Monthly Archives: August 2013

Wed 7th August 2013
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Die neuen Top Level Domains stehen vor der Tür – domaindiscount24 zeigt … - Mit einem animierten Clip stellt domaindiscount24 Internet-Nutzern die Chancen der neuen Endungen für Webadressen wie .berlin, .shoes, .shop oder .rodeo vor. Im Video zeigen Ben und Mia ganz praktisch, wofür sie die neuen Top Level Domains (TLDs) im Berufsleben und in ihrer Freizeit nutzen. Bereits im Herbst werden die ersten internationalen TLDs wie die arabische Schreibweise für .netz verfügbar. Erfahren Sie mehr über die neuen TLDs und sehen Sie selbst, welche neuen Möglichkeiten sie bieten. ... read more ...
 
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Retailers Fail To Derail ICANN’s ‘Express’ Train To More Top-Level Domains - There's no denying it: The Internet domain name system poses serious challenges for trademark owners. Domain name cybersquatting was the original trademark Internet twist. And the current explosive expansion in top-level domains will create new trademark conflicts, and possibly new twists in Internet trademark law, as two very recent cases involving the retailers Express and The Limited illustrate. Before diving into these recent decisions, let's quickly review top-level domains. They are the highest ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM … - ICANN has opened the comment period for  “Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements” The operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims processes in new gTLDs, and a set of community-proposed revisions, are being posted for comment to give an opportunity for the community to review and provide feedback on these requirements. This revised version of the RPM Requirements reflects updates based on community consultations, and a set of proposals ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements - ICANN has opened the comment period for  “Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements” The operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims processes in new gTLDs, and a set of community-proposed revisions, are being posted for comment to give an opportunity for the community to review and provide feedback on these requirements. This revised version of the RPM Requirements reflects updates based on community consultations, and a set of proposals from ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Up Over 20% to New 52 Week High - After reporting earnings last night Marchex (MCHX) is up just over 20% in trading today to a 52 week high of $7.30 a share. Marchex has now more than doubled off its 52 week low of $3.06 a share. At $7 a share the company has a Market Cap of $270 Million dollars. At its lows of the year, Marchex was trading at or below the acquisition cost of Yun Yee’s Portfolio. The company received an upgrade to outperform by RBC this morning helping the stock. Marchex is looking to spin off its Domaining business, ... read more ...
 
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AOL Buys Adap.tv For $405 Million -   We have agreed to acquire Adap.tv for $405 MM, here is what Adap.tv brings AOL:   The only complete global programmatic video stack for publishers and advertisers across all screens; A unified yield management platform for advertisers and publishers for planning, targeting, ad-serving and measurement; One of the fastest growing platforms on the internet, with global revenue growth in excess of 100% per year in each of the last three years; Wide adoption by the largest global advertisers and publishers, ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Details Spin Off Archeo Business: Buying & Selling & Developing Domains; 200,000 Of Them - The Marchex earnings call yesterday reveal some interesting facts about Archeo the business that Marchex is looking to spin off to a separate public company later this year. It appears Archeo is set to become the first publicly traded company whose only business is one of  being a domainer: “I’d like to highlight that we’re narrowing Archeo’s focus on the buying and selling of domains, along with the select development of proprietary websites.” Pretty much how I would describe a domainer. As ... read more ...
 
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Die neuen Top Level Domains stehen vor der Tür – domaindiscount24 zeigt … - St. Ingbert (ots) – Mit einem animierten Clip stellt domaindiscount24 Internet-Nutzern die Chancen der neuen Endungen für Webadressen wie .berlin, .shoes, .shop oder .rodeo vor. Im Video zeigen Ben und Mia ganz praktisch, wofür sie die neuen Top Level Domains (TLDs) im Berufsleben und in ihrer Freizeit nutzen. Bereits im Herbst werden die ersten internationalen TLDs wie die arabische Schreibweise für .netz verfügbar. Erfahren Sie mehr über die neuen TLDs und sehen Sie selbst, welche neuen ... read more ...
 
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.horse is here and the internet will never be the same - Soon the internet will be awash with nearly 2,000 new top-level domains (TLDs), those short suffixes at the end of a web address — like the ubiquitous .com — that indicate the kind of site it's pointing to. The influx is the result of the new land grab for a corner of the web's millions of URLs, whether that's sites that end with .book, .catholic, or .horse. But it wasn't so long ago there were fewer than 10 TLDs, says Craig Partridge, one of the young scientists who helped decide how ... read more ...
 
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Publication of the Dotless Domain Name Study – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - ICANN announced the publication of the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-053-en.pdf) [PDF, 1.02 MB] by IT Security firm, Carve Systems LLC (Carve Systems). According to ICANN, the Dotless domain names are those that consist of a single label (e.g., http://example, or mail@example). Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS (i.e., ... read more ...
 
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Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions – ICANN – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - As directed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors on May 18, 2013, ICANN commissioned and released on August 5, 2013 the results of a study that considers the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. According to ICANN, the study also reviewed the possibility of collisions arising from the use of X.509 digital certificates. In a study published in January 2013, ICANN's ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD SSR-2: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis (Part 5 of 5) - Throughout this series of blog posts we've discussed a number of issues related to security, stability, and resilience of the DNS ecosystem, particularly as we approach the rollout of new gTLDs. Additionally, we highlighted a number of issues that we believe are outstanding and need to be resolved before the safe introduction of new gTLDs can occur — and we tried to provide some context as to why, all the while continuously highlighting that nearly all of these unresolved recommendations came ... read more ...
 
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The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs - ICANN continues to flail, pointlessly. The latest in a series of missteps that could easily have been avoided is its recommendations on what to do about a report on the potential for confusion and misaddressing when someone's internal network names match the name for a new gTLD, and they have misconfigured their routers and/or DNS to the extent that someone typing in a new gTLD name might end up in the middle of someone else's network. You'd think that if someone misconfigured their machinery ... read more ...
 
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The Trademark Clearinghouse: Safeguard Your Trademark Online - The imminent launch of the new gTLD (generic top level domain) program will greatly expand current availability of domain names, offering brands and businesses more choices for promoting themselves online. In the coming years, an unlimited number of new second level domains will become available, often on a first-come, first-served basis. The first batch of new gTLDs will include nearly 1,400 new top-level domains including .computer, .insurance, .nyc, .sucks, and others. This program raises ... read more ...
 
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Verisign gets obvious for self-existent domain trade analysis - Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is titled “Traffic like NXDomains”. I wrote about this patent last year when it was published. Here’s the patent abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic related to domain names, including Non-Existent ... read more ...
 
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9 things we schooled from using a competition on 99Designs - These tips will help you if you do a logo design contest on 99Designs. A new logo was part of the Domain Name Wire redesign released last month. I designed the original logo myself back in 2005, and only had it refreshed a few years later by a designer. To refresh your memory, here’s what it looked like: I looked into a number of logo design services and ultimately decided I’d try crowd sourced design service 99Designs.com. I was familiar with the company, as ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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Verisign Publishes “New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update: Exploratory … - Consider what might happen if overnight, some networked systems inside a healthcare provider in Japan began to suffer undiagnosed system failures. Would it be a concern if some installations of banking software in the islands of the Caribbean became non-responsive?  Perhaps pause would be warranted when embarking on a visit to a developing nation, and discovering that the hotels in the region have suffered outages of their reservation systems. What if a rash of major enterprises around the world ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes “New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis” - Consider what might happen if overnight, some networked systems inside a healthcare provider in Japan began to suffer undiagnosed system failures. Would it be a concern if some installations of banking software in the islands of the Caribbean became non-responsive?  Perhaps pause would be warranted when embarking on a visit to a developing nation, and discovering that the hotels in the region have suffered outages of their reservation systems. What if a rash of major enterprises around the world ... read more ...
 
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Hungary: no need to cancel a defendant’s trade mark to commence infringement … - With decisions of July 30 and July 31, 2013 in case LRO2013-0068 and LRO2013-0069, the Panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center rejected the Legal Rights Objection filed against the applied-for gTLD strings .merck and .emerck by Merck KGaA (Germany) on the basis that these do not infringe the trade mark rights of complainant Merck Co, Inc. (US). In this note both cases, which are virtually identical as to facts and motivation, will be discussed together. Merck KGaA and Merck Co., Inc. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.3MM In Domains Led By MicroBusiness.com For $10K - Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the period of 7/29/13 – 8/4/13. Domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,294,035. The highest sale was MicroBusiness.com which sold for $10,165 followed by Fab.us for $8,995. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Marchex’s Archeo Sells 70 Domains For $1.3 Million & Spinoff Is Set For 4th Q - Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), a leader in mobile performance advertising, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.   Q2 2013 Financial Highlights:   Revenue was $39.0 million for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $34.0 million for the same period in 2012.  to $4.6 million for the same period in 2012.   Marchex Q2 and Recent Call-Driven Business Highlights:   Revenue. Call-driven and other related revenue was $33.9 million for the second quarter of 2013 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total Over $1MM Led By WaterTreatment.com For $30K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/29/13 – 08/04/13 totaling over $1MM. The highest priced transaction was watertreatment.com at $30,000 followed by hometests.com at $22,000. Over the past week, 663 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1MM. This amounts to $41.2MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: watertreatment.com ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Names New CFO - Donuts Inc., the domain name registration firm targeting the new global top level domain (gTLD) market which has major operations in Los Angeles, has appointed a new CFO, the company said Tuesday. The firm announced that it has named Jeff deCillia as its Chief Financial Officer, located in the company's Bellevue, Washington office. Kevin Wilson, the company's former CFO, has become VP of Finance. deCillia was most recently CFO of INRIX, and also served as CFO of PivotLink, Captaris (acquired by ... read more ...
 
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Retailers fail to derail ICANN’s ‘express’ train to more top-level domains - There’s no denying it: The Internet domain name system poses serious challenges for trademark owners. Domain name cybersquatting was the original trademark Internet twist. And the current explosive expansion in top-level domains will create new trademark conflicts, and possibly new twists in Internet trademark law, as two very recent cases involving the retailers Express and The Limited illustrate. Before diving into these recent decisions, let’s quickly review top-level domains. They are ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: WIPO Upholds 1st Legal Rights Objection On .Delmonte - The Panel majority would also query whether it is possible that, regardless of who the prior registrant was, the Respondent sought to have these registrations assigned to it to bolster an eventual gTLD application for the .delmonte gTLD string. 7. Whether and to what extent the Respondent has been commonly known by the sign corresponding to the gTLD, and if so, whether any purported or likely use of the gTLD by the Respondent is consistent therewith and bona fide. The evidence shows that the Respondent, ... read more ...