Thu 4th December 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on Jan 5th - Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT  which is  dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be awarded in a first come, first-served manner; however, eligibility during this period is limited strictly to ... read more ...
 
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow - In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will ring the Closing Bell. Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd Broadway – Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 5, 2014 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ. For photos from ceremonies and events visit our Instagram Page: http://instagram.com/nasdaq For ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in dual weeks - Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is now paying dividends for Yahoo according to new data from StatCounter released earlier today. The analytics ... read more ...
 
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DNS.pt colabora com Angola - Centro Nacional das Tecnologias da Informação angolano terá apoio na gestão do ccTLD .ao. A Associação DNS.pt vai dar apoio a Angola na gestão do domínio de topo .ao, nomeadamente na instalação e operação dos servidores primários e secundários a alojar no data center do Centro Nacional das Tecnologias da Informação (CNTI), bem como no desenvolvimento, implementação e manutenção ... read more ...
 
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Le Val de Loire, terre fertile pour les investissements étrangers - Tablettes, tableaux interactifs, ordinateurs… Les nouvelles technologies font désormais partie de l’environnement scolaire pour certains élèves. ... read more ...
 
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GOOAALLL! Back of the net! ‘Millions of dollars’ score .football gTLD - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines The top-level domain name .football has been auctioned off for, what's expected to be, millions of dollars to upstart registry Donuts.Domain names using the beautiful game's dot-word will be available some time in the new year, along with names ending in .news, .golf, .school and .latino, all of which were snapped in private auctions. The big winner was Donuts – winning ... read more ...
 
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Ferrero kämpft um die Top-Level-Domain .kinder - Von Stefan Winterbauer Die ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ist so etwas wie die Verwaltung des Internet. Die Organisation mit Hauptsitz in den USA kümmert sich um Zuweisung von Namen, Nummern und Endungen im weltweiten Datennetz. Um den Bedürfnissen von Firmen gerecht zu werden, lässt ICANN seit einiger Zeit auch Markennamen als Top Level Domains zu. So hat sich der Süßwaren-Multi Ferrero die Endungen .ferrero,  .rocher und .kinder als Endungen für ... read more ...
 
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Bulk Sunrise Period for Special Collision List Starts Next Week - The first 12 domain registries have been scheduled for the first special Sunrise Period mandated by ICANN for trademarks on the blocked collision lists (see TLD list at end of article). A total of 328 new domain extensions have launched so far in 2014. Each one of these has its own unique collision list of names that were found to be already in use on private computer networks. Some of these lists have over 100,000 names. All of these registries were required to block these names from being ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2, 2014 - December 3, 2014 BANGALORE, INDIA: Four million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2, 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs), according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief  by VeriSign, Inc. The increase of four million domain names globally ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin? - Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of  domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled  “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign says: “Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear rise in the number of registered .com and .net domain names containing the term “Bitcoin” ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Hangout to explain Expired Domains - What happens when a domain name expires? GoDaddy is hosting a Hangout this afternoon that will be useful for anyone who wants to learn more about expired domain names. I think this will be a good online event for anyone who doesn’t understand the lifecycle of a domain name and what they should do if they want to acquire an expiring domain. It will also be helpful for domain name investors who want to learn more about GoDaddy’s expired domain purchasing options. ... read more ...
 
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Researchers investigate a “Dark Side of Domain Parking” - A team of researchers says a number of domain name parking companies are up to no good. A group of researchers, mostly from Indiana University, recently presented a study about the “Dark Side of Domain Parking”. The study (pdf) was presented at USENIX Security Symposium in August, but I just became aware of it today and don’t recall this being covered elsewhere. The researchers wanted to understand the domain name parking business and if parking companies were ... read more ...
 
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Last week’s finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A Hong Kong game developer, investment firm and manufacturer bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 509 domain name transactions last week, for a total of $1.3 million. It was a little bit harder than usual to find obvious end user sales, but there are plenty of them. Once again, many of the sales were to people who owned one TLD version of a domain picking up another. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can ... read more ...
 
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Companies don’t wish we to use Whois privacy, though they use it themselves - Brands owners benefit from whois privacy, even though they’d prefer their adversaries not be able to use it. There’s a common myth in intellectual property circles that, if it weren’t for whois privacy and proxy services, there would be a lot less bad stuff on the internet. I can bust a hole right in the myth. But instead, I’d like to point out something these companies don’t often admit: they are some of the biggest users of whois privacy. I was reminded ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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"Chinese Domaining Masterclass" to be Presented at NamesCon Las Vegas in … - The second annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, is proud to announce a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world's leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线 ) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网 ) top level domains. TLD Registry's Chinese Domaining Masterclass will run over all four days of NamesCon, and will be taught by TLD Registry's Simon Cousins and ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC - Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn’t have much information as to what they plan to do in particular with the extension. dotBeauty LLC is affiliated with the applicant who won .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000 - According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired  TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and had the same owner so I’m not sure what to make of it According to the press release, Trucking Unlimited ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four - Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others,  Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don’t know what the string sold for. In my opinion I would  say i.News had to sell for more than $10 million and actually would be surprised if it sold ... read more ...
 
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Auction and Sales Channel Update - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, has announce that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds ... read more ...
 
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Radix Set to Launch .SITE TLD in 2015 - Radix, the UAE based registry operator for a number of new TLDs, has won the rights to operate the popular new gTLD .site for an undisclosed amount, and is looking to launch it in early 2015. This was a big win for Radix as it went up against industry heavyweights including Donuts, Minds+ Machines and Interlink Co. .site is a short, generic, and easily understood nTLD by end consumers. It is already amongst the most pre-registered new gTLDs across several registrars and features in the ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC  of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru,  could have just bought the domain name which was listed on Sedo with a Buy it now price of $6,000. Instead  the company elected to file a $1,500 UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds that the Company will receive from ICANN for withdrawing its applications. Cash ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...