Monthly Archives: June 2012

Sat 23rd June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Cnet Asks Will Google Change The Domain Industry By Giving Away Domains Like .Web & .Shop For Free - In yet another story from Paul Sloan on the new gTLD space, writing for Cnet.com, Mr. Sloan looked at the 101 new gTLD applications that Google filed for under the registry it set up,  Charleston Road Registry and asks will Google change the domain name industry by giving domains ending in .Home or .Web or .Shop for free. “The question is how Google would sell domain names to the public.” “Google has long been an ICANN accredited registrar, which gives it the license to sell names to the consumers. ... read more ...
 
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Dotzup.com Sells ArtDeco.com On Sedo For $75,000 To ArtDeco.de - The domain name ArtDeco.com just sold on Sedo for $75,000 The seller was Dotzup.com Inc. The buyer of the domain appears to be the owner of the domain name artdeco.de as the domain ArtDeco.com is now forwarding to the ArtDeco.de site. IMHO the domain sold on the cheap, unless there were TM issues on the table. The art deco district otherwise known as south beach, is a vibrant high tourism area. Art Deco is also a generic style of things like furniture and  jewelry. Of course its is a well known ... read more ...
 
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Did a digital archery association put a final spike in a coffin of cursed scheme? - Company claims it reported issue to ICANN earlier this week. So ICANN has “suspended” digital archery, a way to divide up new top level domain applicants into batches. This was the right move, albeit a couple weeks late. Now 20% of applications have shot an arrow, and many more applicants have invested significant resources into the process. True to form, ICANN pushed forward with its plan despite multiple warning signs that it should take another look at it. Now, ... read more ...
Fri 22nd June 2012
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WSJ.com: “Domain Wheeling and Dealing Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting - The Wall Street Journal just covered a story about the anticipated wheeling and dealing expecting to occur at the ICANN meeting this week. The story is entitled “Domain Wheeling and Dealing, Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to ICANN Meeting” WSJ.com “Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book. Some are gathering in Prague this weekend, where they may decide to team up and pursue a contested ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Gets Sued By The Stratosphere Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas Over a Domain AcePlay.com - According to the LasvVegasSun.com, the owner of the Stratosphere hotel-casino in Las Vegas has filed  suit against Marchex (MCHX) for alleged trademark infringement over the domain name AcePlay.com The suit says Marchex has been using a domain name called Aceplay.com, purporting to offer information about the Stratosphere and three other American Casino properties; the two Arizona Charlie’s in Las Vegas and the Aquarius in Laughlin. According to the article, links on the site produce additional ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Names Fadi Chehade As CEO - On Friday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is announcing Fadi Chehade as its CEO effective this fall. According to ABC News here is some background on Mr. Chehade: AGE: 50 EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, computer science, Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1985; master’s degree, engineering management, Stanford University, 1986 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Systems engineer, Bell Labs; president, Nett Information Products; vice president, customer information services, Ingram ... read more ...
 
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Business Week Covers Lawley & ICM, Operator of .XXX & Applicant For .Sex & .Porn: “The New Republic of Porn” - Business Week just published a cover story (In the hard print editions) on the ICM registry operator of .XXX and the applicant for the new gTLD’s or .Porn, .Sex, .Adult and its CEO Mr. Stuart Lawley. The story is entitled “The New Republic of Porn”. Its a long piece spanning over 6 pages and its goes into great depths about not only ICM’s struggle to get the .XXX extension, the lawsuit with Manwin,  its future plans for .XXX and the new gTLD’s it applied for .Sex, .Porn and .Adult, but ... read more ...
 
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iMeeting.com Sells For $15K On NameJet.com; MDLI.com For $9,600 + 16 Three Letter .Com’s - The domain name iMeeting.com sold on NameJet.com today for $15,166 There were 194 bidders in the auction and 5 that were willing to pay $5K or more. The domain name MDLI.com wasn’t far behind selling for $9,605. There were a bunch of three letter .com’s that also sold in the last couple of days:   It was certainly the largest amount of three letter .com’s that I have seen sell in auctions over a few day period in quite a while. Congrats to all buyers and sellers     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Kurt Pritz Appointed to Take On Direct Oversight of a Entire new gTLD Program - ICANN just announced that “Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New gTLD program in an interim capacity”. “He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Relations.” “Kurt will remain in this interim role, building on the significant work done to date, until a new Program Director is appointed. He is authorized to bring the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his possess name as domain name - FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s his LinkedIn profile. Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com. Did you click on his domain name? If so, you noticed he doesn’t own it. It was registered this morning by Theo Geurts. And Geurts says he got the idea from me ... read more ...
Thu 21st June 2012
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Paul Sloan Writes For Cnet On Amazon’s 76 New gTLD Applications: “We Want To Own Them All” - Paul Sloan just wrote a piece for Cnet.com about Amazon’s 76 new gTLD applications of which all Amazon plans to run as a closed registries,  meaning that no one will be able to register any domain names under any string other than Amazon that Amazon wins. “Whether it’s .you, .book, .shop, or .news — and you’ll find similar language. Not just that “All domains in the .YOU registry will remain the property of Amazon,” for example, but that “Amazon and its subsidiaries will be the only ... read more ...
 
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Another Generic, The Spanish Word For Coast; Costa.com Gets Hit With A UDRP - Someone just filed a UDRP against the domain name Costa.com Costa is Spanish for the English word Coast. The domain name belongs to Electric Online, Inc. The domain goes to a parking page where results are showing for Costa Cruise Lines. Costa Cruise Lines official site is at costacruise.com and CostaCruise.co.uk Costa Cruise Lines of course owned the Costa Concordia which sank earlier this year. Coast Cruise Lines is owned by Carnival Cruise Lines. The complainant of the UDRP is unknown and could ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Adds China’s Largest Registrar HiChina To Its DLS Network - Afternic.com announced today that China’s largest registrar, HiChina will join the Afternic DLS Reseller Network, listing Afternic’s premium domains for sale on its website, net.cn. “This will add millions of high-quality premium domains to the net.cn domain offering”. “We are pleased to add Afternic’s premium domain listings to our search results, giving our users the broadest possible choice of domains. The quality of their premium domains combined with the ease and speed of the instant ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
Lupa.cz » Jaké jsou nejzajímavější žádosti o doménu nejvyšší úrovně - V minulém článku na téma vzniku nových generických domén nejvyšší úrovně (TLD) jsem se věnoval potížím, které měl ICANN se systémem pro příjem žádostí TAS (TLD Application System). Ačkoliv ICANN sliboval rychlou nápravu, nakonec byl TAS zprovozněn až 21. května a uzavřen 30. května, tedy více než měsíc a půl (!) za původním plánem. Nakonec mohl ICANN hrdě oznámit, že v systému eviduje přibližně dva tisíce platných žádostí, za které se mu ... read more ...
 
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Verisign operative to repair Hebrew IDN error - Company wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of .com: Verisign is aware of the administrative error that resulted in the inclusion of a variant character in the Verisign Sàrl application for the Hebrew transliteration of .com and is working with ICANN to address the error. ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Hi, China! Afternic inks understanding with China’s largest domain registrar - Afternic offers domain names through HiChina. Afternic announced a deal today with HiChina, China’s largest domain name registrar. HiChina is the company’s fourth partner in China for AfternicDLS. This means that customers searching for domain names at HiChina will also be able to purchase domain names from the Afternic platform. Sales occur in real time with instant transfer of the domain name to the buyer. Afternic has seen quite a bit of expansion in European ... read more ...
 
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Codecademy beats Code Academy in domain dispute - They may know how to code, but they could work on domain name strategy. Here’s an interesting domain name dispute involving hot startup Codecademy. Codecademy, true to its name, helps people learn how to program. The company made quite a splash earlier this year when it got hundreds of thousands of people to “pledge” to learn how to code this year. Among the pledges was New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Although most of the New Years’ resolutions have ... read more ...
 
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Sorry, though this turn of new TLDs isn’t revolutionary - Rules of engagement make this round of new TLDs less than satisfactory. Last week ICANN released the names of the 1,400 some odd top level domains that might be headed to the web in the next year or two. Despite every cliche ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom made about how the web will be changed forever, this is the biggest thing in the history of the internet, etc., I’m afraid to say it’s just not the case. This isn’t to say that applicants didn’t come up with interesting ... read more ...
 
Written by The MediaWizard's Blog in EN
A finish beam to newgTLD stats - Blacknight Solutions has launched a fantastic new site on DotWhat.co that crunches the numbers on newgTLDs for the rest of us. It provides some excellent data and a information which makes it an ideal location for anyone wanting to learn about newgTLDs and/or the antecedents of the applicants. Data sets include newgTLD applications: By Region By Country By Contention By Community By Geo Location The site also has some interesting visual representations of newgtld applications. There really ... read more ...
Wed 20th June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Vanity.com Lost In A UDRP Despite Pending Federal Court Case: Asking $1M For A Domain Is Bad Faith - In a case that should be VERY troubling for all domain holders the a one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name Vanity.com to a Vanity Shop of Grand Forks, Inc, a trademark holder, despite the fact that the domain holder already filed a case in Federal Court asking for a declaratory judgement that is was not infringing on the complainant’s trademark. So lets be clear here. The UDRP panel could have, and in our opinion should have, not even ruled in this UDRP since the domain holder ALREADY  ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Pound For Pound Whose New gTLD Strings Are The Best - Now that all of the players who applied for multiple new gTLD strings are know and the strings they applied for are on the table I figured you might want to chime in on who you thought had the best set of new gTLD strings, pound for pound, dollar for dollar (brands not included) What I mean by pound for pound is that of the company’s that made application for 10 or more strings who did you think do the best job of putting together the best list for the amount they spent. Its hard to compare someone ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Joins With Brands-and-Jingles For Domain Auction Of 190 .Me Domains Including: Tagged.me; Follows.me, Shared.Me - According to a press release out tonight, “Sedo.com is running in partnership with Brands-and-Jingles is holding an auction of  190 premium .ME domain  “at the level of the nominal prices ranging between $149 and $999.” Unlike some of the recent registry owned .Me domains that only had keywords, this auction contains some call to action type of domain names. “Most of the names were secured during the land rush and were already prolonged up to six years upfront leaving the new buyers with ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft gets dotBing.com, though what about other dot domains? - Company gets control of dotBing.com domain name, but doesn’t have dot domains related to most other TLD bids. This week Microsoft took control of dotBing.com, a domain that was registered back in 2009. Its interest in the domain is clearly related to the company’s bid for a .bing top level domain name. The company applied for 11 top level domains in total. But it doesn’t own the corresponding .com in most of them. And obtaining them won’t be easy; many of ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames throws shawl into domain morning and landrush auction ring - KeyDrive companies want to play a role in new TLD rollout. SnapNames and Moniker have announced they will support sunrise and landrush auctions for new top level domain registries. The company will, of course, also offer premium generic sales and auctions for registry withheld domain names. I’ve been told by a newish TLD registry (I think I just coined a term) in the past that Pool.com is really the only service that meets the unique needs of a sunrise auction. ... read more ...