Mon 24th August 2015
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Domain Movers: Texture.com, FijiFit.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where I detect domain names on the move, with the majority of the following being acquired or sold by large corporations. The remaining are simply valuable domain names on the move as well for one reason or another. Here we go with the latest domain name registrations, purchases and simply movers: Amazon Technologies, Inc. has registered the domain names AmazonLaunchPad.com and Amazon-LaunchPad.com. They do not own the EMD currently. They also registered AmazonView.com adding ... read more ...
 
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ASEOHosting Comments To Clarify The Local SEO Impact Of New gTLDs - We're concerned that confusion around the newer domains, which can appear to be localized to specific regions even though they aren't, will influence web owners to invest in domains that will not have the inherent benefits of ccTLDs. Hudson, FL (PRWEB) August 24, 2015 ASEOHosting, a leading provider of premium ... read more ...
 
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Did Google Buy ABC.mx for $17,700 ? - I came across a blog post on PublicDomains.com and it talked about ABC.mx being sold by the owner of the blog. To our surprise one of our domains sold last week (08/04/1) and matches Google’s new site, that domain is ABC.mx. We purchased the domain back in September of 2009 from the landrush phase at a price of $799.99, and we were using it for our own corporate online business. Our assumption is that the domain was bough by Google or it’s new spun-off Alphabet, because of the purchase price: ... read more ...
Sun 23rd August 2015
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Radix Does Record 532 Regs for EAP Day 5 in Just 45 minutes - Radix announced that .Online, in just the first 45 minutes of Day 5 of its Early Access Program (EAP),  that allows people to register domain names for an extra fee ahead of General Availability (GA), they had 532 registrations. We posted last week that .online is giving away a free .Online domain name to TheDomains.com,  reader that comes closest to the number of total number domain names after GA has been live for 24 hours. Radix did 120 registrations from Day 1 to Day 4 of EAP. I had been monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Armor.com and Armour.com Domain Name Sell! Under Armour The Buyers? - Armor.com and Armour.com domain names have been sold! Both domain names were owned by Arms Armor, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN and registered at Network Solutions for a very long time. Both domain names have now transferred to NetNames Ltd. The Arms Armor website states that “Our new domain name is arms-n-armor.com! Please update your bookmarks now.” confirming the change of ownership. There was also a mention in the news section of the website dated August 17, 2015 and an August 10, 2015 statement ... read more ...
Sat 22nd August 2015
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Gifs.com Seems To Have Sold To GifYT Startup - The premium generic domain name Gifs.com has launched a new website based on this announcement on Medium.com by Co-Founder of GifYT, Rory O’Reilly, and they have a new domain name that was not owned by the company until recently according to whois records. Every day, GIFs are being created and used to deliver engaging content — from news, to sports, to art, to humor, gifs are used more and more. Gifs, long a mainstay of the web, have greater potential than ever before. That’s why today, ... read more ...
 
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#BlackLivesMatter Launches JoinCampaignZero.Org: CampaignZero.org Is Hospital Asst Site - TheHill.com is just one of the many media outlets that reported on a new online platform for the Black Lives Matter movement:: “The Black Lives Matter movement announced on Friday that it has an official platform for curbing police violence and reforming criminal justice in the U.S. The social activism group released its most comprehensive policy outline to date on a website titled Campaign Zero “We can live in an America where the police do not kill people,” the group said on its new Internet ... read more ...
Fri 21st August 2015
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Auto Zone Demanding Small Business Change Name and Give them their Domain Names - Here is an interesting story on Dcourier.com, Cycle Zone Motorsports Marine is a family owned Arizona business that has been around since 2012. Auto Zone sent the company a letter demanding they change their name and hand over their domain names. Your use of a name and mark that included the term ZONE to engage in services that overlap with those offered by AutoZone under its ZONE Marks is likely to confuse customers into believing that your business is associated or affiliated with, or sponsored ... read more ...
 
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Lawyer Gerald M. Levine Writes The Definitive Book on UDRP's - At well over 500 pages, Gerald M. Levine who is an attorney,  and sits on panels of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association for commercial and IP disputes, has written the definitive book on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, (UDRP). The book is entitled “Domain Name Arbitration: A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy” Mr. Levine ” describes the book as an important, ... read more ...
 
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BankLoans.com for $1,000, Pendants.com for $1,500 is that something we competence be meddlesome in ? - If you are interested we need a time machine to go back to 1998. Namepros member Hookbox dug up a blast from the past that looks at some big time names for very cheap prices. Of course the timeframe was 1998 and not many understood the value or potential of domain names like Rick Schwartz did. The archive is from Webspaces.com https://web.archive.org/web/19981202074137/http://www.webspaces.com/   ... read more ...
 
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GJQ.com snags $36k bid during Sedo - Lots of three letter domain names on auction at Sedo. Three letter .com domain names continue to command top dollar. The domain name GJQ.com has a $36,000 bid at Sedo. It’s in an auction that ends around 1 am EDT tomorrow morning. With just one bidder, this was likely an offer that was pushed to auction. Sedo’s current Great Domains auction also has a lot of three character domains on offer, including dke.com, utt.com, hvz.com and sgj.com. The first three have reserves under 25,000 euros. The ... read more ...
 
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CB Insights: Covers World’s Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, but … - CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled “The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com” The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn’t launch until 2014, none are reflected in the chart. Unfortunately as you will see later,  CB Insights is very confused about new gTLD’s ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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CB Insights: Covers World's Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, though Confused on New gTLD's - CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled “The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com” The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn’t launch until 2014, none are reflected in the chart. Unfortunately as you will see later,  CB Insights is very confused about new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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Radix Registry Has High Hopes for .Online – New gTLD Enters General … - With the Sunrise numbers as a benchmark, Radix officials have their eyes on a specific target for new registrations in General Availability. ... read more ...
 
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Philip Morris takes down dispute sites in messy cybersquatting decision - Tobacco company convinces arbitration panelist to hand over domain names used to criticize it. One of the gripe sites Philip Morris just took down.Philip Morris has won another cybersquatting complaint against a long time nemesis. The company convinced a single member National Arbitration Forum panelist that David Delman should hand over six domain names he used as gripe sites about smoking: philipmorris.website, philipmorrisviolations.website, philipmorriscigarettediseases.org, philipmorriscigaretteskill.com, ... read more ...
 
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Ongoing abuse problems at Nic.at and DENIC - Some of you may remember Spamhaus' dispute with Nic.at (the registry of .at ccTLD) back in 2007. Back then we saw a massive amount of the "Rock Phish" gang's phishing domain names being registered within .at for the exclusive purpose of hosting phishing sites. We reached out to Nic.at several times regarding these issues but Nic.at refused to take action against the malicious domains. In accordance with Spamhaus' SBL Listing Policy we then issued a listing of Nic.at IP space, for providing Spam Support ... read more ...
 
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Roundup: Analyzing 100+ lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson analyzes the past week of expired domain name sales. Among expired domain auctions, NameJet’s top seller last week was GreenBusiness.com ($8.6k), a name formed from 2 keywords that are each nTLDs in their own right: .GREEN and .BUSINESS. The name can be read as “environmentally friendly”; but “green” also suggests U.S. dollars (as in the GreenBacks.com sale last month). That’s a welcome association if people can be persuaded that going green makes them some green. 89890.com ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Surpasses Google as tip Referrer for Digital Publishers - Facebook has now surpassed Google when it comes to referrer traffic, a recent report from Parse.ly revealed data showing that Facebook has become number one when it comes to referring traffic to websites. I can say that does not hold true for TheDomains.com, this relates more to the largest online publishers. SocialTimes.com reports: Until recently Google has been the top traffic referrer online. But according to data from Parse.ly, which provides web analytics for digital publishers that include ... read more ...
 
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Ashley Madison Hacked Info Site CheckAshleyMadison.com Taken Down After DMCA Notice - On August 19, 2015 hackers released a huge amount of data from the breach at AshleyMadison.com and the race was on. Several websites were set up to allow users to “search” the data, allowing users to see if a specific email address was included in the release. One of those websites, according to TheHill.com is CheckAshleyMadison.com. That domain name was registered, well, yesterday on August 19, 2015 at eNom under privacy protection according to whois records. Well, it was also TAKEN DOWN today ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Taxi 2167; .Dog 1589; .Run 1260; .Hockey 441 … - 5 new gTLD’s launched yesterday into General Availability (GA) when domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period (EAP) here are the total after the first day of GA: Taxi 2,167 .Dog 1,589 .Run 1,260 .Hockey 441 .Theater 405 It should be noted that .Taxi completes with .Cab which launched a while back ... read more ...
 
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"Straight Outta" Viral Meme Launched On Days Old Domain By Apple / Beats By Dre - Maybe you have seen those images flying around the web recently on Facebook and Twitter etc with the block term “Straight Outta” and then you can type in the term you wish… Well, that viral meme is the works of Apple Inc. / Beats By Dre / Universal Pictures and was launched on the domain name StraightOuttaSomewhere.com that was registered only 28 days ago on July 23, 2015 at corporate domain name registrar CSC Corporate Domains. At the time and until yesterday, it wasn’t fully clear who ... read more ...
 
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Here are a Exhibit and Witness lists for a Verisign v. XYZ trial - Lists will hit home in the domain name industry. Verisign’s lawsuit against XYZ.com, LLC and Daniel Negari continues to move forward at full speed, thanks to the “rocket docket” in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia. Both parties have submitted their proposed exhibit lists and witnesses for the trial. Reviewing the exhibit lists, it’s clear that if you emailed Daniel Negari about .xyz, there’s a good chance Verisign has reviewed that email. If you wrote or commented about ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Full Developed Puppet.com Domain Name Sells to Puppet Labs? - Puppet.com has been acquired by a currently unknown company Update: suspected buyers Puppet Labs have confirmed the purchase in a reply to a tweet from me and stated in that tweet asking if they purchased the domain “Yes, thanks! We wanted it for years got a good deal. Easier way for people using Puppet at 27K co’s to find docs other help.”. This domain name very likely sold for A LOT of money and this is why I say that. Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Company owned the domain name. Marksmen, a ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Taxi 2,167; .Dog 1,589; .Run 1,260; .Hockey 441; .Theater 405 - 5 new gTLD’s launched yesterday into General Availability (GA) when domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period (EAP) here are the total after the first day of GA: Taxi 2,167 .Dog 1,589 .Run 1,260 .Hockey 441 .Theater 405 It should be noted that .Taxi completes with .Cab which launched a while back ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #18: Miguel Cotto-Canelo Alvarez, Bute & more - Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez have finally agreed to fight each other, and this welcomed news is featured on this week’s episode the podcast. Diego and I also discuss Lucian Bute‘s comeback win, revel in Krzysztof Glowacki’s sensational stoppage of Marco Huck, bemoan Antonio Tarver-Steve Cunningham, and consider where Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin stand in the middleweight picture. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode:  While many remain skeptical ... read more ...