Monthly Archives: September 2013

Mon 16th September 2013
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.bank, and .mutualfunds and .ira, oh my! - First, an update on .bank. As you may recall, fTLD Registry Services, a coalition of financial associations and institutions led by The Financial Services Roundtable and the American Bankers Association (ABA), filed a community application to operate the .bank gTLD; DotSecure, Inc. filed a standard application for the same .bank gTLD. While the initial examination of DotSecure’s application has not been completed as of the writing of this article (ICANN anticipates that Initial Evaluation results ... read more ...
 
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WIth Over 2500 Votes PC Advisor Poll On New gTLD’s Says 25% Of People Are … - Two weeks ago we told you that PCadvisor.co.uk opened up a poll on the new gTLD program Today total votes received broke the 2,500 mark and the results are pretty interesting. With 2,506 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 42% of the voters said they were not interested. 29% of the voter said they have never heard of new gTLD’s. Considering the fact that there are no new gTLD available ... read more ...
 
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“First Glance” TRAFFIC Auction List Revealed - The organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference, which will be held in just about one month at the Ritz Carlton in Ft. Lauderdale from October 20-23, just released its “First Glance List” for the domains that will be going up on auction during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. According to the organizers the entire list will be out next week. Also, some of these domain name will wind up being in the “Silent” auction not the live auction. Auction is scheduled for Monday October 21, 2013 Under $90k Reserve: Postal.com GoldWanted.com ... read more ...
 
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WIth Over 2,500 Votes PC Advisor Poll On New gTLD’s Says 25% Of People Are Planning On Buying 1 - Two weeks ago we told you that PCadvisor.co.uk opened up a poll on the new gTLD program Today total votes received broke the 2,500 mark and the results are pretty interesting. With 2,506 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 42% of the voters said they were not interested. 29% of the voter said they have never heard of new gTLD’s. Considering the fact that there are no new gTLD available ... read more ...
 
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Efforts to heighten public awareness of gTLDs gear up - This week sees the launch of a month-long education campaign about new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Coming hot on the heels of the television advertising promoting ‘pre-reservations’ to the general public, is the tipping point of wider awareness? While WTR has reported extensively on ICANN’s new gTLDs expansion, with the trademark community an active voice in the programme’s development, general awareness of new gTLDs remains relatively low. However, according to a public opinion ... read more ...
 
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‘.limited’ and ‘.express’ not awarded to fashion retailers - <![CDATA[ ]]> Please complete the form below to receive a free trial of WTR magazine and daily email updates. The personal details provided by you will be held on a database and may be shared with Globe Business Publishing Ltd's associated companies. The details provided will not be passed to any other company. Please view our Terms Conditions. ... read more ...
 
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NGPC Takes Action on GAC Durban Advice on New gTLDs – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on September 10, 2013 and, among other things, reached a decision regarding the GAC's further advice on new gTLDs. According to the Corporation, the GAC conveyed its advice to the NGPC in its Durban Communiqué, issued on July 18, 2013. Applicants submitted responses to the advice on August 23, 2013. At its most recent meeting, the NGPC adopted the Durban Scorecard, available ... read more ...
 
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Africa.com Now Selling Subdomains From $40 – $5,000 Per Year - Africa.com has become the latest site to sell Subdomains and according to the registry trademark holders have already grabbed a bunch. According to Ope Odusan, Managing Director, Africa.com: “The world’s largest and most high profile brands have been among the first to acquire domain names ending with the new extension .africa.com. “In the first few weeks since we started offering domains, trademarks owners have quickly picked up their domains including twitter.africa.com, starbucks.africa.com, ... read more ...
 
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Interisle cashes in as new TLD hopefuls compensate for some-more data - New TLD applicants turn to Interisle for more data in effort to avoid more delays. Interisle Consulting Group dropped a bombshell on new top level domain name applicants when it submitted its 197 page report to ICANN about name collisions and new top level domain names. As a result of the report, about 20% of applied-for strings were grouped into an “uncalculated risk” pool, which means that they could face three to six months of delays as ICANN further studies ... read more ...
 
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Stolen domain name recovered by UDRP - Education group that manages Thompson Island gets its domain name back. Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center has recovered the domain name ThompsonIsland.org through a UDRP case. The group alleges that the domain name was stolen from its Network Solutions account. According to documents provided to the UDRP panel, it appears that an unauthorized person changed the password on the complainant’s registrar account as well as the challenge questions used ... read more ...
 
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Intranet.com domain name sells for $160,000 - Dave Evanson brokers sale of Intranet.com to unknown buyer. Sedo has brokered the sale of domain name Intranet.com for $160,000. Sedo broker Dave Evanson announced the news on Twitter this morning: The domain was registered way back in 1992. For a long time it was owned by IntraNet Worldwide, Inc, which has been part of payments company ACI Worldwide since 1998. More recently, the whois record has been protected by a whois privacy service and the domain has resolved ... read more ...
 
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Domain name Registry Lock by a numbers - Many important websites haven’t added Registry Lock to protect against hacks similar to what brought down NYTimes.com. Last month domain name registrar Melbourne IT was compromised, resulting in the hack of NYTimes.com’s nameserver record. The New York Times’ problem could have been prevented had the company paid a little extra for Verisign’s Registry Lock service. Registry Lock adds another layer of protection against unauthorized domain name transfers and ... read more ...
 
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How most will good keyword domain names sell for in new TLDs? - Supply and demand will push prices for good keyword second level domains down in alternate TLDs. Sales of premium domain names have been a revenue driver for top level domain registries as they’ve launched new domains in recent years. Will this be the case with new top level domain names that come out in the next year or two? I doubt it. It’s a simple supply and demand equation, and it’s the same reason that existing second level domain names in “second tier” ... read more ...
Sun 15th September 2013
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The Discrepancy in Confusion and Similarity Decisions of New gTLDs - After more than half of the new gTLD String Confusion Objection determinations that have been published we have updated our popular chart which compares the Visual Similarity (determined by the SWORD tool) with the results of the String Confusion Objections. We found that there is a huge discrepancy in what has been expected in the ICANN community and what the "Experts" have be decided. Moreover there are contrary decisions for the same string pairs (e.g. .CAM/.COM and .COM/.ECOM). And interestingly ... read more ...
 
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Mashable: NSA.Org Owner Selling Subdomans and Email Addresses For $100 - According to Mashable.com,  the owner of NSA.org just started selling email addresses for $100. According to the story, Chris Fisher, is registered the domain in 1995. “At the time, since they were cheap, he said, he harvested various domain names. Fisher claims he even registered tacobell.com.” “Since then, he has kept the domain, and even turned down offers from people who wanted to buy it. ” “Fisher declined to specify the largest offer he received, saying that most offers came from ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed On 12 Year Old Generic Domain Name Canary.com - A UDRP has been filed on the generic domain name Canary.com According to DomainTools.com the domain name was create in 2001 by a Lin ZanSong of China who still seems to be the registrant. The domain name does not currently resolve however there appears to have been a Chinese baby clothing site on the domain back in 2012 and the domain was parked in 2011 with most links going to topics related to birds. The Complainant is not yet listed. On the trademark front there are several trademarks filed on ... read more ...
Fri 13th September 2013
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Montblanc Files Federal CyberSquatting Lawsuit Over 126 Domain Names - Montblanc the luxury pen maker filed a federal lawsuit today in the Virginia Eastern District Court against a bunch of domain holders for CyberSquatting under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) seeking control of the domain names, $100,000 statutory damages for each domain name and attorney fees Here are the domain names subject to the lawsuit: bestmontblancpen.com boligrafomontblancespana.com boligrafomontblancespana.org boligrafosmontblanc.biz boligrafosmontblanc.org boligrafosmontblancespana.com boligrafosmontblancespana.net buymontblancpenau.com buymontblancpenonline.com buymontblancpensau.com buymontblancpensca.com buymontblancpensca.net buymontblancpensonline.com buymontblancpensonlineuk.com cheapmontblancpensaleuk.com cheapmontblancpensca.com cheapmontblancpenseau.biz cheapmontblancpenseau.com cheapmontblancpenseau.net cheapmontblancpenseau.org cheapmontblancpensshop.com cheapmontblancs.net cheappensmontblancsale.com cheappensmontblancsale.net discountmontblancpensuk.biz discountmontblancpensuk.com discountmontblancpensuk.net discountmontblancpensuk.org fullermontblanc.com fullermontblanconline.com fullfederahaltermontblanc.com kugelschreibermontblancsale.com montblancboligrafos.org montblancboligrafosespana.biz montblancboligrafosespana.net montblancboligrafosespana.org montblancfullergunstig.com montblancfullergunstig.net montblancfullerkaufen.com montblancfullfederkaufen.com montblanckugelschreibergunstig.biz montblanckugelschreibergunstig.com montblanckugelschreibergunstig.org montblanckugelschreiberkaufen.biz montblanckugelschreiberkaufen.net montblanckugelschreiberkaufen.org montblanckugelschreiberschweiz.com montblanckugelschreiberschweiz.net montblanckugelschreiberschweiz.org montblanckuglependk.com montblanckuglependk.net montblanckuglepenkob.com montblancloja.net montblancmeisterstuckpen.biz montblancmeisterstuckpen.net montblanconlinesale.net montblancoutletaustralia.com montblancpenau.net montblancpenau.org montblancpenaustralia.net montblancpenireland.com montblancpenireland.net montblancpenireland.org montblancpennen.net montblancpennenegozi.com montblancpennenoutlet.biz montblancpennenoutlet.com montblancpennenoutlet.net montblancpennenoutlet.org montblancpenneonline.com montblancpenonline.biz montblancpenonline.net montblancpenonline.org montblancpenonlinesale.com montblancpenonlineuk.com montblancpenonlineuk.net montblancpenonlineuk.org montblancpens-uk.net montblancpensaleau.com montblancpensaleca.com montblancpensaleca.net montblancpensau.biz montblancpensau.org montblancpensbuyonline.com montblancpenshopau.net montblancpensireland.biz montblancpensireland.net montblancpensireland.org montblancpensonlineau.com montblancpensonlineca.com montblancpensonlineie.com montblancpensonlineshop.com montblancpensoutletuk.com montblancpenssaleuk.net montblancpenssaleuk.org montblancpensstores.com montblancpensstores.net montblancpensukonline.biz montblancpensukonline.org montblancstarwalkerpen.com montblancstarwalkerpen.net montblancstylosfrance.net pascherstylomontblanc.com pascherstylomontblanc.net pascherstylomontblanc.org penmontblanc.net penmontblancaustralia.com penmontblancaustralia.net penmontblanccanada.com pennemontblancitalia.biz pennemontblancitalia.org pennormontblanc.biz pennormontblanc.net pennormontblanc.org pensmontblancca.com pensmontblancca.net pensmontblanccanada.com pensmontblancforsale.com salemontblanc.net shopmontblancpensuk.com stylobillemontblanc.com stylomontblancboutique.com stylomontblancpascher.biz stylomontblancpascher.net stylomontblancpascher.org utsoktmontblanc.net Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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H2O.com/H20.com Gets A $200K Bid On Flippa - The domain names H20.com and H2O.com (one with the zero  and the other with the letter O) are at auction at Flippa.com and  has gotten a high bid as of publication of $200,000. The domain name has not hit reserve. In all there are 10 bidders on the domain name and 3 bidders who have bid $125K or more The auction closes on September 18th. Estibot.com values the domain names are $19,000 and $14,000 repectively Here is what the auction listing says:   Description   Worth more than oil or gas and ... read more ...
 
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Media Options Expands Brokerage Services With New Broker Neal Resnik - Media Options has continued to broker millions of dollars per year on behalf of its clients and expects significant growth over the next years as the new TLD’s are released to market. Panama City, Panama (PRWEB) September 13, 2013 Domain name broker Media Options is delighted to announce a new addition to the family: expert domain advisor Neal Resnik is now brokering ... read more ...
 
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You Just Signed a Registry Contract With ICANN. What Are Your Plans? - Back on February 4, 2013, I wrote a CircleID post entitled, 'How the registrar Cash Flow Model Could Collapse with New ICANN gTLDs.' My key point back then was this: new gTLD applicants need to be mindful of how the cash flow policies of their registry (and of their back-end service provider) could impact whether their TLD is actively promoted by ICANN registrars. When ICANN registrars were first established, all of the business risk of domain name registrations was placed on Registrars. ... read more ...
 
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Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP Opens Los Angeles County Regional Office - Tredway Lumsdaine Doyle LLP (TLD) announces the opening this month of a Los Angeles County regional location at Kilroy Business Center near Long Beach Airport. Conveniently located off the 405 freeway, the expansion allows the law firm to more readily serve its many clients throughout Los Angeles County, while also complementing its Orange County regional office near John Wayne Airport. The firm will retain offices in Downey and Beverly Hills for valued clients in those communities. “Our ... read more ...
 
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9 String Confusion Objections dismissed, Commercial Connect loses 8 - .Shop applicant Commercial Connect is the big loser in the latest batch of String Confusion Objections. After a long drought, International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has posted an updated list of String Confusion Objection decisions. Today’s list includes nine more determinations, all found in favor of the applicant for the domains. First, Verisign lost its objection to Donuts’ application for .network. Verisign argued that it was too similar to .net. The ... read more ...
 
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How to send your domains to “for sale only” landers during DNS - More interested in selling your domains than earning PPC income? Here’s how to send domain names to sales only landers at DNS. A lot of domainers have asked domain parking companies and marketplaces to offer landing pages dedicated solely to selling domain names — not generating revenue from PPC. There are a number of reasons you might want to do this for a domain name. An obvious one is that you think a sales-focused lander will generate more leads for the domain ... read more ...
Thu 12th September 2013
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ICANN Signs Contract for .Sexy gTLD - MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — ICANN on Wednesday signed a contract with operators of the new .sexy gTLD to begin service. The .sexy gTLD was submitted by Uniregistry Corp. to provide Internet users and companies with a "sexy way to express their interests." Uniregistry, according to its application, plans to add directory services, traffic-generation toolkits and search-related functionalities that will promote the domain. In addition, it plans to implement safeguards to protect intellectual property. Three ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs and the Trademark Clearinghouse: what does it mean for your … - Background In June 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the "New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program". The program allows parties, through ICANN’s application process, to redefine endings for internet domain names beyond the core generic endings such as ‘.com’, ‘.net’ and ‘.org’. These new domain endings are known as the new gTLDs or ‘strings’. Should my business get involved? There are three ways businesses can become involved ... read more ...