Monthly Archives: February 2014

Mon 10th February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
New Indonesian top-level domain anything.id sunrise period for trademark … - The registration period for a new top-level domain (TLD) in Indonesia formally opened on January 20, 2014, providing companies and individuals alike the opportunity to acquire so-called anything.id domain names. In particular, owners of Indonesian trademark registrations and/or current Indonesian domain names are recommended to take advantage of the designated priority periods and secure their desired .id domain before registration is opened to the general public. The Indonesian ... read more ...
 
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Deux importants contrats pour TLD Canada - Spécialisée dans la conception et la fabrication d'équipements d'assistance aéroportuaires, TLD Canada construira 36 plateformes de chargement et de transport PFA-50 pour la RAAF. Entièrement conçu par l'équipe de R ET D sherbrookoise, le PFA-50 est un transporteur-élévateur de fret aérotransportable. Il dispose d'une capacité de chargement de 50 000 livres, assure un communiqué de presse. Sa conception lui permet de résister à des températures et des conditions météorologiques ... read more ...
 
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BidPal Inc. Decides to take their UDRP Loss to Court - There was an article published today by Gerald Levine on Ip Legal Corner, that highlights what is a disturbing trend for domain owners who have legitimate rights to their domain. It was generally considered that if you registered a domain, say in 1998, and a company came along in 2008 with a trademark, you could easily show there was no bad faith in the registration unless you could foresee the future. Of course you have to pay attenion to your domain names at all times, someone who registered a ... read more ...
 
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Figaro.Tv Saved In UDRP Because The Domain Owner Died - Société Du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, just lost its bid to grab the domain figaro.tv from a dead guy - The Respondent is Cut Company of Krefeld, Germany; - The owner – and seemingly only economic actor – of said company was Mr. Blumtritt. - According to the documents filed by the Complainant, Mr. Blumtritt passed away on June 28, 2013. - A cease and desist letter was sent in October 2013, after the presumed death of Mr. Blumtritt; - The Complaint was filed on November 8, 2013, also after ... read more ...
 
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BIG PICTURE – Top level domain names are not small beer - 8:40 am by John Harrington Do you think Czech brewer Budweiser Budvar will be keen to get its hands on www.budweiser.beer? Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is one of the companies behind the International Rugby Board's (IRB) application to control the .RUGBY top level domain (TLD). On Friday, the IRB saw two competing applications to control the .RUGBY TLD dismissed by the International Chamber of Commerce. What ... read more ...
 
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Protect Your Brand From Cybersquatting - Right now, we are witnessing what an executive at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) called “the biggest change to the Internet since its inception.” As ICANN begins launching new generic top-level domain (TLD) extensions, we’ll no longer be limited to addresses ending with .com, .net, and other already familiar TLDs. We’ll see .clothing, .food, .sport, and many, many more. Some people are hailing the new launches as a huge win for consumers, while others ... read more ...
 
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CNBC “New Internet domains are coming, and small biz needs to be wary” - I regularly receive calls from prospective clients that are at different phases of starting a business. Often they will have chosen a business name, filed the articles of incorporation, hired and attorney and/or leased office space, but will not have registered a domain name. When it comes time to register a domain name, they insist on only dot COM domains. They would rather have a longer dot COM then a shorter alternative extension. It will be interesting to ... read more ...
 
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Glenn Hayward, Formerly With Nominet, Joins CentralNic’s Board & Becomes Its CFO - CentralNic (AIM:CNIC), today announces that Glenn Hayward has joined the Board of CentralNic plc as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Hayward joins the Board of CentralNic from Nominet, the company responsible for the .uk domain names, where he was Executive Director, Business Development Director and Finance Director. Ben Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of CentralNic plc, said: “We are delighted that Glenn has joined the CentralNic Board. His expertise gained with one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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CNBC “New Internet domains are coming, and tiny biz needs to be wary” - Cadie Thompson wrote a piece for CNBC earlier today that included comments from Kathy Nielsen from Sedo. The article focuses on the potential problems that a small business without a robust intellectual property team and a small budget may face. This makes it easier for cybersquatters to buy a domain name that a legitimate business may want. It also opens the door for more cybercriminals to pose as an established website in order to steal user information. And while big corporations have the resources ... read more ...
 
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Yes, one minute domain names competence be value reduction than $1,000 - Supply and demand and new TLDs…what once was scarce is no longer. Over the weekend there was quite a hubbub over at DomainInvesting.com about the availability of single letter domain names in new top level domain names. In short: they are available, albeit at a premium annual registration fee. Although prices seemed to fluctuate over the weekend, it seems that the standard price is $400. Since you have to pay this fee each year, the domains aren’t actually $400 ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Registry offers the possess Domain Protected Marks List - Service for blocking trademark domain names is very similar to Donuts’. Rightside Registry announced its own version of the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) service last week. With the service, trademark owners can block their marks from being registered as a second level domain name in any of the top level domain names Rightside runs. If the name and the concept sound very familiar to Donuts’ DPML, that’s because Rightside Registry also runs the backend technical ... read more ...
 
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Company uses UDRP to go after passed man’s domain name - French publication files publication to try to get domain name from deceased man. Société Du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, a news publication, has lost a UDRP it filed against a dead man. The group filed the UDRP against the domain name figaro.tv. The domain name is registered to Stefan Blumtritt of “Cut Company” in Germany. Société Du Figaro S.A. pointed out to the panel that the domain name owner apparently died last year. This was certainly helpful information ... read more ...
 
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Universal Postal Union loses objections to .mail tip turn domain name - Group that runs .post fails to end bids for .mail top level domain name. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has lost community objections against five applications for the .mail top level domain name. UPU filed objections against all five active applicants for .mail, including Amazon.com, Google, Donuts, WhitePages TLD and GMO Registry. The objections on community grounds seemed like quite a stretch, although not as ridiculous as the United States Postal Service’s ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Microsoft, Allstate, and others bought - Big companies made domain name purchases last week. Microsoft and Allstate were among the end users that bought domain names that were reported on Sedo’s sales list last week. Here are some of the end user sales. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) Sandwich.co $18,000 – Sandwich Video, which produces videos for tech products. RentalStars.com $1,995 – a Mark Monitor clients HappyDeal.ch 850 EUR – Happy Deal Sàrl. I can’t find much about the ... read more ...
 
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How common difference like Pizza, Money, and Shopping finished adult in a Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs - The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification mechanism to determine if trademarks used to claim a .info domain met requirements. As a result, 20,000 sunrise registrations were later deemed invalid. Many more were accepted under rather lax standards. The same thing ... read more ...
Sun 9th February 2014
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‘Dot Dubai & Expo 2020’ forum will throw light on GTLDs (generic top level … - Home News Article Feb 08 2014 more articles from In This Article Madinat Jumeirah GTLD expert Naseem Javed to lead one-day seminar on March 12 at Madinat Jumeirah Dubai Dubai, February 8, 2014 Experts will throw light on generic top level domains (GTLDs) - which represent the biggest revolution since the inception of the Internet - at a one-day seminar titled 'Dot Dubai Expo 2020' (www.azna.com) to be held at Madinat Jumeirah ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Says Brands Are At Risk of Domain Abuse - Katy Bachman at AdWeek did a piece on ICANN and their statement that brands are at risk of domain abuse. They are warning brands to protect their intellectual property by using the Trademark Clearing House. The article mentions that many brands are not rushing to pay  the $150/year per domain fee to register each brand. From the article: Try to follow this. Icann, the international organization that has begun to roll out hundreds of new generic top level domains over the objections of brands worried ... read more ...
 
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Why small biz needs to watch new Internet domains - Businesses have the option of registering a website that is important to their brand before the top-level domain opens to the public. For example, Pizza Hut could buy the second-level domain "PizzaHut.pizza," before the generic domain ".pizza," opened up to the public. But with more than 1,000 top-level domains expected to come to market, purchasing every iteration of a Web address is almost impossible and can be incredibly expensive, said Troy Larson, an attorney at Ballard Spahr who focuses ... read more ...
 
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BIG PICTURE – Top level domain names are not small beer - Email To: From Email address: Name: Please send me a copy Message: Verification code BIG PICTURE - Top level domain names are not small beer Tuesday, February 11, 2014 ... read more ...
 
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Single Letter New gTLD Purchase Post Mortem - Shortly after Aaron Strong commented that he bought the single letter x.Ventures domain name, I purchased three single letter new gTLD domain names: n.Ventures, n.Holdings, and g.Holdings. I later learned that a whole bunch of single letter new gTLD domain names were registered, perhaps even all of those that were available to purchase. In light of this, I thought it would be appropriate to write a brief post mortem to reiterate why I made my purchases and my thoughts on buying new TLD domain ... read more ...
Sat 8th February 2014
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New gTLD Committe Tells ICANN To Consider Appeal Mechanism In String … - The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN (NGPC) pased a resolution, directing the ICANN President and CEO, to initiate a public comment period on the framework principles of a potential review mechanism to address the perceived inconsistent String Confusion Objection Expert Determinations. The effect of this proposal, and the issue that is likely to be before the NGPC after the close of the public comments, is to consider implementing a new review mechanism in the String Confusion Objection cases ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Aftermarket: Sedo Is Ready & Has New gTLD’s For Sale; Afternic … - I did a check to see if the major aftermarket houses were ready and listing new gTLD’s for sale. The short and simply answer: Sedo.com is. Afternic.com is not. Sedo has a drop down search feautre to search for domains name by extension. Sedo has the 7 new gTLD;s already included in their drop down menu and in fact there are already hundreds of new gTLD domain names for sale in the resale market with both fixed pricing and make offers/ Sedo actually has a few auctions going on new gTLD domain ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Aftermarket: Sedo Is Ready & Has New gTLD’s For Sale; Afternic Does Not - I did a check to see if the major aftermarket houses were ready and listing new gTLD’s for sale. The short and simply answer: Sedo.com is. Afternic.com is not. Sedo has a drop down search feautre to search for domains name by extension. Sedo has the 7 new gTLD;s already included in their drop down menu and in fact there are already hundreds of new gTLD domain names for sale in the resale market with both fixed pricing and make offers/ Sedo actually has a few auctions going on new gTLD domain names. Afternic.com ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Committe Tells ICANN To Consider Appeal Mechanism In String Confusion Cases - The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN (NGPC) pased a resolution, directing the ICANN President and CEO, to initiate a public comment period on the framework principles of a potential review mechanism to address the perceived inconsistent String Confusion Objection Expert Determinations. The effect of this proposal, and the issue that is likely to be before the NGPC after the close of the public comments, is to consider implementing a new review mechanism in the String Confusion Objection cases ... read more ...
 
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Guru Passes 20,000 Registrations: Now Has More Than .Travel & .Aero - The new gTLD .Guru added over 6,000 registration yesterday giving the extension almost 21,000 registered domain names. .Guru yesterday also passed .Travel and .Aero two Top Level Domains (TLD’s) that have been around for many years. .Travel launched back on October 2005 .Aero launched back on December 1, 2008 However unlike .Guru both .travel and .aero are restrcted meaning not everyone can register and own one. As for .Travel the extension is restricted for registration to “people, organizations, ... read more ...