Monthly Archives: June 2013

Wed 5th June 2013
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ICANN: Trademark Clearing House Update - ICANN during its Webinar today gave some updated data on the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Today 636 trademark holders have filed marks with the TMCH. A total of 3,027 trademark records have been filed of which 1,380 have been verified. There are another 1,132 in the process of being verified. 503 have been determined by the TMCH to have been submitted incorrectly and 12 have been determined to be invalid. There will be a Webinar held on June 19th at 7pm PST which will be dedicated to the TMCH. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD’s Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th w/ Sunrise Ending Oct 27th - 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 would ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Applications To Start In October - During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set times. So the October auctions will be the first set not the only or the last set. Much more information ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions To Start In October - During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set times. So the October auctions will be the first set not the only or the last set. Much more information on the ... read more ...
 
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PartnerGate bietet als offizieller TMCH-Agent neuen Service zur Eintragung von … - Bis zum Start der ersten neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) ab dem Spätsommer 2013 sollten Markeninhaber eine Registrierung ihrer wichtigen Markennamen beim Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) durchführen, um diese vor unerwünschten Registrierungen als Domainnamen zu schützen. Darüber hinaus können damit eigene Registrierungen vereinfacht ausgeführt werden, da dies bei den neuen TLDs innerhalb der Sunrise-Phase ausschließlich nach erfolgter Registrierung von Marken beim TMCH möglich ist. Als ein ... read more ...
 
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The latest update on the new gTLD program - It has been a long time since we had any notable updates on the gTLD process to report.  However, after a slow start, the new gTLD program is now in full swing.  On March 22, 2013, ICANN released the first round of Initial Evaluations to the general public. This was the first major milestone of the gTLD program.  As a reminder, there are three possible outcomes of this Initial Evaluation:  1) Pass: the application was found to be consistent with the requirements in the Applicant Guidebook and ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch Covers Twitch.Tv Which Gets 35 Million Viewers a Month - TechCrunch.com covered the “E-sports streaming startup Twitch.TV this morning. The site according to TechCrunch “has already seen massive growth in its audience since launching to the public just about two years ago and gets “more than 35 million unique viewers a month, up from 20 million last September.” In addition to its 35 million unique viewers, the startup also has more than 600,000 unique broadcasters per month. There are more than 4,000 members of the company’s partner program, ... read more ...
 
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indura.com Acquired In a NameJet Auction Saved in UDRP - Jakri ApS of Vildbjerg, Denmark just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name indura.com which was owned by Sanela Jankovic of Copenhagen who represented himself in the proceeding. The domain was acquired through a NameJet.com auction in just February of this year. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel” The Complainant is part of the Indura group of companies, which was founded on August 24, 1988. On December 22, 1997 Indura A/S was established as a wholly owned subsidiary ... read more ...
 
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Gucci Wins UDRP on 165 Domain Names - Gucci this morning Won a  UDRP seeking 165 domain names which all contain the famous trademark. The complaint was filed by the formal name of the company that owns the trademark to the Gucci brand, Guccio Gucci S.p.A. Many of these domains make no sense and its hard to believe that they would even get enough traffic to cover registration fees. Domain names like guccihomeequity.com or guccijudo.com, guccihomesecurity.com, and guccihomeschooling.com Many of the domains contain the famous trademark ... read more ...
 
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Tumblr.com Loses UDRP on Tublr.com - In a decision certain to drive the Trademark Holder groups crazy, Tumblr.com just lost a UDRP on the domain name Tublr.com although the domain name was going to one of those “sweepstakes/survey” sites cited by so many UDRP panels which have ordered domains transferred. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: Tumblr launched in 2007 and allows individuals to create, post and share digital content online. The Complainant’s platform hosts over 91 million blogs with over ... read more ...
 
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Why Are Brands Abandoning gTLD Applications? - A number of brands have recently fallen from the list of visionary companies applying for gTLDs. Hasbro’s Transformers, Hilton, GM’s suite of gTLDs and Heinz have all decided to pull their gTLD applications, opting out of participating in the first paradigm shift of the Internet. Why? There two likely reasons -- companies are having difficulty responding to ICANN’s clarifying questions that were designed more for an open registry than for brands, or they are balking at the costs associated ... read more ...
 
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‘Nieuwe topdomeinen zijn levensgevaarlijk’ - 5 jun. 2013 door Jasper Bakker 5 jun. 2013 door Jasper Bakker Nieuws - De nieuwe, algemene namen voor toplevel-domeinen (gTLD's) op internet zijn niet goed doordacht, onveilig en kunnen zelfs levens kosten. Dit stelt Verisign in een protest bij gTLD-invoerder ICANN. De al omstreden gTLD's (generic Top-Level Domains) die de ICANN doorvoert ... read more ...
 
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AusRegistry Launches .AULockdown For Up To 1,000 (Aud) Per Domain - According to Theage.com.au,  AusRegistry, the company that operates the .Au registry under agreement from auda.org.au, has launched a new service called .AULockdown that allows domain owners to bar automated changes to their domain at  the registrar level. “Companies with valuable websites can now pay up to $1,000 a year to opt-out of Australia’s automated domain registry system”. “The lockdown prevents a registrar from using the application protocol interface (API) to AusRegistry’s domain ... read more ...
 
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Radix Withdraws Its 2nd Application .Play & Starting Dot Withdraws .Design - Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn on ICANN’s site tonight making the total of new gTLD applications that have been withdrawn to 71. Radix which is part of the Directi Group which originally applied for 31 new gTLD’s, withdrew its application for .Play. Radix is now down to 29 applications as it withdrew its application for the new gTLD .Movie a few weeks ago. Like with .Movie, Radix was up against very stiff competition for the .Play new gTLD with applications still pending by Google, ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales - Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end user sales. Financing First Limited in the United Kingdom bought DentalFinance.co.uk for 1,500 GBP. Vertical Media, which owns VMPublishing.com, bought VerticalMedia.com for $10,000. Upperdog Interactive AB, owner of upperdog.se, ... read more ...
 
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A pointed (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads - Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up. We already know that GoDaddy is rebranding by dropping .com from its name. But this ad not only drops the .com from the original GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
 
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Scammy consult site beats Tumblr in domain dispute - Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with World Intellectual Property Organization, Tumblr argued the domain name was registered as a typo of Tumblr.com to take advantage of the blogging site. The company is probably right. Type Tublr.com into your web browser ... read more ...
 
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Irony alert: Trademark association loses cybersquatting explain on TrademarkDirect.com.au - “UK’s Leading Trade Mark Service” loses cybersquatting complaint. Oh, it’s delicious. Trade Mark Direct Ltd of London has lost a cybersquatting complaint filed under the .au Dispute Resolution Policy for the domain name TrademarkDirect.com.au. The irony of the Trade Mark Direct’s utter failure to provide sufficient evidence in the case was not lost on the panel, which wrote: It is clear that the disputed domain name is identical to the trademark which is ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $2.3 Million In Domains Led By One Of Ours WOI.com For $35K - Afternic’s just reported its  weekly domain sales for the previous two weeks (5/20/13 – 6/2/13). Total domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 2,267,480. All sales were led by one of our domain names (MostWantedDomains.com)  WOI.com which sold for $35,000. All Non-com’s were led by BIN.net which sold for $15,000 Here are all the reportable sales for the two week period   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million - Seod just issued its weekly report and  690 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.08m. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: mph.com at 62,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: isern.es at 15,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: kultur.net at 10,000 EUR <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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TLDH Raises Another $10 Million For New gTLD Auctions - Top Level Domain Holdings just annoucned they have raised an additional $10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and other investors and directors for new gTLD auctions and to be used for launch and marketing of .london. “”The Board of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), is pleased to announce that the Company has today conditionally placed 110,375,276 new ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”) through N+1 Singer as broker to the ... read more ...
 
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Private New gTLD Auctions Are Underway - According to ApplicantAuction.com the first private auction for new gTLD strings are underway. Although other than .Club which publicly announced it would be participating in the auction which started today, there hasn’t been any public announcement on  how many other auctions are going on or what the string are. Both Donuts and Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) announced it was entering the private auction for a number of new gTLD strings they applied for but there has not been confirmation by other ... read more ...
 
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InternetX im Bereich Domain Services beim HSP ausgezeichnet - Der InterNetX DomainShop wurde auf dem Hosting- und Service-Provider Summit 2013 vor weiteren Nominierten mit dem Award für den ersten Platz in der Kategorie „Domain Services“ ausgezeichnet. Das bereits am Markt etablierte White- Label Shop-System überzeugte die Fach-Jury durch seine innovativen Features und seinen Funktionsumfang. Bei dem jährlich stattfindenden Event trafen sich vom 2. bis 3.Mai Entscheider der Domain- und Hosting-Branche und prämierten die aussichtsreichsten Entwicklungen. ... read more ...
 
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The Latest Update On The New gTLD Program - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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New TLD’s Can Help Address Online Banking Security Concerns - June 04, 2013 As hundreds of new Top Level Domain names (TLDs) are in the process of being reviewed by regulatory group ICANN to serve as new internet addresses sometime later this year, financial institutions are understandably concerned about what this will mean to their existing, and expanding, online security issues. Cyber attacks through phishing, forged websites, and other security breaches take a serious toll on customer confidence in online banking and other services, and by extension, ... read more ...