Monthly Archives: August 2014

Tue 5th August 2014
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Big Pharma Given Control Of New .pharmacy Domain; Only Available To … - Just over a year ago, Techdirt reported on big pharma's application to run a new .pharmacy domain, and later on an attempt by Canadian pharmacies to prevent that happening. They failed, apparently (found via Intellectual Property Watch): As the registry operator of the new .pharmacy domain, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), under a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will soon provide a means for identifying safe online pharmacies ... read more ...
 
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Inside a BTC.com Sale With Mike Robertson of Domain Guardians - We are talking today with Mike Robertson of Fabulous.com fame and Co – Founder along with Jen Sale of Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians successfully brokered the name BTC.com for seven figures, He was kind enough to give us a few minutes on just how the sale went down. Jen Sale and Mike Robertson 1) What was the total sales price of the domain, was there a buyer’s premium or any other added costs ? If you can add, was this a straight cash buy, no lease, no equity or any other special financing ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Names Board Of Directors - Rightside Group, Ltd., (NAME) today announced through a press release  the members of its board of directors and executive management team following the completion of Rightside’s spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.® on August 1, 2014. I Rightside Board of Directors Rightside’s board is composed of three independent members and two non-independent members. The board is structured with three standing board committees (an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and corporate governance ... read more ...
 
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Is ICANN’s .IR Response at Odds with the ACPA and ICE Domain Seizures? - An initial review of ICANN's response to litigation seeking it to turn over control of the ccTLDs of Iran, Syria and North Korea led to the conclusion that it had opened a "legal can of worms". A few more just wriggled out, and they threaten the basic assumption that underlies the U.S. statute governing cybersquatting and the practices engaged in by Federal officials seizing domain names engaged in intellectual property infringement. In a blog post, "Are Internet domain names "property"?", ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Gmail adds IDN support - Google will support non-Latin characters and accented characters. Non-Latin characters will now work with email addresses when using Gmail. Gmail has added support for internationalized domain names in email addresses, in what is certainly big news for the more than half of the world that uses a non-Latin alphabet. That means that addresses ending in شبكة. (dot Shabaka) should now work. (I’m assuming Gmail handles all IDNs, including right-to-left.) That also ... read more ...
 
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Panel denies QIQ.com UDRP, though denies RDNH - QIQ.com to remain with domain name owner after WIPO decision. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied a UDRP filed against the domain name QIQ.com. However, she denied a reverse domain name hijacking claim without giving any sort of reason. Based on the facts presented to the panel, respondent Netico, Inc registered QIQ.com in 1999, more than a decade before complainant QIQ Communications Pty Ltd had any rights to the QIQ name. Therefore, panelist ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories in July - ICM Registry, new TLDs, and Sony’s domain name renewal lapse all make the news. The doldrums of summer are beyond us. Here’s a look back at July in the domain name business. 1. .XXX worth more with .Sex in the bag? – ICM Registry, which operates the .xxx top level domain, has settled the contention set for .sex. It plans to offer .sex domains to owners of matching .xxx domain names. 2. Sony forgets to renew domain name, takes down online gaming service SOE.com ... read more ...
 
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.WTF, will this week’s new domains .fail? Or maybe this week .rocks! - A couple gripe domains launch along with a Chinese IDN and German domain name. This week’s new TLD launches include an IDN, a German travel domain almost identical to one that launched last week, the usual handful of Donuts domains, plus a few new from Rightside. On Tuesday, August 5, Hu Yi Global releases the IDN .网址. The Chinese domain name translates to “website”. On Wednesday, dotreise GmbH will release .reise, which is German for travel. If that sounds ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2014
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Virtual Reality Could be a subsequent large thing in Advertising - Cotton Delo published an article  on Ad Age that looked at Virtual Reality and its role in advertising. Virtual Reality got a big boost with Facebook purchasing Oculus Rift, the deal closed a couple weeks ago and for a good read on the deal check out The Guardian and their story “Facebook closes its $2bn Oculus Rift acquisition. What next?Social network completes deal announced in March, so what does the future hold for its virtual reality division?” I personally was involved with a Virtual ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Yerel alan adı uzantıları kimsenin değil - İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore’yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD’lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, çünkü ccTLD’lerin herhangi bir kuruma ait olmadığını söyledi. Davacıların ICANN’e isteklerini ... read more ...
 
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Gannett Co. (GCI), owners of USA Today, agrees to compensate $1.8 billion for a 73% of Cars.com It Doesn’t Own - According to Bloomberg.com, Gannett Co. (GCI), the owner of USA Today, agreed to pay $1.8 billion for the 73% of  Cars.com that it doesn’t already own already Gannett, which already owns about 27%of Cars.com, values the whole business at about $2.5 billion, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. The deal could be announced as soon as tomorrow, the person said. Jeremy Gaines, a spokesman for Gannett, declined to comment. A representative for Classified Ventures, ... read more ...
 
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The 14 Year Old eMoney.com Saved In UDRP Panel Finds $300K Asking Price Ok - Electronic Transaction Systems Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name eMoney.com which was registered back in January 2000. The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of Esqwire.com The panel found, unlike other panels have found that they $300K price tag was not outrageous. Here are the facts and finding of three member panel of Debrett G. Lyons, Dianne Cabell, Ho-Hyun Nahm: Complainant provides a system to facilitate monetary payments under the name ... read more ...
 
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Banks, Brokerage and Poker Dominate Over 200 .Financial Sunrise/EAP Domain Registrations - .Financial goes into general availability on Wednesday meaning it becomes available to be registered on a first come basis just completed it Sunrise period for trademark holders and its Early Access Program (EAP), for those who were willing to pay a one time additional fee for early access. Reviewing the zone file so far it looks like many of the major banks, brokerage houses, financial institutions and several online poker sites, have grabbed their domain name in Sunrise but very few “generic” ... read more ...
 
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The benefits of using new generic top level domains - New top level domains will not necessarily enjoy the same relevance as established ones such as .net and .comGeraint Evans discusses the advantages of considering alternative domains for your web address.  The Dot London internet domain was announced in April this year, to much fanfare. One of the first location-based generic top level domains (gTLDs) available, along with others including .berlin, .vienna and .paris, the move has caused ripples ... read more ...
 
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As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They … - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...
 
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As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They Are already in Violation of TOS - For the first time some of the new gTLD’s that fall within the “GAC Category 1 Advice”, which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I’m hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of Service (TOS) for strings they registered domain names under, As a background the Government Advisory ... read more ...
 
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Kaffee.de ist für 100.000 Euro die teuerste .de-Domain /// Vorsicht: Fahrverbote … - Themen heute:    Kaffee.de ist für 100.000 Euro die teuerste .de-Domain  ///   Vorsicht: Fahrverbote in vielen italienischen Innenstädten  1.Die Sedo GmbH, Betreiber der weltweit größten Online-Handelsplattform für Premium Domains, hat ihren Domainreport für das erste Halbjahr 2014 veröffentlicht. Insgesamt wurden im Zeitraum Januar bis Juli 2014 auf der Plattform Sedo.com 16.216 Transaktionen im Gegenwert von rund 35,9 Mio. US-Dollar durchgeführt. Der Durchschnittspreis für alle ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top Level Domains: ICANN, Communities und der Kampf um die Netz … - Geht bei den neuen Top-Level-Domains alles so fair zu, wie es das Multistakeholder-Modell der ICANN verspricht? Olivier Crépin-Leblond von der Nutzer-Vertretung ALAC bei der Internet-Verwaltung kritisiert im Interview mit heise online das omnipräsente Auktionsmodell. Olivier Crépin-Leblond Bild: Sandra Lettenbichler Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Vorsitzender des At-Large ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: i domini iraniani non si possono sequestrare - Roma - L'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ha chiesto a una corte federale statunitense di bloccare il tentativo di sequestro dei codici nazionali per i nomi di dominio di primo livello (ccTLD) di Iran (.ir), Corea del Nord (.kp) e Siria (.sy), spiegando ai giudici che i domini nazionali non sono una proprietà e non possono essere sequestrati.L'autorevole posizione di ICANN arriva a coronamento di una causa legale vecchia di quasi 20 anni, una vicenda originatasi dal ferimento ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open - As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.  Please see our December 2013 newsletter for information as to what the Sunrise Period is, and how to become eligible to register a domain name under one of the new gTLDs during this period.   As of the date of this newsletter, Sunrise periods are open for the following new gTLDs: ... read more ...
 
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IronDome.com is out to prevent Patent Disputes - To say that the term Iron Dome is in the news everyday would be an understatement, more like in the news every hour. Iron Dome of course is the the Israeli built defense system that knocks out incoming missiles out of they sky before they hit their target. As a domain name, IronDome.com was registered back in 2004 by McLeod Capital Corp. of Calgary,  Canada. The defense system was launched by Israel in 2011. After being a register.com placeholder for years, on Feb 2, 2011 the name was parked as ... read more ...
 
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Rightside starts trade currently as NAME on a NASDAQ - A big day for Rightside (and the domain name industry). Today is a big day for domain name company Rightside as it begins to trade on the NASDAQ. Shares are down slightly right now to $15.65. Rightside has been spun off from Demand Media. Owners of Demand Media shares will get one Rightside share for every five Demand Media shares. (Demand is doing its own 5/1 reverse stock split, hence the Rightside allocation.) Shares in Rightside will trade under the ticker NAME. While ... read more ...
 
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Wow: BTC.com domain name sells for $1.0 million to Bitcoin company - Three letter domain name sells for seven figures. Domain name brokerage firm Domain Guardians has brokered the sale of the BTC.com domain name to a bitcoin company. GAWMiners, seller of bitcoin mining machines, is the buyer. This is an example of how a three letter domain name can gain significant value based on new popular terms. I’m a bit shocked by the price. It makes me wonder how much Bitcoins.com would have sold for in the recent Heritage Auctions domain ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during .Com numbers over a past 5 years - .Com continues to grow, just at a slower pace. There are many ways to measure .com. There’s the zone file, the monthly reports Verisign sends to ICANN, and Verisign’s quarterly numbers revealed to investors. Each of these numbers is measured differently. For example, some include domains in pending delete, while others don’t. The quarterly number combines .com with .net. The key to measuring .com over time is to use consistent numbers. To compare apples to ... read more ...
Sun 3rd August 2014
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Onlar kimseye ait değil! - ICANN'in açıklamasına göre, ülkelerin "internet alan adları" ülkelere veya bir başkasına ait değil. İran, Suriye ve Kuzey Kore'yi terörizm aktivitelerinin destekçisi olarak dava eden bir grup, ceza olarak ülkelerin ccTLD'lerinin (İnternet Ülke Alan Kodu, country-code Top Level Domain) ellerinden alınmasını istedi. İnternet üzerinde genel bir kontrol görevi bulunan "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN) ise, bu işlemin mümkün olmadığını, ... read more ...