Fri 28th August 2015
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New .LOVE TLD Enjoying Strong Sales - The new .LOVE TLD [Top Level Domain] has successfully launched on the Internet (more details available at http://www.get.love) and is rapidly selling web domain names to couples, individuals, and businesses. Beijing, China (PRWEB UK) 28 August 2015 "We are delighted with the growth of our domain sales, especially in the past week. Beginning with the Qixi Festival on August 20 (which falls on the ... read more ...
 
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Relatório mostra que testes em Libra podem ficar para 2017 - Considerado prioridade no Plano de Negócios da Petrobras para o próximo ano, o Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) da área de Libra, no pré-sal da Bacia de Santos, pode ficar para 2017. O teste funciona como um ensaio de produção na área de fato, que deve ocorrer em 2020. A perspectiva de atraso é da empresa estatal Pré-sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA), representante da União na exploração e desenvolvimento da principal área do pré-sal já descoberta e a primeira a ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity ? - A couple years ago after some famous website hack, I was sitting in a Chipolte and said to a friend that somewhere down the road companies are going to get sued big time for getting hacked if they were lax in their security. My friend told me I was an absolute moron. His take was that a company did not ask to be hacked and would have no way of knowing if they would be hacked. So today I was reading an article on AboveTheLaw.com, the headline “Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity? (Spoilers: ... read more ...
 
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From .COM and .NET to .XYZ and .WTF? - A gTLD is a generic-use top level domain extension (e.g. com, .org, .net, .gov, etc.) available to registrants for use regarding any purpose and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).  Most people have come to think of “.com” as the most credible gTLD to tie to our business-related website, but recently, buzz has been generated regarding the new gTLD application system, which launched in 2012.  The new gTLD system may allow for the registration ... read more ...
 
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Meet The Owners of The Domain Twins.com And It's Not MLB, Actual Twins - Grantland.com did a long and very detailed article about “the website MLB couldn’t buy” and that website in reference is to one of only 3 domain names NOT owned by Major League Baseball (MLB), Twins.com. The story states: The Millers told me that they staked their claim to Twins.com so early that they got it for free. It was the era of Internet land grabs, when all one had to do to rope off a URL was be the first one with the impulse. (They admiringly mention a friend of theirs, Jeff, who “scored,” ... read more ...
 
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Relatório mostra que testes em Libra podem ficar para 2017 - Considerado prioridade no Plano de Negócios da Petrobras para o próximo ano, o Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) da área de Libra, no pré-sal da Bacia de Santos, pode ficar para 2017. O teste funciona como um ensaio de produção na área de fato, que deve ocorrer em 2020. A perspectiva de atraso é da empresa estatal Pré-sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA), representante da União na exploração e desenvolvimento da principal área do pré-sal já descoberta e a primeira a ir a leilão sob regime de partilha ... read more ...
 
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One Guys Registered 15 Domains At $12,500 On .Loans/.Credit - .Loans and .Credit were two of the new gTLD extensions that went into the 1st day of the Early Access Program for collision domain names (EAP) Period yesterday and one guy, Ken Bramon of KB Productions Kirkland Canada spent around $180,000 registering new gTLD domain names. The wholesale cost to registrars a domain name is day one of EAP is $10,000. As each registrar sets the retail price I’m not sure what Mr. Bramon paid, he registered the domains with Enom.com and he could have a discounted ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy introduces dual cause authentication outward U.S. - Security tool expanded to 185 countries. Non-U.S. customers of GoDaddy can now activate two-factor authentication to add security to their accounts. The service has been available in the U.S. for several years, and international customers have been asking for it. The SMS-based system sends a text message to customers after they enter their standard login credentials. They must enter a code from the text message before gaining access to their account. In theory, this means someone would have to obtain ... read more ...
 
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.Online domain name registrations by a numbers - A look inside .Online’s strong debut. By all accounts, .Online had a great first day yesterday. It got over 30,000 registrations. Its overnight zone file now sits at about 35,000 names. I dug through the zone file to look for patterns. Here’s what I found… Here are three companies that registered a lot of domains. There might be others, but these companies pointed the names to their corporate nameservers: Microsoft – 40 domains including msn.online, skype.online and windows10.online Bank ... read more ...
 
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Progressive Specialty Glass Company nailed for RDNH - Company fails to even make a prima facie of lack of rights or legitimate interest. Specialty drinkware company Progressive Specialty Glass Company has engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. National Arbitration Forum panelist Darryl C. Wilson came to this determination after the glass company filed a UDRP against Progressive Specialty Co Inc, a swag maker. Both companies have been in a business for decades, and Progressive Specialty Co Inc. registered the domain name back in 1999. It seems that, ... read more ...
 
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RightoftheDot/4.CN Domain Auction from DOMAINfest.asia is Live & Over 30% Have Bids - The online auction that RightoftheDot.com along with 4.CN are holding, in conjunction with DOMAINfest.asia, went live yesterday  afternoon and out of the 531 domain names in the auction, as of publication 165 of them have  bids which over 30% of the domains in the auction. Moreover 50 of the 165 domain names with bids have more than one bid. There are 14 days to go to auction starts to end. The auction will close over a 4 hour staggered period in blocks of domain names starting on September 10th ... read more ...
 
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Cha-ching: Minds + Machines picks adult another $3.5 million from losing auctions - New TLD company reaps millions from losing .art and .data auctions. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has padded its bank account with another $3.5 million as a result of losing two more top level domain auctions. The company got the money from losing private auctions for .art and .data. Minds + Machines still has an interest in 7 contested strings, so it might pick up even more cash from losing auctions in the future. With about $50 million in its bank account, the company is considering ... read more ...
 
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Thomson Reuters Acquires Premium Domain Name TR.com - According to whois records, MarkMonitor’s parent company, Thomson Reuters has acquired the premium two letter domain name TR.com from Wolters Kluwer US. Wolters Kluwer has owned TR.com since August 2005 and was using the domain name for Telecommunications Reports under the business name CCH Incorporated. Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York City and Toronto according to Wikipedia. Thomson Reuters is a publicly ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Picks Up $3.5 Million For Withdrawing New gTLD Apps For .Art & .Data - Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), today announced the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of over $3.5 million (approximately £2.3 million) for withdrawing its applications for .data and .art. The new gTLD .Art was won by UK Creative Ideas beating 9 other applicants in a private auction including Minds + Machines .Data is still showing on ICANN site as being in contention between Minds + Machines (Top Level Domain Holdings) with Donuts and Dish Networks but apparently that string has been ... read more ...
 
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Challenges for .brands – From Strategy to Implementation Planning - This is the fifth in a series of blog posts discussing the strategic and operational challenges faced by .brand TLD owners and the processes involved in getting them ready for use. Previously I discussed how to turn your ideas into a .brand TLD strategy, which you can read here. While your strategy and objectives speak more broadly to why you're launching a .brand TLD, your implementation plan covers the all-important 'how'. Once you complete your strategy workshop session to agree upon objectives ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2015
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.Online Breaks All New gTLD Records With 28000 Registrations in 1st 30 Minutes - Radix the registry behind .Online entered General Availability earlier today announced that .Online has smashed the record for a new gTLD launch by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1,130 Early Access Program (EAP) orders, the highest number of EAP registrations recorded by any new gTLD domain extension. “Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, ... read more ...
 
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.ONLINE GA Launches with 28000 Registrations in the First 30 Minutes - Radix's much awaited and probably its biggest TLD, .online entered General Availability earlier today. .online has smashed .club's launch record by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1130 EAP orders — the highest EAP registrations recorded by any new domain extension. Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, menus.online, seoul.online, ... read more ...
 
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.Online Breaks All New gTLD Records With 28,000 Registrations in 1st 30 Minutes - Radix the registry behind .Online entered General Availability earlier today announced that .Online has smashed the record for a new gTLD launch by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. After a stellar Sunrise performance, .online closed with 1,130 Early Access Program (EAP) orders, the highest number of EAP registrations recorded by any new gTLD domain extension. “Several customers even paid an additional premium registration fee to grab names like buyit.online, discuss.online, ... read more ...
 
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.Online gets 28,000 registrations in initial 30 minutes - New domain name likely sets launch record for new domain names. The new .online top level domain name received over 28,000 registrations in the first 30 minutes of general availability today. It now has over 30,000 registrations, including 1,130 high priced registrations during the early access period. In addition to being a very popular word tacked onto the end of existing registrations in .com, .Online registry has been heavily promoting the domain name. I received two promotional emails yesterday ... read more ...
 
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Above.com hires Aaron Kvitek to lead marketing - Former Oversee.net VP will lead marketing for domain investing tools provider. Former Oversee.net VP of Marketing and Communications Aaron Kvitek has joined Above.com, which is best known for its domain name parking optimization service. Kvitek was most visible in the domain name business for his work on Oversee.net’s DomainFEST conferences. He is now tasked with improving Above.com’s messaging to the domain name community. The company found that many people didn’t understand that it’s ... read more ...
 
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Pop Artist, Songwriter, Producer & DJ Calvin Harris Files UDRP on CalvinHarris.com - British born music artist Calvin Harris has filed a UDRP on the domain name CalvinHarris.com Calvin Harris is a songwriter, record producer, remixer and DJ and his  second studio album, Ready for the Weekend, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and earned a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry within two months of release. Its lead single, “I’m Not Alone”, became Harris’s first number one on the UK Singles Chart. Calvin Harris holds the record for the ... read more ...
 
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GeekWire Looks during a brands regulating .News - Sometimes when you read an article on a technology website you need to make sure the author is not related to the company in a sponsored content or guest blogger type deal. Many times when I read new gtld stories I see these types of articles, nothing wrong with them but they don’t carry any weight since the author has a vested interest in promoting the topic. I read an article on GeekWire that gave .news and registry owner Rightside a little plug, the author Jacob Demmitt is a staff writer for ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Avia.com, Prelaunch.com, Protect.com & More Domains - Welcome to the ever exciting Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move for one reason or another. The vast majority of these domain name movements are by some of the largest companies in the world! Some are just valuable domain names in general and startups also join the mix! These are often early detection’s that are being reported for the first time and often lead to new brands, services, products and advertising campaigns. Here we go! Vum.com which had a for sale price of $75,000 ... read more ...
 
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18 finish user domain name sales including a .Science domain name - End user domain name sales from the past week. You are getting sleepy…very sleepy…you will visit Domain Name Wire several times a day and visit the advertisers’ sites… Oh, excuse me. I’ve gotten carried away after writing about Hypnosis.science selling for $3,000 to an end user this past week. Sedo had a great week, selling $1.7 million worth of domain names. That total must include a big one that isn’t disclosed. As for what’s disclosed and was purchased by an end user, here’s a ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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The PGA Loses UDRP On The Domain PGAgolfpassport.com - A one member UDRP panel rejected the complaint of the The Professional Golfers’ Association of America of Florida on the domain name pgagolfpassport.com which was registered sometime in 1995 or 1997 Complainant is the largest golf association in the United States, and for decades has used in commerce the mark PGA and of course own domain PGA.com At the time the Complaint was filed, the Domain Name resolved to a website featuring the greeting “Welcome to the Golf Passport.” The “Golf Passport” ... read more ...