Mon 10th August 2015
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Domain name business will LOL tomorrow, though Facebook says LOL is dead - Facebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL tomorrow. Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many registrars are offering discounted first year registrations. I’ve made it a point to never type LOL in a message, because, c’mon, do you ever really laugh out loud when IM’ing with someone? I’m not the only one. Facebook has posted some research ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Float.com, RO.com, TractorSales.com & More Domains - Welcome to the latest installment of Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move due to recently being purchased, registered and more. The vast majority of the domain names in our reports are corporate related or high value domain names. Here we go with the latest: Target Brands, Inc. registered the domain name CollegeStyler.com adding to it domain name portfolio of over 3,700 domain names. Twitter, Inc. registered the domain name TweetStories.com adding to its domain name portfolio of ... read more ...
 
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Back from Vacation - I’m back from summer vacation, and now it’s time to gear up for fall. I’m back from a two week vacation in Seattle. There are a lot of domain companies in Seattle, and if you’re feeling left out that I didn’t visit you…this was a true vacation. I negotiated a couple hours of blogging time with my family each day, but company visits would have been asking too much. Instead, we spent our time camping, touring the Theo chocolate factory, visiting parks, etc. An exception was a trip to DomainSherpa ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2015
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Paul Graham: Change your name. Get a .Com - Venture capitalist makes the argument for picking a good name and owning the matching .com. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has published an essay on his site about why it’s important to get a good company name and its matching .com. Is it still important in a world of apps? Graham writes: If you have a US startup called X and you don’t have x.com, you should probably change your name. The reason is not just that people can’t find you. For companies with mobile apps, especially, having ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one another. For years, values had stagnated in the $15 – $50 range; but suddenly prices at auction and in the forums began to rise, climbing 10 – 20 times higher as word spread. Mailing-list domain brokers who wouldn’t have been caught dead featuring LLLL.com’s ... read more ...
 
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The Mount Rushmore of Domaining - Tony from Musics.com left a good comment yesterday in the greatest domain investor of all time post. He mentioned creating a Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore is located in South Dakota and was opened to the public 74 years ago. The faces on Mount Rushmore consist of: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. So list your four members of the Mount Rushmore of Domaining. ... read more ...
 
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Australia Says Bitcoin is Money - A couple different views on Bitcoin have come out this week, Australia and Japan both made statements regarding the digital or cryptocurrency. Bryon Kaye of Reuters reported earlier in the week that Australia will look to treat digital currencies as money, making things straightforward for their citizens. From the article: SYDNEY An Australian government inquiry will recommend treating digital currencies as money, simplifying tax for people who trade with them while forcing bitcoin exchanges to monitor ... read more ...
Sat 8th August 2015
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10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business - This article is brought to you by .tech domains - the new online identity for the global tech community. Use the coupon code ‘TECHLAUNCH’ on www.get.tech. It’s time to stop flooding the internet with skipped vowels and incorrect spellings just to get a short domain name that kind-of fits your company name. Even better, startup founders no longer have to name their companies after the best domain name they can find (it happens!). New domain extensions, or generic Top Level ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Gives You The Chance To Review Trademark Clearinghouse’s Performance … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced today that it’s “seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse to assess the effectiveness of three key areas related to the Clearinghouse in meeting its intended objectives and to identify considerations for future application rounds of the New gTLD Program. The three key areas for examination in this review include: (a) Trademark Clearinghouse Guidelines and Verification ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Gives You The Chance To Review Trademark Clearinghouse's Performance & Get Paid - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced today that it’s “seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse to assess the effectiveness of three key areas related to the Clearinghouse in meeting its intended objectives and to identify considerations for future application rounds of the New gTLD Program. The three key areas for examination in this review include: (a) Trademark Clearinghouse Guidelines and Verification ... read more ...
 
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Flashback - So 13 months ago we asked the question, “Who is the greatest domain investor of all time ?” There were 41 comments but not 41 votes, some were just discussion back and forth. The results were: (Number = Votes) Yun Ye 2 Frank 13 Mike Mann 5 Jose voted for himself 1 Mike Berkens 1 Rick Schwartz 1 Andrew Reberry 1 Castello Brothers 1 Surprisingly Rick only received one vote, same for the Castello Brothers, no mention of people like Garry Chernoff, Scott Day, Chris Chena and a host of others. So ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2015
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Bloomberg Files UDRP on Bloomberg.News - I was looking through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP filings, and I saw that Bloomberg Finance, L.P. has filed a UDRP on the Bloomberg.News domain name. The UDRP is WIPO Case D2015-1378. According to Whois information, the Bloomberg.News domain name is registered to someone with a Beijing address, and it was created on July 14, 2015. Interestingly, on the same day Bloomberg.News was registered, Bloomberg dealt with a fake Twitter corporate report that appeared on ... read more ...
 
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.Club reveals registrar-sold reward domains - .Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names through the regular registrar purchase path last month. It sold 12 premium domain names through this channel last month, plus four through its existing sale partner Sedo. Here’s the list, including the registrar and Sedo sales: Domain Retail Price ... read more ...
 
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We Dug adult a Emails on Tom Brady and TB12.com domain name - On Wednesday Deadspin.com posted an article about Tom Brady the quarterback of the New England Patriots and his legal battle with the National Football League. The subject of the story was an email leak that the NFLPA (Players Union) released in response in their lawsuit with the NFL. Deadspin which focuses on sports, touched upon one nugget of interest to domain owners,  a potential domain purchase of the domain Name TB12.com Deadspin however only published one email related to the domain name ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy business have purebred 850k new TLDs - GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of availability. GoDaddy customers have registered more new top level domain names with it than at any competing registrar, which shouldn’t come as a surprise for two reasons. First, GoDaddy registers the most domains overall. You’d expect it to be number one. Second, ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Tech 4,715; .Win 401; .Download 397; .Accountant 316; .Racing 263; .Loan 242 - 6 New gTLD’s went into General Availability where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. 5 of the new extension are owned and operated by Famous Four Media wile the 6th .Tech is owned and operated by Radix. Here are the number of domain name registrations including those registered in Sunrise by trademark holders: .Tech 4,715 .Win 401 .Download 397 .Accountant 316 .Racing 263 .Loan 242 After the 2nd day of GA here are the totals: .Tech 5,267 .Win 430 .Download 429 .Accountant ... read more ...
 
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Verizon Files 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn - Verizon has  Filed the 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn The domain name was registered on June 4, 2015 and is owned by an Adam Rothman of Roslyn New York. Despite paying $1,500 in filing fees to gain control of Verizon.Porn, Verizon hasn’t bothered to  register the new gTLD .adult which was released at the same time.  Verizon.adult remains unregistered as of publication. Verizon did gain control of the domain name VerizonWireless.porn on June 29th after it was registered by a third ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares - Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new top level domain name company, or about 5%. When he left the company, he said he planned to keep the “vast majority” of his shares in the company. Since then he’s sold 87 million shares, or about 70% of his holdings of ordinary shares. This means ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #16: Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto & more - Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto kicks off this week’s podcast. We talk about Floyd Mayweather’s thought process in picking Berto as an opponent, and what to expect from the fight. After a short hiatus, Diego and I are back to discuss the big Mayweather-Berto announcement. We also recap Danny Garcia-Paulie Malignaggi, Daniel Jacobs-Sergio Mora and the debut of Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce TV.  Other topics include the light heavyweight fiasco involving Sergey Kovalev, Artur Beterbiev ... read more ...
Thu 6th August 2015
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Influential Law Firms Have Become Early Adopters of ‘.law’ TLD - Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" top-level domain, has announced that two of the world's most influential law firms have become early adopters of .law. Dedicated to lawyers worldwide, and requiring validation of legal credentials, .law entered into a 60-day Sunrise period on July 30, 2015. DLA Piper, one of the world's largest global business law firms, located in more than 30 countries around the world, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom LLP, a leading international ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings sells $6.1 million in domains in Q2 - Domain Holdings recovers from first quarter but is still down compared to last year. Domain Holdings reported sales numbers for Q2 2015 including $6.15 million in domain name sales. This is up from $4.75 million sold in Q1, but is less than half of what it sold in Q2 2014. 64% of sales were in the United States and 34% were to China. 85% of domains were .com, 3% .net and .org, and 10.5% were various gTLDs. The company sold a .IO domain name for six figures. Although averages can be misleading, here ... read more ...
 
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50 End User Domain Name Sales adult to $500,000 - Here are recent domain name purchases by end users. During the past week, Sedo reported 550 public domain transactions, totaling around $1.6 million. At an even $500k, Give.com receives the laurels. Notably, a domain industry veteran was the buyer and will be the end user. Other high sales included KBeauty.com ($55k) and WolfSpeed.com ($70.2k). Below I’ve gathered 50+ domain purchases where an end user could be identified. A minority of these are domains that sold during the preceding week ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Orb.com, OpenWheel.com, MPCG.com & More Domains - Welcome to the latest Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move and the majority all relate to large corporations. Some of the following domain names have been purchased from a previous owner, some registered and some are simply moving for one reason or another. Here we go with the latest domain mover series: Time Inc. has secured the domain name PeopleStyle.com from a Joseph Saviano of Localposts LLC of New York. The domain name had a $7,500 listing at Sedo, but that listing remains. ... read more ...
 
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TLD Profile: .Beer - Anheuser-busch.beer Bostonbeer.beer Summerfest.beer (Sierra Nevada) New Belgium (29 domains) Lagunitas.beer Bells.beer Dogfish.beer Firestone.beer Alaskan.beer Ballastpoint.beer Stbc.beer (Southern Tier Brewing Company) Ninkasi.beer Bearrepublic.beer Allagash.beer With over 25% of top industry players in the domain space, there is certainly promise for .beer. However, the prevalence of redirects and unused domains creates a sense of uncertainty surrounding the permanency of these domains. Of the ... read more ...
 
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Domaincom Launches Latest New Domain Extensions - VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Domain.com, part of Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI), today launched the new domain extensions .TECH and .ONLINE, continuing the expansion of the Internet's domain name system and joining over 300 new domain extensions launched by Domain.com in the last two years. .TECH is the latest vertically focused domain extension, targeting tech startups and software developers. .ONLINE is now available for pre-registration and carries international ... read more ...