Monthly Archives: April 2013

Wed 24th April 2013
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Top Level Domain aims to launch five new Internet domains this year -

Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. is anticipating to launch 5 new Internet residence endings, famous as tip turn domains, by a finish of this year, it pronounced Wednesday.

ICANN, a physique that coordinates Internet addresses, is overseeing a routine that will outcome in a large enlargement in a series of Internet

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Via: totaltele.com

 
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TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu - According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application with the biggest news out of the release is that it is withdrawing 4 of its new gTLD application TLDH announced that is decided to withdraw its application for .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu. Those withdrawals are not reflected on ICANN’s site. “We are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schillings Name Administration Hit With UDRP On WalkTheWalk.com - A UDRP has just been filed against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration on the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. The company filing the complaint is Walk the Walk Worldwide, whose site is at WalkTheWalk.org According to the organization’s site it operates a charity since 1998 centered in the UK. Walk the Walk Worldwide has two trademark registered with the USPTO for walk the walk, one  in September 2009 filed in 2007 and one registered in 2004 which was filed in 2001. Of course Walk the Walk is ... read more ...
 
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eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s - According to enom.com its “New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs, in just  nine months In the more than two million Watchlist submissions received over the course of nine months, the three new domain extensions of greatest interest are: 1) .Web 2) .Shop 3) .Hotel  From a category viewpoint, the most expressions of interest have been in the areas of:  1) Services (for example:.Attorney)(for example:.Expert)(for ... read more ...
 
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IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp … - DJ IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Internet Top Level Domain ".gw" Global Web (Guinea Bissau) ohne legale Lizenz 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 ... read more ...
 
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IRW-News: IVY International Holding Corp. - IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global WebIvy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Internet Top Level Domain '.gw' Global Web (Guinea Bissau) ohne legale LizenzSalt 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 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To 3 Domain Registrars - ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom S.A. (IANA# 1458) of Sao Paulo Brazil which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $10,863.67 Basic Fusion, Inc. (IANA# 813) of New York NY which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $5,091.59. Each registrar was given until May ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s - ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on a portion of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. ICANN is looking for input on “how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings”. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. “The Board New gTLD Committee, acting on behalf of the ... read more ...
 
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Toowoomba team out to make mark on Queensland cycling series - Topics:  cycling, peter collins, queensalnd road teams series Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing team member Peter Collins gearing for round one of the Queensland Road Teams Series this weekend. Nev Madsen TOOWOOMBA-based cycling team TLD Racing won't be short of incentive when it launches into round ... read more ...
 
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Hilco to auction Bargain.com, ETM.com, other domains - Bargain.com, ETM.com, and ServiceMerchandise.com headed to auction block. Hilco Streambank announced that it will auction off a number of domain names, including Bargain.com, next month through its online auction platform HilcoIPAuctions.com. Hilco is well known for auctioning of domain names related to defunct brands, but Bargain.com isn’t such a distressed asset. The domain is owned by FYI Direct, the consumer credit company behind FreeScore.com. It has been marketed ... read more ...
 
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One “corporate identifier” TLD applicant bows out - Applicant for six new TLD strings pulls applications. An applicant for a number of corporate identifier top level domains (e.g. .llc, .inc) has withdrawn its applications. Each of the top level domains was applied for by a separate company, but the CEO of all of the companies was listed as Bekim Veseli. Veseli runs an information technology company in Virginia. The withdrawn top level domains include: TLD / Applicant .LLP PLL Registry, LLC .LTD LTD Registry, LLC .Corp ... read more ...
 
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25 finish user domain sales - Scripps Networks among end user buyers last week. Here are 25 end user domain sales made through Afternic last week. Gibson Research Corporation bought SteveGibson.net for $1,477. The company was founded by Steve Gibson. Vancouver Laptop paid $25,000 for TabletScreen.com. It spent $1,499 for ReplacementScreen.com earlier this year. Global Software in Raleigh, North Carolina paid $2,000 for GlobalSoftwareInc.com. It currently uses GLBsoft.com as its web address. Here’s ... read more ...
 
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USA Today buys domain for new sports site (and 19 other domains) - USA Today among big name domain name end user buyers last week. This week USA Today launched its new sports site For The Win!, which officially resides at FTW.USAToday.com. But they bought the short URL 4TW.com to forward to it. Here are details on that sale and 19 other end user sales at Sedo last week. Building Supplies Online in the UK bought its acronym BSO.co.uk for 2,499 GBP. pair Networks bought yet another domain on the aftermarket. It paid $1,000 for PairBlog.com. ... read more ...
 
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GAC Advice leads to TLDH withdrawing 4 new TLD applications - Major new TLD applicant says it will withdraw four applications after discussions with governments. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly traded pure play applicant for new top level domains (London: TLDH), plans to withdraw four of its top level domain applications after receiving government advice. In a release issued today, the company writes: The GAC strongly advised against four gTLDs, none of which TLDH applied for. Another 513 gTLDs were given some kind of ... read more ...
 
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Charity files UDRP over Frank Schilling’s WalkTheWalk.com domain - Group owns .org version of domain name. The charity that owns WalkTheWalk.org has filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. for the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. Walk the Walk Worldwide raises money to raise awareness about breast cancer. It certainly has an attention-grabbing approach: it gets women to walk marathons in bras to raise money. The United Kingdom charity has a couple trademarks for the term, including for a logo and simply “walk ... read more ...
 
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ICANN will now be means to postpone domain name registrars - [Well, looks like ICANN actually had a similar provision in its 2009 RAA, just in a different section. Sorry about that.] One of the big improvements in the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) over the 2009 version is the ability for ICANN to suspend registrars. Previously, if a registrar was in breach of contract, ICANN only had the “nuclear option” – to terminate the domain registrar. Many in the ICANN community felt this was why ICANN would ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K - Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold for $25,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were Skids.com for $17,000 and BuyTicket.com for $16,000. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million - Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: farmrealestate.com at 20,000 USD, and indonews.com at 20,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: låna.nu at 19,300 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: jiandan.net at 5,000 USD, and acorn.org at 5,000 USD Here are the reportable sales:   <![CDATA[]]>Domain ... read more ...
 
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Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google - Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwords product. Here is an except of the interview which you can read here. “”Ten years ago today, my business partners and I sold Applied Semantics to Google. At the time, it was Google’s largest acquisition to date. In the following years we worked ... read more ...
 
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Who Should Own ‘.Patagonia?’ - Argentina's "territory" is under threat -- both physically and virtually -- according to its president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Not only did the residents of the Falkland Islands (or Islas Malvinas) vote overwhelmingly to remain part of Great Britain, but Patagonia, Inc. (the outdoor apparel company) has laid claim to the .patagonia Internet domain. Resolving Argentina's cyberspace dispute with Patagonia falls to the little known but influential ... read more ...
 
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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com - Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registered in 2009:   Here are the relevant facts and findings by a one member panel: “The Complainant is a Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online ... read more ...
 
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.PW Crosses 50000 Domain Registrations in 3 Weeks - The .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as "the Professional Web", was available for General registrations from March 25, 2013 with a strong distribution channel of 120+ ICANN Registrars including Network Solutions, Web.com, Tucows, Name.com, eNom, Xinnet Namecheap. The registry saw more than 4,000 .pw domain registrations within 30 minutes of its launch, ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Clearinghouse opens for business - The Trademark Clearinghouse will deal with online infringement and cybersquatting. The Trademark Clearinghouse, a mechanism to alert brand-holders when someone tries to register a domain that matches a registered trademark, has been set up as part of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) new generic top level domains (gTLDs) programme. Operators of new gTLDs will be responsible for implementing certain rights protection mechanisms, supported by the Trademark ... read more ...
 
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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks - According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web”, was available for General registrations from March 25, 2013 with a strong distribution channel of 120+ ICANN Registrars including Network Solutions, Web.com, Tucows, Name.com, eNom, Xinnet Namecheap. Bhavin Turakhia, CEO, .PW Registry Radix Registry ... read more ...
 
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After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP - Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: “The Complainant hosts an online marketplace for event tickets to concert, sport, and theater events in the United States of America (U.S.) and globally. “Through its infrastructure, the Complainant connects buyers and sellers with ticket inventory listings to various events ... read more ...