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Fri 31st January 2014
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TLDH raises $33.6 million for new tip turn domain name auctions - New TLD applicant building war chest to resolve contention sets. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly trade portfolio applicant for new TLDs, has conditionally raised £21 million (approximately US $33.6 million) to help it resolve new TLD contention sets. After the investment, the company will have over $48 million in cash available. This does not include an up to $15 million investment that will be used for resolving the contention set of one domain name it has ... read more ...
Thu 30th January 2014
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Nominet sets Jun 10 date for shorter .UK domain names - Shorter .uk domain names will land this summer. Nominet will offer second level registrations under the .uk domain name starting June 10. Companies will now be able to get example.uk instead of example.co.uk or example.org.uk as part of a plan approved in November. Owners of existing third level .co.uk domain names (as of October 28, 2013) will get first rights to the matching second level .uk domain names and have five years to decide whether they want it. Registrants ... read more ...
Wed 29th January 2014
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ICANN Labs takes a breather to concentration on new ICANN website - Group pauses other activities to work on new website. Since making a post on November 20 about working on a new ICANN.org website, the ICANN Labs initiative has been radio silent. ICANN Labs launched last summer as a way to improve communications and community involvement within the ICANN community. The initiative, which involves an outsourced team at Neo, has created four beta projects so far. It is practicing fast-cycle development – so fast, apparently, that ... read more ...
Tue 28th January 2014
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Chinese IDN TLDs devise dual day launch celebration and live auction in Macau - New TLD applicant plans big launch party and live auction in Macau. It’s going to be really difficult for new top level domain backers to get much attention for their launches in an environment where multiple TLDs are launching every week. But TLD Registry, which is launching Chinese equivalents of online (.在线) and website (.中文网) is going all in with a two day celebration and live domain name auction. The event is scheduled for March 20-21 at the Galaxy ... read more ...
 
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Why is it so formidable to remember that TLDs have been practical for? - The fact that there are so many of them makes it more difficult for me to recall which ones were applied for. I live and breathe domain names, and research what’s going on with new TLDs on a daily basis. But when I’m put on the spot and people ask me for examples of some of the new domain names coming out, I often freeze. I can think of a few, but after that I start questioning to myself: wait, did someone actually apply for this domain about about to mention? Was ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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Uniregistry’s new TLD launch skeleton are opposite from a others - Uniregistry plans a more inclusive sunrise, no landrush, and simpler pricing. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is taking a very different approach to launching its domain names than most other registries. Rather than squeeze out every last drop of revenue possible from launch phases, it’s doing what it can to push its domains into the hands of registrants. That’s according to launch documents it has filed with ICANN as well as public statements Frank Schilling ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Porn won’t be authorised on a home page of .Sexy websites - Nudity is too sexy for .sexy home pages. Anyone who wants to register a .sexy domain name to build their porn empire, take note: you can’t have nudity on the “home page” of your domain name. .Sexy registry Uniregistry spells out the rules in a revised document (pdf) it filed with ICANN on January 20. The guidelines only apply to the home page. This means that sites could have a warning button/entry page on the home page that leads to adult material elsewhere ... read more ...
 
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Domain name discussion designed in Hong Kong to coincide with INTA meeting - New TLDs come to Hong Kong. DotAsia and Momentum Events are planning a domain name conference in Hong Kong May 13-14, coinciding with the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting taking place in the same city. The event is a combination of DotAsia’s “Internet of Names” meeting and Momentum’s “Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress” events. Targeted attendees include new TLD applicants, brands, domain investors and other industry stakeholders. ... read more ...
 
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DomainFest earnings to Hollywood, skeleton discussion for finish of March - Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor announces plans for 2014 conference. DomainSponsor’s annual DomainFest conference is changing its branding back to DomainFest and has set its dates for 2014. The nine year old conference changed its name last year to WebFest Global because the agenda had expanded beyond domain names into search, mobile, and web development. Although it appears this year’s event will also focus on these expanded topics, the company is reverting its ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
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A cost comparison of domain name escrow services - Here’s a comparison of domain name escrow services based on price – but price shouldn’t be the only thing you consider. There are a lot of options when it comes to domain name escrow. Naturally, price is a variable when selecting an escrow service. So I put together a simple chart that compares prices of 7 escrow services at different transaction values. The prices make a few assumptions: 1. You’re in the U.S. and the transaction is in U.S. Dollars. 2. You ... read more ...
 
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A Recap: My week during NamesCon - A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spot on: it was a home run. Richard Lau, Jodi Chamberlain, and Jothan Frakes did a fantastic job pulling this conference together in a short period of time. They saw a hole in the domain conference circuit and filled it with zeal. ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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Pool.com gets agreement for .wien and .tirol auction services - Pool.com scores sunrise and landrush business for two domains, but this aspect of TLD launches isn’t as important as before. Pool.com announced today that it will handle auction resolution for the sunrise and landrush phases for Austrian TLDs .wien and .tirol (its capital city and a province, respectively). I won’t write about every company’s win for this type of service, but this one is newsworthy for a few reasons. First, before the new TLD program came out, ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Bruce Marler listened to his customers. Then he altered his geodomain business model. - People weren’t very interested in buying local ads anymore. But they were interested in something else. I remember to go-go days of geo domain names. There was an annual geo domain conference where owners of geographic domain names – e.g. city.com or state.com – got together to boast about their success. But the business model for these domain names has always been a bit elusive. It shifted during the recession. The tried-and-true model of directory listings ... read more ...
Wed 15th January 2014
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After a successful 1st day, NamesCon gets prepared to flog off 2nd and final day - Second day of NamesCon is about to start. The first full day of NamesCon in Las Vegas yesterday was a big success. Sure, like any brand new conference, there were a couple hitches here and there. But overall the crowd was big, the content was great, and reviews have been positive. If you aren’t at the show, I invite you to follow me on twitter for photos and updates about the show as they happen. I also posted a couple live blogs from yesterday – one for a “meet ... read more ...
Tue 14th January 2014
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First full day of NamesCon kicks off shortly - Around 600 attendees for inaugural NamesCon conference. The first full day of the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas kicks off at 9:55 local time this morning. After a short orientation, Jennifer Wolfe will deliver a keynote. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman will follow with brief remarks about the city and doing business in Las Vegas. After that, there will be 3 simultaneous breakout sessions going on throughout the day starting at 11:15. There are 30 content sessions ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes releases Registry Wallet for registrars - Service aims to make it easier for registrars to manage prepaid balances with registries. Logic Boxes has released a new service called Registry Wallet to help domain name registrars maintain adequate balances with domain name registries. If you’re not familiar with registrar-registry relations, you might be surprised to learn that registrars have to pre-pay for registrations. A registrar will pay an advance to the registry, and each registration for the registry’s ... read more ...
 
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Details on .uno, .luxury, .xyz, .rest, .ski, and some-more new TLDs - This is a live blog from the “Meet the New TLDs” panel today at NamesCon in Las Vegas. Participants included: Shaul Jolles CEO, DotLatin .uno Aaron Grego CEO, Punto 2012 .rest, .bar, .cafe Rob Rozicki VP Co-Founder, Starting Dot .ski, .bio, others Daniel Negari CEO, .xyz, .college Monica Kirchner CEO, Dotluxury .luxury Kirchner (.luxury) – the internet is for everybody, we want to make an internet for the luxury customer. It will coexist with what’s currently ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Donuts assigns rights to .futbol and .reviews tip turn domains to Demand Media’s Rightside - Rightside has two more top level domain names in its new TLD portfolio. Demand Media filed documents with the SEC today related to its spinoff of Rightside, and also published an investor presentation. The disclosures show that Donuts has assigned rights for two new top level domain names, .fubol and .reviews, to Rightside’s United TLD. These domains were applied for under Donuts’ subsidiaries Atomic Falls, LLC and Extra Cover, LLC, respectively. The two domains ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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Another day, another domain name escrow use launches: EscrowHill.com - EscrowHill launches ahead of NamesCon conference. Earlier this week I wrote about Agreed, a new domain name escrow service. Fast forward a couple days, and another domain name escrow service is officially opening its doors. But there’s a small caveat. Andee Hill’s new escrow company, which was announced back in November, is officially open for business at EscrowHill.com. It’s fully operating and accepting transactions, but the caveat is the process is not yet ... read more ...
Tue 7th January 2014
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GoDaddy’s Afternic gets another vast Chinese domain name registrar on board - Afternic adds another registrar in its fastest growing market, China. Domain name sales platform Afternic announced today that Xinnet has joined its fast transfer distribution network for selling domain names. Xinnet is China’s second largest domain name registrar behind HiChina. HiChina joined Afternic’s network in 2012. Based on sales data I monitor, I believe HiChina quickly became one of Afternic’s larger distribution partners. China is Afternic’s fastest ... read more ...
 
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How to collect that NamesCon sessions to attend - A handy guide to choosing conference sessions and some of my picks. The agenda for next week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas appears to be basically finalized. For the first time in many years, I’m actually excited about attending some of the sessions rather than just networking with people in the hallways. Selecting sessions is challenging, especially since there will be three simultaneous breakout sessions. Here’s how I went about selecting which sessions ... read more ...
 
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New escrow use Agreed.com launches - New domain name escrow service offers a good user experience to streamline domain transactions. Thought Convergence has formally launched its new online escrow service, Agreed. Those of you at TRAFFIC in Florida last October will recall that I wore an Agreed t-shirt one day. This was because Ammar Kubba won a charity auction: For a $2,750 donation to The Water School, I agreed to wear an Agreed.com t-shirt for a day, and to post a write-up about the company on Domain ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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Verisign files obvious focus for automatically formulating Whois use for TLDs - Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. The application, 13/746579 (pdf), was filed in January 2013 and published last week. It describes a typical whois system, and then explains that creating whois for a provisioned top level domain name does not scale: With ... read more ...
 
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Are we going to NamesCon subsequent week? - Hundreds of you are. Leave a comment if you’ll be there. Are you going to NamesCon in Las Vegas next week? If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you are. With over 450 people expected to attend, NamesCon will be the biggest domain name conference in a year (excluding ICANN’s meetings). The huge attendance numbers are good news, but it can also make it more difficult to network. The more people, the harder it is to seek out people you’d like ... read more ...
Fri 3rd January 2014
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NamesCon domain name discussion might sell out - With over 400 attendees, NamesCon is nearing capacity. I’m not sure what constitutes a “sell out”, but apparently this month’s NamesCon conference is nearing its capacity: Over 400 people have already registered, making this the biggest domainer-focused conference since Webfest nearly a year ago. This is despite being announced just a few months ago. The timing (with new TLDs finally rolling out) is great, the cost is low, and the content looks better than ... read more ...