kamizaze qui avait fait 14 victimes civiles avait été revendiquée par le Hamas, cependant le centre de droit israélien Shurat HaDin qui a monté les actions judiciaires en responsabilité avait pu démontrer le ... read more ...
 
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Le suffixe .baby adjugé à une société pharmaceutique pour 3 … - Depuis 2011, la création de suffixes personnalisés pour les adresses web est autorisée par la société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN). Plusieurs domaines de premier niveau (TLD) sont alors apparus, comme .buy, .book, .kid, .shop, .music, .cloud, .game, .mail ou encore .shop, en plus des extensions plus classiques comme .com, .net ou .org. Pour les entreprises, ces suffixes peuvent avoir une valeur économique considérable dans le secteur où ... read more ...
 
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WIPO row denies UDRP on WUP.com - Complainant probably didn’t exist when domain name was registered. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP attempt on the three letter domain name WUP.com. The complaint was filed by Wengenroth Partner, an German SEO and online marketing firm. It appears the company didn’t even exist when the respondent register the domain name in 2008. The single member panel found that the complainant did not prove a lack of rights or legitimate interests, ... read more ...
 
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Last week’s Expired Domain Name Sales - After seeing English and Chinese jostling for king of the mountain week after week, it’s a real pleasure to see Spanish climb to that top spot, as if reminding us that it – not English – stands as the world’s 2nd most populous language (behind Mandarin). GoDaddy auctioned off the word Gustazo.com for $4.7k. If you’re wondering what it means, well, I’ve already given you a clue in that first sentence. “Gustazo” equals a special pleasure. In particular, ... read more ...
 
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Will some-more contested TLDs get some-more registrations? - Probably, but quantifying it is difficult at this point. I commonly hear that the best is yet to come in terms of new to level domain name launches. The most heavily contested applications are just getting resolved, and these represent the best top level domain names. It makes sense to me. But will this reflect reality? Are the TLDs we’re seeing so far not representative of the results of future, heavily contested TLD launches? I tried to dig into the data a bit ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2014
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.Club takes 6 out of the top 10 New gTLD Sales on Sedo in 2014 - Sedo reported their top 10 new gTLD sales of 2014 and .club dominated the list with 6 out of 10. Things seem to be on the upswing as the company raised another $3million according to DomainNameWire. Upswing in new gTLDs such as .club and .berlin More than 300 new TLDs have been launched in the market in 2014 and currently there are more than 3.5 million new domains registered.  The trading among new gTLD domains is already in full swing and the development of sales at Sedo’s marketplace has ... read more ...
 
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.Club takes 6 out of a tip 10 New gTLD Sales on Sedo in 2014 - Sedo reported their top 10 new gTLD sales of 2014 and .club dominated the list with 6 out of 10. Things seem to be on the upswing as the company raised another $3million according to DomainNameWire. Upswing in new gTLDs such as .club and .berlin More than 300 new TLDs have been launched in the market in 2014 and currently there are more than 3.5 million new domains registered.  The trading among new gTLD domains is already in full swing and the development of sales at Sedo’s marketplace has ... read more ...
 
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Google swears no search leg up for new dot-word sites: We drill into claims - Google has reiterated its claim that there is no inherent advantage to new top-level domains – such as .london or .book – when it comes to topping search rankings. The position, posted on Google+ by the web giant's trends analyst John Mueller, more or less restates what Google SEO head honcho Matt Cutts insisted more than a couple of years ago. ... read more ...
 
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Flipboard Wins TM Dispute Leading to Flowboard Changing Their Name - Simon Sage reported for iMore that Flowboard an app that allows you to create presentations lost a trademark dispute with Flipboard. The company has decided to change their name and rebrand to FlowVella. FlowVella CEO, Brent Brookler told Geek Wire the changed had already been in the works, the company will keep the same F in their logo. From the article: Flowboard’s slick app for creating presentations will be known as FlowVella from here on out. The change comes at the heels of a trademark court ... read more ...
 
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The Empire Strikes Back: "New" Verisign Hums a Familiar Tune - Losing your monopoly must be hard. True, few companies ever experience that particular breed of angst, but if Verisign's reply to even modest success in the new gTLD marketplace is any indication, it must be very hard to say goodbye. We understand why they're worried: New .COM quality is abysmal. The quality of newly registered .COM names is dropping and has been for years. And there is nothing Verisign can do about it. So welcome to the fire sale. New .COM is as cheap as .XYZ. The average ... read more ...
 
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Zero to 60 in a Split Second: Coffee.Club Goes From a Domain Name to a … - At first glance, as a coffee lover with a 6-month subscription that just started,  I certainly like the business model. Coffee.club lets you choose ... read more ...