Wed 17th December 2014
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Minds + Machines in 2014 and 2015 - Written by Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines. On January 1, 2014, Minds + Machines was trading at 14p. As of yesterday our share price was 7p. You might conclude from this that our company has declined by a factor of two. But from our perspective, exactly the opposite has happened. Why the disconnect? It's the end of the year and it's time to look back at what's happened, and try to shed a little light on what's to come. Here's how we see our company today vs. one year ... read more ...
 
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Could new TLDs have an SEO advantage in a future? - Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s what Google says. And it makes sense when you think about it. A lot of people that think new TLDs have an SEO advantage are thinking with their heart, not with their head. Logic dictates that Google would give a boost of some sorts ... read more ...
 
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ICANN hacked, section record complement among victims - Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to members of its staff. Email credentials of several ICANN staff members were obtained. It appears the biggest system to be accessed as a result of the security breach was The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS). This system is a ... read more ...
 
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Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS - .Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson Johnson won .Baby with a $3,088,888 bid. It beat out Google, Minds + Machines, Donuts, Radix and Famous Four in the auction. Johnson Johnson also owns the domain name Baby.com. Canadian Real Estate Association beat Afilias in the auction ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2014
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NamesCon Acquires DomainFest & Will Be Part of NamesCon 2015 Las Vegas! - Well our hunch was right yesterday, as today NamesCon announced they have acquired DomainFest from Oversee.net in a press release we just received. “Starting with small conferences in LA and Barcelona, Oversee grew Domainfest into a large, global conference series, attracting domainers, marketing professionals and celebrity speakers from all over the world.” “We are very proud of the industry-leading conference that we built up over the years”, said Debra Domeyer, CEO of Oversee.net. “DomainFest ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million - Over the past week just 573 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: competitiveintelligence.com at 35,477 USD · Top ccTLD: ferienhausschweden.de at 4,500 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ovn.org at 9,888 USD KingFashion.com at $10,000 was one of our domains that sold A few notes: Someone paid almost $2K for shooopping.com Someone paid $4K for snowflakedb.net Crowdmoney.com ... read more ...
 
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Shoes.com Sold - According to Bloomberg.com, Shoes.com has sold “Brown Shoe Co. (BWS), owner of the Famous Footwear retail chain, sold its Shoes.com online division to a closely held Seattle company pushing into a market Shoeme, parent of OnlineShoes.com and Shoeme.ca, is purchasing Shoes.com for an undisclosed price, the companies said in separate statements today. ” “Shoeme Chief Executive Officer Roger Hardy has been working to move into footwear retailing on the Web. After selling Vancouver-based Coastal ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs Don’t Necessarily Provide SEO Advantage: Google - New TLDs do not receive any search rankings advantage compared to traditional TLDs like .com. Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller reiterated a comment from Google webspam team head Matt Cutts in 2012, rebutting a specific online post stating that the new TLDs were automatically favored by Google. “They can perform well in search, just like any other TLD can perform well in search,” Mueller said in a public Google+ post last week. “They give you an opportunity to pick a name that ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions,  which is  part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750000 Registered Domains - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions,  which is  part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension ... read more ...
 
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Terror bomb victims demanding Iran’s .ir will appeal US ruling - A US judge's decision that Iran's internet registry cannot be seized by victims of an Iranian-backed bomb attack will be challenged on appeal [PDF] in Washington DC. The decision last month by Judge Royce Lamberth that the .ir country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is not "attachable property" was the latest twist in a decade-long lawsuit brought by Israeli law center Shurat HaDin – which is seeking compensation for nine US citizens injured in an ... read more ...
 
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RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement - RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco Division for trademark infringement asking for disgorgement of profits, for civil penalties, and for preliminary and permanent injunctions enjoining Risk IO, its officers, agents, servants, employees, and all other persons in active concert with it, from ... read more ...
 
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Nom de domaine : pas de bonus SEO pour les nouveaux TLD d … - Le Googler John Mueller a rappelé qu'"il n'y a pas d'avantage SEO pour les sites qui choisiront les nouvelles extensions". De très nombreuses nouvelles extensions arrivent pour les noms de domaines : les .paris, .bzh, .hotel, .music, .expert... Ces nouveaux TLD ("Top-Level Domains") vont-ils doper le SEO des sites qui les choisissent ? Non, a affirmé clairement John ... read more ...
 
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Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com business - Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies earlier this year. In an interview with Business in Vancouver, SHOEme CEO Roger Hardy said “Predominantly, we’re acquiring the assets. That’s the URL, the customers and the history of the customers as well as the ... read more ...
 
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See all 152 heading apps filed by a Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!) - Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matching mostly famous names and common terms. The company has filed 152 applications, according to a search on Trademark247. Most were filed around Thanksgiving, and many of them exactly match a celebrity name or famous brand ... read more ...
 
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CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name - Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CEO of Elephant Auto Insurance. If that name sounds familiar, it might be because the company unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Elephant.com from Adam Dicker through a UDRP in 2005. It later purchased the domain ... read more ...
Mon 15th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Did NamesCon Buy DomainFest.com? -

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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ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites - According to  csoonline.com citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on to say “ICANN hasn’t done enough and should ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing … - According to a company blog post out today, by brand protection company CSC, citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.” “Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.” She goes on ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: violações de dados não é por novos domínios - Porta-voz desmente acusações de que o recente crescimento no número de TLDs tenha causado violações de dados. Existem hoje mais de 700 domínios de nível de topo genéricos (“generic top level domain” ou gTLD), como .meme, .guru e .blog. O número de TLDs explodiu apenas recentemente – entre 1985 e 2012, o número de TLDs cresceu lentamente, de cinco para 22. E a Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Guess I Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New … - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...
 
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Guess we Was Wrong There Is A Lot Of Cybersquatting Going On In The New gTLD’s: 15X As Much? - Well it seems as the trademark lobby predicted there isa lot of cybersquatting going on in the new gTLD space, a lot more than I thought we would ever see. I was one who thought there would be a negligible amount of trademark infringing domain names registered in the new gTLD space due to the high cost of registration and the small probability of any type in traffic. However just looking at the most recent 400 UDRP/URS cases filed or decided, 69 concerned new gTLD’s domain names (multiple domains ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Gives EasyGroup Rights To The Word “Easy”? Awards Domain It Let Expire In 2009 - A one member UDRP panel, of William R. Towns seemingly granted EasyGroup Limited of London, the right to all domain names that start with the word “easy” that the company has or will trademark in the future. EasyGroup is the owner of a Community trademark (“CTM”) for EASYTRAIN in connection with transportation services, which is was registered on October 21, 2011. I get why the domain holder lost the case. He didn’t respond. He parked the domain and had links to travel on the page. But ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how we competence think - Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search engine advantage. I’ve gotten into the nasty habit (sarcasm) of actually reading beyond the headline of reports and studies, and I was unimpressed with the data (if you can call it that) in these reports. Matt Cutts previously ... read more ...
 
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Best feign name used in a domain name scam. Ever. - I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to be an Asian domain name registrar, sends an email to the owner of a domain name and says that someone else is trying to register domain names using the same brand. The scammer says they’re reaching out as a courtesy. If the recipient ... read more ...