Monthly Archives: December 2013

Thu 5th December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Play The InterNetX DomainGame & You Can Be Crowned The DomainKing (Mr, Schwartz Is Not Going To Be Happy) - InterNetX just announced the DomainGame which is intended to help convey some basic knowledge about the complex topic of “domains”. “You know what .CX is? And you know where the Christmas Islands are? If you think you know something about domains, then play our Xmas DomainGame and earn the crown of Domain King.” (For those in the domain industry, most know Rick Schwartz is the Domain King (I think he has a trademark on it)). The email continues: “As an extra incentive, there are also prizes ... read more ...
 
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And S&P Loses UDRP Becuase BoycottStandardandPoors.com Doesn’t Resolve - Standard Poor’s Financial Services LLC  just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn’t resolve, this three member panel refused to transfer the domain largely because the domain name did not resolve finding since the domain did not resolve SP could not meet its burden of proof that the domain name was registered in bad faith. “As Respondent conceivably ... read more ...
 
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13 Year Old WAFU.com Lost in UDRP As Domain Holder Fails To Respond & Domain Doesn’t Resolve - Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one’s cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 another dated November 17, 2003. However  “The Complainant contends that the registration date of the disputed domain name is March 8, 2000, nearly one year after the use of the Complainant’s mark; the Respondent therefore, does not have any rights or ... read more ...
 
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The Grapes of Wrath? An Insight Into .WINE, the Most Hotly Debated TLD in … - Everybody agrees, all .WINE applicants want to find where the buck is going to stop, as far as the strange stalemate we have been in for so many months. Situation? "What situation?" I hear you asking. In July 2012, when applications and the name of their applicants were released to the public, it appeared that 3 applicants had the same idea, when they applied for a .WINE Top-Level Domain. Wine Geographical Indications Battle lines were drawn over whether the contentious issue of "wine ... read more ...
 
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How Premium New gTLD’s Might Help Sell Your .Com Domains - Many of the new gTLD registries are planning on the old .TV pricing model to sell their premium domain names. Two large applicants Donuts and  Minds +Machines who between the two applied for 400 new gTLD strings, have both stated they indent to use the .TV pricing model which sells premium domains instead one for a one time payment in the four, five and even six figures and breaks them down by a factor of 1/10 and charges that amount every year as a annual premium renewal price. Like .TV pricing ... read more ...
 
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Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How we Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now. - At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH), a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, applied for 100 or so new gTLD’s and recently launched its own domain name registrar site. Not only can you register domain names on five new gTLD’s  extensions; Casa, .CEO, .Best, .Cooking and .Horse, but also .com .net and .org registrations. Since MindsandMachines.com ... read more ...
 
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Sedo, TLD Registry partner to launch Chinese character IDNs - Thursday 5 December 2013 | 16:18 CET | News Global domain marketplace and monetisation provider, Sedo has announced a key strategic partnership with TLD Registry, the organisation approved to run the first broadly applicable internationalised domain names (IDNs) in Chinese: Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website. As part of the partnership, Sedo ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Partners With TLD Registry To Help Launch First Broadly Applicable … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Leading Domain Marketplace Plans Launch Auctions and Premium Sales As a Key Strategic Partner for Introducing Linguistically Correct Chinese Domain Extensions .?? and .???CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced a key strategic partnership with TLD Registry, the organization approved to run the first broadly applicable internationalized domain names (IDNs) in Chinese: Dot Chinese Online ... read more ...
 
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.Uno & .Menu Have Arrived - Move over .com and .org – .uno and .menu have gone live. Since the 1990s, competition over domain names has led the government to experiment with solutions to improve the Internet Domain Name System. The process formally began in 2005 when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began developing policies that would allow third parties to operate sponsored gTLDs outside the twenty-two that were already in existence. On January ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: 9th Circuit Says No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under ACPA: Ruling In Godaddy’s Favor - The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that there is No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under  the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act  (ACPA). The case is  PETROLIAM NASIONAL, Plaintiff-counter-claim-defendant, Appellant, v.GODADDY.COM, INC.Defendant-counter-claimant,  Appellee., No. 12-15584 D.C. No. 4:09-cv-05939- PJH The case is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Petroliam Nasional Berhad, a Malaysian oil and ... read more ...
 
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“Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules - Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applicants who planned to keep their .cloud registries closed to registrations: Google, Amazon.com, and Symantec. Panelist Stephen L. Drymer ruled that the community Cloud Industry Forum claimed in the objection is not “clearly delineated.” ... read more ...
 
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Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute - Financial services company and rating agency can’t have “boycott” domain name, panel rules. Standard Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name owner argued that he’s exercising his first amendment rights by owning the “gripe” style domain name. The panel determined that the domain name could be used as a gripe site and be protected, so it denied Standard Poor’s ... read more ...
 
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Ontario association paid $137,500 to buy Sandwich.com from Yahoo! - A small Canadian company bought Sandwich.com in the Yahoo! domain name auction last month. The first three domains that Yahoo! sold in a domain name auction last month have changed hands, including the biggest sale of all: $137,500 for Sandwich.com. The buyer is officially Seyed Ali Mirabolghasemi in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Based on the address in whois and Mirabolghasemi’s Google+ profile, it appears he has a company called Future Web Media, Inc. I can’t ... read more ...
 
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How most will Domainers and Defensive Registrations matter for new TLD operators? - New TLD registries will need to count on domainers and defensive registrations if they hope to amass a large registration base. Every new top level domain name applicant I’ve spoken with will swear they aren’t counting on defensive registrations to build their domain base. Even those whose business model depends on companies wanting to make sure people don’t think they .suck. Many of them also say they don’t want or care about the domain investor’s business. They’re ... read more ...
Wed 4th December 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Sunrise period opens this week on new gTLDs - On November 6, 2013, Donuts, Inc., a registry for new gTLDs, announced that the “Sunrise” period for seven of its new gTLDs will begin on November 26. The included extensions are: .clothing, .singles, .holdings, .bike, .ventures, .guru, and .plumbing. Similarly, on November 13, the company introduced seven more new gTLDs to “Sunrise” on December 3. The added extensions are .camera, .equipment, .estate, .gallery, .graphics, .lighting, and .photography. The “Sunrise” ... read more ...
 
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Want a luxurious URL? Try $800 a Year for a .Luxury URL - As new gTLDs start to roll out, we've been following a couple of the latest ones in the first large batch of this year, for next year. Over the course of the next 2-3 years, we will see a lot of new TLDs being created enabling for new online businesses and domains. The truth is that we're starting to run out of domain names and the ICANN knows this, which is the point of the new TLDs (top level domains). We recently have used up all four letter domains ending in .com and will surely ... read more ...
 
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SellMyApp.com Saved In UDRP AS Complainant Fails To Meet Any Of The 3 Elements Of A UDRP - Vassilios Pantazopoulos just lost his bid to grab 4 domains including SellMyApp.com with the three member UDRP panel finding the Complainant failed to meet any of the three elements required for a successful UDRP. The domain holder was represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm sellmyapp.com sellmyapp.net sellmyapplication.net sellmyapplication.org Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel On or about October 14, 2010, Complainant launched its website under ... read more ...
 
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Webinar Alert: Riding the New gTLD Wave to Achieve 10x Hosting Growth - New gTLDs are here! And to equip web hosts to plan their future business activities better, LogicBoxes will be running a webinar titled 'Riding the New gTLD wave to achieve 10x hosting growth' on 11th Dec, 2013. With a number of New gTLDs already in their Sunrise period and many more to be launched in the coming months, web hosts domain resellers are best positioned to achieve phenomenal growth by making the right moves in the rapidly evolving New gTLD maze. LogicBoxes aims to help web ... read more ...
 
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TLD, TCAT helping prepare drivers for commercial trucking industry Open house … - CROSSVILLE — Commercial driving is a growing industry, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimating a 21 percent growth in the number of jobs by 2020. It's a career where individuals can quickly complete training and enter the workforce, quickly earning a highly competitive wage. In fact, in the past 12 months, trucking companies have added 40,000 new jobs, but in the Upper Cumberland, many would-be students found it difficult to travel to driving schools in Knoxville or Lebanon. Roger ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Partners with TLD Registry to Help Launch First Broadly Applicable … - Related: Press Release, News Sedo, the world's largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced a key strategic partnership with TLD Registry, the organization approved to run the first broadly applicable internationalized domain names (IDNs) in Chinese: Dot Chinese Online (.??) and Dot Chinese Website (.???). As part of the partnership, Sedo will operate launch auctions and manage the premium name programs for these two new top-level domains (TLDS). “Not all IDNs make ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Announces ArcheoDomains.com Adds “Buy It Now” Feature To 30K Domains - ArcheoDomains.com announced that they added “Buy Now” functionality to the ArcheoDomains.com marketplace. More than 30,000 domains are now competitively priced under $10,000 and available for immediate purchase. Focused on our Geo-specific names, some examples include NewYorkDoctor.com, ManhattanPubs.com, CarolinaOnline.com, ArizonaColleges.com, AustinLawyers.com, GeorgiaHouses.com, OrlandoEyeDoctor.com, and more. ArcheoDomains.com part of Marchex, owns over 200,000 domain names. With this update,  ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry to Partner with Sedo for Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese … - Leading fully-Chinese internet domain name TLDs to partner with global leader in premium domain name auctions. TLD Registry Ltd, the leading internet domain name registry for fully-Chinese domain names, today announced it has contracted with Sedo for its upcoming premium domain names program. Valuable and sought-after fully-Chinese domain names in the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains (TLDs) will become publicly available via Sedo on ... 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 ... read more ...
 
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Variety.com Publishes; Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media -   Variety.com just published a cover story on Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and its less than flattering. The article entitled Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media starts out: “Take note, Twitter: Not every tech company has a happy ending after a ballyhooed IPO. Just look at Demand Media, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based firm some thought would revolutionize content production. Not long after the company went public in January 2011, its market capitalization soared to more than $2 billion, ... read more ...
 
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Oink.com With Trademark Sold For $57,500 - TechCrunch.com is reporting that Virtual Piggy, a payments service aimed at minors is today rebranding as Oink after buying the domain, trademarks and social marks from Milk (not Google) for $57,500. Founder and CEO Jo Webber is quoted as saying “the company found that 66% of it users were already over the age of 13, “Piggy” sounded too infantile but “Oink” lets them retain some of the branding association with piggy banks while sounding more punchy in a way that will resonate better with ... read more ...