Monthly Archives: June 2013

Fri 7th June 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
dotJoburg domain names available soon - The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) welcomes the success of .joburg in the initial evaluation stage of ICANN's new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) project. The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) submitted the application alongside the dotAfrica (.africa) dotCapeTown (.capetown) and dotDurban (.durban) applications.The initial evaluation success of the .joburg application follows that of .durban, which passed the same evaluation phase three weeks ago.ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... read more ...
 
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Big New gTLD Brand Withdraws As L’Oréal Drops Application For .LOREAL - L’Oréal which is one of the largest brand applicants for new gTLD’s just withdrew its application for the its matching new gTLD brand .LOREAL L’Oréal which applied for 14 new gTLD has now withdrawn 3 applications. L’Oréal previously withdrew its application for .KIEHLS and the IDN of .欧莱雅 This marked the 73rd withdrawn new gTLD application with ICANN L’Oréal still has these 11 new gTLD application submitted with ICANN: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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First Private Auction for New Generic Top Level Domains Completed: 6 gTLDs … - On behalf of Innovative Auctions, I am very happy to announce that we've successfully completed the first private auction for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Our auction resolved contention for 6 gTLDs: .club, .college, .luxury, .photography, .red, and .vote. Auction winners will pay a total of $9.01 million. All other participants will be paid from these funds in exchange for withdrawing their application. In ICANN's gTLD Applicant Guidebook, applicants for gTLD strings that are in contention ... read more ...
 
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‘Geen opleidingsploeg meer voor nieuwelingen en junioren’ -

TERNAT – Cata Bikes-Willems.co pakt op de wielershirts uit met TLD Express als hoofdsponsor. Ploegleider Danny Limbourg is ook de figuur achter de sponsorende koerierdienst.

Via: nieuwsblad.be

 
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Donuts wins .photography auction - Donuts won the private auction for the .photography top level domain name. Of the six new top level domain name auctions Donuts participated in this past week, the company walked away with at least one top bid. Domain Name Wire has confirmed that Donuts won the auction for .photography. It was in contention with Top Level Design, a company that applied for ten top level domains. Top Level Design is lead by Ray King, who co-founded drop catching service SnapNames. There’s ... read more ...
 
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6 new TLD auctions move in normal of $1.5 million each - How much do new TLD applicants think their strings are worth? We now have a rough idea on a half dozen. The first six private top level domain name auctions held by Innovative Auctions have closed, bringing in a total of $9.01 million in winning bids. The six domain names no longer in contention are .club, .college, .luxury, .photography, .red, and .vote. There’s one common participant amongst all of these domains: Donuts. Donuts, which applied for 307 top level ... read more ...
Thu 6th June 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
So How Much Is A 2 Letter or Number .Co Domain Worth? - With yesterday’s announcement that the .CO registry had put up for sale some 1,100 2 character domain names, including 2 letter .co and 2 number .co domains, I got a few email’s from domain investors asking me what I thought they were worth. I think we can all agree with it comes to a two letter .com they are worth at least $100K and as we know can sell for as much as FB.com which sold for a reported $8.5 Million, so what is a two letter .co worth? There are some really interesting two letter ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB DOMAINS WINS The New gTLD .CLUB “IN HISTORIC FIRST PRIVATE AUCTION” - .Club Domains, LLC announced today they have won the rights to the new generic top level domain (gTLD) name .CLUB The .CLUB name was obtained in the first private auction to be completed since ICANN began the new gTLD process. The other applicants for .Club that participated in the private auction was Donuts and the Merchant Law Group LLP. This appears to be the second new gTLD private auction that Donuts has lost. The company also announced that it has exercised its option to complete a $7 million ... read more ...
 
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ICA Tells ICANN The Draft Of RAA Agreement Is “Deficient in Scope” - The Internet Commerce Association  (ICA) submitted comments to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) website, on the current  draft  statement   of  Registrants’   Rights  and   Responsibilities  (RRR)  calling it “deficient in scope”. “We prefer the alternate version proposed to ICANN by the Non­ Commercial  Stakeholders  Group  (NCSG) and propose  that a modified  version  of it be adopted   as  the  final   RRR said Phil Corwin in his ... read more ...
 
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The CEO Of Blacknight Elected Chair of Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN - Michele Neylon the CEO of the ICANN accredited domain name registrar, Blackight, has been  elected Chair of The Registrar Stakeholder Group of ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), becoming the first European to hold such position. “The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) is one of several Stakeholder Groups within the ICANN community and is the representative body of domain name Registrars worldwide. It is a diverse and active group that works to ensure the interests ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Files UDRP To Gain Control Of Even More Xbox One Domains - Microsoft has filed a third UDRP attempting to gain control of more Xboxone domain names this time on the following domains: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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‘.pw’ – have you got anything without spam in it? - <![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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1st Private Auction May Be Complete As Donuts Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD … - Donuts has withdrawn its 1st new gTLD of the 307 applications it filed with ICANN. This certainly could be the result of a private auction which are underway this week. There is only one other applicant for the new gTLD .Vote and that company application, under the name of Monolith Registry LLC was filed by Afilias which operates the .info TLD. Donuts application which is now withdrawn is under the corporate name Double Falls, LLC which had a prioritization number of 663. Now that Donuts application ... read more ...
 
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1st Private Auction May Be Complete As Donuts Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application: .Vote - Donuts has withdrawn its 1st new gTLD of the 307 applications it filed with ICANN. This certainly could be the result of a private auction which are underway this week. There is only one other applicant for the new gTLD .Vote and that company application, under the name of Monolith Registry LLC was filed by Afilias which operates the .info TLD. Donuts application which is now withdrawn is under the corporate name Double Falls, LLC which had a prioritization number of 663. Now that Donuts application ... read more ...
 
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.Co Puts Over 1,000 Two Character Domains Up For Sale At Godaddy - According to the .Co Registry, effective immediately, the .CO Registry has listed approximately 1,100, two-character premium .CO domain names for sale on  GoDaddy. The two-character domain names are available through GoDaddy’s Aftermarket and will be available soon on the GoDaddy domain availability check, making these premium digital assets widely available to GoDaddy’s customer base of SMBs and global businesses. The two-character .CO domain names now listed on the GoDaddy platform include ... read more ...
 
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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah - ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will focus on generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services for the community. The division is being created because of the increase in “scale and responsibility” for ICANN in the wake of new ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board manners on non-safeguard GAC advice - Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domain names. The resolution is specifically limited to non-safeguard advice. You can see how it ruled on each item here (pdf). For the most part, the decisions are limited to “we’ll consider the advice”. For example, some ... read more ...
 
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27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction - .Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a private auction. The new top level domain applicant recently filed its SEC Form D to raise up to $7 million, and later announced it raised half of that amount to participate in the private auction. Citing confidentiality agreements, ... read more ...
 
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Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this heading focus is slipping by a cracks - .GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant trademarks on top level domains, some applicants have been able to sneak their applications through at least part of the process. One is getting rather far. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh top level domain names, has managed ... read more ...
 
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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats - Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor’s note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bogus legal threats. I asked him if he would turn his talk into an article for Domain Name Wire. I’ve split the tips into two separate posts.] In a perfect world everyone is knowledgeable, honest, and has the best of intentions ... read more ...
 
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33 finish user domain sales - Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company Summerhill Group bought Summerhill.com for $12,500. Clearwater Seafoods in Nova Scotia bought ClearwaterLobster.com for $1,088. Energise Health Management in Sydney, Australia, which offers tennis fitness conditioning, bought ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain Name Wire stories of May 2013 - Ron Paul, GoDaddy, and a video game domain name took top billing last month. May was a busy month at Domain Name Wire thanks in part to a former politician losing a battle to claim his name on the web. Here are the top five stories: 1. Breaking: Ron Paul found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking – Ron Paul not only lost his UDRPs for RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org, but the panel in the .org case said he was guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The cases were ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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InterNetX’s Rapidly Growing DomainShop Expects New gTLDs to Push Their … - Many domain investors (including me) are able to operate their own domain registration and/or hosting businesses by  using white label solutions offered by some the biggest players in those spaces. They allow you to put your own brand on the robust ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD’s Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th w/ Sunrise Ending … - As part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a “best case scenario” for when the first new gTLD’s  might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th. Based on that time line the Sunrise notice period would then run from August 29th-September 27th where trademark holders ... read more ...