Monthly Archives: April 2013

Tue 2nd April 2013
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Qatar Telecom and etisalat clear first hurdle - Home Telecoms IT News Article Apr 01 2013 more articles from Monday, Apr 01, 2013Dubai: Etisalat and Qatar Telecom have passed the initial stages of a procedure to get its own top-level domains (TLDs) as part of a revolutionary shake-up in way people search the internet. TLDs are the letters after the final dot of a domain name and the approval could pave the way for etisalat to use ‘etisalat’ in Arabic letters as its domain extension and Qatar ... read more ...
 
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Horrible UDRP Ruling; No Trademark; No Bad Faith & No RDNH On 14 Year Old Domain RT.org - A one person UDRP panel rejected the attempt of the The Restored Church of God of Wadsworth, Ohio, to steal the domain name RT.org from Alexa Properties, LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada. But the bigger story is the panel failed to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) despite the panelist couldn’t even attempt to utter the grounds for which she did not issue a RDNH finding. For one the complainant didn’t have a registered trademark, but alleged a common law trademark to the term “RT” Second ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes “Changes to Registry Agreement for New gTLDs” - ICANN has just posted the  Revised Registry Agreement for Review “In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review.” “This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other members of the community.” “We have carefully considered the feedback on the revised Agreement and many suggestions have now been implemented ... read more ...
 
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.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on Apr 15th - According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. “With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and our team. ” “Over the past two and a half years, .CO has become the domain of choice for startups ... read more ...
 
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12 Year After Losing UDRP, College Sues Graduate For $100K Over Same Domain - In a story that appeared in ChristianPost.com, Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Fla. has filed a suit against a former graduate  Peter Gage over the domain name PensacolaChristianCollege.com (PCC) seeking statutory damages of $100,000 under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) It looks like Mr. Gage and the school have been battling it out over this domain since 2001. Peter Gage graduated in 1996. In 2001, PCC filed and lost a UDRP against Gage with the panel finding the ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions gets a delay obvious on URL forwarding - Patent issued today covers forwarding one domain name to another. Domain forwarding, a.k.a. URL forwarding. Every domain registrar offers it, and most give it away for free to their customers. Type in DNW.com and get forwarded to DomainNameWire.com. Pretty simple, right? Did you know that Network Solutions has a patent for “Apparatus and method for web forwarding”? Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent (pdf) to Network Solutions for a way ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch fights to take down copycat blog - TechCrunch demands NewTechCrunch.com domain; site owner tries to rebrand. TechCrunch’s parent company AOL has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to take down the copycat blog NewTechCrunch.com. As of right now, NewTechCrunch.com does not resolve. But until recently the domain resolved to a web site that included articles about laptops, tablets, and phones (see photo from Archive.org, March 11). Likely due to TechCrunch’s actions, the owners of the ... read more ...
 
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting Apr 15 - More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There will be no trademark sunrise period, so brand owners that wish to register their IDN.co domain should place an order with their registrar quickly. This isn’t .co’s first foray into internationalized domain names. ... read more ...
 
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Tracy Morgan wins domain name dispute - Comedian Tracy Morgan can now tell jokes at TracyMorgan.com. A WIPO panel has ordered the domain TracyMorgan.com be transferred to the comedian. (Photo: David Shankbone)Comedian Tracy Morgan laughs about a lot of stuff, but not about how he didn’t own the domain TracyMorgan.com. In January I wrote about how the 30 Rock star had filed a UDRP against the owner of TracyMorgan.com. At the time, the parked page on the domain included links such as “Tracy Morgan Comedian”, ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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Investors Business Daily Covers Mike Mann - Investor’s Business Daily Just Covered Domainer Mike Mann the founder of DomainMarket.com “Among the best-known companies in domain names are Demand Media (DMD) and GoDaddy.com.” “Among the largest holders of domain names is Mike Mann, the founder of DomainMarket.com. ” “”He also is CEO of SEO.org and several other website companies, and he’s involved in several charities, including his own Grassroots.org.” Here is just a few quotes from the story: “”IBD: How’s the Internet ... read more ...
 
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Etisalat gets ready to cross into a new ‘domain’ - UAE telecoms operator Etisalat says it is one of the first companies in the world to pass the first phase of a procedure set to see scores of new internet domain names added to current favourites ‘.com’ and ‘.net’. The firm announced yesterday that it is pressing ahead with efforts to get its own Top-Level Domain (TLD) - or the letters after the final dot of a domain name to the less technically inclined. ​ The ... read more ...
 
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Etisalat gets ready to cross into a new ‘domain’ - UAE telecoms operator Etisalat says it is one of the first companies in the world to pass the first phase of a procedure set to see scores of new internet domain names added to current favourites ‘.com’ and ‘.net’. The firm announced yesterday that it is pressing ahead with efforts to get its own Top-Level Domain (TLD) - or the letters after the final dot of a domain name to the less technically inclined. ​ The ... read more ...
 
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Freshlook.com Purchased For $3,500 In SnapNames Auction In Feb Lost In UDRP - Freshlook.com a domain bought at a SnapNames.com drop auction for over $3,500 in Feburary has just been lost in a UDRP. The UDRP, which we wrote about when it was first filed two weeks after the end of the auction was decided by a one person panel from the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) The domain was still in the name of the registrar Endurance International Group when the UDRP was filed so its not clear if the winner of the auction paid for the domain. I can tell you that Endurance International ... read more ...
 
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Adweek: As New gTLD’s Roll Out “Marketers & Media Outlets Will Spend Millions” - In a new post by AdWeek.com entitled:  “Brands Facing Dot-Com Domain Identity Crisis. As Icann readies roll out, marketers and media outlets will spend millions” ” It all adds up to a 6,300% increase in web site domains.” I actually have never seen the new gTLD program expressed in terms of a percentage of increase in web addresses but its a pretty dramatic number. The article talks to big brand holders who are complaining about the cost of defensive registrations including Facebook: “”in ... read more ...
 
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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley Buys MixBit.com For $2,088 On Afternic To Start New Video Site - The Co-founder of YouTube Chad Hurley just announced announced on Twitter that he was  launching his new Video site, MixBit.com which he purchased on Afternic.com less than a month ago for just $2,088. “The future of video is launching soon!” Says Mixbit.com Interestingly the same week MixBit.com sold for $2,088 on Afternic.com another version of the domain, mixedbits.com also sold for $2,488. MixedBits.com not being forward to MixBit.com but has a Network Solutions placeholder which is the ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com Sells Over 42K Domain Names In March - Godaddy.com posted its sales totals for March 2013, reporting 42,600 domain sold on its platform in March. This is a substantial increase over February where Godaddy.com reported 34,985 Of the 42K+ sales: 762 Offer/Counter-Offer 22,566 Auction 19,332 Buy Now Here are the top 10 sales of the month: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Twitter co-founder starting new association called Jelly during JellyHQ.com - As with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? It’s actually owned by a company in my backyard in Fredericksburg, Texas called Fischer Wieser. Believe it or not, Fischer Wieser sells…jelly. Whatever the new company is a bout, if Stone’s new venture takes off you can expect ... read more ...
 
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Outrageous and foolish numbers about new tip turn domains - Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, and that shows in the ridiculous numbers the article quotes. Take a look at the infographic and then come back here… OK, you’re back. Let’s blow this infographic apart. 1. The first assumption is how ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuit: cybersquatters attempted to fool suppliers out of $60,000+ of merchandise - W. W. Williams says fraudsters uses domain name to try to trick suppliers to send merchandise. Usually when a cybersquatter grabs a domain similar to a company’s name, the cybersquatter just hopes to make a few bucks from a parked page. But sometimes the perpetrator has much more nefarious plans. W.W. Williams, which provides services and products to industrial companies, alleges that’s the case with the registrant of WWWilliamsInc.com. The company uses the domain ... read more ...
 
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Video: How to contention an shabby WHOIS complaint - The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the same as everyone. So today I’m posting my first DNW “How To” video. The video shows how to submit an invalid whois report on ICANN.org. ICANN recently added the whois complaint form directly to its web site, but the process ... read more ...
 
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It’s opening day and MLB is batting .867 with domains - Major League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. Major League Baseball owns all but four team .com domain names.It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an unspecified amount. With the Rockies.com domain, MLB now owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. MLB has upped its average from .767 in 2010 (23 names) to .867 (26 names) ... read more ...
 
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Google says parked domains = spam - Google’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hidden text. Listed right there underneath “Types of Spam” is this: It’s completely understandable that Google doesn’t want to index parked domains. But to label them as spam? I take two issues with that. 1. In order to be web spam, the ... read more ...