Monthly Archives: July 2013

Fri 19th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Dutch registrar to revive three African TLDs - Freedom Registry has taken up operating the TLDs (Top Level Domains) for Mali, Gabon and Central African Republic, aiming at creating international interest in them by providing free domains. The Amsterdam-based registrar has signed agreements with operators in Mali (.ml), Gabon (.ga) and Central African Republic (.cf). The registrations for .ml opened on Monday, and those for .cf will start from Aug. 1, followed by .ga on Sept. 1, according to Joost Zuurbier, CEO and founder of Freedom ... read more ...
 
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Icann approva i primi 4 domini di primo livello generici - L’Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ha stabilito i primi top level domain, i quattro domini generici di primo livello (gTLD) non in lin lingua inglese. A sorpresa troviamo parole come l’arabo .شبكة (Web), il cinese .游戏 (Game), e le parole russe .Онлайн e .Сайт (rispettivamente .Online e .Web). “Questo segna una svolta in cui  per la prima volta le persone potranno scrivere l’indirizzo di un sito web nella loro lingua madre,” scrive l’ICANN ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Two More New gTLD Applications: .Media & .Country - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry withdrew applications for two new gTLD’s today reflected on ICANN’s site. The application were for .Media and .Country Both of these application were due to have Initial Evaluation by ICANN released tomorrow as they had prioritization numbers 1,242 and 1,232 respectively so by withdrawing tonight Uniregistry picks up a 70% refund instead of the 35% it would have been entitled to after tomorrow. The withdrawal of Uniregistry application for .Country is an outgrowth ... read more ...
 
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dotShabaka to provide Arabic internet domain names - dotShabaka Logo The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global regulator of web addresses, has signed a contract with dotShabaka registry to officially launch the first Arabic top-level domain (TLD) in the coming months. The collaboration is part of the new TLD program officially introduced by ICANN to expand the internet’s web address system, making dotShabaka the first global IDN in Arabic. The domain, targeting Arabic speaking internet users worldwide, will provide ... read more ...
 
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USPS loses to Amazon.com on .Mail tip turn domain objection - U.S. mail service tried to argue .mail infringed on its rights for “U.S. Mail”. The United States Postal Services’ Legal Rights Objection to Amazon.com’s bid to run the .mail top level domain name has been denied by a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist. The USPS’ objection to all seven applications for .mail was one of the most head-scratching of all objections. The objection was based on trademarks that include the word mail, primarily “U.S. ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions recuperating from DDoS - Company faced multiple outtages this week. Network Solutions customers experienced outtages this week due to a DDoS attack. The problems appeared to start on Monday. On Tuesday, Network Solutions reported that “On [Monday], some Network Solutions customer sites were compromised.” Then on Wednesday, the company posted to its Facebook page that it was facing a DDoS “that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site.” Later on Wednesday it ... read more ...
 
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ICANN still deliberation IGO protections, though adds deadline to discussions - No acronym protections if IGO protections not resolved by Buenos Aires. One of the Governmental Advisory Committee’s (GAC) requests for new top level domain names is that both the names and acronyms of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) be protected from second level registrations. This is, I imagine, because of the grave damage that would be inflicted on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts if ECMWF.baseball were to be registered. The GAC’s ... read more ...
 
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Marchex sells TheRack.com, substantially to Nordstrom - Mark Monitor group acquires retail domain name. Based on whois records, it appears that Marchex has sold the domain name TheRack.com. My money is on Nordstrom buying it for its Nordstrom Rack outlet stores, sometimes called “The Rack”. Although the whois information for the domain shows Name Advisers Inc. as the owner, Name Advisers is affiliated with brand protection registrar Mark Monitor. Nordstrom uses Mark Monitor for its domain names. So why is this interesting? ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Amazon no podrá ser propietario de .amazon - Amazon quiere hacerse con el control de muchos dominios de primer nivel (TLD) (tiene una lista con más de 80 peticiones) y uno de ellos es el lógico .amazon. No obstante, parece que de momento ese TLD está lejos de quedar bajo su control: ayer el Comité Asesor del ICANN recomendó al organismo que gestiona los dominios en Internet que no le permita a la firma controlar .amazon. La idea de Amazon con el control de este TLD era utilizarlo como “una plataforma única y dedicada” a la compañía, ... read more ...
 
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Pending .kosher domain disputed by rival certification authorities - This week, ICANN is meeting in Durban, South Africa, to discuss, among other things, the expansion of new global top-level domain (TLD) names. Among the names in question is .kosher, which opens a small window into the potential problems that can arise with allowing meaningful words to be domain suffixes. A group calling itself Kosher Marketing Assets LLC had been the sole applicant for the TLD, and in its application it aims to “promote awareness of the TLD through press releases and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN İlk 4 Yeni Jenerik Üst Alan Adına (gTLD) Son Onayları Verdi - İnternet Tahsisli Sayılar ve İsimler Kurumu'nun (ICANN) yaklaşık 2 yıl önce aldığı yeni jenerik üst alan adı (gTLD) uygulaması sonunda başladı. ICANN'in Durban – Güney Afrika'daki toplantısında onaylanan ilk 4 yeni jenerik alan adları Arapça, Çince ve Rusça. Ayrıca ICANN'in İdari Danışma Kurulu üyesi 59 temsilci ile 4 gözlemcinin bir araya geldiği toplantılarda, bazı gTLD başvurularıyla ilgili önemli kararlar da alındı. Örneğin toplantılarda, Amazon firmasının ... read more ...
 
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Google Reports & Miss On Revenue & Earnings: Paid Clicks Up 23%; Cost Per Click Down 6% Stock Sinks Over 5% - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed but missed expectations for both revenue and earnings per share, sending shares down more than 5% or $50 a share in after hours trading. Google reported consolidated revenues of $14.11 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013, an increase of 19% compared to the second quarter of 2012. GAAP operating income in the second quarter of 2013 was $3.12 billion, or 22% of revenues. This ... read more ...
 
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Key Topics to Follow During Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and … - 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 ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Sedo übernimmt weltweiten Vertrieb der neuen Webadressen mit der Endung … - Köln (ots) – Starting Dot, Inhaber der neuen Top Level Domain (TLD) “.Bio” hat die Sedo GmbH aus Köln als Partner für den weltweiten Vertrieb von Premium Domains unter dieser TLD gewählt. Die Domains unter .Bio werden in sogenannten “Sunrise and Landrush”-Auktionen, Premiumauktionen und in individueller Vermarktung durch die Sedo-Broker veräußert. Deutschland ist für diese TLD einer der weltweit größten Märkte, da “Bio” hierzulande seit Jahren schon ein Trend und ... read more ...
 
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Over €1M Deposit Required To File A New gTLD Objection With The ICC … - At the ICANN Open Forum today at Durban An attorney Mark Partridge took the floor to tell ICANN how much money an objector has to tie up to get their objection heard by the ICC. The ICC hear objections to new gTLD’s that are based on limited public interest objections and  community objections. Here is his statement: I have a new issue to present involving TLD objection process. I’m counsel for parties engaged in community am and limited public interest objections administered by the icc. I’m ... read more ...
 
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Over €1M Deposit Required To File A New gTLD Objection With The ICC, Partridge IP Law Tells ICANN - At the ICANN Open Forum today at Durban An attorney Mark Partridge took the floor to tell ICANN how much money an objector has to tie up to get their objection heard by the ICC. The ICC hear objections to new gTLD’s that are based on limited public interest objections and  community objections. Here is his statement: I have a new issue to present involving TLD objection process. I’m counsel for parties engaged in community am and limited public interest objections administered by the icc. I’m ... read more ...
 
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Cybercriminals are back in the USSR - <![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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GAC Mucks Around But Leaves Durban With Hundreds Of New gTLD Apps Hanging In The Wind - The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) just issued a summary of what it did during the ICANN meeting in Durban and issued what now appears to be a trend for ICANN meetings by issuing a “Communique”  in this case forever to be known as the Durban Communique in which it addressed a few new gTLD applications but left the elephant in the room as Pink as ever. Going into the meetings the BIG question was what further advice would the GAC issue regarding Closed Generic applications as well as hundreds ... read more ...
 
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Constantine Roussos Says ICC Must Disregard Any New Policies/Changes & GAC Advice Made After Objection Deadline - In a letter sent to ICANN by Constantine Roussos on behalf of DotMusic, Limited who objected to other applications for the .Music new gTLD it urges ICANN to tell the ICC that is must disregard any new polices, changes and GAC advice given after the deadline for filing formal objection which was April 12, 2013. Mr. Roussos told TheDomains.com; “We note that Objections were filed BEFORE GAC Beijing Advice and any resolutions passed by ICANN pertaining to GAC Advice/PICS should be treated as material ... read more ...
 
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Pinterest Lastest To Lose Legal Rights Objections To .New gTLD .Pin As 3 More Objections Are Thrown Out By Wipo - WIPO has decided three more Legal Rights Objections to New gTLD application and in all three cases the Objector has lost and the New gTLD applicant has won. The cases decided today are: Pinterest’s objection to Amazon’s application for the new gTLD .Pin; Defender Security Company objection to Merchant Law Group’s application to its application for the new gTLD .Home and The Canadian Real Estate Association’s objection to the new gTLD application of Afilias on  .MLS In the decision on .Pin ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses UDRP On TracyAnderson.com - Tracy Anderson Mind and Body LLC of Studio City, California, just won a UDRP against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings on the domain name tracyanderson.com This marked the 6th UDRP in a row that Domain Asset Holdings has lost. According to the UDRP, Tracy Anderson, is a professional trainer and creator of diet regimes and compilations of fitness training systems, techniques and methods, holds United States trademark registration for standard-character marks based on Tracy Anderson’s personal ... read more ...
 
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.Amazon May Not Be Dead Yet As Trademark Groups Urge ICANN To Follow International Law Not GAC Advice - Trademark Groups urged ICANN to follow International Law not GAC advice and to approves the new gTLD application for .Amazon Claudio Digangi spoke on behalf of the International Trademark Association (INTA) on particularly on the geographic names issue. “INTA strongly supports the recent views expressed by the United States. in particular, that it does not view the sovereignty as a valid basis for objecting to the use of terms and we have concerns about the effect of such claims on the integrity ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Report Details Success Of .CO Domains On Third Anniversary, Revealing … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... .CO TLD Tops .COM, .NET and .ORG in Average Sales Price in First Half of 2013Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today unveiled a report, detailing the growth and success of the .CO domain extension three years after its launch. Sedo has monitored the extension since its debut on July 20, 2010 and analyzed transaction data from its marketplace to compile the report, which is the second annual report published ... read more ...
 
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gTLD : l’ICANN refuse l’extension de nom de domaine .amazon - L'ICANN, l'organisme en charge de la gestion des extensions de noms de domaines sur Internet, a dévoilé la liste des 4 premiers domaines de premier niveau génériques, qui viennent se greffer aux suffixes « traditionnels ». On apprend dans le même temps que la demande du cybermarchand Amazon a été rejetée. Les premières nouvelles extensions de noms de domaines génériques sont connues. Au nombre de 4, elles peuvent étonner, car elles ne sont pas écrites en alphabet latin : il s'agit ... read more ...
 
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Bestell-Portal für neue Top-Level-Domains - Die 11 Internet AG bietet unter www.1und1.de/ntld die Möglichkeit, sich Internet-Adressen der neuesten Generation zu sichern. Insbesondere für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen aber auch für Vereine bieten die neuen, so genannten Top-Level-Domains (TLD) attraktive Endungen. Beispielsweise .berlin, .restaurant, .shop, .gmbh, .music oder .auto. 500 weitere einprägsame TLDs können ab sofort über 11 bestellt werden. Zusätzlich liefert das Portal zahlreiche Informationen und Tipps zum Thema. ... read more ...