Tue 11th November 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too - Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other  applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has just withdrawn its application, leaving Amazon as the winner of the .Pay domain name extension. Now that Amazon owns both .Buy and .Pay it would seem companies like Paypal should be concerned. Amazon already offers a branded credit card but with .Buy and ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book - Amazon now owns the  new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Other applicants include Minds + Machines (which announced yesterday the walked away with over $8 million for losing .Book as well as .cloud, .dog , .site and .style), Google, Global Domain Registry Pty Ltd, Donuts, Straat (former owners of .Co) and Famous ... read more ...
 
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261.978 nuevos dominios ‘.es’ en España, frente a las nuevas 64.696 empresas - Entre los datos que más destacan de la infografía #DominiosyEmpresas realizada por Hostalia, se revela que entre enero y agosto de 2014 se han dado de alta en España cuatro nuevos dominios “.es” por cada nueva empresa creada. Se dieron de alta 261.978 nuevos dominios “.es” en España, casi cuatro veces más que las 64.696 nuevas empresas creadas en el mismo periodo del año, según datos estadísticos de Red.es y del INE.   El primer trimestre del año es el que más actividad ... read more ...
 
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.swiss: das müssen Sie wissen - Bleiben Sie informiert mit unserem täglichen IT-Newsletter. Was ist der Zweck der neuen Top-Level-Domains? Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) bezeichnen den letzten Teil einer Internetdomain. Beim Beispiel www.computerworld.ch wäre dies «.ch». Weil nur eine begrenzte Anzahl solcher TLDs bereitsteht (zB .com, .de, .web) und es immer weniger freie Kombinationen gibt, hat die dafür zuständige Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) im Juni 2011 beschlossen, die ... read more ...
 
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Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands - Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its customers, beginning with .ROCKS, a new web extension that launched earlier this year, and .BAND, which will open for pre-registration later this month. The company will incorporate the new domains into its offering that helps musicians, bands, ensembles, DJs, ... read more ...
 
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John Oliver’s 5 .NYC domain names creation fun of Michael Bloomberg - Comedian pokes fun at Michael Bloomberg’s domain names, which Domain Name Wire revealed last week. Last week I wrote a story about Michael Bloomberg’s 400 .nyc domain names. The over-the-top defensive registrations included everything from MichaelBloombergisaWeiner.nyc to MikeIsTooShort.nyc to MikeBloombergisaDweeb.nyc. The story got picked up broadly, making it to the Wall Street Journal and even CNBC’s Squawk Box. It also just got some hilarious play on John ... read more ...
 
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Moncler goes on (domain) invulnerability after geese allegations - Company registers boycott domain names after negative news report. Luxury Italian coat maker Moncler saw its shares drubbed after an Italian news report suggested that makers of down jackets were plucking geese inhumanely. The company has responded in the press to the allegations, while also quietly scooping up domain names its haters might want to register. Yesterday, Moncler registered: boycottmoncler.com /.net, plus boycot with one ‘t’ boycott-moncler.com /.net ihatemoncler.com While ... read more ...
 
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Judging by a unite list, NamesCon 2015 is going to be huge - Already 40 sponsors lined up for January’s NamesCon event. It may be hard to believe, but NamesCon 2015 is just two months away. And, judging by an updated sponsorship list for 2015, it’s going to be a very big conference. Uniregistry is taking top billing for the event, and there are six Gold sponsors: Afilias, Endurance, GoDaddy, Verisign, Right of the Dot and TLD Registry. I count 40 sponsors in all, not including media sponsors. That’s a lot, and indicative ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com wins .Book tip turn domain name battle - Amazon wins 9-way battle for .book domain name. Amazon.com has won an auction for rights to run the .book top level domain name. The company went head-to-head with 8 other applicants for the domain name, including Google, but ultimately agreed to pay the most to run the domain name. Although my money was on Amazon.com to win this domain name, its victory was by no means assured. Yes, Amazon.com got its start with books. But it just lost an auction for .cloud, despite ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November - A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the following New gTLD auctions that will be held by ICANN in November are: .APARTMENTS DERApartments, LLC June Maple, LLC (Donuts) .DOT Dish DBS Corporation Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) .EARTH Interlink Co., Ltd. Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) .LATINO Dish DBS Corporation Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (Minds + Machines) PAY DOTPAY ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding -

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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PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction - A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for .Online: “Domain industry veterans form a “global supply chain supergroup,” secure the first viable alternative to .com A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. In the past year, dozens of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) from .actor to .wtf have brought meaning ... read more ...
 
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Terrorist attacks victims attempt to recuperate ccTLDs -

In new years, a victims of a series of militant attacks have successfully performed US sovereign justice judgments amounting to some-more than a billion dollars opposite a Iranian, Syrian and North Korean governments on a basement that these governments allegedly contributed to a appropriation of a militant acts in question. As a result, a victims have given sought to redeem certain assets…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in a Upcoming Adult New gTLDs - Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many have been confused with what they get as a .XXX registrant when the new .porn, .adult and .sex new gtlds are available. Stuart explains . Our original grandfathering plan was to release the new extensions with priority registration for the underlying matching .XXX owner who could at that point register the new names (and of course pay the registration ... read more ...
 
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China’s Domain Name Market with Simon Cousins – DNW Podcast #6 - Capitalize on China’s strong domain name market. China’s appetite for domain names is booming. A quarter of Domain Holdings’ sales last quarter were to China, and Verisign credits the country with bolstering .com growth. How can you capitalize on this market opportunity? In this episode, TLD Registry CMO Simon Cousins gives a crash course on the Chinese domain name market. You’ll learn why certain combinations of numbers are worth a lot and others aren’t. ... read more ...
 
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What do Amazon and Google domain name waste meant for new TLDs? - Neither of them won .cloud, which begs a big question. .Cloud is a valuable top level domain name. I’m basing that on the seven applications it received, and that Amazon.com, Google and Symantec all applied for the domain name. So which one of these heavyweights won the rights to .cloud? This one: Wait – what? That cartoonish logo doesn’t match any of the heavyweights that applied for .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., an Italian webhosting company, won the battle for ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines nets $8.4 million from auctions, .Cloud and .Book settled - Company wins by losing five auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has bolstered its bank account by $8.4 million as a result of losing five private auctions for new top level domain names. The losses included a handful of highly contested strings, such as .cloud and .book. That’s not bad for a company that originally said it wouldn’t even participate in private auctions. The company lost auctions for: .book – 9 applicants were in this ... read more ...
 
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It’s a Amazon Echo, though Amazon bonds adult on Alexa domain names - Even though it’s called the Echo, Amazon also registered Alexa domain names related to new device. Amazon announced the Amazon Echo, a sort of home personal assistant similar to Ubi, last week. Although it’s called the Echo, owners can name their device whatever they want. And in a video promoting the Echo that has been seen over a million times, the family called it Alexa. (Alexa is also the name Amazon.com’s web analytics/ranking company.) Using this name ... read more ...
 
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Web.com sued for telemarketing calls - Plaintiff complains about multiple telemarketing calls. A California resident has sued Web.com, claiming the company called her cell phone multiple times in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The lawsuit seeks class action status. Web.com disclosed the lawsuit in its most recent quarterly filing: On October 31, 2014, a putative class action was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (Tammy Hussin, et al. v. Web.com Group, ... read more ...
Sun 9th November 2014
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Court Orders Google To Help Marvel Discover Source of Leak - We continue to see courts getting involved in telling registrars and search engines what they must do to comply with a growing number of complaints that arise with issues of copyright infringement. A couple days ago we wrote about a German court telling Key-Systems that they and all registrars can be held liable for the infringement violations of their customers. Gizmodo reported that a U.S. judge has ordered Google to turn over all information they have with regards to a leaked trailer for the new ... read more ...
 
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Invloed van nieuwe domeinextensies - Sinds 2008 wordt er gewerkt aan een uitbreiding van de domeinextensies. Naast de traditionele .nl en .com –websites zullen er nieuwe uitgangen bijkomen als .sport, .shop. .web. Een ontwikkeling die nieuwe kansen, maar ook risico's met zich meebrengt. In dit artikel leest u wat de invloed van deze nieuwe domeinextensies kan zijn op uw huidige internetmarketingstrategie en hoe deze nieuwe gTLD’s kunnen worden aangeschaft. Tekst: Freek de Jong Wat zijn deze gTLD’s precies? gTLD staat voor ... read more ...
Sat 8th November 2014
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New Site domcomp Compares Price Of 10+ Registrars Across Over 600 Extensions - A new site has popped up which compares the registration, renewal and transfer prices  of 10 + different registrars across over .com, .net, .org selected ccTLD and what seems to be hundreds of new gTLD extensions. Domcomp which seems to have launched in September ,bills itself as the “No-nonsense Domain Price Comparison” “We aggregate prices for over 600 top level domains from the industry’s most popular registrars. “Straight-forward, unbiased comparisons help our users find the best deals, ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beat Microsoft & Google For .Live - According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the .Live new gTLD. Earlier today we reported that three other public company’s Google, Amazon and Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) all lost the new gTLD auction for .Cloud. The Donuts application was placed under the company Half Woods, LLC So far Google has won 4 new gTLD in contention:  .Dev over Amazon;  .Docs over Microsoft,  .Drive ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beat Microsoft & Google For .Live - According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the .Live new gTLD. Earlier today we reported that three other public company’s Google, Amazon and Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) all lost the new gTLD auction for .Cloud. The Donuts application was placed under the company Half Woods, LLC So far Google has won 4 new gTLD in contention:  .Dev over Amazon;  .Docs over Microsoft,  .Drive ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Announces ChineseLandrush.com Version 3.1 - I received an email from Mitch Watkins of TLD Registry, and he wants to share that there has been a major update to their ChineseLandrush.com website. If you aren’t familiar, ChineseLandrush.com is a website that provides information about investing in Chinese domain names. It is primarily geared towards domain name investors. This update is version 3.1 of the website, and it includes a bug fix as well as additional features. According to Mitch, here’s what the update covers and how ... read more ...