Monthly Archives: April 2013

Sun 28th April 2013
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Philadelphia 76ers buy Sevens.com from Warren Royal for new D-League franchise - Domain investor sells domain name for new development league team. Yesterday the Philadelphia 76ers NBA team announced that it acquired the operating rights for a team in the National Basketball Association Development League. The team will play in Delaware and be called the Delaware 87ers. Their nickname will be the “Sevens”. Just how long have the 76ers been working on acquiring the rights to this D-league team? Well, on November 26, 2012 they registered the ... read more ...
Sat 27th April 2013
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Amazon vs. the actual Amazon in domain name smackdown – NBC Latino - Everyone who has used the internet is familiar with the ubiquitous .com, .org and .net url extensions. But a little known planned expansion of generic top level domains (gTLDs), as they are called, is pitting online giant Amazon against Brazil and Peru who want to preserve a .amazon domain for informational sites because of the Amazon rainforest and Amazon river. First, let’s backtrack. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) – a U.S.-based non-profit organization ... read more ...
 
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Brazil and Peru fight Amazon.com over .amazon top-level domain - AmazonLollyknit / CC BY 2.0 Online retailer Amazon is facing opposition from Brazil and Peru over its claim for the .amazon global top-level domain name (gTLD).The two countries have lodged objections with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which is managing the expansion ... read more ...
 
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net.wars: Namesakes - The domain name wars are back: Brazil and Peru are objecting to Amazon.com's application to control .amazon. This sort of dispute has been going on for at least 20 years, and always, in my view, for the same reason: there is no consensus about what the domain name system is *for*. Various paradigms have been suggested over the last 30 years - directory, list of trademarks, geographic guide, free-for-all. There are cases to be made for all these ideas, by consumer advocates, lawyers, governments, ... read more ...
Fri 26th April 2013
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39 More New gTLD Pass IE: .AAA; .Chase; .NRA; .Live; .Swiss; .Vip; .Cpa - ICANN has passed another 39 new gTLD through Initial Evaluation today, including the National Rifle Association application for .NRA, The American Automobile Association application for .AAA, JPMorgan Chase application for .Chase, Microsoft’s application for .Live. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants  application for .CPA also passed IE. Google passed IE for its .Vip and .talk application,  Godaddy’s application for .Godaddy also passed IE. QVC networks application for .QVC ... read more ...
 
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3 Strikes & Your Out: Avaya Inc. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Avaya Inc. a company with 17,500 employees worldwide, was found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in its attempted theft of the domain name Avayo.net The panel took into account two other losing UDRP decisions filed by the company, in making its finding of (RDNH) although those panels did not find RDNH. The story was first reported yesterday by onlinedomain.com, whose author Konstantinos Zournas represented the Domain Holder in the proceeding. Its good to see that a panel is finally ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Top Level Domains kommen - Fachbeitrag | Voraussichtlich in den kommenden Wochen starten die ersten neuen Top Level Domains. Das Ziel: Entspannung in den angespannten Domainmarkt bringen. Eine völlig neue Online-Landschaft Kurz, prägnant, leicht zu merken: So lautet die Formel für den optimalen Domainnamen. Leicht gesagt – tatsächlich ist die Namenssuche jedoch mittlerweile schwierig geworden, insbesondere, ... read more ...
 
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NCSG hurdles ICANN preference to extend Trademark Clearinghouse rights - Formal Request for Reconsideration challenges trademark owners ability to add 50 derivatives of trademarks to clearinghouse. The GNSO Noncommercial Users Stakeholders Group has submitted a Request for Reconsideration to ICANN’s Board Governance Committee concerning a decision by ICANN to extend trademark protections in new top level domains. The reconsideration request argues that ICANN shouldn’t have added the so-called “Trademark +50″ protection in the Trademark ... read more ...
 
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Philadelphia Inquirer wants to possess a tenure “Philly” - Company loses dispute over domain name that includes “Philly”. Philadelphia’s dominant newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and its parent company apparently think they own the term “Philly”. True, the newspaper’s home on the web is Philly.com. But anyone who has ever eaten a Philly cheesesteak knows that it’s a common nickname for the city. So it’s with a bit of surprise that the company decided to go after a local news site, Philly2Philly.com, claiming ... read more ...
 
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4 things Verisign pronounced on the financier discussion call - From Google to where it stashes its cash, here’s what Verisign told analysts yesterday. Yesterday Verisign announced earnings for the first quarter and held its investor conference call. Here are four key things the company explained. Google is slowing our growth. Verisign blames the reduced growth rate in its domain base on overall macroeconomic trends (especially in Europe) and on changes to Google’s search algorithms. On yesterday’s conference call, it certainly ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Geographical Name Branding: Dot Patagonia? Dot Amazon? – Adotas - Comment Print Article Email Permalink Written on Apr 25, 2013  Author Naseem Javed  | Share Geographical Name Branding: Dot Patagonia? Dot Amazon? ADOTAS – When names are borrowed from the Atlas, things happen. Use of Geographic names have always caused some problems for two reasons; one they are in public domain so anyone can use and two they suggest that business is confined to just that geographic area. Like Paris Bakery, Waterloo ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 123 Million .Com/.Net Domains; Revenue adult 15%; $1.6 Billion In Cash - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 reported revenue of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013, up 15% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported the quarter ended with 123.1 million .com/.net domain name registered a 5.5% increase year over year. Verisign reported net income of $85 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.52 for the first quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $68 million and diluted EPS ... read more ...
 
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Cole Seely Signs With TLD Team For 2014 – Transworld Business - By Evan Buzbee Thu, Apr 25 2013 3:04 pm | Comments Press ReleaseApril 24, 2013 – Corona, CA – Troy Lee Designs is proud to announce the signing of Cole Seely to the TLD / Lucas Oil / Honda Race Team for 2014. Seely has had an incredible 2013 season so far, starting off at the Anaheim 1 Supercross season opener with a podium finish, then ... read more ...
 
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Brazilië en Peru: Amazon mag domeinnaam .amazon niet gebruiken - AD.nl gebruikt cookies en vergelijkbare technologieën ("cookies") onder andere om u een optimale gebruikerservaring te bieden. Ook kunnen we hierdoor het gedrag van bezoekers vastleggen en analyseren en daardoor onze website verbeteren. Cookies van onszelf en van derden kunnen worden gebruikt om advertenties te tonen en artikelen aan te bevelen op AD.nl die aansluiten op uw interesses. ... read more ...
 
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Brazilië en Peru: Amazon mag domeinnaam .amazon niet gebruiken - Trouw.nl gebruikt cookies en vergelijkbare technologieën ("cookies") onder andere om u een optimale gebruikerservaring te bieden. Ook kunnen we hierdoor het gedrag van bezoekers vastleggen en analyseren en daardoor onze website verbeteren. Cookies van onszelf en van derden kunnen worden gebruikt om advertenties te tonen en artikelen aan te bevelen op Trouw.nl die aansluiten op uw interesses. ... read more ...
 
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Update on ICANN’s new gTLD program - Brand owners should prepare for Internet expansion in 2013. Despite numerous concerns voiced by governments, law enforcement, brand owners, and businesses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues to march forward with its new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program, which promises to significantly expand the number of available Internet domain extensions in the near future.[1] ICANN is currently evaluating more than 1,900 applications for approximately 1,400 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo: 63% Unaware of New gTLD’s; 94% Not Planning On Purchasing One - Sedo.com published a New gTLD Research Report last month and I don’t see that anyone reported on it. The report was based on a survey of 600 small to medium business owners that took place in January The most important findings of the ‘gTLD Awareness Report’ are: 63% of small to mid-sized business owners are unaware that new gTLDs will be available in 2013 and many do not understand what the value of these new addresses will be. Over half of respondents feel that new gTLDs will make the internet ... read more ...
 
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Brand owners can protect trademarks in Trademark Clearinghouse for new … - The new Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) expansion undertaken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently implemented the Trademark Clearinghouse (“Clearinghouse”) as a mechanism to protect brand owners’ trademark rights in the expansion. The Clearinghouse will serve as a central registry to authenticate contact information and verify mark ownership rights. It will store this information in a single database that may be accessed by the over 1400 Top Level ... read more ...
 
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DomainShop: InterNetX-Neuentwicklung erhält das "BEST OF 2013"-Siegel - (PresseBox) (Regensburg, 25.04.2013) Die Initiative Mittelstand hat die Firma InterNetX für ihre Neuentwicklung "DomainShop" ausgezeichnet, mit der Domain-, Hosting- und SSL-Produkte sowie ein WebSite-Builder über einen Online-Shop angeboten werden können. Zur Einführung der new gTLDs wird die Lösung für viele Einsteiger in der Domain-Branche ein wichtiger Begleiter werden. Der InterNetX "DomainShop" ist von der Jury ... read more ...
 
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eNom Announces Growing Momentum and Interest in New TLDs - KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eNom, the world’s largest ICANN accredited wholesale registrar, today revealed two key touchstones achieved in its ongoing commitment to ready customers for the upcoming launch of new Top Level Domains (TLDs). Following the ICANN 46 Conference in Beijing earlier this month, the registrar reports that more than 400 of their resellers have signed up for the initiative for new TLDs, with modules specifically ... read more ...
 
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Verisign earnings: adds 1.99 million domains in Q1 - .Com registry Verisign reports first quarter earnings. Verisign reported its first quarter earnings after the bell today. In the first quarter it added a combined 1.99 million domain names in .com and .net. That brings the total to 123.1 million active domain names in the zone for .com and .net — a 5.5 percent increase year over year. This is an improvement over Q4 2012 when it added only 1.25 million names. But a better comparison my by Q1 of 2012, when it added ... read more ...
 
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Moms.com sells for $252,000 in Sedo Auction - Moms.com domain name sells for $252,000 in monthly Great Domains auction. The headline domain name in this month’s Great Domains auction at Sedo hit its reserve in extended bidding. Bidding for Moms.com jumped from $175,000 to $249,000 when a bidder placed the latter bid, which was the reserve. It looked like the auction was going to close at that price until another bid was placed in (literally) the last minute. Only two bidders participated once the auction hit ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions files domain remoteness obvious application - Domain name registrar Network Solutions wants to patent various aspects of a domain privacy service, and has filed a patent application for “Private Domain Name Registration” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application is technically a continuation of an application the company filed in 2004 but later abandoned. The new application was filed May 25, 2012 and just published (pdf) today. But wait, doesn’t Go Daddy already have a patent on this? Sort ... read more ...
 
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Video: How to use Watch My Domains Pro - See how to get started with this simple (yet valuable) software program. I’ve mentioned Watch My Domains Pro multiple times over the years. It’s a relatively simple software program that makes it easy to manage your domain portfolio. At a glance you can view expiring domains in your portfolio, see which registrars you’re using for each of your domains, and find out if you have domains parked with defunct parking services. In this video I’ll show you the basics ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw … – wallstreet - Salt Lake City, USA - 24. April 2013 - Die Ivy International Holding Corp. gibt zum Vertrieb der Internet Top Level Domain ”.gw” Global Web (Guinea Bissau) folgende Presseerklärung ab: Seit einiger Zeit behaupten die Firmen GWNIC Official Registry SARL – Guinea Bissau NIC Domain Investment PLC – England GW NIC Global Web Service LTD – England die alleinigen Lizenz- und Vertriebsrechte der ccTLD „.gw“ des Landes Guinea-Bissau erhalten zu haben und bieten Investoren Beteiligungen in ihr Unternehmen ... read more ...