Monthly Archives: January 2015

Sun 11th January 2015
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Our Top 10 Picks From The ROTD Auction At NamesCon For .Vegas; .Wiki, .XYZ & .ink Domains - Here are my top 10 picks from the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction to be held at Namescon on Tuesday for a few new gTLD’s; .Vegas, .Wiki/.Ink, and .XYZ. Of course .XYZ has more domain names registered than any other new gTLD. .Wiki and .ink are owned by the same registry so we combined them and .Vegas speaks for itself Most of the domains are at no reserve although some do already have pre-bids on Snapnames.com .Vegas .Wiki/.ink .XYZ   ... read more ...
 
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After 10 UDRP Wins On “Tractor Supply” Domains, This Co. Now Wants To Own The Word “Traveller” Too - Tractor Supply Co. of Texas, has filed and won 10 UDRP’s on domain names that include the term “Tractor Supply” which is  a pretty generic term by nature, but clearly in the domain world they control that term. Now the company has their eye’s set on the word Traveller which is the alternative to the word Traveler. I say alternative because if you search for traveller in Google it returns about 122,000,000 results. The Texas company filed a UDRP on the domain name traveller.tools I have no ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wow’s Us & Beats Google and Rightside To Win The .Wow New gTLD - Amazon (AMZN) is the proud owner of the new gTLD .WOW as both Google (GOOG) and Rightside (NAME) have withdrawn their applications. .Wow was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Remember that  Amazon originally applied to operate all the new gTLD’s they applied for, all 74 of them, on a closed basis which the Governmental Advisory Counsel to ICANN,  otherwise known as the GAC put the breaks on. I’m not sure how Amazon plans to .Wow us but I’m sure they have something ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google (Again) & Wins a New gTLD .Plus - Donuts has won another new gTLD, .Plus that was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Google in the form of Charleston Road Registry Inc. has withdrawn their application for .plus leaving Donuts as the sole applicant. Honestly I have no idea of why anyone applied for .Plus, much less two companies. Not sure why anyone in a world of 1,000+ domain extensions would choice to use a .Plus Computers.plus Cars.plus Sports.Plus Plus what? Sorry just don’t get this one guys. Having ... read more ...
 
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Radix Asks “Whats Your Bid for Bets.WEBSITE?”? XXX.Website is during No Reserve - Radix the registry for .Website, .Press and .Host announced today that it  is releasing some of its most valuable reserved names up for auction in the upcoming RightOfTheDot Live and Online Domain Auction at NamesCon powered by leading domain name auction platform SnapNames.com. More than $175,000 worth of premium names (with annual renewals) have been sold by Radix already, however the domain names that are being auctioned off by Radix at Namescon will not carry any premium renewal fee. Sandeep ... read more ...
Sat 10th January 2015
Written by The Domains in EN
Life Lesson: Here is How NOT to Do Business - So I was minding my own business yesterday and getting ready for namescon, working on the auction, packing, answering emails, pretty much what you would expect when I got this email: “”It’s Mark Bradford, hope you’re doing well. I’m emailing to see if you’d be interested in buying: DOMAINBLOG.CO www.DomainBlog.co The cool thing is that whoever develops this domain will be the first one to “own” the brand DOMAIN BLOG, and they may own it for quite a while, because… DomainNameSales ... read more ...
 
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Peter Thiel Invests In The Marijuana Business - Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal has is diving into the world of legalized marijuana, through his Founders Fund he has made an investment in Privateer Holdings who is the first private equity firm to invest solely in the legal cannabis niche. In the domain world 2014 saw many domain investors getting into the niche of marijuana related domains. Over the last 30 days 1782 marijuana .com domains have been registered. USA wrote about the investment: Founders Fund announced Thursday that it has made ... read more ...
 
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At Least 16 .World Domains Registered On So Far On Day 4 of EAP @ Up To $1,228 Per - We are on the 4th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .World which are priced at $1,222.99 at enom.com (rack rate). This $1,222 fee is assuming there the domain names are not premium domain names, which actually some of these,  are meaning that the registrants paid the premium renewal and registration fee in addition to the Early Access Fee. The biggest registrant of .World domain names so far today is Chad Wright of Webquest who bought several of these domain names. Day 4 of EAP continues ... read more ...
 
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DNS Policy Notes for January 9, 2015 - DNS POLICY NOTES FOR JANUARY 9, 2015 Collected news and opinion about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the domain name business, Internet governance, and miscellaneous other cyberlaw topics for January 9, 2015. URS, UDRP Numbers for 2014As everybody knows, the new top-level domains now being released are accompanied with protections for intellectual property owners that are not found in the so-called "legacy" ... read more ...
 
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The First Director of .IFFOR, Set Up By .XXX Registry; Clyde Beattie Resigns & The Money Went? - Clyde Beattie, who was one of the founders of the non-profit company set up by ICM the operator of the .XXX extension, IFFOR, (The International Foundation for Online Responsibility) which was set up as “a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing policies for Top Level Domains that maximize benefit to global Internet users, domain holders and domain registry operators.”   has left the association as of December 31, 2014. When .XXX was approved by ICANN, $10 of every active (but not ... read more ...
 
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#OpCharlieHebdo, le compte à rebours qui affole la toile - Mais quel est donc ce mystérieux compte à rebours et qui est derrière ce site ? Que se passera-t-il Dimanche 11 janvier ? MAJ : voici toutes les explications concernant ce site qui est en fait un hoax : Un étrange site portant le nom de l’opération des Anonymous (qui ont décidé de lancer une attaque contre des sites terroristes après les événements relatifs à l’attaque contre Charlie Hebdo) présente un compte à rebours. Mais « Il ne fait ... read more ...
 
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These guys suspicion Mike Berkens was toying with them… - Podcast tells the story of guys who tried to buy a domain name from Michael Berkens. I just listened to a very interesting podcast called Reply All. This particular episode talks about two guy’s effort to buy a domain name from Michael Berkens. The guests run a site at Longform.org and wanted to buy Longform.com. But Berkens owned it. After many failed attempts to buy the domain, they tried one last time. The last time, they let is slip that they owned the matching ... read more ...
Fri 9th January 2015
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Best Reverse Domain Hijacking UDRP Decision Of 2015: SpeedTest.Org: This Is What We Are Talking About - A three member National Arbitration Forum UDRP panel has finally done like Spike Lee long suggested, do the right thing and called out an attempted theft of a domain name for just what it is, in the case of SpeedTest.org Scene LLC, d/b/a Ookla represented by Jeff Nelson of Miller Nash Graham Dunn LLP, of  Washington, USA have just been found to be guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in the case of Speedtest.org The domain holder, Innovation HQ, Inc. was represented by Zak Muscovitch ... read more ...
 
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Renames Its Job Classified Section As RJJobs.Vegas - The Las Vegas Journal Newspaper, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the the state of Nevada has named its classified job section as RJJobs.Vegas. Although the domain name RJJobs.Vegas forwards to the reviewjournal.com/jobs, it seems that the newspaper is using the branding opportunity that a Geo domain like .Vegas brings. If your wondering the domain name Jobs.Vegas is registered reserved by the .Vegas Registry. There are several .Vegas registry owned domain names in the RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
 
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Auctions.com Reserve Price At Namescon is Around What Auction.com Sold For 6 Years Ago - Back just about six years ago to the date the domain name Auction.com sold for $1.7 Million dollars to Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC) Next Tuesday at the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon, the domain name Auctions.com will up for sale and the reserve price is right around that same price that Auction.com sold for 6 years ago. Of course REDC has grown its business tremendously since acquiring Auction.com six years ago the company is now the largest online real estate dealer ... read more ...
 
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Report: Google To Sell Car Insurance: Google Compare Auto Insurance Licensed in More Than 25 States - According to TheVerge.com, citing a a  new report from an analyst named Ellen Carney at Forrester says that Google maybe getting ready to sell car insurance in the United States, through Google Compare. Google does own the domain name GoogleCompare.com since 2005, but it currently does not resolve. “A company called Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc. is already licensed to do business in more than 25 states, and licensed to sell on behalf of a handful of major insurers like Metlife, Dairyland ... read more ...
 
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xHamster regulating Bitcoin as a primary approach to accept online payments – A demeanour during a tip sites regulating Bitcoin - CryptoCoinsNews.com took a look at the top 100 sites using Bitcoin. The article started off looking at Xhamster.com the popular adult tube site. Mega porn site xHamster has not only accepted Bitcoin as a prime way to receive online payments, but is very happy with the results and is looking to expand services with the leading digital currency. Over the last six months, xHamster and many others have joined Bitcoin as a new way to pay online going forward. The article went on to list the top 100 sites ... read more ...
 
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Qihoo 360 Re-brands Its Search Engine So.com To Haosou.com - According to chinainternetwatch.com, Qihoo 360 has taken a shorter brand and made it longer, launching its new search brand Haosou.com and re-directing the traffic from  its previous search engine domain So.com to Haosou.com. “360 changed its search engine brand name and its logo trying to help users easily remember and understand. One insider believed that Haosou is more applicable in mobile internet market and Haosou could be sub-brand of Qihoo 360 which can make it an independent search brand. Qi ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder Who Loses UDRP, Files Federal Court Case Over DirectorsChoice.com - Back in late December we wrote about the domain name DirectorsChoice.com which was lost in our opinion in a very bad UDRP decision. Today the domain holder, Russ Smith, pro se, filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court For The District Of New Jersey pursuant to Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”) 15 U.S.C. § 1114 (2)(D) (iv) and(v) to obtain a declaration of lawful use of the domain name and obtain a declaration that the Defendant made materially false statements ... read more ...
 
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How to get a many out of NamesCon - A few quick tips to get the most out of your conference-going experience. Heading to NamesCon next week? You’re not alone. More than 800 people are expected to attend the conference, unless mother nature gets in their way. (We’re even expecting a little ice in Austin tomorrow!) Here are some tips for getting the most out of the event. Content There are more than 150 speakers and panelists at the event, and there will be multiple content sessions going on at the ... read more ...
 
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Categorizing Top Level Domains: “nTLDs” - Joseph Peterson asks, “when is new not really new,” and proposes new terminology to clarify it. Going into the new year, I decided to make a little glossary of domaining definitions. That includes words many people use already, some terms I’ve been tossing around privately for years, and a few I’ve invented on the fly to clarify what (to me) seems vague. This sounds presumptuous, but I’m not insisting on any of this lingo. This isn’t the “right” ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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Rightside to Bring Five New TLDs to Market in First Quarter of 2015 - GlobeNewswire2015-01-08 Diverse Options like .GIVES and .BAND Bring New Possibilities to Online IdentitiesKIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, announced it will usher in the new year with the launch of five new Top Level Domains (TLDs). This will expand its in-market portfolio that includes professional options ... read more ...
 
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New .POKER Web Domain Launched - !– (S) – !– –!– –DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global registry services provider Afilias today formally announced the 1st phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain for one of the world’s favorite card games: “dot POKER” or .POKER. The 1st phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from February 5 through March 7, 2015. .POKER is the 1st and only Internet domain dedicated to the game of poker. It is the most logical ... read more ...
 
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Andrew Rosenser Launches Ganjapreneur; Cannabis Domain Name Market -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that owns over 75,000 domain names and whose sell site is during MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Real Madrid obtains transfer of domain name under ‘.tienda’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), obvious sports group Real Madrid Club de Futbol has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.tienda’, that means ‘store’ in Spanish.

The…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com