Tue 6th October 2015
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.Club Sells $64K In Premium Domains In September - The .Club Registry announced today on its blog that premium name sales for September, including SnapNames auctions, came to $64,423.82. As you read through the report I don’t think there is any other registry as transparent as .Club and that is just one of the reasons that I love working with them through RightoftheDot.com “”September marks the first full month that .CLUB names were available on SnapNames. As of September 30, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB ... read more ...
 
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Justin Hill | Different, But Same - Justin Hill joins team Lucas Oil/Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/KTM. Justin Hill was busy burning laps at the Troy Lee Designs Supercross track this morning, and we caught up with the new Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM rider in between motos to see how he is adapting to his new surroundings. Yeah, back in action for sure. I got landed on in Utah, and that was basically the end of my season. I broke my pinky finger, and I know that doesn’t sound very bad, but what really happened was ... read more ...
 
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Wow: Sedo sole 100 4 minute .com's final week - Four letter domain names are the new three letter domain names. Now that all of the three letter .com bargains have been picked over, it seems investors are on the hunt for the next best thing…four letter domain names. Sedo sold a whopping 100 four character domain names last week. Prices ranged from $749 for bzbs.com and ysyg.com to $25,000 for hips.com. Many of the domain names that were clearly sold to investors sold for several thousand dollars, which might start being a floor for four character ... read more ...
 
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Google bolsters Google Domains, switching to Domains.Google? - Registrar is revving up with simple email connection, more domain options. Google announced today that it’s adding features to its domain name registrar Google Domains, plus expanding the number of domain names it offers. I suspect Google is also getting ready to change the domain name the service is hosted on. The company is making it easier for people to set up email addresses with their new domain names. The registrar also now allows for transfers to other Google accounts, which is known as ... read more ...
 
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Oversee Founder & Former CEO Lawrence Ng Links Up With Metamorphic Ventures -   According to SocalTech.com, Lawrence Ng, the founder and former CEO of Oversee.net, which of course at one time owned DomainSponsor.com, Moniker.com and SnapNames.com along with around a reported one million domain names, is now running an asset management company called LNG Management and has linked up with New York City based venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures. “According to LNG Management, Ng has become an advisory board member for Metamorphic Ventures. LNG said that Ng is incubating ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com foreshadows AWS re:Invent news with domain name registrations - What will Amazon reveal at AWS re:Invent this week? Here are some clues. Amazon.com registered 21 domain names yesterday that likely foreshadow product announcements at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. The company registered 5 internet of things domain names as it prepares to launch a cloud-based service for IOT this week: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com, awsiotservice.com. Here are some other domain name registrations that likely ... read more ...
 
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Thoughts on a latest domain name "scandal" - A comment from Lanny B below… I debated adding to these comments with my own story, I have no desire or intent to destroy Adam, but I do want to protect people in the future from what I and apparently others had to go through. While reading this post there were a few things I was surprised at, but most of it I was not shocked to hear based on my own experience working with Adam for 8 months. Looking back on everything, I should have paid much more attention to all the red flags, and I was ... read more ...
 
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.XXX, .Porn., .Adult & .Sex Start Selling Premium Domains Through Registrars + 2 Characters - ICM Registry (ICM) which operates .xxx as well as the new gTLD’s .porn, .adult and .sex announced today the launch of its tiered-pricing, premium names program for .XXX, .ADULT, .PORN and .SEX.domain names. ICM is joining a growing list of new gTLD registries who are selling the vast majority of its premium domain names through the registrar channel with premium registration and renewal prices. These names include SEO based keywords as well as two character names. ICM will continue sell some of ... read more ...
 
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.Sex Matching Program For .XXX Domain Owners is Open - ICM Registry, the company that operates .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT announced today the launch of its .SEX Domain Matching/Sunrise B program. From now until October 30th, if you own a .XXX domain name, or if you are a trademark owner that reserved a name during the .XXX Sunrise B program, you are eligible to participate in this unique opportunity to register .SEX names before they become available to the general public. This program gives most .XXX participants a priority opportunity to register domain ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names: 320 Premiums Through Registrar Channel - According to a story out today in itnewsonline.com Famous Four Media (FFM) is now selling premium domain names in some of their new gTLD extensions through the registrar channel.  Since launching the premium domain program three months ago FFM has sold 320 domains  ranging in 8 pricing levels. “In the month of August, Famous Four Media reported a transaction value for premium names in excess of $2.1million.” “Famous Four Media’s premium names vary in price from a very affordable $200 through ... read more ...
 
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.Sex domain name enters "matching" period - Companies have 30 days to buy matching domain names. The .Sex top level domain name has exited sunrise and is now available to more registrants. From now until October 30, anyone who owns a .xxx domain name can register a .sex domain name. Also, if you paid to block your .xxx name during the .xxx Sunrise B program, you can now register the matching .sex domain name. ICM Registry, which operates .xxx, .adult, .porn and now .sex, originally planned to hold back any domain name matching an existing ... read more ...
 
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CSC Digital Brand Services Names Martin Brodén Senior Intellectual Property … - WILMINGTON, Del.--(Business Wire)--Corporation Service Company® (CSC®), a global provider of business, legal, and digital brand services, today announced the appointment of Martin Brodén as senior intellectual property advisor for its Digital Brand Services division. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151006005228/en/ Martin Brodén (Photo: Business Wire) ... read more ...
Mon 5th October 2015
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The Mega Church; LifeChurch.TV Switches to Life.Church - According to a press release out tonight, the megachurch known as LifeChurch.tv has changed its domain name to a new gTLD; Life.Church The church, based in Edmond, made the announcement in a news release today saying the change is in anticipation of the ministry’s 20th anniversary in 2016. “Over the past two decades, the church has had three other names including Life Covenant Church, Life Church, and LifeChurch.tv. The change to Life.Church brings both a new name and a new website address to ... read more ...
 
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.WINE New gTLD is Here, Thanks to Politicians - It is no news that the .WINE and .VIN new gTLDs are to be announced soon by Donuts and if the month of November is the very month everybody has been waiting for, at the beginning of the Sunrise Periods, many questions arise regarding the protection of wine geographical indications. Axelle Lemaire There is a lot to say regarding the length of time it took to launch .wine and .vin new gTLDs and, most of all, how difficult it has been to protect its wine Geographical Indications (also called ... read more ...
 
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After 13 Years Luxury Jewelry Brand Chopard Gets HappyDiamonds.com - Chopard International just won control of the domain name HappyDiamonds.com which was registered on November 1, 2002. The domain is going to a parked page and I can tell you as a buyer of Chopard Jewelry the term Happy Diamonds is a major brand for the company and they have held a trademark on the term since 1979. The issue for me is how is it possible for a brand that sells VERY expensive jewelry allow someone to use a direct match domain for 13 years before deciding we should take some action ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Film tip turn domain name launches - It’s more restricted than the already-available .movie. array of registrars. In order to register .film domain names, you must be a member of one of these organizations. You also have to have a close tie to the name(s) you register at the second level. In other words, no speculating in .Film. .Film will compete with Donuts’ .Movie, which has about 650 registrations so far without registration restrictions (but at a hefty $300 retail price). ... read more ...
 
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A mixed week for consumers in ICANNland - ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. The action that strengthens the position of consumers was allowing the inclusion of the Uniform Rapid Suspension to be added to the renewal contracts of several “legacy” (non-new-gTLDs), such as .travel. ICANN was busy this week. In the same week, ICANN both strengthened the position of consumers through one action while weakening it with another. ... read more ...
 
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Richard Lau's Journey, Resume.com and NamesCon – DNW Podcast #53 - Richard Lau tells his story and what to look forward to at NamesCon 2016. Richard Lau’s life hit bottom in 2000. His business was essentially wiped out in one week. Worse, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since then he has perservered in both business and in health. On today’s show, he discusses his journey. He also talks about his Resume.com business and why he started the NamesCon conference, which returns to Las Vegas in January. Also: ICANN heads to Panama, Taco Bell goes with ta.co, .NYC ... read more ...
 
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DollarBank.com Moving Banking Internet Operations To Dollar.Bank -   DollarBank.com announced today it was going to be moving its online banking operations to the domain name Dollar.Bank in October: “.BANK is a new, more secure Internet domain for banks. It is an easily identifiable channel for trusted communications between banks and their customers. Since the .BANK environment is exclusive to the banking industry, it provides a level of security unmatched in traditional Internet environments such as .COM. The strict controls in place help to mitigate cyber ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Remodeling.com, TrueFan.com, Helix.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is always exciting as it is every changing. Large corporations spending some $$$ to secure a brand and you get an early insight into this because of domain name? YES! Large corporations SELLING domain names they already own… it happens and today proves it happens more than just once or twice.. Here is an “insiders view” of some recently purchased, registered and sold domain names by large corporations. These are often future brands, new products, new advertising campaigns and ... read more ...
 
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Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page. According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
 
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.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in June. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June. As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses. But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month ... read more ...
 
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Comcast Launches "Watchable" Video Service, Paid Reported "Six Figures" For Domain Name - Comcast has launched a new digital video platform to take on YouTube, Facebook and more with the brand name of Watchable. Comcast has secured the exact matching .com domain name to use for its newest video brand, with the stand alone website being at: Watchable.com The latest product, Watchable.com, is a free video service and focuses on videos from online services like Vice, BuzzFeed, GoPro and more via an iPhone app, web-based player or directly on Xfinity. So when did Comcast buy the domain name ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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What track is National Car Rental shopping fixing rights to? - A new stadium for the St. Louis Rams? In 2013 I scooped that Levi’s was buying naming rights to a stadium based on domain name registrations. It turned out to be for the NFL 49ers stadium. Recent domain name registrations suggest its National Car Rental’s turn. The company just registered: nationalcararena.com nationalcardome.com nationalcarentalfield.com nationalcarfield.com nationalcarrentalarena.com nationalcarrentaldome.com nationalcarrentalfield.com nationalcarrentalpark.com nationalcarrentalstadium.com nationalcarstadium.com nationalrentalarena.com nationalrentaldome.com nationalrentalfield.com nationalrentalpark.com nationalrentalstadium.com ncrarena.com ncrdome.com ncrfield.com ncrpark.com ncrstadium.com National ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Autodesk, Inc. Purchases Graphic.com Domain Name From GoDaddy.com - Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap. The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015. How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at ... read more ...