Monthly Archives: September 2014

Wed 10th September 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Radio row set staid by CPE, .Art claims denied - .Radio contention set resolved and .art still up in the air. European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has won the contention set for .Radio after prevailing in a Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the string. That means Donuts, Afilias and BRS Media (with Minds + Machines as the back end) are out of the running for the .radio top level domain name. EBU scored 14 points out of a possible 16. 14 points are required in order to prevail. It scored 3 out of 4 on Community ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and TLDs foster domain names during dmexco - Top your frozen yogurt with a heap of .media and a sprinkle of .pics. Sedo and a number of top level domain registries are promoting domain name options at Europe’s biggest digital marketing conference this week. The company has a booth at dmexco, taking place in Cologne today and tomorrow. The event is expected to draw 32,000 people. The booth has a wall featuring a number of top level domain options. It also has a frozen yogurt machine and toppings. All of the ... read more ...
 
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.London tighten to 35,000 domain registrations after initial day - .London shows solid numbers upon launch. The .London top level domain name launched with much fanfare yesterday. According to the DomainIncite Pro zone file reports, .London added 12,421 domain names to the zone file in the first partial day to reach 34,968. If you asked me a few months ago if .London reaching 35,000 on day one would be a strong number, I’d say yes. That said, I raised my expectations a bit after its very strong landrush period. Perhaps the landrush ... read more ...
 
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Big news: GoDaddy now entirely organic with Afternic - Fast Transfer integration is good news for all domainers that sell domains with fixed prices. It’s been almost a year since GoDaddy acquired Afternic, and domainers can finally realize a huge benefit of the acquisition. Starting later today, GoDaddy will be fully integrated with Afternic as a “Fast Transfer” partner. This means two things for domain name investors: 1. If you have domain names listed for sale at Afternic’s Premium level, your domains will get ... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
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CryptoCurrency.com Changes Hands - The domain name CryptoCurrency.com recently traded hands and was acquired by Jeffrey Berns a partner at Berns Weiss LLP. Both Jeffrey Berns and his partner Lee Weiss are said to be well-known for filing claims against financial institutions on behalf of consumers. Together, they have collected over two billion dollars in relief for their clients in these actions during their professional careers. The domain names was originally registered by a Hong Kong firm back in 2009, in June of 2010 the ... read more ...
 
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Critical Look at New gTLD Registries’ Tactics - This post outlines some faulty decisions by new gTLD registries. The purpose is to guide future expansions and, hopefully, adjust some of the decisions that current registries have adopted, including demand prediction, pricing, marketing, doing good versus not doing good, and launch date. Demand Prediction Demand prediction helps not only in determining the economic viability of a gTLD but also in determining the registrar's required capacity investments. Unfortunately, the people making ... read more ...
 
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How Long Is It Going To Take For Apple To File a UDRP On AppleWatch.com & Will They Win? -             Another new product announced today by Apple Computer today, what many people have been referring to as the iWatch, isn’t going to be called the iWatch at all, but the Apple Watch. Like in the case of the Apple Pay product, Apple Computer does not own the matching .Com domain name for this product either, AppleWatch.com. Unlike ApplePay.com however the domain name AppleWatch.com is going to a parked page. The domain name AppleWatch.com was registered over 10 years ago on February ... read more ...
 
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Apple Goes With “Apple Pay”; Domain ApplePay.com Registered Back in 2002; Not By Apple -       At the BIG Apple event today, the company just named its long rumored payment system and is calling it Apple Pay. As usual the company does not own the matching .com domain name ApplePay.com. The domain name ApplePay.com was first registered way back in 2002 and goes to an operating site; and is registered  a company known as Apple One Payroll. “AppleOne Payroll hold the memberships, certifications required to perform as a leading company in the payrolling industry nationwide. AppleOne ... read more ...
 
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After One Of The Most Successful Sunrise & Landrush Periods .Global Goes Live … -       .Global which got almost 650 domain name registrations between its in Sunrise and Landrush period,  goes live today for general availability at 11am EST. .Global which already ranked in the top 5 of all new gTLD’s including .City  gTLD’s in the number of domain name registered in Sunrise, with almost 400 Sunrise registrations, added 225 domain names in Landrush. It should be noted that .Global’s landrush was one of the shortest lasting only 9 days which also ran during the Labor ... read more ...
 
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After One Of The Most Successful Sunrise & Landrush Periods .Global Goes Live Today -       .Global which got almost 650 domain name registrations between its in Sunrise and Landrush period,  goes live today for general availability at 11am EST. .Global which already ranked in the top 5 of all new gTLD’s including .City  gTLD’s in the number of domain name registered in Sunrise, with almost 400 Sunrise registrations, added 225 domain names in Landrush. It should be noted that .Global’s landrush was one of the shortest lasting only 9 days which also ran during the Labor ... read more ...
 
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Marketing domeinnaam ‘.amsterdam’ alsnog ondergebracht bij oud-HUB mannen - De gunning voor de exploitatie van het amsterdamse ‘Top Level Domain’ (TLD) ‘.amsterdam’ is verleend aan Mijndomein, dat weet de gemeente Amsterdam ThePostOnline te melden. Toenmalig PvdA wethouder Gehrels heeft de gemeenteraad hierover in mei 2014 al geïnformeerd. Na navraag blijkt deze de inschrijving een samenwerking met Reshift Digital, dat de marketing van het domein op zich zal nemen. Saillant detail: ‘Reshift’ is de BV die een deel van de bladen van het failliete ... read more ...
 
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De Beers obtains transfer of ‘.diamonds’ domain names under UDRP -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation, an internationally eminent jeweller has performed a send of dual domain names equally reproducing a obvious heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.diamonds’.

The ‘.diamonds’ gTLD has no eligibility…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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With 1 Day Left In Sedo Numeric Auction – 10 Names Have Met Reserve - The Sedo numeric auction closes on Wednesday and with one day to go 10 names have met reserve out of the 264 names up for auction. The highest priced name to meet reserve is 1029.com currently at 5,100 Euros. 55 names in total have bids. Names that have met reserve: 1029.com        5,100 EUR 666.me        510 USD 1786.net    500 USD 5.nu        259 USD 9.nu        259 USD 855.co        250 USD 1956.net    230 USD 2508.net    135 USD 20040.com    119 USD 3638.net   ... read more ...
 
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Neue gTLD .london startet am heutigen Tage - Mit der new gTLD .LONDON, die am 9. September 2014 in die Live-Phase startet, finden nicht nur über acht Millionen Einwohner eine eigene Online-Heimat.Auch in London ansässige Firmen, Pubs, Theater, Behörden, Organisationen und Vereine profitieren vom globalen Einfluss der nTLD. In .LONDON steckt enormes Potenzial. Darüber hinaus zählt London zu den wichtigsten Finanz- und Kulturstädten der Welt.Es darf gespannt sein, welche Domainmengen unterhalb der gTLD .london in den ersten Tagen registriert ... read more ...
 
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Troy Lee Designs switches brands to KTM after 11 years with Honda - Troy Lee Designs (TLD) announces a multi-year deal with KTM Motorsports which will see the Troy Lee Designs / Lucas Oil / Red Bull / KTM team riders compete in both the 2015 AMA Supercross Series as well as the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship aboard Red Bull / KTM supported motorcycles. Watch the Troy Lee Designs Video – Thank You Honda For 11 Years of Support Structured as a multi-year alliance, the cooperative effort will include both the factory supported Troy Lee Designs / ... read more ...
 
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NGOs can Now Sign Up for .ngo Domains - T here are between 700 million and a billion websites. The biggest chunk of these—and the ones most in demand—are the .com names. Other early top-level domains (TLD) like .net and .org also have significant shares, and country-specific TLDs, like India’s .in, are popular too.  Charities, NGOs and other such organisations originally went for the .org TLDs, but those eventually became unrestricted: There’s nothing to stop your local pornographer from buying ... read more ...
 
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Apple combined a i-era. Is it abandoning it? - Apple makes an interesting branding shift. Apple introduced a few new products today. As expected, it introduced the iPhone 6. It also introduced the iWatch– –Wait, no it didn’t. It introduced the Apple Watch. It also introduced a new payments solution called Apple Pay. This is a big shift. Apple obviously can’t change the name of the iPhone, but it chose to brand its new products and services as Apple instead of i-. Apple created the ‘i’ brand, but it ... read more ...
 
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Reverse domain name hijacking of Verb.com in a “Foolish rubbish of time” - “Baseless” complaint was a “foolish waste of time”. Three related hair care products companies have been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after trying to steal the domain name Verb.com through a UDRP. Verb Products Inc., Verb Hair Products Canada Inc., and Moroccanoil Israel Ltd. filed the complaint with the assistance of law firm Conkle, Kremer Engel, PLC. The three person WIPO panel that heard the case said it agreed with the first statement ... read more ...
 
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UDRP filed opposite $19k lapsed domain Bespoke.com. Is it a former owner? - Valuable domain name expired earlier this year and now faces UDRP. The domain name Bespoke.com expired in May. It went through the entire expiration cycle, making it one of the best domain names to fully expire this year. A bidder at DropCatch.com paid $18,805 to purchase the domain name. Now that buyer is being forced to defend the generic domain in a UDRP, and it might be against the company that let the domain name expire. Bespoke Services Group S.A. filed a UDRP ... read more ...
 
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iPhone6.com by iPhone28.com are registered, and Apple doesn’t possess them. - People have registered every iPhone#.com possible up to iPhone28.com. Apple owned the domain name iPhone5.com when it announced the new device two years ago. It wasn’t the original registrant, but Apple filed a UDRP to get the domain name ahead of launching the phone. The same can’t be said for the iPhone 6, assuming that’s the name, that will be launched today. Someone originally registered iPhone6.com in 2008 and sold it on Sedo in 2010. The current owner ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2014
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Twitter’s Stephen Coates -

Your (Article, Chart, Blog) was successfully saved to your folder My Default Folder

Don’t forget we can revisit My Briefcase to conduct your folders during any time.

Via: therecorder.com

 
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.London domain names go up for grabs in the city - We have updated our privacy policy. In the latest update it explains what cookies are and how we use them on our site. To learn more about cookies and their benefits, please view our privacy policy. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies. By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with our privacy policy unless you have disabled them. ... read more ...
 
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The Internet of Things to Become a Biggest Trend Yet According to Goldman Sachs - The Internet of Things will consist of over 28 billion devices by 2020, that is according to a new article out posted today on Value Walk. The article also cites a Goldman Sachs report that The Internet of Things is” the third wave in the development of the Internet.” The report does also touch upon the fact that security is a concern, over my last year of research I have wondered if this is too big a concern, if the public understands these risks in layman’s term, will they opt out. There ... read more ...
 
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Rhein-Metropole stärkt mit .KOELN und .COLOGNE die eigene Marke im … - Aller guten Dinge sind drei: Der Startschuss für die dritte deutsche Großstadt mit eigener Internet-Identität ist am 5. September 2014 gefallen. Seit 11:11 Uhr ist die Domstadt damit nach .BERLIN und .HAMBURG mit gleich zwei eigenen Domainendungen im Netz. Mit dem größten Anteil aller Domainregistrierungen freut sich auch die Münchner PartnerGate GmbH, als Registrar am Erfolg in der Einführungsphase mitgewirkt zu haben. Die Rhein-Metropole ist um ein weiteres Attribut reicher geworden. Seit ... read more ...
 
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The Mayor Of New York Declares The 1st .NYC Websites Are Live - Think of it as a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony as  the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio today announced that the first .NYC websites have gone live. The owners of these domain names, officially called “.NYC Founders,” represent a diverse group of New Yorkers” “It’s exciting to see New York City’s official domain coming to life with the launch of our first .nyc Founder websites,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Our .nyc Founders include an eclectic mix of small businesses, well-known ... read more ...