Fri 22nd August 2014
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Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K … - A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com. The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center) You can read more about about their application here. The extension which seems to either be in landrush or  has wrapped up its ... read more ...
 
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Registry For New gTLD IDN .网络 (Network) Registers & Reserves Over 23K Domains - A new gTLD IDN .网络 which means network in Chinese (xn--io0a7i) registered and reserved over 23,500 domain names yesterday increasing the overall number of new gTLD registered to 1.96 million according to ntldstats.com. The registry of the IDN new gTLD is Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center) You can read more about about their application here. The extension which seems to either be in landrush or  has wrapped up its ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs: is it an awareness, acceptance or direct issue? - Are domain registrants not aware of new TLD options or do they just not accept them? Or is there just low demand for each .com alternative? My initial reaction to the underwhelming “out of the gate” registration numbers for new top level domain names this year was that it’s an awareness issue. 99.99% of people have never heard of new TLDs. Once they’re aware, they’ll start registering them. After taking a look at registrar search yesterday, I’m starting ... read more ...
 
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Why Frank Schilling’s new train ad uses http:// - Otherwise, lots of people might not get to the website. Yesterday Frank Schilling tweeted this picture of a bus ad for his .sexy top level domain name: Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry, responded asking about why the ad includes https://, and Frank Schilling explained: That lots of cell phone users need to type in http:// before a new TLD if they’re typing the address into their address bar, is a key example of the universal acceptance problem with new TLDs. Even ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg, Germany Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Beiersdorf AG, which is located in Hamburg, Germany has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name BeiersdorfChina.com They were represented by in-house counsel In this case the Respondent is Beiersdorf (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd., which is located in Tianjin, China. The decision was issued in Chinese and I used Google translate to turn it into broken English “”The complainant is a company registered in Germany, mainly engaged in the production and ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Holding 4 Themed Auctions, All Ending On Sep 4th + 2 More - Snapnames.com is holding 4 themed domain auctions all of which are live and all of which end on  September 4th. The verticals at auction are Insurance, Legal Service, Real Estate, and Accounting. As of publication of the hundreds of domains in these auction only 2 have bids. All auctions close on September 4th at 3:15Pm in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. In addition to these auctions,  Snapnames is also holding a BuyDomains.com auction which closes on August 26th which has bids ... read more ...
 
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Take The Start Up Names Quiz - For those that specialize in the brandable niche of domaining, you know you have seen some funky names get picked by start ups and some go on to get pretty sizable funding. It is the subjective nature of domain names and branding. You will always think I got names much better and they never get a bite and this name that just got $5 million in funding flunks the radio test, has many different possible spellings when heard by a consumer etc… The Verge put together a little quiz to match the domain ... read more ...
 
 
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ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around … - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking “Already Launched New gTLD’s : Is Anyone Out There?” The post is a “report” written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a read. Here are the highlights: This post asks the question: Putting aside cybersquatters, domainers (those ... read more ...
 
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ANA: “Hard to Imagine That Most of The Already-Launched TLDs Will Be Around in 2 Years - The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) an opponent of the new gTLD program wrote a post on its corporate blog today asking “Already Launched New gTLD’s : Is Anyone Out There?” The post is a “report” written by their general counsel Reed Smith LLP, and Brad R. Newberg of the firm wrote the piece which gave its rundown of the state of the new gTLD program and is definitely worth a read. Here are the highlights: This post asks the question: Putting aside cybersquatters, domainers (those ... read more ...
 
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How Many Domain Investors Are There? JustDropped Newsletter Hits 100K Subscribers - We have often wondered just how many people are domainers or domain investors, well today  the deleted domain names data provider Justdropped.com announced today that it has reached 100,000 subscribers to it popular domain name newsletter. “The newsletter which offers high quality domain names at low reseller prices is published daily.” The newsletter has been in publication since 2004 and is considered one of the largest and longest running newsletters in the expired domain name space. “The ... read more ...
 
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How to make a name for yourself in the new era of the internet -   Securing a new and original domain name can be a tricky task – especially when you consider there are 276 million registered domain names already taken. Anyone who has attempted to buy a domain ending in ‘.com’ or ‘co.uk’ recently will likely have experienced a slew of ‘sorry, that domain is not available’ rejections from the registration site. Demand for new domains isn’t slowing down either; in the first quarter of 2014, an additional five million domain names were added to the ... read more ...
 
 
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Domain name hunt is most softened (at some registrars) - A look at how major domain registrars are handling domain search in the wake of new TLDs. I’ve written a couple times about the state of registrar search as registrars grapple with an onslaught of new TLDs, most recently at the end of February. There’s good news for TLD registries: search is getting a lot better. Let’s run through the registrars I checked last time for an update. (For this article, I chose to search for “valleyview construction” for three ... read more ...
 
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.Cash and .Fund any get fewer than 1,000 registrations - Slow start for the two new TLDs that launched yesterday (for which we have data.) Five top level domain names launched yesterday. Unfortunately, ICANN’s centralized zone file system only has updated zone files for two of them. .Cash gained 725 registrations to end the day with 909 in the zone file. .Fund picked up just 414 to get to 625. There are no first day zone files for Donuts’ other two TLDs, .tax and .investments. A zone file for Rightside’s .haus is ... read more ...
 
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This week’s lapsed domain report: Got .info? - That would be Coleridge — his ill fated sailor thirstily contemplating the vast seawater. But I doubt “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the Rime.com that just sold at GoDaddy Auctions for $12.8k. Aside from that archaic spelling of “rhyme”, we have “rime” as the hoarfrost that forms from a fog in winter. Nope. Not it either. My bet is on the Play Station game, Rime — whose trailer is oddly reminiscent of Coleridge’s poem with its sea scape, ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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.XYZ Claims Its The Most Used New gTLD Extension - In a blog post Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry claims that .XYZ its the most used new gTLD extension. The post uses the numbers furnished by ntldstats.com that we disclosed  in our post the other day that looks at the percentage of registered new gTLD domain names that are parked by extension. “”Let’s look at utilization on a few levels: 1. Registration numbers 2. Active website statistics 3. Quality of these active websites 1. Registration numbers .xyz has received the most registrations ... read more ...
 
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The Results Are in Frank Schilling Tops the Poll “Greatest Domain Investor of All Time” - One month ago we asked you to vote on who you thought was the greatest domain investor of all time. Frank Schilling took 31% of the vote and won the title. Yun Ye who sold his portfolio to Marchex for $164 million came in second with 17% of the vote. Rick Schwartz came in third with 11% of the vote. There were 252 votes in total. Thank you for participating. Who Is The Greatest Domain Investor of All Time ? Frank Schilling (31%, 77 Votes) Yun Ye (17%, 43 Votes) Rick Schwartz (11%, 27 Votes) Mike ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Names 4 Initial Members of Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group - ICANN has named the first four members of the  Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group. ICANN’s President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, will be responsible for the selection of up to seven Advisers to sit on the Coordination Group to assure that best practices are brought from the larger global community. Once selected by the Public Experts Group, these Advisers will contribute research and advice, as well as bring perspectives on global best practices to enrich the discussion, all while ... read more ...
 
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Shorter .nz domain names to go up for grabs - If you already own a .co.nz, .net.nz or other .nz domain name, you may be eligible to register the shorter version of your domain name ahead of everyone else. The Domain Name Commission Limited has announced the date from when it will be possible to register .nz domain names. From 30 September 2014 it will be possible to register shorter, more concise domain names.  Rather than registering anyname.co.nz, for example, you will be able to register anyname.nz.  Shorter is better There ... read more ...
 
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Be Warned: WIPO Taking Screenshots When A UDRP Is Filed & Giving It To Panel & Why Its A Problem - WIPO has been taking Screenshots of whatever is on a domain name as soon as a UDRP Is filed and they have been furnishing the screenshot to the UDRP panel who has been taking the screenshot into account as evidence in making their determination. This revelation came to light by  John Berryhill who read the following sentence in the recent 4Chan.com UDRP decision: “The Center generated, as it does as a matter of standard practice, a screenshot of the website associated with the disputed domain ... read more ...
 
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Tech Publications In China Giving Postive Coverage to .XYZ - Techweb.com.cn, gave a pretty good endorsement to the .XYZ registry. We had to use Google Translate to turn this into broken English but you get the general idea, that they are recommending to their readers they try .XYZ as an investment: 2014 has been in the past half more, this time in the domain name industry after another we see a lot of new top-level domains, such as Online, Chinese net, .club ,. move, .xyz, .wang more. Among them, have to say .xyz is a new top-level domain of the black horse! ... read more ...
 
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.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names - We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD’s going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax. We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today. Although its the cheapest of the four new gTLD’s  extension in terms of registration prices, we think the application for .tax ... read more ...
 
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.Cash & .Tax Launch Today Here Are The Registered Domain Names - We have chatted earlier this week about the new domain names registered in two of the 5 new gTLD’s going live today, .Fund and .Investments and thought we would let you know what domain names were not going to be available when General Registration opens today for .Cash and .Tax. We think .Tax is going to be the weakest of the 4 new Donuts extensions launching today. Although its the cheapest of the four new gTLD’s  extension in terms of registration prices, we think the application for .tax ... read more ...
 
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Ask.com Buys Ask.Fm - According to a story in the NewYorkTimes.com, Ask.com has acquired Ask.Fm. The deal was announced last week  by IAC/InterActiveCorp, the owners of Ask.com Ask.Fm is not just a domain name, but a popular site 180 million regular monthly users . Forty percent of Ask.fm’s users are younger than 18, according to Doug Leeds, chief executive of Ask.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the terms of the sale The co-founders, brothers Mark and Ilja Terebin, will immediately cash out and leave ... read more ...