Monthly Archives: February 2014

Mon 17th February 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Navigating additional trademark protection mechanisms in the gTLD universe - While a number of rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) are built into the gTLD application process, several registries have offered additional protection options. For trademark counsel, the challenge is surveying the various offerings and deciding which best suits their needs. Time, then, to consider some of the available services.  As the largest gTLD applicant – which expects to run more than 200 strings – Donuts arguably made the biggest splash with its Domains Protected Marks List ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
Domini internet ed estensioni gTLDs nel 2014 – Comunicati - Come sappiamo, i gTLDs (generic Top-Level Domains) occorrono a stabilire la provenienza o la tipologia di un sito ed è basilare sceglierli opportunamente all’atto di registrazione dei domini. Adesso, nel corso del 2014, la gamma di possibilità aumenterà di circa 5 volte, dato che sta per diventare disponibile un nuovo centinaio abbondante di “suffissi”. Il che non significa unicamente attingere da una lista ancora più lunga per definire con crescente precisione il proprio progetto, ... read more ...
 
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NCC acquires rights to .trust - IT security business NCC Group has acquired the right to operate generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post. The Manchester-based company plans to use the .trust domain to launch its Artemis internet security service to create a secure environment for selected customers. The service is set to be commercially available from the start of its next financial year in June. It has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire the domain, which was ... read more ...
 
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NCC Group PLC Acquisition of first gTLD .trust - TIDMNCC RNS Number : 1735A NCC Group PLC 17 February 2014 17 February 2014 NCC Group plc Acquisition of rights to first gTLD - .trust NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, or 'the Group'), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post, for an undisclosed fee. Deutsche Post originally obtained the gTLD through ICANN's new gTLD allocation process during 2013 but has ... read more ...
 
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A step closer – impact of new generic top-level domains on brand owner rights - Several generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) recently completed their Sunrise Periods, taking a step closer to realizing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (“ICANN’s”) gTLD expansion project from the existing 22 gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net, .org, .biz, etc.) to potentially 1,300 new gTLDs (i.e. arbitrary top-level domains). Brand owners now face an uphill battle in the enforcement of trade-mark rights on the Internet.  But what are the mechanisms ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Latest tip turn domain associated trademarks: .xyz, Uniregistry, and more - These companies have filed trademark application for slogans related to top level domain names. Domain name registries are lining up all sorts of catchy slogans for their businesses. Here are some recent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. “The Right Domain Name Can Change Your Life” – Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry filed an intent-to-use application for this slogan. Its applications could be for its registry or registrar businesses. “Name ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Length vs. Total Domain Length - Some top level domain names are longer than we’re used to, but they can still be shorter overall. A lot of people have questioned if some new top level domain names are simply too long. Will people type in an eleven character top level domain name such as .photography when they’re used to typing in just two or three characters to the right of the dot? While it remains to be seen how internet users react, .photography appears to be an early winner with many photographers. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Last year’s large domain opportunities: Bitcoin and dual forms of smoking - If you invested in bitcoin, marijuana, or e-cigarette related domains in the past year or two, congratulations. We can all see missed opportunities with hindsight. Looking back at the past year, I think there were two types of domain names that were ripe for buying: domains for bitcoin as well as two different types of “smoking”. Some good Bitcoin domains have been selling for top dollar in recent months. There was a good opportunity to pick up bitcoin related ... read more ...
Sun 16th February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Redirecting a .com to a .clothing ? - DJChuang.com did a small article on companies actively using a .clothing domain. They also noted what the sites used to be, A couple redirect to the .com as expected. LocalUnderdog.clothing which used to use LocalUnderdog.com does not even have the .com pointing it just does not resolve. One, CountryWear.clothing is noted as used to be HorseandHoof.eu, now there are no redirects, both sites are the same, they say they are redirecting horseandhoof but that is not happening yet. They used a quote from ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
.Guru vs. Ninja: let a conflict begin - Which top level domain name is better, .guru or .ninja? The runaway winner so far in new top level domain name launches is .guru. There are now over 30,000 .guru domain names registered. In my mind, .guru is similar to .ninja as many people use the underlying terms the same way. He’s a Ruby on Rails guru. He’s a Ruby on Rails ninja. So which is better, .guru or .ninja? It will be difficult to measure the two by registrations to figure out which one “wins” ... read more ...
Sat 15th February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Look out Bitcoin, Here Comes NoFiatCoin - BitCoin has certainly had a tumultuous week, from exchange problems and transfers frozen to a $2.7 million theft, this caused Venture Beat to ask if the end was near for Bitcoin. Silk Road 2.0, a black market drug-trading site based on untraceable Bitcoins, reports that 4,474 Bitcoins, valued at about $2.7 million, have been stolen from the site. The virtual currency is encrypted computer code that is stored in a virtual wallet, and only a limited number of Bitcoins are created. The site’s administrator, ... read more ...
 
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Time to get generic - The rollout of new generic top-level domain names has begun, with the first seven live as of January 29. The first gTLDs – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures – were followed by the launch of the next seven (.camera, .equipment, .estate, .gallery, .graphics, .lighting, and .photography). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced last summer that it had received a total of 1,930 applications for new gTLDs, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Russians Are Forwarding The Official Site of The Olympics Sochi.Ru To a .Com Sochi2014.com - If you have watched any part of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, and I know you have, you have undoubted sighted a Sochi.ru domain name banner that is flying across the the venues. One of the readers of thedomains.com points out that although the Sochi.ru domain name is being displayed hundreds of times each day on television stations all around the world,  if you type the domain in it forwards to Sochi2014.com I would say it is interesting that the Russian who are an extremely proud nation are ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Del Monte vs. Del Monte: Bizarrer Domain-Rechtsstreit abgewiesen - Zwei Unternehmen mit Rechten an der Marke "Del Monte" streiten sich um die neue TLD ".delmonte". Eine Klage gegen das Blockieren des Namens wurde nun abgewiesen. Das US-Bezirksgericht in Kalifornien hat eine Klage abgewiesen, mit der Del Monte International (DMI) sein Recht an der Domain-Endung ".delmonte" gegenüber der Del Monte Corporation (DMC) durchsetzen wollte. Letztere hatte zuvor erfolgreich Einspruch gegen die entsprechende TLD-Reservierung bei der ICANN eingelegt, ... read more ...
 
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Afternic changes remuneration thresholds, ends Park & Sell remission program - Payment thresholds change for sales and parking platforms and rebate program ends. Afternic and domain name parking platform SmartName have changed their payment thresholds and options in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition. Afternic has also quietly shuttered its Park Sell rebate program. Payments For Afternic, the minimum domain sales payout for international wires is now $10,000 or more and comes with a $45 processing fee. Checks ($25 processing fee), PayPal, ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domainfest To Feature Private Concert With Stone Temple Pilots -     DomainSponsor has just updated the Domainfest site and the on Tuesday night party will be  held in a top secret location but will feature a private concert with legendary, Grammy award winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! “It wouldn’t be Hollywood without a VIP event.” “That’s why we’re treating DomainFest full conference attendees to a private concert with legendary, Grammy award winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! “Venue ... read more ...
 
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DomainingSpain Conference Update Comes With a Love Story & A Hard Lesson … - their name. I have seen too many people who have hired someone to build a website for them and also given them access to their domain (or even worse, let them register the name the company wanted in the vendor's name, ... read more ...
 
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Deals.XYZ Sells For $8,100 On NameJet.com - In a Namejet.com auction which just closed today the domain name Deals.xyz just sold for $8,100. The price marks the highest amount paid for a .xyz domain name, a new gTLD extension which hasn’t even been delegated yet. If should be noted that the application fee for .XYZ was $185,000 so this one domain name repays the registry 4% of the application fee. We have already heard of aftermarket sales of recently released new gTLD domain names, but this has to be a record for a new gTLD prior to delegation Congrats ... read more ...
 
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“.Baku” – Should Azerbaijan care? - Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 14 By Tim Tal - Trend: For now, Azerbaijan's "whois" service has over 20,000 first-level domains registered, and the number of course grows every year. In January of 2013, there were over 16,000 top-level domains registered - a 24.5 percent increase compared to 2012. In 2011, the figure stood at over 15,000 domain names. From the beginning of 2014, over a thousand of top-level domains have been registered in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, like other countries, has its ... read more ...
 
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“.Baku” is available – would you like to register? - By Tim Tal For now, Azerbaijan's "whois" service has over 20,000 first-level domains registered, and the number of course grows every year. In January of 2013, there were over 16,000 top-level domains registered - a 24.5 percent increase compared to 2012. In 2011, the figure stood at over 15,000 domain names. From the beginning of 2014, over a thousand of top-level domains have been registered in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, like other countries, has its specific conditions for registering ... read more ...
 
 
 
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.London Launches Apr 29, Predicts Over 218K Registrations Just From Small Business - Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has today announced that .LONDON will begin taking registrations on 29 April 2014, marking the formal launch of the .LONDON domain. More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small businesses in London found that more than one in four (26 per cent, equivalent to 218,140 companies ) were likely to register for a .london ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD guide #3: What can you do with Chinese language domains? - 13 February 2014   |   Peter Leung, Hong Kong One of the most notable features of the new gTLDs is the availability of Chinese character domains. Two of the new Chinese-language gTLDs illustrate the opportunities and risks ... read more ...
 
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Lush Cosmetics Wins Trademark Battle With Amazon - Lush Cosmetics has won its high-profile trademark battle with Amazon, with the High Court ruling against the retail giant’s use of the word ‘lush’ in its search marketing. Insider Media covered the story, The cosmetics business, which is headquartered in Poole, took legal action against Amazon.co.uk and Amazon EU after complaining that the retailer was infringing its trademark. Lush does not permit its cosmetics to be sold on Amazon. However, visitors who typed ‘lush’ into the search box ... read more ...