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Fri 17th July 2015
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Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart. Thursday doesn’t even start. Friday I’m in … - Today, Friday, sees the launch of one of the more interesting new internet top-level domains that has been approved by ICANN: .love. The TLD has passed from "sunrise" – during which trademark holders get first dibs on their names for a premium – to "general availability." Which means that you can now buy a domain ending in .love right now. Plus you can actually buy Friday, I'm In .Love (you know, ... read more ...
 
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New .LOVE Domain Names Launch Today on the Internet with Giveaway For … - London, UK (PRWEB UK) 17 July 2015 A well-known lawyer is promoting the launch of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free domains to couples who want to create their own website. So we hope to help newly ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE – satprnews.com - TORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web. Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for Internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info — and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public availability as of today. “As part of today’s launch of .LOVE, we are giving away over two thousand free .LOVE domains to couples who want to ... read more ...
 
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Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE | news.sys-con.com – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>New .LOVE Domain Names Launch on the Internet with Free Giveaway to CouplesTORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web.Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info -- and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public ... read more ...
 
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Last Day To Enter – Chance to Win a Free Apple Watch Courtesy of Radix - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...
Thu 16th July 2015
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Minds + Machines and ALM Media Announce Strategic Partnership on .law - Exclusive .law domains available Fall 2015Click to Learn MoreMinds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, announces a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain ".law" across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product ... read more ...
 
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Dot London Releases Great Video With Real Life Success Stories Using a … - A great video has been posted by the the Dot London registry that features interviews with real registrants of .London domain names talking about why they generally traded in their .com or .co.uk domain name for a .London domain and how its helped their businesses. Many of the people interviewed chat about how a .London address helped their business get a higher ranking on Google. The Video is entitled Your City.  Your Domain. It’s a video that any Geographic new gTLD registry could use to show ... read more ...
 
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Where Has the Domain Name Growth Gone? - It is pretty common knowledge now that domain name growth started to drop around two years ago and is falling still. At this rate there is every chance that TLDs that have only ever seen growth will start to see a decline sometime in the next few years. What follows is a theory on where that growth has gone. It is widely stated that the greater choice provided by hundreds of new gTLDs means that demand is dissipating across them and that's where the growth has gone. But the 6.5+ million registrations ... read more ...
 
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Bill Hartzer Releases “Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality” - Bill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built–or developed, on New gTLD domain names. From that list of over 20,000 websites, we have studied these websites’ qualities, and pulled a lot of other interested data. We were able to find the best New gTLDs based on quality. Globe ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Site 9788; .News 9122; .Cafe 1727; .Express 916 - Four new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability (GA) yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis, and as expected both .Site and .News had big days. Including the domain name registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders, those that paid additional fees to register domain names ahead of GA in the Early Access Period, here are the total number of domain names registered after day 1 of GA: .Site 9,788 .News 9,122 .Cafe 1,727 .Express 916 In ... read more ...
 
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Corporations tackle cybersquatters who overstay their welcome | World Finance - Pop sensation Taylor Swift made headlines earlier this year when she was labelled – we can only assume for the first time – a squatter, as the latest in a long line of trademark disputes took hold. Arguably the best-known example of cybersquatting to date, the case was important insofar as it shed a light on what measures affected parties could take to tackle this new and growing phenomenon. The incident was first thrust ... read more ...
 
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.News and .Site have large initial day - Two new domain names add solid numbers on first day of general availability. Two highly anticipated new top level domain names launched yesterday, and both had a good debut. .News added about 8,000 registrations on its first “zone day”, bringing the total to 9,000. .News had already racked up about 1,000 domain names through sunrise and early access. Rightside provided these stats: – Biggest Rightside Sunrise to date (500 domains) – Biggest Rightside EAP to date (both volume and revenue – ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… – CircleID - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More… - Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. TWTR Stock ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2015
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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

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Lululemon obtains suspension of ‘.sale’ domain name under URS – Update … -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.sale’ new general top-level domain (gTLD). The preference highlights how a URS offers discerning service for heading holders seeking to tackle infringing domain names.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases July 2015 Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands … - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BRS Media Inc., a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that helps traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Web, today announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has released the latest 2015 ranking of the .FM Top 40 Hits, the top sites and brands under the FM Top-Level Domain. dotFM’s latest ranking, “.FM Top 40 Hits” lists the top sites and brands ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2015
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Rightside Publishes Post On Taking Down The Bloomberg.Market Website - Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside,  which is the registry for the new gTLD .Market, issued a statement on its company blog about the events of today: “”Earlier today, we learned ... read more ...
 
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.հայ Approved as Unique Domain Suffix for Armenia - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Unique Internet Domain, .հայ, Approved to Represent Armenia Online - .հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script) has been approved as Armenia’s new country domain (Source: Public Radio of Armenia) The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internet domain representing Armenia—.հայ (transliterated as “hye” in Latin script). The new .hye domain has been delegated to the Internet Society of Armenia, which requested the unique country code in 2014. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for monitoring ... read more ...
 
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Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up … -   According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is  Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com   We have chatted on many occasions that trademark holders haveonly lightly  participated in the Sunrise periods for each new gTLD rollout with the exception of .porn, ... read more ...
 
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Will Today’s Twitter “News” Help the New gTLDs? - I was watching CNBC this afternoon when I heard the commentators discussing a report about an acquisition bid for Twitter. It was later reported that the article discussing this bid was found on what seems to be a fake Bloomberg website. My first thought was about whether the fake website was operating on a new gTLD domain name to confuse people into believing it was associated with the financial news company. It reminded me of the TMZ.today story. According to an article appearing on Newsweek ... read more ...
 
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CSC Publishes July’s NewgTLD.Report: 3945 New gTLD’s in Alexa Top 1 Million - The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday “with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands” In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD’s registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May report” According to the report, the number of new gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1 Million is 3,945 up 4% from the ... read more ...
 
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.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … – SYS - SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/14/15 -- Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains ... read more ...
 
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Right to reply: Happy 30th Birthday dotOrg - Stuart Fuller, Director of Commercial Operations and Communications at NetNames, comments on the 30th birthday of the dotOrg domain name, and how TLDs can help non-profit organisations establish an online marketing strategy. dotOrg was one of the six original Top Level Domains launched in 1985, along with dotCom and dotGov. As opposed to dotCom, which represents commercial interests, dotOrg was launched to reflect charitable or not-for-profit organisations. Thirty years later, the name space has ... read more ...