Tue 2nd December 2014
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TLD Registry to Offer “Chinese Domaining Masterclass” - I want to share some news I just received via press release that might interest NamesCon attendees. TLD Registry, the company that operates the ChineseLandrush.com website that you see advertised here and on other domain industry websites, will be hosting a “Chinese Domaining Masterclass” during NamesCon. According to Mitch Watkins from TLD Registry, “Four unique Masterclass sessions will be held all throughout the week of NamesCon, and repeat sessions will be given so everyone can ... read more ...
 
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Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...
 
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Cybersquatting and the new gTLDs - The introduction by ICAAN of more than 1300 new generic Top-Level domains (gTLD’s) offers a new way for brand owners to communicate with their consumers online. An exciting prospect but there is of course a greater threat of cybersquatting in this new landscape. In this article, we look at the defence mechanisms available to brand owners to deal with this new cybersquatting threat. Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) The Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) is a database of verified ... read more ...
 
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FIBA Wins .Basketball Beating Donuts & Famous Four - The Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) has won the new gTLD .Basketball. The two other applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media have withdrawn their applications with ICANN. .Basketball was scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in December. Minds + Machines is the backend provider. This is from FIBA site: “FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, is the world governing body for basketball. Founded in 1932, we bring together 214 National Basketball Federations from ... read more ...
 
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FIBA Wins .Basketball Beating Donuts & Famous Four - The Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) has won the new gTLD .Basketball. The two other applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media have withdrawn their applications with ICANN. .Basketball was scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in December. Minds + Machines is the backend provider. This is from FIBA site: “FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, is the world governing body for basketball. Founded in 1932, we bring together 214 National Basketball Federations from ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period For Its Move Out of US Control: Deadline Is Dec 22nd - ICANN has opened the comment period for the issue of the year, the transition of ICANN of key Internet domain name functions away from oversight control of the United States to the “global multistakeholder community.” “This draft transition proposal is the result of work by the Domain Name System (DNS3) community (the names community) to meet the requirements associated with this transition as defined by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) “Following the request of the ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Ting Cell Service Rated Number 1 By Consumers Report - According to fool.com, Tucows.com (TCX)  owned Ting service was rated as as the top cellular phone carrier. “When it comes to what Consumer Reports refers to as traditional service — what others refer to as postpaid service — the top carrier is … Ting! “If you haven’t heard of the company before, there’s a reason for that: The service’s parent company, Tucows, is a domain name registrar and has made a business decision to not spend a lot on Ting-related advertising, instead choosing ... read more ...
 
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.Auction Sunrise Winds Up With Over 220 Registrations & Over 1/4 Are From Major League Baseball - .Auction which goes into general availability next Wednesday December 10th, Sunrise period just ended for trademark holders and wound up with 228 Sunrise registrations. Major League Baseball, including many of its member teams applied for a over 1/4 of all .Auction domain names. The NBA registered a few domain names and the NHL which we have seen register a lot of Sunrise domains in some extension applied for none. The NFL also passed on registering Sunrise domain names. The biggest missing company ... read more ...
 
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Are Ad Agencies and Marketing Professionals Proficient in a Domain Game ? - Dima Beitzke the chief sales officer at Sedo wrote a piece for iMediaconnection.com that asked if ad agencies and marketing professionals are equipped to play the domain game ? The article did not get much engagement with only 4 twitter shares and 2 fb likes, there were no comments. It would have been nice to see some interaction between those out there putting campaigns together, with someone who is the chief sales office for a top domain aftermarket site. From the article: Finding the right name ... read more ...
 
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Új webcímet kapott a Google - 2014. december 02., kedd, 09:01Utolsó frissítés: 9 órája Szerző: hvg.hu Címkék: .google; TLD; Google; Kinyomtatom Elküldöm Egyelőre csak találgatás, de lehet, hogy elfelejthetjük ... read more ...
 
 
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Cyber Monday propels .Rocks to 17% daily gain - Rightside markets .rocks heavily as it finds an audience. It’s interesting watching for anomalies in new top level domain name registrations. Consider yesterday, when the zone for Rightside’s .rocks top level domain grew by almost 17% (3,817 new domains in the zone, per DomainIncite). That’s a lot of new domains, even when you consider Rightside registry as a whole. Here’s a chart from nTLDstats showing Rightside’s daily registration volume across all of ... read more ...
 
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Top Clicks and Domain Name News Stories from November - A look back at November in the domain name business. November was a super-busy month here on Domain Name Wire. The DNW Podcast had a bunch of great shows, one of my stories hit the mainstream press, and we learned that a big domain name company exchanged hands for $44.9 million. Every month, I run down the top five posts from the past month. This month I’m going to add a bit to it by looking at the most clicked links within Domain Name Wire stories. 5 of the 6 top ... read more ...
 
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Name Collision domain names – is there event for domainers? - The release of blocked second level strings is good for the domain name industry. Is there opportunity for domainers to profit from it? Today, .XYZ will release 18,000 second level domain name options that previously could not be registered. They join hundreds of thousands of other second level domains under new TLDs that have “dropped” in recent weeks, and will do so going forward as well. These domains were blocked because of “name collisions”. Basically, ... read more ...
Mon 1st December 2014
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.Co.Com Namejet City Auction Closes With Over $22K In Sales Led By NYC.co.com For $4,245 - The .co.com city domain name auctions closed on Namejet.com late week and the total sales were $22,419. The domain name that sold for the highest amount was not surprisingly nyc.co.com which sold for 4,245.00 Newyorkcity.co.com sold for $1,109 Back in June the co.com registry released a list of premium domain names which can be found here: The registry tells me that many keyword domains remain available for hand-registration in .co.com as well which you can do at most of your favorite domain name ... read more ...
 
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Highest Reported.Mobi Domain Sale In Almost 5 Years: Olamobile Buys Ola.Mobi For $15k -         The domain name Ola.mobi just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $15,000. According to Estibot.com its the highest reported sale of a .Mobi domain in almost 5 years. The domain name Ola.mobi was purchased by Olamobile Cyprus Limited whose website is at olamobile.com. The last reported .mobi domain name to sell for more than Ola.Mobi, was P*ssy.mobi which sold for $23,619 back on 2010-01-28. There are just a handful of reported .mobi domain names that have sold in the five figures ... read more ...
 
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Developments in generic top-level domains - In 2008, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the international organization which manages and oversees the internet’s domain name system - adopted 19 specific policy recommendations for implementing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). gTLDs are unique identifiers visible to internet users as a suffix at the end of a domain name, e.g. .biz or .edu. The recommendations were laid down by the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Wins UDRP On TableForTwo.com; Complainant Didn’t Like The 89K Price - Frank Schilling’s Name Administration won a UDRP on the domain name TableforTwo.com who was defended as usual by John Berryhill. The complaint was brought by Julie Wampler of Washington, D.C. back on September 15th who runs a blog at TableForTwoBlog.com and got a trademark on the term TABLE FOR TWO on March 13, 2013. The Domain Name TableForTwo..com was registered on September 8, 2004. The Complainant argued that Name Administration’s asking $89,000 for the domain name was proof of  bad faith ... read more ...
 
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Can VeriSign Maintain Its Market Leadership In The Coming Years? - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), a leader in the Domain Name market (47% market share), regained its growth momentum in Q3 2014 after a disappointing performance in the first half of the year. The company saw the highest third quarter gross additions of 8.7 million to date, in Q3 2014. Some of the primary factors propelling this growth were: One of VeriSign’s prominent U.S. registrars concentrating on customer acquisition and acquiring domain names through discounts. China’s continued healthy ... read more ...
 
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Econsultancy Takes A look at whether the new gtlds help you rank higher in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...
 
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Econsultancy Takes A demeanour during either a new gtlds assistance we arrange aloft in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...
 
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Will gTLDs help you rank higher in search results? - The range of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is expanding to include new options such as .Hotel, .RealEstate and .Berlin. Will they help you rank higher in searches? Of course, Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. And this seems to align with its strategy of reducing the impact of keywords in domain names which was very clearly demonstrated with the roll out of the EMD algorithm update in October 2012 (this downgraded the ... read more ...
 
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Schutzraum oder Schokomarke? Neuer Streit über .kinder - Die "Kinder"-Welt von Ferrero (Bild: Ferrero) .kinder als Markenendung im Netz? Das geht, meint die Internetverwaltung ICANN und hat vor kurzem einen Vertrag mit dem Süßwarenhersteller Ferrero geschlossen. Kinderschützer hingegen wollen die Ferrero-Endung noch verhindern. Ist "Kinder" eine schutzfähige internationale Marke oder ausschließlich eine schützenswerte Bevölkerungsgruppe? ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Paris, .Moscow, .LTDA and more - Four geo domains among those releasing this week. It’s a fairly busy week for new top level domain names, especially for those watching geographic top level domain names. Monday .МОСКВА and .Moscow launched today, and they will be very interesting to watch given the initial interest in Russian IDNs. The domains are cheap, both 101domain and DomainDiscount24 have prices around $10 or less. .集团, Chinese for “conglomerate”, appears to have also launched ... read more ...
 
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23 finish user domain name sales adult to $35,000 - Two Heineken breweries among end user domain name buyers. I was too busy eating turkey last week to do the end user sales report, so I’m publishing this a week late. Sedo closed $1.2 million worth of domain name transactions the week-before-last, including a number of end user domain name sales. Two breweries in Africa that have been acquired by Heineken bought domain names. Also note the sales of .host and .club domains. Here’s the list of some of the week’s ... read more ...