Monthly Archives: September 2013

Thu 19th September 2013
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Neustar Releases New gTLDs and DNS Collision Analysis - ICANN’s risk assessment for proposed TLDs is flawed, and the delays it is causing are unnecessary, according to comments filed by Neustar ICANN’s risk assessment for proposed TLDs is flawed, and the delays it is causing are unnecessary, according to comments filed by information services and analytics company Neustar. The ICANN assessment categorized 2 of the TLDs as “high risk” and 1,000 as “low risk,” but also categorized 150 as having an “uncalculated risk” of collision. Neustar ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Pulls Plan To Spin Off Archeo Into Separate Public Company But Plans To Issues Dividends -   Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), today announced that it will not pursue a spin-off its domains-related assets into a stand-alone, publicly-traded company at this time and that Archeo will continue to operate as an independent division of Marchex. Marchex came to this conclusion as part of a recent strategic review which began this summer after Marchex sold certain pay-per-click assets, which were operating under Archeo, in July. Marchex sold the assets to help sharpen Archeo’s focus and market ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Readies For New TLDs With Afternic Acquisition - GoDaddy announced on Thursday that it has acquired domain name aftermarket company Afternic as it prepares for new TLDs. The company will keep Afternic’s staff in the Boston Area. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving had this to say: “Having the right domain name is vital, no matter your venture. GoDaddy is working to bring the ‘domain aftermarket’ together with new registrations and make both super-simple to access. Our customers need an easy way to buy the name they want, regardless of whether ... read more ...
 
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WELCOME TO FABULOUS LAS VEGAS .VEGAS! - If Dot Vegas Inc has its way, Latvia’s top-level .lv domain will soon find itself in a bit of competition when it comes to representing Las Vegas on the Internet.Founded by veterans of eNIC Corporation, the registry for the .cc top-level domain, the startup and .vegas proponent began preparations for an application to ICANN (the organization that governs Internet domain names) several years ago, but initial plans were hindered by delays and a competing proposal.Greenspun Corp., operator of lasvegas.com ... read more ...
 
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Internationalised gTLDs pose challenge for owners of multilingual brands - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) devised the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme to open up new top-level domains, as popular domains such as '.com' become increasingly crowded. Although domain names displayed in non-ASCII scripts – known as internationalised domain names – are currently available as second and lower-level domains, the new gTLD programme will also allow internationalised domain name TLDs. ICANN received 116 applications for internationalised ... read more ...
 
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1930 Reasons to Watch the Internet: Strategies to Protect Your Brand - It’s hard to believe something as new as the Internet would have a nostalgic, simpler time already, but there are major changes coming this next year. Manufacturers looking to protect a brand or product name could get the job done with a few defensive registrations on the familiar .com, .org and .net. Starting in October 2013, the Internet will grow ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com Also Acquires Domain Parking Service SmartName.com From Name Media - As part of the press release just sent out by Godaddy.com announcing its purchase of Afternic.com from Name Media, Godaddy reveals it is also buying the parking company owned by Name Media SmartName.com as part of the purchase: Industry partners Web.com, operator of Network Solutions and Register.com, and Tucows.com fully support GoDaddy’s new registrar-led model. “GoDaddy is also acquiring SmartName, a domain parking service, as well as NameFind, a new service for helping entrepreneurs brainstorm ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Afternic.com Acquired By Godaddy - In a email that just went out to customers of Afternic.com, the online domain name marketplace owned by Name Media, Godaddy has acquired Afternic. According to the email, Name Media which owns Afternic.com, is just selling Afternic.com the marketplace and not BuyDomains.com another company owned by NameMedia which owns and operates reportedly some 1 million domain names. It will be interesting to see how this will effect some new gTLD registries. Afternic.com has been offering an aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Afternic.com Acquired By Godaddy - In a email that just went out to customers of Afternic.com, the online domain name marketplace owned by Name Media, Godaddy has acquired Afternic. According to the email, Name Media which owns Afternic.com, is just selling Afternic.com the marketplace and not BuyDomains.com another company owned by NameMedia which owns and operates reportedly some 1 million domain names. It will be interesting to see how this will effect some new gTLD registries. Afternic.com has been offering an aftermarket product ... read more ...
 
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12 Year Old Domain DIMY.com Saved In UDRP - The Complainant INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO DE CONFECÇÕES DI MIRMAY LTDA of Brazil, lost its bid to grab the domain name DIMY.com from a chinese registrant. The domain name was registered on November 16, 2001. The Complainant was founded in 1994. Here are the relevant findings of the one member panel: It manufactures and sells a wide range of fashion products under the Trade Mark and the trade mark DI MIRMAY, including clothing, bags and accessories. The Trade Mark is derived from the Complainant’s ... read more ...
 
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Hitting Like Button Is Protected Free Speech Says The US Court Of Appeals - Hitting the “Like” button on Facebook is an element of free speech protected by the US constitution, The US Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ruled yesterday Virginia case involving six people who say Hampton Sheriff B.J. Roberts fired them for supporting an opponent in his 2009 re-election bid, which he won. The workers sued, saying their First Amendment rights were violated. The court ruled that hitting the like button qualifies as speech and can be considered the 21st century-equivalent ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools Names Bruce Roberts as VP of Technology & Jeff Day as VP of Marketing and Product & Is Still Hiring - DomainTools®, is pleased to announce the appointments of Bruce Roberts to Vice President of Technology and Jeff Day as Vice President of Marketing and Product. Both Executives bring deep enterprise software experience in growth-company environments, and add critical leadership acumen as DomainTools invests heavily to meet increasing demand from clients in the Cyber Security and Brand Protection markets. Bruce is a 20-year veteran in engineering and systems development, with a Ph.D. in Applied and ... read more ...
 
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Study On Phishing Attacks In 1st Half Of 2013: Over 58K Domains Used: 82% On .Com, .Tk, .Info - APWG Global reported in its study of phishing attacks in the first six months of 2013 and here are some of the findings of the report especially those that related directly to domain names. There were at least 72,758 unique phishing attacks worldwide in first half of 2013 (1H 2013) far below the 123,486 attacks recorded in the 2H 2012 Many brands were attacked several times a week on average, with eighty brands attacked 100 or more times each during the 26-week period. Half of the targets were attacked ... read more ...
 
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A safe house for marks in the domain revolution? - Make no mistake: momentum towards the new wave of generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs) is building, and the reality of a larger, more complex internet is gradually coming to fruition.As NewLegal Review’s recent coverage of the prospective ‘.food’ domain showed, competition over suffixes for which multiple parties have applied has been channelled into formal dispute proceedings at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Soon, the winners of those disputes – who will become ... read more ...
 
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Verio Europe erweitert Angebot an Top-Level-Domains für europäischen und … - (PresseBox) (Neutraubling, 19.09.2013) Webhoster Verio Europe hat sein Angebot an Top-Level-Domains um 16 europäische Ländercodes erweitert. Für Internetauftritte, die auf die Nutzung durch mobile Geräte ausgerichtet sind, steht ab sofort .mobi zur Auswahl. Bisher konnten Verio-Kunden neben den Standard-Domains .com/.net/.org/.info/.biz die länderspezifischen Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) für Deutschland (.de), Österreich (.at), die ... read more ...
 
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Marchex shelves skeleton to spin off domains multiplication Archeo - Archeo will remain a division of Marchex instead of becoming its own publicly traded company. Marchex has canceled its plan to spin off its domain name business into a separate public company, at least for now. The company announced plans last November to spin off its domain business into a new company called Archeo. Marchex had long neglected its portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, and making it part of a separate company would allow it to better monetize the ... read more ...
 
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: GoDaddy acquires Afternic from NameMedia - Acquisition will make it easier for customers to buy domain names that are already registered. GoDaddy has acquired domain name sales platform Afternic from NameMedia in a move that will make it easier for people to buy domain names that are already registered. The acquisition also includes NameMedia’s domain name parking platform SmartName. The BuyDomains.com site and NameMedia’s domain name portfolio are not part of the acquisition. A simpler domain name purchase ... read more ...
Wed 18th September 2013
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Top 125 Domains In Bankrupt Friend Finder’s Network: Cams.com; Amigos.com; Penthouse.com, BDSM.com - FriendFinder Network, Inc. which filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday has some great domain names within their network of company’s. We sold you earlier today that the former public company FriendFinder Network, Inc, (FFN), along with 39 associated company’s filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. Below are the top 125 domain name in terms of traffic within the FF Network , which was provided by our friends at DNSR.com which does competitive intelligence contract work for corporate clients. Obviously ... read more ...
 
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Troubling Decision: Tupras.com Registered In 1996 Lost In UDRP To “Trademark” Registered in 2000 - In a pretty troubling one member UDRP WIPO decision a trademark holder of a turkey trademark first registered in 2000 was awarded the domain name Tupras.com which was registered in 1996. The panel seemed to award the domain name based solely that the owner of the domain name Mehmet Kahveci, “has a long history of registering domain names that correspond to the name of well known Turkish companies” While the panel acknowledged that the domain name was registered a very long time ago calling it: “One ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .xyz to be brought to Market by Daniel Negari and NameJet -  News    Images New gTLD .xyz to be brought to Market by Daniel Negari and NameJet PRWEB.COM Newswire Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) September 18, 2013 NameJet.com, the leading aftermarket domain auction company, has partnered with Daniel Negari and the .xyz Registry to bring the new gTLD (generic Top Level Domain) .xyz to the public. Consisting of the last three letters of the Latin alphabet, the .xyz TLD is as easy to remember and as generic as any new gTLD out there. ... read more ...
 
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Hospitality Brands Need To Prepare For GTLDs - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Law360, New York (September 18, 2013, 6:58 PM ET) -- With the launch of the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) just around the corner, brand owners in the hospitality industry need to educate themselves about the unique opportunities and challenges posed by this unprecedented expansion of the domain space.BackgroundHistorically, the most popular gTLDs included .com, .org, .net and .edu, with the majority of hospitality ... read more ...
 
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With A Day To Go Sedo .Info Auction Has Less Than $2K In Bids - With just one day to go, the Sedo Premium .info Auction has less than $2,000 in total bids, and only one domain name streets.info has met its reserve price. Not great buy any measure. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.14 Million - Over the past week, 679 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.14m. This amounts to $48.4m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to the buyer and seller of intranet.com for $160,000: The domain was brokered by Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson and is the highest sale in this sales list. ” Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: intranet.com at 160,000 USD ·         ... read more ...
 
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Bergzeit GmbH Owner Of Bergzeit.de: Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Bergzeit GmbH of Wooden Churches , Germany , represented by lawyers Riegger , Ludwigsburg, Germany  has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Bergzeit.com by a one member WIPO panel. Bergzeit translates into Mountain Time in German. The UDRP decision was published in German. The complainant is the owner of the domain name bergzeit.de and offers in this since 2000 , among other equipment and clothing for mountain sports and outdoor activities. The complainant ... read more ...