Monthly Archives: February 2014

Fri 28th February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN
Cybersquatter Now Owes Donald Trump $32K Due To 4 Domain Registrations - According to an article just posted by the NYpost.com, A “”Canarsie cybersquatter who registered domain names related to Donald Trump and used them to skewer the real estate magnate must pay him $32,000 in damages, a Brooklyn judge ruled””J. Taikwok Yung first drew Trump’s rage in 2007 when he registered four websites — trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, trumpabudhabi.com and trumpmumbai.com.” “The chronic domain collector — who lives with his mom and has $250 in his bank account ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Uniform Rapid Suspension: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - With so many new gTLDs moving into their respective general availability periods, and incidents of cybersquatting beginning to appear, many companies are now looking towards the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) as a possible solution for quickly remediating abuse. As a reminder, domains that are the subject of a successful URS ruling are suspended for the remainder of the registration term, or can be renewed for an additional year at the current registrar. While the URS provides a number of ... read more ...
 
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URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s - @ Michael Berkens, you are consistently fair to call udrps as you see them, sometimes in favor of the trademark holder, often in favor of the registrant, when the domain is generic, but I beg to differ and wonder if you won’t change your mind, when I reason with you . . . Branson, the town, I didn’t know about. Thanx for info, @BigNewEngland. If the extension were a different generic, so that the domain was: Branson.Ozarks Branson.Missouri Branson.TouristDestination there ... read more ...
 
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URS Filed On Branson.Guru This Could Be A Game Changer For The New gTLD’s - A Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed today on the domain name Branson.Guru This is the first URS that has been filed which in my opinion should not be granted. The complainant is not listed but based on recent activity I’m going to assume its Richard Branson CEO of Virgin. The problem is that there is also a city by the name of Branson, which is in Missouri, and a pretty large tourist attraction. The official site for the city is CityofBranson.org which has grown to be a large tourist destination ... read more ...
 
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NiceNic releases Feb Chinese Auction Results – 126.CN sells for $110,432 - Nicenic.net put out a post today about some recent Chinese names that sold at auction. These were names that were not reserved by CNNIC. The first number is the sale price in Chinese Yuan,  for the top 10 sales I converted to US Dollars. The conversion rate of roughly 1Chinese Yuan = .1624 USD 126.cn      680,000       $110,432 rose.cn     480,000      $77,952 ku.cn         234,000      $38,001 Lz.cn          222,000      $36,053 Lx.com.cn    188,000 $30,531 173.cn      ... read more ...
 
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If You Pre-Ordered One Of These .Sexy Domains Don’t Blame Uniregistry Blame … - So a lot of people seem to be disappointed not getting the .Sexy domain name they pre-ordered. Including myself. While many names seemed to be reserved by the registry over 6,500 domains were blocked by the ICANN collision report. Each new gTLD had the option of either launching now, subject to its turn and not allowing registrations of any domain name contained on the collision list for each new gTLD string or waiting to launch  until the ICANN made a final determination regarding how to handle ... read more ...
 
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If You Pre-Ordered One Of These .Sexy Domains Don’t Blame Uniregistry Blame Your Registrar - So a lot of people seem to be disappointed not getting the .Sexy domain name they pre-ordered. Including myself. While many names seemed to be reserved by the registry over 6,500 domains were blocked by the ICANN collision report. Each new gTLD had the option of either launching now, subject to its turn and not allowing registrations of any domain name contained on the collision list for each new gTLD string or waiting to launch  until the ICANN made a final determination regarding how to handle ... read more ...
 
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Los dominios ".com.ar" costarán 160 pesos - Los dominios de nivel superior con código de país (ccTLD) argentinos, es decir, los que llevan el sufijo “.ar”, serán arancelados. Así lo indica la resolución 80/2013, publicada en el Boletín Oficial, que establece el precio de un dominio “.com.ar” en 160 pesos anuales por registro o renovación. La misma tarifa aplica a los “.net.ar”, “tur.ar” y “org.ar”; en tanto que los nombres de dominio “int.ar”, ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Will Be CentralNic’s First New gTLD to launch, followed by .XYZ - CentralNic’s first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it available for the use of companies, developers, communities and hobbyists alike. The first .wiki domains will be available to trademark holders on 3 March when it starts it Sunrise Period, and to others from 8 May. This will be followed by .XYZ priced below .com domain names and and designed to be appropriate for any website in any language. The ... read more ...
 
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"New Dots" Website Domain Name Address Trademark Owner Renounces … – Virtual - TheNewDots.guru founder Tom Gilles, owner of trademark rights to 'New Dots' for domain registration services renounces his claim to rights in favor of general public awareness of new web address extensions. Provo, Utah (PRWEB) February 28, 2014 New TLD-Vangelist Tom 'Notcom Tom' Gilles is publicly renouncing his claim to the exclusive right to use the phrase 'New Dots' in the context of top-level domain names. "New Dots are for the world, not any one person or organization exclusively," declares ... read more ...
 
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.Wiki Will Be CentralNic’s First New gTLD to launch, followed by .XYZ - CentralNic’s first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it available for the use of companies, developers, communities and hobbyists alike. The first .wiki domains will be available to trademark holders on 3 March when it starts it Sunrise Period, and to others from 8 May. This will be followed by .XYZ priced below .com domain names and and designed to be appropriate for any website in any language. The ... read more ...
 
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Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection Loses 850,000 Bitcoins, 750,000 Of Customers - Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. The company disclosed that it had lost 850,000 units of Bitcoin, including 750,000 belonging to customers worth about $477 million, based on current exchange rates.   Mt. Gox, at one point handled more than 80% of trades in the virtual currency. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic set to launch .wiki domains - StockMarketWire.com - CentralNic Group has given an update on the progress of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) which will be exclusively using the CentralNic technology and cash-collection platform. Chief executive Ben Crawford says this is the biggest change to the internet since its inception as each new gTLD launch represents a completely new alternative to the traditional domain extensions such as .com and .co.uk. He says this creates new, relevant and meaningful domain names ... read more ...
 
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Qwalify.com owners files UDRP opposite Qualify.com - Canadian company tries using UDRP to get “correct” spelling of its name. Qualify.com was registered more than 10 years before the company was founded. Qwalify, Inc., a company that services the job recruiter industry, has filed a UDRP (pdf) against the domain name Qualify.com. And yes, this case is as bad as it sounds. It’s rather comical, really. Qwalify claims to have started using its brand around 2010. To make the case that the domain name was registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to Registrars: We’re operative on authorised issues with 2013 RAA - But not fast enough for some registrars that fear losing their accreditation. ICANN Vice President of Domain Name Services Cyrus Namazi has sent a letter (pdf) to domain name registrars regarding their concerns over legal implications of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). In a nutshell, the letter says ICANN is still exploring resolution to conflicts with local laws. In the meantime, some accredited registrars’ ability to sell new top level domain ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user domain name sales including “DNW” and 3D Printing - A California organ donor group bought DNW.org and a 3D printing company buys a shorter domain name. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.8 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 17 that were purchased by end users, including the .org version of this blog’s DNW.com shortcut domain. You can view previous end user sales reports here. DNW.org $7,000 – This one obviously caught my eye given that I use the .com version. The buyer is California Transplant ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales -   Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. At the time we noted that the average sales price of  domain names in 4Q was just over $6,100 per domain name which was well below the average price the company sold its domains in the third quarter of 2013. Today we received some additional and clairfy information from Rod Diefendorf COO, of Archeo on the sales “”Each quarter our team ... read more ...
 
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Fifth Applicant Auction Concluded, 28 Contention Sets Resolved - After the successful conclusion of our fifth auction last week, the Applicant Auction has now resolved contention for a total of 28 strings. More than 20 gTLD applicants have participated in our auctions, ranging from many smaller companies with only one gTLD application in contention to large, publicly traded portfolio applicants like TLDH and Demand Media. All of our past auction participants would like to resolve future contention with Applicant Auctions as well. This is good news for applicants ... read more ...
 
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AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K Last Year - Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on the exchange rate of £1.5205 the domain sold for just about $600,000. George notes that on Page 104 of the AO.com prospectus, they bought 2 domains for £391,000 total, and given the dates, that was mostly for AO.com.  The other domain they acquired at the time was  AO.co.uk Prior ... read more ...
 
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February 25: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names - The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .Paris. The 100 pioneers were selected by a Jury which used several criteria mentioned in the call for proposals Pioneers : • The candidate must have an original project. A pioneer can not simply propose a redirection of its .Paris domain name to ... read more ...
 
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The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names - The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .Paris. The 100 pioneers were selected by a Jury which used several criteria mentioned in the call for proposals Pioneers : • The candidate must have an original project. A pioneer can not simply propose a redirection of its .Paris domain name to a .fr ... read more ...
 
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AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million - The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started AO.com which just went public in London. “John Roberts, 40, founder of online appliance retailer AO.com, set up the company after realizing that the long supply chain for ‘white goods’ such as dishwashers and fridges was adding needless costs.” “This week AO.com smashed expectations for its stock market debut with a 33% rise that ... read more ...
 
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Cybersquatters Rush To Claim Brands In The New GTLD Territories - On Jan. 29, Donuts Inc. launched the first seven of what will be some 1,000 new generic top-level domains or GTLDs, rivals to the familiar .com, .com and .edu endings that now populate most of the known Internet. Six days later, at 2:04 a.m., Venura de Zoysa of Kingston in New South Wales, Australia, used GoDaddy.com to register the domain name Adidas Adidas.clothing. The following day Erwin Strobel of nearby Wagga Wagga registered Burberry.clothing. The next day in ... read more ...
 
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How Are New TLDs Being Adopted? - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – With new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) changing the familiar landscape of the domain namespace, users are increasingly taking advantage of new Web addresses. Every week, new domain extensions such as .photography, .clothing, .today, and many more are becoming available for immediate registration. Each new gTLD provides a potential opportunity for firms in the tech and business industries to redefine their online presence. With the .com ... read more ...