Monthly Archives: August 2013

Tue 6th August 2013
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ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings - ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed  and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months as additional studies are conducted. “ICANN commissioned and today releases 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. ICANN contracted with Interisle ... read more ...
 
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Further gTLD delays proposed as ‘risk to internet’ revealed - Responding to research that highlights the risk of collision between applied-for gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs, ICANN has proposed mitigation measures for the different risk profiles applications fall into. The result? Uncertainty, additional work and potential delays for applicants. Yesterday ICANN released the results of a study considering the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs (in internal naming systems), ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516 - Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for over $1,500. The domain name not surprisingly has has a traffic ranking from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast. The current parked page has some 40 links and all 40 links go to a Facebook related term (screenshot above) Facebook has a history of filing UDRP’s on domain names that are typo’s of Facebook.com. Facebook filed a UDRP over seeking ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer -   Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. deCillia, who brings more than 20 years of financial leadership and public markets experience, will be based in the company’s Bellevue, Wash. office and will report directly to Donuts CEO and co-founder Paul Stahura. Kevin Wilson, the company’s founding CFO and a longtime domain name industry executive, was heavily involved in the selection ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Reports $366K in Domain Sales In July - Namejet.com has released its top sales for July 2013 for domains selling for $2,000 or more. All domains sales were led by Meifa.com which sold for $25,655 and MUI.com which was right behind at $24,999 In all only 69 domain names sold for $2k or more. Here is the list interesting to see two single letter domains sold for $2,000.  I had none of these selling with bids as high as $5,000. <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ThePrive.com Files UDRP On The Generic Prive.com -   The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com Prive is a french word that mean private in English. Armani has a line of clothing name Prive There is a hair salon in Miami name Prive There is a sexy nightclub in South Beach name Prive. According to their website, like Armani, Fortrend is in the clothing business.  Here is how the company describes itself from their site: “Fortrend Group LLC ... read more ...
 
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The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach Starting In 2014 - The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in “2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will see in October. So we decided to move T.R.A.F.F.I.C. a little south in 2014 to the WORLD FAMOUS Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach“. “So with the Fountainbleu in the East and The Bellagio in the West, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is setting the stage for great expansion that is coming to the Domain Industry. We simply provide a common intersection, a ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Move aside .com - In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD’s asking whether .com’s go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually “the party line” (which many of the readers never heard of) “It’s funny, thinking about dot-com,” says Ben Zimmer. Zimmer is a linguist — he’s the executive producer of vocabulary.com — and he thinks a lot about the context and meaning of words. “Even though it still gets used, it’s most often ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report & Recommends More Studies - ICANN released the  Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (pdf) tonight which was prepared by Carve Systems. Dotless Domains are a big topic of conversation ever since Google announced it wanted to operate the new gTLD .search as a “Dotless Domain” The bottom line of the report is that technically Dotless domains are possible, but there are some issues which require additional study.  As for User confusion “it seems inappropriate to simply dismiss the option to foster awareness ... read more ...
 
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After unconditional it underneath a rug, Name Collisions come behind to haunt new TLD program - Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to “name collisions”. It not only delays much of the program (as some have argued is Verisign’s goal in raising concerns), but also shows that Verisign isn’t crazy for raising its concerns. (Name collisions have been discussed ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte v. Del Monte: initial new TLD conflict to be upheld - Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .delmonte. Now that we have the details, it’s not surprising that this was a close case. Del Monte International GmbH is a licensee of Del Monte Corporation’s trademarks for Del Monte. Yet the former applied for .delmonte, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy’s sales and Nokta’s sales and leases from July - Domain name companies release sales information. GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,601 in July, according to the company’s Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report. The top sale, which I’ve written about previously, was body.com for $380,000. Here are the company’s other top sales from last month: flight.ca $110,700 bought by Farematrix, which provides services to travel agents hjx.com $29,000 – domain was with Afternic yec.com $20,005 realgaming.com $20,000 diamondlife.com $14,971 kh.org $14,500 ... read more ...
 
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What a heck is a “premium domain”? - A domain that would qualify as premium in .com may not be premium under different extensions. Just like grade inflation, the quality of what people are labeling a “premium domain” has been slipping in recent years. That’s because anyone can call their domains premium. This has resulted in a rush to the bottom with terms like “ultra premium”, “super premium”, and “platinum super duper premium magic” domains. With new top level domains on the horizon, ... read more ...
Mon 5th August 2013
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First .Now Legal Rights Objection Rejected By WIPO - Another day another losing Legal Rights Objection (LRO) but the first case to be decided on the new gTLD .Now The Objector/Complainant Starbucks (HK) Limited of Hong Kong, China, lost the first of five objections it filed against all other applicants for .Now This case involved the applicant One.com A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark “In the Panel’s view “existing legal rights” means rights that exist at the time that the application for the gTLD under objection is filed. In this case that means ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rejects Attempt To Grab SM.Net - The complaint was brought by Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM, against the domain holder M.A. Stenzel. The one member UDRP panel rejected complainant contention that they had trademark rights to the term “SM” “The Complainant holds numerous trademarks consisting in part of the letters “sm”. In particular, it holds US (n° 3702735) and Mexican (n° 933780) semi-figurative trademarks composed in part of the letters “sm”, as well as Mexican and Italian word trademarks consisting of ... read more ...
 
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Walmart, Sony, CBS, Microsoft, Google, Disney Still Allowing TM Drop Domains To Be Grabbed By Others - As we have chatted about before, some of the biggest companies in the world which are quick to file a UDRP with filing fees at $1,500 a pop are allowing dropping domains to be registered by third parties rather than spending $10 to register the domains themselves. Most of the domains wind up parked or going to a registrar placeholder. These are not typo domain names. They are pretty bang on domain names for these companies products or the company itself. All are .com’s All are trademarked terms. The ... read more ...
 
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Veterinarians.com Sold as Felix Upgrades Its Domain LocalVets.com - It appears the domain name Veterinarians.com has been sold to Felix, a leading local advertising company, which announced today that is has launched Veterinarians.com as “the directory of choice for connecting consumers with veterinary hospitals to schedule an appointment”. Felix previously used the domain LocalVets.com, as the domain for the directory which  “drives over 6,000 phone calls a day from consumers looking to schedule an appointment for their pet.” “The new Veterinarians.com ... read more ...
 
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Feu vert pour .vlaanderen - New gTLDs DNS Belgium a reçu l’autorisation de déployer l’extension internet .vlaanderen. Le gestionnaire belge des noms de domaine DNS Belgium a reçu le résultat de ce qu’on appelle l’‘Initial Evaluation’ de la part de l’Icann, l’autorité internationale dans le domaine de la gestion des noms de domaine. L’obtention de cette Initial Evaluation est une première étape essentielle dans la création de la nouvelle extension. En mars 2012, DNS Belgium s’était vu attribuer ... read more ...
 
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Feu vert pour .vlaanderen - New gTLDs DNS Belgium a reçu l’autorisation de déployer l’extension internet .vlaanderen. Le gestionnaire belge des noms de domaine DNS Belgium a reçu le résultat de ce qu’on appelle l’‘Initial Evaluation’ de la part de l’Icann, l’autorité internationale dans le domaine de la gestion des noms de domaine. L’obtention de cette Initial Evaluation est une première étape essentielle dans la création de la nouvelle extension. En mars 2012, DNS Belgium s’était vu attribuer ... read more ...
 
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This is funny: SM.net UDRP claims domain couldn’t be associated to porn - A rather curious argument in a UDRP for SM.net. Spanish education publishing company Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of SM.net. Although the company’s trademarks include the term “SM”, it only makes up part of its marks. Thus, the panel ruled that the domain name was not confusingly similar to a mark in which the complainant had rights. Nothing earth shattering here. But this is what I found amusing. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Now.com owners Starbucks (HK) Limited loses brawl over .now - Company that owns now.com loses the first of many objections it filed over the .now top level domain. IPTV company Starbucks (HK) Limited has lost its legal rights objection against One.com A/S’ application for the .now top level domain name. Starbucks, which is not affiliated with the coffee chain, owns the second level domain name Now. It’s also a rival applicant for .now and filed legal rights objections against all five competing applicants. The fact that ... read more ...
 
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Afilias forecasts 5,000 to 50,000 domains for the new TLDs after 3 years - Company forecasts only 4 of its new TLD strings having over 50,000 DUM after three years. For the most part, new top level domain applicants have remained quiet about their registration projections. There’s a good reason for this, especially if they’re in a contention set with other applicants. If competitors know how many domains they expect to register, they can back into how much the other company might pay in an auction. But Afilias is an exception to this ... read more ...
 
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Interesting: Network Solutions’ invisible pricing - Finding Network Solutions’ pricing takes a lot of commitment. Web.com customers who use Network Solutions or Register.com are not very price sensitive (or price knowledgeable). That’s how the companies are able to charge roughly $35 for a one year registration instead of the $10-$15 that most registrars charge. But I noticed something the other day about its pricing strategy/order flow that is rather interesting. I was trying to figure out how much Network Solutions ... read more ...
Sun 4th August 2013
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If Google Wants To UDRP This Domain, They Will Have To Name Bill Gates - The domain name Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com has a most interesting whois record. The domain which was registered back in 2005  expired in December 2012. The domain name was re-registered fresh on July 9th, 2013 and look at who the whois is showing as the owner: Registrant: BILL GATES 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, California 94043 United States Administrative Contact: GATES, BILL heky66+godaddy@gmail.com 1600 Amphitheatre ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Awards Bodvbuildinq.com To BodyBuilding.com Finding Common Law TM Right - A one member UDRP panel awarded Bodybuilding.com, LLC the domain name bodvbuildinq.com The interesting part of the case is that the panel found that Bodybuilding.com by virtue of the domain registration itself combined with the use of the domain over the 14 years, amount of traffic it received and the general success of the site,  gave rise to common law trademark rights which the panel then found the domain bodvbuildinq.com was infringing on. The domain was parked Here is what the one member panel ... read more ...