Monthly Archives: November 2014

Sat 22nd November 2014
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Domain Name .Africa Faces Hurdles – Q&A with Sophia Bekele - DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust and DCA Registry CEO Ms. Sophia Bekele recently participated in a QA with Mr. Gareth Van Zyl of Fin24.com, SouthAfrica, based on some pointed questions presented by the tech journalist to inquire into the current state of affairs regarding the .Africa new gTLD name and the attendant Independent Review Panel proceeding. In addition to explaining the current status of the IRP Process with ICANN, the CEO of DCA Registry also used the opportunity to expound on ... read more ...
 
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Last Call For Domain Submission For Namescon Live Domain Name Auction - RightoftheDot.com which is running the Live and Online domain name auction at the Namescon conference on January 13th, 2015 at 4:30 PM PST in Las Vegas, is putting out its final call for domains to be submitted to the auction. The live auction will have 100+ domain names. Online bidding will also be available  on Snapnames.com. The final catalog will be locked down and pre-bidding will open up around December 15th on snapnames.com After the live auction, a extended online auction with any domain ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks “Black Friday” Domain Count: .Com 559; .Net 60; .Blackfriday 16 - A week from today actually marks the day know as “Black Friday” which is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States which traditionally is one of the busiest shopping days in the US. Like much else in life when retailers got a good thing, they try to extend it and maximize it. Now a full week before Black Friday, sites like Amazon.com is rolling out their Black Friday sales. Amazon registered the domain name Amazon.Blackfriday back in the Sunrise period when .Blackfriday launched and now ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2014
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From Brussels With Love – Europe Wants Google Split Up - Europe Wants Google Split Up We have seen countries in Europe propose a “Google Tax” we have seen several initiatives with regard to privacy and the right to be forgotten. Now Europe looks to be mulling a proposal to split the company up. Bill Gates can only be thinking to himself, “Larry, Sergey, Welcome to my life” The Financial Times Reported: A draft motion seen by the Financial Times says that “unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services” should be considered ... read more ...
 
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Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs - In the tenth month of the revolutionary expansion of generic top-level Internet domains, global registrations in new gTLDs reached more than three million addresses, providing the clearest illustration yet of the strong international appetite for new, relevant addressing options. As we near the first full year of new gTLD availability, focus now shifts to another critical metric — renewals — which we expect to show similar strength based on history and data analysis. If registrations demonstrate ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon: Spotlight on ICANNWiki - This article is part of a series of interviews with NamesCon exhibitors and sponsors. NamesCon 2015 will be held January 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 800 people are expected to attend this conference. Today’s interview is with Ray King, of ICANNWiki. Ray is the founder of AboutUs, Director of ICANNWiki, Co-founded SnapNames and is the CEO of Top Level Design, LLC. And it all started with 4 Apple II computers in 1984 which Ray used to teach Visicalc and ... read more ...
 
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The Rise of .pharmacy - In the continuation of new generic top level domains (GTLDs), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NAPB) is set to start accepting applications for .pharmacy domain names. Applicants must be trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). NAPB’s sunrise application period, which opens on December 19th of this year, precedes the Sunrise TMCH registration ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Passes On Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: It Was Complainant & Lawyers 1st Case - A one member UDRP panel passed on making a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name DateLikeaGrownUp.com in large part because; “fact that this appears to be the first time this Complainant or its representative has brought a proceeding.” Happy as Clams, Inc. of Long Beach, California brought the UDRP. Here are the relevant facts and findings: 4. Factual Background Since 2009 the Complainant has operated a website at at which its principal Bobbi Palmer offers dating ... read more ...
 
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Google Rolls Out “Contributor” Which Allows Users To Block Adsense Ads For A Fee - According to CBS News,  Google is rolling out a new service called “Contributor” that will allow users to block seeing AdSense ads on site  users visit for a charge. “Working with a handful of websites, including Mashable, the Onion, Science Daily, wikiHow, Imgur and Urban Dictionary, Google is offering subscriptions for $1, $2 or $3 per month that will block AdSense advertising on those sites, replacing them with a subtle gray box and a note that says, “Thank you for being a contributor.””Part ... read more ...
 
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Whether .Attorney or .Lawyer, What Happens To .com? -

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Via: dailyreportonline.com

 
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Defending Internet Freedom Act of 2014 Introduced To Stop US From Giving Up Control Over ICANN - A Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, yesterday the Defending Internet Freedom Act of 2014 which would prevent the Obama administration, or that of any future president, from relinquishing the critical functions of the Internet to any other entity without enhanced congressional oversight and until explicit, freedom-protecting requirements are met. The bill is co-sponsored by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), who also serves as chairman and co-founder ... read more ...
 
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Z.com Sold For $6.8 Million Dollars -           GMO Internet, Inc. is a  publicly traded company and one of Japan’s largest ISP and operator of the country’s largest domain registrar, today announced they acquired the domain name Z.com for JPY800 million which is at today exchange rates equals  $6,776,448 USD. GMO Internet a also an applicant for several new gTLD’s including .Shop  and .Inc and is running the .Tokyo; .NAGOYA and .OSAKA new gTLD registries on behalf of each of those cities and .GMO as well. GMO in the press ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD Registries – Virtual - LogicBoxes to hold an informative webinar to share details on the solution and highlight how ccTLDs can further grow their namespace and increase ARPUs. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Announces Automation Solutions for ccTLD Registries - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for Registries, Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the launch of its Automation Solution for ccTLDs. This new offering is aimed at helping ccTLD Registries further grow their namespace by giving them a dedicated retail storefront and a complete end-to-end automation platform to seamlessly run their business.The number of internet users across the world has increased ... read more ...
 
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Interview: .Cloud tip turn domain leader Aruba - Aruba, which defeated Google and Amazon to win the .cloud top level domain name, discusses why it applied for the domain name and what it plans to do with it. .Cloud was one of the most applied-for top level domain names, with big names like Amazon.com and Google throwing their hats in the ring. Which is why many were surprised to see that the winner of the private auction for the domain name was a company they might not have heard of: Aruba S.p.A. Although nowhere ... read more ...
 
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Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million - GMO to use Z.com domain name to fuel global expansion. GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.com for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it previously used to promote its Nissan Z car. GMO says it’s going to use the domain name, one of only three single letter .com domains available, to accelerate its global market ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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UDRP filed ON 3 minute domain RVK.com -                     A UDRP was filed today on the three letter domain name RVK.com The domain is owned by domain name investor Gregory Ricks The domain name was registered under privacy for many years. R.V. Kuhns Associates, Inc is the Complainant who filed for a trademark on the term back on August 20, 2003 for “Investment consulting services, namely, investment reviews, analysis, asset allocation advice, reporting and advisory services” and is now know as simply RVK. The page is ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry: No Reserved Or Collision Domains Held Back Except For Single Characters -               We just received this from Uniregistry which is launching .Click on November 25th. Pricing for a .Click domain will be $6.88 or less at retail. “We will no longer have a registry reserved list at the time of launch for any domain name beyond single-characters. If your registrar has been accepting pre-registrations, please note that we have removed this list from the Production Web Console and there is no longer a need to check against these names. .click has already completed ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Is Looking For a $4.5 Billion Dollar Valuation In Its IPO Rolling Out Next Year - According to the New York Post, GoDaddy.com is pushing ahead with an initial public offering early next year that would value the world’s biggest domain registration service at roughly $4.5 billion GoDaddy is stressing its desire to diversify from a domain registrar to a business that builds out  Web sites for customers and helping them to process transactions on their sites. GoDaddy has an average revenue per user, of $112 up from $102 9 months ago Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ... read more ...
 
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Why The Right Domain Name May Help In Landing You A Job - AfterCollege.com did an interview with Predrag Lesic the CEO of .ME. The interview talks about his own career path and why he believes in today’s current job market there is a need for a student to create a personal brand. From the article: Why do you feel a student’s personal brand is such an important part of the job search? The labor market is highly competitive, with rising numbers of graduates with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and fewer job openings. Generally, when we are seeking ... read more ...
 
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.Music LLC CPE Reconsideration Request Denied - .Music LLC sought reconsideration for Community Priority Evaluation in an effort to be given priority over others who are interested in running .music. .Music LLC believed that when their application was looked at that the panel failed to comply with already established ICANN policies.  The board governance committee denied the reconsideration request. From the report released by ICANN The Requester, .music LLC, seeks reconsideration of the Community Priority Evaluation(“CPE”) Panel’s report ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10298; .Quebec 4902: .ENGINEER 523 - We have numbers for the three new gTLD’s that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is “Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology Co.,Ltd.” which is also the backend for the extension and is also a  domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered 2,521 of the domains. Another China based registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had the ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10,298; .Quebec 4,902: .ENGINEER 523 - We have numbers for the three new gTLD’s that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is “Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology Co.,Ltd.” which is also the backend for the extension and is also a  domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered 2,521 of the domains. Another China based registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had the ... read more ...
 
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Norid and SIDN consider making ‘.bv’ available to Dutch companies -

Norid and SIDN, respectively a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry operators for a Norwegian and Dutch domain name spaces, have announced that they are in discussions about a probability of creation a ‘.bv’ domain name prolongation accessible to a Dutch market.

As good as being obliged for a ‘.no’ domain name extension, Norid is also responsible…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Treffen Sie Key-Systems auf der IP Service World - St. Ingbert (ots) - Die Key-Systems GmbH wird bei der IP Service World in München (24./25. November 2014) ihr Corporate Domain-Portal BrandShelter vorstellen. BrandShelter hilft Kunden beim Schutz ihrer Firmennamen, Marken und Warenzeichen im Internet und entwickelt kundenspezifische Strategien zum richtigen Umgang mit den neuen Internet-Endungen (Top Level Domains, TLDs). Neben den neuen TLDs werden das Trademark ... read more ...