Monthly Archives: July 2013

Fri 26th July 2013
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You Hate Obama?: Check Out The Links Network Solutions Is Serving Up On JoeBiden’s Expired Domain - Elliotsblog.com reported today that the domain name matching of the Vice President of the United States JoeBiden.com expired and could be heading for auction. I checked out the parked page that NetworkSolutions.com is serving up now that they as the registrar are in control of the expired domain name. I couldn’t help but notice some links on the parked page that will probably not exactly thrill the Whitehouse like “Do You Hate Obama” ‘Poll-Impeach Obama?” and Repeal Obama Care” The results ... read more ...
 
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104 New gTLD’s Pass ICANN IE: .Sydney; .Wow; .Gmail; .Catholic; Volkswagen; .Walmart; .MIT; .Comcast; .Realtor - 104 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The highlights for this week include the one of the most beautiful cities in the world .Sydney and some applications filed by Google’s Charleston Road Registry Inc which had been passed over in some previous weeks IE results including .Gmail; .Wow; .FYI; .Shop; .Fun .Fly and .RSVP Other interesting new gTLD applications passing this week were the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for .MIT; Amazon’s application for .Search; Some ... read more ...
 
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What’s Happening With Aug. 13 Applicant Auction to Resolve gTLD Contention? - The second Applicant Auction is coming up on August 13, and after a great round of workshops at the ICANN Conference in Durban, we've started to finalize all of the details. Any applicants who haven't indicated their intention to participate can still do so! We'll be opening the sign-up system within the next week, and we're expecting a large number of participants! After the success of our first auction in June, we have made some important changes to the August auction. First, we're proud ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top Level Domains ab 2001 - 10.10.2000Neue Top Level Domains ab 2001 ICANN stellt die vorgeschlagenen künftigen Spitzen-Domains auf ihrer Homepage zur Diskussion. Die meisten Vorschläge enden auf .biz, .kids, .sex, .wap Generische Top Level Domains (TLD) wie .com, .org und .net sind mittlerweile Mangelware. Die ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) vergibt Anfang kommenden Jahres neue Top Level Domains. Die Einreichfrist für neue Spitzen-Domains ist abgelaufen. 45 Antragsteller reichten bei ... read more ...
 
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Trade mark owners beware: new generic top level domains are coming! - ICANN is expected to announce the first set of successful applications and list of new generic top level domains later this summer. Before the new generic top level domains can be delegated, the applications need to go through an initial evaluation phase and any objections against those applications need to be addressed. In fact, the first decisions on legal rights objections to applications for new generic top level domains were only recently published by WIPO. The generic top level domain applications ... read more ...
 
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Jetgo of Australia Files UDRP Against Frank Schilling’s NameAdministration On JetGo.com - Frank Schilling has gotten hit with its 35th UDRP as Jetgo of Australia has filed on the domain name JetGo.com JetGo of Australia’s official site is jetgoaustralia.com.au JetGo appears to be a small charter service for Jets showing as their Fleet a Embraer 135 Regional Jet. The .com.au domain was registered in May 2011. The company also owns the domain name jetgoaustralia.com which was registered in December 2012 however the company does not own JetGo.com.au JetGo’s Civil Aviation certificate ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media … - Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of  its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had prioritization number of 407 and .Marketing had a prioritization number of 793 and both had passed ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media & .Marketing Leaving Donuts The Only Applicant - Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of  its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had prioritization number of 407 and .Marketing had a prioritization number of 793 and both had passed ICANN Initial ... read more ...
 
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Avoiding an ICANN Monopoly on Policy - With all the focus in the TLD world on the imminent arrival of more than a thousand new TLDs and the still unfinished discussions within ICANN on what policy framework those TLDs will need to follow, it is often forgotten that there are hundreds of other TLD policy frameworks that are mature, stable and well tested. These of course are the ccTLD policy frameworks that have been actively developed over 20 years. There are some stark differences in maturity between many ccTLD policy frameworks ... read more ...
 
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What’s a marketplace distance for a tip turn domain? - Can new TLDs increase demand for domain names, or will they merely take a percentage of the existing market? A few weeks ago Dan Warner posted an analysis of sports related top level domain name applications. He compared the strings applied for (e.g. .baseball, .football) to how many of the 100 million + .com domains already registered include that term (e.g. BaseballFan.com and FootballGames.com). He found that many, including rugby and cricket, had fewer than 15,000 ... read more ...
 
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Arrested Development domain name joke - The challenge of finding a good domain name is illustrated perfectly on Arrested Development. I’m finally getting to the end of the Netflix season of Arrested Development (no binge viewing for me!). I’m not going to play spoiler here, but one of the episodes discusses domain names. George Michael is working on a new app with his roommate and is having trouble coming up with a name. George is on the phone, and it’s not clear if he’s talking to a domain registrar ... read more ...
Thu 25th July 2013
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4 More Legal Rights Objections Denied At WIPO: 17 Objections, 17 Thrown out … - Earlier today we wrote about two Legal Right Objections (LRO) that were denied at WIPO one for .GMBH and the 5th objection filed be Defender against an applicant for .Home Since then three more decisions came out all against the objectors on the strings .Song; .YellowPages and .Cam The objection to .Song was brought by DotMusic Limited of Lemesos, Cyprus, which is owned by Mr. Constantine Roussous who is an applicant for .Music. Like DotMusic Limited’s objection to Amazon’s application for ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Ends 2Q With 124.3 Million .Com/.Net; Domain Revenue adult 12% & $2 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), treported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed. As of the quater ending June 30 there were 124.3 million .com/.net domain names an increase of 4.9% VeriSign, Inc., and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $239 million for the second quarter of 2013, up 12 percent from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported net income of $87 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55 for the second quarter of ... read more ...
 
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4 More Legal Rights Objections Denied At WIPO: 17 Objections, 17 Thrown out: .Song; .YellowPages; .Cam - Earlier today we wrote about two Legal Right Objections (LRO) that were denied at WIPO one for .GMBH and the 5th objection filed be Defender against an applicant for .Home Since then three more decisions came out all against the objectors on the strings .Song; .YellowPages and .Cam The objection to .Song was brought by DotMusic Limited of Lemesos, Cyprus, which is owned by Mr. Constantine Roussous who is an applicant for .Music. Like DotMusic Limited’s objection to Amazon’s application for .Tunes, ... read more ...
 
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MP3.com Hits The Market With A 7 Figure Price & Supposedly Has A Bid - The domain name MP3.com appears to be on the market with an asking price into the seven figures according to a post hypebot.com. written by a Michael Robertson, founder of the original MP3.com. Here is what he had to say in this post which is pretty interesting: “I recently got a call from the owner of this iconic domain name asking if I was interested in buying the MP3.com domain name. MP3.com was the digital music pioneer I founded which offered free MP3 downloads of initially unsigned bands, ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Rejects 13th & 14th Legal Rights Objections To New gTLD’s on .GMBH … - WIPO today released two more Legal Rights Objections (LRO) decisions today and for the 13th and 14th time ruled against the Objector. Objectors are now 0-14 at WIPO on Legal Rights Objections A WIPO panel ruled against Defender Security Company for the new gTLD .home for the 5th time.  Defender filed 9 LRO to the other applicants for .Home. In the other WIPO decision today  TLDDOT GmbH, Germany, lost its objection to .GMBH filed against: The objector who is also an applicant for the new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Rejects 13th & 14th Legal Rights Objections To New gTLD’s on .GMBH & Another The 5th On .Home - WIPO today released two more Legal Rights Objections (LRO) decisions today and for the 13th and 14th time ruled against the Objector. Objectors are now 0-14 at WIPO on Legal Rights Objections A WIPO panel ruled against Defender Security Company for the new gTLD .home for the 5th time.  Defender filed 9 LRO to the other applicants for .Home. In the other WIPO decision today  TLDDOT GmbH, Germany, lost its objection to .GMBH filed against: The objector who is also an applicant for the new gTLD .Home, ... read more ...
 
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Afternic To Provide New gTLD .Kiwi Reserve Lists Of Premium Domains - Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI.  Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to  to create reserve lists for their new TLD and “provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013″. The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding creativity and the opportunity to differentiate themselves from competitors through the .KIWI TLD. It ... read more ...
 
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New Top Level Domain .KIWI Selects Afternic as Premium Domain Partner - WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI. Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013. “Afternic’s extensive network and experience will play a critical role in the overall ... read more ...
 
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Afternic To Provide New gTLD .Kiwi Reserve Lists for their new TLD - Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI.  Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to  to create reserve lists for their new TLD and “provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013″. The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding creativity and the opportunity to differentiate themselves from competitors through the .KIWI TLD. It ... read more ...
 
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Afternic To Provide New gTLD .Kiwi Reserve Lists Of Premium Domains - Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI.  Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to  to create reserve lists for their new TLD and “provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013″. The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding creativity and the opportunity to differentiate themselves from competitors through the .KIWI TLD. It will ... read more ...
 
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New internet addresses - WHO has the rights to the name “Amazon”? The e-commerce giant of the same name or the countries through which the world’s second longest river flows? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internet’s address system, will have to answer this tricky question: the company wants to register internet addresses ending in .amazon, but several countries in South America, including Brazil and Peru, object. And they have the support of the Government ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Scores dotAfrica Domain High in Initial Evaluation -  dotAfrica Steering Committee Chair Mohammed El Bashir  Amaka Eze Africa is firmly on its way to having its own dotAfrica generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names Numbers (ICANN), the Internet governing body ruled that the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) bid for dotAfrica has passed "Initial Evaluation". The decision was communicated officially last Monday. "Based on the review of your application (it) has passed Initial Evaluation. The application ... read more ...
 
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Team TLD keen to maintain Queensland Road Teams Series roll - Topics:  cycling, queensland road teams series, team tld racing Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet Toowoomba's Team TLD Racing heading to Kingaroy this weekend. Contributed TOOWOOMBA'S Team TLD Racing will be out to continue its strong presence in this year's Queensland Road Teams Series when racing moves to the ... read more ...
 
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Why Latin American Countries Scored a Major Victory Over Internet Domain … - Chile and Argentina have scored a major victory in the battle over the use of geographic terms such as generic top level domain names (gTLD), a new form of internet addresses that include endings such as .xxx, .app, .book, .search, and .amazon. The two South American nations filed complaints against Patagonia Inc., a California-based clothing company, when it put in an application request for ... read more ...