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Mon 28th December 2015
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TAG-Domains Becomes an Accredited Registrar for Oman country-code Top-Level Domain (.OM) – ag-IP - Home / TAG-Domains Becomes an Accredited Registrar for Oman country-code ... / MUSCAT – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Domain Names (TAG-Domains), a subsidiary of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP), and an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accredited registrar signified a new milestone in its history and became an accredited registrar for the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) of Sultanate ... read more ...
Sat 19th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Digital media is on lane to pass television - Barron’s took a look at advertising for 2016, while 2016 is projected to be stronger than 2015 it could come in below initial expectations. Traditional ad sales are continuing to move lower and digital may be off slightly. From the article: Still, digital media is on track to overtake television as the No. 1 media category for the first time, reaching $68 billion in advertising revenue in 2016, according to Magna Global, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies. The hottest category, mobile, ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno… - Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll never let me forget that “the splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass”. He’d take a fairly dim view of domaining. Come to think of it, every other sentence the man wrote was a yelp in response to some metaphysical flea bite. So Adorno beats ewoks ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
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Who Will Be The Big Winners and Losers of the New TLDs? - We’d like to welcome Mark Jeftovic as a guest author. In the domaining world he’s known for stirring up some controversy in the past. Mark lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and daughter, he’s the founder and president of easyDNS.com – the DNS hosting provider domain name registrar, a libertarian and ex- Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). When ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2015
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Where did China go? - Where did China go? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing China claim around 40% of the top 20 sales; and Chinese-style domains usually rank very high in these charts – #2 last week, #1 the week before, etc. stretching far back into 2014. This time, however, none of the top 16 results are Chinese – none. Why? Human error is 1 explanation. My sampling at NameJet is never 100% complete. But that limitation affects all my weekly reports, and I would expect spotty data collection to cause ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
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IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String ... / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string in Cyrillic script for the European Commission. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD Fast Track Process ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
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IoT Botnets Will Be Major Problem By 2017: IID - The botnets are coming! According to cybersecurity firm IID, Chinese and Eastern European hackers are likely to take control of millions of new devices connected to the Internet of Things, and create a botnet army out them for various nefarious purposes. No, this is not the script for a new Terminator or James Bond movie, this is the projection of a major, well-regarded internet security organization. IID argues that there is simply no way that cybersecurity will be able to keep up with the ... read more ...
Thu 19th November 2015
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9 ways to use web proxies to limit Internet exposure - INDUSTRY INSIGHT 9 ways to use web proxies to limit Internet exposure By (ISC)2 Government Advisory Council Executive Writers BureauNov 19, 2015 The web has been central to the information age over the past 26 years, fundamentally changing how billions of people around the world communicate. While web use and dependence on the Internet have continued to grow, adversaries have also increasingly leveraged the web for cybercrime, including espionage, ... read more ...
 
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Results Available for 18 November 2015 New gTLD Program Auction – ag-IP - Home / Results Available for 18 November 2015 New gTLD Program Auction / LOS ANGELES - On 18 November 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .HOTELS/.HOTEIS. The applicants were unable to resolve contention among themselves; thus their contention set proceeded to auction, which ... read more ...
Wed 18th November 2015
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Candidates for Competition, Consumer Trust and Choice Review Team Announced – ag-IP - Home / Candidates for Competition, Consumer Trust and Choice Review Team Announced / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release 71 individuals applied to serve on the team that will review the New gTLD Program in relation to competition, consumer trust and consumer choice (CCT). Candidates hail from Bahrain, China, Kenya, Jamaica, Spain and many other countries. Their collective professional experience spans a variety of industries. ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2015
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Theralase Partners with University of Ulm - Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - Theralase Technologies Inc. (“Theralase” or the “Company”) (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), a leading biotechnology manufacturer focused on commercializing medical technologies to eliminate pain and destroy cancer, announced today that it has partnered with the University of Ulm (“Ulm”) to investigate the localization of its lead Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”) within cancer cells and shine more proverbial light on the Mechanism of Action (“MOA”) on how this ... read more ...
 
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October: A Big Month for NameJet - …And China drove the growth October was probably NameJet’s best month overall. Remember, the market place set a record in July and then superseded it in September with cumulative sales from auctions over $2k reaching first $1.05 then $1.32 million. Last month ranks third behind those, but it’s just 2% shy of second place. Crucially, whereas the other 2 months each derived more than half their reported revenue from a single sale ($555k then $694k), October’s top auction ($142k) leaves bragging ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2015
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New Internet Domain Reservations: There Can Only Be One – Or Not? - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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CentralNic becomes first wholesaler to top 2mln domain sales - --UPDATES SHARE PRICE, ADDS BACKGROUND-- CentralNic (LON:CNIC) shares advanced around 10% Tuesday after it told investors it had become the first web domain wholesaler to sell 2mln new top-level domain (TLD) names. In London, the shares were up 5.5p or 10.2% closing Tuesday’s session at 59.5p. The firm is the top “registry back-end” company, with more than 2mln web pages registered, representing 21.2% of the global market, according to market data. This was boosted ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic First Company to Achieve Two Million New TLD Registrations - CentralNic Group plc (LON:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, is pleased to announce that it is the first “registry backend” (ie. Wholesaler) to achieve sales of two million new TLD domain names, according to the domain industry statistics website www.ntldstats.com As at 0700hrs on Tuesday 10th November, CentralNic is ranked in the top position, with 2,002,507 domains registered using CentralNic’s registry ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2015
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Verisign Should Clear Up the Paid "Analysts" Controversy - In recent days it was revealed that analyst Zeus Kerravala, who had written a dozen-some articles, over many years, for Network World promoting Verisign's pro-.COM point of view and disparaging new top-level domains as a bad idea, was in fact a paid Verisign consultant. None of that was disclosed when Mr. Kerravala wrote these articles from January 2013 through October 2015. Articles Mr. Kerravala wrote for Network World included the headlines: .com is still the best choice (January 29, ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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Expired Domain Report: Over 200 formula from past week - China dominated expired domain auctions last week, but this week the West reasserted itself. As many as 8 out of the top 20 auctions (40%) can still be laid on China’s doorstep; but previously the figure was 12 / 20 (60%). Since J-C.com ($4.2k) was purchased by someone in St. Louis, Missouri, that means the top Chinese sale – a 6-digit numerical domain – ranks only #7. Normally China wins at least 1 medal: gold, silver, or bronze. Unless this trend persists, I wouldn’t read too much ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email - Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names at the registry level on the request of China. That number of 40,000 words and phrases seemed to be reduced down to 12K in a Twitter post that now seems to have been deleted. Since the Domainincite post, several publications and organizations jumped on .XYZ for seemly to agree to ban domain names at the ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2015
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October 2015 – gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
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JinSe.com for $30k and other lapsed domain name sales - A weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. 59 bidders saw a golden opportunity when JinSe.com expired, yet it was the enthusiasm of just 2 of them that lifted it above $10.1k to finish 3 times higher at $30.2k. That made this piece of Chinese Pinyin NameJet’s top expired domain auction during the past week. Oh, in case you haven’t guessed already, jīn sè (金色) = “golden”. It also happens to be the name of a Korean actress. Think about this … Had 1 out of the 2 high bidders ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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ICANN wil niet voor politie spelen - Fadi Chehade ICANN, de organisatie die op aanwijzing van de Amerikaanse overheid de operationele organisatie van het internet organiseert, moet weerstand bieden aan politieke druk om zich ook te gaan bemoeien met de inhoud van het internet. Dat bepleitte ICANN's ceo Fadi Chehade gisteren bij de opening van de 54e plenaire vergadering van de 'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers', in Dublin. ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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Internet mushrooms toward 300 million domains and boosts its language diversity - There are now almost 300 million domain names in the world, but just 2 percent are internationalized domain names (IDNs) with non-Roman characters such as Arabic script or the Chinese writing system. For example, Japanese people on the Internet currently access the world’s most popular search engine at google.co.jp. But in the future, Google (based in Mountain View, California) could pivot to use of the domain suffix .グーグル, which it already owns and is pronounced “Guguru” ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2015
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Blackstone's B2R Holdings Rebrands As Lending.com - B2R Holdings, a portfolio company of a Blackstone Group (LPBX ) , announced today that B2R rebranded itself as Lending.com and said it hoped to extend $10 billion in loans over the next three years. According to Jason Hogg, the  CEO of Lending.com, expects to help facilitate $10 billion in loans in the next three years. Lending.com was founded with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities. Blackstone, is the world’s biggest private-equity firm with more than $330 billion under management. The ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
NameJet's Sep in Review - Looks like July, 2 months ago, was just a dress rehearsal for September at NameJet. During July, the auction platform set its all-time record by selling an LL.com for $555k. As for September? $694k. Also, back in July, NameJet set a record total for individual sales at or above $2k: $1.05 million. And September? $1.32 million. Both months are less impressive once that outlier LL.com result is removed. (Last month’s 102 sales don’t begin to approach the 148 we saw in January.) Yet even subtracting ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
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New gTLD's: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign "Doesn't Have Much To Worry About" - Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled “The New Domain Name Game” and concluded when it comes to new gTLD’s (new domain name extensions): “It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. “Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 to 46.6% in 2014) and will probably continue to decline in the future due to higher competition ... read more ...