Monthly Archives: March 2014

Thu 13th March 2014
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US senator attacks ‘.sucks’ web address plans - AFP US senator attacks '.sucks' web address plansWashington (AFP) - A high-ranking US senator urged Internet regulators Wednesday to pull the plug on a proposed online neighborhood for website addresses ending in ".sucks." Senator John (Jay) Rockefeller argued in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that such an Internet zone aimed to compel companies to buy addresses for the sole purpose of preventing someone from using them and potentially discredit ... read more ...
 
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Senator calls .sucks domains ‘predatory shakedown scheme,’ but Seattle-area … - Senator Jay Rockefeller, via Flickr Want to register Congress.sucks? How about Target.sucks? Or Amazon.sucks? Not so fast. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who chairs the Senate’s Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to ICANN today arguing that the organization which controls all of the domain name registration on the Internet should not allow companies to start registering websites with the top level domain (gTLD) of .sucks. In bold language, Rockefeller described the possible ... read more ...
 
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See who purebred 1,659 .domains domain names in initial hours - A look at registrants of .domains domain names. Individuals and companies registered 1,659 .domains domain names in the first hours after the domain entered regular-price general availability yesterday. I’d group the purchases in five groups: Brands: domain name brands were on top of this release, of course. Many of them got the domains through sunrise as well. Sedo picked up sedo.domains while competitor Afternic has a Domain Protected Marks List block on “Afternic”. ... read more ...
 
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Patient.com domain name strike with UDRP - UK health software company claims that owner of Patient.com is cybersquatting. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited, an electronic healthcare records software company, has filed a UDRP against the domain name Patient.com. The domain name was registered in 1997 but was acquired at Sedo in 2012, according to historical whois records. I don’t believe the sale was ever made public. The domain name currently resolves to a “coming soon” page. Egton owns a consumer ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2014
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Sen. Rockefeller, Adweek & Politico Pick Up On The .Sucks Story We Told You … - I’m not wholly opposed to the new extensions and do see some positive opportunities being introduced — alongside extra costs and problems. But this must be the understatement of the year: “If ICANN allows this extension to exist they are going to severely damage their credibility as well as the credibility of the new gTLD program.” Yes. But at this point, how much credibility is left to bruise? .SUCKS is only the most flagrant example of motives that ... read more ...
 
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Sen. Rockefeller, Adweek & Politico Pick Up On The .Sucks Story We Told You About In December - Back on December 19th we wrote about one new gTLD  applicant’s plan to charge $25,000 for a .sucks domain registration in a post entitled; “You’ve Got To Be Kidding: $25K For A .Sucks Domain Name Registration” Today Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called .Sucks “little more than a predatory shakedown scheme designed to force large corporations, small businesses, non-profits, and even individuals, to pay ongoing fees to prevent seeing the phrase ‘sucks’ appended to their names on ... read more ...
 
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U.S. senator rejects ‘sucks’ as online neighborhood - A high-ranking U.S. senator urged Internet regulators Wednesday to pull the plug on a proposed online neighborhood for website addresses ending in ".sucks."Senator John (Jay) Rockefeller argued in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that such an Internet zone aimed to compel companies to buy addresses for the sole purpose of preventing someone from using them."I view it as little more than a predatory shakedown scheme," the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee ... read more ...
 
 
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US senator not a fan of ‘.sucks’ Web sites - By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch Getty Images U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) testifies during a Senate Water and Wildlife Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 4, 2014 in Washington, DC. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A U.S. ... read more ...
 
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Google Scrapping Banner Ad Experiment - Harrison Weber is reporting on Venture Beat and Ginn Marvin is reporting on Marketing Land,  that Google is going to scrap its banner ad experiment. Google started showing banner ads last October which sparked many to become upset as Google had long promised not to show banner ads in search results. From the article: VentureBeat can confirm that banner ads for original partner companies, like SouthWest Airlines, are no longer visible in our own tests — of course, there’s still a chance that ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Holding Domainfest Premium Domain Auction - NameJet announced today its running an auction for over 40 premium domain names in partnership with Oversee.net. All auctions scheduled to close during the DomainFest domain industry and investor conference on April 1st and 2nd. All of these exclusive domains are being offered with low reserves or no reserves. Here is a partial list the domain names that are already live on NameJet.com for backorder: blackcar.com brickhomes.com bubblejet.com cairoegypt.com cellcovers.com collegejobs.com crunchroll.com federalloan.com getadeal.com getdressed.com golfcap.com gulfbeachresort.com guyparty.com happygirls.com inventorysystem.com kidsradio.com kidstyping.com ladyfitness.com localgyms.com localsonly.com makeupgame.com nightjobs.com oilpump.com oldcurrency.com onlinecash.com petpsychic.com quickshop.com realityshow.com redchili.com smalltrees.com soccermall.com stepping.com tamilmusic.com taxconsulting.com tropicalplants.com tropicalresorts.com truckers.com vintageshoes.com virussoftware.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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March 10: 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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Dior Files URS On Dior.Clothing & I’m Going To Blame The Company For This One - A URS wwas filed by designer fashion house Christian Dior on the domain name Dior.clothing yesterday. I’m going to blame the company for this one. No one likes to pay for insurance just like no one wants to spend money to register defensive domains, but if your in business you need to do certain things and make good business decisions. So while I don’t expect any brand (although some did) to go and register or block hundreds of new gTLD’s in every possible extension, domains that are bang on ... read more ...
 
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HA.com Domain Auction Is Live: Tablets.com; Digital.com; Future.com; LK.com - Heritage Auctions second domain auction is now live. Most names have reserves, which will be made public for everyone to see 7 days before the auction. Some names have no reserve price. Prices range from $100 up to near $1MM. Here are some of the more interesting domain names: LK.com DEC.com (the 5th name ever registered.  September, 1985) Tablets.com Digital.com Future.com Spokane.com Skinny.com CoinCollector.com SouthAmerica.com March.com CorpusChristi.com Cola.com PriceofGold.com PoliticalScience.com There ... read more ...
 
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Patton Boggs Partners Offer Brand Owners Advice on Infringement Risks … - Tweet Tamlin Bason’s Interview with George Borababy and Deborah Lodge George Borababy, a partner in Patton Boggs, specializes in ... read more ...
 
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Are You Missing the .BOAT? - Image: psd/Flickr Are you a small or medium business? Have you ever heard of the TMCH or Trademark Clearinghouse? Do you know what a new gTLD is? If the answer to the last two questions is “no,” you’re not alone. It’s becoming very clear that awareness of gTLDs and the TMCH is not what it should be. gTLD stands for generic top level domain — it’s what comes to the right of the dot in an internet address. .com and .net are the most common, but new gTLDs, almost 1,000 of them, ... read more ...
 
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Afilias bringt die Endungen .ONL und .RICH ins Internet - Afilias erbringt Registry-Services für neue I-REGISTRY gTLDs Dublin, 12. März 2014_ Afilias, Registrierungsstelle für die Top-Level-Domains (TLD) .INFO, .ORG, .AERO, .MOBI, .ASIA, .XXX, .PRO, .POST und globaler Anbieter von Registry-Services, gibt heute den Abschluss der technischen Vorbereitungen für die Aktivierung der neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) .ONL und .RICH im Internet bekannt. Mit den gTLDs .ONL und .RICH bietet die Berliner I-REGISTRY Ltd. Registraren einzigartige Vorteile. ... read more ...
 
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Afilias bringt die Endungen .ONL und .RICH ins Internet - Afilias bringt die Endungen .ONL und .RICH ins Internet Afilias erbringt Registry-Services für neue I-REGISTRY gTLDs Dublin, 12. März 2014_ Afilias, Registrierungsstelle für die Top-Level-Domains (TLD) .INFO, .ORG, .AERO, .MOBI, .ASIA, .XXX, .PRO, .POST und globaler Anbieter von Registry-Services, gibt heute den Abschluss der technischen Vorbereitungen für die Aktivierung der neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLD) .ONL und .RICH im Internet bekannt. Mit den gTLDs .ONL und .RICH ... read more ...
 
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Afilias welcomes .ONL and .RICH to the Internet - Afilias Afilias is happy to support the I-REGISTRY team in bringing unique domains to the public and helping them achieve their full potential. DUBLIN (PRWEB) March 12, 2014 Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the completion of technical preparations to activate the new .ONL and .RICH ... read more ...
 
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Afilias welcomes .ONL and .RICH to the Internet - Afilias welcomes .ONL and .RICH to the Internet PRWEB.COM Newswire DUBLIN (PRWEB) March 12, 2014 Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the completion of technical preparations to activate the new .ONL and .RICH generic top-level domains (gTLD) on the global Internet. Managed by Berlin, Germany-based I-REGISTRY Ltd., the .ONL and .RICH gTLDs are unique propositions for a Web presence. The .ONL domain is designed to be a quick way of saying “I’m online” ... read more ...
 
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AGIP & CentralNic Signed a Memorandum of Understanding – ag-IP - AMMAN - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on March 3, 2014 between CentralNic Ltd and Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP). According to a press release by AGIP, the Memorandum aims at enhancing cooperation in business opportunities related to providing assistance for country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) registries. Mr. Mahmoud Lattouf, executive director of TAG-Domains, and Mr. Benjamin Crawford, chief executive officer of CentralNic signed the Memorandum. This cooperation ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top-Level-Domains: "Das Interesse ist groß, aber der Markt extrem … - - Unter den 45 neuen Top-Level-Domains (nTLDs), die bereits unter www.strato.de/domain angeboten werden, ist .berlin die am meisten bestellte neue Domain-Endung. In den nächsten Monaten werden Schritt für Schritt mehr als 500 frei registrierbare nTLDs eingeführt. - Harter Preiskampf: .de ab sofort 1 Jahr gratis*, .berlin 1 Jahr für 1,89 Euro monatlich** Einen Monat nach der Einführung der ersten neuen Top-Level-Domains (nTLDs) im Februar zieht Dr. Christian ... read more ...
 
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Agreed Becomes a 1st Licensed Internet Escrow Service to Accept Bitcoin & Litecoin - California-based Agreed Escrow announce today it has partnered with GoCoin to become the first licensed Internet escrow service to allow clients to pay with Bitcoin and Litecoin through its site at Agreed.com. “Agreed is licensed by the California Department of Business Oversight to act as an Internet Escrow agent in escrows involving goods and services.” “Agreed’s clients are now able to make purchases on agreed.com using the two most popular digital currencies, Bitcoin and Litecoin, with ... read more ...
 
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Apple, Weather Channel, Ericsson, Hallmark, Chanel: Brands Are Getting Their .Wiki - Top Level Design LLC, the company behind the new gTLD, .Wiki announced today that leading global brands including Apple, Ericsson, Hallmark, the Weather Channel, and Chanel were among the first to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain their .wiki domain names through the “TheirTrademark.wiki” program. The world’s best-known online collaboration tool thanks to Wikipedia.org, “wikis” are a specific type of Internet content that is rapidly becoming an essential asset for brands worldwide.” “Under ... read more ...
 
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Obama: we don’t go to .com and .net sites - Obama discusses top level domain names in humor video. As of this morning Barrack Obama’s appearance on Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis has been viewed a whopping 12 million times. Obama’s appearance on the show was designed to boost awareness of his healthcare act among younger people, and it may be working. If you haven’t seen the video yet (embedded below), you may get a kick out of a brief mention of top level domain names. Here’s ... read more ...