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Domainers Say First Verisign IDN Launch Bungled
June 15, 2016 @ 8:31 AMSome people were able to jump the gun to register domains early, but they didn’t get to keep the domain names. Investors in IDN.com domain names (internationalized domain names) have waited a long time for Verisign to release its IDN.IDN-transliteration-of-com domain names. So, many were dismayed at what they say was a screwup on the…
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Webhost Files UDRP Against Mrs Jello's Loading.com
June 15, 2016 @ 4:56 AMCompany that owns Loading.es wants Loading.com…without paying for it. A Spanish webhosting company has filed a UDRP against the dictionary domain name Loading.com. Grupo Loading Systems S.L. operates a webhosting company at Loading.es. Loading.com is owned by Mrs Jello, LLC, the late Igal Lichtman’s company. According to historical whois records, Mrs Jello acquired the domain…
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Rick Schwartz Fails to Get DomainKing.biz Through UDRP
June 15, 2016 @ 4:44 AMPanel rules Schwartz didn’t prove the domain was registered in bad faith. Rick Schwartz has lost a UDRP he filed against the owner of DomainKing.biz. Schwartz, who is known as the “Domain King” in domainer circles, filed the UDRP against a registrar operating as DomainKing in India, Nigeria, South Africa, Philippines and Kenya. Hannu Internet…
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Vanity Keyword TLD Domain Names Do Not Get Ranking Boost
June 14, 2016 @ 10:03 PMI asked Gary Illyes about whether people should switch to the so-called vanity TLDs such as .attorney help with rankings due to the presence of keywords in those TLDs for a supposed ranking boost. It is an interesting idea, whether you can gain an additional ranking boost for the TLD keyword if you make a switch to that TLD. But the answer is no, Google doesn’t care what you use and it doesn’t impact rankings based upon which ones you use.
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.store Over 20k Domain Names Registered
June 14, 2016 @ 1:50 PMThe new gTLD .Store which launched into General Availability today has over 20,000 registrations as of publication. .Store which had over 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, putting it in the top 10 in terms of new sunrise applications, got 10,000 domain name registrations in the 1st 10 minutes of GA. According to Facebook and…
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At Least One in 10 New gTLDs are Shrinking
June 14, 2016 @ 7:31 AMWhile the universe of new gTLDs is growing at a rapid clip, DI research shows that at least one in 10 individual new gTLDs are shrinking. Using zone file data, I’ve also established that almost a third of new gTLDs were smaller June 1 than they were 90 days earlier, and that more than one…
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.store is Not a Great Domainer Opportunity After All
June 14, 2016 @ 4:49 AMBetween high premium prices and renewal fees, opportunities for investing in .store are slim. I was originally excited about the launch of .store today. It’s one of the better top level domain names, and it seemed Radix had priced it similarly to .com. Many registrars are offering the domains for about $15. Alas, it’s not…
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Sedo Now Blocking Tragedy-related Keywords
June 13, 2016 @ 7:38 AMOne of the things that gives a bad name to people who invest in domain names are those who buy tragedy or terrorism related domain names with the goal of profitably reselling them. Even though it’s a very small minority of people who register these types of domain names in the wake of a major incident (and likely not even people active in the business of domain investing) it’s an easy story for the mainstream press to jump on shortly after other stories run cold…
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1st Internationalized Version of .com in Japanese Script コム is Open for Registration
June 13, 2016 @ 7:34 AMVerisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com domain names, today has opened the General Registration Period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム, for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis, subject to availability and the applicable registry policies. According to Verisign’s Blog: “Today, Verisign…
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Google Coughs Over "New-TLDs-as-seo-boost" Claims
June 13, 2016 @ 6:28 AMGoogle’s John Mueller chimes in (again) on claims about new TLDs helping search engine rankings. New top level domain company Rightside has been promoting the apparent search engine benefits of new top level domain names lately. It is promoting a case study it commissioned with GlobeRunner about an attorney who switched from ErickBlockLaw.com to Jacksonville.Attorney…
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