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Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains.
Well we didn't have to wait long to find out.
Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD's in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .???
Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is ...
Covering the domain name industry since 2005. Domain Name Wire celebrated its ninth anniversary over the weekend. I'd like to take this occasion to thank all of Domain Name Wire's loyal readers. Publishing a blog is only fun when there's an engaged audience. Many of you take the time to comment and interact with posts. […]
Google is giving away free .??? domains. According to a company spokesperson, the first 5,000 people to submit a .??? web site idea via a campaign web site will receive a coupon for a free one-year registration in the new namespace. The offer expires April 5. The regular retail price at registrars appears to be […]
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Kiko s.r.l. of Bergamo, Italy just lost its bid to grab the domain name kiko.com in a UDRP
The domain holders bought the domain for in 2010 for $65,578.50 to use for a social networking site.
Here are the relevant facts and finding by the three member panel
4. Factual Background
The Complainant’s business is the manufacture of cosmetic products.
Th...
Remember that company MeetMe Inc? You know the one that made domaining headlines for purchasing Meet.me from Worldwide Media, Inc., Rick Schwartz and Ammar Kubba for $450,000. Take a look
The world has changed. Rewind just five years ago and you Googled for everything, now there really is an app for just about anything you would want to do. Here's how prevalnt apps have become – the average smartphone owner in the US has more than 100 apps on their smartphone and spends 127 minutes […]
The internet has its first IDN versions of legacy gTLDs. Public Interest Registry had three new gTLDs delegated over the weekend, all non-Latin versions of its flagship .org. The gTLDs were .?????, which means "organization" in Hindi, and the Chinese .?? and .????, which seem to be two ways of saying "organization" too. They're not […]
Relat...
According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com.
JD.Com’s planning on a $1.5 billion IPO.
JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-commerce market to Alibaba’s shopping sites, Taobao.com and Tmall.com.
It was recently revealed that 360buy.com p...
Here are photos from Domain.com's party in Austin Saturday night and the .CO HQ. Domain.com threw a party in conjunction with Public Interest Registry (PIR) Saturday night in Austin at the SXSW festival. A steady cold rain didn't keep people away. In fact, it may have drawn them to the relative comfort and warmth of […]
For the last several years, Moniker and SnapNames have worked in conjunction, and the sale of SnapNames likely impacts Moniker customers more than most others. Last week, Key Systems and Web.com announced that SnapNames was acquired by Web.com for an undisclosed figure. This morning, Moniker sent out an email discussing the sale of SnapNames and ho...
The start of another week and already I have a nice set of spam emails.
Sure I get many of these every day and 99.99% I send into trash without regard but this one caught my eye based off the domain listed (which isn't a bad domain) just a bad message
""Hello Worldwide Media Inc.
My Name is Larry and I am representing the potential sale of Cambridg...
What do customers look for in a domain name registrar? The 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey is open and awaiting your participation. As always, the survey asks some questions about domain name registrars and why people use the registrar they do. The survey asks participants to rank eight difference factors commonly considered by customers. [̷...
Dot .domains enters general availability in two days. I have not registered any domains in that gTLD and won't be doing so. The reason is simple: unless your business name ends in "domains", or you are in the direct domain brokerage business, this particular gTLD is more of an "inner circle" badge. Surely, Mike Berkens […]...
A week ago, Calzone shared some information about the sunrise registration numbers for new gTLD registries. In the report, Calzone shared that "by any measure, the rolling average of 115 Sunrise domains per TLD falls far short of what many new Registries included in their revenue forecasts." Although it might be obvious to many people, I want to s...
Many of you are probably wondering by now: What will Frank's pricing be? Will it be competitive? Will be complex, with a number of tiers that will make your billing statement complicated? Let's face it. Everyone likes simple, because it works wonders – and Frank's pricing won't be an exception. Here's the proof, in an […]...
Was working on some of my old plant sites, some I hadn't updated in a year and the results of not updating got me dropped from page 1, number 1 in Google to page 3. Not sure if I'll be able to get back but I'm going to work on getting up some new content and see what happens. One of my sites is on blogger and I know I need to move it over to word...
App Advice reported that M.dot has been rebranded to Go Daddy Go Mobile.
M.dot has just been updated to version 2.0. At the same time, it has been rebranded as GoDaddy GoMobile.
Released in October 2012, M.dot was acquired by GoDaddy in February 2013. And now, over a year later, the app has been renamed to officially carry the GoDaddy brand.
Not to...
Recently expired domains can be well worth the cost of purchasing them. So why do many domainers and website developers buy a expired domain, this article will look at 5 reason that owning a Recently Expired Domain can be a good investment. Aged Domain: An expired domain will be at least 1 year old, if not more. Google and other search engines tend...
Now that the sale of Apartments.com is completed at $585 million, Classified Ventures is looking for $3 billion for Cars.com. William Launder,Dana Mattioli and Mike Spector wrote an article tonight for the Wall Street Journal.
A group of newspaper publishers has put the cars.com online marketplace up for sale for as much as $3 billion, hoping to ca...
Cars.com and its underlying business is on the proverbial chopping block, for $3 billion dollars. You read the figure right: $3 billion dollars, not million. Billion. And why not; after all, Cars.com reportedly generates between $400 million to $500 million in revenue a year. Estimates place a new owner's revenue tapping an additional $200 million ...
Andy Greenberg just did a piece on Forbes with regards to hackers claiming to have hacked the Mt.Gox servers. The recent bankruptcy of the Bitcoin exchange has many up in arms and some are deciding to get answers on their own. Some of the data released and posted on Reddit has already been taken down. Greenberg reached out to disgraced Mt.Gox C.E.O...
Greetings and salutations, my domainer brothers and sisters; this is Father Domainicus, on a splendorous sunny Sunday – at least, here in the state of Florida where the Domain Church is headquartered. I bring you some magnificent news today, and I cannot contain myself enough! Brother Frank has chosen the day of our Domain Lord, […]
Back in 2011, I published an article about Paul Ceglia suing Facebook for his alleged shares due him by Mark Zuckerberg. See http://neusnews.com/?p=348. Ceglia lost that law suit and now Facebok is suing him for Fraud. Paul Ceglia, the man who claims he’s entitled to half of Facebook Inc., lost a bid to throw out […]
Because we buy and sell domains each day, most of us are more familiar with Internet based business than most people. But there is a daily transformation and battle to stay alive for the small local businesses that your visit locally. Each and every day consumers are spending more of their day online. Anyone that owns and runs a brick and mortar...
We are approaching the 25 year anniversary of the World Wide Web, March 12, 1989. The New Zealand Herald did a pretty thorough piece today on how Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea out of the blue and unrequested. The article is a good read, check it out here.
From the article:
TIMELINE:
March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee...
Uniregistry is ready for the launch of its domain Registrar, which will occur sometime next week; the work is done and extensive testing is taking place. The launch will not happen tomorrow Monday, as initially projected. Given the expanded domain name space of gTLDs, projects as complex as a modern era Registrar require thoroughly reviewing [̷...
Never underestimate the power of doing good. As one observer noted, "High Five Guy is taking over South by Southwest." Here's the whole story of what we're doing, and here's a quick video of day 2, featuring Norman the Dog, … Continue reading →
On Tuesday, I exchanged thoughts with some readers and tried to explain that despite the fact that let's say .info is considered a failure by most domainers, certain domains definitely have reseller market value.
To do that, I asked one of my readers whether or not he would pay 100 bucks for Dating.info. He understood my
Los Angeles is a BIG place, but I really do love everything about this city. We were notified the other day that our dog Tobey was found. She's an old
Hello, happy Sunday, and welcome to my weekend musings. I just took the photo above while having breakfast with Daina on our patio. Yes, it looks like summer has come early and according to the weather report it's going to be 81 degrees this afternoon. So, we're heading off to Malibu for a day of […]
Some people have been saying that there will be less money coming into the aftermarket space because of the purchasing of the new gTLD. I certainly haven't seen it as the names I like are going for more than ever. Names that I could have gotten for a few hundred are going for $600 plus. The only two types of names I have seen a big fall in pric...
The owner of Graceland.com shared his frustration with the world, as soon as the UDRP was filed for the domain, by the estate of the late Elvis Presley. Titled "Graceland.com Is Under Siege", the page describes in vivid detail the 19 year old history of Graceland.com, a domain that contains Biblical quotes: "Graceland.com has operated […]...
This week TITO finds 5 serious predictions that have a good chance of happening in the domain industry in years ahead if his 2006 predictions are anything to go by.
Gregory Ferenstein wrote a post on Tech Crunch about the director of ideas from Google and his belief that crypto currencies are going to be a mainstay as we move forward.
Google Director of Ideas and former technology advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jared Cohen, says that digital “crypto-currencies” like Bitcoin are here to ...
You'll know us when you see us. We're with the #HighFiveGuy, who could also be mistaken for some unhinged soul carrying a bomb. Fear not. It's for good. It's a counter tallying up every high five we get because each … Continue reading →
After the successful launch of .Photography, a domain aimed at professional photographers, Donuts, Inc. followed up with the launch of dot .Photos. Currently, there are more than 5,600 dot .Photos domains registered. Single word, dictionary domain names stand a better chance of being used as brands, or to be resold. Here's the list of all […]...
Nicely done @dotco No SB ad in Feb and still beat 2013 numbs. Growing like a weed. Pat yourselves in the back. — Juan Diego Calle (@juandiegocalle) March 8, 2014 I thought you might find it interesting to read this tweet from .CO Registry CEO Juan Diego Calle, who announced that the .CO Registry beat 2013 numbers despite not having a Super B...
Domainers who take the time to blog are so important in this industry. I wanted to commemorate a few of my favorite bloggers by sharing interesting quotes I found from their first few weeks of blogging. I also want to thank these individuals for sharing their knowledge with the world. Additionally, I would like to
Nominations for the 2014 Domainer's Choice Awards opened today and will remain open until midnight March 22, 2014. The top three vote getters in each category will move on to the finals. You must register in the nomination round to be eligible to vote in the finals.
Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) was awarded the 20 year old domain name graceland.com by three member UDRP panel.
Its an interesting set of facts.
The domain was not parked but contained bible verses with Google Adsense which put up ads related to the former home of Elvis Presley which is now a huge tourist attraction.
The parties didn't ev...
ICANN published its financials lat night for six months ending in December 2013.
Here are some of the highlights. You can see the entire results here
Here they are:
Executive Summary
For the Six Months Ending December 2013
The ICANN change in net assets is $3.3M, or 13.6%, higher than budget during the first six months of FY14 ma...
I buy and sell all types of domain names related to various trades and industries. One day I might be negotiating to buy a real estate domain name and the next day I might be trying to sell a domain name related to cosmetic surgery. There are certain standard domain name factors I generally consider when I am trying to place a value on domain names...
Have you noticed that the new gTLD craze has kind of slowed down? It has been fun, but the special element surrounding these new extensions has kind of halted for
Looks like this is going to the first weekend since Mid December that I don't have to work. I'm trying to think what I'm going to do with all my free time. I know I'm going to get in an 18 mile run this morning but I'm either going to update a bunch of my websites or maybe I'll build a new house. Maybe I'll finish reading the rest of WikiPedia. ...
An expired domain list is a fantastic resource to find expiring domain name. These lists contain thousands of domains that are due to expire. So why would anyone go through a list thousands of domains names. The main reason that people will use these lists is that amongst all the rubbish expiring domains there will be some that are ideal for redeve...
The estate of the late Elvis Presley took 20 years to get hold of Graceland.com, a domain registered in 1994; that was at the very dawn of the commercial Internet. The UDRP against Graceland.com was brought at the National Arbitration Forum in January. Graceland.com displays Biblical quotes and content, along with Google ads. Despite requesting [&#...
Torrent Freak reported that Domains By Proxy, the privacy service from Go Daddy, turned over the personal details of one of their customers. The majority of the 83 comments are taking a lot of shots at Go Daddy, as some think its bogus that Go Daddy uses the word potentially and does not have definitive proof by copyright holder.
As one commenter p...
We'd write more, but Steve is out to prove the haters wrong. Is that "haterz?" We'll be back with more, and remember, you can join in the important effort with #HighFiveGuy on our Twitter and Facebook. What are we talking … Continue reading →
The Financial Times published a nice profile of legendary domain investor Frank Schilling today. Most of you are already familiar with Frank's domain exploits so the most interesting part of the story to you may be the inside look at Frank's family life & gorgeous home on Grand Cayman.
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