Monthly Archives: April 2013

Thu 18th April 2013
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The Trademark Clearinghouse – What Every Trade Mark Owner Needs To Know - The Trademark Clearinghouse came into effect on 26 March 2013.   What exactly does this mean? Well, as you might know, some 1900 Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are likely to be launched during the course of 2013, some as early as May.  Included amongst these are .accountant,   .attorney, .capetown, .finance, .news, .shop and .zulu.   It's self-evident that a bank might want to register its trade mark as a 2nd level name (a domain name) under the gTLD  .bank,  or that ... read more ...
 
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Toowoomba cycling team geared for Queensland road series - Topics:  cycling, queensland road teams series, tld racing Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TLD Racing is preparing for its 2013 Queensland Road Teams Series bid. Contributed WITH its inaugural Queensland Road Teams Series (QRTS) under its belt Toowoomba-based TLD Racing has set its sights on the five-round 16-race ... read more ...
 
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After announcing new name, 21st Century Fox files UDRP - Company goes after 6 domains related to new brand. Last week I scooped that 20th Century Fox would be changing its name to 21st Century Fox thanks to some domain name registrations. One of the big questions remaining questions is how the company will get the domain name 21stCenturyFox.com, which was registered in 1997. Well, the company has turned to UDRP to recover some domains related to 21st Century Fox – but it’s not for 21stCenturyFox.com (at least yet). The ... read more ...
 
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Paul.com fights PaulDotCom.com over trademark - Two techies fight over “Paul Dot Com”. The owner of Paul.com is fighting the PaulDotCom security podcast over the latter’s attempt to trademark “PAULDOTCOM”. In November 2011, Paul Asadoorian filed a trademark application for PAULDOTCOM, the name he uses for his IT security podcast hosted at PaulDotcom.com. Once the mark was published for opposition, the owner of Paul.com filed a challenge with the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). Paul Niedermeyer ... read more ...
 
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Name.space sends lawsuit opposite ICANN over new TLDs to Court of Appeals - Company that offers domain names in alternative root pushes forward with legal challenge. Alternative root company name.space isn’t letting its beef with ICANN die just yet. The company has filed an appeal (pdf) with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after its suit against ICANN was tossed out by a lower court last month. Name.space offers domain names in an alternate root, and applied to ICANN in 2000 to add 118 of its domains to the “real” ... read more ...
 
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15 Fortune 100 companies have domains that end this year - American Express’ domain expires in about six weeks. Here are other companies that need to pay attention. Regions Bank, part of a Fortune 500 company, let its domain name registration expire over the weekend. As a result, thousands of customers were unable to conduct online banking transactions. Generally, when a domain expires and is taken offline, that also means emails to and from employees won’t be delivered as well. In other words: letting your domain expire ... read more ...
 
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Ouch: Regions Bank video mea culpa for vouchsafing domain name expire - Head of eBusiness for bank explains that company let domain expire and apologizes to customers. Hopefully this video saves other companies from letting their domain names expire. Over the weekend Regions Bank let its domain name expire, which took its entire web site offline. It quickly renewed the domain name, but any sort of downtime for a bank of this size (1,700 branches) is more than an “uh-oh”. Can you imagine the questions you’d receive from the CEO if ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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Oversee.Net Launches AirportParking.com - According to a press release today Oversee.net launched its newest site,  AirportParking.com today, which “offers a fast, easy way for web and mobile users to find and compare rates, features and consumer reviews of off-site airport parking lots. ” “Users can book their reservations at AirportParking.com, locking in the rate and a reserved parking spot. Compared to onsite airport parking lots, significant savings are available. For example, at Newark Airport, onsite parking can be as high ... read more ...
 
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CellPhoneRepair.com Sells For $33,700 on NameJet.com - In what seems like a very nice sale the domain name CellPhoneRepair.com sold for a whopping $33,700. The auction ended  several days ago but I didn’t see anyone writing about it. The auction had 129 bidders, but two bidders went at it from the $x,xxx range all the way up to $33,700. The domain name has an Estibot Appraisal of $23,000. Congrats to the buyer and seller         Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs raise data security concerns - ICANN is well on its way to the launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) with the first ones being approved as early as April 23rd.  The handful of TLDs currently in use, such as “.com”, “.org”, and “.edu”, may soon be joined by over 1000 gTLDs ranging from “.book” to “.football”.   While we have previously focused on intellectual property concerns and objections to these new gTLDs, the launch perhaps raises another important consideration:  What implications might ... read more ...
 
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EasyBook.com Registered in 1996 Saved In UDRP - In an extremely short, lazy opinion, a one member UDRP panel rejected the claim of Alpitour S.p.A. of Torino, Italy who tried to grab the generic domain EasyBook.com,  but failed to address the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Here are the relevant facts and findings: The complainant owns an “Italian figurative EASY BOOK trademark, used in connection with travel services, registered in 1987″ “The disputed domain name was registered on November 6, 1996, and is used by Respondent in connection ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Roll Out New gTLD Pages - Godaddy has launched a few new page in anticipation of the launch of the new gTLD   “Targeted, Relevant Domain Names are Coming!” “The Web is about to change forever.” “Starting this summer, hundreds of new domain extensions will become available, allowing you to target your business or personal website like never before.” The domains on the page keep changing randomly to show what is possible under the new gTLD progra and as                   Godaddy has pages set up to ... read more ...
 
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Internet domain names cross 252 million mark - PUNE: VeriSign, the global leader in domain names, has said more than six 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) on December 31, 2012. Verisign said 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 than 2% growth. Worldwide ... read more ...
 
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What domains Pfizer and 24 others bought final week - Pfizer is among the big companies buying domains last week. Afternic sold slightly less than $1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the end users who bought domains through the service. Czech Republic beverage company The Drinks bought TheDrinks.com for $1,500. Its main web site is TheDrinks.cz. Open Lease Software shortened its web address from OpenLeaseSoftware.com to OpenLease.com for $2,250. Core Merchant, a merchant services company, bought ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy proves it’s a tech company, though not with the commercials - Recent moves by new CEO Blake Irving show the company’s path forward. If you ask the typical person on the street what Go Daddy is about, they’ll probably say something about sexy Super Bowl commercials. Last year the company decided to change that image and show people that it was a serious tech company. It advertised its tech prowess on various blogs and hired ad agency Deutsch to produce new commercials, culminating in the Bar Rafaeli “kiss” commercial ... read more ...
 
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Forward U.S. bought domain for $1,500 - New immigration reform group bought .us domain for $1,500 at Sedo. Forward U.S., the new immigration reform group led by companies including Facebook, Google, and PayPal, paid $1,500 for its domain name.The new immigration reform group that Ron Jackson wrote about last week paid $1,500 for FWD.us. That’s just one of the end user sales that Sedo made last week. It had a big week, closing nearly $2 million in sales. Here are some of its other end user sales. SumUp, ... read more ...
 
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Here’s a genuine reason people hatred a domain industry - You don’t need a survey to uncover the real reason people despise the domain industry. DomainIncite is reporting that next week’s new TLD launch party in NYC has been canceled, and instead ICANN will meet with registrars and registries to discuss improving the image and professionalism of the domain name industry. The discussions follow the not-so-startling confirmation that people perceive the domain industry in a negative light. There are certainly a number ... read more ...
Tue 16th April 2013
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.Bloomingdales Becomes 45th WIthdrawn New gTLD Application - Macy’s Inc. just withdrew its new gTLD application for .Bloomingdales with ICANN. The application had a prioritization number of 1150 and becomes the 45th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. The .Bloomingdales registry was going to be operated on a  closed basis. Here is how Macy’s described registry, the new .bloomingdales gTLD will operate as a restricted registry, in which Macy’s Inc (Macy’s) can create and control domain spaces that promote the Bloomingdale’s brand identity ... read more ...
 
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.Bloomingdales Becomes 45th WIthdrawn New gTLD Application - Macy’s Inc. just withdrew its new gTLD application for .Bloomingdales with ICANN. The application had a prioritization number of 1150 and becomes the 45th new gTLD application to be withdrawn. The .Bloomingdales registry was going to be operated on a  closed basis. Here is how Macy’s described registry, the new .bloomingdales gTLD will operate as a restricted registry, in which Macy’s Inc (Macy’s) can create and control domain spaces that promote the Bloomingdale’s brand identity and authenticity. ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Tells Alcohol Monitoring System, Inc To Scram.com - A one person UDRP panel just denied the Alcohol Monitoring System, Inc attempted grab of the generic domain name Scram.com While the Complainant owned registered Trademarks for  SCRAM and SCRAMx with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 2,902,677), registered November 16, 2004 (“the Trademark”) the panel found that the term was generic and the domain holder didn’t act in bad faith in registering the domain name. The domain name was acquired by the domain holder for $6,000 ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $922K In Domains Led By ExtremeFitness.com For $25K - Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/8/13 – 4/13/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $921,604. The highest sale was ExtremeFitness.com, which sold for $25,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were Follow.net for $20,000 and Insales.com for $12,000. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Opens Seattle Office& Hires Executives of Microsoft Google & Amazon - Go Daddy announced today that is opening a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington n June. According to a Press Release out today, Godaddy is already  operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in Kirkland, as Go Daddy has hired “veteran executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay, among others. “The reason to join Go Daddy is simple … you can make a difference at a company that is hell-bent on changing the world,” Irving said. “We have the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Over $1.92MM In Domains Led By breathalyzer.com for $115K - Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending April 15th, 2013. In all over $1.92MM domains were sold. The top seller was breathalyzer.com at $115,000 followed by irondoors.com for $52,800. Breathalyzer.com was a sale co-brokered by Domain Holdings and Sedo. We congratulate each company’s respective brokers – Dave Evanson and Steve Smith, as well as both the buyer and seller. In all, 749 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 42% of total sales ... read more ...
 
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1&1 Owner of Mail.com Withdraws Application For New gTLD .Mail - 11 Mail Media GmbH, whose parent company is United Internet AG, just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD  .Mail. I think this is a very meaningful withdrawal because of the fact that as the applicant owns Mail.com and stands to be the biggest benfificaly of having the .Mail new gTLD and the most at risk for loss of business to a .Mail new gTLD. .Mail for this particular application, would have be a either big business opportunity or a big defensive play and they simply withdrew ... read more ...
 
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ICANN gTLDs: When Names Are Borrowed from an Atlas – CircleID - When names are borrowed from an Atlas, things happen. Use of Geographic names have always caused some problems for two reasons; one they are in the public domain so anyone else can use them and two they connote that business is confined to just that geographic area. Like Paris Bakery, Waterloo Furniture or London Bank. Geographic naming was the biggest thing during last couple of centuries, as using name of a village or a city as a moniker was considered being on top of the hill. The sudden ... read more ...