Monthly Archives: August 2013

Mon 12th August 2013
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USPTO considers trademarks for tip turn domain names - In the future, top level domains could be trademarked in the U.S. under limited circumstances. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking feedback on a plan to allow companies to trademark top level domains – albeit under limited circumstances. The plan would not allow companies to get trademarks on top level domain names they don’t have under contract with ICANN, nor would it allow them to trademark most generic TLDs. However, it would be a shift from the ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic skeleton IPO - Domain name registry plans to file for initial public offering. Domain name registry and backend services provider CentralNic is planning to officially announce an initial public offering tomorrow, The Telegraph reports. The company, which today is known mostly for selling third level domain names under domains such as .us.com and .uk.com, hopes to raise £5 million through the offering. It will use the funds for its top level domain name investments. It will list ... read more ...
 
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Lisa Box joins Endurance International - Box leaves Moniker:SnapNames to take role with Endurance. Lisa Box has joined Endurance International Group as Senior Director of Domains, the company announced today. Box has been in the domain name industry since 2007, when she joined Internet REIT as Vice President of Sales Marketing. She then joined Oversee.net as Senior Director of Sales. When Oversee.net sold Moniker:SnapNames to KeyDrive Group, she went along to the new company as Vice President of Business ... read more ...
 
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Scripps Networks loses second new TLD objection, this one for .diy - Scripps learns that DIY, like the word Food, is generic. Scripps Networks has lost its second legal rights objection against a top level domain name application, this time losing .diy. It previously lost an objection for .food. Scripps, which owns home improvement media company DIY Network, filed the complaint against Google. Scripps and Google are the only two applicants for the domain name. Panelist Scott Blackmer determined that the term “DIY” is generic, standing ... read more ...
 
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How would we deposit $5 million in a domain name business? - Where’s the greatest opportunity right now to invest $5 million in the domain name business? There are a lot of ways people make money in the domain name business. There are people who invest in domain names, people who own service providers (such as domain name registrars and domain marketplaces), and people investing in new top level domain names, to name a few. Here’s a hypothetical I’m curious about: if someone handed you $5 million to invest in some way ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media gains $1.2 million from new TLD “withdrawals” - Demand Media records seven figure gain from new TLD withdrawals. Demand Media recorded a gain of $1.2 million last quarter from withdrawals of its interest in new top level domain name applications. Here’s how it’s worded in the company’s 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: In the three month period ended June 30, 2013, the net gain related to the withdrawals of our interest in certain gTLD applications was $1.2 million. The company ... read more ...
 
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Former GoDaddy General Counsel to run for Arizona Governor - Jones jumps headfirst into politics with gubernatorial bid. Christine Jones, former General Counsel Corporate Secretary for GoDaddy, announced that she will run for Governor of Arizona. Jones left the company last year after a decade in high profile roles at the fast growing domain name registrar and web services firm. Having a leading role at a company that created thousands of jobs in the state will no doubt help her bid. Jones and other GoDaddy executives have ... read more ...
 
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TLDH to attend in 4 private domain auctions - Company will challenge three competitors in private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings announced today that it will participate in 4 private auctions to settle top level domain contention sets. The four auctions will resolve these contention sets: .GUIDE (versus Donuts) .CASA (versus Donuts) .网址 (“web address” in Chinese) (versus HU YI GLOBAL INFORMATION RESOURCES) .FISHING (versus United TLD/Demand Media) Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was initially opposed ... read more ...
Sat 10th August 2013
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105 New gTLD Pass ICANN: .Google; .Vegas; .Brussels; .NFL; .MLB; .Nissan; .Irish; .Jeep; .Barclays - 105 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) on Friday. A few geographic area new gTLD’s passed including .Brussels; .Osaka; .Yokohama; .Bayern Leading the way on the .Brand applications were the new gTLD applications of Google for .Google; The National Football League’s application for .NFL; Major League Baseball’s application for .MLB and .Baseball;  The car makers applications for .Mitsubishi,  .Nissan and .Jeep;  the worldwide Hotel chain .Hyatt; the .Com and .Net Registry ... read more ...
Fri 9th August 2013
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xBiz: Morality in Media Asks The Feds To Probe ICM Registry Over .XXX .Porn - According to xBiz.com, Morality in Media has  called on federal authorities to probe ICM Registry after the operator of the .XXX TLD received initial approval for the .porn gTLD. “The anti-porn group, led by Patrick Trueman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity unit, said that the establishment of a .porn domain will increase the spread of online porn.” “Trueman, who has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the registry because it may ... read more ...
 
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Recording your brands in the Trademark Clearinghouse for the new gTLD … - It is anticipated that the first new gTLDs may be delegated as early as September. While there has been slippage of the launch date in the past, it surely will happen soon. The first new gTLDs to be delegated will be the 100 or so “internationalized” gTLDs (those in non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Arabic, or Cyrillic). Once the process gets rolling, ICANN believes it can delegate as many as 20 new gTLDs per week. There are approximately 1,300 possible new gTLDs that may soon coexist with ... read more ...
 
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Hermes International Files UDRP Seeking 182 .Org Domains, Looks Like Huge Waste Of Money - Hermes International is what seems to be a huge waste of money to this author, just filed a UDRP seeking control of 182 .Org domain name all containing the word Hermes. Renewal fees of these domain name alone even at Godaddy.com rates over $1,500 a year. Not sure any of of these domain names are worth the $8 a year to register or renew not to mention the $1,500 filing fee and attorney fees involved. I see a lot better com domains dropping that are TM domains that the trademark holders don’t even ... read more ...
 
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Alexa, Amazon; Paypal, eBay Team Up To Win 14 Domain In UDRP: Kindle6.com, Kindle7.com Kindle8.com - Several companies joined forces to file a single UDRP to gain control 17 domain name. The company’s filed the UDRP were Alexa Internet, Amazon Technologies, Inc, eBay Inc., Elance, Inc. and PayPal, Inc. Most of the recovered domain name awarded by the UDRP panel were typo’s but Amazon won control of the domain name Kindle6.com, Kindle7.com Kindle8.com Here is the complete list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Makers Of Hottest Game; Candy Crush Files 1st UDRP & Purchased CandyCrush.com For Less Than $2K - The makers of what appears to be the hottest game in the country, Candy Crush has filed its first UDRP. King.com Limited Midasplayer.com Ltd. filed a UDRP against the domain name CandyCrushSecrets.com The domain name CandyCrushSecrets.com was registered in February 19th of this year by someone in Malaysia. The domain CandyCrush.com was first registered in April 2012, and  was purchased in February of this year for a whopping $1,877 at Afternic. The domain name CandyCrush.com is being forwarded to ... read more ...
 
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Trade mark owner wins right to block proposed new ‘top-level’ domain – Out - Del Monte International (DMI) had applied to register '.delmonte' as a new gTLD under an expanded system of domains being set up by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body that oversees the identification of websites. However, Del Monte Corporation (DMC) challenged DMI's right to do so and asserted its right to the 'del monte' trade mark it owns for a range of fresh and canned food. A panel at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation ... read more ...
 
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Consuela, LLC Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Consuela, LLC  of Austin Texas, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in its attempted grab of the domain name Consuela.com Consuela, LLC site is:  consuelastyle.com Consuela, LLC was  represented by Erik Paul Belt of McCarter English, LLP, of Massachusetts The domain holder Alberta Hot Rods (“Respondent”), represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com As for the case’s fact pretty typical, company registers domain years before trademark holder, then trademark holder ... 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 a good time ... read more ...
 
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Gastkommentar: Trademark Clearinghouse - Parallel zu den Vorbereitungen für das Programm zur Einführung der neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) will die dafür zuständige Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gleichzeitig die Rechte von Markeninhabern schützen. gTLD sind jene neuen Domain-Endungen, die zusätzlich zu den bereits etablierten TLD wie .com, .net und .org auf den Internetmarkt kommen (etwa music., blog, .web, .shop .hotel. etc). Bei ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media successfully defends Motorola plea for .moto - Google subsidiary loses legal rights objection over .moto. Motorola, now part of Google, has lost its legal rights objection against Demand Media subsidiary United TLD over the .moto top level domain. United TLD plans to offer the domain names for motorcycle enthusiasts, while Motorola uses it as a brand for mobile devices. Motorola also applied for .moto through Google subsidiary Charleston Road Registry. Amusingly, Motorola tried to paint United TLD in a bad light ... read more ...
 
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A .pro domain name speckled in use in Austin - Audio visual company uses .pro to promote its business. Fellow Austinite and domain name investor Ramiro Canales must have done a double take when he was driving in traffic the other day. He sent me this photo: Yes, that is a .pro domain name on the back of the van. It’s ConceptElectronics.pro, which is used by a home automation and audio visual company. At the time the company registered the domain the matching .com, .net, and .org domains were registered. Given ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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Search by keyword - You might have seen some articles recently about developments in the general top-level domain (gTLD) space (we previously posted about ICANN’s new gTLD program here and here). Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Panel handed down its decision in response to a Legal Rights Objection, which will allow Telstra Corporation Limited (Telstra) to operate the gTLD .yellowpages. We acted for Telstra. Background All internet users are now accustomed to seeing a range of existing ... read more ...
 
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Tucows: Sold .Marketing & .Media New gTLD Applications For “A Substantial Sum” - In its earnings call today Tucows.com (TCX)  said that they sold two of their new gTLD applications for a “Substantial Sum” that will be reflected in its  YummyNames.com subsidiary revenue in the third quarter of 2013. Tucows.com which was one of the applicants for .Media and .Marketing but withdrew their application for both, and combined with Unregistry’s withdrawn for the same two strings, it left Donuts as the sole applicant for .Media and .Marketing. It has been previously reported ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate … - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s New Letter To NTIA On New gTLD’s: Its Important to Differentiate Between “Ability” and “Advisability.” - In a letter send by Verisign today to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce; Verisign made it clear it is ready, willing and able to delegate up to 20 new gTLD’s to the root upon request of the NTIA but it also  made clear that it doesn’t advise that the 1,000 new gTLD strings a year get delegated to the root saying: “The introduction of delegations of new gTLDs into the root zone, it is important to differentiate between “ability” ... read more ...
 
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3 More .Brand New gTLD’s are Withdrawn: Now 108 Pulled - Three more .Brand new gTLD application have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. Microsoft withdrew it applications for .Skydrive which had a prioritization number of 386. Microsoft described the application for .Skydrive as follows: “The SkyDrive® hosting service allows users, at no charge, to store files and to access their personal files from any computer with an internet connection. SkyDrive users can share photos and files or collaborate on documents with contacts Over 100 million people ... read more ...