Monthly Archives: March 2014

Sun 23rd March 2014
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Former CEO Of ICANN Beckstrom: US Surrender of Internet Governance Leads to Turbulence & Risks - In an email to subscribers of his newsletter, the former CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom says the US surrender of Internet governance role will leadsto new turbulence and risks Here is his statement: “During my tenure as CEO of ICANN, I signed both the 2009 Affirmation of Commitments and the 2012 IANA contract that governs changes to the global Internet’s root zone – the authoritative database of top-level Internet domain names and addresses. These are the definitive agreements that codify the relationship ... read more ...
Sat 22nd March 2014
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The 26th Highest Domain Sale of 2010, Reportedly Stolen - There was a press release put out that reported the domain name imoveis.com.br stolen. The release says that the domain was purchased in 2010 for $300,000 and checking out the archives on DN Journal that sale is reported. iMoveis means real estate or homes in Portuguese. The press release details how they believe the name was stolen. Press Release: In 2010 it was worth 300,000 USD and is one of the most important Brazilian domain names In the last hours someone robbed www.imoveis.com.br, one of ... read more ...
 
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.Com Passes 113 Million Registrations - According to Verisign.com, the operator of the .Com registry the number of .Com domain names just broke the 113 Million mark for the first time. The official number at the last Verisign update was 113,002,815. According to ntldstats.com/tld the number of new gTLD registrations are over 332,000 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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TMCH Has Plenty Of “Trademarks” of Generic Words - In attempting to pre-order some new gTLD’s I have had to review trademarks filed with the Mark: hosting Jurisdiction: Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) Goods: Rubber, guttapercha, gummi, asbest, mica en hieruit vervaardigde producten voor zover niet begrepen in andere klassen; halfbewerkte plastic producten; dichtings-, pakking- en isolatiemateriaal; niet-metalen buigzame buizen. International Class of Goods and Services or Equivalent: class number 17: Rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, ... read more ...
 
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German Discount Clothing Company Spends 178,500 Euros to Upgrade to KiK.de - German discount clothing company KiK Textilien which operates at Kik-Textilien.de and .com has stepped up the quality of their domain name and purchased Kik.de for 178,500 Euros ($246,223) The domain did belong to another German company KiK Computerausbildung Vertrieb GmbH that company is now currently operating at Kik.eu. Screenshot from Archive.org: According to Wikipedia Kik is the largest discount clothing company in Germany. KiK is the largest textile discounter chain in Germany and operates ... read more ...
 
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End user sales are partial of Afternic’s large $2.1 million sales week - Pharmaceuticals company, non-profit, and garage door repairman are among end user domain buyers. GoDaddy and Afternic teamed up to sell $2.1 million worth of domain names last week, led by QY.com at $100,000. Following are some of the sales that were made to end users. You can end user sales from previous weeks here. AutismSociety.com $9.750 – Hussman Foundation, which just launched the Hussman Institute for Autism. Renta.Limo $1,776 and Chicago.Limo $1,625 – ... read more ...
Fri 21st March 2014
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First new UDRP decision issued for gTLDs - In the first of what are likely to be many Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) and Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases related to the new gTLD program, CANYON.BIKE was transferred to Canyon Bicycles GmbH of Koblenz, Germany. This seems to have been a relatively easy decision for the arbitrator, since the Respondent’s defense was “that he registered the disputed domain name to enlarge his network and ‘get in (friendly) contact with Canyon.’ The Respondent ... read more ...
 
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Apple, Yahoo and Google All Reserve The Right To Read Your Email - So there was a story out this week that Microsoft had read the emails of a French blogger who had received code from a former Microsoft employee, the employee has been arrested in Seattle, accused of leaking Windows 8 to the tech blogger. The blogger actually contacted Microsoft to verify what was going on, Microsoft then went through his hotmail and messenger and found the email from the former employee. This of course has created quite a stir about privacy and what providers can and cannot do. ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Update - Here's a chart showing the ten largest new TLDs and the number of domains in each one, going back five days. It's updated every day around 3 AM New York time, so visit early and often. Data from downloaded TLD zone files. Some new TLDs don't have zone files available yet but I don't think any of them are very big. By John Levine, Author, Consultant Speaker. More blog posts from John Levine can also be read here. Related topics: Top-Level Domains ... read more ...
 
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Domini gTLD Italia: ecco i nuovi domini fra cui scegliere - L’espansione dei nuovi domini gTLD continua ad avanzare, e dopo una prima tranche con cui l’Italia si è persa i domini di Roma e della pizza, registrati da un broker inglese, come raccontato da Silvio Gulizia, arrivano ora nuovi domini disponibili.I primi trend raccontano che l’interesse sui domini generici di primo livello è molto vario ed elevato, sia da parte di privati che di aziende, con queste ultime che manifestano interessi molto alti soprattutto su domini come .shop e .store. Oltre ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Holdings Starts Trading Under Minds + Machines Today - Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (“TLDH”) has officially changed its name to and started trading today under Minds + Machines Group Limited From today, the Company’s shares will trade uwith the EPIC ticker symbol, MMX. Fred Krueger, Chairman of the Group, commented: “We are delighted to be now fully grouped under the banner of our operating businesses, Minds + Machines. It not only reflects the Board’s confidence in the prospects of our registry and registrar operations but will create ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Macau Auction Concludes With Close to $200,000 in Sales - In what was an interesting way to follow an auction, Sedo concluded their Macau auction this morning and they were updating people on Twitter as the auction ran. They actually set up a Twitter handle for the auction,  @twitter.com/macauauction The account  had 20 followers and they made close to 400 tweets. Click on the link and you can follow all the bidding action as it was tweeted live. The last lot sold for Gaming/Game sold for  $25,388, below I embedded some tweets from the action. “Rent” ... read more ...
 
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Mt. Gox May Have Found 200,000 Bitcoins - There was a report out last night that bankrupt Bicoin exchange Mt. Gox may have found 200,000 Bitcoins in a forgotten wallet. Pete Rizzo of Coindesk wrote: A new report suggests that Mt. Gox, the now-bankrupt Japan-based exchange said to have lost 850,000 BTC in customer funds may actually still be in possession of 200,000 BTC ($118m at press time). The news, published by Yahoo Japan, allegedly comes from the exchange’s bankruptcy lawyer who suggests the bitcoins were found on 7th March in a ... read more ...
 
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Competition Is Sexy – Separation or Integration of the Domain Name Sales … - Back in the early days of the public Internet, Network Solutions had a monopoly on .com, .org., and .net domain registrations and charged $100 per domain for a 2-year registration. Growing complaints about that predatory pricing was one of the factors that led to ICANN's creation. NetSol established an internal "firewall" in 1998 and its wholesale prices soon dropped to $6 per domain. VeriSign acquired NetSol for $21 billion in 2000, and then sold off the registrar side of the business to private ... read more ...
 
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Do you have a two word brand‎ You need consider the new gTLDs now - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Important Corrections To Inaccuracies and Misconceptions Regarding U.S. Announcement - ICANN in a blog post today, entitled Important Corrections to General Inaccuracies and Misconceptions Regarding U.S. Announcement and IANA Functions tries to quite the outrage coming from many in the domain community and Congress. Here is some of the blog post (edited) On Friday, March 14 the U.S. Government announced its intention to transition its stewardship responsibilities of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions to the global multistakeholder community—a key component of ... read more ...
 
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Stock Analysis firm Trefis On Verisign: Risk Is ccTLD’s; Doesn’t Mention new … - Stock Analysis firm Trefis had some interesting comments on Verisign in a note entitled “Drop In Verisign Shares Highlights Risks Associated With Domain Business” The note went on to say that the biggest risk to the Verisign business is growth in ccTLD domain names. Trefis didn’t mention the new gTLD’s at all. It would be one thing to mention new gTLD’s and then conclude that the wouldn’t impact Verisign market share of the global domain market, but for the company not to even mention ... read more ...
 
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Iron Mountain to protect new top-level domains - Starting soon, new domain names will flood the Internet, changing how companies list themselves and how consumers find them online. In late January, the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures – went live and many more such as .bid, .science and .pub are expected to follow, as companies look to expand their presence on the Internet. Iron Mountain escrow protection has been chosen to protect the data for more than 70 ... read more ...
 
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Finishing What We Started: A Level Playing Field for New gTLDs - While the Internet governance debate devours headlines, it's almost easy to forget that ICANN is in the midst of the most audacious and important policy process it has ever undertaken. And while many new generic top-level domains are now live, the process of ensuring the best opportunity to fulfill their potential is not yet complete. We recently reached the milestone of 280,000 registrations in the Donuts gTLDs that are currently generally available. After years of policy and business development, ... read more ...
 
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Why Neustar paid $109 million for .Co and what it means for new TLDs - While the circumstances behind Neustar’s acquisition of .CO Internet were unique, it bodes well for operators of new TLDs. Neustar announced yesterday that it is paying $109 million to acquire .CO Internet, operator of the .co domain name. It’s a big price tag, and here’s how it breaks down: * $68 per currently registered .Co domain * 5x current annual revenue run rate * 6.5x current annual revenue run rate when you account for Neustar losing $4 million a year ... read more ...
 
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A domain financier goes to WIPO’s home in Geneva to learn some-more about UDRP - Nat Cohen traveled to Geneva to learn more about the current state of UDRP. Here’s what he learned. Last October, at the suggestion of attorneys John Berryhill and Zak Muscovitch, I flew to Geneva to attend a workshop presented by WIPO entitled WIPO Advanced Workshop on Domain Name Dispute Resolution: Update on Precedent and Practice. I hoped to gain a better understanding of whether, despite the UDRP’s flaws and the pro-complainant bias built into the procedures, ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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Stock Analysis organisation Trefis On Verisign: Risk Is ccTLD’s; Doesn’t Mention new gTLD’s - Stock Analysis firm Trefis had some interesting comments on Verisign in a note entitled “Drop In Verisign Shares Highlights Risks Associated With Domain Business” The note went on to say that the biggest risk to the Verisign business is growth in ccTLD domain names. Trefis didn’t mention the new gTLD’s at all. It would be one thing to mention new gTLD’s and then conclude that the wouldn’t impact Verisign market share of the global domain market, but for the company not to even mention ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Starts Sunrise Today - The .XYZ Sunrise period opened today and will run to May 20, 2014. The company put out a press release with all the details, Beverly Hills, CA (March 20, 2014) — Internet users worldwide will soon see web addresses ending with .xyz – the first truly generic domain extension – as Brands are invited to register and secure their marks in the .xyz namespace during the trademark-exclusive Sunrise Registration Period. “With its universal appeal and competitive pricing, .xyz is destined to be a ... read more ...
 
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Rockin’ Day for Domain Registries! Neustar Buys .CO, TLD Registry Takes Bow … - Wow! What a big news day for domain registries - one that culminated late this afternoon, right after the stock market closed, when Neustar (operator of the .biz and .us registries) announced ... read more ...
 
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1st URS Denied: Panel Gets It Right & Denies URS on Branson.Guru - For the first time a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) complaint has been denied. URS panelist Douglas M. Isenberg Denied Virgin Enterprises URS on the domain name Branson.Guru. The domain was registered by Lawrence Fain of Chicago who didn’t even bother to respond Here is the decision of the panel: Complainant has provided the following explanatory text, in toto, in its Complaint (subject to the 500-word limit specified in paragraph 1.2.7 of the URS): The Complainant is Virgin Enterprises Limited ... read more ...