Tag Archives: news

Thu 26th February 2015
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.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here’s Why … - .APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are familiar with. Unlike a online domain auction or live domain auctions where bidders keep raising the bid, outbidding other bidders, within minutes of each other, what you would call a traditional paddles up in the air type of auction, Contention Auctions ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2015
 
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.co.com: 10k Domains at 1 Year Anniversary - Ken Hansen from the .co.com registry shared some news with me that I want to share with you. The .co.com registry recently celebrated its one year anniversary, and there are now more than 10,000 .co.com domain names registered. .co.com domain names retail for anywhere from $20 – $40, and some registrars have a higher renewal cost. The registry has also sold many domain names at a premium cost, such as Mobile.co.com for $25,000. If .co.com were a new gTLD registry, the extension would rank ... read more ...
 
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The future of domain registration and web hosting - Diminishing domain names and decreased website visibility are changing the landscape of the Internet. Finding a suitable URL that ends in “.com,” “.net,” or “.org” isn’t an easy task. Furthermore, it takes a long time to establish a new website as an authority for a product or service. But all is not lost for website developers and IT enterprisers. By employing strategy to domain name searches, and choosing high-quality web hosting, professionals can see near instant high-traffic ... read more ...
 
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Five key takeaways from ICANN 52 in Singapore - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently concluded its first public meeting of 2015, held February 8–12 in Singapore. Now that the meeting has concluded, Katten's Internet practice has prepared a summary of the following key takeaways, covering a wide variety of important topics relevant to both brand owners and new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants, including: two-character names and geographic names; Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ... read more ...
Tue 24th February 2015
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UPDATE – Minds + Machines revenues surge as new domains come online - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totalled £2.9mln in the six months to December, with £2.2mln generated in the last four months. In that time, 107,000 domain names were registered for Minds + Machines' portfolio, of which 10% were sold through its own registrar businesses. Minds + Machines (M+M) offers both registry and registrar services; a registrar ... read more ...
 
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Domain registration and management strategies for 2015 - More than ever, companies need to balance the need for promotion with protection by making intelligent domain registration decisions. They also need to ensure that domain assets, once registered, are completely secure. Corporate domain registration and management strategies have evolved over the last 10 years. It used to be that registering variations, typo squats and misspellings was a viable approach for protecting brands online. It used to be that the domain name system was ... read more ...
 
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Millenials Drive Mobile Ecommerce Growth in Canada: CIRA Report - One in five Canadians aged 18-34 has made a purchase from a mobile device, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) research. CIRA released its fourth annual .CA Factbook 2015 on Tuesday, in which it says mobile devices are taking a central role in ecommerce among Canadian youth. The .CA Factbook presents numerous statistics and findings related to the .CA TLD, which CIRA administers, as well as Canadian internet adoption and practices. Canadian enterprises sold $136 million ... read more ...
 
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How can trends in cybersquatting inform policing policy? - Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained momentum and increasing support from the executive suite. Online brand policing is evolving from a strictly legal approach to one that encompasses marketing, e-commerce, compliance, security and profit and loss responsibilities. Looking back at 2014, it is clear that the strategy of actively protecting a brand or trademark in the online space has gained ... read more ...
 
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New podcast available: Evicting the typosquatters - Trevor Little In the second World Trademark Review podcast we talk to Nick Nikiforakis, co-author of a groundbreaking new study into the rise of online typosquatting abuse. We talk about the scale of the typosquatting problem, what trademark owners can do to minimise the damage to their brands and the effect that new gTLDs could have on typosquatting ... read more ...
 
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.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark - According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA becomes the first country domain in Africa to reach 1 million registrations. The bulk of registrations continue to be in co.za, which accounts for a little more than 971,000 registrations as of 19 February 2015, and continues to grow by a few thousand new ... read more ...
 
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February 2015 Web Server Survey - In the February 2015 survey we received responses from 883,419,935 sites and 5,135,229 web-facing computers. Microsoft showed the largest growth in terms of hostnames, with an additional 12 million sites taking its total up to 253 million. This has increased Microsoft's market share to 28.7%, but Apache continues to lead with a 38.8% share, despite a loss of 5.9 million sites. Web-facing computer growth was fairly even across the board, with the top three server vendors all showing ... read more ...
 
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Hermes recuperates domain name under ‘.clothing’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a obvious conform residence has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.clothing’.

The complainant was Hermes International, a obvious French…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Mon 23rd February 2015
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Mali Offers Free .ML Domains in Malaysia to Grow User Base - Mali is offering free .ml domains in Malaysia to help promote its ccTLD, becoming the first African country to look abroad for domain name distribution. AGETIC, the government agency responsible for Mali’s public infrastructure, is offering domain names at no charge to Internet users in Malaysia for a 12-month period. Malaysia already has its own ccTLD, the .my domain, but according AGETIC, a combination of high registration costs and required paperwork has stalled the process for Malaysians ... read more ...
 
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ICANN on collision path for ccTLDs -

The house of a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has signalled a vigilant to suggest that a same Name Collision supplies that were put in place for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) are also practical to newly rising country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

By ICANN’s possess definition:

“a name collision occurs when users unknowingly entrance a…

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African ICANN Delegates Call for More Help Bridging Digital Divide - Commerce of the future will take place, increasingly, on the internet. But African countries worry they won’t be equipped to embrace this brave new digital world without help from outsiders and one another. Not enough Africans are getting online and developing websites, especially for businesses, delegates from the continent said earlier this month at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Singapore. “We are in an information economy and the internet ... read more ...
Sat 21st February 2015
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Mali offers free .ml domain names in Malaysia, hoping for a global presence - Mali is offering its country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ml, to the 20 million Internet users in Malaysia, capitalizing on the popular use of “ML” as an abbreviation for the Southeast Asian nation.Internet use in French-speaking Mali, in West Africa, has been low. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, and has a high level of illiteracy.Meanwhile, Malayisa has recently prioritized ICT to ensure it contributes 17 percent to its GDP by 2020, up from 11 percent now. The .my domain is ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2015
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SIDN releases 2014 growth rate figures for ‘.nl’ domain names -

SIDN, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry obliged for ‘.nl’, a ccTLD for a Netherlands, has announced that it had seen increasing expansion in 2014, with 5,531,186 domain names underneath government during a finish of a year. This represented an boost of 2.7% compared to a total from 2013.

During 2014, scarcely 900,000 new ‘.nl’ domain names were…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

Thu 19th February 2015
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Start Spreading the .News – Rightside Acquires One of the Most Attractive New … - the crowd in a big way. Everyone is touched by news in one way or another - people want to hear and see it, businesses and organization want to spread it and the web is the most efficient way ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 on Losing New … - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding … - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will .APP Sell For Next Week? - The new gTLD .App,  which was the most applied for new gTLD,  seems to be heading to an ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. All of the other new gTLD’s that were scheduled for private auction on February 25th have been settled privately. However .App which received 13 applications,  (1 application was withdrawn months ago)  still has 12 applicants and all you need is one applicant not to agree to settle privately to go to an ICANN auction. As we are less than a week out before the Auction ... read more ...
 
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2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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Troy Lee Designs 2015 KTM-Licensed Apparel Catalog Now Available - This is a press release from Troy Lee Designs... Corona, CA - (February 17, 2015) "I can?'t even put into words how excited we are to be teaming up with KTM. We dream big over here at TLD, and, in order to get to where we want to be, we needed a company that not only lives and breathes, and, most importantly, believes in racing, but also one that has the infrastructure and equipment to help us reach our immediate, near and long-term goals in the sport. Not only is this new relationship a positive ... read more ...
 
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Howard Lefkowitz Keynote Speech at NamesCon (Video) - I published an interview with Howard Lefkowitz, who recently launched a new venture using new gTLD domain names. Yesterday, Tech Cocktail published an article about Lefkowitz and his new company, and it’s worth a read. Lefkowitz gave an animated keynote speech during NamesCon last month, and the video of his speech was uploaded to YouTube. When you have half an hour, I think you’ll enjoy watching the video I embedded below. I don’t regularly attend the keynote speeches at domain conferences, ... read more ...