Mon 12th October 2015
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University of Cambridge loses box opposite Cambridge.com - University “seriously misdescribed” website in attempt to win transfer of site. The University of Cambridge has lost a cybersquatting dispute against the owner of Cambridge.com. The panel found that the University and its lawyers Stobbs IP Limited also “seriously misdescribed” contents of the domain name owner’s website. Kirkland Holdings LLC bought the Cambridge.com domain name in 2010 for $85,000. It subsequently created a website for Cambridge, United States and Cambridge, UK on the ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD's: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign "Doesn't Have Much To Worry About" - Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled “The New Domain Name Game” and concluded when it comes to new gTLD’s (new domain name extensions): “It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. “Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 to 46.6% in 2014) and will probably continue to decline in the future due to higher competition ... read more ...
 
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Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines – DNW Podcast #54 - Minds + Machines’ CEO returns to the podcast to talk about new domain names. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering is back on the podcast this week. He discusses what’s happening with new top level domain names and how his company is responding. He also explains how people can partner with Minds + Machines, either to help sell domain names to communities or to develop a premium domain name into a web destination. Also: Scooping corporate plans, Frank Schilling ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Name Report: Over 200 names - Which do domainers need – a PriceTracker.com or a ProblemGamblingGuide.com? Both! But we’re incorrigible gamblers; so naturally we spent more to learn how to spend ($7.4k) than how not to spend ($1.6k). Indeed, PriceTracker.com was last week’s top expired domain at NameJet. Obviously, the domain can aim at a mass e-commerce audience. So if you’ve been hankering for an electric back scratcher that hums Brahms’s lullaby, track it till the blowout sale! Within the domain market right ... read more ...
 
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Avec TLD, SKF, Faiveley, la Touraine s’affirme à l’international ! - SKF inaugurera mi-octobre une plateforme d’excellence. Faiveley Transport, récemment racheté par une entreprise américaine, décroche un gros contrat auprès de la RATP. L’entreprise TLD s’étend sur le site de Sorigny. Coup de projecteur sur ces entreprises qui font rayonner la Touraine à l’international. SAINT-CYR, LA VITRINE DU SUÉDOIS SKFLe 13 octobre prochain, l’équipementier industriel suédois SKF, basé à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, inaugurera une nouvelle plateforme ... read more ...
 
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Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction - .Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go. According to the stats shown on the GoDaddy auction page, the 22 year old domain is estimated to get almost 7,000 visitors a month. Arguably the domain name Health.org is one of the top 5 best possible and most valuable .org domain names. As of publication there are only 17 active bidders on the domain, but the only way to become an active bidder is to top the current high bid ... read more ...
 
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New Domain Extension .Cloud Announces 1st Three Pioneers: Sets Out Launch Dates - The new domain name extension .cloud, announced today over the coming weeks, more than 30 Pioneers will begin using .cloud domains starting with ScreenCloud, a London-founded SaaS company, which is “creating powerful, easy-to-use products to help businesses and retailers take control of their digital signage. Screen.Cloud has built the new. cloud into its entire company branding, recognizing the relevance of the domain over a standard .com alternative.” “Pioneers range from market leaders ... read more ...
 
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Company Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) Rally 3.06% - Shares of Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) rose by 3.06% in the past week and 8.89% for the last 4 weeks. The shares have underperformed the SP 500 by 0.19% during the past week but Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) has outperformed the index in 4 weeks by 5.99%.Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) rose 0.75% or 0.06 points on Friday and made its way into the gainers of the day. After trading began at $8.05 the stock was seen hitting $8.34 as a peak level and $7.83 as the lowest level. The stock ... read more ...
Sun 11th October 2015
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Community bid for ‘.gay’ web domains rejected again - A group representing the LGBT community has had its bid to control ‘.gay’ domains rejected by internet watchdog ICANN. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handles the creation of new top level domains (TLD) to rival .com and .org – from .ninja to .eco. The body was criticized last year when it refused to hand over control of the ‘.gay’ ... read more ...
 
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Application for .gay web domain turned down - It wants to run .gay as a "community TLD", meaning it would operate the registry of websites on behalf of the gay community. But its evaluation, carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of ICANN, said the .gay string did not match the community that dotgay claims to represent, which includes "male or female homosexuals, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, ally and many other terminology" according to its application. "The Community Priority Evaluation panel has determined that ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures - .Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd. .Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP) .Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names. Godaddy has had a policy for all new gTLD launches, if more than 1 person pre-registers a domain name and they catch the domain, then the domain ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces New Registry Termination Webpage – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces New Registry Termination Webpage / LOS ANGELES - ICANN launched a new gTLD Registry Agreement Termination Information Page on icann.org. This webpage will be the source of all current information related to any requests for termination of a gTLD Registry Agreement, a press release by the Corporation stated. Under the gTLD Registry Agreement, a Registry Operator or ICANN may terminate pursuant to certain requirements. ... read more ...
Sat 10th October 2015
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Better Pay Attention As ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Changes To UDRP & URS - “The report makes it clear that UDRP reform is going to be on the table and well as the addition of NEW RPM meaning its possible that a new procedure in addition to The UDRP and the URS might be recommend. “The UDRP was created in 1999 to resolve disputes concerning disputes over entitlement to domain names registered at the second level of the DNS. It is an ICANN Consensus Policy that is applicable to all gTLDs, including those launching under the New gTLD Program. The uniform operation of ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List - .NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage of the list contains a lot of nonsensical domains, containing random letters and/or numbers or are otherwise ... read more ...
 
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L’étude par l’ICANN des noms de domaine en 2 caractères lettre+lettre -   Partager cet article :Quels noms de domaines acceptés en 2 caractères ?Les règles concernant les noms de domaine à 2 caractères ne sont pas identiques selon que ce soit un ccTLD ou un gTLD.Lorsque l’on parle de ccTLD, les règles sont établies par les registres locaux. En 2015, on a pu voir la libération des 1 et 2 caractères pour certaines extensions, comme le .FR ou le .IE, toutes combinaisons confondues.En revanche, pour les gTLDs, une grande partie de la politique de nommage est ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 12 au 18 octobre 2015 -   Partager cet article :De nouvelles extensions très variées pour cette semaine de lancement. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :15/10 – .forex15/10 – .brokerFermeture période Sunrise :17/10 – .studio17/10 – .liveFermeture période landrush :15/10 – .xinOuverture période EAP :12/10 – .law12/10 – .abogadoOuverture à tous :14/10 – .studySi vous êtes intéressé, ... read more ...
 
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gTLD Sunrise periods now open – September 2015 - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods. Please contact us or see our December 2013 newsletter for information as to what the Sunrise Periods is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period. As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: .corsica .film .krd .game .study .studio .live .gdn .sex .xn--hxt814e ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start - We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don’t see on a website of one the largest corporation’s on earth: ... read more ...
 
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Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700 -   A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. According to its site, “Engage, is a division of INHS, is one of the largest MEDITECH hosting partners in the United States. With 20 years of extensive MEDITECH experience, Engage provides a wide range of infrastructure solutions including hardware refresh, virtualization, data migration, data center migration and implementation. Engage leverages ... read more ...
 
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Hilton rising "True" Or "Tru" hotel brand - Domain name registrations point to name for new hotel brand. It seems that Hilton’s next hotel brand will be called True or Tru. The company just registered a number of domain names for this new brand yesterday: truebyhilton.com truehotelbyhilton.com truehotelsbyhilton.com truhotelbyhilton.com truhotelsbyhilton.com The hotelier recently launched the Canopy brand aimed at millennials. Hilton has also discussed a new low-to-mid-tier brand to fill a void in the company’s brands. Once again, domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Brokers The Domain Adopting.com For $125,000 -   DomainHoldings.com has brokered the domain name Adopting.com for $125,000 according to a blog post. The purchaser of the domain name is Adoptimist.com. The blog post gives a few  details on the negotiation and sale. The post also says: On par with adopting of the single word variety there are: Adopt.com Adoption.com Adopted.com I think there are a few more including adopts.com adoptions.com. However to note adoption.com doesn’t seem to be going anywhere unless you buy the whole company nor ... read more ...
 
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Now this is a good UDRP panelist… - Panelist spends a few extra minutes to avoid an injustice. A UDRP panelist who doesn’t take the easy way out in a case where the respondent doesn’t reply? Meet Nick J. Gardner. Gardner decided a recent case in which German company MAGIX Software GmbH filed a UDRP against the U.S. owner of MusicMaker.com. The domain name was registered in 1996. Given that it was so long ago, the whois lists the owner as The Music Connection, and Music Maker is a descriptive term, Gardner decided to do some basic ... read more ...
 
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Wow: DropCatch adds 300 some-more registrars, now has 752 - Company increases stable of registrars going after dropping domains. The company behind expired domain name catching service DropCatch.com has adding 300 more accredited registrars to its arsenal, and now has a whopping 752 registrars. This is according to ICANN’s public list of accredited registrars. DropCatch.com, which is owned by the same people behind HugeDomains and NameBright, is a traditional expired domain service that goes after domain names when they fully delete after pending delete. ... read more ...
 
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.Gay fails village test, again - Queue the complaints about ICANN again…even though it’s not its fault. dotgay LLC, an applicant for the .Gay top level domain name that was seeking community status, has once again failed (pdf) to convince an independent panel that it qualifies. The company lost its Community Priority Evaluation last year, with the panel ruling in part: “The applied-for string neither matches the name of the community as defined by the application nor does it identify the defined community without over-reaching ... read more ...
 
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Kleine Unternehmen: Eigene Webseite für den Geschäftserfolg -

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45 Millionen: Blauer Diamant für Rekordpreis versteigert

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Italiener Grandi wird neuer UN-Flüchtlingskommissar

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Leiche gefunden nach Haus-Explosion in Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Flugbegleiter-Streik trifft wieder tausende Passagiere

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Berichte: Bundesregierung will mehr Soldaten in Afghanistan

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