Mon 9th June 2014
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GoDaddy files to go open (again) - GoDaddy says “It’s Go Time” for IPO. GoDaddy has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will be the company’s second attempt at an initial public offering. It originally filed to go public in 2006, but later shelved its plans. The company found another way to exit in 2011 when it found an investor in KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. Parsons remained the individual single shareholder in the company after the investment. ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media spinoff Rightside to list on NASDAQ as “NAME”, scores some-more TLDs - NAME is coming soon to the NASDAQ. Demand Media moved one step closer to spinning off its Rightside domain name business today with the filing of an amended registration statement. The company plans to issue new shares for the spinoff that will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker NAME. The SEC filing does not say how many shares of Rightside will be issued for each share of Demand Media stock. Demand Media plans a reverse stock split before the spin off. Rightside ... read more ...
 
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Which new TLD is on top? Here’s one answer. - Search data shows that .directory is winning in terms of total indexed pages. No, this article isn’t about whether .xyz or .club should be considered the most registered new domain name so far. Instead, it’s a different look at how to measure the most successful new top level domain names. Matt Bentley, who you may recall from back in the day at Sedo, now runs a search engine optimization service called CanIRank. He collated some data on how many unique URLs on ... read more ...
 
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This week in new TLDs: Famous Four, Donuts…and .UK? - At least seven new TLDs hit the market this week, and expect a lot of press around second level .uk domain names. Famous Four Media finally gets into the mix this week as it launches its first three top level domain names: .webcam, .trade and .bid. All hit the market today. It already made news this morning with the sale of 15 .webcam domains for a total of $175,000. According to the Calzone.org calendar, .商城 also begins its claims period today. However, the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Sex.sells: 15 .Webcam domains sell for $175k - .Webcam hits premium gold with large sale ahead of launch. Famous Four Media launches its first three top level domain names today, and one of them is off to a nice start thanks to a big premium sale. The company announced today that it has sold a package of 15 adult .webcam domain names for a total of $175,000. While some new TLDs have failed to find their footing with premium domain sales, it seems that the adult community is very interested. Famous Four Media probably ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Microsoft and others bought - Microsoft headlines last week’s Sedo end user sales list. Microsoft is the biggest name on last week’s Sedo end user sales list, but a flower delivery company bought the most expensive (disclosed) domain name. There’s also a .berlin domain name on the list. Below are end user sales I found on the list Sedo sent last week; see previous end user sales here. Bouq.com $40,000 – Flower site The Bouqs. Bouq is short for Bouquet. They have a video that explains ... read more ...
Sun 8th June 2014
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GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...
 
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GeekWire “Buying A New gTLD The Process Really .Sucks” - Kevin Lisota is not a domain investor, instead he is CEO Co-Founder of findwell, a Seattle real estate startup. He wrote a very good article for Geekwire that shows the frustation for many when trying to research and purchase new gtlds. From the article: Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four Media’s first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous 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 ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four’s First New gTLD’s Go Live Monday - Famous Four Media’s first new gTLD extension go live tomorrow Monday June 9th at noon EST. Famous 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 ... read more ...
 
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Google Looking To Create Satellite Network - Tim Beyers at Motley Fool wrote a piece on Google looking to blanket the entire world with some form of broadband. The company is looking to spend upwards of $3billion to develop and launch Google satellites in orbit. From the article: According to The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Larry Page is authorizing between $1 billion and $3 billion for developing and launching 180 small Google satellites into low-Earth orbit. The idea is to supply Internet access via craft similar to (but smaller than) ... read more ...
Sat 7th June 2014
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Baverman: Gold in those new Net domains? - Laura Baverman(Photo: The Enquirer/Gary Landers)Laura Baverman is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based business journalist covering startups and entrepreneurship for regional and national publications. She previously covered entrepreneurship for The Enquirer. Email her at lbaverman@gmail.com.Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domains alternative to .com, .gov or .edu and descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do.Are ... read more ...
 
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Buying a new gTLD domain name? The process .sucks -   Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, this year brings us the release of more than 600 new domain extensions from ICANN. Stuff like .reviews, .ninja or .technology. The expansion of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names is huge and unprecedented in internet history, but the confusion ... read more ...
 
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Dish Network Set to be a largest association in a universe that accepts Bitcoin - In a piece on Reason.com, Paul Best took a look at some recent news related to companies who are now embracing Bitcoin. From Apple to Facebook to Dish Networks. From the article: As government agencies have started assessing ways to regulate Bitcoin, big companies nationwide have begun to warm up to the decentralized, cryptographic currency. Facebook can now be used to send or receive Bitcoin payments with friends through QuickCoin, which launched on May 21. All a user has to do is log in through ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 1 Million (With some Caveats) - New gTLD Domain Name Registrations has just passed the 1 Million domain name mark according to ntldstats.com. The official ntldstats count is 1,001,461. Of course thedomains as well and other blogs have pointed out there should be some caveats to the numbers. For one North Sound Names owned by Frank Schilling who also owns several live new gTLD’s has over 43,000 registrations of the Million + registrations, in his own extensions. The most registered domain extension is .XYZ which is sitting at ... read more ...
 
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Comparing Johnny Football to the New gTLDs - On the drive down to New York City for a daddy / daughter weekend, I listened to Boston sports radio. During one segment, the radio hosts were talking about Johnny Manziel (aka Johnny Football) since the Red Sox recently played in Cleveland, and he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns. Apparently, Johnny Football has been a main topic of discussion for the Cleveland sports writers since being drafted. The Browns and their fans are hoping he becomes a top tier player, but for now, he’s a ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 1 Million (With some Caveats) - New gTLD Domain Name Registrations has just passed the 1 Million domain name mark according to ntldstats.com. The official ntldstats count is 1,001,461. Of course thedomains as well and other blogs have pointed out there should be some caveats to the numbers. For one North Sound Names owned by Frank Schilling who also owns several live new gTLD’s has over 43,000 registrations of the Million + registrations, in his own extensions. The most registered domain extension is .XYZ which is sitting at ... read more ...
 
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.gay And The Quiet War for Gay Internet - This is a story about top level domains or TLDs. The original six are the most popular: .com, .net, .org, .gov, .mil and .edu. And you know, there’s no set number of them — nowhere in any rulebook does it say “we shall only have x amount of top level domains.” You may have started to see a few more: Very, very recently more than 100 new gTLDs have been delegated to the Internet’s Root Zone. Root Zone sounds more exciting than it is, by the by. It’s just the place where all the TLDs ... read more ...
Fri 6th June 2014
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Beastie Boys’ copyright win, Hatch calls for USPTO director, Hershey’s sues pot … - Below is a selection of intellectual property stories attracting attention on the internet in the past week that were not covered on www.managingip.com (see the bottom of this blog post for the top stories published by Managing IP this week). Beasties win fight for their copyright The Beastie Boys this week won a lawsuit against Monster Beverage and were awarded $1.7 million. A federal jury in Manhattan ruled in favour of the ... read more ...
 
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.Club Asks & Answers “How do You Define Succcess” - A very interesting, well written post by Jeff Sass, DOT CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, was posted on their company blog today entitled “How do You Define Success” I assume most of you do not subscribe to the .Club blog and would otherwise miss this post which is worth a read. For those that don’t know .Club on is a client of RightoftheDot.com which is a company I’m a director of Still good is good so with that in mind side here is the post: “As humans, there are many different ways we ... read more ...
 
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.Club Asks & Answers “How do You Define Succcess” - A very interesting, well written post by Jeff Sass, DOT CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, was posted on their company blog today entitled “How do You Define Success” I assume most of you do not subscribe to the .Club blog and would otherwise miss this post which is worth a read. For those that don’t know .Club on is a client of RightoftheDot.com which is a company I’m a director of Still good is good so with that in mind side here is the post: “As humans, there are many different ways we ... read more ...
 
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Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Scandal on the gTLD scene — .xyz … -

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Google Says Keywords In Domain Are Not Needed To Be Successful - Barry Schwartz on SERoundtable.com put up a quick blurb about a comment from Google’s John Mueller. Mueller was apparently responding to a Google Webmaster help question on whether the user needed the keyword in their domain. You don’t need your keywords in your domain name. Websites without them in there rank just fine. Instead of focusing on that specific keyword, I’d recommend spending the time to make your site the absolute best of its kind. Schwartz points out that Mueller has expressed ... read more ...
 
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eBay: Search Ads Have No Measurable Benefit - eBay study warns search ads have ‘no measurable benefit The Guardian did a story on the efficacy of paid search based on a study conducted by eBay From the article: Customers are just as likely to click on natural search results as paid ads, a US study has found, raising questions about the efficacy of the multi-billion dollar search advertising market. The researchers found that most search adverts on most search terms had very little affect on sales at all – and warn that the medium may be ... read more ...
 
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CIO interview: Sheridan Hindle co-operates to replicate IT benefits - There are not that many IT heads who can say that, among their responsibilities, they manage a top-level domain. Midcounties' Sheridan Hindle can. Midcounties Co-op manages the worldwide registry for the .coop top-level domain (TLD) on behalf of the founding sponsor (DotCoop LLC) , which means Hindle's team is ultimately responsible for ensuring .coop email addresses and websites can be found on the internet. The opportunity to take over .coop came along 10 years ago, when Midcounties Co-op acquired ... read more ...