Monthly Archives: April 2013

Wed 10th April 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Starts “Public Conversation” On ICANN’s Future & Wants Your Input - As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President CEO, announced this week, that ICANN has launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN has posted on its blog all the information around this Public Conversation. “We are seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year strategy for ICANN. ” An animated video and slides have been posted in six UN languages to help seed an online discourse about the complex, changing environment ICANN operates within ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
Doména .CZ patří mezi nejrychleji rostoucí v rámci EU - Root.cz (www.root.cz), informace nejen ze světa Linuxu. ISSN 1212-8309 Copyright © 1998 – 2013 Internet Info, s.r.o. Všechna práva vyhrazena. Powered by Linux. Přepnout na mobilní verzi Kontakt| Reklama| Podmínky užívání| Podpořte Root.cz| RSS exporty ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Paid Search Engine Is Now Live - We just got an email from the ICM Registry that the .XXX paid Search Engine is now Live. Search.XXX is a search engine for just sites using a .XXX domains and launched in September of 2012. We told you back in February that .XXX had given each registrant of a .XXX domain name a credit which they could use to buy ads on the .XXX Search Engine when it went live. Here is the email we received today. “”Your account has been populated with the Ad Credit balances indicated above. The Ad Platform will ... read more ...
 
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Google belooft onder druk Microsoft open .search tld - Gepubliceerd: Woensdag 10 april 2013Auteur: Andreas Udo de Haes Onder druk van protesten van onder meer rivaal Microsoft belooft Google dat ook andere partijen domeinen met de extensie .search, .app, .cloud en .blog kunnen registreren. Google zwicht onder het protest tegen zijn voornemen om een aantal nieuwe generieke topleveldomeinen te registreren bij ICANN en die vervolgens voor zichzelf te houden. ... read more ...
 
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More than six million domain names added to Internet in the Fourth Quarter of … - More than six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2012, according to VeriSign. The report says that the increase of 6.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 2.5 percent over the third quarter of 2012, and marks the eighth straight quarter with greater than 2 percent growth. Worldwide registrations ... read more ...
 
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A Singular Problem - The fate of plural/single-term contention sets is a hot topic in Beijing. Most people watching the new gTLD application process expected ICANN to approve either just one plural or singular term for each contention set. For example, either .CAREER or .CAREERS, would proceed to launch, but not both. Allowing both the singular and the plural of a particular term would just be too confusing, right?Well, it’s not too confusing for ICANN, as the tealeaf readers suspected in late February when ICANN announced ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to over 252 million domain names in 2012 - Internet grows to over 252 million domain names in 2012 Tweet 6.1 million new domain names added in Q4 of CY12. About six million domain names were added to the internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to a little more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). According to the latest issue of VeriSign's Domain Name Industry Brief, the increase of 6.1 million ... read more ...
 
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CitizenHawk sued after promulgation dual stop & terminate letters - Man sues domain recovery firm after receiving two cease desist letters. A San Diego man has sued typosquatting recovery firm CitizenHawk after receiving two cease desist letters. Michael Eddy says he received letters regarding USSearchReports.com and Naturalizes.com. The first letter said USSearchReports.com infringes the rights of Intelius’ mark for “US Search.com”. The second said that Naturalizes.com infringes the rights of Brown Shoe Company’s mark for ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
20th Century Fox prepared for 21st century with domain registrations - Company registers domain names of current and future centuries. When 20th Century Fox (aka Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) was founded in the 1930s I’m sure it seemed like a great name. But now that we’re in the 21st century, doesn’t the name seem a little old fashioned? Like Prince talking about partying like it’s 1999? Although this isn’t necessarily indicative of a name change, the entertainment company recently registered names that will get ... read more ...
 
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Video: how to set adult and use two-factor authentication during GoDaddy.com - Video gives step-by-step instructions for increasing security in your Go Daddy account. Two-factor authentication is one of the best ways to make any online account more secure. Go Daddy introduced two-factor authentication for its United States customers last year. Once you set up the service you will receive a text message every time you log in to your account. In addition to your username and password, you need to enter a six digit code from the text message in ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NiceCar.com Owned For 13 Years Lost in Horrible UDRP Decision - In another horribly lazy opinion, the domain name NiceCar.com was just awarded to NICE CAR, INC. by a one member UDRP panelist Sandra J. Franklin to a trademark holder. Although the complainant  had a federal trademark it was only registered in 2007 while the domain holder owned the domain for 13 years. The panelist which never said one word about the generic nature of the term, Nice Car,  awarded the domain based on the finding that the “Complainant has established secondary meaning in the NICE ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sales Total $975K: Led By TribalWars.com For $34,910 - Afternic’s just posted its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/1/13 – 4/7/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 973,532.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.47 Million For The Week Led by ConnectNow $120K - 738 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.47m. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: connectnow.com at 120,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: build.de at 33,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: fussball.info at 4,800 EUR   Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google U-turns on exclusive snatch of .app AND .search addys - Google has been forced to abandon its bid to grab exclusive use of the web address extensions .app, .blog, .search and .cloud - after it was warned the move was anti-competitive. Late last year, the advertising giant applied for the four generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to internet overseer ICANN, which is charging companies to take control of new suffixes to supplement the established TLDs such as .com, .org and .uk. A business holding, say, .news could sell domain names such as theregister.news ... read more ...
 
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Monaco Wins Rights To MonteCarloVodka.com In UDRP - In January we told you that  the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco filed a UDRP against the domain name MonteCarloVodka.com which is not only a domain name but a brand of Vodka. Monaco wasn’t happy about their name being put on a Vodka, the logo on the bottle which they said closely resembled the coat of arms of the Principality of Monaco, all without their permission and to make matters worse the Vodka was produced not ... read more ...
 
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GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the Board. The GAC is quite concerned about plural and singular generic new gTLD’s and that they weren’t placed into contention sets using .car and .cars as an example. This is the same criticism that TheDomains.com had when the contention set committee released it results. The GAC seems to share our belief that having generics with plural ... read more ...
 
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The Trade Mark Clearing House now open for business - The Trade Mark Clearing House opened for registrations on 26 March 2013. The IPT Alert team look at what this means for business and the services that it will provide. The Trade Mark Clearing House (TMCH) was established by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to assist in protecting trade mark rights in the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) system. Essentially, TMCH is a single global database for trade mark data, open to any holder of eligible trade marks (whether individuals ... read more ...
 
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GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s - The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the Board. The GAC is quite concerned about plural and singular generic new gTLD’s and that they weren’t placed into contention sets using .car and .cars as an example. This is the same criticism that TheDomains.com had when the contention set committee released it results. The GAC seems to share our belief that having generics with plural and ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Industry Data from VRSN – Analyst Blog - VeriSign (VRSN) recently announced that more than 6.1 million domain names were registered in the fourth quarter of 2012. According to its recently published "The Domain Name Industry Brief", domain name registrations increased 2.5% sequentially to 252 million at the end of the fourth quarter.For the eighth consecutive quarter, domain name registrations improved by more than 2.0%. On a year-over-year basis, worldwide registrations jumped 11.8% (26.6 million). Excluding .tk (this registry ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse open for business -   The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) recently opened a Trademark Clearinghouse (“TMCH”) designed to protect registered trademarks.  Each time a new generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) is launched, trademark owners often find they need to fend off a rash of new cybersquatting domain names that crop up as a result. While there are procedures in place to contest the use of a trademark improperly embedded in a domain name, they can be fairly costly and time-consuming.  Now, ... read more ...
 
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Mali to give .ML domains away for free - While a large part of the domain industry gathers at the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing this week, big news are being made in the country of Mali in Africa. As reported by The Guardian, .ML domains will be available for free in July 2013. The registry will be operated by Freedom Registry, the same company that currently operated .TK (ccTLD for Tokelau). .TK currently has over 16 million active domain names according to the registry operator. Sunrise starts on the 1st of May 2013 and will ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Over 6 million new website names registered in Oct-Dec 2012 - Over six million new domain names were registered in the October-December period of 2012, taking the total number of registered domain names to 252 million worldwide.VeriSign, the global registry operator for .com and .net, in a report said: "More than six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains as of December 31, 2012." The increase of 6.1 ... read more ...
 
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Over 6 million domain names added to Internet in Oct-Dec 2012 – IBN Live - New Delhi: Over six million new domain names were registered in the October-December period of 2012, taking the total number of registered domain names to 252 million worldwide, says a report."...more than six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains as of December 31, 2012," VeriSign, the global registry operator for .com and.net said in a report. The ... read more ...
 
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Over 6 million domain names added to Internet in Oct-Dec 2012 - New Delhi: Over six million new domain names were registered in the October-December period of 2012, taking the total number of registered domain names to 252 million worldwide, says a report."...more than six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains as of December 31, 2012," VeriSign, the global registry operator for .com and.net said in a report. The ... read more ...
 
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Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD - In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating “a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/).” “To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised plans for each of the four TLDs below: ●  .search – Our goal for .search is to provide an easily-identifiable ... read more ...