Tue 24th June 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Internet-Domains: Google wird zum Registrar - Bei Google wird man bald auch Domains registrieren können, Strohmann-Dienst inklusive. Derzeit ist es ein Beta-Test "nur auf Einladung". Google steigt in das Geschäft mit Domain-Registrierungen ein. In absehbarer Zeit wird es möglich sein, bei dem Datenkonzern Domains aller Art zu registrieren. Der Dienst heißt Google Domains und läuft bereits als Beta-Test, zur Teilnahme ist eine Einladung erforderlich. Google strebt nach eigenen Angaben danach, möglichst viele der ... read more ...
 
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Brits confused by new TLDs, survey indicates - Ravi Mandalia On June 24, 2014 According to a survey carried out by domain marketplace Sedo, nearly half of all Brits are unaware about new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) making UK the second most unaware country as far as TLDs is concerned. Out of the 1,150 individuals who were surveyed from the UK, US, China ... read more ...
 
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France sparks .wine address row ahead of Icann meeting - 23 June 2014 Last updated at 14:17 By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Champagne must be called sparkling wine if it is not produced in the French region of that name France has expressed anger at the organisation responsible for assigning internet domains over the planned launch of .wine and .vin addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry inks placement understanding with GoDaddy - Frank Schilling’s registry finally comes to agreement with GoDaddy. Frank Schilling’s registry Uniregistry has signed a registry-registrar agreement with GoDaddy, paving the way for its top level domains to show up on the world’s largest domain name registrar. The ink on the agreement is barely dry, so you won’t find Uniregstry’s names on GoDaddy just yet. It’s possible they’ll be available at the registrar before the general availability of .christmas ... read more ...
 
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Web.com and Endurance shares pummeled in arise of Google’s registrar play - Web.com and Endurance get hit in wake of Google registrar announcement. Some publicly traded domain name registrars have seen their stock prices hammered this morning after Google announced its entry into the retail registrar market yesterday. Shares of Web.com (WWWW) are down about 18% with at least one analyst lowering its outlook for the stock due to Google’s move. Endurance International (EIGI), which is generally considered the second largest domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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Over 800,000 domain names dangling due to 2013 RAA - Verification requirement ensnares hundreds of thousands of domain names. One of the requirements for domain name registrars under the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement is that they must verify the contact details of registrants. Most registrars are fulfilling this requirement by sending an email to registrants asking them to click a link to confirm. Registrars must suspend domain names if owners don’t verify their information. We’ve had one-off examples of ... read more ...
 
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Google’s CIO to plead new TLDs during Google I/O - Session will help progress toward universal acceptance of new TLDs. Google’s developer-focused conference Google I/O kicks off tomorrow, and one of the sessions will focus on new TLDs. CIO Ben Fried will lead a presentation about new top level domain names at 1PM CDTPDT on June 25. The presentation will be streamed live on the web. Here’s the description: Who cares about new domain names? We do. If you want happy users, then you should too The first new generic ... read more ...
 
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Why Google is apropos a domain name registrar & what it means for a business - Google is becoming a public domain name registrar. Here’s why. A few months ago a prominent figure in the domain name industry told me a prediction: in a short time, GoDaddy will no longer be the top domain name registrar. It will be Google. That was quite a bold prediction given that, at the time, Google didn’t even offer domain name registrations to the public. It only referred people to other registrars. Yesterday Google announced that it’s moving into the ... read more ...
 
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Pictures from a biggest domain name eventuality ever - Scenes from the first day of ICANN 50 in London. Close to 3,500 people registered for the ICANN 50 meeting in London this week, making it the biggest domain-name related event ever. The surge in attendance has to do with a confluence of events, especially the U.S. government’s recent plans to eventually no longer be involved with the contract related to IANA functionality. ICANN books meeting venues well in advance, so it wasn’t able to switch up venues to accommodate ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2014
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.NGO domain name: a go or no go for charities and NGOs? - Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) released more than 1,000 new top-level domain names, or “TLDs”. You will recognise .com and .co.uk domain names, as well as the TLD favoured by charities – .org or org.uk. But with the slew of new domain suffixes, from .ngo to .xyz (yes, there really is a .xyz domain), it is now more difficult than ever to understand what you as a charity of not-for-profits to focus on. For example, if you live or work in the ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Stolen Three Letter .Com, IDA.com Awarded Back To Owner In UDRP After Godaddy Acct Hacked -     The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (“the Centre”) one of the “new” UDRP providers returned the allegedly stolen domain name IDA.com to World Hair Cosmetics Co Ltd, of Hong Kong which owned the domain since  2005. The panel writes: “In April, 2014, the Complainant discovered that its account with GoDaddy.com had been hacked and that, as a result, the Registrar had been changed to PublicDomain Registry Ltd and the Complainant was no longer the registrant. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Does gTLD Registration Volume Measure Success? - For some time, the measure of success of a TLD was volume of registrations, or strictly speaking, Domains Under Management (DUMs). Who better than .com to validate the truth of that metric? More recently, this same metric has been applied to new gTLDs, especially those who achieve volume quickly, by whatever means necessary. These gTLDs are fawned over, written about, and effectively set up as the standard for other gTLDs to aspire to. But I'd like to challenge that notion. The quick accumulation ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch Covers The New Google Domains Registrar & Google Talks About … - TechCrunch.com just covered the new Google Domains name registrar. The only surprise for TechCrunch is that its taken Google so long to get into the business: “The move makes enough sense that it’s actually kind if surprising that it’s taken Google this long. ” “While domains aren’t generally considered a massive-margin business, they’ve always seemed like a glaring omission in Google’s offerings; a missing puzzle piece, almost. Need email for your domain? Google does that. Need ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch Covers The New Google Domains Registrar & Google Talks About New gTLD’s - TechCrunch.com just covered the new Google Domains name registrar. The only surprise for TechCrunch is that its taken Google so long to get into the business: “The move makes enough sense that it’s actually kind if surprising that it’s taken Google this long. ” “While domains aren’t generally considered a massive-margin business, they’ve always seemed like a glaring omission in Google’s offerings; a missing puzzle piece, almost. Need email for your domain? Google does that. Need ... read more ...
 
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The .Wine Domains are Coming, and France Is Shockingly Not Amused - Jul 2, 2014 9:55AM ET  /  812 Views Game of Thrones By Polly Mosendz Useless messaging apps are certainly having a moment, but now, we are seeing a whole new level of ... read more ...
 
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This Is Why France Is Fighting a .Wine Domain Tooth and Nail - These domains could threaten France's desire to "preserve the cultural diversity" built on Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. Time.com Subscribe Newsletters Feedback Privacy Policy California Privacy Rights Terms of Use Ad Choices Subscribe TAP TIME Tech Tech The Ay commune in France's Champagne region, where grapes are harvested ... read more ...
 
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In A Very Long Opinion The UDRP On Dune.com Is Denied Did DomainSponsor Save The Day? - Dune Holdings Limited of London, United Kingdom just lost its attempt to grab the domain Dune.com The domain holder Jeffrey Greenberg was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. who also represents my company has owned the domain since 2004. The opinion is unusually long and contains not only the majority opinion but two separate Concurring opinions thereby all three panelist filed an opinion in this case. The majority UDRP opinion was written by Adam Taylor. The panel decided the case solely on the ... read more ...
 
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AFNIC Examines the 50/50 Theory for New TLDs - AFNIC recently conducted a test examining validity of the claim that the number of domain names registered by the end of the 1st day of the public opening of a TLD amounts to 50% of the stock that the TLD will achieve by the end of its 1st month, and that the latter number will represent 50% of the stock at the end of the 1st year. Related topics: Top-Level Domains ... read more ...
 
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La Région s’offre le « .alsace », un coin sur le net - Effectivement, le process est très long, mais le dossier est complexe, il y a eu le dossier de candidature, puis le dépôt du dossier à l’Icann, puis des discussions avec l’Icann puis la validation du dossier, puis la préparation et discussion du contrat, et enfin la signature officielle du contrat aujourd’hui (et je passe volontairement des étapes). La signature est une vraie info fraiche, même si, pour ceux qui suivent le dossier, cette signature était dans « le pipe » depuis ... read more ...
 
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The United States Federal Government Now Owns Escorts.com - It was back in November 2011 that we reported that  National A-1 Advertising Inc. and R.S. Duffy Inc. agreed to plead guilty to money laundering and will forfeit $4.9 million in revenue, pay a $1.5 million fine and serve 1 1/2 years of probation for its activities in operating Escorts.com as well as forfeiting the domain names Escort.com and  Escorts.com. However the domain names have stayed in the name of R.S. Duffy Inc until today when then domain name Escorts.com changed ownership information ... read more ...
 
 
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New Domain Name Study: China More Advanced - Sedo shared the results of a study it conducted to gauge awareness about the new gTLD domain names by people in several countries. Sedo published the results of its “International TLD Awareness Report” on its website (pdf), and I thought I would share some of the key themes from the study that were published and shared with me this morning. Keep in mind that this was a broad study, but it wasn’t huge, as it “queried more than 1,150 individuals from the United States, United Kingdom, ... read more ...
 
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Hotellerie erhält Zuschlag für Internet-Endung «.hotel» - Für die Top-Level-Domain (TLD) «.hotel» gab es insgesamt sieben unterschiedliche Bewerber, wobei allein Hotel Top-Level-Domain S.à.r.l. mit Sitz in Luxemburg die Unterstützung der Hotellerie hatte, darunter hotelleriesuisse, HOTREC und die International Hotel Restaurant Association (IHRA), und letztlich eine erfolgreiche Community-Bewerbung abgeben konnte. Diese Community-Bewerbung sieht vor, dass sich ausschliesslich Hotels, Hotelketten, Hotelverbände und Hotel-Marketingorganisationen ... read more ...
 
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$50,000 Per Post for Breaking A Social Media Contract ? - Social Media is finding its way into prenuptial agreements. Social Media clauses are being put into prenuptial agreements in case of marriages going bad and one spouse tweeting say a nude pic of their former love. According to Fox News some couples are agreeing to pay one another $50,000 per post if they break the social media contract. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com   ... read more ...
 
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Research on New Internet Domain Names Shows U.S. and Europe Lag Behind … - Sedo, the world's largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the findings of a survey that queried more than 1,150 individuals from the United States, United Kingdom, China and Germany about their perception and awareness of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). The survey, conducted in May 2014, revealed a number of insights into the global domain name market, including data showing that China is much more advanced than the other countries when it comes to awareness of new top-level ... read more ...