HuntingMoon’s Auction Is Live: 675 Domains: Adult, Dating, Gambling & New … - HuntingMoon.com is holding an online auction of over 675 domain names including in conjunction with the Webmaster Access conference which is being held in Amsterdam. The auction ends Oct 1, 2014 in staggered fashion starting around 4PM EST/1PM PST There are also couple of small portfolios and two businesses for sale. While the domain auction has a high percentage of adult, dating and gambling domains there are some non-adult domains like StockFutures.com The auction also features a number of registry ... read more ...

I.buy, You.buy, WeAll.Buy for Amazon - Amazon was the high bidder for the .buy Top Level Domain. That means if you want to register the domain i.buy, for example, you'll have to go through Amazon's registry process - assuming it makes that particular domain available. We're all used to web addresses that end in .com, .org, or .net, for instance - those extensions are called Top Level Domains. But ICANN, the entity set up in 1998 to manage Internet names, made the decision to launch "generic Top Level Domains" (gTLDs), which set off a ... read more ...

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CentralNic announces launch of .website, .press and .host TLDs - No investment advice The Company is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content published on the Site constitutes a recommendation that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable or advisable for any specific person. You further understand that none of the information providers or their affiliates will advise you personally concerning the nature, potential, advisability, value or suitability of any particular security, portfolio ... read more ...

Most followed: CentralNIC Group, JD Sports, Smiths Group, DS Smith, Sony - There are now more than one billion web sites out there, according to Internet Live Stats. If generic top level domains (gTLDs) specialist CentralNIC (LON:CNIC) has its wish, that number will be considerably higher by the end of the year. The group highlighted the launch today of three gTLDs: website, .press and .host. The domains have been available to priority candidates, such as trademark owners, for some time but now members of the general public can apply for Internet web addresses within these ... read more ...

How New gTLDs Fare in Search Marketing [Research] - We’re all used to generic top-level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org and .net, but did you know new gTLDs are hitting the market and ICANN states that “over 1,300 new names or ‘strings’ could become available in the next few years”? How this new wave of gTLDs will affect click-through rate and domain trust is anyone’s guess, but the folks at online marketing agency Globe Runner wanted to figure out if the new gTLDs fare better or worse than -- or the same as -- .coms. The agency explored ... read more ...

Busy Release Week for New gTLDs Crests With 8 More Arriving Today … - We've gotten used to seeing Donuts, the largest operator of new gTLD registries, open general availability for multiple extensions every Wednesday and today is no exception ... read more ...

The gTLD Message is Getting Out - When I was a junior in college, I had a marketing internship at a local business. Had I not decided to attend graduate school right away, I would have considered working for this company because I enjoyed working there, and I got along well with the CEO. Since my internship days 10+ years ago, I have stayed in touch with the CEO, and we exchange emails a couple of times per year give or take. I’ve given him some advice about domain names, and I guided him through the domain name acquisition ... read more ...

Grab your passport; geographic gTLDs are jetsetting this month - Twenty-three new gTLDs have been delegated since our last post. The following gTLDs have been cleared for takeoff: .network .企业 (Chinese for “enterprise”) .business .otsuka .gbiz .gmail .pizza .immo .esq .prod .here .youtube .meme .eat .rsvp .mov .new .ing .frl .day .dad .boo .gmx .pharmacy .wme Delegation is the green light for new gTLDs to launch into their respective mandatory sunrise period before moving on to landrush, early access and their ... read more ...

Globe Runner Releases Results of Google AdWords .Com Vs. New gTLD Test - Addison, TX (PRWEB) September 17, 2014 Globe Runner, an interactive marketing firm based in Dallas, Texas, has released the results of their search engine marketing test involving .Com and gTLD domain names. The goal of the testing was to determine if a .Com or a gTLD domain name is better for search engine marketing purposes. Starting in January 2014, there are hundreds of new Generic Top Level Domain ... read more ...

Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website Featured in EURid’s World Report … - The TLD Registry team is excited and flattered that our Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have been featured as the current most successful IDN new gTLDs by the European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), in their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The August 2014 volume of the report is supported by the United Nations' UNESCO, Verisign, the Council for European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the ... read more ...

Adams & Adams | TRADE MARK PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT IN … -

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2nd Round gTLDs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - This post outlines the advantages (good) and threats (bad) that can make or break a gTLD, and the eternal fact that some applications will doom themselves to failure (ugly). The Good Waiting until the second round to apply for a gTLD may end up being a virtue for the following reasons: Better decision making. More public information about demand and prices would be available. Existing registries can leverage their position due to:Economies of scale and scope from owning a portfolio of gTLDs Experience ... read more ...

No End User’s Registering New gTLD’s? Check Out The First .Church Domain … - .Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of Churches that actually registered their own .Church domain name Of course there are some generics like jesuschrist.church ... read more ...

The Coding of Online Brand Protection - Moore's law postulates that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double every two years. That law has given us smartphones and other devices with astonishingly diverse capabilities at ever lower costs. However, while it does not encompass online brand infringement, many trademark managers feel that their task is likewise expanding at exponential speed and imposing escalating costs. Potential cybersquatting based in the more than one thousand new generic top level domains ... read more ...

SeekingAlpha: Shares of Rightside Have At Least 37% Downside - SeekingAlpha the Stock publication, just published a pretty scathing review of Rightside, (NASDAQ:NAME) the spin off of Demand Media, in a story entitled “Rightside is Its Trending on the Wrongside.” The story cites some publications in the domain industry including TheDomains.com Domainincite.com and Circleid.com The story comcludes comparing the company on the Registrar level to Tucows the registrars enom.com and name.com have no value and concloudes that the stock has at least 37% downside. Share ... read more ...

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | Grab your passport; geographic gTLDs are … -

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Dot Club Surpasses .XXX in Registrations - .Club today reached 104,573 registered domains according to ntldstats.com, that puts the new gtld ahead of the .xxx extension which had an almost 3 year head start. The .xxx registration numbers stand at just under 104,000 according to Registrar Stats. Out of all the new gtlds currently released ,Dot Club is ranked number one when it comes to fully paid registrations and in third place over all. Up next for .CLub is .Pro with over 111,000 registrations. We need to compare new oranges to oranges,  ... read more ...

Critical Look at New gTLD Registries’ Tactics - This post outlines some faulty decisions by new gTLD registries. The purpose is to guide future expansions and, hopefully, adjust some of the decisions that current registries have adopted, including demand prediction, pricing, marketing, doing good versus not doing good, and launch date. Demand Prediction Demand prediction helps not only in determining the economic viability of a gTLD but also in determining the registrar's required capacity investments. Unfortunately, the people making ... read more ...

De Beers obtains transfer of ‘.diamonds’ domain names under UDRP -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation, an internationally eminent jeweller has performed a send of dual domain names equally reproducing a obvious heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.diamonds’.

The ‘.diamonds’ gTLD has no eligibility…

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Navigating New Internet Domains - New Internet domain extensions keep increasing. Registering for one is pricey, but most businesses can't afford not to. For a long time, only 22 generic top level domains (gTLDs), such as .com, .org, and .edu, were available for businesses looking to set up shop online. But since opening up applications for new gTLDs in 2011, ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved applications for approximately 700 new gTLDs to expand the number of available namespaces on the ... read more ...

Success Factors for New gTLDs Program - The success of the new gTLDs program depends on the actions of the winning registries and on ICANN's allocation policies for the second round of applications. A successful landscape would be dominated by only a few registries but would be less confusing for users. The major players: businesses and Internet users who drive the demand for the gTLDs; the registries who own and run the gTLDs; and ICANN, which sets the rules for determining a winner for each new gTLD. In order to survive, registries ... read more ...

Totals For Two new gTLD’s German Geo’s Launched This Week; .Koeln 11543 … - Two new gTLD’s launched this week for the German city known as  Cologne and also Koeln depending on the language you speak. The two new Geographic domains combined for just over 14,000 registrations. Cologne is the 4th largest city in Germany and has a population of just over one million people. Cologne had 4.31 million overnight stays booked and 2.38 million arrivals in 2008 which is the most recent data wikipedia.org has. The registry for these two extensions is:  “NetCologne Gesellschaft ... read more ...

How a Brand Protection Tool Can Protect Your Brand and Customers - Today, in the world of digital commerce, brands have a lot to worry about. You have counterfeiters, phishers, squatters and a slew of other types of cyberthieves all looking to cut into your bottom line (steal) and in so doing, damage your reputation.The New gTLDs Now, brand marketers have a new worry that keeps building. What do they do about all the new gTLDs? After all, this represents the biggest development to happen to the Internet since the early 90s, when the WWW came into being.By now, you ... read more ...