Monthly Archives: October 2014

Mon 20th October 2014
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If You Lie About Your Trademark, That Should Automatically Be Reverse Domain Hijacking - Eric Levy of New York just lost his attempt to grab the generic domain name yourneighborhood.com in a UDRP, based off a trademark for YOURNEIGHBORHOOD LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE, registered on December 10, 2013. The domain name YourNeighborhood.com was first registered on November 25, 1998 The one member panelist should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) since he found the complainant lied about the trademark he held and though the case out immediately. While we commend the one member panel ... read more ...
 
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132 .Healthcare Domains Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola.Healthcare - According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain names carried a premium registration and renewal. Many of the domain names were diseases or medical conditions with some Brands thrown in. .Healthcare is launching into general availability.  The price for a non-premium registration is around $49 at Godaddy. As ... read more ...
 
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132 .Healthcare Domain Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola … - According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain names carried a premium registration and renewal. Many of the domain names were diseases or medical conditions with some Brands thrown in. .Healthcare is launching into general availability.  The price for a non-premium registration is around $49 at Godaddy. As ... read more ...
 
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High Court in a UK: ISP Must Block Sites Selling Counterfeit Goods - According to Theguardian.com, The High Court in the UK has ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISP) must try to block sites selling counterfeit goods at their own cost. “The case was brought by luxury brands in the Richemont/Cartier group, demanding that the UK’s five major ISPs – BSkyB, BT, EE, TalkTalk, and VirginMedia – block six websites sporting fake versions of their brands and selling counterfeit goods. Richemont stated that these were the first in a line-up of 239,000 potentially ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Partners With CloudCannon.com - According to a press release out today Rightside (NAME) has partnered with CloudCannon.com which just received $500,000 in funding from “some leading New Zealand investors including Sam Morgan, Phil McCaw, Stephen Tindall and Simon Holdsworth” “On a technical level, the partnership also allows CloudCannon to streamline one of the trickiest parts of setting up a website – domain name and DNS settings – and make it as seamless as the rest of the CloudCannon experience.” Dwayne Walker, Senior ... read more ...
 
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The new gTLD aftermarket has arrived -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System from a existent 22 TLDs, such as ‘.com’ and ‘.org’, to over 1,400 TLDs.

While ICANN’s new gTLD programme would…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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What’s the ROI on a $20m TLD Auction? - ICANN have taken a solid stance in regards to contention sets, with those yet to be resolved soon to be forced into auctions of last resort in the coming months. As expected, this has increased the velocity of private settlements between applicants, either via deals or private auctions. It seems like most applicants (wisely) don't want to see their funds going into ICANN coffers unnecessarily. While the prices paid for TLDs at private auction are a closely guarded secret, talk abounds in ... read more ...
 
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GetFixed.me upgrades to Fixed.com for $40k and other finish user domain name sales - Fixed app fixes its domain name problem. I’m behind on last week’s end user domain name sales list since I was at the ICANN conference last week. This list is for sales taking place the week before last. The top reported sale was GoldPay.com at $50,000. It’s still in escrow, but I suspect the buyer is the person who registered the trademark “GoldPay” for “Providing monetary exchange services, namely, exchanging gold and precious metals of others for ... read more ...
 
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YourNeighborhood.co owners tries to “pull a quick one” in UDRP - Trademark disclaims rights to “YourNeighborhood”. Eric Levy, who runs the neighborhood information site YourNeighborhood.co, has lost a UDRP against the domain name YourNeighborhood.com. He’s lucky the panelist didn’t bother to find him guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, too. The panelist determined that he was “trying to pull a fast one”, though. Levy’s filing claimed that the YourNeighborhood mark was “well-known” and that Complainant has ... read more ...
 
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2 impression domains get immature light underneath new TLDs - ICANN Board approves resolution paving way for two character second level domains. Last week’s ICANN meeting started with good news for new top level domain name applicants: governments said they weren’t concerned about two letter second level domain names under new top level domain names. It got better as the week went on, with the Governmental Advisory Committee formalizing its position on two character domain names and then ICANN’s board approving a resolution ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #3: Tessa Holcomb on Igloo’s large domain name sales - Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #3. Every week, you read about domain name sales here on Domain Name Wire and on sites like DNJournal. These public sales just scratch the surface of total transactions taking place each week. Most sales, including most sales by domain broker Igloo.com, remain private. On this week’s podcast, Igloo founder and CEO Tessa Holcomb reveals — for the first time — some of the domain names her company has helped broker. She also ... read more ...
 
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This week’s new tlds: Military, .Realtor and sooome other domain - Rightside launches three military-themed domains, NAR launches .realtor, and a strange generic goes live. Here’s a run down of this week’s new top level domain name launches. On Wednesday, Rightside releases three military-themed domain names: .navy, .army and .airforce. Pricing runs from about $25-$35. UPDATE: .vet also launches. Also on Wednesday, Donuts’ releases .healthcare at regular price general availability. Following the .healthcare launch, Donuts ... read more ...
Sun 19th October 2014
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England Turning Up The Heat on Internet Trolls - England is getting tougher on Internet trolls it seems, the BBC is out along with a host of other publications, that the most serious offenders could now see their sentence quadrupled from 6 months in jail to 24 months in jail. I remember last year reading an article about a British boxer, The Guardian covered it, When Curtis Woodhouse lost his English light-welterweight title on points to Shane Singleton on Friday night , he was branded a “disgrace” on the social networking site by ‘Jimmyob88′‏, ... read more ...
 
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Loser of WWE.Org UDRP Tells World Wrestling Entertainment He Is Not Happy - After losing a UDRP on the domain name WWE.org the owner of the domain has a message for the World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. who won the National Arbitration Forum decision, and its fair to say the domain holder is not too pleased. Although the decision was handed down on October 13th and today is October 18th,  the whois still shows the loser of the UDRP as the owner and he clearly has control of the server the domain resides on Here is the message from the loser of the UDRP to World Wrestling, ... read more ...
 
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Reforms Needed Before U.S. Hands Over Control of ICANN - Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) wrote a piece on Information Week that discusses the reforms that need to be addressed before the keys to ICANN are handed over. He touches upon things like, Who will hold ICANN accountable, transparency with the public and the sanctity of the DNS. From the article: The FCC recently received more than 3.7 million comments on its proposed rules to govern how Internet providers will treat traffic on their networks. However, there’s another pivotal discussion happening ... read more ...
 
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Alice, Converse, patent reform, Donuts, Rod Stewart – the week in IP - The biggest news this week was the White House confirming the nomination of Michelle Lee as director of the USPTO and oral arguments in Teva v Sandoz at the Supreme Court. Below is a selection of other IP stories making the news. Alice puts business method patents in chains The impact that the Supreme Court's Alice v CLS decision is having on patent applications was revealed this week by Vox, which said the USPTO is now rejecting ... read more ...
 
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Radix Announces the Addition of .Tech to its Portfolio – ag-IP - Home / Radix Announces the Addition of .Tech to its Portfolio / DUBAI - Radix announced in a press release the addition of .tech to its portfolio of new gTLDs. It is an extension dedicated to the technology community, created and conceived for use by startups, software, hardware, hi-tech corporations and technical professionals. Leading new gTLD applicants including Donuts, Uniregistry, TLDH and Google originally applied for the extension. The ... read more ...
Sat 18th October 2014
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JD.com With A $30 Billion Market Cap Registers 3 .Rich Domain At Up To $3K Per -                 .Rich picked up 3 registrations yesterday which is notable since it represented an addition of 8% to its registration based which increased from 46 to 49. .Rich has the highest cost of any new gTLD with a regular, non-premium registration fee as high as $3,000 per domain name registration. What makes it even more notable is who registered the three new .Rich domain names. These are three new registrations were: Jingdong.Rich PaiPai.Rich Vixun.Rich Jingdong which purchased ... read more ...
 
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JD.com With A $30 Billion Market Cap Registers 3 .Rich Domain At Up To $3K Per -                 .Rich picked up 3 registrations yesterday which is notable since it represented an addition of 8% to its registration based which increased from 46 to 49. .Rich has the highest cost of any new gTLD with a regular, non-premium registration fee as high as $3,000 per domain name registration. What makes it even more notable is who registered the three new .Rich domain names. These are three new registrations were: Jingdong.Rich PaiPai.Rich Vixun.Rich Jingdong which purchased ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Announces Winners of The How Attending TRAFFIC Has Helped Change My Life Contest - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference have just announced the three winners of the  “How attending T.R.A.F.F.I.C. has helped to change my life.” contest. The winner gets a free ticket to the Miami show, or a free ticket to next year’s show or a refund of the ticket if they already paid. Plus the first night at the hotel for free!! In addition they will be picked up by a  limo at the airport. Second Prize is a FREE Hotel room for 2 nights and the third prize is a hotel room for 1 night ... read more ...
 
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Verisign To Be The Premier Sponsor At TRAFFIC - According to an announcement out today, Verisign (Nasdaq-VSRN) the registry for .Com, .Net and .Tv will be the Premier Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2014 conference which will be held at the Fontainebleau Hotel, October 30- November 2. Verisign will host the biggest Welcome Party since 2004 on Thursday, October 30th at the LaCote Restaurant overlooking beautiful Miami Beach. La Cote was named Miami’s Best Poolside Dining Spot by the Miami New Times and has earned the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence “Sparkling ... read more ...
 
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Fred Krueger Exercises Option To Acquire 5 Million Shares Of Minds + Machines For 4p - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today, that Frederick Krueger, a director of the Company, has today exercised options to subscribe for 5,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of 4p per new Ordinary Share. Shares of Minds + Machines closed in trading today at 9.63p, having a 52 week high of 19.38p and a 52-week Low of 5.38p. Frederick Krueger held options to subscribe for 5,000,000 new Ordinary Shares which, if not exercised, would otherwise have expired on November 13, 2014 and ... read more ...
 
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Zank um neue Top Level Domains - Eine Neuauflage des Streits um die Bewerbungen für generische Top Level Domains zeichnete sich beim Treffen der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Los Angeles diese Woche ab: Geografische Namen sollen besser geschützt werden. Eine Reihe von Regierungsvertretern will Bewerbungen wie .amazon oder .patagonia künftig von vornherein ausschließen – durch einen besseren Schutz für geografische Namen im DNS. Das rief die Vertreter von ... read more ...
 
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Wie beliebt sind die neuen Domainendungen? - Die GERWAN GmbH präsentiert die aktuellen Zahlen zur Beliebtheit der neuen Domainendungen. Wie viele Domains sind tatsächlich unter den TLDs registriert? Dabei werden Entwicklungen zum Vormonat ebenso wie mögliche Veränderungen in der Zukunft betrachtet. Die Top-Ten der nTLDs im Überblick (Quelle: Domains.info) 1. .xyz (594.275/ +91.550 ≈ 18,2%) 2. .berlin (139.144/ +293 ≈ 0,2 %) 3. .club (118.510/ +12.580 ≈ 11,8%) 4. .wang (75.919/ +9.812 ≈ 14,8%) 5. .guru (73.037/ -3970 ≈ ... read more ...
Fri 17th October 2014
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Is Microsoft a Self Appointed Sheriff of a Internet ? - Robert McMillan of Wired did an interesting piece on how Microsoft became the self appointed Sheriff of the Internet. The article starts off detailing the facts in the case of  No-IP. Apparently Microsoft had noticed that an unusually high amount of malware was going out to domain from No-IP.org. It was 7 o’clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer’s front door woke him up. His dog started barking, and Durrer thought he was getting an early morning package. But when he opened the ... read more ...