Monthly Archives: September 2014

Tue 16th September 2014
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2nd Round gTLDs: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - This post outlines the advantages (good) and threats (bad) that can make or break a gTLD, and the eternal fact that some applications will doom themselves to failure (ugly). The Good Waiting until the second round to apply for a gTLD may end up being a virtue for the following reasons: Better decision making. More public information about demand and prices would be available. Existing registries can leverage their position due to:Economies of scale and scope from owning a portfolio of gTLDs Experience ... read more ...
 
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Handy.com Sells: New Owner Says “it wasn’t Cheap” & Has A Lesson For Domain Owners - TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly  known as Media Empire and Benjamin Pitzer as that was what the domain was registered under a couple of years ago and according to Screeshots.com the website hadn’t changed in years. We have some thoughts about this sale and a lesson for domainer, but first here is the rest of ... read more ...
 
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.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After … - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107. At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...
 
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.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107. At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...
 
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.green – The Top Level Domain For The Global Green Economy – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>LARKSPUR, Calif., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- DotGreen Community, Inc. and Afilias are pleased to announce the partnerships supporting the .green Top Level Domain (TLD), the world's first TLD for the growing green economy, businesses, social and environmental initiatives.DotGreen Community is a San Francisco Bay Area startup that provides Internet users the ability to promote green causes. Like the social ... read more ...
 
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FCC Receives Over 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality - Yesterday was the last day to get comments into the FCC with regards to Net Neutrality. Tech Crunch noted that there were over 3 million comments with a few hours left, this was double the number reported last week. There were several websites that asked for the public to speak up. Name Cheap has been out there urging everyone to get involved, and Blake Irving of Go Daddy sent a letter to FCC Chairman Wheeler, which he posted on his blog. Irving wrote: Dear Chairman Wheeler: GoDaddy is a technology ... read more ...
 
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DotGreen Community is back! - Group that promoted .green domain name for years is back at the table, and Kathy Nielson has joined the team. Remember DotGreen Community, the company that wanted to run the .green top level domain name but gave up in the face of competition? The company never really went away, but it famously gave up its bid to run .green after determining it wouldn’t be able to win an auction with three other applicants. It was very early to the table and spent lavishly to market ... read more ...
 
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$25,000 new TLD sale among this week’s finish user domain name sales - Travel company is among at least four end users who bought new TLDs at Sedo this past week. There is an aftermarket for new top level domain names. It’s not huge, and few people are getting rich from it. But there is a market. Take this week’s $25,000 sale of Baltic.cruises by Viking River Cruises. I’ve seen magazine ads for Viking, which promotes small ship cruises in European rivers for those that don’t want to venture far from shore. This domain was among ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines’ new domain names off to delayed start - Demand appears to have been low at launch. Minds + Machines launched its first six owned and operated top level domain names yesterday. The results can only be described as weak, at least based on overnight zone file numbers. Here’s the activity in the zone files: .Vodka 421 to 469 .Cooking 378 to 439 .Fishing 350 to 388 .Horse 287 to 327 .Country 182 to 220 .Rodeo 76 to 107 It’s possible that the zone files, which would have captured the first (busy) hours of ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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LINDT Loses UDRP Bid To Grab ExcellenceChocolate.com Based On Its EXCELLENCE TM - Chocoladefabriken Lindt Sprüngli AG (“Complainant”), just lost its attempt to grab the domain name excellencechocolate.com based on a trademark on the term EXCELLENCE. Although the panelist James A. Carmody, Esq. found that “Complainant rights in EXCELLENCE are suspect”, “that the underlying the mark is a clearly generic phrase neither coined by nor inherently associated with Complainant that the domain holder has been selling chocolate under the EXCELLENCE CHOCOLATE mark since 1989″ ... read more ...
 
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Esqwire.com Gets Another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling: CountryGirl.com - LML Investments LLC (LML) represented by Jeremiah A. Pastrick of Continental Enterprises, Indiana was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name CountryGirl.com The domain holder P.A. Gordon represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA. The three member panel of Paul M. DeCicco, Esq., The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown, QC, James A. Carmody, Esq found that LML which had a trademark since 2008 attempt to grab the domain name that was registered 7 years ... read more ...
 
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Cabs.com Sells On Sedo For $50K -

The domain name Cabs.com only sole on Sedo for $50,000

The domain name was owned by Enterprise Solutions Holdings Inc, of Alpharetta Georgia

The new owners is William Berry of London, England that he acquired in 2013 from Softbrands who seemed to acquire a domain in 2004.

The domain name was initial purebred on Sep 05, 1995.

Sounds like a ruin of a buy.

Congrats

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Arts Watch: Queer New York International Arts Fest Kicks off on Wednesday – The Lo - Photo: Untitled Queen, by Stephanie Keith. This Wednesday, the Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYIAF ) returns to New York for its third year. Abrons Arts Center serves as festival hub and home base. Performances take place at multiple venues around town.  This year’s line-up features twelve U.S. premieres and new performance works by artists from around the world. The contemporary festival explores and broadens the concept of queer (in) art.  TLD contributor Robin Schatell caught ... read more ...
 
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.Vegas Reaches Final Phase - (Las Vegas, NV) — As the roll out of the brand new top-level domain (tld), .vegas, reaches its third and final phase, Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman, GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, and other early adopters of .vegas tlds, gather to mark the occasion when anyone, anywhere in the world may register a .vegas domain name. Iconic Las Vegas showgirls accompanying eight-foot tall letters that spell “.VEGAS” will be on hand to signify this important and transformational digital ... read more ...
 
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At Least One Registrar is Offering Free .Webcam Domain Registration - Courtesy  of our new gTLD blogging friend Jean Guillon comes word that at least one domain name registrar is offering free .Webcam registration through the end of the year though one registrar. According to Jean you can register free .Webcam domain names can be registered at the domain name registrar AlpNames.com  for one year with this coupon: NEWSGTLDS100 The offer is valid until December 2014. Jean goes on to say this is a “limited offer” but doesn’t indicate what the limitations ... read more ...
 
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No End User’s Registering New gTLD’s? Check Out The First .Church Domain … - .Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of Churches that actually registered their own .Church domain name Of course there are some generics like jesuschrist.church ... read more ...
 
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No End User’s Registering New gTLD’s? Check Out The First .Church Domain Names - .Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of Churches that actually registered their own .Church domain name Of course there are some generics like jesuschrist.church ... read more ...
 
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Owner of CountryGirlStore.com guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Company abused policy to try to deprive rightful owner of CountryGirl.com domain name. LML Investments, owner of Country Girl branded clothing sold at CountryGirlStore.com, has been admonished by a panel for abusing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The company filed a cybersquatting complaint against PA Gordon, owner of CountryGirl.com. The case was filed despite Gordon having owned the domain name since well before LML Investments claims ... read more ...
 
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This is a biggest week nonetheless for new TLDs (16 domains!) - 16 domains hit the market this week. At the end of last month, I wrote about how the next 50 days would be important for new TLDs. Within that 50 days, this week is perhaps the biggest: 16 domain names will enter general availability. Call it Launch Week, and it’s really big for two of the portfolio applicants who launch their first owned-and-operated batches. Let’s get to it. Monday It’s a big day for publicly traded Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). Last week ... read more ...
 
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Moving your GoDaddy Premium Listings to Afternic - Here’s how to move your domain names to Afternic Premium to take advantage of GoDaddy’s new integration with the service. Last week I shared the good news that GoDaddy is now fully integrated with the Afternic Premium network with fast transfer. This means that you can list domain names registered with GoDaddy on Afternic Premium, which gives you much greater reach than listing domains on GoDaddy alone. If you currently list domain names for sale on GoDaddy Premium ... read more ...
Sun 14th September 2014
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The Coding of Online Brand Protection - Moore's law postulates that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double every two years. That law has given us smartphones and other devices with astonishingly diverse capabilities at ever lower costs. However, while it does not encompass online brand infringement, many trademark managers feel that their task is likewise expanding at exponential speed and imposing escalating costs. Potential cybersquatting based in the more than one thousand new generic top level domains ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500. It should be noted that ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500,000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500. It should be noted that ... read more ...
 
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Landrush For .Website & .Press Ends Monday: Here’s a Special Price & Available Domains - The Landrush for three Radix’s new gTLD’s, .Website, .Press and .Host closes on Monday at Noon EST We have a special coupon code that will save you 10% off the landrush and pre-registration for any non-premium priced .website and .Press domain. The coupon code only works at 101domain.com and we furnished to the readers of TheDomains.com Coupon Code: RADIXLR10 This is applicable on: https://www.101domain.com/website.htm https://www.101domain.com/press.htm The registry Radix sent me over a list ... read more ...
Sat 13th September 2014
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18 Year Old MySchool.com Hit With UDRP For The Second Time in 4 Years - The domain name MySchool.com looks to be getting hit with a UDRP for a second time in four years. Back in 2010 Joseph L. Carpenter brought a UDRP against Andy Booth and his Foresight.com. At that time Carpenter alleged the following: The Complainant alleges that he has used MYSCHOOL® as a trademark and brand name in connection with online information and advertisements in the field of education since at least December of 2008. He operates his website in connection with the domain name myschool411.com. ... read more ...