Tue 26th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Why Did Philip Morris Spend $1,500 To File A UDRP On Buying-Tax-Free-Marlboro-Cigarettes.com? - Philip Morris USA Inc,  just won the rights to the domain name buying-tax-free-marlboro-cigarettes.com in a  UDRP. The fact that the corporate giant won the domain is no surprise,  but I have no idea of why the company would spend $1,500 in just filing fees to get control of a horrible domain name with 4 hyphens. According to Screenshots.com,  the only page they have indexed is a placeholder from the registrar Godaddy.com The domain had no traffic according to Alexa. To me it looks like a huge ... read more ...
 
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Radix Retools Landrush Process for Their New gTLDs With New No Risk Low … - With hundreds of new gTLDs hitting the market this year, some registry operators are re-thinking the roll-out process in an effort to set themselves apart in a huge field of competitors. The Dubai ... read more ...
 
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.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, its on the Wrong Side … - Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink) For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right. So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black Limo, Black Diamonds, Jet Black, Blackboard. Even the press release makes our point: “You know, when someone says ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total Just $900K -

Over a past week, 561 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $900k.

53% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: ridescout.com during 60,000 EUR
· Top ccTLD: 888.ca during 20,000 USD
· Top “other” TLD: loan.info during 18,500 USD

Everyoption.com was the sale during $15,000

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, a on a Wrong Side Of The Dot - Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink) For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right. So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black Limo, Black Diamonds, Jet Black, Blackboard. Even the press release makes our point: “You know, when someone says ... read more ...
 
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Hefty Prices for .Attorney and .Lawyer Domains -

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Filed Under: Internet Law , Domain Names , Intellectual Property , Trademarks

Via: corpcounsel.com

 
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Landrush Opens for .Website, .Press and .Host - Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions — .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. These TLDs enter Landrush today Radix plans to take these a notch above with Landrush 2.0. — an affordable, risk free landrush that offers high-quality names. Landrush 2.0 aims to reduce the price gap between landrush and general availability, with an eye towards increasing participation ... read more ...
 
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Frequent Commentator On TheDomains, Joseph Peterson, Stars In Entrepreneur.com New gTLD Story - In a article just published by Entrepreneur.com asking the question “Should I switch my company’s URL to one of the new domain extensions?“ I was pretty surprised to read that the article was basically based on the thoughts of  Joseph Peterson who is a frequent commentator on TheDomains.com Here are the first two questions and answers by Mr. Peterson   Should any business with a .com or .net domain switch to an extension that may describe its product or service better? Not necessarily–.com ... read more ...
 
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As .Furniture Launches On Wednesday, Here Are Some Of Interesting Registered Domains - .Furniture goes into general availability on Wednesday August 27th where domain names can be registered on a first come, first served basis. Some very good domains were already taken in Sunrise by trademark holders and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid a one time fee for early access to the domain names. Furniture is a huge vertical.  Its certainly something everyone around the world buys, owns, uses or rents. Many of the best .Furniture domain names are not available ... read more ...
 
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DDB Mudra West wins dot-triple-O - Industry Events The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards Photo Features New stills from ‘Mary Kom’ revealed! Industry Events Party Page: Screening of the Hollywood Film The... Industry Events Bollywood lights up Star Sports Pro-Kabaddi League ... read more ...
 
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Meet .BLACK: the first top level domain that represents elegance, authority, and … – Virtual - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the general availability of its newest generic top level domain (gTLD): .BLACK. When someone says “black tie” or “little black dress,” adjectives like “simple,” “elegant,” and “chic” are implied. It’s the same for the .BLACK domain. A website or email address that ends in .BLACK easily identifies premier products and high-tier, exclusive services; ... read more ...
 
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.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New … - .Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story. According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders. With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD’s to date A lot of the big brands grabbed domain names in .Website including Amazon, Apple, BWM, Chanel, Chopard, Dropbox, Escada, Facebook, Fox, Google, ... read more ...
 
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Should You Switch Your Company’s URL to a New Domain Extension? - Q: Should I switch my company's URL to one of the new domain extensions? A: You're referring to the recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to open up more than 1,000 generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to domains outside of the .com, .net and .biz variety. Now, new gTLDs--.florist, .gallery, .repair, .homes, .technology and more--are just as easy to register as .com. This means a small business such as Sunrise Coffee in Las Vegas could switch from its current ... read more ...
 
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.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New gTLD - .Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story. According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders. With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD’s to date A lot of the big brands grabbed domain names in .Website including Amazon, Apple, BWM, Chanel, Chopard, Dropbox, Escada, Facebook, Fox, Google, ... read more ...
 
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Snapnames BuyDomains Auction Ends Today; 17 Domains Out of 153 Have Bids - Snapnames.com’s online auction of domain names owned by BuyDomains.com ends today at 3:15Pm EST in accordance with Snapnames normal closing rules As of publication 17 of the 153 domain names have a bid but only 2 of the domain have hit reserve and will sell. The highest bid at the moment is on EOB.com at $13K and Hikers.com at $12,500 but reserve has not been met on either. Here are the domain names in the auction with the high bids (if any) as of publication along with the reserve ranges.   hikers.com $12,500 $10,001 ... read more ...
 
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Domain name dispute resolution: a battle of trademarks vs. domain names - The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center’s domain name dispute resolution services for generic top-level domains (‘gTLD’) and some country code top level domains (‘ccTLD’) resolves disputes concerning domain names through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (‘UDRP Policy’) issued in 1999. This policy has been adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has the role of managing ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain .hiv: die Rote Schleife im Internet - Die gemeinnützige Internet-Endung .hiv will den globalen Kampf gegen Aids unterstützen. Die "digitale rote Schleife" mit Sitz in Berlin wird nun für die Allgemeinheit freigeschaltet. Mit der Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .hiv sollen Gelder für HIV-Projekte gesammelt und das Thema so auf neue Weise in das Bewusstsein möglichst vieler Menschen gebracht werden. Damit sei die TLD eine Art Rote Schleife im Netz, meint die Projekt-Leiterin Carolin Silbernagl. Sie wird im ... read more ...
 
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A New Way to Value Registry Business - CEY — a new metric and the key to understanding the value of a registry There's a new site on the web — nTLDstats.com — that has a ton of valuable information about the new gTLD program. It shows numbers of registrations by registry, registrar, registry service provides — all the "Rs" in the domain name industry. It has quickly become the place where people go to measure how the industry, and the competitors in it, are doing. There's only one problem — not all domain registrations ... read more ...
 
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Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement - Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the company stated that the agreement is similar to the one it replaces: In general, the material terms of the Agreement are substantially similar to the Prior Agreement, including compliance with Google’s policies, maintenance of service ... read more ...
 
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One of a misfortune domain names. Ever. - We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’d like to buy an ‘o’, please.I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or something like that. (It’s in my archives somewhere, but it was so bad I can’t even remember exactly what it was.) Now we have a new nominee for worst domain name: neighbrhds.com Neighbrhds is the ... read more ...
 
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How 22 finish users are (or aren’t!) regulating domain names they bought this year - Each week I write at least one post about which end users bought domain names over the past week. What do end users do with these domain names they buy on the aftermarket? I was curious, so I went back to one of the weekly end user reports I published about six months ago. The report included 22 sales ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. Six months later, here’s a breakdown of how the buyers are using the sites: 4 of 22 are used as the domain name for a website 8 of ... read more ...
 
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Quickly find a tip websites built on new TLDs - Two tools show you which sites built on new TLDs are gaining traction. A key for the long run success of each new top level domain name is usage. Which TLDs are getting traction with actual end users? Two tools based on Alexa data can help you find out. Softnik, creator of Watch My Domains Pro, has created a free tool that makes it easy to sort the Alexa 1 Million list by TLD. Just type in a TLD, hit enter and you’ll quickly see a list of domains on that TLD that ... read more ...
 
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Why your new TLDs won’t work good with domain parking (yet) - Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with the term “cash” in them. When they got clicks, they were high dollar clicks. There are lots of expensive Adwords terms related to cash. So would traffic to something.cash monetize well? No, not on the basis of the top level ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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As New gTLD Registrations Hit 2 Million Domains, Here Is Our Take On The New G’s - We have been talking about the new gTLD program for well over 6 years and over the weekend we noted that the number of new gTLD registrations passed the 2 Million mark. So we thought this would be a good time to give some thoughts about where the program is at and where it is going. Since we have been writing about the new G’s we have pretty much said the same thing, we don’t know how they will do or what  effect they will have on the .com aftermarket. After the launch of 194 new gTLD’s into ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s GreatDomains.com Auction Ends On Thursday & Has Over $250K In Bids - Sedo is holding its Month GreatDomains auction which closes at noon on Thursday EST and there are over $250,000 in bids placed altough as of publication the highest bid for a domain that has met reserve is $490 Here are all the domain names in the auction with the high bid (if any) and reserve range:   Domain Reserve met/not met High Bid Reserve Range musik.de Reserve not met 52,000 EUR 50,000 – 99,999 EUR apps.de Reserve not met 27,000 EUR 25,000 – 49,999 EUR j7.com Reserve not met 20,000 EUR 50,000 ... read more ...