Monthly Archives: March 2014

Wed 12th March 2014
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Grumpy a Cat and Rob Corddry give Name.com a High Five - Celebrities give Name.com a high five. Name.com did a rather clever marketing gimmick during SXSW Interactive in Austin. It sent one of its customer service reps to the city as “High Five Guy”. For every high five he got (10,000) the company donated 5 cents to an Austin charity. It’s difficult to attract attention during the noise of SXSW, but High Five Guy appears to have done the trick. The charity element certainly didn’t hurt. High Five guy got high fives ... read more ...
 
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New York male might have lucked out with Apple CarPlay - New York registered CarPlay.com domain name in 2000. Nearly 14 years ago New Yorker Thomas Fitzgibbon registered the domain name CarPlay.com. “I just thought cars are going to be automated in the future, and we’re getting to the point where that’s happening today,” he explained to Domain Name Wire. “I figured people would be playing games in and around their cars.” Fitzgibbon was surprised to wake up to the news last week that Apple was launching a new ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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New gTLD’s Registered With Word “Eco” Are Being Take Back: On ICANN’s … - As we just went to tape this weeks DomainSherpa.com discussion show, a fellow Sherpa, Page Howe, brought it to my attention that new gTLD domain names that have the word Eco on the left of the dot were in the process of  being taken back by the Donuts Registry. Page’s domain names eco.directory and eco.careers are only two of the domains now in the process of being deleted by the registry as the whois records are showing the domains being in pending delete. Even my company Worldwide Media, ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Registered With Word “Eco” Are Being Take Back: On ICANN’s Restricted List - As we just went to tape this weeks DomainSherpa.com discussion show, a fellow Sherpa, Page Howe, brought it to my attention that new gTLD domain names that have the word Eco on the left of the dot were in the process of  being taken back by the Donuts Registry. Page’s domain names eco.directory and eco.careers are only two of the domains now in the process of being deleted by the registry as the whois records are showing the domains being in pending delete. Even my company Worldwide Media, Inc. ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.9 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 3/3/14 – 3/9/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,907,184. The top .com sale was lead by GoZone.com for $15,000 followed by Avus.com for $10,807. The top non-com sale lead by How.co for $13,890. Below is the complete report: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Pourquoi faux-t-il réserver en urgence les nouvelles TLDs ? - Les bons noms de domaines sont toujours ceux qui disparaissent rapidement! Cela peut être expliqué par la forte concurrence pendant les mois prochains entre les domainers (revendeurs de noms de domaine de seconde main) et les professionnels souhaitant protéger leur image sur la toile. L'ouverture des nouveaux TLD à la réservation publique va offrir aux passionnés du web une occasion qui ne se reproduira pas au cours des prochaines années! Les noms de domaines qui sont généralement très ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings Brokerage Is Staying But Parent Company Changed To Bidtellect - The Baltimore Business Journal has just covered John Ferber and his new venture  Bidtellect which is what the company known as DomainHoldings, Inc. is changing its name to. According to the article which quotes John: “”Bidtellect is an online platform through which advertisers bid in real-time for native ad spots. ” “The company was founded in 2010 as a domain name brokerage called Domain Holdings Group Inc. ” “The company recently adopted its new moniker, Bidtellect, to reflect is expanding ... read more ...
 
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Brands Finally Find A New gTLD They Like For Sunrise .Company has a Few Hundred - Much has been made of the lack of Sunrise applications and Brands seeking their matching trademark or brand domains in the new gTLD rollout. I just reviewed the Zone file for the new Donuts gTLD .Company and it seems like this is a gTLD Brands are ding some registrations on. Although still not a huge number there does seem to be about 3x the activity in Sunrise than the average TLD. I actually see a lot of companies that grabbed a Sunrise application for their .Company domain that  I have not seen ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Clearing House Up To 27,252 Marks -   The Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) issued its monthly update. As of March 10th 2014, there are 27,252 marks submitted for a total of 59, 593 trademark years. 20, 076 notifications were sent to holders based off attempted new gTLD registrations.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Interview with a owner of NtldStats.com - NtldStats.com is a website that offers a comprehensive list of statistics pertaining to the new gtlds. The company behind the website is Greensec based out of Germany. We sat down with Stefan Meinecke to get some more info about the site. 1) What is GreenSec’s interest in the space ? Stefan – GreenSec is a software consultant company that offers individual solutions for companies around the world. This includes customised hosting solutions for clients including the registration of domain names. 2) ... read more ...
 
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Big Changes Coming To Google Search Results - Jayson DeMers wrote a very detailed and well thought out post about Google and coming changes in search.  In the article DeMers discusses that search will change to accomodate a more mobile world, that SEO professionals will have to adapt and change as well. All things search must evolve. DeMers goes on to discuss that there will be more color and more information, targeted data to get users what they need faster. He goes on at length to discuss the rise of the Knowledge Graph. From the article: Google’s ... read more ...
 
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It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names - Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned  that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD’s in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first 5,000 people to submit a .みんな web site idea via a campaign web site ” “The offer expires ... read more ...
 
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Quickest Legal Action On A Domain Registration? bbva.careers Hit With URS 5 Days After Registration - In what maybe the quickest action filed by a trademark holder against a domain holder, the domain name bbva.careers has been hit with a  URS 5 Days After Registration. The domain name bbva.careers was registered on March 5th on the last day of EAP for many times general availability rates which would have gone into effect the following day on March 6th. The URS was filed today on March 10th BBVA is a publicly traded financial company (BBVA),  Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A with a market cap ... read more ...
 
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Chinese Game Company 37wan.net Is Buyer of 37.com For $2.1 Million & Predicts $36 Million In Profit - According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com,  the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li Yifei, president of the company said “the market for web game exports is optimistic and it is a necessary way for gaming companies to expand into overseas markets. ” “He revealed that 37 Game will launch its mobile game distribution in China and abroad simultaneously. ... read more ...
 
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Former Apple executive joins GoDaddy board - GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boards of Echelon and Autodesk. Rafael is the first woman on GoDaddy’s Board of Directors, although the company has a number of women in leadership roles including the CMO, CTO, Chief Communications Officer, and General ... read more ...
 
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Companies are unprotected to .exposed tip turn domain name - Trademark counsel should pay attention to the latest TLD to enter sunrise. A lot of people have focused on .sucks as an example of a top level domain “shakedown” in which companies will feel compelled to register domains for protective purposes. There’s a similar domain name entering sunrise today that hasn’t received much attention: .exposed. It can be used in much the same way that .sucks and .gripe can be used, so it’s worth paying attention to if you’re ... read more ...
 
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New Top Level Domain Names still confronting harmony issues - Important software still not recognizing new domain names. Registrants of second level domain names under new TLDs such as .photography and .tattoo are learning firsthand about the issue of Universal Acceptance. The term refers to systems not recognizing new top level domain names for what they are, and thus not being compatible with domain names ending in new monikers such as .holdings. And while the issue is toughest on non-Latin top level domains, it still affects ... read more ...
 
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Fiskars is Stoppable, domain name row rules - Company loses dispute for Unstoppable.com domain name. Fiskars, a company you most likely know for its scissors, has a trademark on “Unstoppable”. But a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panel has ruled that its rights to the term are stoppable. The company filed a cybersquatting complaint under UDRP against the owner of Unstoppable.com. Fiskars lost its case (pdf) despite the domain name owner not responding. The panel ruled that Fiskars did ... read more ...
 
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New TLD heading notifications tip 20,000 - The Trademark Clearinghouse has sent over 20,000 notices to trademark holders based on domain registrations matching trademarks. The Trademark Clearinghouse has now issued 20,076 trademark notifications based on second level registrations in new TLDs. The notifications are sent to entities that have registered their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse whenever someone registers an SLD that matches that mark. There are only 27,252 marks submitted to the Clearinghouse, ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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Fred Krueger of Minds + Machines Book “Stop Drinking and Get Fit” Hits Amazon - Fred Krueger of Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) book entitled “Stop Drinking and Get Fit: A guide to personal transformation” is now in paperback and available at Amazon for purchase for $15.18. This new 200 page “Director’s Cut” is a must have…” says Krueger Fred wrote on his Facebook page that he dropped close to 30 Lbs and had gotten under 15% body fat: “Phase 1 was to hit my ideal weight and body fat %. I’ve hit and maintained that for 3 months now” I recently ... read more ...
 
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Mashable Looks during “The History of a Domain Name” - Max Knoblauch did a post entitled “A Brief History of the Domain Name” Starting off with Symbolics.com owned by Aron Meystedt, to 1995 and the end of free domain names.  1998 and the privatization of the DNS and ICANN. 1998: Privatization of the DNS and ICANN In 1998, the Department of Commerce, under President Clinton’s urging, issued a proposal for privatizing the Domain Naming System (DNS), which was then controlled by the U.S. government. The document — known as the “Green Paper” ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD guide #4: dot-guru - 10 March 2014   |   Alli Pyrah, New York In the fourth instalment in Managing IP’s series on domain names we profile dot-guru, one of the first English language gTLDs to be launched ... read more ...
 
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It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names - Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned  that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD’s in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first 5,000 people to submit a .みんな web site idea via a campaign web site ” “The offer expires ... read more ...
 
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Purchased For $65K Kiko.com Saved in UDRP - Kiko s.r.l. of Bergamo, Italy just lost its bid to grab the domain name kiko.com in a UDRP The domain holders bought the domain for in 2010 for $65,578.50 to use for a social networking site. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the three member panel The Complainant’s business is the manufacture of cosmetic products. The Complainant is the owner of trademark registrations in Classes 3 and 25 for the word trademark KIKO in a number of countries, including in the United States of America (filed ... read more ...
 
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Tencent Pays $15 Million For 15% Stake In JD.com - According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com. JD.Com’s planning on a  $1.5 billion IPO. JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-commerce market to Alibaba’s shopping sites, Taobao.com and Tmall.com. It was recently revealed that 360buy.com paid $5 Million dollars for the domain name JD.com. The company announced the change from 360buy.com to JD.com last March.       Google+Michael ... read more ...