Monthly Archives: November 2012

Wed 21st November 2012
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Elizabeth Taylor’s Estate Wins Rights To LizTaylor.xxx - A one member UDRP panel just award the domain name LizTaylor.xxx to the The Elizabeth Taylor Trust, Interplanet Productions Limited and The Elizabeth Taylor Cosmetics Company who all brought the UDRP. The decision is more interesting that you think. Also I’m not sure how the domain holder got the domain registered in the first place as the panel found they were not a member of the adult community. As .XXX is a sTLD, restricted only to those who are members of the Sponsored Community, something ... read more ...
 
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Zak Muscovitch, Esq., Gets UDRP Panel Finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On GTMS.com - Global Transmission Media Solutions of Utah was just found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name GTMS.com by a UDRP panel from the National Arbitration Forum The domain holder was represented by Zak Muscovitch. The one member panel found that the complainant, “who, on no evidence at all, accused the Respondent of acting in bad faith.” “That, itself, is an act of bad faith and is part of the reason why the Panel has made the finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. ... read more ...
 
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Biggest Winners & Losers From GAC Early Warnings: .Gay, .Sex, .DotGreen, Uniregistry, Generic & Professional TLD’s - Reviewing the GAC early warnings issued last night some winners really stick out. New gTLD applications that were generally thought would get a GAC early warning, but did not include .gay, .sex, .adult, and .porn. Another clear winner out of the GAC early warnings was Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that applied for 54 new gTLD’s and did not receive even one early warning. The DotGreen came out a double winner as their application did not get a early warning, but all other applications for the ... read more ...
 
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So What Does A GAC Early Warning Really Mean & Where Do Applicants Go From Here - Last night we published the list of the 242 new gTLD’s applications that got hit with a GAC early warning. The GAC is the Governmental Advisory Group to ICANN. So what is the effect of receiving an GAC early warning and what happens from here, we look to the new gTLD Guidebook for answers: The GAC Early Warning is a notice only. It is not a formal objection, nor does it directly lead to a process that can result in rejection of the application. However, a GAC Early Warning should be taken seriously ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Launches .blackfriday Website - Frank Schillings new gTLD company, Uniregistry.com just launched a new site promoting its .blackfriday new gTLD application. Uniregistry is the only company that filed an application to operate the new gTLD of  .blackfriday. .blackfriday did NOT receive a GAC early warning. According to the site here is the vision for .blackfriday: More meaning packed into a single domain name. While some may find it difficult to imagine owning a domain name ending in anything but .com, we are at the beginning ... read more ...
 
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GAC Issues 242 Early Warnings To New gTLD’s Applicants - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review,  The government of Australia seems to have issued the most early warnings with Germany and India following. The United States only issued a few early warnings, but they included Demand Media,Inc (DMD) applications for .Army, .Navy and .Airforce. The US also issued an early warning against all 31 of Radix application but that seemed to be due to a letter ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Wants your Imput On White Paper on Making it “Relevant, Responsive and Respected” - A white paper put up by ICANN tonight entitled “At-Large White Paper on Future Challenges Entitled Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected” opens up for comments on January 3rd Of course no need to wait to comment here at TheDomains.com as our comment section is already opened. Here you go: “”The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is well into its second decade. Overall, informed Internet users and professionals consider that ICANN has performed its role as ... read more ...
 
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Watch ICANN’s new TLD lottery online - The biggest sweepstakes in the history of ICANN. ICANN will hold its new TLD lottery “prioritization draw” on December 17 in Los Angeles. The results will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. This will have some correlation to when you can actually get your TLD live on the web, so it’s a big deal. ICANN is doing four things for the draw that I think are smart: 1. It’s at the Hilton LAX. You can literally fly into ... read more ...
 
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Huh? Australia gives 129 GAC early warnings - Whining down under. Yesterday over 200 GAC early warnings to new top level domain applicants were published. The biggest complainer? Australia. The country filed early warnings on 129 top level domain names covering everything from .baby to .weather. ’cause you know, weather is such a controversial thing. One of Australia’s big peeves is that groups want to use generic terms exclusively. That’s its complaint about both .baby and .weather. Johnson Johnson wants ... read more ...
 
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Panel Tells GTMS to GTFO with RDNH - GTFO, that’s RDNH! A World Intellectual Property Organization National Arbitration Forum panel has found satellite services company Global Transmission Media Solutions (GTMS) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. GTMS filed a UDRP on the domain name GTMS.com, which was registered in 1999. That’s well before GTMS’ purported first use of the acronym as a brand. GTMS suggested that the domain owner’s non-use of the GTMS.com and two other domains he owned (which ... read more ...
Tue 20th November 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $985K In Domains Led By GolfClubsForSale.com & Domain99.com Each For $7.5K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $985,096 for the week ending November 18th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by GolfClubsForSale.com Domain99.com each at $7,500. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led by Good.net for $26,500 -   Sedo just issued its weekly report and in all 948 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6 million. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: gamepedia.com at 15,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: jobcentre.co.uk at 27,500 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: good.net at 26,500 USD   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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FindYourDomain.com Brokers GiftBasket.com For $350,000 - The domain name GiftBasket.com just sold for $350,000. The domain name was brokered by FindYourDomain.com, who sold Feng.com last week for $250,000. Domaintools.com shows the domain name GiftBasket.com being owned earlier this year by DomainCapital.com However since sometime in February of this year, the domain went into privacy at NetworkSolutions.com The administrative contact of the domain is now showing as Tony Scivetti with the rest of the information being held under “private registration” Its ... read more ...
 
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Did TechCrunch Just Tip Everyone Off On How Amazon Plans To Use The New gTLD’s They Applied For? - An Article today in TechCrunch.com talks, about Amazon rolling out its ‘Pages” project and how that that might be how at least some of the new gTLD’s they applied for will be used by the company. “The company is quietly pushing a service called Amazon Pages, which lets companies set up their own pages on Amazon.com as “custom destinations,” complete with www.amazon.com/brandname URLs and dynamic designs with large photos and social media links. ” “Along with this, it is also offering ... read more ...
 
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GiftBasket.com domain sells for $350,000 - Owner of WineGiftBaskets.com shortens name with six figure domain name purchase. Domain name broker FindYourDomain.com is reporting its second six figure domain name sale in less than a week. Today the company announced the sale of GiftBasket.com for $350,000. The domain forwards to WineGiftBaskets.com. The buyer is the owner of WineGiftBaskets.com, and the domain now forwards to the wine domain. Getting this better domain, just in time for the holidays, should be ... read more ...
 
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ICANN threatens registrar for unwell to respond to UDRP requests - Registrar not responding to UDRP verification requests, says ICANN. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Grand Cayman domain name registrar Bargin Register, Inc., for failing to respond to UDRP verification requests. In a letter dated November 19 (pdf), ICANN claims that Bargin Register has frequently failed to respond to UDRP verification requests from multiple UDRP providers. The latest issue appears to involve the domain name Rexrothdistributors.com, which was ... read more ...
 
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Walmart owns pivotal domains for Black Friday kinship showdown - Company acted last year to corral domains from group organizing protests this Friday. Walmart has asked the National Labor Relations Board to help shut down potential worker protests at its stores on Black Friday. The protests are being organized by a group called Our Walmart. Our Walmart has been part of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in the past, although the group told the Wall Street Journal that it’s no longer a subsidiary. Until ... read more ...
 
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New site collates registrar stats and pricing - RegistrarOwl makes it easy to compare domain name registrars. Domain name registrar NameSilo has just launched a new web site that tracks domain registrar and top level domain data. RegistrarOwl.com tracks domain name stats related to each registrar, such as total domains, transfers, etc. It uses publicly available registry reports from ICANN’s web site as its data source. This is good because the data is accurate but unfortunately it’s three months in arrears. ... read more ...
 
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Marchex posts domain jobs: domain sales, register analyst - Marchex is hiring domain people. Marchex is spinning off its domain name business into Archeo and is looking for a few good domain name experts to help it grow the business. Currently I see two domain name-specific positions listed on Marchex’ job openings page. Senior Domain Sales Executive Responsible for successfully selling domain names from our world-renowned portfolio of top-tiered generic domains; most efforts will be responding to inbound inquiries. Domain ... read more ...
Mon 19th November 2012
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Home.Co Sells On Sedo For $24,999 - The domain name Home.Co just sold on on Sedo.com for $24,999 The domain was part of the .Co auction for Start ups There are 11 applications for the new gTLD .home including by Godaddy.com, Google, Frank Schillings Uniregistry and Minds + Machines to name a few. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of the applicants as the winning bidder. As for the rest of the auction it was pretty lackluster with the only other 5 figure sale that I saw was Hot.co which sold for a little over $10K.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Sedo .Co Domain Auction “For Startups” Ends At Noon Today - The Sedo.com, .Co domain name auction “For Startups” ends today at Noon EST. There are 164 domain name at auction and of the time of publication with three hours to go 66 domains out of 167 have bids but only 7 have hit reserve. The domain with the highest bid it Hot.co with a bid of $10,000   hot.co Reserve met 10,000 USD 10,000 – 24,999 USD shoot.co Reserve not met! 2,400 USD 1,000 – 4,999 USD casinos.co Reserve not met! 2,000 USD 10,000 – 24,999 USD astrology.co Reserve met 2,000 USD 1,000 ... read more ...
 
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At Formula 1 race, a shining use of a domain name - Advertisement with nothing more than a domain name — but that’s all that was necessary. Formula 1 racing returned to United States’ soil yesterday with a race at the new Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Living in Austin, I’ve heard quite a bit about the race, the investors, and the building of the track over the past couple years. It’s been a fascinating project to watch through all of its ups and downs. When the location of the to-be-built racetrack was ... read more ...
Sun 18th November 2012
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CNET: Russian Continuing To Push To Take Over Control Of Domain Naming System From ICANN - According to a story published in Cnet.com last night, according to ” documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference, the Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming. “The Russians made their proposal on November 13 in the lead-up to December’s World Conference on International Communications in Dubai.” “The conference will consider revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations ... read more ...
Sat 17th November 2012
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ICANN CEO: Until a initial new gTLD is Delegated, Akram Attalah & we Will Personally Oversee a Whole New gTLD Program - According to a blog post by the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, he and Akram Attalah will “personally oversee the whole new gTLD program until the 1st new gTLD is delegated. This comes only days after Kurt Pritz who was heading up the new gTLD program resigned from ICANN due to a still undisclosed conflict of interest. The rest of the blog post was on his meeting he had this past week on the Trademark Clearinghouse and its associated rights protection mechanisms. Its clear from the post that the both ... read more ...
 
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Deluxe.Org Gets Hit With UDRP - A UDRP was just filed on the domain name Deluxe.org The domain name is owned by The Tidewinds Group, Inc. of Mass and looks like it was under privacy until yesterday. The complainant is not yet listed however Deluxe.com, is owned by the Deluxe Enterprise Operations Inc which has a tm Symbol on the site. The domain Deluxe.org which has a creation date of 2004, is currently forwarding to thefreedictionary.com We will keep on eye on this one and see what happens     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...