Tue 5th August 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories in July - ICM Registry, new TLDs, and Sony’s domain name renewal lapse all make the news. The doldrums of summer are beyond us. Here’s a look back at July in the domain name business. 1. .XXX worth more with .Sex in the bag? – ICM Registry, which operates the .xxx top level domain, has settled the contention set for .sex. It plans to offer .sex domains to owners of matching .xxx domain names. 2. Sony forgets to renew domain name, takes down online gaming service SOE.com ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
.WTF, will this week’s new domains .fail? Or maybe this week .rocks! - A couple gripe domains launch along with a Chinese IDN and German domain name. This week’s new TLD launches include an IDN, a German travel domain almost identical to one that launched last week, the usual handful of Donuts domains, plus a few new from Rightside. On Tuesday, August 5, Hu Yi Global releases the IDN .网址. The Chinese domain name translates to “website”. On Wednesday, dotreise GmbH will release .reise, which is German for travel. If that sounds ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Virtual Reality Could be a subsequent large thing in Advertising - Cotton Delo published an article  on Ad Age that looked at Virtual Reality and its role in advertising. Virtual Reality got a big boost with Facebook purchasing Oculus Rift, the deal closed a couple weeks ago and for a good read on the deal check out The Guardian and their story “Facebook closes its $2bn Oculus Rift acquisition. What next?Social network completes deal announced in March, so what does the future hold for its virtual reality division?” I personally was involved with a Virtual ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
ICANN: Yerel alan adı uzantıları kimsenin değil - İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore’yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD’lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, çünkü ccTLD’lerin herhangi bir kuruma ait olmadığını söyledi. Davacıların ICANN’e isteklerini ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Gannett Co. (GCI), owners of USA Today, agrees to compensate $1.8 billion for a 73% of Cars.com It Doesn’t Own - According to Bloomberg.com, Gannett Co. (GCI), the owner of USA Today, agreed to pay $1.8 billion for the 73% of  Cars.com that it doesn’t already own already Gannett, which already owns about 27%of Cars.com, values the whole business at about $2.5 billion, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. The deal could be announced as soon as tomorrow, the person said. Jeremy Gaines, a spokesman for Gannett, declined to comment. A representative for Classified Ventures, ... read more ...
 
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The 14 Year Old eMoney.com Saved In UDRP Panel Finds $300K Asking Price Ok - Electronic Transaction Systems Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name eMoney.com which was registered back in January 2000. The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of Esqwire.com The panel found, unlike other panels have found that they $300K price tag was not outrageous. Here are the facts and finding of three member panel of Debrett G. Lyons, Dianne Cabell, Ho-Hyun Nahm: Complainant provides a system to facilitate monetary payments under the name ... read more ...
 
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Banks, Brokerage and Poker Dominate Over 200 .Financial Sunrise/EAP Domain Registrations - .Financial goes into general availability on Wednesday meaning it becomes available to be registered on a first come basis just completed it Sunrise period for trademark holders and its Early Access Program (EAP), for those who were willing to pay a one time additional fee for early access. Reviewing the zone file so far it looks like many of the major banks, brokerage houses, financial institutions and several online poker sites, have grabbed their domain name in Sunrise but very few “generic” ... read more ...
 
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The benefits of using new generic top level domains - New top level domains will not necessarily enjoy the same relevance as established ones such as .net and .comGeraint Evans discusses the advantages of considering alternative domains for your web address.  The Dot London internet domain was announced in April this year, to much fanfare. One of the first location-based generic top level domains (gTLDs) available, along with others including .berlin, .vienna and .paris, the move has caused ripples ... read more ...
 
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As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They … - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They Are already in Violation of TOS - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Kaffee.de ist für 100.000 Euro die teuerste .de-Domain /// Vorsicht: Fahrverbote … - Themen heute:    Kaffee.de ist für 100.000 Euro die teuerste .de-Domain  ///   Vorsicht: Fahrverbote in vielen italienischen Innenstädten  1.Die Sedo GmbH, Betreiber der weltweit größten Online-Handelsplattform für Premium Domains, hat ihren Domainreport für das erste Halbjahr 2014 veröffentlicht. Insgesamt wurden im Zeitraum Januar bis Juli 2014 auf der Plattform Sedo.com 16.216 Transaktionen im Gegenwert von rund 35,9 Mio. US-Dollar durchgeführt. Der Durchschnittspreis für alle ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Neue Top Level Domains: ICANN, Communities und der Kampf um die Netz … - Geht bei den neuen Top-Level-Domains alles so fair zu, wie es das Multistakeholder-Modell der ICANN verspricht? Olivier Crépin-Leblond von der Nutzer-Vertretung ALAC bei der Internet-Verwaltung kritisiert im Interview mit heise online das omnipräsente Auktionsmodell. Olivier Crépin-Leblond Bild: Sandra Lettenbichler Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Vorsitzender des At-Large ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
ICANN: i domini iraniani non si possono sequestrare - Roma - L'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ha chiesto a una corte federale statunitense di bloccare il tentativo di sequestro dei codici nazionali per i nomi di dominio di primo livello (ccTLD) di Iran (.ir), Corea del Nord (.kp) e Siria (.sy), spiegando ai giudici che i domini nazionali non sono una proprietà e non possono essere sequestrati.L'autorevole posizione di ICANN arriva a coronamento di una causa legale vecchia di quasi 20 anni, una vicenda originatasi dal ferimento ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.  Please see our December 2013 newsletter for information as to what the Sunrise Period is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period.   As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
IronDome.com is out to prevent Patent Disputes - To say that the term Iron Dome is in the news everyday would be an understatement, more like in the news every hour. Iron Dome of course is the the Israeli built defense system that knocks out incoming missiles out of they sky before they hit their target. As a domain name, IronDome.com was registered back in 2004 by McLeod Capital Corp. of Calgary,  Canada. The defense system was launched by Israel in 2011. After being a register.com placeholder for years, on Feb 2, 2011 the name was parked as ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Rightside starts trade currently as NAME on a NASDAQ - A big day for Rightside (and the domain name industry). Today is a big day for domain name company Rightside as it begins to trade on the NASDAQ. Shares are down slightly right now to $15.65. Rightside has been spun off from Demand Media. Owners of Demand Media shares will get one Rightside share for every five Demand Media shares. (Demand is doing its own 5/1 reverse stock split, hence the Rightside allocation.) Shares in Rightside will trade under the ticker NAME. While ... read more ...
 
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Wow: BTC.com domain name sells for $1.0 million to Bitcoin company - Three letter domain name sells for seven figures. Domain name brokerage firm Domain Guardians has brokered the sale of the BTC.com domain name to a bitcoin company. GAWMiners, seller of bitcoin mining machines, is the buyer. This is an example of how a three letter domain name can gain significant value based on new popular terms. I’m a bit shocked by the price. It makes me wonder how much Bitcoins.com would have sold for in the recent Heritage Auctions domain ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
A demeanour during .Com numbers over a past 5 years - .Com continues to grow, just at a slower pace. There are many ways to measure .com. There’s the zone file, the monthly reports Verisign sends to ICANN, and Verisign’s quarterly numbers revealed to investors. Each of these numbers is measured differently. For example, some include domains in pending delete, while others don’t. The quarterly number combines .com with .net. The key to measuring .com over time is to use consistent numbers. To compare apples to ... read more ...
Sun 3rd August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
Onlar kimseye ait değil! - ICANN'in açıklamasına göre, ülkelerin "internet alan adları" ülkelere veya bir başkasına ait değil. İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore'yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD'lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New .Co Site Making National News: ManServants.Co & Frank Schilling Owns The .Com - A new site launched on a .Co domain name is getting some national news coverage, I saw a feature on the site on Fox News yesterday. The site is ManServants.co By the way not that it’s going to come as any shock to anyone in the domain name space, Frank Schilling’s Name Administration owns the domain name ManServants.com So to start with what is a Man Servant you ask? According to the site a Man Servant just to start with will: According to the company’s blog, the San Francisco-based startup  ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – August 2014 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Fighting To Keep Contract Worth Half of Their Annual Revenues - Neustar is fighting to keep a contract that makes up over half of its revenue and it has nothing to do with domain names. The company has been in charge of a major governmental telecommunications contract for the last 17 years. The contract deals with the local number portability administrator (LNPA), which helps phone subscribers keep their numbers when switching carriers. The company is now looking to do whatever it can to keep Telcordia, a division of Ericsson, from taking over. Bloomberg noted ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Tells US Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" / WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a US federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered "property," and thus cannot be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, who are trying to obtain the assets of countries that they argued have supported terrorism, a press release by the ... read more ...
Sat 2nd August 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
Yerel alan adı uzantıları kimin? - ICANN'in açıklamasına göre, ülkelerin "internet alan adları" ülkelere veya bir başkasına ait değil. İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore'yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD'lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, ... read more ...