Monthly Archives: April 2015

Thu 23rd April 2015
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Hockey teams possess 9 of 30 NHL group domain names - NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at which NHL team names domain names are owned by the teams (or the league). Team names tend to be common words, which makes them more expensive to acquire and difficult for teams to claim trademark rights. Major League Baseball has spent a lot of money ... read more ...
 
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14 Year Old 4 Letter .Com Lost in UDRP To Trademark Filed in 2012: GECU.com - A one member UDRP panel has just handed over a 14 year old, four letter .com domain, GECU.com to GECU of Texas The domain holder registered the domain gecu.com on June 29, 2001. Terry F. Peppard the Panelist found the credit union had common law trademark rights going back to 1998 even though the trademark was not filed until 2012. Interestedly GECU.org is owned by another credit union, Gulf Credit Union which seems to go back to 1996 meaning they were in business, the same business as the Complainant, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Blocker.com, MaxGrip.com and More - I can dig and dig the same amount of time that I do every day but that doesn’t mean I always find great domain names moving. This week has been a bit of a downer type week relating to “big” domain movers. I almost always can find several great one word .com domain movers that have been acquired by large companies but in this domain movers list, the big boys are lacking a little. With that said, there are a lot more domains that are important than just the “eye candy” one word domains. Here ... read more ...
 
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Another feign TLD sighting: .Calm - Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling around his neighborhood the other day when he came across this Corona ad: It’s cute and clever. But I have to wonder, as new top level domain names ranging from .apple to .wtf proliferate, will these create a lot of confusion? Presumably, once marketers understand ... read more ...
 
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More Amazon new TLD reg's and Google's peculiar domain names - I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to particular pages on its site. Many of these domains were registered when the TLDs launched but just recently had their whois record switched to reveal Amazon. I really don’t understand what Amazon.com is up to here. These domains just popped up in my DomainTools ... read more ...
 
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Controversial Bill To Fight Piracy Passes in Florida Senate - The Florida state Senate has passed a bill that would require websites who distribute commercial movies and music to give out the identity of their owners. Bradenton.com posted the news from the Associated Press: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Websites that distribute commercial movies and music online would be required to identify their owners under legislation passed by the Florida Senate. The Senate passed the bill Wednesday despite opposition from some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies. The ... read more ...
 
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Stop YourLawFirm.sucks From Surfacing on the Web - Haynes and Boone has no plans to register its own name defensively with a company that’s marketing “.sucks” as a new Internet domain name suffix. Moreover, Jeff Becker, a partner in the Dallas-based firm’s home office, has rethought the advice he previously gave corporate clients to register defensively any names associated with their brands with domain-name purveyors. Why? The proliferation of what’s known as a generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs, including the “.sucks” ... read more ...
 
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Domains.com Moving To A Couple New Web Addresses - Domains.com is moving to a new name, not a .domains name or a .website, but rather to a .net, for existing customers and GetYour.com for new customers. When going to Domains.com you will see the following: It will be interesting to see what happens with Domains.com. Tip of the cap to Christopher Hofman ... read more ...
 
 
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Half a BILLION dollars later and, PHEW, we’re all done buying up dot-word … - The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four. In the past week, four other gTLDs - .map, .living, .search and .fun - has also been resolved, with two of them going to Google. Over the past year, domain-name overseer ICANN has run monthly auctions for multiple competing applications for the same name. ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds … - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...
 
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$59M and Counting: ICANN Board Downgrades Community Say on Use of Last … - ICANN's new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants are unable to reach agreement by negotiation or private auction, with the proceeds going to a segregated ICANN account. With the recent $25 million bid of Google to secure control of the .App registry the total proceeds of those ICANN auctions has swelled to $58.8 million. The final sum by the end of the first round could go higher, perhaps to more than $100 million. That's serious ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD's Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds Movie Self/Less - The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of  TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less is opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like a pretty good movie by the way. Here is the official trailer The domain name used to promote the movie is Outlive.Life which is being forward to the trailer. This is the 1st time I have seen a new gTLD used to promote a movie. .Life is owned by Donuts and ... read more ...
 
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Owner of WordPress Hit With UDRP On The Domain Name Thesis.com - The owner of WordPress.com, Automattic, Inc, has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name Thesis.com which they seemed to have acquired in September  2014. The domain name is registered through Mark Monitor. The domain was owned by Facultylounge.com Partners until it was purchased by The domain name Thesis.com is being forward to Themeshaper.com which is of course also owned by Automattic, Inc A quick search of the USPTO found 7 live trademarks for Thesis, including one filed in February of 2015 ... read more ...
 
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YourBrand.SUCKS – what can a trademark owner do? - Owners of well-known trademarks and brand names are trying to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to block the launch of the new .SUCKS domain name. The .SUCKS domain is scheduled to join more than 1000 other new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .GURU, .WINE, .LOVE, .ADULT and .PORN. Most gTLDs were purchased from ICANN for about $200,000 each. Some popular ones were auctioned off for millions of dollars. For example, Google paid $25 ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay Faces Court Date On Domain Names - Torrent Freak published an article on the upcoming Swedish court case over whether or not The Pirate Bay will get to keep what are arguably their most important domain names. ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se. What is interesting about this case is that the .se registry is also being sued by prosecutors. They want the domains to be forfeited and not to be allowed to be registered again. From the article: Next week in a separate action, a Swedish court will be required to decide whether The Pirate ... read more ...
 
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WEB-Guida al mondo dei nuovi gTLD: infografica MarkMonitor - I nuovi gTLD (domini generici di primo livello), di cui si è ampiamente discusso,  dopo anni di attesa sono finalmente disponibili. Infografica I brand di tutto il mondo stanno esaminando le possibili opzioni e sviluppando strategie per sfruttare al meglio l’estensione dello spazio dei nomi di dominio nella rete. Questo sviluppo offre nuove risorse ai brand che vogliono farsi notare, ma genera anche dubbi sulla reale necessità di investire in nuovi indirizzi. Recentemente MarkMonitor, ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...
 
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United States: IP Fridays – Episode 26: Interview with James Bikoff – Litigation Of … - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:06 — 15.2MB) Co-Presenters: Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan Episode 26 – April 17, 2015 RC = Rolf Claessen KS = Kenneth Suzan JB = James Bikoff In this episode we have the chance to interview James Bikoff, who is frequently litgating trademarks of the International Olympic Committee, FIFA and other large sports associations. The we also talk about a podcasting patent that was recently cancelled. And in the end, we tell you about decisions ... read more ...
 
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ECOM-LAC Chooses Sedo As Its Strategic Partner To Launch .LAT - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Creating an Internet Presence with a Latin Identity for Latinos WorldwideBoston, MA and Montevideo, Uruguay – Sedo, a global leader in the domain name space with the largest domain marketplace and monetization capabilities,  has partnered with eCOM-LAC to participate in the launch of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .LAT to provide Internet Presence with Latin Identity. eCOM-LAC selected the domain industry leader Sedo to conduct sunrise auctions, ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name buyers including Univision - Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-language broadcasting company Univision. The most impressive sale for the TLD was Lights.co.uk, which a German lighting company paid £25,000. Now, let’s get to the list: Previous weeks’ lists can be found here. If you’d like to learn how to sell ... read more ...
 
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Effective brand enforcement in new gTLDs - 24 April 2015 More than 1,000 new gTLDs are set to go live within the next few years, with many already launched. Trade mark owners need to reevaluate enforcement in this new internet ecosystem, argue Brian Winterfeldt and ... read more ...
 
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.Marriott Launches New gTLD Site: "A Journey Beyond .Com" -                     Marriott just laid out its vision for its new gTLD brand on a website dedicated to its .Marriott new gTLD entitled “A journey beyond .com” “Marriott is helping to pioneer how businesses use this new type of top-level domain as an opportunity to evolve, innovate and simplify your online journeys. So, whenever you see .marriott, you’ll have even more assurance that it’s from a trusted Marriott affiliation, including our 4,000+ destinations spanning 18 hotel ... read more ...
 
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After 11 Years Google Finally Gains Control Over The Domain GoogleTranslate.com - Google has won control over the domain name Googletranslate.com 11 years after it was registered,  in a one member UDRP panel decision. The domain name undoubtedly got a lot of traffic over the years making its owners a lot of money. The domain GoogleTranslate.com has an Alexa ranking in the US of 226,000 Why Google waited 11 years to go after a direct match .com of one of its popular products is a real head scratcher but not unprecedented. In 2013, Google won control over the domain name GoogleMap.com, ... read more ...
 
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Bolter.com Saved In UDRP Despite an Asking Price of Up To $99K - Impressons LLC of California lost its bid to grab the domain name Bolter.com in a UDRP The domain holder Stanley Pace was represented by Howard Neu. The three member panel of Fernando Triana, Esq, Debrett Lyons, Esq. and David Einhorn, Esq found that the Impression who just filed for a trademark last year did not establish common law rights in Bolter before the domain name was registered in 2013 and that “Bolter” was a generic term. Here are the highlights: “Respondent is in the business of ... read more ...