Monthly Archives: March 2013

Mon 25th March 2013
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Quick Poll: How Many .PW Domain Names Did You Register? - We haven’t done a quick poll in a while and thought we would see how many of you were playing in the new .PW space. We have none gone through Sunrise, Landrush and now General Availability earlier today. The question is if you registered any .Pw domains through either Sunrise, Landrush or GA how many did you register? If you didn’t register any then you can choose that answer According to the .PW registry it registered over 4,000 domain names in the first 1/2 hour. The Voting poll is on the right. If ... read more ...
 
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After Sunrise & Landrush .PW ccTLD Is Now Open For Live Registrations - The .PW registry which is billing itself as the The Professional Web, announced this morning that after the completion of the Sunrise and Land Rush Period .PW domain names are now in General Availability  meaning that they are being registered on a first come first serve basis. Over 100 ICANN accredited registrars are taking live registration for a .PW domain name. As far as cost goes I see one at least one registrar, Encirca.com is registering domains for as low as $5 for the 1st year with regular ... read more ...
 
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Bloggers.com Goes Up For Sale - The domain name and site Bloggers.com went up for sale according to a press release out today “”Established in 2003, Bloggers.com is the leading social network site for Bloggers and largest directory of blogs. ” “The site has pumped through some great numbers, It it added half million new Bloggers and 5 Million new pages indexed by Google in one and half year, and also achieved Google page rank 6/10. “Despite huge database Bloggers.com loads in only 1.1 second which is faster than 64% of ... read more ...
 
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Le tracteur d’avion "écolo" de TLD, premier lauréat du prix national … - © Julien Bonnet - L'Usine Nouvelle A l’issue d’une cérémonie à laquelle participait Arnaud Montebourg, le groupe TLD, basée à Montlouis en Indre-et-Loire, a remporté la première édition du prix de l’innovation industrielle. Cette société, leader mondial des équipements aéroportuaires a été récompensée pour son  "TaxiBot", un tracteur d’avion révolutionnaire qui permet de réduire considérablement la consommation de carburant des avions ... read more ...
 
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Le tracteur d’avion "écolo" de TLD, premier lauréat du prix national … - © Julien Bonnet - L'Usine Nouvelle A l’issue d’une cérémonie à laquelle participait Arnaud Montebourg, le groupe TLD, basée à Montlouis en Indre-et-Loire, a remporté la première édition du prix de l’innovation industrielle. Cette société, leader mondial des équipements aéroportuaires a été récompensée pour son  "TaxiBot", un tracteur d’avion révolutionnaire qui permet de réduire considérablement la consommation de carburant des avions ... read more ...
 
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Streep door webdomein ‘.overheidnl’ - Meer dan .nl en .comVorig jaar is de aanvraagprocedure gestart voor de zogeheten generieke top level domeinen (gTLD's). Dat maakt het mogelijk naast landencodes (.nl, .be, .de) en bestaande generieke TLD's (.com, .edu, .org) ook bijvoorbeeld de eigen organisatienaam of een term naar keuze als eindextentie te gebruiken. De rijksoverheid heeft het gTLD .overheidnl gereserveerd, om met die extentie een grotere herkenbaarheid en betere beveiliging mogelijk te maken. De voordelen van .overheidnl wegen ... read more ...
 
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Streep door webdomein ‘.overheidnl’ - Meer dan .nl en .comVorig jaar is de aanvraagprocedure gestart voor de zogeheten generieke top level domeinen (gTLD's). Dat maakt het mogelijk naast landencodes (.nl, .be, .de) en bestaande generieke TLD's (.com, .edu, .org) ook bijvoorbeeld de eigen organisatienaam of een term naar keuze als eindextentie te gebruiken. De rijksoverheid heeft het gTLD .overheidnl gereserveerd, om met die extentie een grotere herkenbaarheid en betere beveiliging mogelijk te maken. De voordelen van .overheidnl wegen ... read more ...
 
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ICANN billigt erste Neue Top Level Domains - Am 23.April bekommen die ersten Sponsoren die begehrten Verträge mit ICANN ICANN wird über 1000 neue Top Level Domains einführen. Jetzt hat ICANN bei den ersten Neuen Top Domains ein Plazet gegeben. 30 Bewerbungen sind geprüft worden, davon waren 27 Bewerbungen genehmigungsfähig. Die Bewerbungen, die in der "Initial Evaluation" positiv abgeschnitten haben, erhalten in der Tabelle die Bemerkung "pass". Wenn diese Domains mit Plazet nicht wegen Einwände im weiteren Verfahren oder wegen Verwechslungsgefahr ... read more ...
 
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Palace.com Hit With A UDRP BY Palace Sports, Home Of The Detroit Pistons - The domain name Palace.com has just been hit with a UDRP The case was filed by at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Palace Sports Entertainment LLC whose site it at palacenet.com The Palace Operates three venues in the around the Detroit area including the home of the Detroit Pistons The Palace of Auburn Hills. Palace Sports Entertainment also operate the DTE Energy Music Theatre and theMeadow Brook Music Festival The domain name Palace.com is owned by  Palace Enterprises, of ... read more ...
 
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Company objects to Chinese IDNs over contractual and obvious rights - Group that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objections based on alleged contractual terms and patent rights. i-DNS.net says it has filed objections against Chinese Network Information Center (“CNNIC”) and China Organizational Name Administration Center (“CONAC”) ... read more ...
 
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s skeleton for .Pin domain name - Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applications, it plans to operate .pin as a closed registry and will not offer second level domain names to consumers and businesses. While you can understand what Amazon would do with other domain names it has applied for, such as .book ... read more ...
 
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Candy.com harm by Google penalty - Company hit with penalty last year; Google continues to deny requests to lift penalty. Candy.com has a sweet (and expensive) domain name, one that helped it get instant credibility in the candy industry. But apparently the site is lacking good search rankings due to a manual Google penalty — and that has led the company to lay off some employees. Candy.com co-founder Greg Balestrieri posted in the Google product forum for Webmaster Central about the company’s ... read more ...
 
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With 3 days to go, TS.org leads 1-2 impression .org auction during $2,475 - Go Daddy’s auction of one and two character .org domain names ends on Thursday, and plenty of the lower priced domains are seeing action. Go Daddy’s .org auction is part of Public Interest Registry’s Project 94. Up to 94 one and two character .org domains will be allocated.[Update: the auction has been extended until April 4.] As of the time of posting, TS.org has the highest bid at $2,475 with 5 bidders and 16 bids. Other two character domains, including b3.org, ... read more ...
 
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Pinterest files the initial UDRP - Company targets Pinterest.info, and I bet it will be filing a lot more domain disputes soon. [Update: the domain owner gave the domain to Pinterest.] Image-based social networking service Pinterest has filed its first domain name dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The case was filed against the domain Pinterest.info, which was registered in May 2011 by someone in Los Angeles. As of right now the domain resolves to a Go Daddy holding ... read more ...
Sun 24th March 2013
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Demand Media Paid $18 Million For Name.com Registrar - According to a 10-K report filed with the SEC by Demand Media (DMD) (page F-31) the company paid $18 Million dollars for the domain name registrar Name.com “”On December 31, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of the net assets of Name.com, a retail registrar company based in Denver, Colorado. “The purchase consideration of $18,000,000 comprised an initial cash payment of $16,200,000 and the remaining $1,800,000 is subject to a hold back to satisfy post-closing indemnification obligations” “any ... read more ...
 
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Innovation industrielle : TLD remporte le prix national - Déjà distinguée au niveau régional, la société TLD dont le siège est à Montlouis a reçu hier à Paris le prix national de l'innovation industrielle 2013. L'entreprise tourangelle qui est leader mondial des tracteurs aéroportuaires a été primée pour la création du Taxibot, un nouvel engin bourré d'électronique qui permet aux avions d'effectuer des manœuvres moteurs coupés et génère ainsi des économies substantielles de kérosène pour les compagnies aériennes. ... read more ...
Sat 23rd March 2013
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New gTLD Application For .APP Is Withdrawn - The 32nd new gTLD application has been withdrawn with ICANN, and today its not for a brand Application but for the most applied for new gTLD, .App. .App you my recall had the most applications submitted to ICANN during the new gTLD program with 13 applications, including one’s submitted by Google, Amazon, Donuts, Top Level Domain Holdings and Famous Four and Afilias to name a few. The company withdrawing their application to operate the Top Level Domain for .App is Dot App LLC, of Utah which had ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post: Tom Barrett: ICANN Expands Trademark Claims Do a Ends Justify a Means? - This is a guest post by Tom Barrett who is the founder of EnCirca, an ICANN Registrar, and TM.Biz, a brand protection platform and TM.Biz provided trademark validation services for the .XXX and .PW TLD’s and will be offering pre-validation services for users of the Trademark Clearinghouse. We do have comments at the end of the piece but Tom’s post is unedited: “Under the guise of implementation, ICANN has announced that Trademark Claims will be expanded to include confusingly similar strings ... read more ...
 
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Is Google removing prepared to make an Open Patent Pledge? - Google registered domain names yesterday for an “Open Patent Pledge”. When Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, it was clear that a big reason for its purchase was Motorola’s patent portfolio. Now it looks like the company might be getting ready to make some sort of “Open Patent Pledge”, although what that actually is remains to be seen. Yesterday the company registered OpenPatentPledge.com (and .net/.org) as well as OpnPledge.com. (It couldn’t ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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Another New gTLD Withdraw From ICANN; This Time Its An IDN - Another new gTLD application has been withdrawn and now reflected on ICANN’s site,  this one is the first IDN application to be withdrawn The application for 盛貿飯店 (“tradershotels” in traditional Chinese) filed by Shangri‐La International Hotel Management Limited has been withdrawn just as the first initial evaluations for the new gTLD’s were issued by ICANN today,  starting with IDN’s. This application which had a priority number of 73 becomes the 31st new gTLD application to ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Donuts Passes ICANN Initial Evaluation For New gTLD’s - Donuts the largest applicant for new gTLD program has passed the Initial Evaluation of ICANN new gTLD program. Donuts applied for 307 new gTLD domain names including the IDN for the string: 商店 This is the first new gTLD application filed by Donuts to be evaluated by ICANN. As part of the initial evaluation, ICANN had to determine if each applicant has meet all the requirements to operate a new gTLD. Donuts application which had a  Prioritization Number of 11 on the IDN for the string: 商店 ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rejects Claim On Typo’s Of TireChian.com and TireChians.com - South Fork Hardware, Inc., DBA TireChain.com Lost a UDRP decision today on the typo’s on tirechian.com and tirechians.com Complainant has used TIRECHAIN.COM and TIRECHAINS.COM (“the asserted Marks”) since 1998. It uses the TIRECHAIN.COM Mark in connection with anti-skid chains for vehicle tires; anti-skid chains for vehicles; chains for motor cars; land vehicle parts, namely, tire chains; and land vehicle parts, namely, tire snow chains. Complainant has a Pennsylvania state trademark registration ... read more ...
 
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CORRECTION: Famous Four Did Not File Any Objections To .Music or .Song - Earlier today we incorrectly reported that Famous Four filed an objection to  the other 7 applicants for the .Music gTLD’s and to the .Song new gTLD filed by Amazon. Famous Four did not file the objections. The Objection were filed by DotMusic Limited a company whois is affiliated to Constantine Roussos which is another applicant for .Music Famous Four whose application for .Music is under dot Music Limited did not object to any of the new gTLD application for .Music or .for the new gTLD application ... read more ...
 
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Watergate Holdings Files A UDRP On TheWatergateHotel.com & WatergateHotel.com -                           Euro Watergate Hotel Residences, LLC Watergate Holdings, LLC, filed a UDRP on the domain names TheWatergateHotel.com and WaterGateHotel.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Of course Watergate is the “home of the political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon ... read more ...
 
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Snapname/Afternic Auction Ends Today & Has Over $50K In Bids - The Afternic.com spring auction closes today on Snapnames.com today at 3:15pm EST As of publication with 6 hours to go there are over $50,000 in bids. There are some nice domains in the auction including the three letter domains of  gfa.com, vgv.com as well as a lot of nice one word .com’s including Sweat.com, Proprietary.com, Fascinating.com, Actors.com, Acquittal.com, complimentary.com and Plead.com to name a few Here are all the domain names in auction with the current high bid, number of bidders ... read more ...