Monthly Archives: July 2013

Wed 17th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
1&1 lanza un portal de reserva gratis para los nuevos dominios TLD - Durante los próximos tres años, la creación de más de 1.000 nuevos dominios TLD va a revolucionar el modo en el que identificamos las páginas web. Además de utilizar un dominio específico de país, como por ejemplo .es, las páginas web podrán hacer uso de direcciones relevantes según el contexto: campo temático, situación geográfica, sector empresarial, etc. Su puesta en marcha reducirá en parte la aglomeración de Internet ya que habrá una variedad mucho más amplia de opciones ... read more ...
 
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Body.com seller took a loss, and Neustar buys a .com - Body.com sold for a loss, plus the .biz registry buys a .com in this week’s Sedo end user sales roundup. Sedo’s big sales week was led by the $380,000 sale of Body.com. The domain was sold through Sedo’s partnership with GoDaddy. This is the second time Sedo has cashed in selling the domain. In 2009 it sold the domain name for $400,000 on behalf of Live Current Media. It looks like the buyer back then is the seller today, which would be the domain has lost value ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
PIR: We consider we’ll get 1 million .NGO domain name registrations - .NGO applicant has goal of a million domain registrations. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry behind the .org domain and the only applicant for the .NGO top level domain name, has some lofty goals for the domain. PIR CEO Brian Cute thinks they’ll get one million .ngo domain name registrations. Speaking to Computerwoche.de (and translated into English by PIR), Cute said: The critical mass of a successful domain registrar is one million registrations; this ... read more ...
 
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Nokta Domains sole 44, leased 7 domain names in June - Company publishes list of June domain name transactions. Domain name seller Nokta Domains closed a total of 51 public transactions in June, according to the company’s blog. It leased 7 domain names and sold 44. The leases range from $10 to $150, which suggests that most lessees wanted to buy the domains, but simply couldn’t afford them even at relatively low prices. The top sale was AltinFiyatlari.com for $17,600. The second highest was BeachVillas.com for $15,000. ... read more ...
 
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What domains Jerry Bruckheimer, Papa John’s, and 27 others bought final week - Movie and TV producer among end users buying domain names last week. Afternic sold over $1 million worth of domains last week, and many of the sales were to notable buyers. Let’s start of with Highmark, which bought AHN.org for $50,000. I wrote about this sale yesterday. The next four sales are what I’d call “global upgrades”. These are sales where a company already owns the matching ccTLD and bought .com: Ascent Labs Ltd., which uses AscentLabs.ie, bought ... read more ...
 
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[Updated] After 10 years, Johnson & Johnson goes after Johnsons.com domain name again - A decade after filing a UDRP for Johnsons.com, Johnson Johnson files another UDRP. [Updated]Johnson Johnson has filed a second UDRP for the domain name Johnsons.com, which was registered way back in 1997. [Update] This is not the first time Johnson Johnson has gone after the domain name. It filed a UDRP in 2003 and lost on the grounds that the domain name was not registered in bad faith. Although technically the name of the registrant has changed since early on, ... read more ...
 
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TLDH: we’ll pointer the initial new TLD contracts by finish of Q1 2014 - New TLD applicants still far from generating revenue. ICANN signed its first registry agreements for new top level domains this week, but a press release from portfolio applicant Top Level Domain Holdings is a reminder that many new TLDs are a long way to fruition. The release states: Top Level Domain Holding anticipates contracts will be signed with ICANN for the first nine uncontested domain applications in which it has an interest before the end of Q1 2014, with ... read more ...
 
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Sedo information uncover clever .co aftermarket - Median sales price this year second only to .com. Sedo released a report today with statistics about the .co aftermarket. The report is timed to coincide with the three year anniversary of .co being relaunched as a global generic domain. The results (pdf) look very strong. Since .co’s relaunch, Sedo has been involved with $2.6 million worth of .co domain name sales. For the first half of 2013, the median .co selling price on Sedo was $570. That’s second only to ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets obvious for Geo Domain tool - First patent related to system for generating geo domain names is granted. Back in 2009 GoDaddy released a geo domain tool that allowed you to find domain names specific to a location, e.g. AustinAllergists.com. Last year I reported that GoDaddy filed three patent applications related to the tool. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now granted a patent to GoDaddy covering the technology. U.S. patent 8,489,746 is titled “Systems for suggesting domain names ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The European Union’s .EU Becomes 9th TLD Offered By The SedoMLS … - However, you may not have known that in most of these systems only a handful of TLDs are accepted for the network. Sedo says its SedoMLS Premium Network offers the most - a total that rose to nine today when the company announced it is ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Announces $5.5MM Of Domain Sales For 1st Six Months Of 2013 - As reported by TNTnames.com, Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com, released its reportable sales for the first six months of 2013. Total combined sales were $5,502,211. This total includes $4,658,329 worth of sales from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration inventory which is  their privately owned inventory, as well as $843.882 of partner sales. The highest domain sale was BoatsForSale.com for  $162,500 followed by shelves.com for $83,000. Both were from their privately held inventory. Here ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.5MM Led By Body.com For $380K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/08/13 – 07/14/13 totaling $1.5MM. The highest priced transaction was body.com at $380,000 followed by startnext.com at $25,000. Over the past week, 711 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. This amounts to $36.5m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: body.com at 380,000 USD · Top ccTLD: ... read more ...
 
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ICANN adopts safeguards to protect IP owners’ rights in new gTLDs - As has been well publicized, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in the final stages of approving nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for launch. Intellectual property owners and computer security experts have expressed concern that the forthcoming gTLDs may become havens for intellectual property infringers, malware purveyors, counterfeiters and others engaging in infringing or abusive conduct. To address these concerns, the New gTLD Program Committee ... read more ...
 
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Trademark turmoil as Amazon doesn’t get its own way - As explained in a previous Tech Law post the expansion of the addressing system that the Internet relies on is undergoing a major expansion of what are known as generic top level domains (gTLDs). These are the .com, .net, and .orgs that come at the end of a unique domain name like “amazon” or “google”. Now companies can buy and control generic words like .books and .music and then rent out new domain names as each new address will be an unique address like www.harrypotter.books. The countries ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.07MM In Domains Let By ahn.org For $50K - Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/8/13 – 7/14/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,073,756. The highest sale was ahn.org which sold for $50,000, followed by Baseball24.com for $15,000. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Neustar Announces nTLD Registry Services - The only thing tougher than getting a TLD is everything after. With the unprecedented launch of hundreds of new Top Level Domains (nTLDs), how will registry operators differentiate? Will their name space be trusted? Is their distribution strategy optimal? How will they continue to navigate the ever-changing ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) policy landscape? As with any new market, only the strong will survive. Those that succeed will provide the right product ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
MSNBC Does On Air Interview With Political Domainer Michael Deutsch - A few days ago the Nationaljournal.com wrote a story about political domainer Michael Deutsch who has over 1,800 domain names including naturalcondom.com to yankeestadium.com to drinkmilk.com to stemcellresearch.com. Today MSNBC did on air interview for over 5 minutes with Mr. Deutsch about his domain activities. Here it is: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New … - We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) Steve Crocker Chairman of the Board of ICANN stated: “Although there’s a lot of money that’s been raised, there’s also a projected use of those funds and one of the things that we take very seriously, and i ... read more ...
 
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Governments v trademarks as pressure mounts on Amazon gTLD bid - The Government Advisory Committee’s (GAC) decision to file a consensus objection against Amazon’s application for ‘.amazon’ has been the subject of fierce debate at ICANN’s Durban meeting today, with Amazon arguing that the GAC’s approach should be a worry for all IP owners. Over the weekend, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, “with the full support of Amazon basin countries”, published a statement on “.amazon” and other strings containing geographic names. The ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ready For Next Generation Of Internet – 1st To Sign RAA - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GoDaddy, the Web’s top platform for small businesses, announced today it was the first major registrar to sign ICANN’s new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The new agreement provides customers a better experience, allows registrars to offer the upcoming new gTLDs and sets the standard for the future of the Internet. Signing the new agreement enables GoDaddy to offer the new top level domain names. This means, starting later this year, new domain name ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New gTLD Fees & Auctions - We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) Steve Crocker Chairman of the Board of ICANN stated: “Although there’s a lot of money that’s been raised, there’s also a projected use of those funds and one of the things that we take very seriously, and i have ... read more ...
 
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Icann signs deal to make Shabaka Arabic top-level domain - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered into a contract with dotShabaka Registry for Shabaka to become the world's first Arabic new Top-Level Domain (TLD). Shabaka is the Arabic for ‘Web’. DotShabaka Registry said it has contracted ARI Registry Services for the provision of software and infrastructure systems to support Shabaka, owing to its vast experience in Domain Name Registry technology, supporting the .ae, .qa and .om domain name ... read more ...
 
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5000 Trademark Owners Register Under Trademark Clearinghouse - More than 5,000 trademark owners have registered under the Trademark Clearinghouse since its launch in March More than 5,000 trademark owners have registered under the Trademark Clearinghouse, a move that will help protect brands ahead of the launch of the new gTLDs. On Tuesday ICANN said that many businesses still have yet to act, which could leave them at risk to intellectual property infringement. Launched in March, the Trademark Clearinghouse is a centralized database of validated trademarks ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Generische TLDs Domain Management braucht eine Strategie - Der Spezialist für Markenschutz hat acht Tipps für das Domain Management formuliert: 1. Markennamen beim Trademark Clearing House eintragen Markeninhaber sollten ihre Marken bei der von der ICANN eingerichteten Clearingstelle „Trademark Clearing House“ eintragen, um Vorrechte bei der Eröffnung neuer Adressen im Internet zu erhalten und Nachahmer abzuwehren. In den nächsten Jahren soll es immer wieder sogenannte Sunrise-Phasen geben. Während dieser Phasen haben verifizierte Inhaber von ... read more ...
 
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Key topics to follow during ICANN 47 - ICANN 47 in Durban, South Africa, unofficially began on Saturday, July 13, 2013, with community participants closely following a few important topics that will receive attention and develop further in Durban. This client alert provides a summary of key issues for the Durban meeting, including both developments in the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program and discussions of Internet policy processes. Closed Generic TLDs. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and the ICANN Board New gTLD ... read more ...