Thu 12th June 2014
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Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, though it should have been retreat domain name hijacking - Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularly egregious filing and obvious abuse of the policy. The three person panel found that Egton Medical didn’t prove any of the three prongs of the UDRP. Egton also made ridiculous arguments, such as Health Axis Group’s ownership ... read more ...
 
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EDR: Results and research from over 150 lapsed domain name auctions - In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy.  It’s not surprising, really.  Computing has infiltrated our lives, and smart phones are conquering both the younger generation and the developing world.  But although the #1 spot is about mobile tech, the #2 domain, SmartRoom.com, seems to be ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy End User domain name sales - A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple weeks ago. An additional reason might be the temporary loss of Afternic on its Premium level distribution. Both Afternic and Sedo had to temporarily remove Moniker due to its ongoing problems. GoDaddy’s registration path ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2014
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Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa - There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale as the 240 .ly portfolio closed not meeting the reserve. Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premium domains will “corner the market“, and own some of the greatest domain hacks of all time. Many of the 240 premium domains here are exact match, brandable, and in highly lucrative markets — ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week - Please find the weekly sales list attached to this message. Over the past week, 633 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1MM. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: puzzlerings.com at 18,000 USD · Top ccTLD: casinos.com.br at 10,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: 011.net at 5,800 USD Below is the complete report:   ... read more ...
 
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.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day - According to itproportal.com,  the new .UK extension has surpassed 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain holders with a .co.uk or one of the other variations that will have first crack at getting the shorter address and with prices set below a .com, £3.50 for a single year (about $5 and £2.50 per year About $4 for multiple year ... read more ...
 
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Light.Co Bought For $25K In May On Afternic/Godaddy Raises $9.7 Million - Back in May of this year we reported that the domain name Light.co sold on Afternic/Godaddy for $25,000 A nice price for a nice .Co domain name. Today the Term Sheet is reporting that Light.co, a digital photography startup, has raised $9.7 million in Series A funding. Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV co-led the round, and were joined by Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm exec chairman) and Sanjay Jha (ex-Motorola Mobility CEO). Now the question becomes what is going on with light.com As present the domain does ... read more ...
 
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Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings - One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry in computing its Best Selling gTLD list. NameStat.org is now showing .XYZ with just under 15,000 registrations ... read more ...
 
 
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June 9: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification periods - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
 
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Will WHOIS be assassinated? - 166 page report describes plan to completely scrap WHOIS as we know it. Last year I wrote about a plan to scrap Whois as we know it and replace it with a new Registration Directory Service (RDS). The initial proposal, created by an ICANN working group, was rather complicated and 49 pages long. Now the Expert Working Group has issued its final report. It weighs in at 166 pages and is sure to be a hot topic at the upcoming ICANN meeting in London. I read the executive ... read more ...
 
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Why no RDNH for Thingify.com? - A classic abuse-of-proceeding case, but no RDNH finding. A WIPO panel just handed down a decision in a UDRP for Thingify.com. It follows a familiar story line: 1. Person starts company, but matching .com domain is taken. 2. Company opts to use a different extension, in this case Thingify.net. 3. Company then tries to buy .com but can’t strike a deal at the price it wants. 4. Company files a UDRP it has no chance of winning. In the case of Thingify, Inc, it knew ... read more ...
 
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Sorry, Moniker. It’s Over. - My long relationship with Moniker is coming to an end due to irreconcilable differences. I’ve been a Moniker customer for a decade. Probably longer. I haven’t been a completely satisfied customer, but I have been a content customer. Until a week ago. That’s when Moniker flipped the switch on its new system. It completely scrapped the old Moniker we all knew. It replaced it with KeyDrive’s reseller platform. Unfortunately, the transition has been an unmitigated ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $1.3 Million -

Godaddy/Afternic reported the weekly sales that totaled only over $1.3 Million dollars.

All sales were led by Suzies.com for $62,050 that was owned by a Scottcraft Label Co. out of Marlton, NJ

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Travel and tourism companies now have more choices for online branding - (Forimmediaterelease.net) BOSTON, Massachusetts - Today, EnCirca ( www.encirca.com ) is proud to offer the travel and tourism industry the opportunity to register its trademarks and brand names in several new industry-specific TLDs. Let`s take a jaunt to discover the new generic travel-related TLDs. The following extensions are now available for registration: • .agency • .cruises • .events • .flights • .holiday • .international • .rentals • .travel • .vacations • .viajes • ... read more ...
 
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.Co.Com Releases “Tens Of Thousands” Premium Domains For Landrush -     The .Co.Com registry just announced on their blog, that they were dropping “tens of thousands” premium domains from their reserved list and placing them into availability where they can be immediately registered in the Landrush period. The .Co.Com registry furnished this list (excel) of over 23K formally reserved premium domain names with Google Searches Per Month, Google Competition and Google Suggested Bid for each domain Here is the list: co.com-released-names-june2014 The Co.Com blog ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are … - NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. Its current promotion going out to its customer marketing the  new gTLD  .events features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before.   If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by highlighting  three domain names they should at least make sure the domains are actually available to be registered and not on the reserved ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA - NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. A new promotion going out to all of their customers is marketing the new gTLD  .events. The promotion features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this issue before.   If registrars are going to email their customers to get them to register, or pre-register a new gTLD domain by highlighting  three domain names they should at least make sure the domains are actually available to be registered ... read more ...
 
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Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin - Morgan and Daina Linton’s FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for the latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and world famous entrepreneur Mark Cuban owns part of the company. The news was reported by Xconomy.com Techstars says that more than 1,500 startups applied for this year’s class. The program gives each startup $18,000 in seed funding, provides office space, ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Sponsored Xinnet’s Partner Conference in Nanjing - TLD Registry Sponsored Xinnet's Partner Conference in NanjingTLD Registry's 2nd Principal Sponsorship of China's largest domain name registrar, Xinnet's partner conference roadshow concluded in Nanjing today. China's old southern capital was today the epicentre of China's domain name business, with around 250 of the region's most influential domain resellers gathering to enjoy Xinnet's and TLD Registry's sales trainings and hospitality. TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins ... read more ...
 
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Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month - Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords. Starting later this month they are basically shutting down Adwords advertising for adult sites. “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, hardcore pornography; graphic sexual acts including sex acts such as masturbation; genital, anal, ... read more ...
 
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Nominet: .uk-TLD ohne Präfixe für alle verfügbar - Die Organisation Nominet betreibt und verwaltet die Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .uk für Webseiten aus dem Vereinigten Königreich. Bisher konnten Webseiten aber nicht direkt mit dieser TLD registriert werden. Vielmehr waren unterschiedliche Präfixe als Second-Level-Domains verpflichtend, etwa ac.uk oder co.uk. Diese Einschränkung hebt Nominet ab sofort auf. Der Schauspieler und als Early-Adopter und Technik-Kommentator bekannte Stephen Fry ist mit seiner Webseite bereits umgezogen. Diese soll laut ... read more ...
 
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When Will Your gTLD Investments Be Profitable? - My personal and business opinion is that if I were to buy new gTLD domain names, my investment would be long term rather than the short term investments I prefer to make on behalf of my company. I’ve heard mixed opinions from other people who are buying new gTLD domain names, and I want to hear your opinion on when new gTLD domain investments will be profitable. To clarify this a bit more, I will give you an example of what I mean when I mention profitability. Let’s say you decide to ... read more ...
 
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Nominet launches ‘shorter, sharper’ .uk domain - WEB REGISTRAR Nominet kicked off the .uk generic top-level domain (TLD) for UK individuals and businesses on Tuesday. The launch of the .uk TLD brings the UK in line with other countries that already have a "shorter, sharper" TLD domain, such as Germany and France, which have .de and .fr, respectively. Nominet said that upwards of 10 million existing domain name holders will be given first dibs on the shorter TLD, and have five years to choose whether ... read more ...