Monthly Archives: February 2014

Wed 12th February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
1st UDRP Over New gTLD Domain, As Canyon Bicycles Gmbh Files Over Canyon.Bike - Canyon Bicycles GmbH has filed what appears to be the first  UDRP on a new gTLD domain name Canyon.bike The domain name was registered on February 5th under privacy at Godaddy.com Although this marks the first new gTLD domain name hit with a UDRP, IBM filed either a UDRP or a URS a few days ago on the domain names  IBM.Guru and IBM.Ventures It appears that as we have chatted about while trademark holders are not playing the sunrise registration game or the domain blocking game in a big way they ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
BusinessForSale.com survives UDRP - BusinessESforSale.com (plural) failed to show it had trademark rights in its descriptive name. Although there are many benefits to using a good descriptive domain name, there’s also a drawback: other people can use similar domains, too. That’s the case with BusinessESforSale.com, which just lost a UDRP against the owner of BusinessforSale.com. The complainant failed to show that the disputed domain name was confusingly similar to a trademark in which it has rights ... read more ...
 
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30 finish user domain name sales adult to $150,000 - $150,000 purchase among end user domain name transactions at Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a look at some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. (See more end user reports here.) DreamExchange.com $28,500 – advertising company D Major Nxt.org 10,000 EUR – a German group called “The NXT community” Buzzfeed.fr 1,500 EUR – Viral news site Buzzfeed Obrien.co.uk 1,195 GBP – a guy with the last ... read more ...
 
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.Web and .Webs: “There can be usually one” - VistaPrint will have to duke it out with Web.com if it wants the .webs brand TLd. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has handed in its final determination for the controversial String Confusion Objection process. In this case, Web.com won against Vistaprint’s two applications for .webs. As a result, .webs will now be in a contention set with Web.com’s application for .web. If Vistaprint wins the contention set, then .web–often pointed out as the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN plays “make believe” with fibre difficulty examination process - ICANN pretends other inconsistencies don’t exist so it can resolve two of the most embarrassing ones. Yesterday ICANN posted a proposal for dealing with “perceived inconsistencies” in String Confusion Objections filed over new top level domain names. The plan would deal with two cases in which different panels came to different conclusions on objections filed against the same exact strings: .cam/.com and .cars/.car. The inconsistencies in string confusion objections ... read more ...
Tue 11th February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Are the Sochi Olympics Whetting Your Appetite for Winter Sports Domains? If So … - Being from Florida I usually don't pay a lot of attention to outdoor winter sports, but when the Winter Olympics roll around every four years I join millions of others around the world who tune in to watch ... read more ...
 
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love.guru, celebrities.sexy could soon be real websites - BigRock gears up for the new wave of gTLDs News | CIOL Bureau MUMBAI, INDIA: BigRock, one of India's leading domain registrars and web hosting companies announced that it has begun offering new top level domain extensions such as .bike, .guru, .ventures amongst several others under the aegis of ICANN's new gTLD program. Indian consumers can now visit the BigRock website and purchase or pre-order a domain name of their choice ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.7 Million - 793 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: ·         Top .coms: cornerstonehomes.com at 150,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gentz.de at 10,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: nxt.org at 10,000 EUR   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Court Says gTLDs Aren’t ‘Domain Names’ for Cybersquatting Purposes, Declines … - A Swiss Del Monte entity that had a license to use the "DEL MONTE" mark applies to operate the .delmonte generic top level domain (gTLD). Another Del Monte entity, based in Delaware, filed a "legal rights objection" (LRO) — under WIPO-established procedures — to the Swiss Del Monte's application. A three member panel sustained the Delaware company's LRO. (Here's a .pdf link to the panel decision.) The Swiss entity sued in federal court seeking a declaration that it had sufficient rights ... read more ...
 
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1st Aftermarket Of .Guru Domains Launches & Is Full Of Trademarks - gurudomainnamesforsale.guru which appears to be the first aftermarket site dedicated to .Guru domain name launched today. The site unfortunately has many .guru domain names listed for sale that are trademarked terms, including: ChickFilA.guru GoldmanSachs.guru NeimanMarcus.guru CocaCola.guru MGM.guru PGA.guru TheMasters.guru TheUSOpen.guru JohnnyFootball.guru Some generic’s for sale include: OklahomaFootball.guru AlabamaFootball.guru TexasFootball.guru The site also has several political names: Hillary.guru Obama.guru Clinton.guru RNC.guru DNC.guru TeaParty.guru JebBush.guru ... read more ...
 
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Sedo To Hold .Club Premium Winter Sports Domain Auction Feb 19-26th -   Sedo, and .CLUB Domains have partnered to offer a Winter Sports Auction of never before released .CLUB domain names. The auction will place February 19-26, and will include 25 premium winter sports-related names with the .CLUB extension, including Snowboarding.club, Skiing.club, IceHockey.club, figureskating.club, sochi.club alpineskiing.club, skiers.club, and speedskating.club to name a few. The highest bidder will be given first priority to acquire the domain name from .CLUB at the winning ... read more ...
 
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Now start a website with .Bike, .Singles domain names! - Netizens can soon set up websites with domain names like .Bike, .Guru and .Singles with website hosting firm BigRock offer these new domain extensions to the public. As of now, BigRock has opened bookings for seven new domain names like .Bike, .Clothing, .Holdings, .Plumbing, .Singles, .Guru and .Ventures. BigRock has also signed agreements with partners like Donuts Inc, Famousfour, Demand Media and others to enable it to roll out 650-700 new domain extensions over the ... read more ...
 
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Free Afilias Webinar: Learn to Launch a New gTLD - I know it’s fairly late to let you know about this, but Afilias will be hosting a free one hour webinar at 10am Eastern today to discuss a variety of topics related to launching a new gTLD. Although the application window for this round has been closed for quite some time, there will likely be future application rounds for people who want to launch a .brand extension or other new extension. In this webinar that will begin shortly, Roland LaPlante, SVP and CMO of Afilias will discuss ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Key-Systems akzeptiert verbindliche Vorbestellungen für alle Launch-Phasen … - Dienstag 11. Februar 2014 | 10:36 St. Ingbert – Anfang Februar sind mit .BIKE, .SINGLES und .GURU bereits die ersten neuen Internet-Endungen in die sogenannte Go Live-Phase gestartet. Webadressen unterhalb dieser Endungen (Top Level Domains, TLDs) sind dann für jedermann nach dem “first come, first served”-Prinzip verfügbar. Die Key-Systems GmbH nimmt verbindliche Vorbestellungen für alle Einführungsphasen einer TLD entgegen, auch für die jeweils erste, sog. Sunrise-Phase ... read more ...
 
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Neue Vielfalt bei Webadressen – Nordwest - Berlin Internetnutzer können Webadressen mit zahlreichen neuen Endungen registrieren. Zu den bisher verfügbaren 23 generischen Top Level Domains (TLD) wie .com oder .net sowie den länderspezifischen TLDs wie .de für Deutschland kommen neue regionale Bezeichnungen wie .ruhr oder .berlin sowie branchenspezifische Endungen wie .bike oder .shop hinzu. Das teilt der I T-Branchenverband Bitkom mit. Die neuen TLDs stehen sowohl Unternehmen als auch Privatnutzern offen.Bevor neue TLDs ... read more ...
 
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Biznes stawia na domeny .eu - „Nasze wyniki potwierdzają, że firmy w całej Unii Europejskiej wciąż stawiają na domenę .eu” — powiedział Dyrektor Naczelny EURid, Marc Van Wesemael. „Dzięki unikatowemu wymiarowi transgranicznemu domena .eu idealnie nadaje się do prowadzenia sprzedaży w wielu krajach EU.” Raport został przygotowany we współpracy z Centrum Badań Statystycznych w Leuven, a jego celem jest zapoznanie się ze sposobem wykorzystywania witryn internetowych. Raport m.in. wskazuje na znaczący ... read more ...
 
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Aspire VeloTech One of the First to Be Granted New .BIKE Domain - Kirkland, Washington (PRWEB) February 11, 2014 AspireVeloTech, known as the world’s largest dealer of Chris King bicycle components, was just granted one of the very first top level domains (TLD’s) that became available on February 5th. The new TLD, .BIKE, allows the company to call themselves what their customers have come to call them, “AVT.” “It's happened to many companies; customers create ... read more ...
 
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Is @jamesdean Twitter hoop violating heading law ? - Its not just domain names where people seem to make a stretch with regards to trademarks. Wendy Davis wrote a piece a few hours ago on MediaPost about Twitter and James Dean. From the article: The licensing agency CMG Worldwide has sued Twitter for allowing a user to tweet under the name of deceased actor James Dean. CMG alleges that Twitter — as well as the account creator — are infringing trademark in the name James Dean. The licensing company, which manages accounts of Dean, Marilyn Monroe, ... read more ...
 
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TLD Canada à Sherbrooke obtient deux contrats majeurs - TLD Canada, spécialisée dans la conception et la fabrication d'équipements d'assistance aéroportuaires, s'apprête à mettre en production à son usine de Sherbrooke deux importants contrats octroyés par la Royal Australian Air Force et la compagnie aérienne British Airways. TLD Canada construira 36 plateformes de chargement et de transport PFA-50 pour la Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Entièrement conçu par l'équipe de RD sherbrookoise, le PFA-50 est un transporteur-élévateur de fret aérotransportable. ... read more ...
 
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Video Game attention fails to kick Amazon.com’s .Game - No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a community objection against Amazon’s application. There are six applicants for .game, but ESA only went after Amazon.com’s application because it proposes operating the domain as a “closed” registry. This means other companies ... read more ...
 
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.Club binds winter domain name auction on Sedo - New TLD to hold auction during its sunrise period. New top level domain name .club is holding its first domain name auction on Sedo. The auction features “winter sports” domain names (really it’s Olympic themed, but there are trademark issues with that) including sochi.club, snowboard.club, skate.club, icehockey.club and bobsled.club. The trademark sunrise for .club just began and runs through March 29. If you win a domain name in the auction that is later claimed ... read more ...
 
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New tip turn domain name lawsuit discharged though leaves doorway open for ACPA for TLDs - Judge grants motion to dismiss top level domain dispute. A federal district judge has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit brought by Del Monte International against Del Monte Corporation over the top level domain name .delmonte. In doing so, the court also left the door open on the possibility of the Anti-cybersquatting Protection Act (ACPA) being applied to new top level domain names. Here’s the background: Del Monte International (DMI), a licensee of the Del Monte brand ... read more ...
 
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Check out what this association did with the .Co domain name - It’s not .com. Every once in a while I see a .co domain name around town. One of my favorites is mow.co, which is used by a local lawn mowing service. I was flipping through the Angie’s List magazine last night and saw an ad for a local window washing company. Something about the domain name looked funny: I’ve never seen that before. They use a .co domain name, and to make it clear to readers that it’s .co and not .com, they put an / through an “m” next ... read more ...
 
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Reminder: a tip turn domain name matters in a UDRP - Panels will not always ignore the top level domain name in UDRP cases. With niche top level domain names like .clothing and .plumbing now on the market, I’d like to clear up a common misconception about UDRP and whether the top level domain name should be ignored in such disputes. Many people believe that the top level domain name is ignored by panels when it comes to confusing similarity. In other words, if the domain at issue is trademark.com, the panel will say ... read more ...
Mon 10th February 2014
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Companies Vie For .names In Internet Domain Expansion - It's likely the biggest virtual real estate expansion this year that you've never heard of — a massive growth of the Internet that, like the land rushes of yesteryear, will have winners, losers and possibly unintended consequences. The generic top-level domain (gTLD), the last portion of an Internet address, such as .com, .org, .edu or .gov, will be dramatically expanded. Companies already have lined up to haggle, bargain and — if need be — fight over them. Currently, there are roughly 200 ... read more ...