Monthly Archives: May 2013

Thu 2nd May 2013
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UDRP Panel In Bangz.com: You Do Really Need To Present Evidence - Bangz, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the domain name bangz.com in a one person UDRP decision. First problem Bangz doesn’t own a trademark on the term. Second problem Bangz didn’t provide the panel any evidence of a common law trademark. Third problem Bangz didn’t present any evidence to the Panel  any evidence. They seemed to just file the complaint Matter of fact the complainant told the panel: “Complainant does not possess the trademark rights to “Bangz” because there are multiple ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; Sets $250 Million Repurchase Plan - Neustar, Inc. (NSR), announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 and affirmed its guidance for 2013. Neustar is the backend provider for several TLD’s including .Us and .Co and hundreds of new gTLD’s and is going to operate the .NYC extension on behalf of the city of New York The company also announced that it plans to purchase up to $250 million of its Class A common shares beginning May 7, 2013 through December 31, 2013. Results for First Quarter 2013 Compared to First Quarter 2012   Revenue ... read more ...
 
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The 20 ccTLD’s That Google Treats As Generic TLD’s - According to the Seroundtable.com, Google has been updating their indexing systems to treat more ccTLDs, country-level top level domains, as generic TLDs. As we already know some of the favorite ccTLD’s of domainers like .Co, .Me and .Tv made the list. If your using a ccTLD domain name and if its on the list Google will rank your site as a generic site, .com, .net and .org included. If you’re using a ccTLD not on the list, then Google is treating the domain in its country code sense and you should ... read more ...
 
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The New Urban Brand War: A Top-Level Domain for Every City on Earth - Craving a slice in Istanbul? Check out www.pizza.istanbul. Need a taxi in Tokyo? Try www.taxi.tokyo. Those URLs don't lead anywhere at the moment, but in a matter of months, they will. The geography of the Internet is on the verge of a historic growth spurt, and cities will be presiding over some of its largest new territories. Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) -- even the wordy ones ... read more ...
 
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Google Expands List of “Generic” Top Level Domains and Makes Them … - Typically, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) is just that — a country code. For instance, example.co.uk has content for the UK, and example.com.au has content for Australia. Usually, registration of these domains is restricted. You have to prove that you are operating the site from the designated country. However, some countries have opened up registration to everyone. And of course, some top level domains, such as .com, are inherently generic. Google uses the location of a site ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Trademarks Clearinghouse opens for business - With the launch of the Trademarks Clearinghouse, brand owners can now stake their territory In the brave new world of expanded generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), the non-profit organization that manages and coordinates the system of domain names and IP addresses used on the internet, has put into operation what it calls “the most important rights protection mechanism built into ICANN’s new gTLD program”. The ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post: Has ICANN Already Taken a GAC’s Advice on “Closed Generic” gTLDs? -               This is a guest post By Philip S. Corwin, Esq, Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC; Of Counsel, Greenberg Lieberman; and Strategic Advisor, ICANN Sherpa TheDomains.com publishes Guest Posts from time to time, by well known leaders and authorities in the domain industry. As always Guest Posts are posted in their entirety and unedited: “”On the afternoon of April 11, 2013, the last day of ICANN’s recent Beijing Meeting, its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) delivered ... read more ...
 
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Secure.me Bought On Afternic For $7K Is Bought By Avast Software - According to a blog post, Secure.me a company that just started up in late November 2011 has been acquired by Avast. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to the company, Secure.me is the number 1 security app on Facebook with more than 90 Million Facebook profiles scanned to protect the privacy, security and reputation of users of the biggest social network worldwide Secure.me was purchase for just $7,000 on Afternic in August 2011. The company was covered by TechCrunch.com in December ... read more ...
 
 
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ICM: Over 1,000 .XXX Domains Registered In 1st 24 Hours - The ICM registry says they have sold  over 1,000 new .XXX registrations in first 24 hrs since they announced yesterday the temporary price decrease. Of the domain registered in the last 24 hours the average domain years was 2.3. The best news for the .XXX string is that “well over 90% of the domain names registered in the last 24 hours were clearly “adult themed names” rather than non-adult or brand protection registrations. Its a very good start for the promotion considering that in the last ... read more ...
 
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Geo New gTLD’s: Perfectly Tailored for City Residents, Businesses, & Services - theatlanticcities.com, just covered the coming New gTLD Geographic domain names calling them perfectly tailored for city residents, businesses, services” Here are some of the more interesting points from the story: “Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) — even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki — in the hopes that a domain will soon become as important to the global city brand in 2020 as a website was in ... read more ...
 
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Geo New gTLD’s: Perfectly Tailored for City Residents, Businesses, & Services - theatlanticcities.com, just covered the coming New gTLD Geographic domain names calling them perfectly tailored for city residents, businesses, services” Here are some of the more interesting points from the story: “Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) — even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki — in the hopes that a domain will soon become as important to the global city brand in 2020 as a website was in 2000″. “Essentially, ... read more ...
 
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Return of The 10 Year .XXX Domain Block, Now You Don’t Even Need A Trademark - At least one ICANN accredited domain name registrar is rolling out the 10 year .XXX domain name blocking program. Encirca.com send out an email last night advertising: “Block your Brand in .XXX for just $12/year” “Back when .XXX launched also three years ago, it cost over $200 for a 10-year block of your brand name.   And eligibility for blocks was restricted to registered trademark owners.” “For the month of May, EnCirca will be offering 10-year blocks in the .XXX top-level domain for ... read more ...
 
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.Me Registry Releasing: Around.ME, Hire.ME, Fund.ME, Find.ME, For.ME - The .ME Registry, operator of the .ME Internet extension, is releasing five exclusive, previously unreleased premium domain names: Around.ME, Hire.ME, Fund.ME, Find.ME and For.ME. The .ME Premium Domain Program is open for applications starting May 10, 2013 and is set to close June 15, 2013. These memorable .ME domain names are ideal for any company that wishes to brand themselves as unique and personal or launch a new product using an exclusive name. All businesses, large or small, existing or start-up, ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay moves to Caribbean domain - CBR Staff Writer Published 02 May 2013 The file sharing site switched its domain after pressure from Swedish authorities Bit Torrent download website, PirateBay has changed its top level domain (TLD) from Sweden-based .se to .sx TLD registered in an island Sint Marteen in the Caribbean. The torrent sharing site changed its TLD after Swedish authorities filed case with the District Court of Stockholm ... read more ...
 
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The New Economy of City-Based Top Level Internet Domains - Craving a slice in Istanbul? Check out www.pizza.istanbul. Need a taxi in Tokyo? Try www.taxi.tokyo. Those URLs don't lead anywhere at the moment, but in a matter of months, they will. The geography of the Internet is on the verge of a historic growth spurt, and cities will be presiding over some of its largest new territories. Dozens of municipal governments, from Durban to Taipei, have claimed corresponding top level domains (TLDs) -- even the wordy ones like .amsterdam and .helsinki -- in ... read more ...
 
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Domain Weltkarte für alle TLDs weltweit – Das Meinungs - 2. Mai 2013 Allgemeines Eine nette Idee hat sich Checkdomain da ausgedacht, und vielen Dank an Andre für den netten Brief und die coole Weltkarte. Und genau so eine Weltkarte kannst du bei ihnen kaufen (27 Euro) oder bekommst sie als Blogger sogar umsonst. Und zusätzlich spendet Checkdomain ... read more ...
 
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Getting ready for the launch of new gTLDs – the Trademark Clearinghouse is open - ICANN’s new Generic Top-Level Domain (“gTLD”) program has been forging ahead, and it is expected that about 500 new gTLD applications will launch beginning late summer. Applications have been filed for a wide and varied range of new domains, including .buy, .music, .app, .cloud, and .coupon. Some of these domains may rise in popularity, bringing with it potential new business opportunities, and also challenges, including to trademark protection and enforcement. Trademark owners bracing ... read more ...
 
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Nigeria slashes second turn .ng registration cost by 97% - Domains used to cost $3,165 per year. According to an article on This Day Live, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, has reduced the price of registering a second level .ng domain name by 97% to NGN 15,000. That’s equivalent to about $95 USD. Previously, the group had been charging NGN 500,000, or $3,165 per year, for a second level .ng registration. But it actually used to cost a lot more than that. When NIRA started ... read more ...
 
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Don’t let your son-in-law register your domain name - He might hold onto it if he gets a divorce. Occasionally a UDRP is filed that’s part of a family feud. Earlier this year I wrote about a how a guy filed a UDRP against his brother. Now here’s another one: a man filed a UDRP against his ex-son-in-law. According to the complainant, his family gave him his last name as a .com back in 2002. But apparently his son-in-law had actually done the registration and did it in his own name. Later, the complainant’s daughter ... read more ...
 
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Afternic finish user report: 28 finish user domain sales - A startup in stealth mode, an ad agency, and two churches bought domain names last week. Before jumping into the Afternic end user sales list, here’s a bonus end user sale that didn’t happen through Afternic but I learned about: ViSalus, which owns VI.com, bought VI.co.uk for $18,500. OK, now on to Afternic sales: A startup in stealth mode bought Seeq.com for $33,000. The sale was through GoDaddy.com. Ad agency GSDM bought StoryofAmerica.com for $1,500. Investment ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during .Tel’s 14 year, £25 million journey - Telnic has lost £25 million since it was founded — and much of that was before .tel even launched. It’s been a long and winding road for many new top level domain applicants. But most of the delays and challenges new TLD applicants have faced pale in comparison to the very long, very expensive road that .tel registry Telnic has traveled. What is .tel? .Tel is a unique sponsored top level domain. A couple things make .tel particularly unique. First, you can’t ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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CitizenHawk Loses UDRP For Advance Auto Parts On 3 Typo Domains - CitizenHawk just lost a UDRP on 3 domain names which are all a typo’s of one of its clients Advance Auto Parts. The panel clearly indicated that CitizenHawk screwed the case up submitting WHOIS papers which indicated a  creation date for the domain name in 1969. Yes 1969, the year of the Miracle Mets and the year man first walked on the Moon. Since CitizenHawk claimed the domains were registered in 1969, and 1969 was prior to the date on which Advance Auto Parts trademark which was granted (1994), the ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Represented By Ari Goldberger Beats Back UDRP On Mclarin.com - Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, just beat back a UDRP on the domain name Mclarin.com. The complaint was filed by McLaren Health Care Corporation  which won all 11 previously filed UDRP cases including 10 it won so far in 2013 after getting a registered trademark back in October 2012. The domain name was registered November 26, 2001. “”Respondent points out that it registered the disputed domain name, mclarin.com, on November 26, 2001, and contends that ... read more ...
 
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TLD, premier lauréat du Prix National de l’Innovation Industrielle … – bulletins - FocusTLD, premier lauréat du Prix National de l'Innovation Industrielle grâce à son TaxiBot http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/72933.htm En mars dernier, du 18 au 24, s'est déroulée sur tout le territoire français la 3ème édition de la Semaine de l'Industrie. A cette occasion, le ministère du Redressement Productif et Oséo, future branche de financement de la Banque Publique d'Investissement (BPI), ont décidé de remettre conjointement dans les 22 régions que ... read more ...