Monthly Archives: November 2013

Tue 12th November 2013
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Sedo reports stability decrease in domain parking - Sedo cites domain parking woes for revenue drop. Sedo Holding has issued its preliminary results for the first nine months of the year. This is likely to be one of the last public reports from the company before it gets rolled up into United Internet. The company’s affiliate marketing division saw revenue growth, but the domain business (what you know of as Sedo) continued to decline. For the first nine months of 2013, the company had sales revenue of EUR 20.8 million, ... read more ...
 
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Coffee Bean Direct loses second box opposite CoffeeDirect.com (and no response!) - Online coffee seller fails to snag CoffeeDirect.com through a UDRP for a second time. Coffee Bean Direct’s two attempts to get CoffeeDirect.com through UDRP have been a train wreck. Or maybe a hot coffee spill?Coffee Bean Direct LLC, an online coffee seller, has lost its second UDRP against the domain name CoffeeDirect.com. In both cases the owner of CoffeeDirect.com didn’t bother to respond but still won the case. If you look at the facts, this won’t come as ... read more ...
 
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22 finish user domain sales, including a slurl - More end user domain name sales. These are GoDaddy/Afternic sales from two weeks ago that appear to involve an end user. One of these domains is a slurl. See if you can spot it! SGCP.com $20,000 – SG Capital Partners in Stamford, Connecticut. Suzan.com $2,000 – Japanese company Suzan, which uses Suzan.co.jp ForTheRide.com $5,600 – Triumph Motorcycles ResidentialFlagpoles.com $3,000 – Concord Industries, maker of flag poles. LillyLaw.com $3,333 – law firm ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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.Club Domains Signs ICANN Registry Agreement - .CLUB Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN .Club Domains, the operator of new gTLD .CLUB, announced on Monday that it has signed its registry agreement with ICANN. As one of multiple applicants for the .CLUB gTLD, .Club Domains had to beat out other companies including Donuts and Merchant Law Group in a private auction in order to secure the new gTLD. Donuts announced seven of its new gTLDs last week, including ... read more ...
 
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.CLUB Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN -         .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today it has signed its Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international organization responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS). .Club is Listed in the “Top 10” on Many Pre-Registration Sites, and within the top 30 of 1and1.com, one of the few new gTLD extensions where the ... read more ...
 
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1and1.com Starts Selling Preregistrations For .Bike; .Singles; .Holdings; .Clothing - Accrding to a press release we received today 1and1.com has started selling pre-registrations on the  new TLDs including: .BIKE .SINGLES .HOLDINGS .CLOTHING “These pre-registrations are on an exclusive first-come, first-serve basis, which means no other 11 customers are able to pre-register a domain option that has been previously chosen by another party.:” “On the specific launch date of the selected TLD, the allocation of domains is carried out by the domain registry.” If you thought that ... read more ...
 
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National Association Of Realtors: Do Not To Pay Preregister .Realtor Domains They Will Be Free -     In a blog post today on Realtor.org, the National Association of Realtors is warning its members and I guess anyone else who about thinking about preregistering a domain name in the new gTLD .Realtor not to bother doing it at Godaddy or anyone traditional domain name registrar: “Domain sellers such as GoDaddy are beginning to promote a list of top level domains which will become available, including .REALTOR.   These domain sellers have no relationship with NAR or the sale of .REALTOR ... read more ...
 
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Fairwinds: Time For UDRP Reform To Change Bad Faith Requirement From Registration Date To Renewals - Fairwinds Partners, which also heads up the Collation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has weighted in on the recent UDRP decision on Big5.com and whether the bad faith for a domain holder should be judged from only at the time the domain was first registered or acquired or each time the domain name was renewed on its blog today. Domain investor Nat Cohen wrote an excellent analysis of the issue on  domainarts.com, last week and I highly recommend that all domain holders take the time not only ... read more ...
 
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The English-language internet just grew by a third—but you probably won’t notice - On Jan. 29, 2014, you will be able to navigate over to your friendly neighborhood domain registrar and register a website on any (or indeed all) of nine new top-level domains (TLDs). So far, the English-language internet has gotten along just fine with a mere 22 TLDs, the best known of which are .com, .net and .org. Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which runs the internet’s addressing system, approved the first nine of some 1,400 new TLDs that ... read more ...
 
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Post-delegation dispute resolution procedures to be up and running soon - <![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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GoDaddy kicks off gTLD land rush with first domain sales - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 Domain dealer GoDaddy has begun the first registrations of domains under the ICANN generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme.The company said that it will be allowing customers to pre-register sites in the .build, .luxury, .uno and .menu domains. The release marks the first registration for the new domains since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally approved the ... read more ...
 
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Donuts wins dual some-more fibre objections, settles another - Only four string confusion objections have not been decided. The contentious and highly unpredictable string confusion objection process for new top level domain names is coming to a close. International Centre for Dispute Resolution posted three more decisions today, leaving just four decisions outstanding. The three decisions all involved mega-applicant Donuts. Commercial Connect brought and lost two of the cases. The company claimed that .supplies and .商店 ... read more ...
 
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.Buzz registry launches ICANNBuzz forward of Buenos Aires conference - .Buzz registry makes website for sharing during next week’s ICANN conference in Buenos Aires. The domain name industry pilgrimage to Buenos Aires for ICANN #48 begins later this week. There’s a lot more excitement buzz in the air this time around as new TLD applicants can finally see the endpoint (or is it the starting point?). One of the registries making the trek is DotStrategy, which will be rolling out the .buzz domain name next year. The company has put together ... read more ...
 
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What domain names General Motors and others recently purchased - GM buys a domain for $795 and other end user domain name sales. I was traveling last week, so I’m a bit behind on end user sales reports. This report is for two weeks ago. PhoneTracker.com $50,000 – Spy Phone Labs LLC, creator of the Phone Tracker software for monitoring your child’s cell phone. Propertybase.de 4,165 EUR – Real estate software company Propertybase, which already uses Propertybase.com. FirstBrothers.com $21,000 – Investment and advisory firm ... read more ...
 
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1&1 starts pre-registration, and new TLDs are removing most some-more confusing - Top ten domain registrar 11 is now accepting pre-registrations on a first come basis, and the various pre-registration offerings are rather confusing. Last week I wrote about how GoDaddy was beginning to accept paid pre-registrations for a handful of top level domain names that will be coming soon. Other registrars are also offering some version of paid offering now, and more will begin to do so as the domains are actually delegated. 11, which has been running TV ... read more ...
 
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GoTo.com is back! - The brand associated with the commercialization of pay-per-click search has found its way back to the internet. How’s this for a bit of nostalgia? Remember GoTo.com and its iconic green and yellow logo? It’s baaaack! If you weren’t around the domain and online advertising world in the late 90s, you might not be familiar with the site. GoTo.com basically invented the pay-per-click search marketing business that is the basis for Google’s search ads and became ... read more ...
Sun 10th November 2013
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Godaddy Goes All In On The New gTLD’s -                       Godaddy.com appears to have gone all in on the new gTLD’s. Gone from the front page of Godaddy is the drop down menu listing the different domain extension that are available for registration, replaced by a huge ad for preregistrations of just 4 new gTLD’s, .Uno, .Luxury, .Build, and .Menu. Actually the only other extension mentioned anywhere on the front page is .co which is right by the domain search bar. Instead of a drop down menu there is a “domain search ... read more ...
 
 
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Will Quorvus Become The New Hotel Brand For Carlson Hotels (Radisson, ParkPlaza, Country Inns) - Carlson Hotels which operates several hotel chains like Radisson Blu Radisson Park Plaza Park Inn by Radisson Country Inns Suites By Carlson Hotel Missoni Look like its getting to roll out another new Hotel group known as Quorvus According to some new registrations at brand protection company MarkMonitor.com it looks like Carlson is going to call a new line of hotels Quorvus registering Quorvus.com, Quorvuscollection.com, and even some typo’s like Quorvis.com We will keep any eye on this Here ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Much Will The Highest .College/.XYZ Sell For On Namejet.com? - This week Namejet.com started an auction fro 40 .college/.XYZ new gTLD domain names. These are the first new gTLD’s to go up for sale anywhere in the world. Today’s quick poll questions is not which domain will sell for the most, but what will be the the highest price that any one of these domain will sell for. Again to be clear, we are not asking what the total amount of the auction will be but what is the highest price that will be paid for one of these domains. Your choices range from under ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Experts Discuss Policy, Future Of New Internet Top-level Domains - Representatives of ICANN, MarkMonitor and Donuts discuss the future of the new gTLD program at a Donuts-sponsored panel WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), yesterday hosted a panel discussion aimed at bringing Washington policymakers, journalists and influencers up to speed on the status and future of the Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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First Nine English-Language newgTLDs Delegated by ICANN – .Camera … - This past week brought word that the first nine Latin / ASCII "new Generic Top Level Domains (newgTLDs)" were delegated by ICANN and are now found in the root of DNS. This means that the registries behind these newgTLDS can now start the process of making "second-level domains" (the ones we normally register) available in each of these TLDs. These were not the first newgTLDs delegated in this latest expansion of the domain name space — that honor went to four internationalized domains back ... read more ...
Sat 9th November 2013
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Designer Isaac Mizrah Loses UDRP Bid To Get The Domain isaacMizrahiLive.com - In a UDRP decision certain to drive brand owners crazy, IM Brands, Inc. which represents designer Isaac Mizrah lost a UDRP on domain name isaacmizrahilive.com Its so interesting that some UDRP panels use all sort of convoluted logic to give generic domains to trademark holders,2 this panel didn’t seem to question why the domain owner would own this domain without the trademark holder in mind. Here the domain holder did not respond to the UDRP, offered to sell the domain and the record is silent ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Part Series On Why Domain Blocking Of New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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Verisign Publishes 2nd Part of 4 Parts Series On Why Domain Blocking o New … - Verisign just released the second in a four part series of why ICANN’s effort to fix the potential collision issue caused by the release of new gTLD’s, by blocking domain registrations, isn’t good enough to fix the potential problems Here is the second post of the promised four part series: For several years, DNS-OARC has been collecting DNS query data “from busy and interesting DNS name servers” as part of an annual “Day-in-the-Life” (DITL) effort (an effort originated by CAIDA ... read more ...