Monthly Archives: April 2013

Sat 6th April 2013
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Guest Post By Bill Sweetman “Why we Support The ICA” - This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar,  that allows marketers, entrepreneurs, and startups to buy premium domain names for their business. Bill is also a member of the ICA Board: “”The domain investing industry, as wonderful and exciting as it is, is pretty small compared to other industries and consists of a relatively small number of individuals, companies, and related service providers. It is very ... read more ...
 
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TM.Biz selected to Manage Sunrise Period for Radio Global Domains - TM.Biz announces it has been selected by BRS Media to manage their up-coming trademark Sunrise Period for the Radio.am and Radio.fm Global Domains. The May 28 Sunrise Period for the Radio.am and Radio.fm Global Domains represents the first time that ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse is expected to be used to protect trademarks in new top-level domain names. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT April 7, 2013 – Boston - TM.Biz announces it has been selected by BRS Media to manage their up-coming ... read more ...
Fri 5th April 2013
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66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++ - 66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retirement;  American Association of Independent Music which objected to .Band, .Song, .Tunes and .Music; the Universal Postal Union which objected to .Mail;  Charles Schwab Co., Inc. which objected to the same strings that TD Ameritrade objected to; the ... read more ...
 
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39 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evaluation As ICANN Gets Through The IDN’s - 39 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applications through the priority number of 108 have now gone through IE (but not all have passed yet) meaning next week we will see the first non-IDN new gTLD pass IE. Of the 108 new gTLD application in IE, all of them IDN’s, 93 passed, none failed with the balance ... read more ...
 
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Jean-Marc Ayrault en Touraine lundi - Quatre ministres du gouvernement de François Hollande, dont le premier d'entre eux, Jean-Marc Ayrault, sont annoncés en Touraine ce lundi 8 avril. Le Premier ministre sera accompagné par Arnaud Montebourg, ministre du Redressement productif, Geneviève Fioraso, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, et Fleur Pellerin, ministre déléguée aux PME, à l'Innovation et l’Économie numérique.Ils doivent passer l'après-midi en Indre-et-Loire et visiter deux entreprises ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Trademark Clearinghouse launches in anticipation of new era of top … -   ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has taken another step in expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domains (TLD). Domain extensions such as .nike, .canon and .bank may now join the already existing TLDs, including .com, .org, .net, .biz and .info, and are expected to be activated within the coming weeks. ICANN has launched the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), a central repository designed to help brand owners protect their marks from the many forms ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Opens Up Its Escrow Service To All Domain Transactions - Afternic Escrow Service has just opened up its service for sales that take place out outside of Afternic.com For transactions taking place outside the Platform the fee is 3% of the transaction with a $60 minimum. “” Afternic Escrow Service is available for any domain transaction, and it’s free for any domain purchased through the Afternic platform.* Our experienced escrow managers oversee every transaction, ensuring that each detail is reviewed. With Afternic as the intermediary, the exchange ... read more ...
 
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Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics Files UDRP On Beats.co Against Innovation HQ - Beats Electronics, Inc. best know for the Dr. Dre Beats Headphone products known as Beats By Dre just filed a UDRP on the domain name Beats.com The company official website is beatsbydre.com The domain name, Beats.co is owned by Innovation HQ, Inc. and goes to a parked page with music related links but noting directly related to headphones of Dr. Dre’s products. Interestingly the domain name Beats.com also goes to a parked page, but interestingly Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics filed the UDRP against ... read more ...
 
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.Jobs expected to be initial “new TLD” to launch this year - It’s not really “new”, but .jobs is likely to beat other TLDs to the market later this year. Forget prioritization draw numbers, new TLD objections, and contention sets: .jobs may be the first “new TLD” to be available for registration this year. It’s not really a “new” TLD. .Jobs is a sponsored top level domain that was entered into the root in 2005. But it was initially heavily restricted. Companies could only register domains that matched their ... read more ...
Thu 4th April 2013
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26 More Community/Limited Public Interest Objections on New gTLD Filed With ICC - There are now a total of 54 community and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were filed by the Independent Objector appointed by ICANN, this group which includes objections to .lotto, .basketball, .game, .gold, .insure and .insurance to name a few. have been filed by private associations and companies including, The Financial Services Roundtable, World ... read more ...
 
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Ticket-Network.com UDRP Rejected A Week After TicketNetworks.com Lost In UDRP - Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just lost a UDRP on the domain name ticket-network.com a week after another UDRP panel ordered the domain name TicketNetworks.com transferred to the same company Here the domain holder didn’t even respond. The difference in the TicketNetworks.com case the domain was registered in 2010 well after the Trademark. Here the domain was registered in 2001 before the trademark Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: “The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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.EU Celebrates 7th Birthday & 3.74 Million Registration; 1.84 Million Eu Residents Own One - EURid the registry for the .Eu TLD released a study today ahead of its 7th Birthday. To  date there are over 3.74 Million .Eu registrations. Over 1.84 million EU residents have registered at least one .eu domain name, with 25% of those having registered more than one. “The research also shows that the majority of .eu users are in business, ambitious, tech-savvy and aiming for expansion, which is where the .eu TLD is important in projecting a continent-wide image.” A valuable asset Perception ... read more ...
 
 
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US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail - In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department’s Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .Mail Last week we told you that the USPS filed a Legal Rights Objection with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against all seven applications for  the new gTLD  .Mail. The applicants for the new gTLD .Mail include Google, Amazon, and Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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Palme nationale de l’innovation pour TLD - De notre bureau d'Orléans Prix régional de l'innovation, la société TLD, à Montlouis-sur-Loire, vient de recevoir le prix national. Jean-Marie Fulconis, PDG de TLD n'était pas à la remise du prix par le ministre du Redressement productif. Et pour cause : il décrochait au même moment, au Moyen Orient, des marchés. Il était bien là, vendredi, en revanche, pour recevoir les félicitations du président du conseil régional François Bonneau, la Région ayant à plusieurs ... read more ...
 
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39th New gTLD & 3rd IDN Application Withdrawn - Bridgestone Corporation has withdrawn an application for the new gTLD IDN string of 普利司通 with ICANN. The application which has a prioritization number of 1769. According to the application: .普利司通 are the Chinese characters representing “Bridgestone”, meant to be read roughly similar to the pronunciation of “Bridgestone” in English. “The string doesnʹt hold any particular meaning in Chinese.” This marks the 39th new gTLD application withdrawn from the ICANN program out ... read more ...
 
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Apparently Verisign is value a same with or but cost hikes - Company’s market cap is back up to October levels. Just as I don’t understand why the DOW has been hitting all time records lately, I also don’t understand this: Verisign is apparently worth the same with or without seven-percent-a-year price hikes on .com. When Verisign dropped the bomb on October 25 that the Department of Commerce was reviewing its ability to automatically increase prices, the company had a marketcap of about $7 billion. Verisign signed a ... read more ...
 
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.WTF: .Lotto, .Weather, .Game, .Retirement strike with objections - Seriously, WTF? International Chamber of Commerce has posted more community and limited public interest objections on its web site. On the surface, these look to be quite misdirected. Afilias’ application for .lotto has been hit with a community objection filed by European State Lotteries and Toto Association. That’s a group that represents lotteries and gambling companies in Europe that benefit the state. Then there’s Accuweather’s community objection to ... read more ...
 
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Right of a Dot posts response to private TLD auction antitrust claims - Company says private auctions do not automatically violate U.S. antitrust law. Last month new TLD applicant Uniregistry published a press release that announced it would not participate in private auctions for new TLDs due to anti-trust concerns. It based its decision on a verbal conversation with the Department of Justice. The press release also suggested that “paying off” other new TLD applicants might run afoul of the law. The release generated an immediate ... read more ...
 
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Google objects to 9 plural tip turn domain applications - Google and Verisign file most objections (so far) against TLDs on string similarity grounds. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has published 33 of the string confusion objections it has received, representing about half of the total. One of the biggest filers so far is Google, which has objected to at least 9 applications. All of the objections are against applications for the plural version of domains it has applied for. ICANN’s String Similarity ... read more ...
 
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U.S. Department of Commerce not ancillary USPS conflict to .mail tip turn domains - Department of Commerce not backing .mail objections. Lawrence Strickling, U.S. Department of CommerceLast week I wrote about how the United States Postal Service filed objections to all of the top level domain applications for .mail. It’s a big waste of money, as in order to prevail the USPS would have to show it has some sort of legal rights to the term “mail”. ICANN just published a letter from Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and ... read more ...
Wed 3rd April 2013
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32 Objections To New gTLD Applications Filed; 13 By Verisign, 9 By Google - 32 objections on new gTLD applications filed with the International Centre For Dispute Resolution, based string confusion, are now reflected on their website. The objection process is part of the ICANN new gTLD program. Some of the objections as we noted a couple of weeks ago were filed by Verisign,Inc. who is up objecting to 13 new gTLD applications including: <![CDATA[]]>Verisign Switzerland SA objected to 3 new gTLD applications Google objected to 9 new gTLD applications including one’s ... read more ...
 
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Los dominios «.app, .music o .google», grandes desconocidos para las PYMES - Aviso legal Copyright © Factoría de Información, S.A, Madrid. 2008. Datos registrales: Constituida con otra denominación (modificada a la actual en inscripción 5ª) e inscrita en el Registro Mercantil de Madrid, Tomo 20684, Folio 176, Sección 8, Hoja M 366324, inscripción 1ª - C.I.F.: A-84159623 con domicilio social en Calle Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 6 y correo electrónico de contacto webque@que.es. Incluye contenidos de la empresa citada, del diario Qué Copyright © ... read more ...
 
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In wake of top-level domain security criticism, ICANN announces emergency … - IDG News Service - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will resolve in the event of a failure at a new TLD operator, it said on Tuesday. [ALSO: Groups say ICANN unprepared for gTLD launch] The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), U.S. based Neustar and the U.K. based Nominet were selected, the ICANN ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINScanada.ca Inc. to Offer More Top-Level Domains and SSL Certificate … - April 3, 2013 Download PDF CALGARY, AB (RPRN) 04/03/13 — — DOMAINScanada.ca Inc., leading Canadian domain registrar, announces today that it will be adding new services and competitive rates with a launch of a completely new website and ordering platform in 2013. The company will be adding other Top-Level Domains (TLDs) to the services they provide, allowing clients to register and manage all their domains (.com, ... read more ...