Monthly Archives: December 2013

Mon 16th December 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
EPR : EDF sommé de mettre en conformité le chantier - EDF a reçu une mise en demeure de l'inspection du travail de mettre en conformité une machine centrale du chantier du réacteur nucléaire EPR à Flamanville (Manche). Le groupe a ainsi confirmé une information du site Mediapart.  "Le chantier n'est pas arrêté" Un porte-parole d'EDF a confirmé auprès de l'AFP que le groupe avait reçu une telle mise en demeure la semaine dernière, mais a démenti toute interruption des travaux du chantier.  "Nous avons bien reçu cette demande de l'inspection ... read more ...
 
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Centralnic Group PLC : An Interview With Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic – 4 - CentralNic is one of the world's largest domain registries, currently distributing popular domain names such as .uk.com, .us.com and .cn.com. But their portfolio is rapidly expanding with 60 gTLDs coming soon, including .wiki, .bar and .xyz. To get some insight into this expansion, we reached out to Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic and asked a few questions. iwmn: The elephant in the TLD room is obviously .com. As fun and creative as other TLDs are, people ... read more ...
 
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Icann divulga orientações para reduzir a “colisão” de domínios - Icann divulga orientações para reduzir a “colisão” de domínios Detalhes Publicado em Segunda, 16 Dezembro 2013 19:03 Relatório do órgão apresenta soluções de migração para FQDNs A Icann divulga as orientações para profissionais de TI do mundo inteiro sobre como proativamente identificar e administrar vazamentos do espaço de nomes privado para o Sistema de Nomes de Domínios (DNS - Domain Name System), e eliminar as causas de colisões ... read more ...
 
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Holy .cow!! - Sponsored ArticleThe deluge of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) has begun! Top level domains are the ones after the dot. Examples:-    .com-    .org-    .travel-    .netAlmost 2000 new applications for TLDs were filed in 2012/13 with ICANN. One of ICANN’s many duties is to ensure healthy competition in the Domain Name System (DNS) for registrars and the adequate meeting of the changing/growing needs of consumers as the internet continues to expand in size and importance. Certainly the huge ... read more ...
 
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Update on Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) - ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse, the first centralized, international repository of trademark data designed to help rights holders around the world protect their trademarks across all new gTLDs is up and running, although hard to say it is a success given only 10,000 trademarks were entered as of October 14, 2013. New gTLD registries are also gearing up to start their Sunrise and Trademark Claims programs. The Sunrise program allows trademark owners that have recorded their ... read more ...
 
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ICANN quer evitar ‘colisões’ de domínios na Internet - Home - Internet ICANN quer evitar 'colisões' de domínios na Internet :: Convergência Digital :: Convergência Digital :: 16/12/2013 A ICANN divulgou nesta segunda-feira, 16/12, as orientações para profissionais de Tecnologia da Informação do mundo inteiro sobre como proativamente identificar e administrar vazamentos do espaço de nomes privado para o Sistema de Nomes de Domínios (DNS - Domain Name System), e eliminar as causas de colisões entre nomes com a inclusão ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com BuyDomains.com Auction Ends Thursday Led By Hikers.com At $11,000 -   Snapnames.com is holding an auction of BuyDomains.com owned domain names which closes at Thursday 3:15PM on accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. All bidding so far is led by Hikers.com which has a bid of $11,000 but which has not hit reserve. Hikers.com has a reserve range of $10K-$25K Complimentary.com has a bid of $5K but the reserve has not been meet which is in the $5K-$10K range. In all 15 domain names has bids on them Here are all the domains in the auction, the number of ... read more ...
 
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With 20 Million Domain Registration, The Registry Behind .TK Raises $3 Million In Funding -   Freenom who is the registry for the .TK which is the ccTLD of Tokelau, which offers free domain names has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by Kima Ventures. Freenom is headquartered in Amsterdam runs the .TK registry which is the second most registered domain name extension in the world with over 20,000,000 domain name registrations. Only .com has more domain name registrations that .TK The company also has signed deals with the countries of  Gabon (GA) , Central African Republic ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay’s domain hopping tour takes it to Peru’s .pe - Seemingly always on the run, The Pirate Bay's latest stop in search of safe harbour is inside Peru's top level domain space. Read this Pirate Bay releases block-bypassing PirateBrowser Read more The Pirate Bay, now operating from thepiratebay.pe, has arrived in Peru after a brief moment last week as thepiratebay.ac — .ac being the country code top level domain (TLD) of the Ascension Islands, which is British territory. The .ac stopover en route to Peru followed the seizure of ... read more ...
 
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Brandmarking: December 12, 2013 • Volume 2, Number 5 - PAGING MR. CHARBUCKS... Someone once said that the American legal system guarantees every corporation its decade in court. That came true with a vengeance for two corporations whose 12-year-long battle recently (and perhaps mercifully) came to an end when an appellate court ruled for the third time that the mark MR. CHARBUCKS for coffee did not violate the famous STARBUCKS trademark. In 1997, a small New Hampshire coffee company called Black Bear Micro Roastery released a blend that it called ... read more ...
 
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Web. A chi servono nuovi domini Tld? - Dada sta consolidando il proprio posizionamento nel core business dei servizi digitali professionali per la registrazione di nomi a dominio e di hosting, per la creazione, la gestione e la visibilità di siti web e di e-commerce e per la protezione del brand in Rete, rivolti principalmente a piccole e medie imprese a livello europeo. Il gruppo , che ad oggi conta più di 1,7 milioni di domini in gestione, 500 mila siti web ospitati sulle proprie piattaforme, opera in Italia attraverso Register.it ... read more ...
 
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The Mosque and the Bazaar: Islam, ICANN, and the New gTLD Program - The launch of the new gTLD program in January, 2012 was undoubtedly one of the finest moments for ICANN; and rightly so. The launch was a culmination of thousands of hours of hard work by thousands of people from various countries, interests, and walks of life. In the end, a 338-page Applicant Guidebook with details about how the new gTLD program was to be implemented was produced. Thus was set the stage for the greatest cyberland rush in history. The Bazaar Although ICANN was expecting ... read more ...
 
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ICANN updates new TLD auction plans, still no fortitude for surreptitious contention - ICANN has published new rules for upcoming auctions which will resolve top level domain strings with more than one applicant. ICANN has published updated rules for its so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” to resolve new top level domain name contention sets. It has also published a draft schedule for the auctions. ICANN hopes to resolve 20 contention sets per month via auction. With 201 contention sets, this means the auction procedure could extend into 2015. This ... read more ...
 
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People are already frontrunning on a subsequent turn of new TLDs - .Whatever trademark applications are still being submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Before the application period for the current round of new top level domain names opened, many people and companies filed trademark applications to try to claim superior rights to strings. They applied for trademarks on .app, .wedding…you name it. The practice was known as new TLD trademark fronrunning. This didn’t actually do them any good in the application process. ... read more ...
 
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This association competence be peaceful to compensate $12,500 for a new second turn domain name - Who would pay over ten grand for a new second level domain name? A lot of people were in shock last week when GoDaddy unveiled its pricing for Donuts’ Early Access Program registrations. The Early Access Program (EAP) is Donuts’ version of the traditional landrush period. Instead of accepting applications and auctioning the domain names off the the highest bidder, EAP is sort of like a Dutch auction. The EAP goes on for five days, and the price to register a domain ... read more ...
 
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HomeAway gets 161 domain names with Stayz acquisition - HomeAway’s acquisition of Stayz included a number of descriptive Australian ccTLD domain names. Earlier this month vacation rental company HomeAway bought Australian competitor Stayz for a little over $200 million. The SEC filing about the acquisition lists 161 domain names (pdf) that were included in the deal. In addition to the many defensive brand registrations, it’s interesting to see some of the generic/descriptive domain names Stayz registered for its business. Some ... read more ...
Sun 15th December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
Zynga Drops 130 + Names - Zynga dropped about 130 names that were either going to be projects that never came top fruition or were just protection names in alt extensions. Some of the names included: Hospitalville.info is an interesting one as Zynga has branded many games around Ville, they never owned the .com which is actually expired itself and is on Go Daddy Auctions. ZyngaCasinoBlitz.info ZyngaAnimalWorld.info/.net/us TreasureVille.us/info ZyngaFrontier.com which was probably went with the game Frontierville. Zynga ... read more ...
 
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Are You Ready For The Coming Explosion Of Cybersquatting? - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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German Court Orders Release Of 20,000 Names Of Online Porn-Watchers - A German court has released the names and addresses of about 20,000 people whose IP addresses were detected on porn website Redtube in a copyright infringement case, NBC News reports. RedTube, the leading provider of adult content with 25 million daily users, refutes the matter in which thousands of RedTube users have received so-called “cease and desist letters”. RedTube stands by its firm opinion that these letters are completely unfounded and that they violate the rights of those ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know about the New .REALTOR Domain - In 2011, NAR applied with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to operate a NEW branded .REALTOR top level domain (TLD). Soon hundreds of new domains will be available on the Internet, but only .REALTOR means the trusted source in real estate. The goal of .REALTOR is to create a name space where home buyers, sellers and investors can go to find the most credible, trusted real estate information, resources, and professional services on-line — and ensure they are ... read more ...
 
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Gambling on gTLDs - During some free time at the TRAFFIC conference last June in Las Vegas, I won a bit of cash at the Bellagio playing blackjack. A few hours before my flight took off, I played blackjack again at Aria, and I went on a nice run. I walked away after winning a big hand, and the entire trip was financed by my blackjack winnings. I enjoy playing blackjack, and this was one of the few times I left ahead. Although I think it will be difficult to pick out the winners when it comes to new gTLDs, I ... read more ...
Sat 14th December 2013
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UDRP Panel Hands Over 12 Year Old Domain AmericanConnection.com To AA - A one member UDRP panel has awarded the 12 year old domain name americanconnection.com to American Airlines (AA) The domain holder who is a Canadian Citizen and resident registered the domain name on June 19, 2001. Complainant is American Airlines, Inc. of Fort Worth, TX, USA. Complainant is the owner of the USPTO registered mark AMERICAN CONNECTION which it claims to have been using at least as early as September 24, 1997 and which was registered on October 27, 1998. AMERICAN CONNECTION is one ... read more ...
 
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New .UNO Domain Announced: Designed For Latino Websites Worldwide - As we all know, the interent has dramatically expanded in the past few years, and with it, the number of websites. But with a few top-level domains, like ".com," ".org," and ".net," the proliferation of websites necessitated longer, moer complicated, and harder-to-remember website names. Now there's a new domain for Latino websites, along with a slew of other domains, to help organize the increasing mess on the World Wide Web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the ... read more ...
 
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.Brand Registry Agreement Addendum Published For Public Comment - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
Fri 13th December 2013
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How to Transform Your Dormant Sites into Fabulous Sources of Passive Income - If you actually took the time to follow the advice of domain services experts in regards to buying and protecting your domain name, then you probably have a few dormant websites lying around. This is because these experts often advise us to buy as many TLDs of our chosen domain name as we can to protect our brand. So, let’s say you were lucky enough to get the .com TLD for your preferred domain name and chose to buy the .org, .net, and .biz TLDs as well. What do you do with the three ... read more ...