Thu 29th May 2014
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.Ninjas win Wednesday’s conflict of a new TLDs - Ninjas attack cruiselines and vacationers. Ninjas win. Seven new top level domain names hit the market yesterday, and the .Ninjas sliced their way to the most new registrations of any of them. .Ninja recorded 4,535 new registrations in the zone file, which is a pretty good measure of how many domains were registered. (Note: today I’m using data collated by Namestat.org. Some of my zone file access has expired. I, like many others, don’t know why they have to ... read more ...
 
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How many registrations will new TLDs get? - Most people think low five figures. We’re starting to get an idea of how many registrations new top level domain names can expect to get in the short term now that dozens have launched. This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked “On average, how many second level registrations do you expect each new TLD to have one year after general availability for the domain starts?” The median response to this question was 12,000 and the average was 41,054. The average ... read more ...
Wed 28th May 2014
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ExoClick Hits 4 Billion Daily Ad Impressions - ExoClick is now the fifth largest ad network in the world, today they put out a release claiming to have reached a record 4 billion daily ad impressions. ExoClick has seen rapid growth due to its access to the world’s top 1 million websites and the company’s aggressive expansion into mobile which now accounts for 27% of all ExoClick ad impressions, a significant jump from 19.3% back in August 2013 when the company announced it had reached 3 billion daily impressions. ExoClick sees mobile is ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Pulled Back & Reserved Luxury.Villas During EAP After Orders Were Placed - Yesterday we wrote about how Godaddy.com didn’t award us the domain name Luxury.Villas which we ordered last week for registration on the 5th day of the   Early Access Program (EAP) OnlineDomain.com wrote about this domain as being priced at $13,500 for year of registration and renewal just three days ago while the EAP program was already going. Now it seems the domain was reserved by the registry during the EAP period while there were pending orders Here is the Whois on the domain name: “This ... read more ...
 
 
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.XYZ Is Out of Sunrise and into Landrush “With The Most Domainer-Friendly Policies of any TLD” - .XYZ just exited it Sunrise period and is today in Land Rush “with the most domainer-friendly policies of any TLD” “”.xyz’s domainer-friendly policies include: – virtually every domain is available – less than 3,000 names have been reserved (as compared to tens and hundreds of thousands for other gTLDs) – all .xyz domains are available for the standard registration fee – no premium pricing – all .xyz landrush domains renew at the standard renewal rate, making it affordable to ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K - .Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of  3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the list of new gTLD’s with the most domain registrations. .Club become the first new gTLD to top 60,000 registrations, now with 60,412 registrations. There are now 7 new gTLD’s that have more than 30,000 registrations, 15 with 15,000 or more registrations and Today marks the first day that seven other new gTLD’s go into general availability ... read more ...
 
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New Jersey City University opens Logistics Center at BDI – Logistics News, Industry Analysis, Market Research Reports - Related SectorsSupply Chain Related Dates2014 May Related IndustriesTransport and Logistics Warehousing ... read more ...
 
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NJCU Launches Logistics Center at Business Development Incubator - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]> Advances Workforce Innovation through Industry Collaboration May 27, 2014 -- JERSEY CITY, N.J., May 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --New Jersey City University (NJCU) opens Logistics Center at its Business Development Incubator (BDI) with a state-of-the-art operational warehouse environment that will train and certify middle management ... read more ...
 
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After Not Spending $20 To Register His Domains, Attorney Sues WordPress, Google and Web.com - Jeffrey Wilens D/B/A Lakeshore Law Center filed a federal lawsuit today against Google, the parent company of Word Press Automatic, Inc, and the registrar TLDS L.L.C. which appears to be owned by Web.com for trademark infringement and violation of the ACPA on his common law marks of Jeffrey Wilens and Lakeshore Law Center along with a bunch of registrants referred to as “Does” The eight page complaint is in my opinion less than impressive. We will quote from the Complaint below but basically ... read more ...
 
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Walgreens snaps adult general domain names in new TLDs - $67 billion pharmacy chain going after relevant terms in new TLDs. While I was going through .wiki registrations this morning I noticed that pharmacy chain Walgreens registered a number of generic terms under .wiki. It makes sense: why not own Haircare.wiki, Scooters.wiki and Prescriptions.wiki so they can control the conversation, not the other way around. When I started digging in I found that this wasn’t just a play on .wiki. Walgreens has been registering about ... read more ...
 
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Let’s combine on .wiki: A demeanour during who purebred .wiki domains - .Wiki tops 3,000 registrations by first day. Top Level Design released its first new top level domain name yesterday as .wiki hit registrar’s shelves. I count 3,166 domains in the zone file processed last night, which is a solid first day for a new TLD. I take a particular interest in .wiki because of its unique nature as well as my existing domain portfolio. .Wiki is rather unique among new TLDs for a couple reasons. First, it’s generic in the sense that anything ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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Melbourne IT sees growth in web names like .sydney - Martin Mercer: “There’s a lot of top-line momentum to be had in gTLDs – .kiwi went much better than we expected over in New Zealand, but it’s very hard to predict.” James Hutchinson Related Quotes MELB IT FPO (MLB) $ $ (%) View Full Quote » ASX Announcements 27/05/14 Results ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week - Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,000 USD · Top ccTLD: kaffee.de at 100,000 EUR (= “coffee” in German) · Top “other” TLD: password.org at 10,000 EUR Below is the complete report: ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names -

Afternic/GoDaddy expelled a sales news for a week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14.

All sales for a week totalled $1,618,097.

The tip .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000.

The tip non-com sale lead by Awesome.de for $10,000.

Below is a finish report:

Via: thedomains.com

 
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New dots - The internet domain name system is currently going through a major growth spurt. What does this mean for your business? Previously the Domain Name System was defined by only 22 net address extensions or generic top-level domain names (“gTLDs”), including the most popular ‘.com’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org)’ and approximately 250 country code top level domains (such as ‘.ae’ or ‘.qa’).  A dramatic expansion of gTLDs is currently taking place. Since late October 2013, ... read more ...
 
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.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD -       .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still number three on the top 10 fastest growing list but only has a rating of 21. In other new gTLD number news there are now more than ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs revive the internet’s wild west tendencies… - No one is safe In light of Memorial Day weekend, the new gTLD .democrat entered general availability earlier this week. Registrants have been acquiring second-level .democrat domain names since the gTLD’s landrush period began April 17. Rightside, the registry offering the gTLD, does not have any protection mechanisms designed to protect the names of politicians at this time. One of the most interesting second-level domains acquired during landrush was clinton.democrat, which ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money - Last week  ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this domain name Luxury.Villas as a very expensive premium domain. Hexonet for example had the domain for around $9,500  however when I check Godaddy the price was only $169.99, so I went ahead with the registration and Godaddy took my money. Onlinedomain.com chatted ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Spilts On 20 Domains; Domain Holder Keeps Developed Domains Loses Parked Domains - A UDRP panel just awarded several domains to the trademark holder while denying the transfer of others. The only difference to the panel is what the domain owner was doing with the domains. The domain holder got to keep those domains that had “developed websites” on them but but the panel ordered all the parked domains transferred to the trademark holder The Complainant is Blue Diamond Hotels and Resorts Inc and the domain holder is Media Insight of Miami Beach, Florida otherwise known as Vacation ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Signs NameSentry Referral Agreement with Verisign - Related: Press Release, News Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced it has signed a referral agreement with Verisign for NameSentry. Under the terms of the agreement, Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as their back-end registry services provider. Architelos' pioneering NameSentry? service enables new gTLDs to not only ... read more ...
 
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.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD -       .Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still number three on the top 10 fastest growing list but only has a rating of 21. In other new gTLD number news there are now more than ... read more ...
 
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General … - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
 
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
 
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20 finish user domain name sales adult to $25,000 - Mobile app company and environmental consulting company among end user domain name buyers last week. Afternic and GoDaddy sold a combined $1.6 million worth of domain names last week. This is lower than usual, possibly due to the holiday weekend in the U.S. Here are twenty domain sales that involved end users; view previous end user lists here. AppDay.com $20,000 – GetJar, a mobile app discovery service. StandardInsurance.com $25,000 – I’m a bit confused about ... read more ...