Monthly Archives: December 2013

Thu 12th December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
5.co.uk Sells For $67,611 on NameJet.com - The domain name 5.co.uk sold for a very nice $67,611 on NameJet.com today, leading all .co.uk sales for the month on that platform. There have been quite a few .co.uk domain names up for sale this month on Namejet.com which coupled with the announcement by Nominet that company that runs the .Uk ccTLD that they will be assigning .UK domains with the .co.uk owner getting first shot. In other domain name auctions at Namejet.com, the domain name CustomCar.com sold for $22,600 or less than twice the amount ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Ombudsman questioning unsuitable new TLD conflict decisions - ICANN’s Ombudsman is looking into consistency of new top level domain name objections. Both new top level domain name applicants and objectors have been grasping for options after falling on the adverse side of panels’ decision. Many have filed reconsideration requests with ICANN’s board, all of which have been denied so far. Others have turned to courts. ICANN seems content to sit on the sidelines and see how everything plays out. Which is why upset parties ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons joins The Giving Pledge - Bob and Renee Parsons pledge over half of their wealth to charitable causes. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons and his wife Renee Parsons have joined The Giving Pledge, an initiative in which wealthy people pledge to give half or more of their wealth to charity. Parsons’ net worth is estimated at over $1 billion. The couple has already made a number of seven figure donations, including to veteran causes. For example, he gave $1 million to establish The Bob Parsons Veterans ... read more ...
 
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A large website is going to go dim interjection to ICANN’s new Whois verification - New verification requirement is bound to ensnare some notable websites. ICANN’s 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement is slowly going into effect at major domain name registrars. The biggest change that people who register domain names will notice is whois verification. Starting January 1, when you register a domain name, you will have to verify your contact details with the registrar. Most registrars will send a verification email to you with simple verification ... read more ...
 
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Objection Panel goes Rogue and Kills .Hospital domain name - Two members of an objection panel come up with their own rules for whether a top level domain name is acceptable. An International Chamber of Commerce panel has killed the .hospital top level domain name by siding with the Independent Objector in a Limited Public Interest Objection against Donuts. I believe the panel wrote its own rules and came to its decision improperly. It went rogue. And to back me up, I have a concise and clearly written dissent (pdf) by one ... read more ...
 
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It looks like someone is already typosquatting on recently substituted tip turn domain names - Just a few dozen second level domain names for new TLDs have been registered so far. Yet it looks like people are already typosquatting on them. Last week .Club Domains LLC, the company that’s launching the .club top level domain name, bought nicclub.com for $3,500 on Sedo. Anyone who has been following new top level domain name delegations will immediately recognize this as a defensive move for what will become a typo of .Club’s first second level domain name, ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Clearinghouse extends warning use over 90 days - Extension will mostly benefit companies that pay more for longer TMCH registrations. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) for new top level domain names has extended the amount of time it will notify rights holders that domain names matching their trademarks have been registered. As background, registering a mark with the TMCH provides three services to rights holders when it comes to new top level domain names: 1. Initial eligibility to participate in sunrise periods. 2. ... read more ...
Wed 11th December 2013
Written by The Domains in EN
From a $25K Domain Sale To $18 Million In Funding, One Of Our Domain Sales; Raise.com Is On Fire - Techcrunch.com just covered Raise.com, a domain name that I sold at a live Moniker.com/TRAFFIC auction many years ago for $25,000. The company has gone from the $25K purchase to raising over $18 Million in VC money. “”Raise.com is one of the fastest-growing startups in the Chicago region. While we were able to reach founder George Bousis today to confirm the raise, the company prefers to keep a low profile when it comes to disclosing its funding details, and instead wants to focus only on growing ... read more ...
 
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BioPlus Loses UDRP To Grab Bioplus.com After Refusing to Pay a “Exorbitant Price of $20,000.00″ - BIOPLUS SPECIALTY PHARMACY SERVICES, INC. just lost its bid to grab the domain name Bioplus.com after refusing to pay the “exorbitant price of $20,000.00″ Complainant has used the BIOPLUS mark in connection with its specialty service since 1998. However the mark was not registered with The USPTO until February 11, 2010. Paragraph 4(a) of the Policy requires that Complainant must prove each of the following three elements to obtain an order that a domain name should be cancelled or transferred: ... read more ...
 
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ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires: What Happened and What’s Next? - Last month, some of my colleagues at MarkMonitor and I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina for ICANN 48. With the recent delegation and launch of the first new gTLDs, the atmosphere had an air of both excitement and anxiety. In my opinion, there is much to be done before brand owners should begin to feel comfortable in the post-new gTLD Internet environment, which brings a host of new challenges, as companies attempt to scale monitoring and enforcement to the new (huge) domain name space. Thankfully, ... read more ...
 
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If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins Instead His Investment … - Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would have that $185,000 investment be worth today? Just about $30,000,000. So why would I tie new gTLD’s and Bitcoin’s together? Last week while I was in Argentina on ... read more ...
 
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dotShabaka Chooses Pool.com For Sunrise & Landrush Aucitons - The newest of the new gTLDs, ‘شبكة.’ (translates to .web in English) announced today that they have selected Pool.com for its Sunrise and Land Rush auction More recently Pool.com’s auction platform has helped support .sx (the country code of St. Maarten) and CoInternet’s re-launch of .co, which, according to Mr. Schreier, allows businesses and individuals to brand themselves online with memorable domain names even shorter than .com. “As the world’s first borderless Arabic new Top-Level ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Launches Pre-Registration for 14 New gTLDs - Pre-registration is available for 14 new domain name extensions from GoDaddy, the company announced Wednesday. GoDaddy is able to offer the pre-registration after coming to an agreement with Donuts Inc., the registry responsible for the 14 extensions. The extensions are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS, and .HOLDINGS. While domain names with these extensions are available to any individual ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Issues Advice to IT Professionals on Name Collision Identification and … - Home News Article Dec 11 2013 more articles from Middle East - 11 December 2013 - ICANN today 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 ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay, un dominio in ogni porto - Roma - Nessuna prospettiva di stanzialità per i pirati della Baia: dalle acque dei Caraibi all'Isola di Ascensione, nel mezzo dell'Atlantico, per sfuggire alle incursioni dei detentori dei diritti. The Pirate Bay, ormeggiata per sette mesi presso thepiratebay.sx, è approdata sul dominio nazionale .ac.A costringere The Pirate Bay a salpare le ancore è stato l'intervento di BREIN, associazione olandese che opera a favore dei detentori dei diritti, che ha chiesto e ottenuto un blocco imposto dal ... read more ...
 
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Sunrise periods for first wave of gTLDs are now open - ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for release. The introduction of new gTLDs triggers a mandatory 30-day "Sunrise Period" to give trademark holders the opportunity to register their existing marks for any new corresponding domains. In order to take advantage of the Sunrise Period, trademark holders need to have their trademarks registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse. After the ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay Dodges Authorities and Resurfaces with .AC Following Domain … - <!--Like us on Facebook --> "We expressly point out that by registering domain names and using these and/or allowing these to be used by The Pirate Bay, you infringe on the rights of Rights Owners. Therefore, the Rights Owners hold you liable for the damages that they have suffered and will suffer from your actions," read the letter to TPB. In 2013, this is the fourth time that The Pirate Bay had to switch the domain to avoid being shut down for good. The ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Opens Up Pre-Registrations on 14 Donuts New gTLD’s With 6 Levels … - Godaddy.com is now taking Pre-registrations for domain names on 14 of  Donuts new gTLD’s The new names are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. Godaddy is accepting normal Pre-Registrations starting at $24.99 up to $99.99 which varies by the extension, but the real story is Godaddy is offering 5 other levels of Priority pre-reservations for each of the 14 new gTLD strings for up to ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Opens Up Pre-Registrations on 14 Donuts New gTLD’s With 6 Levels Up to $12,569.99 Per Domain - Godaddy.com is now taking Pre-registrations for domain names on 14 of  Donuts new gTLD’s The new names are .ESTATE, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GURU, .BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GALLERY, .SINGLES, .CAMERA, .LIGHTING, .PLUMBING, .EQUIPMENT, .GRAPHICS and .HOLDINGS. Godaddy is accepting normal Pre-Registrations starting at $24.99 up to $99.99 which varies by the extension, but the real story is Godaddy is offering 5 other levels of Priority pre-reservations for each of the 14 new gTLD strings for up to $12,569.99 ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay relocates to thepiratebay.ac - The Pirate Bay's .sx was seized this morning, and the site has relocated to thepiratebay.ac. The .AC top-level domain is controlled by Ascension Islands, a UK territory, and a Pirate Bay spokesperson announced that the change was only temporary, with another new domain (.pe, in Peru) in the wings. This is the fifth time that The Pirate Bay had its domain seized in 2013. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since ... read more ...
 
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Ameritrade loses .broker conflict opposite association that spent $4.7M in IG.com - IG Group’s .broker top level domain name application survives objection procedure. TD Ameritrade has lost a Limited Public Interest (LPI) objection against IG Group’s application to run the .broker top level domain name. IG Group is the company that recently spent $4.7 million for the domain name IG.com. Both IG Group and Donuts applied for the .broker string, but IG Group plans to run the domain name as a “closed” registry. That, plus the fact that IG Group ... read more ...
 
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Company behind UDRPSearch.com sues after being strike with a UDRP - Virtual Point responds to StableTable.com UDRP with its own lawsuit. Virtual Point, the company that runs the UDRP search and aggregation site UDRPSearch.com, has filed a federal lawsuit after being hit with a UDRP. Hedera AB, a Swedish company, filed a UDRP (pdf) against the company’s domain name StableTable.com on December 4. Rather than just wait for the World Intellectual Property Organization determination, Virtual Point filed a lawsuit (pdf) in federal court ... read more ...
 
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Drug hulk Sanofi loses domain brawl interjection to committed settlement panelist - Despite no response from domain name owner, panelist considers all of the facts. I often call out UDRP panelists who “phone in” their decisions without considering the other site of the story. So today I’m happy to write about a case brought by pharmaceutical company Sanofi against the owner of Sinofn.com. Panelist Susanna H.S. Leong should be commended for taking the time to truly consider the case Sanofi brought, despite the domain name owner not responding ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain name sales including radar dector association Escort - Radar detector company is among those who bought domain names at GoDaddy last week. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.76M worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 16 that were sold to end users. SurvivalCollege.com $1,000 – Survival College, LLC in San Antonio. Looks like the company is getting ready to launch. FlashbackMiami.com $1,200 – The Miami Herald. Maybe it has to do with this? MovingDollies.com $1,999 – Toolwell, a company that sells equipment ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Everywhere the Pirate Bay Set Up Shop in 2013 - View The Year in Pirate Bay Domains in a larger map Pirate Bay is back on the URL lam. After its Sint Maarten .SX domain was shut down last night, it’s now available at thepiratebay.AC, a ccTLD for Ascension Island, which is a British overseas territory that’s a volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic. It’s been that kind of year for the torrent site, which now adds its Sint Maarten address to a list of national domains that have been blocked, along with domains ... read more ...