Monthly Archives: August 2013

Tue 13th August 2013
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TechCrunch Covers Launch Of Pop.co Brought To You By The Founders of .Co - TechCrunch.com, just covered the launch of Juan Calle latest venture Pop.co “Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services” “You just pick the .co address that you’re interested in (assuming it’s available, and if it’s not, Pop.co will suggest alternatives), then the company automatically claims it for you, and you can either use Pop.co’s simple web page editor to create the page with just a little bit of typing, or use its simple DNS editor to point the website to a page you’ve ... read more ...
 
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USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a … - Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will have to have a contract with ICANN to operate a new gTLD registry before you apply for a trademark for the gTLD: “The applicant must show that: (i) it has entered into a currently valid agreement with ICANN (a “Registry Agreement”) designating the applicant as the entity responsible for operation of the registry, i.e., maintaining ... read more ...
 
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USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a Trademark For A New gTLD - Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will have to have a contract with ICANN to operate a new gTLD registry before you apply for a trademark for the gTLD: “The applicant must show that: (i) it has entered into a currently valid agreement with ICANN (a “Registry Agreement”) designating the applicant as the entity responsible for operation of the registry, i.e., maintaining the ... read more ...
 
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Tradeshow association sues Citigroup over domain name - Company that lost UDRP seeks to block transfer and claims reverse domain name hijacking. Tradeshow exhibit company Creative CitiGroup Inc. has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against banking giant Citigroup in an effort to keep its domain name CreativeCitigroup.com. Creative CitiGroup says it has been in business since 2008 and registered the domain name back then. In June 2012, Citigroup filed a UDRP against the domain name. Creative CitiGroup didn’t respond to the UDRP ... read more ...
 
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This is dirty: HelpScout.net owners files lawsuit opposite HelpScout.com - Company formed in 2011 claims domain names registered in 2009 infringe its trademark. Brightwurks, Inc., which owns support service Help Scout, has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against the domain names HelpScout.com and Help-Scout.com. Here’s what happened: In 2009, Andy Eder of Germany registered the domain names. In 2010, the plaintiff registered the domain name HelpScout.net and started building a business on it. He obviously chose the .net because the .com ... read more ...
 
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.Secure applicant files heading focus for SAFETLD - Artemis files application for SAFETLD mark for its .secure top level domain. Artemis Internet, part of NCC Group plc, has filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “SAFETLD”, most likely tied to its .secure TLD bid. The company is one of two applicants for the .secure top level domain. It faces Amazon.com in the contention set. The trademark application (pdf) identifies the services as: Business services, namely, formulation ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Q2 marketplace investigate and where a tip 10 sole domains are now - Sedo releases market data from second quarter plus a few new end user sales revealed. Sedo released its second quarter market study today in a new infographic format. The data show that sales volume and dollar volume were down slightly from the first quarter. The company sold 9,589 domains in the quarter. Total sales for Q2 were $17.5 million, down from $17.9 million in Q1. April was the strongest month with $6.8 million in sales. The infographic reports the median ... read more ...
 
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First 12 New TLD fibre difficulty objections denied - ICDR panels deny first 12 string confusion objections. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has issued its first 12 decisions regarding string confusion objections for new top level domain names. All 12 objections were denied. The denied objections were: Universal Postal Union vs. Deutsche Post AG for .epost The UPU operates the .post top level domain name. Verisign vs. Google for .new Verisign vs. NEC for .NEC Verisign vs. Donuts for .Vet Verisign vs. ... read more ...
 
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Test pushing .co’s new Pop.co - New TLD hopefuls should take a look at Pop.co. .Co continues to innovate around how people register domain names and get online. Yesterday it launched a new company, Pop.co, to make the process of getting your domain and a basic web presence insanely easy. The idea is summed up quite nicely at Pop.co: It’s as easy as they suggest. First, you select a .co domain name to use. For my test, I chose TestingPop.co. Then you enter your name and mobile phone number. After ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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USPTO Opens Up Comment Period On Examation Guide For New gTLD’s … - The USPTO has just opened up a comment period for an Examination Guide on trademark applications for new gTLD’s. The comment period closes on September 8th 2013 The examination guide is called “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” and the USPTO is looking for “constructive input on examination guides before they are finalized, a draft version of an examination guide on marks comprised of gTLDs is being made available now for comment”. The ... read more ...
 
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USPTO Opens Up Comment Period On Examation Guide For New gTLD’s Trademarks - The USPTO has just opened up a comment period for an Examination Guide on trademark applications for new gTLD’s. The comment period closes on September 8th 2013 The examination guide is called “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” and the USPTO is looking for “constructive input on examination guides before they are finalized, a draft version of an examination guide on marks comprised of gTLDs is being made available now for comment”. The ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Planning Sep IPO On London Stock Exchange With a Valuation of More Than £30m - According to telegraph.co.uk,  CentralNic will announce its intention to go public on the London Stock Exchange tomorrow. CentralNic is the backend provider for “at least 25 new gTLD’s  including .college and .wiki as well as addresses on a portfolio of 24 website endings including .uk.com and .us.com and .La. CentralNic, plans to raise £5m in an initial public offering that would value it at more than £30m. According to the story, CentralNic plans to use the funds it raises from its ... read more ...
 
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Reserva gratis los nuevos dominios como .app, .online, .shop … - 11 Internet España ha lanzado un portal que ofrece la posibilidad de realizar reservas gratis sin compromiso para la última generación de direcciones de Internet: los nuevos TLD. La nueva ola de dominios dispondrá de nuevas y atractivas extensiones tales como .online, .shop, .madrid, .bar, .futbol, .abogado o .web. El portal de 11 ofrece información sobre el registro de estos dominios, así como numerosos consejos y noticias. Los nuevos dominios van a desempeñar un papel importante a la hora ... read more ...
 
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BulletproofVest.com Acquired By End user For $7,500 - PriveCo Inc. a company that makes Bullet Proof Vest a product called Bullsafe announced today that they have acquired the domain name  BulletproofVest.com “for $7,500 from a domain name investor”. What a bargain. According to the press release “PriveCo has purchased premium domain names for up to $1,000,000″ in the past. “PriveCo has run internet web stores since 1998, and understands the importance of simple, recognizable, and easily-searchable domain names. The acquisition of BulletProofVest.com ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Loses Legal Rights Objection To Google’s new gTLD App For .DIY - A WIPO panel has rejected Scripps Networks Legal Rights Objection to Google’s New gTLD application of .diy Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The Objector holds United States Registration No. 2457989 (registered June 5, 2001) for DIY. The mark is registered in International Class 042 as a standard-character service mark for “providing a website of information about television programming; news and weather; gardening and landscaping; crafts and hobbies; sewing and quilting; ... read more ...
 
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Lisa Box Formerly Of Moniker Becomes Senior Director of Domains For Endurance (Domain.com) - Endurance International Group announced today that  Lisa Box formerly of Moniker, SnapNames, a member of the KeyDrive Group, has become the Senior Director of Domains. Endurance owns a bunch of domain name registrars including Domain.com and Dotster.com and a bunch of hosting companies including; Bluehost, HostGator, FatCow, iPower, Homestead and iPage. “Lisa will help us incorporate generic top-level domains (gTLDs) into our domain name services” according to the press release we received ... read more ...
 
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Domain-name.revolution? Generic top-level domains and intellectual property - 9 August 2013 By Deborah RiderIn 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the professional body for domain name registration — launched the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme to permit the introduction of new top-level domains on the internet. The move, which has attracted much publicity, will allow web addresses to end in a ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Loses Legal Rights Objection To Google’s new gTLD App For .DIY - A WIPO panel has rejected Scripps Networks Legal Rights Objection to Google’s New gTLD application of .diy Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The Objector holds United States Registration No. 2457989 (registered June 5, 2001) for DIY. The mark is registered in International Class 042 as a standard-character service mark for “providing a website of information about television programming; news and weather; gardening and landscaping; crafts and hobbies; sewing and quilting; ... read more ...
 
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A Look at Closed vs. Open New gTLDs - The essay analyzes some of the strengths and weaknesses of closed and open new gTLDs. The success of the gTLD to a large degree rests on the successful design and implementation of an effective digital business model. A closed gTLD is one whose owner uses it for exclusive content — for example, the use of .book exclusively for Amazon books. Conversely, if Amazon opens up .book, other book sellers and libraries would be able to set up sub-domains, sites where they controlled content. ICANN ... read more ...
 
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13 Year Old Purchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchase.com Dropping - Since publishing thedomains.com for what will soon be our 6th anniversary we have published posts about some very strange old domain names as they drop. Add Purchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchasepurchase.com to that list of domains. Originally registered in 2000, someone has been paying the renewal fees on this one for 13 years. Its the word purchase repeated 7 times. If your wondering, the .com with the word purchase repeated 6 times is available for registration as is the .com domain ... read more ...
 
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Onions.com After Selling At NameJet A 4 Days Ago For $19K Put Up For Sale For $90K - The domain name Onions.com sold on Namejet.com last week for $19,100. There were 289 bidders in the domain auction of those only 4 bid $10,000 or more. The domain was highly promoted by NameJet.com. Today the Onions.com is up for sale in  at TobyClements.com and in his daily newsletter. I’m certainly not against someone trying to flip the domain name in a week for a 70K profit but I would think a substantial number of people who receive the daily news letter also knew about the NameJet.com auction. It ... read more ...
 
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Sedo .Eu Domain Auction Ends Thursday 13.Eu Highest Bidded Domain - Sedo.com is holding a domain name auction of some good .EU domain names which ends at Thursday Noon EST. There are 71 domain names in the auction and of publication all domains are led by 13.Eu which has a high bid of 454 Euro’s with 18 bids. Other domains with bids include privatversicherung.eu; (private school) seoservices.eu; and flitterwochen.eu (Honeymoon) The domains in auction have a reserve range of 100-499 Euro’s and include some NNN.eu Domain names like 345.eu and 737.eu and have LLL.Eu ... read more ...
 
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EMCORE CORPORATION : EMCORE Launches MUXed North Finder/Tracker … – 4 - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 12, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optics and space solar power markets, announced today the launch of the Multiplexed (MUXed) North Finder/Tracker Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) designed for the next generation of Precision Azimuth Vertical Angle Modules (PAVAMs) used in man-portable and tripod target locator systems. The EMCORE MUXed North Finder/Tracker ... read more ...
 
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Next Round Of New gTLD Private Auctions Take Place This Week TLDH Is in 4 Of Them -   The 2nd round of the private new gTLD auctions to resolve contention being run by Applicant Auction takes place this week starting Tuesday and a second participant has stepped forward to publicly say they are participating. Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is participating in private auctions for .GUIDE, .CASA, .网址 (which means web address in Chinese) and .FISHING. Donuts the largest applicant for new gTLD announced a few weeks ago that they were committing 68 new gTLD’s that they applied ... read more ...
 
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Protect your brands in the new domain name regime: the Trademark … - New generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) such as .fun, .law, and .money have been in the works for a very long time, and the first batch may be just around the corner.  ICANN recently published a “hypothetical” timeline that pins the first top-level domain delegation date (the date the gTLD becomes active) as September 5, 2013.  Whether this date is ICANN’s wishful thinking or not, the new gTLDs are coming, and maybe as early as this fall.  With the first delegations in sight, this is ... read more ...