Monthly Archives: May 2013

Wed 22nd May 2013
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Google Chrome Now Allows For Voice Search On Laptops & Desktops - Google updated its Chrome Web browser today to include voice search, a feature that lets you speak naturally to your computer to get search results.  The feature not only does your searches by voice but responds to questions and allows you to engage in follow up questions thereby allowing you to have a conversations with Google. Its a product which takes mobile search and places it in your laptop or desktop. To use voice search you need to be running the latest version of the Chrome browser. Here ... read more ...
 
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Reserve Price Ranges For TRAFFIC Domain Name Auction Released - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference which will be held in Las Vegas next week just published the reserve price ranges for the domain names at the TRAFFIC auction. 70% of domain names in the auction have NO RESERVE and will be sold to the highest bidder One of the domain names that was contributed by Nat Cohen a member of the ICA is being put up at no reserve with 100% of the proceeds going to the ICA “Lot# 100 Cleanest.com No Reserve! All proceeds going to ICA!!” Here is the order of the ... read more ...
 
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Google Loses UDRP On Play-Gogles.com; Not Confusing To TM On Google Play - In a case that is sure to drive the trademark holders crazy, Google Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name play-gogles.com which was registered in February 2013.  Google claimed it had rights to the domain name play-gogles.com based off its trademarks for Google and Google Play. However the one member panel denied Google’s claim even though the domain holder didn’t even bother responding the the UDRP, finding  “Panel is not persuaded by Complainant’s submissions that the terms are confusingly ... read more ...
 
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NABP’s .PHARMACY Proposal Passes Initial ICANN Evaluation - MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., May 21, 2013 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reaching a critical milestone in the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) approval process, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) application to own and operate the .PHARMACY domain suffix has passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) initial evaluation. NABP intends to launch the .PHARMACY gTLD by the end of 2013, and will make the new domain available to legitimate online pharmacies ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Approves The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR) As A UDRP Provider - The ICANN Board approved the Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR)  as an UDRP provider. The approval of ACDR as the first UDRP provider located in the Middle East “enhances ICANN‘s accountability to the Internet community as a whole, enhancing choice for UDRP complainants”. ICANN acknowledged that comments were submitted suggesting that “ICANN develop contracts with each of its UDRP providers as a means to require uniformity among providers. ” However the Board stated that “Contracts ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Fall 2014 Meeting Heading Back To The US To Los Angeles - The ICANN Board announced tonight that is has selected Los Angeles California as its location for its third Meeting for 2014   The ICANN 2014 North America Public meeting, will be held on October 12th-17th, 2014. ICANN announced last December that the meeting location for the March 2014 ICANN will be Singapore and  ICANN meeting for the June 2014  will be held in  London. The meeting facilities and production budget of the Singapore meeting is not to exceed US$885,000, the meeting facilities ... read more ...
 
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Internet debe ser regida por el derecho internacional - Sin embargo hay empresas que no piensan igual e intentan comprar la Amazona y la Patagonia, o ms bien sus nombres. En efecto, las empresas de ventas por internet, Amazon, y de ropa, Patagonia, han presentado sendas solicitudes para adquirir los derechos exclusivos de las palabras amazon y patagonia para usarlas como nombres de dominio en internet. Ello ocurri a raz de la puesta en marcha el pasado ao de un programa de la Corporacin de Internet para la Asignacin de Nombres y Nmeros (ICANN) que ... read more ...
 
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Intellectual skill counsel guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Los Angeles attorney who practices trademark law found guilty of abusing UDRP proceedings. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found an intellectual property lawyer guilty of attempting to engage in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and bringing a UDRP complaint in bad faith in abuse of the administrative proceeding. Los Angeles lawyer Frank Michael Weyer filed the case against the owner of iShades.com. The owner of iShades.com registered ... read more ...
 
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Over 1,000 XBox One domains purebred yesterday - Microsoft’s big product launch followed by a flurry of domain registration activity. Yesterday Microsoft announced its latest video game console called XBox One. Immediately, cybersquatters went to work. Over 1,000 XBox One related domain names were registered in .com alone yesterday. To be sure, some of those registrations were by Microsoft itself. But the vast majority were by other parties hoping to capitalize on the latest video game system in the XBox franchise. Some ... read more ...
 
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Must reads: a pro who’s fervent to sell domains, a gift auction, and a intelligent rebrand - Eric Borgos on why he’s selling domains, help the tornado victims, and a “cool” rebranding. Here are a few domain stories I read today that I think are worth reading. Eric Borgos has published an interesting perspective about 10 Reasons Why I Am Eager To Sell My Domains. Last year Borgos’ company had sales of $1.25 million, and domain sales were the company’s largest source of income. Elliot Silver, DomainBoardroom.com, and Escrow.com have teamed up for ... read more ...
 
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Here’s what ICANN’s house motionless on Saturday - Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider. While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number of resolutions that could have a big affect on some parts of the domain name industry. Here’s what the board decided: Some new TLDs may be delayed or rejected based on internal name conflicts. ICANN is going to further investigate the potential for security ... read more ...
 
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Half of tiny business owners not confident with their domain name - …and half believe they’ve lost business as a result. .Co released some new research this morning regarding small businesses and domain names. The research was carried out by Wakefield Research and asked questions about domain names to companies with 100 or fewer employees. Here are some of the interesting take-aways: – 45% of small business owners don’t have a website or blog for their company. (That spells opportunity, my friends.) – 49% of those with a ... read more ...
Tue 21st May 2013
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million In Domains Led By GlobalOffice.com For $32,500 - Afternic’s just posted it reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 5/13/13 – 5/19/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,085,990. All sales were lead by Globaloffice.com which sold for $32,500 Frank Schillings NameAdministration sold the domain name margaritamachine.com (everyone should have one of these) for $19K In non-com sales Home.info sold for $7,500 and three 2 numbered repeater .Pw domain names sold for $1K each <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Roundup: DomainTools; Bed Bath & Beyond; Home Depot - A few cases either filed or decided today in UDRP world, DomainTools.com filed a UDRP on 10 typo domain names The UDRP from Domaintools.com is on the following domain names: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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A fast moving target – the new gTLD "go live" date - Although the Trade Mark Clearing House is now open for registration of trade mark holders’ rights (see last update), the proposed 23 April date for the commencement of contracting with the first successfully examined gTLD applicants was not met and this process will now begin in June.  ICANN’s newly announced plan is to start pre-delegation testing, to launch the sunrise and trade mark claims systems in the Trade Mark Clearing House and also to commence the Uniform Rapid Suspension system ... read more ...
 
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Brands & the Next Internet Wave: What You Need To Know - Comment Print Article Email Permalink Written on May 21, 2013  Author David Mitnick  | Share Brands the Next Internet Wave: What You Need To Know ADOTAS – For brand managers and marketers, the Internet has presented a rapid series of opportunities and challenges. First came the growth of websites, which took consumer attention from traditional media and eventually attracted an increasing percentage of media budgets. Next came ... read more ...
 
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TMCH gets its first .jobs - <![CDATA[ ]]> Please complete the form below to receive a free trial of WTR magazine and daily email updates. The personal details provided by you will be held on a database and may be shared with Globe Business Publishing Ltd's associated companies. The details provided will not be passed to any other company. Please view our Terms Conditions. ... read more ...
 
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Internet ganhará até 1.930 novos domínios - A Corporação para a Atribuição de Nomes e Números na Internet – Iccann (na sigla em inglês para Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) – vai lançar até julho deste ano centenas de novos nomes de domínio genéricos (gTLDs). Estão sendo analisados atualmente 1.930 novos sufixos pela Iccann, que coordena o sistema de endereços na internet. Sob essas novas regras, a rede passará a abrigar não apenas páginas como “.com”, “.org” e “.net” e códigos de países ... read more ...
 
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What do trademark owners need to know about the Trademark Clearinghouse … - The Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that oversees the use of Internet domains, has recently implemented a new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program for the purpose of increasing competition in the domain name space.  Given that this program may also increase incidents of cybersquatting, or the temptation to misappropriate a legitimate trademark owner’s mark, ICANN has built into its new gTLD program several enhanced trademark rights mechanisms, ... read more ...
 
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XBoxOne.com domain name was purebred in 2002 - XBoxOne.com, the matching domain for Microsoft’s new video game system, was originally registered more than 10 years ago. Microsoft today unveiled its new XBox video game system called XBox One. Microsoft does not own the domain name XBoxOne.com, which currently resolves to a GoDaddy “coming soon” page. [Update: Microsoft now owns the domain.] The domain name was registered in 2002 by Xbox Rodents and was used for a site called XBox1. It then expired in 2011 ... read more ...
 
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How your blog posts and blog comments impact a obvious process - If you comment on a post, it might affect the outcome of a patent application. Whenever I post about a recently granted patent, comments inevitably turn to “that invention is nothing new” or “that’s a junk patent”. I’m sure that at some point today there will be comments to that effect on my post about GoDaddy getting two appraisals for domain appraisals. When an inventor applies for a patent, they make a bunch of claims. Some of these claims will surely ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets dual patents for domain appraisal - Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) is “Domain appraisal algorithm”. The patents have lots of overlapping material. They cover name spinning to create permutations of domain names ... read more ...
 
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You decide: that of these should be Domain Name Wire’s new logo? - Help pick the next logo for Domain Name Wire. Click the image to see the full size version.I ran a logo contest on 99Designs and now need to select which logos go on to the final round. I’ve learned a lot with this logo contest, and I’ll share some of my insight later. But for now, I’d like your help. Please take a moment to look at these 13 logo designs and let me know which ones you like best (or hate the most). “They all suck” isn’t quite as helpful, ... read more ...
 
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ETM.com bid to over $15,000 during Hilco auction - ETM.com sees early bidding action, but Bargain.com is the headline domain. ETM.com has attracted three bidders and 12 bids at the Hilco Streambank auction that ends tomorrow. As of now the domain has been bid up to $15,058. So far the more expensive domain names haven’t received any bids, but I’d expect interested parties to wait until closer to the end of the auction on Wednesday. The best name in the auction is Bargain.com, which is being sold along with the ... read more ...
 
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An essay that will assistance we tighten some-more domain sales - Article on Forbes.com about domain names and startups is worth bookmarking to refer potential domain buyers to as a reference. David Teten, a partner with ff Venture Capital, has published the second part of a story on Forbes.com about startups and domain names. It’s a good primer on how companies can get creative when acquiring domain names. It explains how one of ff Venture Capital’s portfolio companies, Plated, worked out a lease with an option to buy Plated.com: Buying ... read more ...