Monthly Archives: August 2013

Sat 31st August 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
.xxx-Domain wird selten für Malware missbraucht - Die Top-Level-Domain .xxx ist viel harmloser als man gemeinhin denken könnte - zumindest was die Gefährdung durch Hacker betrifft. Im Zuge einer Studie der Consulting-Firma Architelos http://architelos.com zum Thema Internet-Security hat nämlich die ausschließlich für erotische Inhalte vorgesehene Domain ausgesprochen gut abgeschnitten. (pte) XXX: schadet dem PC weniger als der eigenen Beziehung (Foto: Dombrowski / flickr.com) Von insgesamt 72 untersuchten Top-Level-Domains ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Is Telefonkatalogen.biz The Worst Domain Ever For A Company Advising Others On Domain Branding? - We see press releases every week from companies looking for business in the domain branding business but saw a PR today that stood out from the crowd for a company called Telefonkatalogen.biz. The PR cites a  “recent article from Ping! Magazine, that said  “it is imperative for businesses to select the very best online domains–and the Web marketing professionals at Telefonkatalogen.biz agree.” (unfortunately the PR does not give a citation to the article) “The Ping article notes that ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Declares Initial Evaluation Of New gTLD’s Over But There Are 29 To Go … - In a press release this afternoon ICANN proudly announced that the “Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program is concluded.” “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward to the innovations that these new introductions will enable on the Internet.” “Out of the 1,930 new gTLD applications submitted, a total of ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Conclusion of New gTLD Initial Evaluations - Major Milestone Reached in New Domain Program Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) August 30, 2013 ICANN’s Generic Domains Division announced today the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
17 new tip turn domain registry contracts signed - Finally some progress for new TLD applicants, but it’s slow. ICANN has updated its statistics through yesterday for the number of new top level domain contracts it has signed. It signed 13 contracts this past week. 12 of those were signed by Donuts, which leaves just one other company signing an agreement this week. (Unless some of the contracts Donuts signed haven’t been fully executed.) Given that eleven of the contracts Donuts signed this week are not IDNs, ... read more ...
Fri 30th August 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Declares Initial Evaluation Of New gTLD’s Over But There Are 29 To Go Including .Search & .ABC - In a press release this afternoon ICANN proudly announced that the “Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program is concluded.” “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward to the innovations that these new introductions will enable on the Internet.” “Out of the 1,930 new gTLD applications submitted, a total of 1,745 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Conclusion of New gTLD Initial Evaluations [PR] - Major Milestone Reached in New Domain Program Los Angeles, California ICANN’s Generic Domains Division announced today the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. “This is an extraordinary landmark which demonstrates the progress in this program,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division. “We are looking forward ... read more ...
 
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Sina Wins Legal Rights Objection on .Weibo & On .微博 - Two separate WIPO panels upheld the objection of the Internet Giant Sina on two new gTLD applications both against the same applicant Tencent Holdings Limited of Shenzhen, China. The WIPO panels upheld Sina objection to the new gTLD applications .Weibo On .微博 “The Panel notes that both Parties accept and claim that “weibo” is the pinyin equivalent (the phonetic transliteration of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabets) of “微博”. “The Panel finds that the Objector holds ... read more ...
 
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101 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE; 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Sex … - 101 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. 8 applications are heading for extended evaluation. Like last week one of the applicants who filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants own application got flagged for extended evaluation this time Defender Security Company  application for .home. Another application heading to extended evaluation is the Lance Armstrong Foundations application for .livestrong The 8 new gTLD applications which were classified as eligible ... read more ...
 
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Roundup: News from Optimum, Tagboard, BoldIQ, Twitter, IV, and Donuts - Benjamin Romano8/30/13Follow @bromano It turns out Seattle’s Optimum Energy gained some significant strategic investors in its latest financing round. Read on for details on that, plus funding for Tagboard and BoldIQ; new Seattle offices for Twitter and a DC presence for Intellectual Ventures; and another dozen (gTLDs for) Donuts. —Optimum Energy‘s ... read more ...
 
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101 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE; 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Sex; .Islam; .Stockholm; .Ford; .Volvo - 101 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. 8 applications are heading for extended evaluation. Like last week one of the applicants who filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants own application got flagged for extended evaluation this time Defender Security Company  application for .home. Another application heading to extended evaluation is the Lance Armstrong Foundations application for .livestrong The 8 new gTLD applications which were classified as eligible ... read more ...
 
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Sina Wins Legal Rights Objection on .Weibo & On .微博 - Two separate WIPO panels upheld the objection of the Internet Giant Sina on two new gTLD applications both against the same applicant Tencent Holdings Limited of Shenzhen, China. The WIPO panels upheld Sina objection to the new gTLD applications .Weibo On .微博 “The Panel notes that both Parties accept and claim that “weibo” is the pinyin equivalent (the phonetic transliteration of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabets) of “微博”. “The Panel finds that the Objector holds the ... read more ...
 
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The Limited Loses UDRP On LimitedCoupon.com - Limited Stores, LLC which operate the Limited Stores, just lost a UDRP on the domain name limitedcoupon.com despite the fact that the domain holder did not file a response. Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The Complainant’s allegations of bad faith are all said to be on the basis of “upon information and belief”. What information and by whom was it provided? The Complaint does not say. In fact, on this topic the Complaint is remarkably short of information. “Upon ... read more ...
 
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iPhone 5S : le châssis du futur smartphone d’Apple dévoilé - A l’approche du keynote du 10 septembre prochain, TLD Today a étudié le châssis du prochain smartphone haut de gamme Apple : l’iPhone 5S. Après la fuite de ses supposées nouvelles robes champagne et gris anthracite, l’iPhone se retrouve désormais nu sur la Toile. Le site TLD Today vient en effet de publier sur Youtube une vidéo dévoilant le châssis du futur Smartphone d’Apple, en comparaison avec celui de l’iPhone 5.Des images qui confirment de manière quasi-certaine le ... read more ...
 
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15 Year Old RadioAmerica.com Lost In UDRP To RadioAmerica.org - American Studies Center d/b/a Radio America just won a UDRP on the domain name RadioAmerica.com which was owned by Jet Stream Enterprises Limited. The panel found the complainant  had a common law a trademark on the term going back to 1985 when Radio America started broadcasting. In 1996 the Complainant registered RadioAmerica.org In 1998 the domain holder registered RadioAmerica.com Here are the relevant findings on the one member panel:   Complainant owns common law rights in the RADIO AMERICA ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Signs Contracts With ICANN on 12 new gTLD’s - Donuts has signed 12 new gTLD  registry contracts with ICANN.   BIKE .CAMERA .CLOTHING .EQUIPMENT .ESTATE .GURU .HOLDINGS .LIGHTING .SINGLES .VENTURES .VOYAGE (.ENTERPRISE, in Simplified Chinese script)   According to a press release; all of Donuts new gTLD applications  have passed ICANN Initial Evolution. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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PR Newswire – Virtual - Largest applicant moves further toward delegation of new generic top-level domains BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed three additional significant steps toward launch of its applied-for gTLDs. The company said all of its pending gTLD applications have passed Initial Evaluation, an exhaustive review process that determines the financial and technical fitness of an applicant. Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Completes Initial Evaluations For All Applications, Signs 12 Additional … - BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 -- Largest applicant moves further toward delegation of new generic top-level domainsBELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed three additional significant steps toward launch of its applied-for gTLDs.The company said all of its pending gTLD applications have passed Initial Evaluation, an exhaustive review process that determines the financial and technical fitness ... read more ...
 
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TMCH Agent: Mehr als 100 Kanzleien und Unternehmen vertrauen dem Service … – Live - InterNetX Logo 30.08.2013 14:01:56 - Mehr als 100 nationale unter internationale Kunden haben sich für den InterNetX TMCH Agent entschieden, um effektiv Markenschutz unter den kommenden new gTLDs zu betreiben. Der Service von InterNetX kann bisher eine 100-prozentige Erfolgsquote bei der Validierung der Einträge beim Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) vorweisen.   (live-PR.com) - Mit der Einführung der new gTLDs wird das Internet vielfältiger. ... read more ...
 
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The new gTLDs are almost here - On August 23, 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released updated statistics on the progression of new generic Top-Level-Domain (or “gTLD”) applications. Although the exact number of gTLDs that will ultimately proceed to launch remains unknown, it is clear that the addition of new gTLD strings will soon be a reality. Trademark owners are now finding themselves looking for ways to protect their marks from being registered as domain names in the new gTLD space ... read more ...
 
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Vidéo : il tente de monter un iPhone 5 dans une coque d’iPhone 5S - TLD propose une vidéo, très détaillée, d'une coque d'iPhone 5S « champagne », une vidéo nette, correctement exposée, où l'on voit avec précision la couleur qui fait "polémique" en France. La couleur est définitivement plus champagne - moins saturée - que dorée et l'appareil n'est pas aussi blingbling qu'on aurait pu le craindre. Ceci dit, la vidéo de TLD est surtout intéressante car elle met en évidence les différences structurelles entre les deux appareils. TLD a essayé ... read more ...
 
 
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For The Limited, “The” comes behind to haunt it in another domain case - The brand is The Limited, not Limited. There were many reasons that new TLD applicant Donuts prevailed in a legal rights objection filed by fashion retailer Limited over .limited. One of those was that “The” is a big part of the The Limited brand. “The Limited” does not equal “Limited”. This topic has come up again in a UDRP that Limited Stores filed against the owner of LimitedCoupon.com. In determining if LimitedCoupon.com is confusingly similar to a ... read more ...
 
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Sina tops Tencent in conflict over Weibo tip turn domain names - Panel handles tricky case involving what many consider a generic term. In a heavyweight battle of Chinese internet stars, Sina Corporation has won two objections it lodged against Tencent for the top level domain names .微博 and .weibo. Sina and Tencent were the only applicants for .weibo and .微博, so the contention set has been settled. I’m not so sure about the outcome of these Legal Rights Objections. But my feelings echo dissenting panelist Matthew Harris, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN finally signs some-more new TLD contracts; Donuts signs a dozen - A dozen Donuts as ICANN finally starts inking more registry agreements. Since ICANN signed four new top level domain registry contracts at its meeting in Durban in mid-July, no more have been signed. Until now. Donuts is reporting that it has signed a dozen (hopefully glazed) more registry contracts with ICANN. It signed one for 游戏, Chinese for “Game”, at the Durban meeting. The contracts cover .bike, .camera, .clothing, .equipment, .estate, .guru, .holdings, ... read more ...