Thu 11th December 2014
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New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations? Here’s The Answer - The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in which case we are talking about the principal owners of the registry, any domain registered and reserved ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations … - The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any  known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in which case we are talking about the principal owners of the registry, any domain registered and reserved ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investor Chad Folkening Interviewed By Inc.com - Inc.com just published an interview with Domain investor Chad Folkening entitled “Domain Pro Spills Secrets for Scoring a Prize URL” Chad Folkening is “a co-founder of Domain Holdiings a developer of online domains, and owner of tens of thousands of URLs, many of which his various companies have turned into profitable websites. And that’s big business–when it comes to selling the dot-coms. “Recently, Domain Holdings sold LocalRegister.com to Amazon. “Some other successes in its past ... read more ...
 
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Wanna buy a dot-word? If you want a .pizza the action, now’s a chance - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines Roundup Everyone loves pizza. Even though the industry is responsible for cluttering millions of people's mailboxes with flyers, you'll still take a look and think about ordering one.Well, expect to see one minor change in those flyers from now on – the addition of new .pizza domain names – thanks to the launch of the internet registry earlier on Wednesday. According to one registrar, it is the top selling ... read more ...
 
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6 new tip turn domain names launched yesterday, and a many renouned is… - Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo, .network and .pizza. Guess which one had the most registrations? If you’re an English speaker, you probably guessed wrong. According to nTLDstats, .immo ended the “zone file” day with the most registrations at ... read more ...
 
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Blast from a past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s really different) - Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent domain names. Instead of typing a domain name like Money.com in your browser, you could just type “Money”. RealNames would resolve the query to whomever had registered the keyword “Money” with RealNames (at a cost, ... read more ...
 
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Over 200 Expired Domain Sales Results, including Kickbox.com - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain name sales. The combat sport that brought Jean-Claude Van Damme to the silver screen (and eventually put “the Muscles from Brussels” to work in maracas-shaking GoDaddy commercials) had a notable expired domain sale last week: Kickbox.com ended at NameJet just a dollar shy of $12k. I’d say Kickbox.com is agile enough to be used inside or outside the literal ring, and we may see it developed with no ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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Which Domains Stand a Strongest Against Phishing Attacks? - On the Afilias blog there was a post by Ram Mohan on extensions and phishing attacks. He took a look at research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Key Findings 1.    Apple became the world’s most-phished brand in 2014 2.    The introduction of new top-level domains did not have an immediate major impact on phishing 3.    Chinese phishers were responsible for 85% of the domain names registered for phishing 4.    Malicious domains and subdomain registrations continue ... read more ...
 
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Early Data Suggests New gTLDs Perform Well in Search Environment - Internet addresses registered in new gTLDs are holding their own against — and in some cases outperforming — comparable addresses registered in legacy domains like .COM, according to new data that provides the best window yet into the operational functionality of new gTLD addresses. A question on everyone's mind in the run up to new gTLDs was: how would new domains perform in the wild against legacy domains on the key criteria of search? Even though Donuts bet on the hypothesis that new ... read more ...
 
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DNN Podcast Interview with Antony Van Couvering - Antony Van Couvering, founder and CEO of of Minds + Machines was recently interviewed by DNN's Andrew Allemann's, where they discuss new Top-Level Domains. Andrew writes: "We discuss registry pricing of premium domains, niche TLDs, domain name registration channels and more. It’s an enlightening discussion with the founder of one of the largest new TLD companies." You can listen to the podcast here. About Minds + Machines Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX) is a leading owner ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry and Right of the Dot Establish a Domain Name Industry "Dream … - TLD Registry Ltd, the world's leading Internationalized Domain Name "New gTLD" registry, announced a partnership agreement with the influential Internet advising and consulting firm, Right of the Dot, LLC (ROTD). ROTD is led by successful veteran domain name industry experts, Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens, who will work with TLD Registry as it continues to market and sell its two IDNs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ), and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Extensions Launching Today .Business, .Network, .Immo, .Auction, .Pizza - Several new gTLD’s go into general availability today where they can be registered on a first come first serve basis and many have quite a few registrations after its Sunrise  period which was for trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register the domain during the Early Access Period (EAP) .Business has 506 registrations which is more registrations that 17 fully launched, new gTLD’s have. .Network is close behind with 487 Sunrise and EAP registrations. .Network is very interesting,  ... read more ...
 
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With .SOFTWARE and .AUCTION, Programmers and Resellers Get Their Piece … – Virtual - New Top Level Domains Expand Online Options KIRKLAND, Wash., Dec. 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced the launch of .SOFTWARE and .AUCTION, two new web extensions that expand Rightside's growing portfolio of unique Top Level Domains (TLDs). There are almost a million software developers in the U.S. alone, and the U.S. Bureau of ... read more ...
 
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Photo Release — Rightside Provides Highlights From Investor & Analyst Day at … - KIRKLAND, Wash., Dec 09, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. NAME, -1.34% ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions to reason super-exclusive domain auction during Waldorf Astoria Hotel - Auction will be limited to 30 high quality domain names. Heritage Auctions is trying something different for its next domain name auction: it will be a super-exclusive event held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. What makes it so exclusive? There will only be 30 domain names at the auction. That’s the smallest (in terms of number of lots) live domain auction I can recall. It also means the inventory will be limited to high quality, one word domain names ... read more ...
 
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Which domain name registrars mislaid (and won) transfers according to many new central data - Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars. ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a customer standpoint. I’ve been checking these reports over the past few months to see how many domains Moniker is losing after changing its account interface. What I thought would be massive hemorrhaging has proven to be just ... read more ...
 
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A outline of unequivocally engaging information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation - Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded domain name companies is that we can get more data from the companies than we can from private ones. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is a prime example. Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day last Friday. You can view the entire ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million As a Record Number 60% Of Domains Sell … - Over the past week, 458 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I believe is a record high for Sedo or anyone else in the industry Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: restaurantuniforms.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: etfs.de at 11,900 EUR · Top “other” TLD: joins.net at 3,500 EUR I wish I can pick out a favorite buy but I have nothing off this list:   ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million As a Record Number 60% Of Domains Sell At Buy It Now - Over the past week, 458 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I believe is a record high for Sedo or anyone else in the industry Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: restaurantuniforms.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: etfs.de at 11,900 EUR · Top “other” TLD: joins.net at 3,500 EUR I wish I can pick out a favorite buy but I have nothing off this list:   ... read more ...
 
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Photos & Highlights from Rightside’s Big Day at NASDAQ Friday - the day with Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu ringing the closing bell (Rightside trades in the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol NAME). NASDAQ and Rightside provided some photos from the busy day in ... read more ...
 
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Women.com Named By Inc.com As The #1 Startup In Los Angeles To Watch in 2015 - Inc.com, just published a story on the 7 startups in Los Angeles to watch in 2015 and Women.com came in at number one. “The startup scene in Los Angeles (and Santa Monica) has got the name “Silicon Beach” due to the massive number of tech startups that call the nation’s second largest city home. The spectacular exits of both Maker Studios ($950 million to Disney) and Oculus ($2 billion to Facebook) have spread the word that it’s not just a cool place to start a company, it might actually ... read more ...
 
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BaseKit Partners with Rightside - December 9th, 2014 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) -  BaseKit, the website building platform, has today announced its new partnership with Rightside Group Ltd (Nasdaq: NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online. ... read more ...
 
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NetworkWorld: Companies Switching Back To .Com After Seeing Their New Domains Fall Flat - A really interesting story just got published by NetworkWorld.com, entitled “Companies are movin’ on up to .com domain names” with the subtitle “More businesses are investing in the tried-and-true .com after seeing their efforts with new domain names fall flat.” “I’ve noticed a number of companies movin’ on up to prime online real estate by switching from one of the many alternative domain names to .com. Recently, I wrote about a few companies, including overstock.com, Visa International, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Graffiti Launched by Industry Veterans - At the TRAFFIC conference in October, I learned about a new domain industry company called Domain Graffiti, which was founded by Braden Pollock and James Wester. Domain Graffiti is a domain brokerage that helps add value to domain names by working on concept creation, drafting of a business summary, logo creation, and other value adds on behalf of the domain name owner. Domain Graffiti’s team of brokers are focused on representing higher value (six and seven figure) domain names. In addition, ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Claim Denied Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - In yet what is becoming a long line of cases, a UDRP panel summarily dismissed a case against the owner of the domain name RockGaming.com which was registered over 10 years ago back on November 18, 2004 The complaint was brought by Rock Gaming LLC of Michigan who alleged in its complaint that it had “trademark rights in ROCK GAMING” However on this issue the one member panel of Debrett G. Lyons determined “the critical question in this case is whether Complainant has trademark rights in ROCK ... read more ...