Monthly Archives: May 2013

Mon 6th May 2013
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Rwanda: Ricta to Register 5000 Web Domain Names By 2016 – AllAfrica.com - The Rwanda Information Communication Technology Association (RICTA) targets to register about 5000 web domain names by 2016, following the re-delegation of Rwanda's Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), ".rw" from Belgium a couple of months ago.RICTA late last year gained all the rights from Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to manage the government's web which was formerly managed in Belgium by Frederic Gregoire, a Belgian entrepreneur, under his Swiss-based company NIC Congo - ... read more ...
 
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Corsearch Launches Cost-Effective and Intuitive Trademark Clearinghouse … – SYS - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 05/06/13 -- Corsearch, a division of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services and the premier provider of clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals, has launched a filing service to help brand professionals submit trademark data into the Trademark Clearinghouse. Corsearch's filing service draws on its thorough understanding of trademark issues to help brand professionals submit their information properly ... read more ...
 
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Rwanda targets 5000 new .rw names by 2016 - Monday 6 May 2013 | 15:52 CET | News The Rwanda Information Communication Technology Association (RICTA) targets registering about 5,000 web domain names by 2016, following the re-delegation of the ccTLD .rw from Belgium a couple months ago, the New Times reported. The RICTA late last year gained all the rights from Icann to manage the country domain, ... read more ...
 
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KSregistry becomes Registry Provider for . GD - May 6th, 2013 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC), an agent of the state Grenada, has delegated the operation of .GD, the ccTLD of Grenada, to the former technical backend provider, KSregistry GmbH. Due to the difficulties with the former .GD ... read more ...
 
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Corsearch Launches Cost-Effective and Intuitive Trademark Clearinghouse … - NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - May 6, 2013) - Corsearch, a division of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services and the premier provider of clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals, has launched a filing service to help brand professionals submit trademark data into the Trademark Clearinghouse. Corsearch's filing service draws on its thorough understanding of trademark issues to help brand professionals submit their information properly and ensure they are protecting ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: Hurry up. Verisign: delayed down. - Many new TLD applicants will take a less-than-ideal contract if it means a faster time to market. When it comes to the new top level domain registry agreement, what you have to gain or lose from new TLDs being introduced will greatly shape your opion. Verisign has submitted two separate comments on the agreement, both of which blast ICANN for dumping the bottom up process and adding a unilateral right to amend the contract. From Verisign’s perspective, a delay in ... read more ...
 
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.Secure field take note: association isn’t giving adult heading conflict yet - Company that filed .secure trademark application appeals USPTO ruling. The Wisconsin company that wants to trademark .secure hasn’t given up yet. I first wrote about Asif LLC in 2010 when it filed a trademark application for .secure. It also filed an application to trademark .bank. The application was originally filed on an intent-to-use basis. Later, Asif said it was using the term in commerce for “domain registration services”. How was it doing that in 2011, ... read more ...
 
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.GD is another arise adult call to tech firms about ccTLDs - Does the term “shadow registry” concern you? It should if you own a .gd domain name. Over the past few years startups and tech darlings have increasingly embraced “cute” ccTLDs and domain hacks that include ccTLDs. A key example is bitly. Bitly, which created millions of shortened URLs at Bit.ly, found out that using a ccTLD is not necessarily the safest thing to do. .Ly is the country code for Libya. With everything that happened in Libya over the past couple ... read more ...
 
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WaterNight earnings during TRAFFIC Vegas - Fundraising event in Las Vegas this month will benefit Water School. Water School, a non-profit that helps bring clean water to those in developing countries, will host its second WaterNight during TRAFFIC in Las Vegas this month. The group hosted the first WaterNight during WebFest in Santa Monica in February. It was more crowded than the conference itself and it helped raise $40,000 for Water School. Water School executive director Richard Lau had his head shaved ... read more ...
 
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iPad box builder withdraws boneheaded domain complaint - Makers of The Snugg are a bit slow, but I guess they finally got some good advice. Last week I wrote about how Charon International Trading Limited, maker of The Snugg iPad cases, was about to lose its second UDRP domain dispute. Technically, I was wrong. Perhaps realizing the error of its ways, Charon has now withdrawn the UDRP it filed for Snug.com. The Snug.com case would have been its second UDRP loss in two tries. Charon lost its first UDRP when it tried to hijack ... read more ...
Sun 5th May 2013
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Perú y Brasil se enfrentan a Amazon en defensa de la Amazonía - . La disputa por la preservación de la Amazonía, el mayor pulmón vegetal del planeta, ha saltado del mapa geográfico al ciberespacio después de que los gobiernos de Brasil y Perú hayan expresado su rechazo a la que la compañía Amazon obtenga los derechos para el uso de la extensión web que lleva ese nombre. La empresa estadounidense, líder mundial de la venta minorista ... read more ...
 
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La preservación de la Amazonía también se disputa en el ciberespacio – Opinión - <!-- --> VOTAR Actualmente 0 1 2 3 4 5 RESULTADO Actualmente 57.1875 Compartir Twittear La disputa por la preservación de la Amazonía, el mayor pulmón vegetal del planeta, ha saltado del mapa geográfico al ciberespacio después de que los gobiernos de Brasil y Perú hayan expresado su rechazo a la que la compañía ... read more ...
 
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Interview: INTA Annual Meeting co-chairs Joseph Ferretti and Purvi Patel - Technology will be one of the key themes of this year’s Annual Meeting in response to a high demand for information about gTLDs, social media and trademark protection in the cloud. Fluid trademarks, such as the ever-changing GOOGLE logo on the search engine’s homepage, have also been identified as a topic that has attracted the interest of IP practitioners in recent years, following technological advances. While fluid trademarks can ... read more ...
Sat 4th May 2013
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Web.com Owner Of Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com Reports Earnings -   Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW), which owns the top 10 domain name registrars, NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 on Thursday night. After reporting results shares of the company hit an all time high on Friday Here are the highlights: Added 21,000 net new subscribers, ending the quarter at 3.03 million subscribers Average Revenue Per User of $13.89 grew $0.12 sequentially Completed second debt re-financing increasing total annualized ... read more ...
 
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30 More gTLD Pass: .xBox, .Merck, .Thai, .Fire; .Cloud; .News; .Gripe; .Virgin; .Cars - Hello MHB Often the simplest answers are the best ones, someting Rick Schwartz covered recently. When it comes to Online Marketing, that depends on Human response in the its simplest form ,many Tech and Ad people miss the human side of Online Marketing basic facts. Consumer Human response will render gTLDs useless because they will only transact on trusted .COM sites. They may happen onto a gTLD site and find it of interest but when it comes to pulling out ... read more ...
 
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CEO of DOT Registry, to Speak at the National Association of Secretaries of … - Innovator and Entrepreneur to speak at the National Association of Secretaries of State and lead direction of mobile technology and the future of state businesses and emerging gTLD's. Kansas City, Mo (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Small Business Champion, Shaul Jolles is excited to speak and foster business development and economic growth at the National Association of Secretaries of States (NASS) Symposium. This Symposium, focused on reducing bureaucracy and streamlining state government agencies ... read more ...
Fri 3rd May 2013
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The Trademark Clearinghouse opens, offering brand owners some rights … - The Trademark Clearinghouse, a rights-protection component of ICANN's ambitious plan to expand the domain name system, recently began accepting submissions from trade-mark owners. The Clearinghouse, which is operated by Deloitte, is a centralized database of trade-mark information and will play an important role in helping to protect against online trade-mark abuse and domain name cybersquatting. In June 2011, ICANN approved a plan to allow the creation of new generic top-level domains or "gTLDs". ... read more ...
 
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30 More gTLD Pass: .xBox, .Merck, .Thai, .Fire; .Cloud; .News; .Gripe; .Virgin; .Cars - 30 more new gTLD applications passed Initial Evaluation (IE) today by ICANN. In all 245 new gTLD applications out of the first 300 reviewed have passed IE. Some of the applications passing IE today included Microsoft’s application for .xBox; Amazon’s application for .Cloud, .Fire, .Deal and .Room; .Thai, the brand application for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies .Merck; Uniregistry application’s for .Cars and .Art and Virgin Enterprises Brand application for .Virgin Merchant Law ... read more ...
 
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US Army awards JETS TLDS prototype development contract to DRS - DRS Technologies has been awarded a contract for the development and delivery of an advanced next-generation target-location and fire-support system prototype to the US Army. Awarded by the Army Contracting Command (ACC), the $15.5m cost-plus-fixed-fee, incrementally-funded contract supports the engineering and manufacturing development ... read more ...
 
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SEO : des domaines nationaux de premier niveau considérés comme … - Même si un domaine est de premier niveau national, Google pourra laisser les webmasters choisir la zone géographique ciblée par son moteur de recherche. Google a étendu la liste des domaines de premier niveau nationaux (aussi connus sous l'acronyme ccTLD - pour country-code Top-Level Domain) que son moteur peut considérer comme des domaines de premier ... read more ...
 
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SEO : des domaines nationaux de premier niveau considérés … - Même si un domaine est de premier niveau national, Google pourra laisser les webmasters choisir la zone géographique ciblée par son moteur de recherche. Google a étendu la liste des domaines de premier niveau nationaux (aussi connus sous l'acronyme ccTLD - pour country-code Top-Level Domain) que son moteur peut considérer comme des domaines de premier ... read more ...
 
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.XXX 1st Year Renewal Rate Tops 80% - According to figures released by ICANN tonight it looks like the .XXX registry had a renewal rate for its first year of over 80% The ICANN transaction report for January for the .XXX extension show the registry having 113,773 domain names registered by the end of January 2013. In the December report ICM Registry operator of the .XXX TLD filed with ICANN they reported 140,121 domain names registered at the end of December 2012, down from 142,953 at the end of November 2012. The .XXX registry ... read more ...
 
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.XXX 1st Year Renewal Rate Tops 80% - According to figures released by ICANN tonight it looks like the .XXX registry had a renewal rate for its first year of over 80% The ICANN transaction report for January for the .XXX extension show the registry having 113,773 domain names registered by the end of January 2013. In the December report ICM Registry operator of the .XXX TLD filed with ICANN they reported 140,121 domain names registered at the end of December 2012, down from 142,953 at the end of November 2012. The .XXX registry went ... read more ...
 
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1,700 .ng domains purebred given cost cut, .ng domain hacks on Sedo - 97% price drop leads to more .ng domain registrations and a growing number of Sedo listings. Yesterday I wrote about how Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, had slashed the price of second level .ng domain registrations by 97%. The new price is equivalent to about $95 USD; previously it was $3,165 per year. That has sparked a jump in registrations, even at a price that’s relatively high for a second level domain registration. The ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 domain news stories from April - A look back at the top five domain name stories in April. What happens when you get nailed for reverse domain name hijacking but really want the domain? You pay through the nose. Procter Gamble’s purchase of Swash.com was one of last month’s top stories on Domain Name Wire. 1. U.S. Department of Commerce not supporting USPS objection to .mail top level domains – the DOC explained that it is not behind the United States Postal Services’ strange objection ... read more ...