Monthly Archives: May 2014

Mon 19th May 2014
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Oh Great, The US Proposes To Reduce The Cost & Renewing Most Trademarks - The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to reduce fees for many new trademark applications and most renewals of registration. Under the NPRM, the fee for a new application filed using the regular Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) application form will be reduced $50, from the current fee of $325 to $275 per class, if the applicant authorizes e-mail communication with the USPTO and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Open Up Comment Period On Donuts Request To Allow 2 Letter New gTLD’s - ICANN just posted a letter it send to Jon Nevett of Donuts regarding its request to release all 2 letter new gTLD domain in all the strings that Donuts has signed contracts with. It appears ICANN is not against the concept saying; “ICANN has conducted a preliminary review of your request introduce two-character domains to the marketplace and “Based on the information provided, ICANN’s preliminary review did not identify any significant competition or security and stability issues.” “Implementation ... read more ...
 
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More Stats For Domain Lovers: Namestat.org, Includes Fastest Growing New … -     We just came across another site offering new gTLD stats at Namestat.org The site offers a section entitled “Fastest Growing gTLD’s and not surprisingly .Club is leading the way. Here are the top 10 Fastest Growing new gTLD’s according to the site: .club .guru .email .today .solutions .agency .company .cool .zone .photography Interestingly the second or third gTLD with the most registrations, .Berlin is not on the list nor is .Expert that just launched last week and has over 10,000 registrations ... read more ...
 
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Universal Acceptance of All TLDs Now! - Universal acceptance of top level domains hasn't really meant much to most Internet users up until now. As long as .COM was basically the default TLD, there wasn't much of an issue. No longer. With 263 delegated strings (according to ICANN's May 12, 2014 statistics) adding to the existing 22 gTLDs that were already live on the net after the 2004 round of Internet namespace expansion, the problem of universal acceptance gets very real. What is the issue? Being able to use any TLD with any ... read more ...
 
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More Stats For Domain Lovers: Namestat.org, Includes Fastest Growing New gTLD (.Club) -     We just came across another site offering new gTLD stats at Namestat.org The site offers a section entitled “Fastest Growing gTLD’s and not surprisingly .Club is leading the way. Here are the top 10 Fastest Growing new gTLD’s according to the site: .club .guru .email .today .solutions .agency .company .cool .zone .photography Interestingly the second or third gTLD with the most registrations, .Berlin is not on the list nor is .Expert that just launched last week and has over 10,000 registrations ... read more ...
 
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After Spending $5 Million For the Brand, JD.com $1.9 Billion IPO Hits Wall Street This Week -   JD.com is going public this week as it IPO hits Wall Street. It was just a year ago in March 2013 that we told you, China’s” leading direct B2C e-commerce company”, Jingdong , who was operating as 360buy.com, purchased re-branded as JD.com. In February we found out the company may have paid as much as $5 Million for JD.com. The company is trying to sell $1.9 Billion dollars worth of stock in the IPO, making the $5 Million spent on its brand a pretty good investment. According to the Wall ... read more ...
 
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Which Will Have More Registrations After One Year; .GOP; .Republican; .Democrat or .Vote - The new gTLD political race is about to start to being The first political extension to roll out will be .Democrat which is launching into general availability on Wednesday May 21st. The extension is owned by Rightside part of  Demand Media, Inc (DMD), a publicly held company  not affiliated with any political party. The retail price, depending on registrar is expected to be under $40. According to Demand Media,”.DEMOCRAT appeals to elected officials, candidates, political enthusiasts, or anyone ... read more ...
 
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2nd Most Expensive New gTLD .Luxury Goes Live Today After Racking Up Over … - The new gTLD .Luxury goes live today into general availability. It is the 2nd most expensive new gTLD with a retail  price of around $800 depending on the registrar which is second only to .Rich which has a registration price of $2,500 or more and has only 38 registrations to date. A list of all registrars carrying .Luxury is here. The registry already secured over 600 Sunrise trademarks which I believe is the highest number of Sunrise registrations of any new gTLD to date. Beyond the high price, ... read more ...
 
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Applicant For New gTLD .TVS Files UDRP On TVS.com; With Revenues Of $5.7 … - For the first time an applicant for a new gTLD has filed a UDRP against the matching .com T V SUNDRAM IYENGAR SONS LIMITED out of India applied to operate the new gTLD .TVS The company owns the domain name TVS.in but operates it main site out of  tvsiyengar.com As we told you yesterday, the domain name TVS.com is 17 years old with the current owner PA Gordon which owns the domain name getaway.com has owned the domain for at least 12 years according to domaintools.com The domain name has an original ... read more ...
 
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Applicant For New gTLD .TVS Files UDRP On TVS.com; With Revenues Of $5.7 Billion Why Didn’t They Just Buy The Domain? - For the first time an applicant for a new gTLD has filed a UDRP against the matching .com T V SUNDRAM IYENGAR SONS LIMITED out of India applied to operate the new gTLD .TVS The company owns the domain name TVS.in but operates it main site out of  tvsiyengar.com As we told you yesterday, the domain name TVS.com is 17 years old with the current owner PA Gordon which owns the domain name getaway.com has owned the domain for at least 12 years according to domaintools.com The domain name has an original ... read more ...
 
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2nd Most Expensive New gTLD .Luxury Goes Live Today After Racking Up Over 600 Sunrise Registrations - The new gTLD .Luxury goes live today into general availability. It is the 2nd most expensive new gTLD with a retail  price of around $800 depending on the registrar which is second only to .Rich which has a registration price of $2,500 or more and has only 38 registrations to date. A list of all registrars carrying .Luxury is here. The registry already secured over 600 Sunrise trademarks which I believe is the highest number of Sunrise registrations of any new gTLD to date. Beyond the high price, ... read more ...
 
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271 millions de noms de domaine au cours du quatrième trimestre … – Le Journal de la Next - VeriSign, Inc., leader mondial du secteur des noms de domaine, a annoncé ce jour que cinq millions de noms de domaine ont été ajoutés à Internet au cours du quatrième trimestre de 2013. Le nombre total de noms de domaine enregistrés dans le monde est ainsi porté à 271 millions dans l'ensemble des domaines de premier niveau (TLD) en date du 31 décembre 2013, selon le dernier dossier sur le secteur des noms de domaine. Est-il possible que nous manquions de noms de domaine ? Non, le ... read more ...
 
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TheDomains.com Hits 80,000 Comments - The Domains hit a milestone last night of 80,000 approved comments. Lucky number 80,000 was Joseph Peterson with this comment. The first comment made on this blog was 12/5/07 by David Castello of CCIN. 80,000 works out to 11.72 comments per post and that average is much larger over the last two years. All of us here at The Domains would like to thank everyone who takes the time out of their day to leave a comment.   ... read more ...
 
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FlyPrivate.com owners sues FlyPrvt.com over blank vowels - Company alleges competitor is infringing its trademarks by using vowel-less version of its own name. One of strangest ways companies have tried to cope with the lack of cheap available domain names in the past decade is to drop vowels. A prime example was Flickr.com, which dropped the ‘e’ to save a bit of money (though it later acquired Flicker.com). If you take all of the vowels out of a word, does the word remain the same? It’s an interesting question, and ... read more ...
 
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Will DNA’s new TLD auction offer kickstart row set resolution? - New top level domain name applicants in contention sets have two remaining options for resolving who gets to “own” each string: Settle it amongst themselves or participate in an ICANN “auction of last resort”. So far a trickle of contention sets have been settled via private auctions (the first option), and the ICANN auctions are set to begin next month. On the face of it, the private auction is the way to go. The “losers” in such negotiations walk away ... read more ...
 
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Big new TLDs week: .Luxury, Rightside and Travel Bonanza - An $800-per-year domain launches, Rightside hits GA, Donuts has a travel-focused week, and .best tries not to be .worst. Another big week is on tap for new top level domain including some new faces. Things get rolling today with general availability for .luxury. It’s a luxurious domain indeed, with a wholesale price of $400. Many registrars are charging a 100% mark-up, making the domain an $800 annual purchase. Luxury brands took advantage of reduced prices in the ... read more ...
Sun 18th May 2014
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You Tube to Buy Videogame Streaming Company Twitch for $1Billion - You Tube Looking to Acquire Twitch In an article out just 21 minutes ago on Variety it looks like You Tube has reached an agreement to purchase Twitch. From the article: Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact. The deal, in an all-cash offer, is expected to be announced imminently, sources said. If completed the acquisition would be the most significant in the history of YouTube, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old TVS.com While UDRP on We.com Is Terminated - A UDRP was filed on the three letter domain name, TVS.com The Complainant is a big company,  TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited which is located in Madurai, India. The registrant of  TVS.in  is  TVS Electronics Limited. The company TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited according to Business Week was formed in 1911 looked at a possible IPO back in 2012 and says the company “operates as an automobile distribution company in India. “The company’s business activities include dealership for automobile ... read more ...
 
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Flashback: If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? - Four years ago Michael asked, If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? I’m sure this will piss off a whole group of folks who invest in .US domains, but looking through the Snapnames.com .US domain auction closing tomorrow , July 8th at 3:15pm, I couldn’t help but notice that Slots.Us is at auction with a reserve of $58,830 or roughly 1% of what the .com just sold for, or just over 25% of what Slots.ca just sold for. Candy.US is another domain for sale in ... read more ...
Sat 17th May 2014
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Major League Baseball & The NHL Are Very .Social As They Go In Heavy On Sunrise .Social Domains - Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and its member teams have gone in pretty heavy into the new gTLD .Social registering domain names during Sunrise for almost every team and several variations of teams and for the League it itself. .Social has the deepest registrations in Sunrise of professional sports teams that I have seen in the new gTLD space to date. MLB.social and NHL.Social are just two of the many Sunrise registrations, the leagues also registered domains including the NationalHockeyLeague.social, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Votes To Kills .Amazon -                 ICANN published last night the minutes of the New gTLD Program Committee (NTAG) which following numerous GAC advice and voted down Amazon’s Application for .Amazon. Here is the resolution: “”Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban and issued a Communiqué on 18 July 2013 (“Durban Communiqué”). Whereas, the GAC advised the ICANN Board in its Durban Communiqué that the GAC reached “consensus on GAC Objection Advice according to Module 3.1 part ... read more ...
 
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SLAM Strategy’s New gTLD Domains Show Good Results in the Domain Market - Glenelg, Australia, May 17, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Latest reports on the new gTLD programme by SLAM Strategy, Adelaide’s leading Internet marketing company, reveal introduction of new gTLD domains into the domain name space. SLAM Strategy’s focused and specialised efforts in assisting brands develop their dotBrand TLDs has led many businesses to achieve comprehensive return of investments.The company shared that the initiative will enable both ASCII and IDN gTLD domains in the domain space. This ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2014
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Circle Looks To Bring Bitcoin Mainstream - Circle is getting ready to bring Bitcoin to the mainstream according to an article out today on Tech Crunch. The company was founded by the same entrepreneur that founded Bright Cove, the online video service. From the article: Circle, the bitcoin-based financial services company, is emerging from stealth with a suite of products and services aimed to take bitcoin’s blockchain to mainstream consumers. Since its launch in 2013, Boston-based Circle has been very quiet about its planned offerings ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameLogic.com: “New gTLD’s Are Pathetic Comapred To Even .Net.Au” -   *UPDATE Michael Gilmour was not the author of the post, and it was DomainNameLogic not ParkLogic. Our apologies to Michael and the actual author. DomainNameLogic.com just put out a post on their blog, saying that New gTLD’s are Pathetic even compared to a ccTLD, in this case Net.Au. I understand the point the author is making which is that new gTLD’s are a bad investment from a domain investor point of view and that they would be better off registering .Net.Au domains “”This post is purely ... read more ...