Monthly Archives: September 2013

Wed 11th September 2013
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9 Year Old TeleFire.com Saved In UDRP Despite Seller Asking $70K - A Telefire Fire Gas Detectors Ltd. of Petach Tikva, Israel just lost a one member panel UDRP decision on the domain name Telefire.com in what in my opinion was a unnecessarily long opinion. The Panelist basically calls out the Complainant attorney’s for doing a poor job of presenting the case and providing the panel with evidence that would have potentially changed the result and specifically for not using DomainTools.com to track ownership of the domain name over the years. Here are the relevant ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Gets New SVP Of Technology For United TLD - Demand Media announced on Wednesday that it has appointed recent hire Wayne MacLaurin to Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a subsidiary of the company. The company says United TLD is investing in infrastructure to become a leader in the new gTLD space. With his new role, MacLaurin is responsible for managing the technology roadmap and day-to-day operation of the registry systems. “We’re thrilled to welcome Wayne to the Demand Media team in his new role,” ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Names Wayne MacLaurin Senior Vice President of Technology … - Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs Kirkland, Washington – September 11, 2013 –Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who joins the company as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing in infrastructure ... read more ...
 
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DEMAND MEDIA INC : Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior … – 4 - World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs Demand Media (NYSE:DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who joins the company as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing in infrastructure to become a world-class registry and leader in new generic ... read more ...
 
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What’s the Impact of gTLDs on Social Media? - Tweet Buffer As 1,400 new gTLDs launch in 2014, digital marketers should pay attention to how gTLDs will impact consumer use of the Internet, particularly in social media. Big digital companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft made bold moves in the gTLD space with numerous applications, but social media titans like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Pandora, eBay, and others did not apply. Apple was on the gTLD applicant list, but only with its ... read more ...
 
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Icann’s Amazon Problem - Domain name issues continue to make the news. We recently wrote an article about the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) that people have been speaking about for some time, and that are likely to start making an appearance later this year. This new system, of course, allows for the registration of generic words, geographic names and brand names as top level names, so you can expect to see just about anything in months to come - .lawyer, .africa, .zulu, .google. But competition for registration ... read more ...
 
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Security concerns emerge with the new gTLDs - Security concerns emerge with the new gTLDs By Jonathan French The new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) that are being implemented have a few security concerns already. One of the major concerns is ‘name collision’, which results from a single domain name being used in different places. An example of this would be a company that uses .corp in an internal domain name. Under the new gTLD processes, the .corp gTLD could be bought by a different company for their ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Amazon problem - Domain name issues continue to make the news.  We recently wrote an article about the new Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) that people have been speaking about for some time, and that are likely to start making an appearance later this year.  This new system, of course, allows for the registration of generic words, geographic names and brand names as top level names, so you can expect to see just about anything in months to come -  .lawyer, .africa, .zulu, .google. But competition for ... read more ...
 
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Whoops! New TLD auction lawyers also representing Name.space in fit to hindrance program - Morrison Foerster has worked on private TLD auctions while also representing name.space in its lawsuit against the new TLD program. Earlier today I wrote about name.space’s opening brief in its appeal to a lawsuit it filed against ICANN last year. Name.space, which runs an alternate root with many domain names that are identical to ones being applied for in the new top level domain program, sued ICANN last year and asked the court to halt the new top level domain ... read more ...
 
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ccTLD owners supplement .com in this week’s Sedo finish user sales list - Country code domain name owners buy the matching .com on this week’s Sedo end user sales list. A good number of end user domain purchases at Sedo and Afternic each week are made by companies that own the same second level domain under a different top level domain. That’s particularly the case with ccTLD owners. This week’s list has a few examples. On the flip side, it also includes examples of companies that own a .com buying a matching ccTLD. MobileHelp.com, ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user domain name sales - A law firm, casino owner, and bank bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic sold $968,810 worth of domain names last week. Here are 17 domain names that sold to end users. Online car rental company Booking Group bought CarRentalNews.com for $3,000. Designer accessories store Electric, which uses the domain ElectricVisual.com, bought ElectricCalifornia.com for $5,000. The law firm Driggs, Bills Day PC bought PersonalInjuryAdvocates.com for $4,288. Athens ... read more ...
 
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Name.space files Opening Brief in interest of new TLD lawsuit - Company claims new TLD program is a conspiracy to enrich a select few and that ICANN is violating antitrust laws. Name.space has filed its opening brief in an appeal of a lawsuit it brought against ICANN last year. Name.space operates an “alternative root” whereby certain internet users can access domain names such as .online and .blog. It applied to have 118 of its alt-root domain names become part of the official root during ICANN’s 2000 “proof of concept ... read more ...
 
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Typosquatting domain liberation organisation CitizenHawk acquired - CitizenHawk acquired by legal and brand services firm. Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services (CLS) has acquired CitizenHawk, Inc., a company that helps companies protect their brands in domain names. CitizenHawk is primarily a typosquatting recovery firm. It helps companies obtain typos of their domain names, often times ones that are held by cybersquatters. Although its business model has shifted over the years, it primarily acquires typos with no upfront cost ... read more ...
Tue 10th September 2013
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Marchex’s Archeo Puts Up Its Zip Code Portfolio For Sale After Selling 1 Domain In The $50K-$100K Range - As I reported earlier today, Marchex’s (NASDAQ: MCHX) Archeo unit put up over 200,000 domains for sale on its new marketplace archeodomains.com. Yesterday in my chat with Rod Diefendorf the COO of Marchex I asked about Marchex project involving thousands of Zip Code .com domain names they company has acquired. Basically that project is off the table and all the Zip Code domains are for sale. A few weeks ago we wrote about that buyers from China were inquiring regularly on the “zip code” domains ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $930K Led By URFA.com For $30K - Over the past week, 639 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $930,000. This amounts to $47,3m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Sedo wants to congratulate the buyer of urfa.com: Urfa is a city in the south-east of Turkey with a long ancient history. It is close to the Euphrates River and the Syrian border. Currently the website is announcing that a newscast project about the city and region is on its way. Highlights ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $970K in Domains Led By HomesInc.com For $15K - Afternic.com just reported its  weekly domain sales for the week of 9/2/13 – 9/8/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $968,810.   Here are the reportable sales:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Nominet Opens Comment Period On Whether .UK Domains Should Contain “Offensive Words” - Nominet which runs the .Uk domain naming system, just opened up a comment period on whether .UK domain names should be allowed to contain “offensive words or phrases”. “Nominet is today launching a review of its registration policy for .uk domain names. ” “The scope of the review focuses on whether there should be restrictions on the words and expressions permitted in .uk domain name registrations.” “The goal is to deliver a report to Nominet’s board in December of this year, which ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Roundup: Enterprise Cars Gets Enterprise.tv; Philip Morris Gets MarlboroSucksBalls.com - A few UDRP decisions are out today worth noting. Enterprise Rental Cars won a UDRP and the rights to the domain name Enterprise.tv The domain name was registered in 2011, the domain was parked and the domain holder did not respond to the UDRP. “The panel noted that the domain Enterprise.tv went to  a pay-per-click website that hosts hyperlinks to websites of Complainant’s competitors in the car rental industry, to other third parties, as well as hyperlinks to the website of Complainant’s affiliate, ... read more ...
 
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Marchex’s Archeo Opens Marketplace To Sell Its 200K+ Domains: Still Has 95% Of Yung Ye’s Domains - “Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced the launch of the Archeo Domains Marketplace (www.archeodomains.com), providing direct access for businesses, brokers and individuals to Archeo’s portfolio of more than 200,000 premium domain names available for sale.” “The searchable portfolio is presented in 21 categories, ranging from Business Finance to Technology and Travel in a responsive, mobile-friendly design. The new website features an easy-to-navigate ... read more ...
 
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Endurance Files For $400M IPO: Buys Directi For $110M: Commits Up To $62 Million In New gTLD Auctions - As reported by Domainincite.com, Endurance International Group Holdings Inc,  filed for an IPO  to $400 million in an initial public offering of its common stock and plans on buying Directi for between $100 and $110 million Dollars. In  buying Directi Endurance would also get Radix Registry which has 29 active new gTLD applications of which 26 are in contention. Endurance is also committing an additional $62 Million dollars or over 2 million per contested string for auctions. As for existing business ... read more ...
 
 
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Finnish Prime Minister and TLD Registry Chairman announce successful … - TLD Registry chairman Taneli Tikka announces the successful launch of Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website internet top level domains at an official ceremony in Beijing in the presence of Finland’s prime minister Jyrki Katainen and … BEIJING, Sept. 10, 2013 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ — Finnish entrepreneurs today announced the imminent worldwide availability of fully-Chinese internet domain names in the Chinese equivalents of “.online” and “.Chinese language website” in coming ... read more ...
 
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Implementing a Two-Panel String Similarity Review Process in the IDN ccTLD … – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board approved on June 27, 2013 the proposed amendments of the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) Fast Track Process Final Implementation Plan (FIP). According to the Corporation, the amendment implements a two-panel process for string similarity review in the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process, and was proposed following the conclusion of the IDN Country Code Names Supporting Organization ... read more ...
 
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Key takeaways from .Architect village conflict decision - The .Architect objection had some unique characteristics, but the panelist’s decision may concern other applicants. The International Chamber of Commerce today issued its decision (pdf) on an objection to Donuts’ application for the .architect top level domain name. The panelist found in favor of the objector, International Union of Architects (UIA), which is backing a rival application for .archi. As we found with string similarity objections, different panelists ... read more ...
 
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First village conflict decisions: .Architect conflict prevails, .Fly and .Gay fail - ICC issues first three community objection decisions. More controversy about new top level domain names is coming as the first community objection decisions have been released by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The International Union of Architects was successful in its objection to Donuts’ application for .architect. The group is backing a community application filed by Starting Dot for .archi. In a statement, Donuts spokesperson Mason Cole said “We ... read more ...