Monthly Archives: April 2015

Sun 26th April 2015
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.sucks For Trademark Owners … - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Aus „Le Monde diplomatique“: Die digitale Landreform - Aus „Le Monde diplomatique“Darf es .edeka, .gay oder .kosher sein? URL-Endungen stehen zum Verkauf. Vor allem Industrieländer und Konzerne können sich die Gebühren leisten. Welche .sollsdennsein? Auf der Konferenz der Internet Society sind TDLs ein heißes Thema.  Bild: reuters Eine Webadresse endet auf einer Länderendung wie .de oder .ch und manchmal auch auf .com. Mit dieser Gewissheit ist es seit Ende 2013 vorbei. Seitdem sind geografische Endungen wie .berlin ... read more ...
Sat 25th April 2015
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German Court Rules in Favor of AdBlock Plus - A German Court has determined AdBlock Plus is not illegal. AdBlock Plus – which is owned by the Cologne-based firm Eyeo – faces three separate but related cases involving the media groups, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Interactive and Axel Springer. The publishers plan to appeal the ruling. AdBlock Plus does allow for publishers to get their ads white listed if they meet certain requirements. Some have called this a racket, as they claim they were asked to pay a certain percentage of increased advertising ... read more ...
 
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Associations not authorised to arrangement listings underneath .realtor domain - There is a rift between Move Inc. and the National Association of Realtors, Inman.com reports that associations will not be able to display or even link to property listings on a .Realtor domain. So far there are about 96,000 .Realtor registrations. From the article: Come May 7, U.S. and Canadian brokerages and associations who want to make sure their home on the Web reflects their Realtor affiliation will be able to claim their own .realtor URL. But associations won’t be able to link to or display ... read more ...
 
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52.com sells for $1.775 Million - According to a post on Namepros by member Vicho, The Second Beijing Domain Auction was successfully held in Beijing, China on April 24, 2015. The auction resulted in seven figures worth of domain sales. He included some pics in his post which you can check them out on Namepros 52.com was the star of the show selling for $1,775,400. 32.cn was not too shabby at $274,380. 52.com has been registered since 1998, the current owner Guangdong cotson software co. looks to have gotten the name around May of ... read more ...
Fri 24th April 2015
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ICANN Runs Last Resort Auction for Contentious New gTLDs, Raises $59M - With the sale of .stream to Famous Four Media, ICANN has completed the sale of rights to new dot-word TLDs, The Register reports. Four other new gTLDs were resolved in the past week, all through private auctions as .stream was, however ICANN completes the process having raised $59 million from the 13 domains that sold through its public process. According to a report by CircleID, “ICANN’s new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants ... read more ...
 
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KickassTorrents New Domain Goes Down Within 24 Hours, Shifts To .CR Domain - KickassTorrents is the next target for anti-piracy authorities as the website has become bigger than the Pirate Bay. Yesterday, the KAT team shifted its website to Isle of Man .im domain but the domain was seized after few hours, forcing the team to look for another domain. The KAT team is now looking to get their website hosted at Costa Rican .cr TLD. “We have been seized by the Isle of Man domain registry. The ... read more ...
 
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TLD’s McElrath set for first Supercross on live TV on Fox Sports (Saturday, 3 pm … - April 24, 2015 Filed under News, Top Stories, Uncategorized News release On Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM’s Shane McElrath will make not only his debut aboard the KTM 450 SX-F but also will do so in front of the largest TV audience to date as the race will be broadcast on live network television on FOX (3pm EST / Noon PST) for the first time ever. McElrath just completed the ... read more ...
 
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Activist Buys Up Domain Names of Politicians who voted for Indiana's Anti-Gay Law - PinkNews.com reported that an activist Konrad Juengling bought up domains related to politicians who voted for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana, the law caught a lot of heat during the NCAA Tournament as the final four was held in Indianapolis. Lawmakers in Indiana scrambled to amend the bill which many saw as a right to discriminate against gay people. Mr. Juengling has said he purchased these domains to help educate these politicians and that if they pass a non-discrimination bill, ... read more ...
 
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How a blockchain could change a domain business - Mike Ward wrote a very interesting piece on Coin Telegraph with regards to the Blockchain and domain names. Ward takes a look at how the DNS can run on a decentralized platform, he talks about the flexibility this would provide and how it would create greater freedom, reduce costs and provide less exposure to risk. I thought the most interesting part of his article was talking about how some see domains as becoming obsolete. He points out, “Despite the claims from many that a perfect storm of factors ... read more ...
 
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Digging into .xyz's domain name registrations - A look at how .xyz domain names are being used. .xyz is big — about 900,000 domains — but it’s also controversial since many of the domains were given away for free. Even stripping away the freebies, .xyz is still big. I called upon dataprovider.com to run some numbers. (Earlier this week I used dataprovider to compare usage in .London and .NYC.) Using data from last month, dataprovider was able to reach about 550,000 .xyz domain names (the rest were inaccessible in their spidering). Here are ... read more ...
 
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Orient Express Travel Group intent in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. The travel company filed an aUDRP against the domain name etg.com.au. It uses the domain name etg.travel. The panel found that Orient Express Travel Group was less-than-forthcoming in its aUDRP filing. It didn’t disclose ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers - Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will have noticed that the chart can be divided into Chinese purchases and non-Chinese purchases. The split is fairly clean. GEAI.com ($8.2k)? China. HNBC.com ($6.4k)? China. DAIG.com ($2.8k)? China. DUVI.com ($2.5k)? Probably not China. And why is that an exception? ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Awarded Netsol.Domains in UDRP - A one member panel ruled in favor of Web.com with regards to the domain name Netsol.domains. The registrant was based out of Spain and it seems tried to sell the domain for $5,000. The registrant did say that the name along with other infringing domains were registered  as part of an automated list generated from software created by Respondent that was designed to generate a list of “best search terms in the AdWords Keywords search engine”.  Respondent indicated that he did not personally review ... read more ...
 
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‘We werken volgens de olympische gedachte’ - Ternat / Herzele - De Ternatse wielerfreak Danny Limbourg zette een stapje terug bij TLD-Express-Willems.co, maar hij bleef wel sponsor en gaf de fakkel door aan de gedreven Herzeelse ploegleider Jurgen Diependaele waardoor de toekomst van het team verzekerd lijkt. TLD-Express-Willems.co richt zich vooral op de piepjonge rennertjes?Jurgen Diependaele: ‘Wielerjeugdteam TLD Express-Willems.co ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Verisign Reports First Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015. First Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $258 million for the first quarter of 2015, up 3.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $88 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.66 for the first quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $94 ... read more ...
 
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Will New gTLDs be to the Internet what Cable was to Television ? - Jennifer Wolfe published an article on ClickZ that used an analogy that I myself have thought about to a certain degree when it comes to the new gtlds. Will the new gtlds be to the Internet what Cable TV was to Television ? There is something there, COM, NET and ORG would play the roles of ABC, CBS, and NBC, but the comparison imo doesn’t stay completely true, that is because when cable tv started we all got to know who the new stations were. Whether you were young or old, you quickly came to know ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDS – Semaine du 27 avril au 3 mai 2015 -   Partager cet article :Les sorties des nouvelles extensions ont été calmes en avril mais finissent en apothéose, avec le lancement de 9 nouvelles extensions les 27 et 28 avril. Afin de ne manquer aucune date, notez les sorties de vos futures extensions pour la semaine 17. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :27/04 – .review27/04 – .faith27/04 – .date28/04 – .gold28/04 ... read more ...
 
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Walmart Files UDRP on New gTLD Domain Walmart.LGBT -       Walmart has filed a UDRP on the new gTLD domain Walmart.lgbt. The new domain extension .LGBT,  for those that may not know,  “is the first internet address created specifically for connecting with the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender community.” and is operated by Afilias. Interestedly just a couple of months ago Walmart came out against the “Anti-LGBT Bill“, a piece of legislation in Arkansas where Walmart is headquartered that “opponents say sanctions discrimination against ... read more ...
 
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KickassTorrents Shifts To .im TLD - KickassTorrents has shifted its domain name to Isle of Man TLD (Top-Level Domain) and it has started serving its pages from this new .im domain. All of the requests to original .to domain are now being redirected to this new domain kickasstorrents.im. TorrentFreak reports that KAT’s domain change was not made as a result of any issues related to registry problems, rather the move was planned by KAT. KAT does so ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4%; .Com/.Net Increase 3.1%: Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015 after the market closed. Verisign Registry Services added 1.51 million net new names during the first quarter, ending with 133.0 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base, which represents a 3.1% increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2014, as calculated including domain names on hold for both periods. In the first quarter, Verisign processed 8.7 million new domain name registrations ... read more ...
 
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Will New gTLDs be to a Internet what Cable was to Television ? - Jennifer Wolfe published an article on ClickZ that used an analogy that I myself have thought about to a certain degree when it comes to the new gtlds. Will the new gtlds be to the Internet what Cable TV was to Television ? There is something there, COM, NET and ORG would play the roles of ABC, CBS, and NBC, but the comparison imo doesn’t stay completely true, that is because when cable tv started we all got to know who the new stations were. Whether you were young or old, you quickly came to know ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds - Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the first quarter, up from 8.6 million in the same quarter last year. It’s not a big jump, but it’s headed in the right direction. That netted out to 1.51 million more names after accounting for deletions. Revenue for ... read more ...
 
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Donuts remporte le gTLD .THEATER -   Partager cet article :Lors d’une enchère privée qui s’est tenue le 16 avril dernier, le registre Donuts Inc a encore investi dans une nouvelle extension à fort potentiel : le .THEATER.Le registre KBE gTLD Holding Inc of Brooklyn New York était l’autre candidat en lice pour cette extension, fortement intéressé et pour cause. Son secteur d’activité tourne autour de l’entertainment, spécialiste de Broadway avec son site principal www.broadwayacrossamerica.com. Face à un concurrent ... read more ...