Monthly Archives: February 2015

Tue 10th February 2015
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Early or not, ICANN wants your views on trademark protection in new gTLDs - Trevor Little ICANN is currently seeking comments from the trademark community on the effectiveness of the rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) put in place for the gTLD rollout. While question marks remain over whether now is really the time to be making any judgement as to their overall effectiveness, it is a comment window that trademark counsel ... read more ...
 
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Why the GAC’s role at ICANN should be a concern for brand holders - Trevor Little If there is one theme emanating from the current ICANN meeting in Singapore, it is the friction between the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and other stakeholders. While the GAC may not be on the radar of many trademark counsel, the president of the International Trademark Association has warned that its role in the ICANN structure ... read more ...
 
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Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook - Fund transfer through Facebook is meant for tech-savvy customers, who have access to the internet round the clock, either through smartphones, tablets or laptops. The ATM-to-ATM fund transfer offered by some other banks also uses the same IMPS technology but caters to those who might not have access to the internet all the time. Here, you can transfer money from one bank account to another through the ATM. All you need is your debit card and PIN number. Let us look at how these fund transfer services ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Expired Domain Report: CarAds.com, MyDealer.com and more - Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. My first thought when seeing NameJet’s $5.4k auction for CarAds.com was of a road luxuriously winding along sea cliffs and the convertible traversing it filmed from a helicopter conveniently muted for the voice over. But used-car classifieds or dealership ad distribution are more likely business models for this domain. Speaking of dealers, MyDealer.com ($2.8k) was the second-highest expired auction at NameJet to chart. Who ... read more ...
 
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.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The initial 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites - Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organizations and other entities serving the community may register for a .LGBT domain name immediately. Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias is quoted as saying, “The large and vibrant LGBT community now has an Internet address that embraces the ... read more ...
 
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Domain registrars should supplement confidence check for transfers to eName - Registrar has become a haven for stolen domain names. Over the weekend I received an email from the (former) owner of ShadesDaddy.com, an online sunglasses seller. He said his domain name had been stolen. I didn’t have to read on to make a prediction: the domain name was transferred to domain name registrar eName. Indeed, it was. How did I make this prediction? Well, a couple months ago someone in Austin was connected to me after their domain name was stolen. It was stolen from their eNom account ... read more ...
 
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Online Candidate Offers Special Pricing On .Republican And .Democrat Domain … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Campaign website design service OnlineCandidate.com announces special pricing for political domain name extensions.Montgomery, NY (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 - Campaign website design service OnlineCandidate.com announces special pricing for political domain name extensions. Right now, clients can register .DEMOCRAT or .REPUBLICAN domain names with Online Candidate for a special price of $7.99. With consumers being exposed to more than 1,000 top level ... read more ...
 
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Domain Retailer iDotz.Net Offers Special One Year Anniversary Bitcoin Deal. – Virtual - Get 10% off on all domain services using Bitcoin digital currency as payment for services. San Francisco CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 iDotz.Net, a full feature domain retailer offering names in over 500 New and Legacy TLD Extensions, announces today a 10% special discount on all domain services, using Bitcoin as payment on the retail website https://idotz.net. iDotz.Net began accepting Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency, in February 2014, and the response has been phenomenal. Offering ... read more ...
 
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Domain Retailer iDotz.Net Offers Special One Year Anniversary Bitcoin Deal. - Get 10% off on all domain services using Bitcoin digital currency as payment for services. San Francisco CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2015 iDotz.Net, a full feature domain retailer offering names in over 500 New and Legacy TLD Extensions, announces today a 10% special discount on all domain services, using Bitcoin as payment on the retail website https://idotz.net. iDotz.Net began accepting Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency, in February 2014, and the response has been phenomenal. ... read more ...
 
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Lo que debes saber para obtener tu dominio .lat - A partir de este mes de febrero, las empresas y particulares podrán registrar su marca bajo el nuevo dominio .lat, el cual identifica a los latinos en internet.Si eres marca registrada necesitarás estar certificado en Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) para participar en el Registro Preferencial/Sunrise a partir del 16 de febrero de 2015.El Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) es el mecanismo de protección de derechos más importante incluido en el programa de nuevos dominios de primer nivel genéricos ... read more ...
 
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Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain - In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), “stemming from wide-ranging aggressive, unethical, and unlawful sales practices and bad faith actions of the registrant of CREMATIONS.COM seeking transfer of the Defendant domain name.” In the Complaint the owner of Cremation.com ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2015
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Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy … - Architelos, says that Approximately 50% of all new gTLDs have had one or more domains listed for abuse, with 99% being spam. The sequence of abuse follows an expected pattern where spam is the first to enter, followed by phishing and malware later once the TLDs are more established. Abusive domains were being registered slowly across approximately 20-25% of TLDs in general availability for the first six months of 2014. However, in August the number of gTLDs having domains listed for abuse significantly ... read more ...
 
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Facing the Future of the Internet Together - A Greek philosopher famously insisted that nothing is permanent except change. That statement couldn’t be truer today, especially in the real estate industry. Change is a double-edged sword: It creates new opportunities, but also introduces new challenges. For real estate professionals, technology developments have been—and will continue to be—one of the most potent and rapid forces of change, reshaping the way consumers shop for homes and seek help with their real estate transactions. ... read more ...
 
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Google anuncia chegada da TLD .how - Uma novidade e tanto foi anunciada pelo Google para os sites que são voltados para tutoriais, já que a companhia anunciou o lançamento do domínio “.how”, que será destinado exclusivamente a estes sites. Com isto, a intenção do Google é tornar a pesquisa de conteúdos na internet ainda mais simples e ainda mais fácil de ser realizada, e também deixar o compartilhamento de conhecimento mais fácil. Anúncio oficial Nas palavras do próprio Google, por meio de uma postagem em seu blog ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com - Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. When it comes to trademarks filed in the USPTO there is no shortage for NAE National Automotive Experts, L.L.C. filed in 2014. National Association Of Evangelicals filed in 1952 and then again in 2010 National Apartment Exchange filed in 2007 NORTH AMERICAN ENCLOSURES, INC filed in 1978 The parked page is very generic and does not target any of those ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Reports New gTLD's Have 1/4 of a Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But… - Architelos, says that Approximately 50% of all new gTLDs have had one or more domains listed for abuse, with 99% being spam. The sequence of abuse follows an expected pattern where spam is the first to enter, followed by phishing and malware later once the TLDs are more established. Abusive domains were being registered slowly across approximately 20-25% of TLDs in general availability for the first six months of 2014. However, in August the number of gTLDs having domains listed for abuse significantly ... read more ...
 
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Web.com strikes understanding with investors, Rightside extends understanding with NameCheap - Web.com and Rightside reveal deals. Here’s some news about two publicly traded domain name companies. Web.com has struck a deal with Okumus Fund Management, which owns about 15% of the company’s shares, to add two new members to the board of directors. John Giuliani, the former CEO of Conversant and Rick Rudman, the former CEO of Vocus will join the board. Shares in Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) are down about 2% today, slightly above their 52 week low. In other news, competitor Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) ... read more ...
 
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Figaro.club Saved In UDRP Against Societe du Figaro, Which Publishes a Daily Newspaper - A one member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel of Christopher J. Pibus has denied the attempt of the Societe du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, to grab the domain name figaro.club The domain name is owned by Cognac Inc., Juan Hervada of Florida. It’s an interesting case because the term “Figaro” is heavily trademarked by the Complainant, Societe du Figaro, which has has been publishing a daily newspaper under the historic name LE FIGARO in France since the 1800’s. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Roasting Coffee & Selling Flowers with Bill McClure – DNW Podcast #19 - Bill McClure explains his web business strategy. Bill McClure has run a number of successful online businesses, including a couple he sold to FTD for millions of dollars. In this episode, learn about how he develops businesses on great domain names…and whether owning the .com domain name matters. Bill has also passed along a coupon code that you can use on his sites Coffee.org, Bouquet.com and Coffee.club. Just use coupon code DNW by Valentine’s Day to save. Also: Record breaking domain name ... read more ...
 
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Vice.com Covers Gary Millin of World.com "The Man Squatting on Millions of Dollars Worth of Domains" -                   Vice.com just did a story of about Gary Millin of World.com who has one of the great domain name Portfolio’s in the world. Unfortunately the author of the story, Jason Koebler chose to go with the “S” word to describe the amazing portfolio of assets they have put together (“Squatting”) rather using the proper term Domain Investor. World Media Group, LLC is the owner of such amazing domain names as Teacher.com,  Accountant.com, Post.com, and World.com to name ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .LGBT and dual inexpensive domains - LGBT will be the most talked about, but don’t overlook these others. Domain Names are sure to get a lot of press this week as .LGBT “comes out” on Tuesday. Although many of the target buyers are still miffed over the current status of .gay, .LGBT offers them the opportunity to get a domain name with a related meaning and purpose. Also this Tuesday, Minds + Machines is taking a different approach than before with the launches of .casa and .work. The big difference? They’re cheap. Very cheap. Many ... read more ...
 
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Popular Torrent Site Kickass Torrents has the Somalian Web Address Seized. - Kickass Torrents is a very popular torrent website, the traffic probably totals in the seven figures daily, but according to Torrent Freak they just had their domain seized. They were using the Somalian extension of .So and resided at Kickass.so. ***Update*** 10:22 It looks like they have brought the site back up on the old Kickass.to. From the article: With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one the most used torrent sites on the Internet. The site’s popularity has made ... read more ...
 
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Il gusto del Web: nuovi estensioni di dominio per promuovere il cibo italiano -

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HA.com domain name auction is currently & 8.co will sell for $100k+ - 8.co tops six figures and has met its reserve. Heritage Auctions is holding a domain name auction today at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, simulcast on HA.com. The auction begins at 11 am EST. As of the time of writing this morning, the most expensive domain name to meet its reserve is 8.co. One of the few non-.com domain names on the list, the domain has already hit $115,000 (with buyer’s premium). Other domain names have attracted higher bids — including NL.com, Quick.com, Mouse.com, ... read more ...
Sun 8th February 2015
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Report: Web.com Largest Shareholder Could Be Activist & Shake Up The Board - According to TheFly.com FBR Capital says Okumus Fund Management, Web.com’s (WWWW) largest shareholder, could potentially take a more activist stance going forward. “FBR added that it would not be surprised if announcements were made soon, potentially including a change in the board composition, a review of the company’s operations, accelerating share buyback activity, or the exploration of strategic alternatives. FBR Co. (Nasdaq:FBRC) provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, ... read more ...