Monthly Archives: April 2015

Thu 30th April 2015
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Red-faced ICANN regrets revealing private user financials - Culprits' names to be provided to leak victims next month. Global internet numbering and naming authority ICANN has issued regret over a two-year leak of private financial and technical documents attached to applications from generic top-level domain (gTLD) registrants. ICANN's ... read more ...
 
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Time running out to shape ICANN’s review of trademark protection mechanisms - Trevor Little The comment period for ICANN’s Rights Protection Mechanisms Review closes in two days. With just four comments posted to date, time is fast running out for counsel to help shape the organisation’s review of the trademark protections built into the gTLD programme. With a number of the most sought-after strings yet to hit the market, ... read more ...
 
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RightoftheDot.com Gets Godaddy Its Stock Ticker Symbol; GDDY.com Before It Went Public - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY),  announced today it has bought the domain name GDDY.com through RightoftheDot.com who bought the domain name on behalf of Godaddy before it went public. When visited, GDDY.com takes individuals to GoDaddy’s Investor Relations page, enabling anyone to quickly find out more about the company. Right of the Dot, LLC, a domain name consulting service, helped broker the sale of the name. Mike McLaughlin GoDaddy Senior Vice President and General Manager is quoted as saying: “We ... read more ...
 
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Dot Kiwi Celebrates First Anniversary - Dot Kiwi Celebrates First AnniversarySales of .kiwi domains put the company in the top 25% of new domains world-wide1 May 2015 – After a year of significant changes to New Zealand’s domain landscape, Dot Kiwi has announced that it has sold more than 12,000 .kiwi domain names during its first year of operation.Since 1 May 2014, individuals, bloggers, non-profit organisations and companies have bought .kiwi domain names as a new way to represent themselves online via personalised ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Partners With Domains.Green to Setup Retail & Wholesale Channels … - LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration Solutions Provider for New gTLDs and ccTLDs, today announced that it has partnered with Domains.green LLC to establish wholesale and retail channels for .green domains; thus helping Domains.green LLC get closer to the global green community and serve it better. The .GREEN domain namespace is a collective symbol that identifies and supports global internet users who strive to build a greener future. Domains.green LLC is a .Green Community Leader and ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Partners With Domains.Green to Setup Retail & Wholesale … - LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration Solutions Provider for New gTLDs and ccTLDs, today announced that it has partnered with Domains.green LLC to establish wholesale and retail channels for .green domains; thus helping Domains.green LLC get closer to the global green community and serve it better. The .GREEN domain namespace is a collective symbol that identifies and supports global internet users who strive to build a greener future. Domains.green LLC is a .Green Community Leader and ... read more ...
 
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Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each … - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD’s The Sunrise periods, which allows  trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for any new gTLD by many times over. According to ICM, the best previous gTLD launches garnered around 750 ... read more ...
 
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Conn. IP Lawyers Predict Problems With New ‘Dot.Sucks’ Domain Name -

Brian C. Roche and Gerald C. Pia Jr. are partners in Roche Pia in Shelton, a cyberlaw organisation representing clients in Internet piracy, domain name disputes, mechanism crimes, trade tip cases and other egghead skill matters.

Via: ctlawtribune.com

 
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Will Microsoft Buy Edge.com and Will They File A UDRP on MicrosoftEdge.com ? - Microsoft has a new browser that they are calling Microsoft Edge, Mike was talking with me and wondered aloud if they would go after Edge.com ? Three years ago there was an existing business on Chrome.com and Google decided to make them an offer and purchased the domain. Mike wrote about that here. Now Edge.com is also an existing business and not sitting there parked or owned by a domain investor. The company Edge Systems LLC was founded in 1985. From the homepage: Founded in 1985, Edge Systems ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s bill for clawing global DNS from Uncle Sam: $7m and counting - Domain-name overseer ICANN is failing in two fundamental tasks, according to the US government, while spending millions of dollars of internet users' money trying to take control of the critical IANA technical contract. In a letter sent earlier this month from the Senate's Judiciary Committee to the White House new “IP Czar” Daniel Marti, Marti is specifically requested to focus on ICANN and its failure to enforce key agreements with the wider ... read more ...
 
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ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment - The ICM registry,  which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was opened to trademark holders. The wholesale cost for each sunrise registration was just $62,  which is quite a bargain considering that the wholesale cost of a .sucks registration is around $2K + for any domain they deemed as “premium” going up to $185K wholesale for a domain like ICANN.sucks Stuart Lawley ... read more ...
 
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Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X+ More Than Any Average - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD’s The Sunrise periods, which allows  trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for any new gTLD by many times over. According to ICM, the best previous gTLD launches garnered around 750 ... read more ...
 
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Domeny branżowe zyskują coraz większą popularność -     W ostatnim czasie, według ICANN, przedsiębiorcy wykazują rosnące zainteresowanie domenami branżowymi. Ich lista jest bardzo długa i zawiera m.in. takie pozycje jak: .art, .bar, .club, .casino, .moda, .fitness, .ink, .marketing, .media, .pizza, .studio, .tattoo, .tech czy .xxx. Dlaczego warto je stosować? Wiele firm posiada podobne lub takie samy nazwy, dlatego wykorzystanie domeny branżowej ułatwia klientom dotarcie do odpowiedniego dostawcy. Pełnią one rolę podobną do drogowskazu. ... read more ...
 
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.Me Passes 800K Registrations - The .Me Registry announced today that they passed the 800,000 mark in the number of registered domain names. If .Me was a new gTLD and not a ccTLD it would be the 2nd most registered, however they have not offered to my knowledge free domain names at any point Here is the announcement: “”We Hit 800,000 Domains! It’s another big day for us as the .ME has passed 800,000 domain registrations. We are proud that from the very launch the .ME domain became a premier choice for building a personal ... read more ...
 
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.Porn and .Adult domain names mangle morning records - Provocative domains, low pricing, marketing and promotion with Trademark Clearinghouse boost early numbers for new adult domains. ICM Registry announced today that its .Porn and .Adult domain names each received about 4,000 registrations during the sunrise trademark period. That’s more than any other new top level domain names to date. The strong interest was certainly fueled by the nature of the domains and news about Taylor Swift buying her name, but it went beyond that. ICM Registry offered ... read more ...
 
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Short domain names lead lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. China and the USA take turns as king of the mountain. Last week, an English domain was perched on top of our pile of expired NameJet auctions. This week China occupies both the #1 and #3 positions with PQA.com ($17.1k) and 058.net ($5k) respectively, while #2 currently remains indeterminate. METE.com ($12.3k) can be regarded as an English word, a verb meaning to measure and dispense some allotment. Yet it’s so archaic ... read more ...
 
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How One Tweet Cost Twitter $8billion in Market Cap - Twitter has been under pressure for the last couple days as a disappointing earning release caused the stock to take a dive. The dive started earlier than normal for a bad earnings report. Companies usually wait til after the close for release and full dissemination. A Tweet that went out Tuesday while the market was still open and caused the stock to plummet. The BBC wrote: What actually happened? Twitter was due to announce its earnings for the first quarter of the year after close of trading ... read more ...
 
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ICANN da luz verde a más de 1300 nuevos dominios genéricos de alto nivel - La creación de dominios genéricos de alto nivel -también denominados gTLD- viene transformando Internet desde el año 2011. Sin embargo, el impacto real de esta revolución silenciosa se empezó a notar en 2014, cuando los primeros nuevos nombres de red salieron a la luz pública. Esta revolución, que representa millones de dólares y enfrenta a las multinacionales tecnológicas, redefinirá quién es quién en la red y otorgará identidad a millones de empresas que esperan ansiosas apoderarse ... read more ...
 
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The .ME Domain Hits 800000 Registrations - PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The .ME Registry announced today that its ccTLD has passed 800,000 domain registrations. Since its launch in 2008 Montenegro’s country code domain has been marketed as a premier choice for building a personal brand and it quickly became one of the favorite new extensions among creative individuals who want to stand out online. The domain has continued to grow steadily in response to the global trend of nurturing ... read more ...
 
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A name that unsuccessful a "radio test" was spiteful this genuine estate business - Old name led to a “word-of-mouth” issue for company. Technology-driven real estate startup TripleMint just raised $1.65 million from investors. It’s also changing its name from one that caused it problems. TripleMint used to be called Suitey, a name that I don’t know how to say, and if someone told me about it I wouldn’t know how to spell it. My guess is it was a play on “sweetie” and the real estate context of “suite”. Co-founder David Walker explained that the old name was “really ... read more ...
 
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Cyrillic considerations - Cyrillic considerationsNon-Latin names are not new, but gTLDs are bringing them like never before. PETOŠEVIĆ’s Tatyana Kulikova examines the Russian exampleThe TLD .РФ (.rf in Latin) was the first Cyrillic TLD of the IDNA (Internationalising Domain Names in Applications) system. It was delegated to Russia in May 2010, but the idea had been around since 2001. At the beginning of this year, Macedonia launched its Cyrillic TLD, .мкд (.mkd in Latin), and on 1 March, Belarus launched .бел ... read more ...
 
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The routes to be travelled - The routes to be travelledDaniel Greenberg of Lexsynergy outlines how trademark attorneys should approach online brand protection in the new gTLD programmeWhether you agree or disagree, domain names are intertwined with trademarks. The vast majority of trademark law firms offer some sort of service relating to domain names or have assisted clients in resolving domain name disputes. The impact of new gTLDs (such as .lawyer, .london, .sucks and .adult) is significant, creating ‘new real estate’ ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registrar MAFF.com Rebrands To XZ.com That They Bought For $138K in 2013 -                       The Chinese domain name registrar MAFF.com has re-branded to XZ.com We received an email from MAFF.com announcing the re-branding today. The domain name XZ.com was purchased at the Inaugural Heritage Domain Auction which was held in New York City in November 2013 for $138,000. The domain name Maff.com is being forwarded to XZ.com. ... read more ...
 
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ChinesePot.com owners can keep domain name notwithstanding not responding to UDRP - Owner of ChinesePod.com loses case against ChinesePot.com. Language instruction service Chinesepod Limited, which uses the domain name ChinesePoD.com, has lost a UDRP against the owner of ChinesePoT.com. It’s a case of a “typo” also being a common word. The owner of ChinesePot.com didn’t respond to the UDRP, but ChinesePod didn’t convince a World Intellectual Property panelist of the merits of its case. Although the parked page at ChinesePot.com consists of lots of links to language instruction, ... read more ...
 
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Cybersquatting: where do we stand? - Cybersquatting: where do we stand?The age of new gTLDs has brought with it more opportunities for cybersquatters. Nathalie Dreyfus of Dreyfus reportsThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the new extensions project in 2008. In January 2015, the number of registered domain names among 500 new active extensions reached the four millions. Within a few years, the number of new extensions continuously increased from 20 to more than 1,000. Some 506 of 1,930 initial ... read more ...