Monthly Archives: January 2014

Mon 27th January 2014
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Amazon gets a win in .Amazon quarrel & IO found to have dispute of seductiveness in case - Panelist finds Independent Objector Alain Pellet has a conflict of interest and sides with Amazon.com in domain name dispute. Amazon.com has successfully defended community objections brought against its applications for .amazon and the Chinese and Japanese equivalent top level domain names. At the same time, it has also successfully questioned the Independent Objector’s conflict of interest in filing the cases in the first place. The internet retailing giant argued ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs disappear from GoDaddy home page, and 1&1’s dark sunrise - GoDaddy demotes new TLDs from the home page, 11 not offering sunrise registrations through its largest brand. Here are a couple noteworthy items related to new top level domain names. First, over the weekend I noticed that promotions for new top level domain names are nowhere to be found on GoDaddy’s home page. After promoting them for the past month or two, it’s been kicked off the home page. (It is front and center, however, on the “Domains” tab.) In response ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains defends UDRP brought by Academy Sports - BuyDomains said it registered AcademyOnline.net as a generic domain name, not because of the sports retailer. BuyDomains, part of NameMedia, has successfully defended a UDRP brought by Academy Sports + Outdoors against the domain name AcademyOnline.net. The company successfully argued that the domain name is made up of two generic words and that the parking page for the domain, which includes links such as “Art Academy” and “Police Academy Online,” was used ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Pepsi and others bought - Pepsi bought a domain name for one of its sodas and other end user domain purchases. Sedo reported $1.6 million worth of domain names sales for the week ending January 19. Here are a dozen that involved end users, including Pepsi. You can see previous end user sales reports here. FederalCreditScores.com $17,950 – One Technologies, which services the direct-to-consumer credit monitoring industry. Sym-Tech.com $816 – Sym-Tech, which provides services to car dealers ... read more ...
Sun 26th January 2014
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Has Frank Schilling been a impulse behind one company’s XXX spending debauch ? - Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn. Really Useful launched the first ever .xxx domain Casting.xxx. That was covered in several non adult publications such as The Register. JT ... read more ...
 
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BEST IN LAW: Dot-com world changing – Press - The dot-com world is about to explode. The number of Internet domain names will significantly increase over the next few years with the rollout of new generic top-level domains, known as gTLDs for short. These will change the Internet experience forever, expanding the number of gTLDs from the present 22 (i.e. .com, .org., .net) to more than a thousand. The new gTLDs will indicate what the website contains and will help speed searches and Internet use. For business owners, there will be new opportunities ... read more ...
 
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Donuts tops $5 million in “orders and commitments” - New TLD company reports metrics as it gets ready for general availability later this week. New top level domain name “mega registry” Donuts says it has topped $5 million in “orders and commitments” for its services so far. Seven of Donuts new top level domain names exited sunrise yesterday. Next up they’ll go into the “Early Access Program” and then general availability by January 29. It has another 40 domain names currently in sunrise. Given the relatively ... read more ...
Sat 25th January 2014
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Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We … - Thank you, Frank, for pointing out that there was a point to this interview, and Fadi’s repsonses are direct and pertinent. What many people commenting here seem to be missing is that there is a real blowback in the wake of the NSA scandal here in the U.S., which a reading of this article, on Wired.com, will help to clarify: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet/. There are myriad forces at work to build and tear down ... read more ...
 
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Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We Know It’ - In an article in the Huffington Post, the CEO of ICANN said that fragmentation of the Internet was a primary concern. From the article: Fadi Chehadé, CEO Of ICANN, told HuffPost Live at Davos he thinks the “biggest threat” to innovation is a fragmented Internet. “The biggest threat is to start building walls that create frictions. Frictionless Internet, where innovation is permissionless… is critical,” he said. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds” - Grim its $150 for TMCH and then you can pay for DPML Brand owners must submit an exact match of their mark(s) to DPML, or a term that contains their exact match mark(s), as evidenced in a TMCH issued SMD file (defined below). Once a term is accepted to DPML, that term is blocked from registration in all Donuts TLDs for an initial period of five to ten years. A DPML subscription can then be renewed in increments of one to ten years. A domain blocked by DPML ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds” - This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of this number is most likely including the DPML product that Donuts is offering trademark holders. The DPML works like this: (Courtesy of 101Domain.com) How Does DPML Work? Brand owners must submit an exact match of their mark(s) to DPML, or a term that contains ... read more ...
 
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100 neue Internet-Endungen vergeben – Computer - Werbelogo der Firma DOTBERLIN,. die sich die Internet-Adressendung “.berliN” gesichert hat. Abb.: DOTBERLIN Los Angelos, 25. Januar 2014: Die „Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers“ (ICANN) hat bisher über 100 neue Internet-Endungen vergeben. Diese generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) hatte die zentrale Internetverwaltung in Los Angelos ab Frühjahr 2013 vergeben, um über Klassiker wie .de oder .com hinaus auch originellere Netzadressen à la www.land.berlin ... read more ...
 
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So können Markeninhaber ihre Marken bei den Neuen Top Level Domains … - Ein heißes Eisen bei der Einführung der neuen TLDs ist die mögliche Verletzung von Markenrechten. Marken und Domains sind kein neues Thema. Die Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy von ICANN schützt die Rechte von Markeninhabern bei allen von ICANN verwalteten generischen Top Level Domains. Die Markenrechte beziehen sich auf die Inhalte links vom "." einer Domain. Mit der Einführung neuer TLDs stellen sich aber ganz andere Probleme. Es geht jetzt auch um den Markenschutz bei Domains rechts vom ... read more ...
 
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There are 700,000 daily reasons because King.com is perplexing to Crush other diversion developers - King.com tries to explain they are not really looking to crush the competition but rather make sure they are protected. Over the last couple days stories have come out about the maker of the famous Candy Crush Saga game trademarking the word “Candy” for video games and clothing, and they are also looking to trademark the word “Saga”. King made a statement about the Saga situation, King has not and is not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name. We do not have any concerns that Banner ... read more ...
 
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Justin Bieber Arrest Inspires Over 55 Domain Registrations From Funny To Scary - As most of you know 19 year old pop sensation Justin Bieber was arrested down here in South Florida yesterday for DUI and some other charges related to allegedly drag racing down South Beach The arrest has led to over 55 .com and .net domain registrations in just about 24 hours. Some of the domain names are one’s that naturally fit the situation such as BieberArrest.com,  BieberArrested.com, BieberMugShot.com, bieberbusted.com and JustinBieberDUI.com Other domain registrations seem to be for planning ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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Registered In 1994 Graceland.com Hit With UDRP - Someone, presumably the Elvis Presley Estate just filed a UDRP on the domain name Graceland.com The domain name Graceland.com has an original registration date of December 23rd 1994. The domain is owned by a  Simon Higgs of  Burbank California  who has seemed to have owned the domain name continuously since at least the earliest Domaintools.com entry which is from 2004. The domain names is not parked but instead seems to be a religious site and seems to have the same look to it as far back as ... read more ...
 
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IBM/ Deloitte Goes With Trademark-ClearningHouse.Uno & TMCH.Uno to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.” - IBM Deloitte which operates the Trademark Clearing House for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced they will use the domain names TRADEMARK-CLEARINGHOUSE.UNO and TMCH.UNO to Promote Spanish Brand Awareness.” Dot Latin LLC announced today the delegation of two key domain names to Deloitte IBM to support the Trademark Clearinghouse. Deloitte manages the Trademark Clearinghouse , as part of the brand protection component of the new generic Top Level Domain ... read more ...
 
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Inc and the Los Angeles Times weigh in on the new gtlds - More and more non domaining publications continue to come out with stories about the new gtlds.  As we get closer to new strings being available to register many want to cover the upcoming release. Inc Magazine came out with an article, Carolyn Cutrone took this approach when it came to Start ups, From the article: Critics argue that the added gTLDs could spur mass confusion, while supporters suggest it could help small businesses stand out without having to wield inanely long Web addresses ... read more ...
 
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Inc and a Los Angeles Times import in on a new gtlds - More and more non domaining publications continue to come out with stories about the new gtlds.  As we get closer to new strings being available to register many want to cover the upcoming release. Inc Magazine came out with an article, Carolyn Cutrone took this approach when it came to Start ups, From the article: Critics argue that the added gTLDs could spur mass confusion, while supporters suggest it could help small businesses stand out without having to wield inanely long Web addresses or ... read more ...
 
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Half the internet lacks DNS security extensions - January 24, 2014 Failure to use domain name system security extensions opens up those TLD users to spoofing Half the internet lacks DNS security extensions Just over half of the internet (51 percent) remains insecure insofar as many top level domains (TLDs) have failed to sign up to use domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC), including intensive internet using countries such as Italy (.it), Spain ... read more ...
 
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A Search For SEOP Spells Digital Marketing - What does SEOP.com want with the URL digitalmarketing.com? The company, which focuses on digital marketing and search engine optimization services, just paid "six figures" for the name. The company plans to redirect its Web site to the new name within the next six weeks. Eric Schiffer, SEOP founder, calls the purchase a major step that will better represent the breadth of the company's services, talents, and proprietary technology. About 110 million domain names end in .com, out of 265 million ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Delegates More than 100 New gTLDs to Root Zone - by Nicole Henderson on January 24, 2014Add Your Comments This week ICANN announced that more than 100 new gTLDs have been delegated into the DNS root zone, one of the final steps before registries can begin accepting registrations for new gTLDs. In October, ICANN delegated the first new gTLDs to their approved domain registries, starting with non-latin scripts. Over the past few months, ICANN has been steadily delegating ... read more ...
 
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22.CN Joins SedoMLS Continuing a Network’s Asian Expansion - Sedo announced a few minutes ago that 22.cn joined their SedoMLS. As demand for domains in Asia grows this is certainly a smart decision to keep building their network with Asian registrars. Recent auctions for premium .CN domains previously reserved by CNNIC have shown demand is strong in the region. 22.cn Joins SedoMLS, Continuing the Network’s Asian Expansion Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that Chinese registrar 22.cn has joined the ... read more ...
 
 
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Advantages of gTLD Portfolio Ownership - The essay outlines the advantages to owners of managing a portfolio of gTLDs. The advantages can lead to concentrations of ownership in a few hands, which is unavoidable but not necessarily harmful to consumers. Moreover, some of the advantages can lead to profitable complementary business models. Beyond the obvious advantage of economies of scale that lead to reductions in operating costs, there are a number of other sources of advantage. First, additional value can be created by using ... read more ...