Thu 3rd December 2015
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Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment is securing domain names… - Do domain name registrations signal something new? On this week’s end user domain name report, I noted that AmblinProduction.com sold for $998. The domain name currently shows Mark Monitor as the registrant, so it was likely purchased for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Yesterday, the company also registered these domain names: amblindigital.com amblinfest.com amblinfestival.com amblingames.com amblininteractive.com amblinmovies.com amblinsocial.com amblintelevision.com amblintv.com amblinvr.com This ... read more ...
 
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Mobile phone association Digicel fails to take down "sucks" site - Cybersquatting complaint against gripe site fails. The non-commercial gripe site at DigicelSucks.com.Mobile phone company Digicel, which is based in Jamaica, has failed to take down the gripe site DigicelSucks.com through a cybersquatting complaint. The site consists of commentary abut the mobile carrier along with aggregated tweets of people bashing Digicel. Digicel was quick to file a UDRP cybersquatting complaint against the domain name. DigicelSucks.com was registered on October 12 of this year, ... read more ...
 
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IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String ... / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string in Cyrillic script for the European Commission. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD Fast Track Process ... read more ...
 
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L’un des leaders de l’aéroportuaire à Saint-Lin - Chaque tarmac du monde a un peu de Gâtine. L'usine TLD Europe, basée à Saint-Lin, conçoit et assemble du matériel aéroportuaire vendu dans de nombreux pays. Tapis à bagages, escaliers à passagers : l'usine fabrique plusieurs centaines de ces produits par an. Créée en 1987 dans les anciennes carrières Moreau, l'usine de Saint-Lin est l'un des deux sites français du groupe, avec Sorginy (Indre-et-Loire). Sept usines existent dans le monde. Cent personnes sont employées ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
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TLD Podcast #28: Klitschko-Fury, Bute-DeGale, Jacobs-Quillin -

Apr 24, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Caleb Truax (left) and Daniel Jacobs (right) quarrel during a Premier Boxing Championships during UIC Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports

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IoT Botnets Will Be Major Problem By 2017: IID - The botnets are coming! According to cybersecurity firm IID, Chinese and Eastern European hackers are likely to take control of millions of new devices connected to the Internet of Things, and create a botnet army out them for various nefarious purposes. No, this is not the script for a new Terminator or James Bond movie, this is the projection of a major, well-regarded internet security organization. IID argues that there is simply no way that cybersecurity will be able to keep up with the ... read more ...
 
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Radix Closes Holiday Sales With Over 35K Paid Registrations - Radix closed the holiday sales with 35,000+ paid registrations across the .online, .site, .website, .space, .tech, .press and .host TLDs. Radix has been actively working behind the scenes to create a splash across the domain name market with aggressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Domainnamewire recently reported that there were sales expected across over 20+ registrars last week. "With customers on the look-out for attractive offers across all products, we wanted to ensure that ... read more ...
 
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Nouvelles catégories de matériel sur TLD - Peut-être les lecteurs les plus vigilants l'auront déjà remarqué mais sachez que quelques nouvelles rubriques ont fait leur apparition sur TLD ces derniers jours afin de mieux classer les marques et les mises à jour associées. Nous avons notamment ajouté la catégorie Network Attached Storage qui accueille, comme son nom l'indique, spécifiquement les mises à jour de NAS (firmwares, utilitaires...). Jusqu'à présent les NAS étaient listés dans la catégorie Lecteur de stockage qui regroupe ... read more ...
 
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Neue TLDs: Städte-Domains erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit - Ende gut, alles gut. Das gilt auch für Internetadressen. Denn bei diesen zählt längst nicht mehr nur, was vor dem Punkt steht. Mit den neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) rücken künftig auch die Adress-Endungen in den Mittelpunkt. Statt mit mehr oder weniger abstrakten Kürzeln wie .de, .com oder .biz abzuschließen, können Adressen für Webseiten seit März 2013 mit sinnvollen Endungen versehen werden. Diese sogenannten „sprechenden“ TLDs dienen nicht nur dem Zweck, den Namensraum im Internet ... read more ...
 
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.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st -   .Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today’s free domain name is LowFare.Global. .Global does not have a premium renewal fee so all these premium domain names will renew ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Appraisal fraud still creation a rounds - After all these years, it’s still going strong. It’s one of the oldest scams in the books, and apparently it’s still working. The domain appraisal scam goes like this: someone says they’re interested in buying your domain name, and they think it’s worth a lot of money. But before they can go through with the purchase, you need you to get an appraisal from a specific service. Once they get a validation of the value, they promise to buy the domain name. Once you pay for the appraisal, however, ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling invests another $1 million in Rightside - Domain name investor buys more shares, and has made a small profit. A company connected to domain name investor Frank Schilling has purchased another 150,000 shares of Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) stock, increasing his interest in the company to 6.1% of shares outstanding. An SEC filing reveals that Schilling has paid a total of $8,387,181, including brokerage commissions, to acquire his stake. That means he has paid an average of $7.24 per share. Shares are trading for about $8.00 right now, so Schilling ... read more ...
 
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales expostulate 35,000 Radix domain name registrations - New TLD company reports holiday sales drove increase volume. Deep discounts and added exposure helped new top level domain name registry Radix get 35,000 registrations over four days. The company deeply discounted prices on its domain names, with many registrars offering its domain names for as little as 99 cents, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Many registrars offered .Tech and .Online for about $5.00, with $1.00 pricing for .website, .space and .site. The company also benefited from added exposure ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Cox Media, Steinway and other finish users bought final week - From DoorMint.com to SouthernKitchen.com, here are some end user domain name purchases from the past week. Sedo had yet another strong week of sales led by short domain names. It handled 832 transactions for $1.4 million in sales. Sales to end users included some new TLDs, such as Robots.life and Production.club. Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the past week on Sedo: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on ... read more ...
 
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Verisign CEO discusses 2018 .com agreement renovation and cost increases - Bidzos says it’s early to speculate about contract renewal, but cites two factors that might allow it to raise .com prices in the future. Will Verisign be able to increase .com prices when it renews its contract for the domain name in 2018? Verisign’s 2006 contract gave it the right to increase .com prices 7% in 4 out of the 6 years of its contract. It agreed to a similar deal with ICANN in 2012, only to have the U.S. Department of Justice step in and say that the new six-year contract shouldn’t ... read more ...
Tue 1st December 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 million - Over the past week, 832 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 66% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: farma.com at 40,000 EUR Top ccTLD: shoop.de at 40,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: verity.org at 16,500 USD New Gtld Sales: 988.xyz 3,000 USDrobots.life    2,500    USD888.link    1,888    GBPproduction.club    1,250    EURlaunch.agency    1,000    USDhomecare.guide   ... read more ...
 
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IID Predicts Massive Botnet Takeover of IoT Devices by 2017 – Virtual - TACOMA, WA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/01/15 -- IID, the source for clear cyberthreat intelligence, today announced its predictions for 2017 and beyond. After analyzing billions of pieces of cyberthreat data, IID anticipates Internet of Things (IoT) devices will increasingly become part of large-scale botnets, websites utilizing many of the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will go dark and China-based cybercrime will undergo a marked shift. IID ... read more ...
 
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Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations - Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com and/or StubHub.com Interestingly the domain name AmazonSportsTickets.com is ... read more ...
 
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Dear Freelancer.com, don't disaster adult Escrow.com - Escrow.com has a bright future ahead of it, as long as new ownership makes the right moves. Dear Freelancer.com, Congratulations on your acquisition of Escrow.com. It is a great company that just about everyone in the domain name industry uses, and uses often. When you bought Escrow.com for $7.5 million, I knew you didn’t have a goal of merely milking the cash cow. As your CEO Matt Barrie told me on the Domain Name Wire Podcast, you want more. You want to grow the company. That makes sense. But ... read more ...
 
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It's #GivingTuesday, though this classification wasn't really charitable - Charity technology provider makes ridiculous arguments in a UDRP. It’s fitting that WIPO just published a UDRP decision for networkofgiving.com (and .org) on #GivingTuesday. The complaint was filed by Edatanetworks Inc., a company that provides customer loyalty technology and counts charities as its clients. It claims to have used the “Network of Giving” marks since about 2007…two years after the current registrant of the corresponding domain names registered them. The current registrant ... read more ...
 
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7 things Domainers should do before a finish of a year - A December checklist for domain name investors. It’s December 1, which means the end of the year is rapidly approaching. With that in mind, here’s a checklist of things for domain name investors to complete before the end of the year. 1. Run a preliminary income statement. Knowing where you stand so far this year will help you optimize for taxes…and estimate your bill. 2. Renew, renew, renew. Depending on the tax regime where you live and your accounting method (e.g. cash accounting), now ... read more ...
 
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The Bizarre Afterlife of .su, the Domain Name and Last Bastion of the USSR - On September 19, 1990, a forgettable event failed to change the course of human history. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigned the Soviet Union .su as its country code top-level domain. This presumably would have mattered a great deal more if the “Evil Empire” hadn’t collapsed 15 months later, but .su, notably, didn’t collapse with its country. The domain lives on and now, 25 years laters, it’s making a strange and unsettling comeback.Let’s start from the beginning: ccTLDs ... read more ...
Mon 30th November 2015
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.XYZ's Negari and Ambrose now possess 5% of Rightside - CXOs at .XYZ have invested $8.6 million in Rightside. First it was Frank Schilling. Now two other domain name industry insiders are disclosing ownership in publicly traded domain name company Rightside. .XYZ founder and CEO Daniel Negari and COO Mike Ambrose disclosed a combined 5.2% ownership in Rightside today in an SEC filing. The disclosure is mandated because they now own more than 5% of the company. Negari paid about $4.5 million for his 2.7% stake in the company, representing 511,885 shares. ... read more ...
 
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So far, my "For Sale" usually landers have drawn a wrong form of inquiries - People submit offers for domain names when they don’t mean to. A couple months ago I switched some of my domain names on Domain Name Sales from PPC landers to “for sale” landing pages. I was curious if this would increase the number of inquiries on my domain names. The short answer is yes, but most of these inquiries have been from confused people. If you park your domain names, you already know that a lot of confused people contact you about them. They fill out forms asking for support, refunds, ... read more ...
 
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Introducing UpMoney - A new site about spending, saving and investing. I’m excited today to announce the launch of UpMoney℠, a new site about…money. Simply put, UpMoney is a site for people who have money. This isn’t a snobby 1% thing; It’s a site for the 25% of people who have savings and are confronting the challenges of growing their wealth. Whether you have a small nest egg or millions, UpMoney is a resource for investing, saving and spending. Want to get more enjoyment from your spending? Learn how to invest ... read more ...