Wed 24th September 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
I don’t know this new TLD ad - Google ad for new TLDs just links to an end user website using a new TLD. I came across this contextual Google ad today: The ad text itself seems like something a new TLD seller would use. And marina.equipment is certainly a new TLD. But what do marinas have to do with new TLDs? Curious, I clicked the ad. This is what I saw: The answer: it has nothing to do with new TLDs. This site is about marina management software. It makes sense with the domain marina.equipment, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines’ numbers uncover new TLD auctions are removing out of control - Highly contested new TLD auctions are likely ending well above $10 million. Minds + Machines put out a press release today about winning the .law and .vip domain names at auction, and the numbers in it provide hints about how much companies are paying to win private auctions for new TLDs. If my math is right, these new TLD auctions are getting out of control. The company won .law and .vip, but lost five auctions: .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate and .video. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Is Verisign’s devise for a standards organisation partial of the obvious play? - Company’s CEO disclosed creating an industry group as part of monetizing its patent portfolio. Verisign recently announced plans to organize a group called Registration Operations Association (ROA) to discuss technical aspects of domain name registration. A three part blog series proposing the group, penned by Verisign Senior Director Scott Hollenbeck, focuses on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and the challenges of registrars working with different EPP extensions ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million -

Over a past week, 591 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars

48% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: cabs.com during 50,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: kfz24.de during 11,500 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: uhr.kaufen during 4,200 EUR

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds; Over 4K Registered in First Hour - More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.scot and Oor Wullie.scot,  Braveheart.scot, the45percent.scot, Cocacola.scot and Facebook.scot. One customer registered 20 different .scot domains. Not-for-profit company Dot Scot Registry was created to apply for and operate the .scot domain. The price ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes -           LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gTLD extension that caters to a global community of high net worth individuals and the companies that support them. .ONL (the official abbreviation for “online”) is a New gTLD that intends to provide limitless access to everything online by being a natural domain for ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains purebred outward of a UK; US & Germany Are 8% - According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the most attractive cities to businesses worldwide. Since the general availability launch on Tuesday Ninth September, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Accidente automovilístico en Juchitán provoca dos muertos - Dos personas fallecieron la madrugada de este lunes al registrarse un accidente de tránsito en la carretera federal 190, tramo Juchitán–Tehuantepec, en el Istmo de Tehuantepec. La Policía Federal informó que el percance ocurrió en el kilómetro 263, en el paraje conocido como ‘Pepe y Lolita’. En ese lugar se impactó el vehículo Nissan Tiida con placas de circulación TLD-98-38 del Estado de Oaxaca en la parte posterior de la camioneta Nissan, con placas de circulación RW-96-969 del ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Registry Of New gTLD .OOO Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months - The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Triple Letter O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which “is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names on .com domain, has some pretty lofty goals for the extension. The registry is predicting 35,000-40,000 trademark registrations and over the next 6-12 months expects to get about 1-2 million domain registrations “The new GTLD is the first of a kind initiative ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Donuts Beats Amazon To .Video & Wins .Money, .Sale, & .Legal In Private Auctions - In a set of private new gTLD auctions held last week Donuts has won at least 4 of them, beating out Amazon Uniregistry, Minds + Machines for the new gTLD .Video (Google did not apply for .Video, but did apply for .Tube). We should also note their was no new gTLD application submitted for .Videos.  If Amazon, Uniregistry or Minds + Machines had applied for the plural .Videos, which arguably is a better string instead of .Video, they would have won it for just the $185,000 application fee. All three ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Ya están disponibles los dominios "eus" y "gal" para Euskadi y Galicia - Los nuevos dominios de nivel superior genéricos o gTLD “.eus” y “.gal” ya se encuentran disponibles desde fechas recientes en fase Sunrise y Landrush, si bien el registro libre no estará disponible hasta el próximo 3 de diciembre.   “Se trata de extensiones intuitivas y fáciles de recordar que pueden convertirse en una óptima herramienta de marketing para reforzar la presencia en la red y aumentar la visibilidad de empresas y entidades radicadas en Euskadi y Galicia o ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
CentralNic poised to take advantage of changes in the online world - ---ADDS MANAGEMENT AND BROKER COMMENTS--- Internet domain name services provider CentralNic (LON:CNIC) achieved record billings and profits in the first half of 2014 in its registry business. The performance was achieved against a background of delays in the launch of top level domains (TLDs) – the bit of an Internet address that comes after the final dot. In its first full set of interim results as a publicly listed company, the company said its traditional domain name wholesaling, or registry, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
CentralNic Issues Interim Results For 6 Months Ending Jun 30, 2014 - CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. Key Points: · CentralNic has seen steady growth in its wholesale (“Registry”) business, against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry expectations. · CentralNic has continued investment in the development of new retail and enterprise business lines, as outlined in the 2013 Annual Report. · Group revenue £1.64 ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN: Looks Like 2nd Round Of New gTLD Won’t Open For At Least 4 Years - ICANN released tonight a 27 page report entitled the “New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments Draft Work Plan” (Draft Work Plan) which lays out the work required prior to initiating a subsequent application period for the New gTLD Program, taking into account the assessments anticipated in development of the Program.” “As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 applicants have been invited to contracting. Of those applications in string contention sets, 49% ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
.bayern kommt: Neue TLD für Geschäfte im Süden - Die Top Level Domain (TLD) ".bayern" wird am 30 September vergeben, Vorregistrierungen sind jetzt schon möglich und sie werden zahlreich genutzt. Das gab der Registrar bekannt. Domain Registry Deutschland wird den Startschuss geben. Bereits jetzt häufeln demnach Kleingewerbetreibende aus Bayern alle möglichen TLDs an, um auf der sicheren Seite zu sein und wirklich gefunden zu werden. Die einen registrieren sauber den Firmennamen und sonst nichts, Frau Hackl von dem Teegroßhändler Hackl hat einen ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
TLD inaugure sa nouvelle usine à Sorigny - L'usine a été livrée début juillet mais l'inauguration n'a eu lieu que vendredi, en présence de nombreux élus, des présidents des chambres consulaires, des dirigeants et du personnel de TLD. L'entreprise, spécialisée dans les équipements d'assistance aéroportuaire, a quitté ses locaux devenus trop petits de Montlouis pour rejoindre un bâtiment plus spacieux (6.400 m2 contre 2.500 à Montlouis), situé sur la zone d'activités Isoparc, à Sorigny. Une usine où son projet ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sun City Casino Gambles On UDRP And Loses - A confusing set of circumstances, but panel rules it certainly isn’t cybersquatting. Sun International Limited, operator of hotels and casinos in Africa and Latin America, has lost a UDRP for SunBet.com. The company failed to prove that the respondent, Sun Ventures Development Limited, lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain name and didn’t prove it was registered in bad faith. This is a case in which the panelists earned their keep; there’s a confusing ... read more ...
 
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Latest domain name fraud spoofs ICANN, worse than domain renovation scam - Scammer sends fake renewal notices with goal of getting your credit card information. ICANN may have shut down Domain Registry of America for now, but new scams pop up just about every day. Joseph Peterson sent one example to me today that I haven’t seen before. He received an email with the subject line “something.com EXPIRATION!”, in which something.com matched one of his domains. Although his domain doesn’t expire until next year, the email claims it expires ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic: Early new TLD direct next attention expectations - Company says its registry operations are showing steady growth despite delays and low demand for new TLDs. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) issued its interim financial report for the first half of 2014 today. The company, which is the backend registry operator for a number of top level domains, said it’s realizing steady growth in the registry “against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry ... read more ...
 
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New TLD rollout to delayed down as Donuts runs low on domains - Boxes of uncontested Donuts running low. The number of new top level domain names hitting the market each week is about to slow down. Every week since the beginning of February, Donuts has released at least one top level domain name. Most weeks it has released at least three domains. That’s about to come to an end. According to the company’s launch calendar, just ten more domain names are currently scheduled to launch in Early Access the rest of this year. There ... read more ...
Mon 22nd September 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Recently introduced TLDs create new opportunities for criminals - Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released over 300 top-level domains (TLDs), and more are coming.The TLDs are supposed to be a way to focus the Internet. In reality, they've become a boon for registrars who use them as an up sell when someone purchases a domain. Moreover, they've become a goldmine for criminals, who can often bypass network defenses guarding against phishing and CC communications by using a domain that's outside of the norm.According ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Amazon acquista l’estensione .buy per 4.6 milioni - Il colosso del commercio elettronico capitanato da Jeff Bezos avrebbe recentemente acquistato la titolarità dell'estensione ".buy" per i TLD (Top-Level Domain); questa acquisizione sarebbe costata ben 4.6 milioni di dollari nonché il disappunto di Mountain View. L'acquisto di Amazon sarebbe avvenuto nel corso di un'apposita asta organizzata dall'ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), cioè l'ente che si occupa della gestione del sistema dei nomi a dominio di primo livello. ... read more ...
 
 
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The Rooks Celebrate New Release at Mercury Lounge This Saturday – The Lo - TLD contributor Flora Theden talks to RB/IndieSoul sextet The Rooks about their new EP, Beyoncé, and their upcoming show at Mercury Lounge. If you’re looking for funky, vibrant, live music on the LES, you might want to check out The Rooks’ EP Release Show next Saturday night, where the sextet will play old favorites and debut songs from their upcoming EP, “Wires,” which they just finished recording. It’s the NYC-based band’s first show at Mercury Lounge, but front man Garth Taylor ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Technical.ly: “Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter”: “I Practically Started a Industry - Technical.ly, just covered ledgency domain investor Mike Mann In a story entitled “Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter” Its the second non-domainer publication today to cover a domain investor (click here to read the other one) “Before him, there was cybersquatting. Now, there is domain speculation.” “When the business went mainstream, driving up the competition, he developed a new technology to make domain searches more efficient called WhoisPlus/NameFind. After a lot of hard ... read more ...