Tue 10th June 2014
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3675 Registrations; .Trade 3235; .Bid … - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018 - Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s population), up from 2.5 billion in 2013 By 2018, there will be 21 billion networked devices and connections globally, up from 12 billion in 2013 Globally, the average fixed broadband connection speed will increase 2.6-fold, from 16 Mbps in 2013 to 42 Mbps by 2018 Globally, ... read more ...
 
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Dot-UK launch: why do we need new domain names? - In theory, this is an opportunity for brands to tailor their online presence to specific audiences. By registering addresses with suffixes such as .radio, .blog and .hotel, for example, companies will not only make their websites more memorable, but will also be immediately identifiable to both customers and competitors. The launch of new location-based domains also allows organisations in those regions to establish a sense of local identity. According to research conducted ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629 - Famous Four Media launched their first new gTLDs yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th  most registered new gTLD. .Trade followed close behind with  3,235 while .Bid managed to get just 629 registrations. All three new gTLDs  were priced the same,  from what I saw between $25 and $40 (but i did not check every registrar). Keep in mind unlike Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions - Minds + Machines Group, the company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, (LON:MMX) released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD strings it applied for. During 2013 M+M participated in six private auctions in which it netted £4.1m, in addition to picking up two more new gTLD Strings .fishing and .casa CEO Antony Van Couvering ... read more ...
 
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Owner of x.uk expects a brief web residence to fetch a record £10m - The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first  Brit to make the switch to .UK and the second story out this morning is about X.UK and a possible 10 Million GBP sale. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to switch to a .UK domain From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes available for the first time. The presenter is making the change from .com to a .uk address, after having expressed ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines bidding to grow - One-off gains saw Internet domains seller Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) move into the black in 2013. The company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, made a profit of £4.12mln from losing one more generic top level domain (gTLD) auction than it won in 2013; under the domain name auction system, the winning bid is divided among the losing contestants. The net gain from gTLD auctions pushed the company into the black, with a profit before tax of £729,000 versus a loss of £3.06mln the year ... read more ...
 
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"Shorter, sharper" .uk domain arrives - Gallery By Jane McCallion Posted on 10 Jun 2014 at 10:27 UK domain name registry Nominet is rolling out a new ".uk" top-level domain (TLD) name for UK-based websites. The new "shorter, sharper" .uk url suffix will not replace the commonly seen .co.uk, .org.uk, or .gov.uk domain names. "For most businesses, it is about having more choice," Eleanor ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live MondayJUNE 8, 2014 BY MICHAEL BERKENSFamous Four which applied for over 60 new gTLD’s first new gTLD’s are .Webcam, .Trade and .Bid.All three new gTLD’s are priced at $39.95 at Godaddy and are of course available at a ton of registrars.I would assume that .Webcam will do the best of the three with a heavy adult influence.According to its site, “”Famous Four Media, (FFM) was set up in 2011 by a small group of recognized domain name experts and successful ... read more ...
 
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EnCirca Supporting All New Travel-related Top-Level Domains - 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 • .villas • .voyage • .webcam “Business ... read more ...
 
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.Co.com drops pricing on “Premium” domain names, releases reserved - Company will slash prices on premium domains and offer many reserved domains at regular prices. .Co.com, a new third level domain name option, is dropping prices on premium domain names and has removed tens of thousands of domain names from its reserved names list. The company released a list of the previously reserved domain names that are now available for registration in a blog post. The list includes some metrics, but not the actual traffic the domains receive. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets obvious for “Domain name steal protection” - Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional patent of an application I wrote about in 2008. The earlier patent application hasn’t been granted yet. The majority of the patent is about whois proxy services (e.g. DomainsByProxy) rather than domain theft prevent; It’s a ... read more ...
 
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One Domain Investor obliged for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations - One investor responsible for most initial domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for the bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655 domain names to reach 3,678. Approximately 3,100 of them were registered at registrar Encirca by a single domain name investor. .Trade got 3,197 registrations to reach 3,235. I count nearly 2,400 of them registered ... read more ...
 
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Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games - .Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came to Austin for the first time this past weekend. The young audience is a great target for the .ninja domain name, and .Ninja owner Rightside was there promoting the new name. The company sponsored a laser tag center and had a booth ... read more ...
Mon 9th June 2014
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New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time - The New York Times is reporting that talk of a Go Daddy IPO is  just like their new slogan states, Its Go Time, as it filed it S-1 with the SEC today. According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year but  continues to lose money as it reported a $199.9 million loss for 2013, which is narrower than its $279.1 million loss in 2012. Blake Irving appears to have a ... read more ...
 
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Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud - Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud.  PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the display URL of their own advertisement. From the article: When you first hear about PPC fraud rings, you tend to think of click fraud where an automated system, not a real person, is generating fake clicks on an advertiser’s ad. However, PPC impersonation ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Community Objection Standing Analysis - The notion of community has been debated since the inception of the ICANN New gTLD Program. However, as far as we know no one has yet taken a holistic approach to analyzing the wealth of information generated by the experts who participated in the ICANN New gTLD community objection process. As a community applicant for .eco on behalf of the environmental community, Big Room Inc. has a keen interest in understanding how independent experts are interpreting the ICANN notion of community. The ... read more ...
 
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for … - I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don’t get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with Build, not end with Build so selfconfidence.build doesn’t make that much sense as the proper term using in ... read more ...
 
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid - I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I don’t get these. Many of the terms make sense but they are backwards. Many of these domain would be good domains, except that the terms starts with Build, not end with Build so selfconfidence.build doesn’t make that much sense as the proper term using in ... read more ...
 
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Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com - As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names. As usual we do not point out typo’s but mostly domain names that seem to be right in the wheel house of a trademark holders. Trademark holders have been complaining (and rightly so) about the cost of defensive registrations when it comes to new gTLD’s but these domains are all .com and many have traffic. All of these domains were ... read more ...
 
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gTLD registrations soar, but many brands are falling behind - The number of new gTLD registrations has broken the million mark, with ‘xyz’ supplanting ‘.club’ as the most popular string. While online discussion centres on just how it achieved this feat, an equally interesting question is how much of the demand has come from big brands. At the end of May, World Trademark Review reported that, with heavyweight endorser 50 Cent throwing his weight behind the string, ‘.club’ had shot to the top of the gTLD registrations table. Over the past ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam - In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were ” for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry” including Tube.Webcam; Asian.Webcam MILF.Webcam With this sale Famous Four has basically made back the money it spent acquiring the extension. Andy Churley, Chief Marketing Officer at Famous Four Media is quoted as saying, “We are delighted ... read more ...
 
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Neue Endungen verändern das Netz - Zukünftig werden die kuriosesten Endungen bei Internetadressen möglich sein. Die Auswahl an verfügbaren Internetadressen nimmt stetig ab. Aber das soll sich jetzt ändern. Die Einführung der neuen Top-Level-Domains bietet eine bis dato unbekannte Vielfalt an individuellen Kombinationsmöglichkeiten bei der Namensgebung einer Internet-Adresse. So ist es beispielsweise möglich, dass sich Experten unter anderem die Endung .guru statt .de geben können. Die Auswahl an verfügbaren ... read more ...
 
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8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing - GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It breaks down like this: $672M from domains (and add-ons like privacy), $381M from hosting and $77M from business apps. Oh, and 24% of the revenue comes from its Customer Service reps selling to customers. 3. Its GAAP loss was $199.9M ... read more ...