Monthly Archives: December 2013

Mon 9th December 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
"Private Domains" und neue TLDs: ICANN warnt vor Domain-Kollisionen - Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) macht mobil gegen die Nutzung privater Domain-Namen. Mit der Einführung von über 1000 neuen Top Level Domains (TLD) steige die Gefahr, dass die häufig innerhalb privater, von außen in der Regel nicht zugänglichen Netze genutzten Kurznamen wie beispielsweise .home, .corp oder .lan mit ihnen kollidieren. Die Hauptempfehlung der Organisation an Netzadministratoren: Bitte auf echte Domains umstellen. Bin da ... "Private ... read more ...
 
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.christmas, .camera oder .career? Mit Host Europe Chancen für begehrte neue … - Montag 9. Dezember 2013 | 09:46 Kunden können über das Onlineportal von Host Europe Interesse an einer gTLD äußern und erhalten eine Benachrichtigung, sobald die gewünschte Domainendung verfügbar ist. In der Launch-Phase einer gTLD erhöht die Vorbestellung über Host Europe die Erfolgsaussichten bei der Reservierung einer Domain. In den kommenden zwei Jahren erfolgt die Einführung von über 1.400 generischen Top Level Domains (gTLD). Damit Kunden nicht verpassen, ... read more ...
 
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Tony Willoughby finds another association guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Panelist finds another company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby has found Aero Club of New Delhi, India guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP. This is Willoughby’s second RDNH finding in under a month. In both cases, it appears that the respondent did not specifically request the panelist to consider an RDNH charge. (Willoughby, like some other panelists, recognizes the duty to ... read more ...
 
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.Music, .Song, and .Tunes new tip turn domain name objections opposite Amazon.com dismissed - Amazon.com prevails in dispute over three music related top level domain names. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled against the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) community objections to Amazon.com’s bids to run the .music, .song, and .tunes domain names. A2IM is backing a rival bid for .music by Constantinos Roussos. A2IM filed objections against seven rival applications for .music. Each case will certainly be different. For ... read more ...
 
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You’d contend .com is dead, too! - It has a nice ring to it. Over the weekend Elliot Silver posted an ad with the headline “Dot Com is Dead” from Minds + Machines. I’ve seen a lot of other blog posts about how new TLD backers are beating the drum that .com is dead. Domainers commenting on the posts then typically say that the idea that .com is dead is ridiculous. Of course it’s ridiculous. But it’s also exactly what you’d say if you were a new TLD operator. It sure beats “.Com is the ... read more ...
 
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How we destitute another click rascal (and auction fraud) scheme - A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this year I uncovered one such scam after digging around following a suspicious phone call from someone pretending to be with ICANN. The people behind the scam had been boasting about how they’re making so much money with ... read more ...
Sun 8th December 2013
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Brand TLDs Become Official - It seems that pigs can, after all, fly. From the start of its new gTLD program, ICANN ignored what was obvious to pretty much everyone else: corporations might wish to apply for their brands and run them as closed ecosystem TLDs servicing only the brands in question. No longer. By releasing a proposed addendum to its registry contract, called Specification 13, ICANN has done two things it has always said it would never do: acknowledged that "brand TLDs" should be considered in the new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Owner Of BusinessesForSale.com Files UDRP On BusinessForSale.com Purchased For $150K In 2011 From Marchex -   A UDRP has been filed against the domain name BusinessForSale.com The Domain is actually a full blown site with containing listings of businesses for sale. The domain name was purchased from Marchex for $150,000, in 2011. The company filing the complainant and seeking to grab the domain name Businessforsale.com is Dynamis Limited, whose site is Dynamis.co.uk Dynamis describes itself as being: “A leading online publisher focused upon delivering exciting web titles and technologies within the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals On Name Collision Identification … - ICANN has issued comprehensive advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public Domain Name System (DNS) and thus, eliminate the causes of name collisions as new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are added to the DNS. In a report titled Name Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals, ICANN explains the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible solutions. Domain name collisions are not new. ... read more ...
 
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Große Nachfrage nach neuen Webadressen - von Alfred Krüger Das Internet wird bunter. In den nächsten Monaten werden nach und nach 1.400 neue Domainendungen für alle Nutzer freigegeben. Die Nachfrage nach den neuen Domains ist jetzt schon groß. Besonders beliebt sind .shop und regionale Endungen wie .berlin.  Konkurrenz für .com, .de und .net: Im Laufe der nächsten Wochen und Monate gibt die Internetverwaltung ICANN nach und nach 1.400 neue Domainendungen frei. Die ersten Top Level Domains (TLDs) gingen bereits ... read more ...
Sat 7th December 2013
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Rewiring Internet Governance: Choice and Control (Part 2) - It is tempting to write off ICANN as a U.S. foreign policy lackey and that's all there is to say about ICANN. However, if the mantra for rewiring governance means "lets get ICANN" we risk missing forest for trees. ICANN is merely the symptom of a dysfunctional governance predicament that somehow (despite best efforts) skews oversight. Shapiro, for example, regards oversight as a "game" (1994). His "delegation dilemma" or "agency problem" stems from two options, neither of which are attractive ... read more ...
 
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Daniel Negari Lays Out His Vision For .XYZ & Chats About The Controversial NameJet.com Auctions -     While at was at ICANN chatting with Applicants and others in the domain space the question I found myself being asked the most was about .XYZ. .XYZ has been very aggressive pushed the envelope when it became the first to auction off new gTLD domains names through Namejet.com So I reached out to Daniel Negari whose company is going to operate the .XYZ extension (and .College too)  to see what his vision for the extension is, what’s up wit the Namejet.com auctions  and what the hell he was ... read more ...
 
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ICANN posts guidelines to avoid gTLD mix-ups - Free Regcast : Managing Multi-Vendor Devices with System Centre 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a set of resources to help administrators avoid potentially costly mix-ups ahead of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) rollout.The company said that its new set of guides will show network admins how to check for, remedy and guard against "name collision" errors related to the changes in the gTLD structure and resulting ... read more ...
Fri 6th December 2013
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MutualFunds.Com Sells & Heritage Domain Auction Crosses $1.5 Million Mark - The domain name MutualFunds.com found a new home, selling for an undisclosed amount to an anonymous buyer, after initially crossing the auction block as part of Heritage Auctions inaugural Domain Name Intellectual Property Signature® Auction, which has recorded well in excess of $1.5 million in total sales so far since the live event in New York on Nov. 21. “While we cannot reveal the details of the transaction, we can say that the seller was seeking an offer in the $1 million range plus 15% ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update – WIPO rules on entitlement to gTLDs where ownership of a brand … - WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Centre has issued a number of rulings which demonstrate the circumstances in which WIPO is or is not likely to uphold an objection to a gTLD application where ownership of a brand is split across territories. In both the ".yellowpages" and ".merck and .emerck" cases, WIPO rejected oppositions to the gTLD applications in situations where both the applicant and opponent owned rights to the corresponding marks and the gTLDs in question had been legitimately ... read more ...
 
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Impact of introducing the new generic top level domain (new gTLD) - About the New gTLD A top level domain refers to an internet domain name at the highest level (the right-most label in the domain name space).  Up until now, a top level domain consisted of 250 national top level domains (“nTLD”), such as “kr” (Korea) and “jp” (Japan) and 23 generic top level domains (“gTLD”) such as “com”, “net” and “info”.  Under the newly introduced new generic top level domains (“new gTLD”), a generic top level domain can ... read more ...
 
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Intellectual Property Owners Association Tells ICANN Registries Should Not Be Able To Hold Trademarked Domains - The President of The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Richard Phillips, sent a letter to ICANN telling them that that new gTLD registries should not be allowed to be reserved names that are filed with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) and if they are allowed the IPO wants the registry to be subject to a UDRP like dispute resolution procedure. “We are particularly concerned that the rights provided to new Registry Operators in Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement will adversely ... read more ...
 
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It’s "No" To .Polo - We've written about the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) on more than one occasion. This refers, of course, to the process whereby companies and organisations can register names generic words, geographical names, brand names - as top level domain names. So, in the same way that there's long been .com, .net and .info, you can now have .bank, .google and .capetown. Some 1900 applications have already been filed. In a previous article we discussed the Trademark Clearinghouse, the system that ... read more ...
 
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the National Association of REALTORS® Files Its 1st UDRP - Jay I said they did apply for .realtor in my post I think the actual applicant is a company set up by the NAR according to their application: The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), The Voice for Real Estate®, is the world’s largest professional association, representing greater than one million members over approximately 1,400 local associations⁄boards. The term REALTOR® is registered as a collective membership mark with the United States Patent ... read more ...
 
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the National Association of REALTORS® Files Its 1st UDRP - Jay I said they did apply for .realtor in my post I think the actual applicant is a company set up by the NAR according to their application: The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), The Voice for Real Estate®, is the world’s largest professional association, representing greater than one million members over approximately 1,400 local associations⁄boards. The term REALTOR® is registered as a collective membership mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It is ... read more ...
 
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John Berryhill On Why You Should Be Glad Some Courts Do Not Consider Domains Property - It is an article of religious faith among some domainers that the world would magically be a better place if domain names were, for all purposes, property.Okay, let’s have a show of hands: How many of you want: 1. To pay sales and transfer taxes on this “property” when it is bought and sold? 2. To have them be considered marital assets during a divorce? 3. To have them subject to liens? If the states of Arizona, Florida, or Virginia got wind of the notion that GoDaddy, Moniker and Netsol have ... read more ...
 
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CPS-Datensysteme GmbH ist bereit für das neue Netz - Vallendar, 02. Dezember 2013 – Die neuen TLDs stehen kurz vor dem Markteintritt. Adressen wie .BERLIN, .RUHR und .GMBH bereiten sich auf Ihren großen Auftritt in 2014 vor. Einige Registrierstellen haben Ihre Bewerberphase bereits erfolgreich abgeschlossen und die nötigen Verträge mit der ICANN besiegelt. Mit den neuen TLDs erfindet sich das Internet nicht neu, es wird allerdings größer und bunter. Man könnte sagen, wer jetzt die besten Adressen vormerkt, ist seinem künftigen virtuellen Eigenheim ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions’ domain name auction tops $1.5 million as MutualFunds.com sells - MutualFunds.com highlights post-auction activity as sales reach into the seven figures. Heritage Auctions’ first ever domain name auction just became a much bigger success. The auction has now sold a total of $1.5 million worth of domain names including post-auction deals. That means around $1 million worth of sales have taken place since the auction. The most expensive sale is MutualFunds.com, which was sold by Marc Ostrofsky, the man who made headlines selling ... read more ...
 
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How did Verisign accommodate the 100% SLA on .com Whois in June? - Despite Whois problems in June, Verisign reported meeting its SLA for .com. Each month Verisign and the other domain name registries submit reports to ICANN that include their uptime and performance numbers. One of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Verisign’s .com contract is 100% uptime for Whois. While reviewing recent registry reports this week I was surprised to see that Verisign reported it met its 100% SLA in June. You may recall that Verisign had ... read more ...
 
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26 finish user domain name sales from Sedo - A bitcoin marketplace is among the end users buying domain names at Sedo last week. Sedo closed $1.2 million of transactions last week, including five domain sales to one end user. You may view previous sales lists here. Bitok.com $15,000 – Purchased by Bitcoin Innovations Ltd. It looks like a bitcoin marketplace, including for buying and selling options on bitcoins. Brainlab.at 1,700 EUR – Brainlab, a medical device maker. It uses Brainlab.com for its web address. CoolCash.co.uk ... read more ...