Monthly Archives: August 2013

Sun 4th August 2013
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After Winning A UDRP On GED.net, GED Testing Service LLC Files UDRP On GED.Org -   American Council on Education (“ACE”) GED Testing Service LLC (“GEDTS”) which won a UDRP on the domain name GED.net back in February has now filed a UDRP on GED.org The domain name GED.org is parked and pull a page full of links about the GED test and other links related to the GED test. The domain appears to have been registered in 2008. We will keep our eye on this one and let you know how it turns out In the February decision on the GED.net, the panel found “that Respondent lacks ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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UPDATE 2: Its Time To Name Names: We Call Out Dead Beat Buyers, Game Players, Mind Changers - Dead Beat Buyers, I hate them. From those agreeing in an email to buy a domain for a set price then to just refuse to follow through, to those that actually set up a Escrow.com transaction to buy a domain name even agree to the transaction, but never fund it,  to those that agree to buy a domain for a price only to come back sometime later with an offer to still buy the domain but at a lower price than they agreed to originally. All you have in business is your word, so if you agree to buy something ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million … - Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy  The Boston Globe.  The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in 1993. The Company as I mentioned is also the owner (although not being reported in the mainstream press) ... read more ...
 
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Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million To Owner of Red Sox - Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy  The Boston Globe.  The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in 1993. The Company as I mentioned is also the owner (although not being reported in the mainstream press) ... read more ...
 
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2013 TRAFFIC Award Nominees Announced - In an email tonight from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference annouunced  the nominees for the 2013 TRAFFIC Awards. Congrats to all Nominees!!! “Below are YOUR nominees for the 10th Annual 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards.” “Official voting ballots will be mailed to you later this month and awards will be presented on Tuesday October 22nd at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.” “Congratulations and good luck to all nominees!!”   BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION Nominees are: InternetTraffic.com/DomainNameSales.com YTZ ... read more ...
 
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Tucows and Donuts strike understanding on .media and .marketing - Donuts paid Tucows to walk away from two new top level domain bids. Donuts negotiated a deal with rival applicant Tucows for the strings .marketing and .media, which is why the latter withdrew its applications for the two domains last month. While neither party disclosed the terms of the deal, a video released by Tucows shows that Donuts paid Tucows to withdraw its applications. Because Tucows is a public company, we will likely get more details when it releases earnings ... read more ...
 
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NTIA dissapoint with Verisign, final that it endorse it will routine new TLD delegations - NTIA questions Verisign’s recent spate of concerns about new TLD rollout. ICANN has published a letter that Verisign sent to the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) regarding Verisign’s security and stability concerns for new top level domains as well as the NTIA’s response. The response shows that the NTIA doesn’t want Verisign playing any games. Verisign’s letter was sent May 31 and the NTIA’s response has an August 2 ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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ICM’s .Porn gTLD Passes ICANN’s Initial Evaluation - MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — ICM Registry received approval from ICANN this morning to move forward with plans to create a .porn generic top-level domain. ICANN's decision to grant initial approval is a strategic victory for the .xxx operator, which last month also received the green light on another gTLD, .adult. Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry, told XBIZ that the firm plans on locking up another gTLD, .sex, before the end of the month.  "In our opinion and having studied the healthy rankings ... read more ...
 
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Legal Aspects of Choosing a Domain Name - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - Choosing the right domain name for your website can be a difficult task. There are several aspects of the selection process that you need to evaluate: It must be a proper reflection of your brand and your website, it must be memorable, and ideally it must be available under the appropriate generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In addition, one area that new users might not be aware of is the legal aspect that comes along with domain selection. ... read more ...
 
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92 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .Quebec; .Honda; ,Android; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .Porn - 92 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting the results today are the Geographic applications for .Quebec; and  .Scot Leading .Brands applications passing today were the applications for .Android; .Honda; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .GMO; and .Ram Some generic string passing today included .Organic; .BlackFriday; and .Porn With today’s results ICANN has gone through all applications with a prioritization number of 1,500 with 1,384 getting a disposition.   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Rejects Legal Rights Objection To Google’s .Tube Application - Latin American Telecom, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, represented by ESQwirecom has become the latest Objector to lose a Legal rights Objection. Latin American Telecom objected to Google’s application for .Tube C. The Merits With respect to the applicable standards, Article 20(a) of the Procedure gives the Panel initial guidance: “(a) For each category of Objection identified in Article 2(e) [which includes the ‘Existing Legal Rights Objection’], the Panel shall apply the standards that ... read more ...
 
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OBJECTIONS AGAINST gTLD STRINGS .MERCK AND .EMERCK FAIL - 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 ...
 
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General Court: bad faith and battle over Salini in Italy - 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 ...
 
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Vertical Axis Gets Hit With UDRP On The 12 year Old Domain Lulac.com By Owner Of The .Org & .Net -   A UDRP has been filed against Vertical Axis, Inc. on the domain name Lulac.com Although the Complainant is not listed, the most likely suspect is The League of United Latin American Citizens, which was established in 1929 and operates under the domain names Lulac.org and Lulac.net As for Lulac.com that domain name goes to a parked page where it returns a lot of links containing the world ‘Hispanic” Vertical Axis has owned the domain name since at least 2005 and maybe since the original registration ... read more ...
 
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Governments Disagree On GI Protection At TLD Level - Governments met recently to try to decide: Should special protection be provided online for geographical indications, in addition to trademark rights, geographical names and names of international organisations? Governments gathered at the 14-18 July Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) 47 meeting in Durban, South Africa were unable to agree on how to proceed in that regard, with a battle developing between the European Union and the United States and Australia. US and ... read more ...
 
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TLD Maxima-Zero Seven Motorsports riders continue strong season at Hervey Bay - Motocross NewsTLD Maxima-Zero Seven Motorsports riders continue strong season at Hervey Bay Posted: Friday, 2nd August, 2013 : 4:02 PM - - 155 Reads TLD Maxima-Zero Seven Motorsports riders’ Kade Mosig and Cody Mackie continued their run of strong performances in the 2013 Monster Energy MX Nationals Championship, finishing 3rd and 10th in their respective MX2 and MX1 classes in Hervey Bay, Queensland on ... read more ...
 
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Stevie Wonder Files A UDRP To Gain Control Of The Domain Name LittleStevieWonder.com - Legendary performer Stevland Morris a/k/a Stevie Wonder filed his 11th UDRP to gain control of the  domain name LittleStevieWonder.com The case was filed with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) Stevie Wonder won a UDRP back in 2005 for the domain name Steviewonder.com Mr. Wonder won all 10 previous  UDRP’s he filed with the NAF including the domain names: thesteviewonderstory.com; stevie-wonder.com; steviewondertickets.com; steviewonder.biz; steviewonder.info; steviewonder.us; steviewonderfest.com; ... read more ...
 
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Hacker Site Run By “The Jester”; JestersCourt.cc Seized By Feds -   The site JestersCourt.cc appears to have been seized by the federal government today. The all too familiar ICE – Home Security Investigation seizure notice appears on JetersCourt.cc tonight The site was pretty popular having an Alexa rank of 353,000 and 57,000 in the US. According to a Wikipedia link on JestersCourt.cc before it was seized, the site was run by “The Jester who describes himself as grey hat hacktivist”. “He claims to be responsible for attacks on Wiki Leaks,Iranian President ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions shuts down 3 Iranian websites - Registrants are agency of the Iranian government or Specially Designated Nationals. Web.com, parent company of domain name registrar Network Solutions, revealed today that it has shut down three Iranian websites due to the The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012. In its SEC filing, the company details three organizations that Network Solutions originally sold domain name registrations to from 1999 to 2002, which later renewed their domain names. ... read more ...
 
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TLDH and Tucows group adult on 3 tip turn domain names - Two TLD applicants pool resources. Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows are combining resources in an effort to lock down three top level domain names that are in contention sets. Tucows had applied for .group and TLDH applied for .tech and .store. By teaming up, each company will contribute to auction funds and take a minority interest in each others’ strings. Their amount of ownership will depend on how much money they contribute for the auctions. While the companies ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories from Jul 2013 - An acquisition, domain disputes, defensive registrations, and new TLDs top last month’s news. July was a busy month at Domain Name Wire, thanks in part to the launch of our redesign. Before we go forward, let’s take a quick step back and look at the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. It’s not really Walmart: Walmart goes after union’s parody site Walmart filed a UDRP against a union’s domain names that are used to parody a Walmart website. 2. ... read more ...
 
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If .amazon is killed, will Amazon bail on a new TLD program? - Amazon may be questioning its role in the first round of new top level domain applications. With the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) recommending that ICANN block Amazon.com’s application for the .amazon top level domain, it poses an interesting question: should Amazon.com bail out on the entire new TLD program? Assuming ICANN’s board agrees with the GAC, I suspect the question will at least be discussed at Amazon. The answer has a lot to do with what Amazon ... read more ...
Thu 1st August 2013
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Matt Cutts: Be Careful About How You Choose Your ccTLDs - With great .com names becoming more and more scarce, and with the resale value of fabulous .com names being worth thousands or even millions of dollars, many businesses have resorted to that great name – but in a country-specific TLD (ccTLD), even if it's a country they don’t do business in. But in a world where Google is geo-targeting search results, could using a country specific TLD hurt your search rankings in Google, or can Google figure it out for themselves that your keyword.tv domain ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 47: Policy Debates and Cautious Optimism - A strange feeling came over me after I got home from ICANN 47 in Durban, something I haven't felt after an ICANN meeting before. The feeling? Optimism. I'm optimistic, albeit cautiously so, about the future of ICANN and by extension, hopefully that of Internet governance in general. If the meeting in Durban is any indication, we've come a long way in the past year. There were no outbursts of the type that characterized previous meetings. There were no indicted war criminals invited to ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com Auctions Sells 38,601 Domain In July: Led By Body.com $380K Flight.Ca For $110,700 - Godaddy.com July auction Sales data is out and in all 38,601 sales took place on Godaddy auction platform almost the identical number of transaction in June 38,861 Here the the top sales of the month for July and June:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...