Monthly Archives: November 2013

Mon 4th November 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Strategies: How domain expansion brings predicted trademark chaos - David Schachter You might never have heard of the island nation of Tuvalu, a 10-square-mile Polynesian pinpoint that sits about 1,500 miles east of New Guinea. Yet thanks to the Internet, Tuvalu is getting its 15 minutes of fame, figuring prominently in a bitter ... read more ...
 
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What was TruTag Technologies meditative in this UDRP? - Company goes after domain names registered many years before it started using the trademark in question. I just don’t get it. TruTag Technologies, Inc. just wasted money filing a UDRP against the domain names trutag.com, truetag.net, and truetag.org. The company sells microtags for authentication and anti-counterfeiting. It uses the domain name TruTags.com, which it probably chose because TruTag.com had already been registered for several years when it started its ... read more ...
 
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Here are a tip 25 NameJet sales from October - Vida.com leads NameJet’s list of October sales. NameJet has been kind enough to publicly release some of its monthly sales data. The past couple times I’ve received the lists I’ve tried to do an end user sales list, only to run into a couple problems. First, almost all of the domains are owned by domainers are are under whois privacy. Second, although an end user might now own some of the domains, I discovered that they actually didn’t buy the names through ... read more ...
 
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Afilias loses combined fibre difficulty box opposite .mobile - Amazon, Donuts, and Dish DBS prevail in dispute over .mobile. Afilias, the registry that operates the .mobi top level domain name, has lost a consolidated string confusion objection against applicants for .mobile. This is, I believe, the first objection in which more than one applicant agreed to have the case heard on a consolidated basis. .Mobile applicants in the case included Amazon.com, Donuts, and Dish DBS. Panelist M. Scott Donahey determined (pdf) that .mobi ... read more ...
 
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Servers.com domain name to sell for $300,000 after no one shows adult to auction - Stalking horse bidder will walk away with valuable domain name Servers.com. Last month I wrote about how the Servers.com domain name was headed for sale in a bankruptcy auction. There was a stalking horse bid of $300,000, and no other parties submitted an interest in the domain name, so the domain name will sell for $300,000 subject to court approval. The buyer listed on the original court document is XBT Holdings Ltd. I can’t find an exact match for that name when ... read more ...
 
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Johnson & Johnson loses box opposite Johnsons.com (again!) - For the second time in ten years, consumer products company Johnson Johnson has lost a UDRP against the domain name Johnsons.com. I first wrote about this case back in July. As I noted at the time, the whois record changed slightly since the domain was registered in 1997, but it’s quite clear that the same group still owns the domain name. Nevertheless, Johnson Johnson used the fact that the registrant company name on whois changed as a way to argue that the registration ... read more ...
Sat 2nd November 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Issues Rules For Last Resort Auction But Fails To Address Many Of Applicants Concerns - ICANN published rules for its Last Resort auction last night. To bid in an auction each applicant will have to put up 10% of its maximum bid and if they want to bid an unlimited amount or more than $20 Million they have to put up $2 million per string. Under the rules applicants will not be able to ‘”share” the deposit (although once concluded the money can be moved to another auction) theoretically if an applicant for a large number of applications in contention wanted the ability to bid over ... read more ...
 
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First New TLD Quietly Enters Sunrise Period - The first Sunrise Period for trademark owners under ICANN's new gTLD program has begun. The gTLD is the Arabic IDN 'شبكة, or "dot-Shabaka". The term roughly means "web" in Arabic and eligibility for registrations is unrestricted. The Dot-Shabaka Registry has made it clear for months that they wanted to be the first TLD to launch this year. This launch represents an important milestone for ICANN's new gTLD program. Congratulations are in order for ICANN, ARI Registry (the back-end provider) ... read more ...
 
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TLD pose sa 1 re pierre sur Isoparc à Sorigny - Au début de cette année, l'entreprise TLD Europe basée à Montlouis a reçu le premier prix national de l'innovation industrielle pour son Taxibot, un tracteur d'avion de nouvelle génération qui permet aux compagnies aériennes de réaliser des économies de carburant. Pour produire cet équipement d'avenir, TLD a choisi de construire une nouvelle usine sur la zone d'activités d'Isoparc, en bordure de l'A 10 à Sorigny. La première pierre de cette usine sera posée ce lundi ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sells 39,830 domain names in October - GoDaddy Auctions sells nearly 40,000 domain names in October. The monthly GoDaddy Auctions Domain Market Report won’t be as full of surprises going forward now that GoDaddy is publishing its sales along with Afternic’s each week. But there is still unique data in the October report. The headline number: GoDaddy Auctions sold 39,830 domain names last month. Whereas Buy Now and Auction sales usually account for about half each, this time auctions had a noticeable ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
DomainTools.com Rolls Out Redesigned Site - A reader noticed that DomainTools.com has undergone a pretty dramatic designed home page today. The home page has a much more modern look and feel. Interestedly DomainTools.com which seemed to start out as a product geared towards the domainer community is now highlighting the usefulness of the site as a tool for Law Enforcement and Brand Protection Companies. According to Tim Chen of DomainTools.com, the general context of site resign is really the the homepage which was meant to: -starting to focus ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board Of Directors Get Over $1.7 Million In Compensations & Reimbursements in FY 2013 - This table represents reimbursements and compensation paid directly to Board Members, payments made to third party vendors such as hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies on behalf of Board Members as well as a total of the three amounts. This is only compensation and reimbursements for the Directors. Not included are compensation paid as Officers and Employees. This is for the fiscal year of 2013 which ends on June 30, 2013. Compensation amounts reflect amounts effectively paid in FY13, including ... read more ...
 
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ADT Loses Bid To Grab 10 Year Old Domain Name AdtDealers.com Used For Gripe Site Through UDRP - ADT, the Alarm company, just lost a UDRP on the domain name adtdealers.com which was registered on November 11, 2003.  The domain holder did not file a response.  The content of the adtdealers.com domain name  appears to be complaints and plights from consumers who have become weary of the aggressive and hard-line tactics employed by Complainant’s affiliates and suggests that Internet users should favor certain ADT dealers over other dealers The Panel holds that Complainant has not established ... read more ...
 
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gTLD updates for brand owners: first new gTLDs delegated, non-latin gTLDs, a … - HIGHLIGHTS Brand owners should prepare for the impending release of numerous new gTLDs – the first few of which will be open for registration soon, and even sooner during the sunrise periods for brand-owners who have registered their trademarks in the Trademark Clearinghouse. A product to block registered trademarks from being registered as domain names in 200+ new gTLDs has been unveiled. Brand owners must consider whether this new product should be part of their overall domain name enforcement ... read more ...
 
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The internet just got bigger: further developments in the gTLD space - 1 November 2013 New domain-name spaces are in the process of being introduced. Businesses and brand owners should take care to make sure that their trademarks are not registered as domain names in these new spaces by unscrupulous operators or by competitors. There are protection mechanisms for brand owners that can be used to assist in blocking others from registering your ... read more ...
 
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TMCH update: roll-out of new gTLDs - Donuts, a domain name registry that applied for more than 300 generic top level domains (gTLDs), has just announced the start of the Sunrise Period for 9 new gTLDs, commencing on 29 October 2013. The following new gTLDs will be rolled out by Donuts: Click here to view the table. With so many new gTLDs being created, the problem of cyber-squatting is ever-present.  ICANN’s answer to this was to establish a global trade mark clearing system, known as the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), ... read more ...
 
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First Heritage Domain Name Auction Is Live - The  Heritage Domain Name Auction Site Is Live and the reserves on a lot of domain names seem very reasonable Here are some of the domain names in the auction with reasonable Reserves XZ.com Cheap two letter .com $100,000 reserve Dayton.com Opening Bid $50,000 Animation.com Multi-billion dollar category.  Degrees, jobs etc. 40,000 exact searches. $95,000 reserve Suit.com $95,000 Reserve DoctorateDegree.com $10,000 reserve. Very high PPC and great for lead gen. DVDs.com $75,000 reserve, site included. Last ... read more ...
 
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Knameit.com (The K is Silent) Prepares To Become The Newest Premium Domain Name Aftermarket Online - According to a press release out today another company is going to be launching “Premium domain name aftermarket online” The site’s URL is Knameit.com (The company name as a silent “k” and is pronounced “name it.”, No I’m not making it up)  and is being rolled out by “a Miami-based technology start-up company. Here is the rest of the info from the Press Release: “Using 18 years experience with web development and domains, the founders of Knameit have included business advice ... read more ...
 
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ICANN delegates new generic top-level domains - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on October 23, 2013 announced the "Dawn of a New Internet Era" with the first round of rollouts and delegation for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This means the new gTLDs were added into the Root Zone Database, which is the central authoritative database for the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).   What does this mean for the Internet? The current list of 22 available gTLDs (e.g., .com, .biz, ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools retools website - Company launches new homepage more targeted to security and enterprise services. Don’t be alarmed if you visit DomainTools.com this afternoon and see the image to the right. The company, known in the domain name community for its whois and domain searching tools, has updated its home page as well as some other elements throughout the site. Whereas the previous home page focused on whois searches and finding domain names, the new one is all about cybercrime, brand ... read more ...
 
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NameBright offers $4.99 .com domain names in November - James is right again, you need to exit the drop catch business, if you want the trust of domainers. I assume this is not something you are willing to do. As well you need to stop registering TM terms, maybe a better eyeball of your vaccum system before you go and gulp every drop of the day could help you fix that. I think all parties deserve a fair shot, and people should not be swayed by teaser pricing. I would rather register with Godaddy.com, Name.com, Namecheap.com before even ... read more ...
 
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.PersianGulf survives village conflict from those who preference Arabian Gulf name - You say Persian. I say Arabian. Let’s call the whole thing off. The Gulf Cooperation Council has lost a community objection it brought against the applicant for the .persiangulf top level domain name. This case (pdf) was one of the more interesting ones to be decided to date. The objectors don’t like the .persiangulf top level domain name because they don’t believe the body of water should be known as the Persian Gulf. Instead, they believe the name should ... read more ...
 
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First new tip turn domain name morning begins? - According to the Trademark Clearinghouse, the first sunrise has begun. The sunrise period for شبكة. (shabaka) has begun…sort of. According to the official Trademark Clearinghouse sunrise page, the sunrise period for this domain name began yesterday and runs through December 30. Just two days ago the dotShabaka team wrote about how they submitted the necessary information to ICANN for sunrise but hadn’t heard back. Even if the sunrise has begun, it will be ... read more ...
 
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True Religion jeans association sues over TrueReligion.com domain name - Last month I wrote about how jeans company True Religion lost a domain name arbitration case with the owner of TrueReligion.com. The owner of TrueReligion.com registered the domain name in 1998, many years before the jeans company came into existence. He originally used the domain name to write about Islam. But once the jeans company became very popular, he started using the domain name to profit from the True Religion brand. The jeans company lost its UDRP domain ... read more ...