Monthly Archives: September 2013

Sun 22nd September 2013
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PetSitters.com Closes At Record Auction Price For Pheenix.com At $23,383 - Back catcher Pheenix.com which recently went to an auction system for multiple back orders on August 1,  just closed its highest auction ever with the sale of PetSitters.com which closed at $23,383. (plus the $18.95 backorder fee so total of $23,401.95) The domain PetSitters.com has an Estibot.com value of $60,000. It obviously a great name and and one in which you could open up a business on. The domain PetSitters.com was a free drop domain name meaning it was gotten on a first come first serve ... read more ...
 
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Paris Opens Up Founders/Pioneer Program For 1st 100 .Paris Domain Names - The City of Paris opening up a submission period to allocate the first 100 .Paris new gTLD domain names. The city is opening  two “Calls for Proposals” for the purpose of selecting the first domain names under “.paris” top-level domain (TLD). Interested parties can apply on the web site http://mondomaine.paris.fr to be among the first 100 first holders of a web site ending in “.paris”. “The first Call for Proposals enables various types of actors to obtain a domain name matching ... read more ...
 
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Paris Opens Up Founders/Pioneer Program For 1st 100 .Paris Domain Names - The City of Paris opening up a submission period to allocate the first 100 .Paris new gTLD domain names. The city is opening  two “Calls for Proposals” for the purpose of selecting the first domain names under “.paris” top-level domain (TLD). Interested parties can apply on the web site http://mondomaine.paris.fr to be among the first 100 first holders of a web site ending in “.paris”. “The first Call for Proposals enables various types of actors to obtain a domain name matching their ... read more ...
Sat 21st September 2013
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CADNA: Costs Of Defensive New gTLD Registrations To Be Double The Total … - As pointed out by the Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has launched another offensive at the new gTLD program teaming up with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB) to launch a month-long “‘Know Your Net’ gTLD public awareness campaign” “Their goal is to enact amendments to the U.S. Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) that would expand the law’s coverage beyond domain registrants by creating ... read more ...
 
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CADNA: Costs Of Defensive New gTLD Registrations To Be Double The Total Cost Of All .Com Registrations - As pointed out by the Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has launched another offensive at the new gTLD program teaming up with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB) to launch a month-long “‘Know Your Net’ gTLD public awareness campaign” “Their goal is to enact amendments to the U.S. Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) that would expand the law’s coverage beyond domain registrants by creating secondary ... read more ...
 
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Sedo completes the second many costly domain name transaction ever - Sedo completes domain transaction in “mid seven figures”. Sedo sent out a press release about its sales yesterday, as sort of a “don’t forget we sell more dollars worth of domains than Afternic” reminder in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition. About midway through the press release, which pointed out that it grabbed 9 of the top 10 spots on DNJournal’s list this week, the company mentioned: In addition to the sales publicly announced in DN Journal, Sedo ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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NameCheap.com Files 4 UDRP’s Against 7 Domains - NameCheap.com filed four separate UDRP today with the National Arbitration Forum for a bunch of typo’s The first case involves three typo domain names: namechea.com naecheap.com nameceap.com The 2nd case filed by NameCheap.com involves two typo’s” nmecheap.com namehceap.com The third case involves just one typo domain: namecehap.com The 4th case also involves just one typo: mamecheap.com As it involves a big registrar in the space we will keep our eye on all. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Mark Ein still gunning for .tennis - Washington Kastles owner Mark Ein Bill Flook Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal Email  | Twitter Mark Ein is still gunning for .tennis. Unfortunately, ... read more ...
 
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Bring Your .Brand to Life - A preview of my upcoming presentation for the Digital Marketing and gTLD Strategy Congress on why your Top-Level Domain (TLD) strategy is paramount to making or breaking your .brand. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." —Benjamin Franklin With the first new TLDs slated to be delegated in only a matter of weeks, effective development of your TLD strategy is your most important asset to guide you on the path to the successful implementation of your .brand. Your strategy ... read more ...
 
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Key Steps for Operational Readiness and Successful Launch of a New gTLD - 31 August 2013 marked a historic day for Internet users worldwide. It marked a very key day in the introduction of new gTLDs. On that day ICANN, who oversees the gTLD programme, six years in the making, announced the completion of gTLD Initial Evaluation (IE) results based applicant's ability to demonstrate their financial, technical and operational capability to operate and manage a TLD Registry. What did the IE results reveal? Back in January 2012 these 1930 applicants, made a key corporate ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Acquires Afternic — Primes Domain Aftermarket For New Tlds - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Move Also Delivers Improved Service, Selection Speed to More Aftermarket Customers SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- GoDaddy, the world's leading domain name provider, has acquired Afternic, one of the industry's leading domain name aftermarket companies based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The move creates an unprecedented level of domain name aftermarket inventory from one source and a frictionless marketplace -- enabling buyers to purchase registered domain names ... read more ...
 
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Want To Win An Apple TV: Famous Four Starts Suggest A Cool .Bid New gTLD … - Famous Four Media is running a competition to find the coolest web address you can think of for the new .Bid generic Top Level Domain (TLD). The competition is open now and will close at 11:59 UTC +2 on 4th October 2013, at which time the best suggestions will be entered into a random draw and the winner will receive a brand new Apple TV. To stand a chance of winning all we need is for you to send your suggestions along with your email address to coolnames@famousfourmedia.com. Alternatively ... read more ...
 
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Want To Win An Apple TV: Famous Four Starts Suggest A Cool .Bid New gTLD Domain Contest - Famous Four Media is running a competition to find the coolest web address you can think of for the new .Bid generic Top Level Domain (TLD). The competition is open now and will close at 11:59 UTC +2 on 4th October 2013, at which time the best suggestions will be entered into a random draw and the winner will receive a brand new Apple TV. To stand a chance of winning all we need is for you to send your suggestions along with your email address to coolnames@famousfourmedia.com. Alternatively you ... read more ...
 
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Aida.me Saved In UDRP By Domain Holders Children - Aida Cruises whose website is Aida.de just lost a UDRP on the domain name Aida.me. Although the complainant had a registered trademark on the term Aida the domain holder registered the domain name for his daughter which won him the UDRP: “The Respondent submits that his daughter, born December 15, 2010, is named “Aida”. The Respondent has three other children named Zakaria, Danyaal and Mikaeel. The Respondent has registered domain names for each of his children for their personal use. The Respondent ... read more ...
 
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There are 629 words you won’t be allowed to register as a web address - For the past year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit entity that runs the web’s naming system, has been wading through proposals for over 1,400 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). These are the end bits of a web address, such as the .com in qz.com. ICANN wants to open up the internet’s naming system; some 2,000 companies have applied to control a piece of all the new internet real estate on offer. Forget about .com and .net. Pretty soon you ... read more ...
 
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Hunting Moon GFY Adult Domain Auction Is Live With Over 700 Domains - HuntingMoon.com is holding an online auction of primarily adult domain names in conjunction with GFY (Gof*ckyourself.com) also in conjunction with the Webmaster Access Amsterdam 2013 conference. There are 710 domain names in the auction with a total reserve price of over $12,000,000. The auction seems to just have a starting bid for each domain rather than a reserve price or reserve range. The auction closes on October 16, 2013 with staggered times so you will have to check on the closing time of ... read more ...
 
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El impacto de los nuevos dominios de Internet en el sector turístico - Los nuevos dominios genéricos de Alto Nivel (gTLD en sus siglas en ingles) representan el próximo hito importante en la ampliación del área referida a los dominios en Internet. El efecto de los nuevos dominios tendrá un importante impacto sobre la proyección de todo tipo de marcas en Internet y el turismo es uno de los sectores más expuestos en la red tanto como canal de búsqueda para elección de destinos como para su reserva final.   Una de las ciudades que ha estado más atenta a los ... read more ...
 
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Italy introduces ‘Drop Time’ process - <![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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Donuts expands on trademark protection offerings across its gTLDs - Donuts, the largest investor applicant in new gTLDs, has expanded on its plans to operate a domain protected marks list (DPML) in the new gTLD strings it runs. The list is designed to enable mark owners to block their trademarks across multiple strings for one fee, but cost and budget considerations will dictate the strategic approach taken to protection. Speaking at the MARQUES conference in Monte Carlo, Jonathon Nevett, co-founder of Donuts, explained that the company's strategy is to ... read more ...
 
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Know Your Net: Internet Safety Education Campaign Launches – PR - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) Wednesday announced a public awareness campaign to educate businesses and consumers about Internet safety, particularly with the expected addition of more than one thousand top-level domains the text to the right of the dot in a web address. The Know Your Net Campaign consists of communicating best practices tips through the websites and social media channels of the campaign sponsors and other ... read more ...
 
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CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC : Notice of interim results and trading update – 4 - CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC ("CentralNic" or "the Company") Notice of interim results and trading update CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the internet registry service provider which derives revenues from the worldwide distribution of internet domain names, will issue its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2013 on 25 September 2013. The Company states that trading continues to be in line with management ... read more ...
 
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AIDA Cruises loses domain name brawl to 2 year aged girl - Owner of Aida.me registered domain name for his daughter. They tried to take my domain away!Cruiseline AIDA Cruises has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name Aida.me. It turns out the owner of the domain name registered it for his two year old daughter, Aida. The owner provided a copy of his daughter’s birth certificate as proof. He also pointed out that he registered domain names for his other three children. On the surface, this seems like a case that could ... read more ...
 
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Over 10,000 annals now in Trademark Clearinghouse - Number of records in Trademark Clearinghouse doubles since the middle of July. As of the end of August, the Trademark Clearinghouse for new top level domain names has 10,398 trademark records. That’s double the amount as of the middle of July. Over 97% are for ASCII characters (e.g. the type of characters you’re reading on your screen right now). Only 270 records are for internationalized domain names. The top non-ASCII script so far is Han with 162 records. Cyrillic, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN admits new TLD auctions are delayed - The first ICANN auctions to settle new top level domain contention sets could take place in the middle of November. In a new top level domain applicant update webinar yesterday, ICANN VP of gTLD Operations Christine Willett admitted that new TLD auctions won’t start in October as previously planned. The start date has been pushed to the middle of November. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to applicants, especially given the number of outstanding issues that ... read more ...