Mon 7th December 2015
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My Sale to Godaddy - By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can’t get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain industry in my opinion. Let me start by saying this transaction was prompted for personal life reasons, ... read more ...
 
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2016 Domain Name Wire Media Kit now available - Domain Name Wire is nearly 11 years old, and I couldn’t do it without the support of the many sponsors of this site. I’ve just completed a new media kit explaining sponsorship opportunities, ranging from traditional graphic ads to podcast promotions. If your company targets the niche Domain Name Wire market, please contact me at andrew (at) domainnamewire.com and I’ll send the media kit to you. Here are some of the types of people that visit Domain Name Wire daily: Domain name investors Corporate ... read more ...
 
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The current state of ‘.brands’: an infographic - Tim Lince Momentum is building on the use of ‘.brands’. Barclays Bank has transferred its primary website to a branded domain string (‘home.barclays’), while Sony has been promoting the new James Bond film, Spectre, on its ‘.sony’ string (‘assistmoneypenny.sony’). As more enter the fray, we thought it was a good time to summarise the ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs, Whois and IANA with Michele Neylon – DNW Podcast #61 - The perspectives of a mid-sized domain name registrar. Michele Neylon runs Irish hosting and domain name company Blacknight. On today’s show, he gives thoughts on new TLDs from the perspective of a mid-sized domain name registrar…and you’ll find his perspective to be really interesting. We also discuss WHOIS and the IANA transition. Also: China clamps down on .com domain names, a banner month for .Club, big Rightside investors and an agency that .Rocks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy acquires Mike Berkens' WorldWide Media domain name portfolio - Berkens sells majority of domain names to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has acquired the majority of Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio; the company announced today. Berkens writes the blog TheDomains.com and his portfolio was under the company Worldwide Media. GoDaddy acquired the vast majority of Berkens’ domain names, about 70,000 names in total. “GoDaddy is focused on making sure our customers get the perfect online name for their business or passion, so we’re always looking at ways to improve ... read more ...
 
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Domain Owner sues National Arbitration Forum and complainant after losing UDRP - Lawsuit names UDRP complainant and National Arbitration Forum. VirtualPoint, Inc., which operates the site UDRPSearch.com, has filed a lawsuit after losing a UDRP for the domain name WindCreek.com. The company filed the suit (pdf) against not only the complainant in the case but also the National Arbitration Forum. Against complainant Poarch Band of Creek Indians, VirtualPoint alleges that the group fraudulently obtained its Wind Creek trademarks and manipulated evidence by searching for a specific ... read more ...
 
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Twitter only went "all in" with Periscope domain names - Company registers 75 domain names related to Periscope. Twitter’s Periscope AppTwitter’s Periscope live-streaming app is proving to be a hit. Someone at the company decided it was time to go all in on brand protection for the app. On Friday, Twitter registered 75 domain names related to the app, ranging from PeriscopeCats.com to PeriscopeValentines.com. I guess it’s not just the Chinese that continue to register .com domain names en masse. Here’s the entire list: periscopeair.com periscopeball.com ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2015
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million - According to a report appearing  in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at the domain name registrar MAFF Inc. until December 5th when the whois information was updated to reflect LinXiaoFeng of DotMedia Limited as the new owner.  The domain ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ asks Verisign to compensate $1.6 million in fees from lawsuit - The .XYZ domain name registry has asked a court (pdf) to force Verisign to pay $1.6 million in fees and expenses related to the lawsuit Verisign filed against it. Verisign, the $10 billion (market cap) company that runs .com, sued XYZ for false advertising claims. The judge overseeing the case eventually granted XYZ’s motion for summary judgment. But that was after XYZ paid $1.6 million in fees and expenses to defend itself, a massive sum for the startup. XYZ claims the ongoing costs of the suit ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2015
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Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client - The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain. Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range. In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2015
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SK Lubricants Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on ZiC.com - SK Lubricants Americas of Houston, Texas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the three letter .com domain name ZIC.com The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com The Domain Name was originally created on September 6, 2003 but the current owner obtained the Domain Name on February 28, 2015 and is offering it for sale, and is in the business of selling domain names. The domain name is parked. The Complainant offered $3,000 to buy the domain and then filed this UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Security Firm Predicts Unprecedented Series of New gTLD Failures by 2017 - The cybersecurity firm, IID, is anticipating an unprecedented series of domain registry failures due to lack of gTLD popularity by 2017 in the form of bankruptcies and abandonment, leading to demise of websites relying on them. "Most new gTLDs have failed to take off and many have already been riddled with so many fraudulent and junk registrations that they are being blocked wholesale," said IID President and CTO Rod Rasmussen. "This will eventually cause ripple effects on the entire domain ... read more ...
 
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Simplicidade, velocidade e a revolução da Internet - A- A+ No cenário competitivo da Internet, a simplicidade e o acesso rápido à informação são considerados fatores fundamentais para o sucesso. É com esse propósito que as novas gerações de domínios de primeiro nível, também conhecidos como TLDs (“top level domains”), vêm ganhando espaço e prometem revolucionar o cenário mundial da Internet. Atualmente, as extensões de domínios mais populares já estão saturadas, sendo cada ... read more ...
 
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November Top Stories and Podcasts - A look back at November in the domain name business. In a roundabout way, China accounted for 3 of the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month. This makes sense given the unprecedented runup in prices for short and numeric domain names is driving the domain name business. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Be careful of domain name pumping – People with ulterior motives are pumping the prices of certain domain names. Be skeptical. 2. Booking.com buys .Hotels ... read more ...
 
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How a artistic group switched from .Com to .Rocks - A New York web design agency took precautions when it decided to switch to a .rocks domain name. Earlier this year, web design and marketing firm Huemor decided it wanted to switch its online presence from HuemorDesigns.com to Huemor.rocks. “SEO folks told me I was crazy to switch from a long-standing domain,” Huemor co-founder and President Jeff Gapinski told Domain Name Wire. “However, the new extension really appealed to us from a branding perspective. It summarized how we feel in one little ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 9 au 13 décembre 2015 -   Partager cet article :Début période Sunrise :09/12 – .auto09/12 – .car09/12 – .carsSi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est registrar accrédité pour toutes ces extensions. Nos chargés de clientèle sont à votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire ou pour commander vos noms de domaine. N’hésitez pas à nous contacter en utilisant notre formulaire en ligne, par email domaines@safebrands.com ou téléphone au +33 (0)1 80 82 82 60. ... read more ...
 
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Where did China go? - Where did China go? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing China claim around 40% of the top 20 sales; and Chinese-style domains usually rank very high in these charts – #2 last week, #1 the week before, etc. stretching far back into 2014. This time, however, none of the top 16 results are Chinese – none. Why? Human error is 1 explanation. My sampling at NameJet is never 100% complete. But that limitation affects all my weekly reports, and I would expect spotty data collection to cause ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
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Namejet.com Reports $1.56 Million In Domain Sales In November -

Namejet.com usually released a sales news for Nov stating $1,561,991.00 in domain names sold.

Namejet.com usually news sales of $2,000 or some-more and for that remuneration was done by a finish of  a month.

The tip 16 sales had 4 characters or less:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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China to make Real Name Verification on .Com Domain Names - The government of China is clamping down on registrants of .com domain names. Regulations that have prevented Chinese residents from using many new top level domain names will soon affect .com and .net domain name registrations, too. The rules will apply to .com and .net domain name registrations starting March 1, 2016, according to documents obtained by Domain Name Wire. At that time, domain name registrars in China will have to obtain Real Name Verification and Domain Name Verification for each ... read more ...
 
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.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains - .Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 million in Premium Name sales, with strong deals coming from two auctions, our registrar channel, registry direct ... read more ...
 
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The Latest .Com Winners and Losers - Uniregistry and China continue to show good transfer results. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from August. As I do every month, I crunched the numbers to see which registrars performed best. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three-month delay. So this post is about August’s results. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDaddy* 891,979 2. eNom** 213,291 3. HiChina 146,490 4. PublicDomainRegistry ... read more ...
 
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Smart and timely selling from .XYZ - Company continues to jump on demand from Chinese investors. The market for short and numeric domain names is hot right now, and smart top level domain name registries are marketing to this opportunity. Consider .XYZ, which posted a page showing availability of its short domain names — and even providing downloadable lists of available domain names in each category: Short, generic domain names that have priced themselves aggressively (especially in China) seem to be reaping the benefits of the ... read more ...
 
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How to deposit in domain names by an IRA or 401(k) - Investing in domain names through a retirement account might allow you to defer taxes. A nest egg full of domain names?Earlier this week I introduced UpMoney, my new site about investing, spending and saving. In one of the posts I interviewed Kirk Chisholm, Principal of wealth management firm Innovative Advisory Group, about investing retirement funds in alternative assets. I was a bit surprised when he mentioned domain names as a potential investment. I asked him for more information about this ... read more ...
 
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.Club sells $1.6 million in reward domains in one month - In one month, Chinese buyers more than double .Club’s premium sales to date. Boom! .Club sold over $1.6 million in premium domain names last month alone, more than it had sold in entirety since its launch. The registry has China to thank. The company sold a seven-figure package to a Chinese domain name investor, including 1.club, 6.club and 9.club. .Club sold 246 domain names in package deals during the month, including some keyword names as well as N, NN, NNN, L and LL names. It also held successful ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Sunrise periods now open – November 2015 - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.  Please contact us or see our December 2013 newsletter for information as to what the Sunrise Period is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period. As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: .kyoto .feedback .OFFICE .family .cloud .REIT .wine .vin ICANN ... read more ...