Fri 10th July 2015
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On a dépassé les 1000 extensions ! -   Partager cet article :Difficile de s’y retrouver dans cet océan d’extensions, entre les génériques historiques, les ccTLDs, les brandTLDs et les new gTLDs. Et le nombre ne fait que s’accroitre.En effet, avec la délégation de 7 nouveaux gTLDs par l’ICANN le 8 juillet 2015 – .studio, .live, .jprs, .game, .barcelona et .bcn (le calendrier de lancement arrivera incessamment sous peu) – , le marché des extensions vient de dépasser la barre symbolique des 1000 tlds, ou pour être ... read more ...
 
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On a dépassé les 1000 extensions ! | SafeBrands -   Partager cet article :Difficile de s’y retrouver dans cet océan d’extensions, entre les génériques historiques, les ccTLDs, les brandTLDs et les new gTLDs. Et le nombre ne fait que s’accroitre.En effet, avec la délégation de 7 nouveaux gTLDs par l’ICANN le 8 juillet 2015 – .studio, .live, .jprs, .game, .barcelona et .bcn (le calendrier de lancement arrivera incessamment sous peu) – , le marché des extensions vient de dépasser la barre symbolique des 1000 tlds, ou pour être ... read more ...
 
 
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ilove.La Launches VipDomains.La - According to a press release we received today, iLove.LA announced today that its new site, VipDomains.LA According to the press release, the best available .LA domain names are now searchable on VipDomains.LA “Great names available including Yoga.LA, Selfies.LA, HealthInsurance.LA, HipHop.LA and Couture.LA Featured Names also include over 100 first and last names, dominant business categories, real estate and legal names and dictionary word names. Many options for Short Names (1-3 characters), ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new … - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Industries Of India To Move From Its .Com (RIL.com) To Its Own new gTLD .Jio - Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to move away from “.com” to the new gTLD .JIO to be used across the Reliance empire. Reliance now uses the three-letter domain name RIL.com Affinity Names Inc, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs,  including the .Jio brand domain. According to the Indiatimes.com, the company plans to use up to 200 second-level domains for its different businesses and departments such as Retail.JIO, Petroleum.JIO, ... read more ...
 
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RethinkDinner.com, FBAN.com And More Domain Movers - Domain Movers detects recently acquired, registered and domain names simply on the move for one reason or another. These domain movements are almost all by large companies and often reveal a future brand, product, service, ad campaign, new business or more. If this is your first time to Domain Movers, you can click that link to view more stories in the series. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Chemtura Corporation has allowed the domain name BackyardEssentials.com to expire. The domain had ... read more ...
 
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Happy Birthday .Org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate - Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org  the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org,  launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these websites and organizations have changed throughout the past 30 years. Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry ... read more ...
 
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Illness.com during $12.7k and other Expired Domain Name sales - Joseph Peterson recaps the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. Not sure why the previous owner of Illness.com permitted his domain to expire – illness perhaps? At any rate, after slipping into a coma, this 19-year-old was heroically resuscitated by the efforts of 151 NameJet bidders. Now, after an injection of $12,742, the kid’s got a new lease on life; but he’s leaving home. Among expired domain auctions, the second highest result last week at NameJet was HuiChen.com. ... read more ...
 
 
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LL.com 2 Letter Domain Name Sell? - The two letter .com domain name LL.com has had a change in whois records from REFLEX PUBLISHING, INC. to a HANGZHOU MIDAIZI NETWORK CO., LTD. with a GoldenName.com email address. Reflex Publishing owns some great domain names like Baseball.com, Motels.com and many more and states not only in whois records its domain names are not for sale, it also states it on its website Reflex.com. Here is the whois record that updated this morning on LL.com: In January 2015 I had reported that Reflex Publishing ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Reliance Jio: RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain | ET Telecom - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore.Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ICANN ... read more ...
 
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How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1,000 • The … - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...
Thu 9th July 2015
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Businesses love .LOVE - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Merchant Law Group | Businesses love .LOVE – CNW Group - eHarmony, Facebook, YouTube and others all purchase .LOVE domains TORONTO, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - A well-known Canadian law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, is at the vanguard of the new TLDs [Top Level Domains] market with the launch of .LOVE into the international domain marketplace. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info, and now .club, .website and .love (as well as other new TLDs). "We are currently selling domain names under the ... read more ...
 
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Lack of ccTLD Growth in Africa Only Partially Due to Internet Penetration - ICANN says that, "the lack of ccTLD growth in africa is due to Internet penetration". However, Gideon Rop of DotConnectAfrica and an Internet Governance expert in the African landscape, expressed a different opinion during the Africa DNS forum in Nairobi: "The Internet penetration in Africa is listed as among the highest rising in the world, especially if you factor in the mobile phone penetration, which loosely translates to internet connectivity. The broadband pricing may still be higher ... read more ...
 
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RIL to move from ‘.com’ to ‘.JIO’ as group domain - MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries has decided to move away from ".com" to ".JIO as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be used across the Reliance empire as the billionaire businessman gears up to launch Reliance Jio. It is being touted as the world's largest fourth-generation mobile telephony launch with an investment of Rs 1-lakh crore. Affinity Names Inc, a step-down subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has applied for multiple gTLDs, according to a recent policy change by ... read more ...
 
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Did SX.com Go to High or Too Low during $555,050 ? - SX.com closed today on NameJet at $555,050, the winning bidder First outdueled Boothcom to win the auction. There were 11  bidders who each bid $500,000 or more for the domain. There has been some action lately in the LL.com world, We.com sold on Sedo as reported by Jamie Zoch. There was no price mentioned on We.com, but some research done by James Iles on Namepros put the name at $8 – $10 million based on the commission paid. The sales price of We.com has never been publicly revealed, but the ... read more ...
 
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...
 
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...
 
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June's NameJet Sales in Review: What about China? - Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of expired domain name sales. Within the domain market, China has been a big hit; but recently China – meaning the Chinese stock market – took a big hit. Between June 15 and July 3, the Shanghai Composite Index plummeted from 5178 to 3630, losing 30% of its value in 2 weeks. Some investors who purchased domains linked to China are wondering what this means for the value of their assets. Buyers and sellers can speculate to their heart’s content. ... read more ...
 
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ICANN suspends Freenom for cybersquatting competitors’ brands – Update … -

Freenom.com, a provider of registry services that has built a business indication on partnering with little or building countries such as Tokelau (‘.tk’), Mali (‘.ml’), Gabon (‘.ga’), a Central African Republic (‘.cf’) and Equatorial Guinea (‘.gq’) and charity mostly giveaway domain name registrations, has had a registrar…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Verizon Telematics May Be Hum.com Buyers - On June 29, 2015 I had reported the domain name Hum.com had been acquired by a company going by the name of “1877 Holdings LLC” according to whois records. That same company filed an image mark and word mark. The word mark is for an OBD product / service  and bares the name of: Hum I have discovered a little bit more information and this has lead me to believe that Verizon Telematics may be the buyers of the Hum.com domain name and recently filed trademarks? Verizon acquired Hughes Telematics ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768 - 4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP), here are the number of registrations for each after the first day of GA: .Golf 1,778 .Tours 1,693 .Plus 899 .Gold 768 I know some domain names got registered early in the EAP period including MyrtleBeach.Golf which I applied for in day two and got ... read more ...