Tue 9th December 2014
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Tucows Looking to buy adult to $8million value of shares in mutated Dutch Auction - Tucows Commences Dutch Tender Offer Under the Tender Offer, shareholders will have the opportunity to tender some or all of their shares at a price within the range of $16.50 to $18.50 per share. Based on the number of shares tendered and the prices specified by the tendering shareholders, Tucows will determine the lowest per share price within the range that will enable it to buy up to $8.0 million worth of shares, or such lesser number of shares that are properly tendered. Assuming that the offer ... read more ...
 
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Namescon Registrations Pass 500; Double From Last Year At This Time - According to the conference organizers, NamesCon has broken 500 pre-registered attendees which is double the number of attendees registered at this time last year. NamesCon will be held in Las Vegas January 11th-14th at the Tropicana Hotel and Conference Center. The NamesCon seems to be on track to exceed 800+ attendees this year. RightoftheDot.com will be holding a live and online domain name auction as part of the conference on January 13th, 2015 with online bidding on Snapnames.com NamesCon has ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets another Domain Appraisal patent - Patent covers using comps for domain name evaluation. GoDaddy has been issued another U.S. patent related to domain name appraisals. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent number 8,909,558 for “Appraising a domain name using keyword monetary value data”. The patent basically covers using comps for a domain name appraisal, i.e. looking up sales of other domain names including similar keywords and using this to determine value. GoDaddy has a number ... read more ...
 
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Donuts and Rightside recover 6 new domains on Wednesday - …And they’re some of the better domains released so far. Remember the good ole’ days of the middle of 2014, when mega-registry Donuts would release four of five new top level domain names every week? Well, they’re back. For one week, anyway. Donuts will launch four new domain names at “regular” pricing this week after the conclusion of their early access phases: .business, .network, .immo and .pizza. .Business and .Network are interesting because they ... read more ...
 
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Analyst reiterates new TLD foresee and cost aim for Rightside - After Rightside investor day, analyst says forecast is on target. B. Riley Co analyst Sameet Sinha has reiterated his forecast for new top level domain names and his $15 price target for Rightside. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is currently trading for $8.29. Sinha forecasts that 29.1 million registrations will be made under new to level domain names by the end of 2016. Based on 3.4 million domains registered to date, he believes his forecast of 3.6 million by the end ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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If You Want One More Problem.com Its At $30K At NameJet.com With a Day To Go - Boca Raton’s own Ariana Grande has been burning up the music charts with the song “Problem” for most of the year. If you have been living off the grid and haven’t’ heard the song or worse if you haven’t watched the video here is a little early Christmas present. Anyway on the domain name front, Problem.com is at auction at Namejet.com. The domain name auction closes tomorrow and bidding has already topped $30K with 224 bidders. The good news is the domain auction is public so you can ... read more ...
 
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Despite Fanfare In New York, Shares of Rightside Get No Pop In Price or in Volume -                                           The domain name industry blogs covered Rightside (NAME) exposure in New York last week, which included presenting to the street and ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ which was covered here, here, here, and here just to name a few and in press releases and financial publications like TheStreet.com. There were some great pictures of Rightside appearing in the Times Square billboards as well like the one above However today none of ... read more ...
 
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Which Domains Stand the Strongest Against Phishing Attacks? - Highlights from the latest research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Criminals behind phishing attacks are constantly looking for new vulnerabilities. The latest Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) Global Phishing Survey, which analyzed over 100,000 phishing attacks in the first half of 2014, examines the progress that top level domains (TLDs) are making in responding to phishing attacks that use their TLDs. The report finds the .INFO domain has the lowest average phishing ... read more ...
 
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If You Want One Of The Best .Auction Domains You Better Bring A Big Check; Up To $60k A Year - .Auction which goes into general availability on Wednesday is coming with some pretty stiff premium registration and renewal pricing. The new extension is being sold by Rightside. A regular registration will cost around $42. Here are some of the more interesting domain names I found that are available as of publication (pricing based at rack rate at Enom.com): $60,012 Registration fee and Annual renewal fee: Ceramics.Auction Charity.Auction Coin.Auction Coins.Auction Condo.Auction Condos.Auction Estate.Auction FineArt.Auction FineWine.Auction Foreclosure.Auction Furniture.Auction i.Auction ... read more ...
 
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The Cost Of What A Block Would Have Cost - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
 
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The … - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
 
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US Dept of Commerce Strickling: No Firm Deadline To Give Up Control Over ICANN - The WallStreetJournal.com, according to a letter in the Journal today , Commerce Department official Lawrence Strickling dismissed the importance of U.S. oversight of ICANN and said that there is no firm deadline for the U.S. to give up oversight of ICANN. “In March the U.S. announced it would not renew its contract with ICANN next September. Mr. Strickling now says that’s not a firm deadline: “We will not complete the transition absent an accountability plan that has the support of the community.” In ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD Related - CentralNic (LON:CNIC)  announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for  US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD’s over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015: .site, .design, .tickets. Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD … - CentralNic (LON:CNIC)  announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for  US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD’s over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015: .site, .design, .tickets. Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched ... read more ...
 
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dotCapeTown e-mail addresses causing headaches - Owners of new .capetown top-level domains may have some trouble using e-mail addresses from their new space on the Internet. This is because a number of online services still check to see that the top-level domain (TLD) portion of an e-mail address (such as .com, .net, or .za) is only a certain number of characters long. Even well-established, widely used open source Internet software checks for TLD lengths as short as 6 or 7 characters, despite an old Internet Engineering Task ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic banks US$2.5mln from premiun domain sale - ---ADDS MORE DETAIL, BROKER COMMENT AND SHARE PRICE--- Internet platform business CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is set to meet full-year expectations and is progressing well with the diversification of its business. The company, which listed on AIM just over a year ago, has been busy ploughing the money it raised in the flotation into diversifying its business. The company came to the market as a player primarily focused on the sale of Internet domain names (i.e. a registry service provider), but it now ... read more ...
 
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News » WEB – Tutte le nuove registrazioni di gTLD dovrebbero essere soggette a Periodi Sunrise. Anche… - Pianificare di registrare il proprio marchio come nome di dominio durante un Sunrise Period per poi scoprire che la registrazione figura in un elenco di Nomi Riservati? Ci sono una serie di motivi per cui un dominio che corrisponde al proprio marchio puo figurare in una Reserved Names list. Prima di tutto se il dominio desiderato e oggetto di Name Collision, anche se questo non si verifica per tutti i registri. Infatti alcuni operatori stanno accettando idomini che sono stati oggetto ... read more ...
 
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Oops: Moniker comment balances are apparently borked - Incorrect balances shown on accounts dating back to October. The hits keep on coming for Moniker…and its customers. When the domain name registrar switched to a completely new registrar platform over the summer, it lost all previous invoices that customers used to be able to view within their account. Customers got access to new invoices, and could see an up-to-date balance, but couldn’t see their transactions from before the platform switch. Then, some time around ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs & Minds + Machines with Antony Van Couvering – DNW Podcast #10 - A discussion about new top level domain names. Antony Van Couvering, founder and CEO of new TLD company Minds + Machines, shares his thoughts on new top level domain names on this week’s podcast. 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. Also: Two warnings for domain name owners, the Dark Side of Domain Parking, ... read more ...
 
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Rightside rings NASDAQ shutting bell [Photo] - Domain name company holds investor day and rings closing bell. On Friday, domain name company Rightside rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ. The company became listed on the NASDAQ earlier this year after being spun off from Demand Media. Rightside trades under the ticker ‘NAME’. Earlier in the day Friday, Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day event at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Rightside is pitching new top level domain names as the future, and ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $2.5 million value of reward domain names - Sales were from the company’s portfolio of domain names. CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it has sold $2.5 million worth of premium domain names. These domain names are part of the group’s 20,000 domain name holdings that are not related to new top level domain names. The company did not disclose which domain names it sold. CentralNic also cited delays in new top level domain names coming to market for lower-than-expected sales in new TLDs. In its ... read more ...
Sun 7th December 2014
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WEB – Aruba: primi trend sulla campagna relativa ai domini gTLD - A partire dalla fine di gennaio, Aruba S.p.A. (www.aruba.it), leader nei servizi di data center, web hosting, e-mail, PEC e registrazione domini, ha offerto a quanti fossero interessati la possibilita di esprimere la propria wishlist in riferimento all’imminente arrivo delle nuove estensioni di dominio (gTLD – Generic Top Level Domain). Il sito creato ad hoc dalla societa, nuovigtld.aruba.it, ha subito ottenuto un favorevole riscontro, facendo emergere dati interessanti, tra cui: - ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Has Blowout Holiday Party Featuring Pitbull -     Godaddy held its annual holiday party in Cedar Rapids Convention Center last night December 6th. The party featured one of the hottest performers in music, none other than Pitbull a/k/a Mr Worldwide a/k/a Mr. 305. Pitbull who is from Miami puts on a great show.  We were lucky enough to see him in Miami perform last new years eve but we were not lucky enough to have been invited to the Godaddy party which is generally for employees. The CEO of Godaddy posted this picture of himself and Mr. ... read more ...
 
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Following The Adwords Money Trail - Eric Van Buskirk wrote an article on Search Engine Journal which detailed his data analysis of where advertisers spend their money on Google Adwords. A pretty interesting look at sectors and prices paid in certain niches. From the article: There is an abundance of pieces written about uber expensive Google AdWords phrases: the top 10 or 100 most expensive, for example. However, little to no data analysis looks at a more significant sample size where an advertiser spends a bit more than a Friday ... read more ...
Sat 6th December 2014
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How Will new gTLD’s Rank? Coffee.Club is on 1st Page of Google 1 A Week … -                               Ever since the roll out of the new gTLD program was announced one of the big questions everyone asked is how domain names using new gTLD’s would rank in the search engines against more established extensions like .com, .net and .org? Coffee.club, which just launched a week ago has landed on the 1st page of  Google organically. Yes they are also advertising under the key term, but they also are ranking on the 1st page of Google organically beating out ... read more ...