Thu 2nd October 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
Public Company (CHGG) Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock - Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximately $1 million in shares of Chegg Common Stock. Internships.com is not just a domain name, but “the world’s largest student-focused internship marketplace, Internships.com, will add 2 million registered students, 380 university relationships, and 90,000 internships from 60,000 companies to the Chegg Career Center.” The Chegg Career Center ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396 - One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its first day with 2,592 domain names. .Bayern which actually launched on Tuesday and is for the German state of Bavaria which has a population of some 12.44 million people (2011 number) is sitting with 20,396 registrations. The total number of new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2592: .Bayern 20396 - One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its first day with 2,592 domain names. .Bayern which actually launched on Tuesday and is for the German state of Bavaria which has a population of some 12.44 million people (2011 number) is sitting with 20,396 registrations. The total number of new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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Lancement mondial du .ovh, une nouvelle extension pour la communauté IT - Une extension communautaire OVH est l’une des rares marques à avoir souhaité ouvrir son extension au grand public, à lui donner une véritable dimension communautaire. « C’est la première marque IT française à réaliser une ouverture générale de son extension, annonce Thibaud Saudrais, en charge du projet chez OVH. Avec le .ovh, nous rejoignons le club très fermé des communautés (.med, .archi…), des métropoles (.paris, .berlin, .nyc…) et des grandes marques (.canon, .apple…) ... read more ...
 
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Top 10 trademark stories for September 2014 - Trevor Little The most-read story on the World Trademark Review blog last month was written after we visited a new London-based 3D printing cafe business. The owner, who has plans to take his business model global, warned that “every brand on the high street should be scared of 3D printing”. However, he was equally keen to point to the positives ... read more ...
 
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Lancement mondial du .ovh, une nouvelle extension pour la communauté IT - L'hébergeur et registrar OVH gère plus de 3,5 millions de noms de domaine. Première entreprise IT française à proposer son extension ouverte à tous, OVH souhaite fédérer une communauté riche de plus de 700 000 utilisateurs et partenaires. Avec un tarif de 2,99 € HT/an, le .ovh est l’une des nouvelles extensions (new gTLDs) les plus accessibles du marché. Mieux encore : les 50 000 premiers domaines créés seront gratuits la 1re année et à tarif préférentiel à vie pour ces ... read more ...
 
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Analyst: new TLDs to strike $500 million in 3 years - Report forecasts strong opportunity for new top level domain applicants. B. Riley Co analyst Sameet Sinha issued a report today estimating that new TLDs should go “from Zero to $500MM in Three Years”. The report also initiates coverage of Rightside with a buy rating and a $15 price target. The stock currently trades for about $10. I reviewed the lengthy report and spoke with Sinha this afternoon. In general, I think it’s a good overview of the domain name industry ... read more ...
 
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Affiliate Summit sues hotel engagement company - Organizers say defendants are tricky conference attendees into booking hotel rooms. Many people in the domain name industry that go to January’s NamesCon conference will stick around Vegas for the Affiliate Summit conference, which starts January 18. If you are going to the show, beware: organizers of the conference say a company is misrepresenting itself to attendees in order to sell hotel bookings. In a lawsuit (pdf) filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Affiliate ... read more ...
 
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Donuts aims for Million domain name miracle this month - Customers have registered 960,000 second level domain names under Donuts’ domain names. The millionth one will taste the sweetest.Donuts, the largest registry for new top level domain names, hopes to sell its millionth domain name registration this month. The company’s latest newsletter pegs its total registrations at 960,000 across 147 top level domains. That’s an average of about 6,500 per top level domain. It will need to add 40,000 more domains without the ... read more ...
 
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Should new TLD registries sell directly to consumers? - New TLD registries might need to go direct to consumers in addition to the existing registrar channel. Can I interest you in a domain today, ma’am?There has been an established channel for gTLD domain name registrations for a long time. The registries offer domains to registrars, who in turn sell them to people like you and me. This channel has been mandated in top level domain contracts with ICANN because of the way these contracts were handed out. Verisign’s ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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Google Entering a Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com - Summary Web.com’s stock has declined 36.4% year to date. The decline is being driven by lower revenue guidance and Google announcing their entrance into the domain industry. Google will have an impact on the domain industry but the impact won’t be as significant as investors are anticipating. Additionally, Web.com may actually benefit from Google’s presents. Even if Google doesn’t help Web.com, Web.com has been able to perform well in a very competitive market environment. Over the last ... read more ...
 
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Results of the Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll - Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher. Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ? ... read more ...
 
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Condições aplicáveis ao registo de domínios com dois caracteres já estão … - O DNS.PT, associação privada sem fins lucrativos responsável pela gestão e operação do ccTLD português, .pt, anunciou que as condições aplicáveis ao registo de domínios com dois caracteres já estão disponíveis em www.dns.pt. Segundo as novas regras relativas ao registo de domínios .pt, a partir de 1 de Novembro será retirada a proibição do registo de domínios, directamente sob .pt, com menos de três caracteres, proibição essa que está em vigor desde 2001. Como tal, foram criadas ... read more ...
 
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Infographic: Where in the World Do Chinese People Live? - Nearly 23% of humanity is Chinese. Click to download a high-resolution PDF of TLD Registry’s “Where do Chinese people live?” infographic.There are approximately 50 million ethnic Chinese people living outside of China's mainland, which itself is home to nearly 1.4 billion Chinese. Ethnic Chinese people comprise 3.7% of the world's population beyond China's borders. Most of these consumers read, write and speak Chinese. Densely populated Chinese communities outside of China, oftentimes ... read more ...
 
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Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By … - We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and/or controlled by Frank Schilling, registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Domains in .blackfriday; another 5,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Hiphop; and 16,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Names under .Audio. At the time we noted that North Sound Names with those registrations had almost ... read more ...
 
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Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names - We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and/or controlled by Frank Schilling, registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Domains in .blackfriday; another 5,000 domain names under the new gTLD .Hiphop; and 16,000 domain names were registered by North Sound Names under .Audio. At the time we noted that North Sound Names with those registrations had almost ... read more ...
 
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SimpleBank.com Lost in UDRP To Common Law Trademark Holder of The Word “Simple” - Simple Finance Technology Corp (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name SimpleBank.com which is owned by CDN Properties Incorporated. Simple alleged that it had a common law trademark to the term “Simple” however the case seemed to turn on that the domain name in question SimpleBank.com which was first registered in 2003 is the reverse of the company’s website at BankSimple.com, the domain went to a parked page with links to other banks, and the domain holder could not proof ... read more ...
 
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Terror victims a step closer to ‘owning’ Iran’s Internet - Who “owns” the Internet? Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner intends to find out — in order to force ICANN, the US government organization that manages the web, to hand over the domain names of Iranian web sites to the victims of terror attacks perpetrated and funded by Tehran. To do that, she intends to put ICANN through the wringer –examining paperwork and deposing officials — in order to collect on a $1 billion terror bill courts say Iran owes terror victims. This ... read more ...
 
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UDRP On Tasers.com Is Dropped, As Domain Name Is Now Owed By Tasers International -                     A UDRP was filed on the domain name Tasers.com with WIPO, last month is showing as having been terminated. That means the Complainant of the UDRP, TASER International, Inc dropped the UDRP, however according to the whois record the domain name is now owned by JUSTIN CLARK,Esq, whose email address is JCLARKLAWFIRM.COM According to his Linked in page Mr. Clark is the Managing Attorney at J. Clark Law Firm, in Phoenix and was previously the in-house counsel to TASER International. So ... read more ...
 
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TheHill.com: Post On 2016 Presidental Domain Names Doesn’t Even Mention … - TheHill.com just published a post entitled “ElectHillary.com? RandPaul.com? Betting on 2016’s hottest Web address” the artcile goes on to chat about “Election-year website squatters have dollar signs in their eyes, scooping up 2016-related domain names with the aim of cashing in on six-figure payouts — before any candidate has even thrown his or her hat into the ring”. “The starting bid to buy either ElectHillary.com or ReelectHillary.com at GoDaddy’s domain name auction site: $275,000. ... read more ...
 
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TheHill.com: Post On 2016 Presidental Domain Names Doesn’t Even Mention New gTLD’s - TheHill.com just published a post entitled “ElectHillary.com? RandPaul.com? Betting on 2016’s hottest Web address” the artcile goes on to chat about “Election-year website squatters have dollar signs in their eyes, scooping up 2016-related domain names with the aim of cashing in on six-figure payouts — before any candidate has even thrown his or her hat into the ring”. “The starting bid to buy either ElectHillary.com or ReelectHillary.com at GoDaddy’s domain name auction site: $275,000. ... read more ...
 
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How two remote Arctic territories became the front line in the battle for internet … - Svalbard's domain name could be set to become a safe habour for privacy-focused services in Norway. Image: ShutterstockVisit a Norwegian website and chances are you'll find it ends in .no – the top level domain for the country. However, the country's domain name authority UNINETT Norid has two more country code top level domains (ccTLDs) up its sleeve. The pair are .sj, which represents two Norwegian territories in the Arctic called Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and .bv, which signifies ... read more ...
 
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New Insurance CRM Delivers Sales Automation to Small and Mid Sized … - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]>   September 30, 2014 -- Miami Florida (PRWEB) September 30, 2014 A new CRM system has just been released specifically for small and mid size insurance sales agencies giving them all the tools and automation of large and highly automated insurance companies. Total Lead Domination (TLD) CRM is a turn key system offering a full ... read more ...
 
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Bayern Domain Weiß-blau over TCP/IP - 00:02:38 .bayern: Bayern-Domain geht ans Netz So richtig weiß-blau war das Web bislang nur unter der Adresse www.bayern.by. Dort finden sich Informationen zum Urlaub auf dem Bauernhof, zu Essen und Trinken und zu Wellness in Bayern. Die Site gehört der Bayern Tourismus Marketing GmbH. Ihre Adresse klingt gut, ist aber äußerst trickreich zustande gekommen. Denn die bajuwarisch anmutende Endung oder Top Level Domain (TLD) „.by“ soll eigentlich weißrussische Seiten kennzeichnen. Es ... read more ...
 
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First wave of .melbourne domain names go live tomorrow - The first collection of second-level domains using the new .melboune top-level domain will be live on the Internet from tomorrow. The first .melbourne names include the new online home for the TLD, www.live.melbourne, and the home pages of a number of businesses that have been appointed 'ambassadors' for the domain, including the Bank of Melbourne, the Melbourne Festival and the Flower Drum restaurant.Until now, the site detailing the .melbourne ... read more ...