JustCloud.com Acquires Mega.co for $60,000
JustCloud.com has recently acquired the domain name Mega.co for $60,000.The sale was brokered by Rocket Name.
According to whois records,the domain name was owned by InterNetworX Ltc. & Co.KG.The sale is the fifth biggest .CO sale to date, with O.CO on th first place at $350,000, e.co at $81,000, Cruises.co at $82,500 and Mesothelioma.co at $76,000.
Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.
Eurid 2013 Christmas Competition – 11 Days Until Launch
Eurid,the company behind .EU domain extension, decided to give away three fabulous holidays holidays for .EU domain name holders.
All you have to do is to register a .EU domain and answer two simple questions.
Register a .EU domain between 25 November and 23 December,answer two simple questions and you will enter the competition .The winners will be selected on 24 December at 09:00 CET.The first entrants to have answeres correctly the two questions will be awarded,in prize order,according to when they entered the competition.If none of the entrants gave the right answeres,the prizes will be given to those whose answer is closest to the correct answer .
First prize
A one week “natural reset” package in full-board accommodation for two people, including transport, at the Saturnia SPA in Tuscany (Italy) in March 2014.
Second prize
A five-day package in full-board accommodation for two people, including transport, at a leading luxury resort in the Algarve (Portugal) in April 2014.
Third prize
A weekend escape in full-board accommodation for two people, including transport, in June 2014 in one of the following European cities of your choice: Paris, London or Prague.
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .EU domain name .
KK.com Wins Weekly Sales List at $2,4 Million
KK.com,sold for $2,4 million,topped Domain Name Journal sales list of reported domain names for the last week,ending November 10,2013.
There was one seven figure domain name sale (KK.com,sold for $2,4 million) and two six-figure domain name sales: Ride.com,sold for $325,000 and LSN.com ,sold for $100,000.
DomainNameSales had a great week in the sales chart,taking 8 of the top 20 positions .Correspondingly,Sedo took 5 of the top 20 positions .
.COM dominated once again the list,with 19 of the top 20 positions.
Here are the top 20 positions for the two weeks ending November 10,2013 :
1.KK.com$2,400,000
2.Ride.com$325,000
3.LSN.com$100,000
4.Couplet.com$40,000
5.ClassicTrader.com$39,150
6.Web-Design.com$38,402
7.BingeEatingDisorder.com$30,000
8.HormoneTreatment.com$29,000
9.iMoving.com$27,000
10.SmartInsurance.com$26,325
11.PAYM.com$25,500
12.tieRedPocket.com$25,000
12.tieSeeTheWorld.com$25,000
14.SelectHomes.com$21,000
15.ShakeShake.com$20,000
16.Tag.me$19,700
17.ICBA.com$19,000
18.BasicMath.com$17,500
19.APPI.com$16,500
20.TextShield.com$16,020
See here the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales .
Dominion Powersports SOlutions Indtroduces .Motorcycles
Dominion Powersport SOlutions announced recently that it has secured rights to a new domain name extension – .motorcycles.
You can read the press release after the jump:
“The powersports industry is invited to participate in the largest expansion in the history of the internet thanks to a successful bid by Dominion Powersports Solutions. The industry’s leading business solutions provider was one of a number of high-profile technology companies, including Google and Amazon, that recently secured rights to new domain extension names.
Until now, internet site addresses have largely ended with familiar “top level domains” such as .com, .org or .edu. That is changing with a momentous expansion that will lead to hundreds of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) like .shop, .free or even .smile. In the case of the powersports industry, it is .motorcycles, which will be operated exclusively by an affiliate of Dominion Powersports Solutions.
The recent announcement of the online expansion was hailed as an “historic day for the internet” by the leader of the nonprofit organization orchestrating these changes. The organization, called The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is in the process of approving up to 1,400 domain extensions, up from the current 22. “The internet will be changed forever,” ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom said during a recent webcast announcement. “We’re standing at the cusp of a new era in online innovation.”
The expansion is expected to make the internet more consumer and search-friendly throughout the world. For businesses, the emerging benefits will be significant. Several of the world’s most high-profile technology companies, including Google, Amazon and Apple, were involved in the application process for hundreds of top-level domain names. Google itself applied for more than 100 generic names, including .car and .store.
To acquire these new domain extension names, companies underwent a rigorous application process and were required to pay significant application and annual fees. More popular suffixes – like .shop, .talk and .play – will likely be decided by a bidding process. Winning bids provide those companies with exclusive rights to the domain suffixes. For example, Dominion will have exclusive rights over .motorcycles. Domain registrars like GoDaddy.com will need to contract with Dominion and observe Dominion’s rules and regulations in order to offer URLs with the .motorcycles domain. Further, there were no other powersports-related trade-specific or generic names submitted during the process, and it is unlikely there will be another round of applications for several years.
“Dominion Powersports has taken a critical leap ahead on behalf of our customers. As Google continues to personalize the search experience for consumers, top-level domains like .motorcycles will elevate our dealer customers in the search results,” said Jeff Littlejohn, president of Dominion Powersports Solutions.
“While some have downplayed this worldwide initiative, the proactive response of technology leaders demonstrates the impact the new top-level domains will have on the visibility of businesses on the internet.”
Further details on ways that Dominion Powersports customers will take advantage of this landmark event will be unveiled later this year.”
.SHABAKA To Revolutionise (Arabic) Internet
The Arabic language internet is set to be revolutionised in coming months with the launch of شبكة. (.shabaka, which translates to .web in English). To users of the internet who use a language with Latin characters, they never experience the difficulties someone whose native language is Arabic or one of the Asian languages.
Trying to type a web address in itself is difficult. And if you know no English or other Latin-based languages, the characters themselves may be meaningless. For example, seeing an advertisement in Arabic, the accompanying domain name might be meaningless if the internet user is not familiar with a Latin-based language.
Not only will a fully Arabic TLD allow Arabic speaking users access to email addresses and websites entirely in their own language, .shabaka will be a TLD that speaks for the entire Arabic-speaking world. More or less the equivalent of an Arabic .com.
“Arabic language internet users have been second class internet users for a long time,” said Yasmin Omer, General Manager of the dotShabaka Registry. “We now believe .shabaka gives Arabic internet users what they need to facilitate easier internet access. The huge growth in Arabic internet content has been sadly held back due to the lack of Arabic language domain names. Any question we wait any longer is insulting. Why should they wait any longer?”
The launch of .shabaka also comes at an opportune time where the Arabic world is growing in size and importance. Further, countries such as the United Arab Emirates are pushing to reinstate Arabic as the dominant language.
Arabic is the fifth most spoken language across the globe with 380 million speakers across the Middle East and North Africa and is one of only three languages that cut across many countries – the others being English and Spanish. It is also the fastest growing language online, growing 2,500 percent in the ten years to 2011.
So the potential for .shabaka is enormous. It is “almost the perfect time to launch” said Omer. And the “reception has been fantastic” from within Arabic countries. “Owning a .shabaka domain name is investing into an Arabic internet and we would expect to see the proudest Arabic brands take the first step, those that really want to make a difference.”
And this potential has the support of the world’s largest registrar GoDaddy. Earlier this year GoDaddy partnered with dotShabaka and they will be a key partner in helping to promote the TLD. GoDaddy’s support is also important as registrars have expressed reservations about selling domains for the hundreds of new TLDs that are expected to become available for business and people over the next couple of years.
The registry has commenced the Sunrise period for the TLD on 31 October for 60 days, however there are only around two dozen Arabic labels that have registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse, meaning there will be few Sunrise registrations.
Following on from the Sunrise, dotShabaka has engaged partners and ambassadors from across the region to help with promotion, and they are keen to recruit more. Launch partners and ambassadors will be given priority during the launch phase and become pioneers of the cause. General availability is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2013.
