Monthly Archives: April 2013

Tue 9th April 2013
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Donuts Secures Additional New gTLD Funding For Auctions - Donuts Inc., the applicant for the largest number of new gTLD strings, announced tonight that is has closed on  “Series B equity investment which was “oversubscribed” and which “nearly doubles our capacity to compete”. The investment round was “led by existing investor Generation Partners, at twice the valuation of the initial Series A round, as well as additional financing from Columbia Partners Private Capital, the latter complementing the company’s existing senior line from Comerica ... read more ...
 
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New TLD field wish we to know they have lots of money for auctions… - But just how much? They don’t want you to know. Donuts new funding round “doubles its capacity to compete” in new TLD auctions. What does that mean?Last night when I received Donuts’ press release about a follow on investment I had to re-read it a few times. While the press release didn’t divulge exactly how much the company raised, it did say that the new funds “nearly doubles our capacity to compete” in new TLD auctions. The company previously announced ... read more ...
 
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eBay patents a exit cocktail adult window - Company gets patent for way to deliver a pop up window when you leave a web site. It was once a favorite advertising tool and then a popular last-ditch effort from internet marketers. Yes, I’m talking about the exit pop up. When you leave a site for good, the site sends one last goodbye…one last drop of monetization…one last effort to make you do something…a pop up window. eBay was just awarded United States Patent 8,418,078 (pdf) for “Method and system ... read more ...
 
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Donuts raises some-more supports during double a valuation - Donuts raises more dough to pursue new top level domains. Donuts Inc., which applied for 307 top level domain names, has raised new funding. The company did not disclose the amount of funding in the new round, but the valuation doubled compared to the series A round. Donuts had previously raised about $100 million. The company says the oversubscribed round “nearly doubles our capacity to compete”, although I wouldn’t read into that that it raised another $100 ... read more ...
 
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Oops…U.S. Government lets Medicaid.com expire, now in private hands - Domain expired in January and wasn’t renewed despite plenty of warning. The official site for Medicaid, the U.S. health program for lower income families and individuals, is Medicaid.gov. But you can bet many people looking for information about the program type in Medicaid.com instead of .gov. Up until January 29th, the U.S. government helpfully forwarded Medicaid.com to Medicaid.gov… Then it let the domain expire. Last month Tennessee company Medx Publishing ... read more ...
 
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Spend only 60 seconds and never get a $60 offer on Sedo again - Video explains how to bulk edit your domain listings on Sedo to set a minimum bid amount for your entire account. Ah, the dreaded $60 offer on Sedo. You know the feeling. You get an email saying you’ve received an offer on your domain. Excitement UP. Then you see it’s for $60. Excitement DOWN. It sounds like Sedo has received the message, as it has made setting a minimum offer price part of the domain listing process. But what about for the thousands of domains ... read more ...
Mon 8th April 2013
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Horizon Publishing Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Opulence.com - Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How bad was Horizon’s case? Consider that the domain holder didn’t even file a response and the panel on its own initiative found RDNH. Here is what the one member panel Paul M. DeCicco, said in part on the issue of RDNH: “In bringing its Complaint and as discussed above, Complainant overtly disregards facts and law which should have been ... read more ...
 
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One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley - Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations,  the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on March 25th. A UDRP complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum by Morgan Stanley over the domain name morganstanley.pw The domain name is not currently resolving. Of course the question I have is if Morgan Stanley didn’t elect to pay the Sunrise fee for a .PW domain name why are they willing to pay many times the cost just a few ... read more ...
 
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VIDEO. TLD reçoit le Premier ministre en Touraine - Le Premier ministre était en Touraine ce lundi 8 avril. Il a notamment visité le site de Montlouis-sur-Loire de l'entreprise TLD. Les salariés ont été "impressionnés" de rencontrer Jean-Marc Ayrault et trois de ses ministres, Arnaud Montebourg, Fleur Pellerin et Geneviève Fioraso. ... read more ...
 
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Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In Fees - George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services,  (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa.com and was awarded its court costs, all arising out of a UDRP filed last year by  the Italian cosmetics company Micys. (not Macys). In June of last year we told  you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name Pupa.com, owned by frequent commentator to TheDomains.com, George Kirikos company Leap. George filed a lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court of ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org - A few days ago we let you know that Twitter won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name was held under privacy at Moniker.com The domain name has an original registration date of October 2005. The domain name transferred to privacy into privacy in late  2011. The decision has now been issued. The case was a slam dunk with the domain holder failing to file an answer the panel found that the  “domain name was registered well ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 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 The increase of 6.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 2.5% over the third quarter of 2012, and marks the eighth straight quarter with greater ... read more ...
 
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Jean-Marc Ayrault est arrivé à TLD à Montlouis-sur-Loire - 16 h 45. Fin de la visite de Jean-Marc Ayrault et retour à Paris. La Nouvelle République reviendra bien sûr sur cette visite dans son édition du mardi 9 avril.16 h 20. Le discours commence. Comme il l'avait annoncé dans l'interview publié ce lundi 8 avril dans la NR, Jean-Marc Ayrault confirme la préparation d'un projet de loi sur la transparence, la lutte contre la fraude fiscale. Les propositions seront faites le 24 avril au conseil ministres.La présence d'Anne Lauvergeon ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Top-Level-Domains: "Die EU-Kommission störte sich an .sex" - LTO: Die Auswahl an Domainendungen war lange Zeit begrenzt. Es gab beispielsweise .de, .com oder .org. Seit Januar 2012 können Unternehmen sich solche Endungen quasi frei ausdenken und bei der Internationalen Organisation zur Verwaltung von Internetdomains (ICANN) beantragen, diese auf sie zuzulassen. Welche Top-Level-Domain (TLD) war bei den Antragsstellern am begehrtesten? Müller: .app ist insgesamt 13-mal beantragt worden. Danach folgten .home und .inc mit jeweils elf Anträgen, .art ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August - ICANN now says they will  be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled  “New gTLD Program Status ICANN released some other important dates and time frames for the new gTLD process: “ICANN will publish all objections on new gTLD applications by this Friday April 12, 2013. We expect to receive GAC advice this week . Once published, applicants will have 21 days to submit ... read more ...
 
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Internet In China By The Numbers -       Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of the US. China added 40 million new Internet Users in just the last year. China has 7 of the Top 30″Internet Companies” China E-Commerce has reached $7 Billion. In terms of domain names, China’s ccTLD,  .Cn has 7.5 Million registered domains, making it number seven ... read more ...
 
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Following On Success of .TK, .ML To Offer Free Domains - Following on its highly successful management of the .TK registry Freedom Registry announced today its going to ‘Power” the  Dot ML,  the Mali domain name, .ML .ML domain names will be operated as ” generic, unrestricted, clean and global TLD focusing on individuals and businesses in- and outside Mali”. “Free domain names will be offered to all internet users in both Mali and other countries from July 15th onwards. ” “This General Availability will be preceded by a Sunrise and Landrush ... read more ...
 
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California seat seller files fit over UrbanHome.com - Second lawsuit filed after UDRP decision. The legal expenses are mounting on this one. Urban Home, the California furniture maker that filed a UDRP on UrbanHome.com, has now filed a federal lawsuit in California to try to get the domain name. The suit is in response to UrbanHome.com’s owner, Technology Online, filing suit in Nevada to halt the transfer of the domain name. The WIPO panel found in favor of Urban Home. Technology Online decided to sue to stop the transfer. I’m ... read more ...
 
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Canadian justice orders association compensate costs over prejudicial domain claim - George Kirikos gets big court victory; judge orders defendant pay costs. A Canadian court has ordered Micys Company pay $4,512.45 to George Kirikos’(Leap of Faith Financial Services Inc stemming from a UDRP it filed against the domain name Pupa.com. Micys filed a UDRP against Pupa.com last year with World Intellectual Property Forum. Micys runs the site Pupa.it, where it sells cosmetics and fashion accessories. Kirikos decided to sue Micys in Canadian court, which ... read more ...
 
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Craigslist sues CraigsTruck.com - Classifieds site takes issue with delivery service’s name. Online classifieds site Craigslist has filed a federal lawsuit against a Washington company that offers delivery services under the name Craigstruck.com. Craigslist alleges that Craigstruck.com is infringing its trademarks and using its name to get more business. Craigstruck.com matches people who have a truck and are willing to move stuff with people that need something moved. It promotes itself as service ... read more ...
 
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Internet tops 250 million domain names - Verisign says milestone reached at end of 2012. There are now more than 250 million domain names registered, according to Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The company reports that there were 252 million domains registered at the end of 2012. That number grows every day. But the total universe of paid registrations is less than that. Verisign notes that with .tk, which is mostly free, the year-over-year domain name registration growth rate is 11.8 percent. ... read more ...
Sat 6th April 2013
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Escrow.com Re-Designs & Launches New Updated Site -   Escrow.com just launched its re-designed site. Its not only the design that has changed but more information and features are now available. Andee Hill of Escrow.com, shared some of the new features with us: “”The big upgrade to our services is our Milestone Transactions. These were previously named Professional Service Transactions and had limitations. The Milestone Transactions will allow Escrow.com to secure the full amount for a project and then release predetermined amounts to the seller ... read more ...
 
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At ICANN: More Contractual Obligations For New TLD Operators? - At ICANN: More Contractual Obligations For New TLD Operators? Published on 6 April 2013 @ 9:34 pm  Print This Post By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Members of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are pushing for additional contractual clauses for applicants of new generic top-level domains (TLDs). GAC members who began ... read more ...
 
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Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous” - A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has against GoDaddy.com for “allegedly trafficking in unauthorized trademarks. The Film Academy (AMPAS) takes issue with GoDaddy’s “CashParking” program wherein its customers are allowed to buy a domain like Oscarbets.com or Oscarsornot.com, “park” that page and collect a portion of revenue ... read more ...
 
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Regierungen fordern Vertragszusätze bei neuen Top Level Domains - Die Betreiber neuer Top Level Domains (.berlin, .google, .hiv) sollen sich vertraglich zur Wahrung öffentlicher Interessen verpflichten. Das fordern Regierungsvertreter bei dem am Wochenende in Peking anlaufenden 46. Treffen der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Erste Vertragsabschlüsse sind bereits für Ende des Monats anvisiert. Im Vorfeld hatte die ICANN-Spitze Betreiber in spe aufgefordert, durch sogenannte „Public Interest Commitments“ (PICs) freiwillig Garantien ... read more ...