Monthly Archives: April 2015

Sun 19th April 2015
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Google Apr Fool's Prank Actually Backfires - ArsTechnica.com published an article that a Google April Fools prank actually pranked their own security. The error allowed a click – jacking exploit that tricks users into changing things they don’t want changed. Apparently hackers would be able to incorporate Google into their own site and embed code that would change functionality. From the article: An April Fool’s prank Google pulled two weeks ago inadvertently broke some of the site’s security, an error that briefly allowed so-called ... read more ...
 
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.Science Still Getting Over 3K registrations A Day: Is This a Revolution or … - .Science which launched at the end of February is still adding more domain registrations a day than any other new gTLD extension by far on a daily basis Yesterday .Science added another 3K+ domain registrations as it did the day before and the day before that. Around 85% of all registrations are coming from Alpnames.com which gave away about 50K domain names for free and are currently selling .Science domain for $.49. I’ve seen other registrars selling .Science domains for a dollar. Of course ... read more ...
 
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The Continuing Uptrend in .io - Park.io published an article on the continued growing usage of .io. The article titled, “The explosive growth of .io domains” takes a look at the growing percentage of websites using .io and the fact that Hillary Clinton has got her own .io domain. From the article: The percentage of websites using .io domains has more than doubled in the last year alone, according to w3techs.com. This makes it the fastest growing TLD by far, of all TLDs that make up roughly 0.01% or more of websites on the internet. .io ... read more ...
 
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.Science Still Getting Over 3K registrations A Day: Is This a Revolution or Another .TK - .Science which launched at the end of February is still adding more domain registrations a day than any other new gTLD extension by far on a daily basis Yesterday .Science added another 3K+ domain registrations as it did the day before and the day before that. Around 85% of all registrations are coming from Alpnames.com which gave away about 50K domain names for free and are currently selling .Science domain for $.49. I’ve seen other registrars selling .Science domains for a dollar. Of course ... read more ...
Sat 18th April 2015
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Having Some .Fun? Oriental.com Beats Google & .Buzz to The New gTLD .Fun - .Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate.  The company applied for .Party but did not prevail (Famous Four Media won) According to its application, the Oriental Trading Company, Inc. (OTC) plans to operate ... read more ...
 
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Having Some .Fun? Oriental.com Beats Google & .Buzz to The New gTLD .Fun - .Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate.  The company applied for .Party but did not prevail (Famous Four Media won) According to its application, the Oriental Trading Company, Inc. (OTC) plans to operate ... read more ...
 
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Owned For At Least 14 Years Nat Cohen's Telepathy, Inc Hit With UDRP on Boon.com - Domain Investor Nat Cohen’s company Telepathy, Inc, has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name Boon.com which according to DomainTools.com it has owned since at least 2001. The UDRP was filed by Wirecard AG, a “global financial services and technology company headquartered in Aschheim, Munich, Germany. Its internet payment service competes with PayPal and Western Union. Wirecard AG is listed on the Frankfurt Securities Exchange WDI and ranks among the 30 largest German technology companies below ... read more ...
 
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NF.com Bought In 2014 Hit With UDRP By Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) -   The two letter domain name NF.com has been hit with a UDRP just a year after it was acquired from Anything.com. The domain name was owned by Anything.com back in June 2014 and since then has changed hands several times. 4.cn a Chinese based domain broker, owned the domain (possibly under escrow) until August went it was sold to VINCENT CHENG of CRAZY TOP ONE LTD of Auckland.  In January 2015 the domain was registered to another person in Hong Kong. The domain was then sold to 62.com in January ... read more ...
 
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Right to Criticize Gets a Bigger Public Platform on the Internet with the … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, more commonly known as ICANN, has recently approved more than a thousand new general top-level domains (gTLDs), which are anticipated to launch over the next few years. Challenging the stalwart gTLDs (.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu), one of the recently approved gTLDs that will have a significant impact on trademark owners everywhere is the “.sucks” or “dotSucks” gTLD. According to promotional materials: An easy-to-locate, ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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New ".trademark" gTLD is Here - Few Brands have noticed it yet but a company has applied for a domain name extension which literally means ".trademark". The company is based in Hong-Kong and its name is "Huyi Global .商标 Domain Registry”. The ".商标" is what we call an International Domain Name extension (IDN) and it means ".trademark" in Simplified Chinese. It is pronounced: "Shang Biao". Confusion around .TRADEMARK new gTLDs In the first Round of the ICANN new gTLD program, many companies were offered to register ... read more ...
 
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Right to criticize gets a bigger public platform on the internet with the introduction … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, more commonly known as ICANN, has recently approved more than a thousand new general top-level domains (gTLDs), which are anticipated to launch over the next few years. Challenging the stalwart gTLDs (.com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu), one of the recently approved gTLDs that will have a significant impact on trademark owners everywhere is the “.sucks” or “dotSucks” gTLD. According to promotional materials: An easy-to-locate, ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Fashion 2,182; .Garden 388: Science Passes .XXX & .Pro - Two new gTLD’s were released this week by Minds + Machines After domain name registrations made in Sunrise by Trademark Holders .Fashion has 2,182 registrations. .Garden on the other hand only grew to 388 domain registrations. On another note .Science which was released about a month ago by Famous Four Media, now has skyrocketed to the 6th most registered new gTLD’s (actually number 5 if you disregard the IDN of 网址 (xn--ses554g) which has about 350,000 registry owned domains) with over 118,000 ... read more ...
 
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Dumoulin-White speaks to the ‘powerful’ anti-cancer treatment news on … - April 17, 2015 — Roger Dumoulin-White, P. Eng, President and CEO for Theralase Technologies Inc. (‘Theralase’, TSXV: TLT) speaks to Tracy Weslosky, Publisher of InvestorIntel about the recent series of news releases updating shareholders Theralase’s patented anti-cancer technology PDC (Photo Dynamic Compound) TLD-1433. Tracy Weslosky: So you just put some news out just this morning (reference, April 9, 2015) about this new anticancer Photo Dynamic Compounds TLD-1433. Is that correct? Roger ... read more ...
 
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The story of Verisign's Internet Official competition winners - Verisign contest hits its goal in first round. Verisign’s first five winners fit its message perfectly.Verisign has announced the first five winners in its Internet Official contest, a promotion designed to show that good .com domain names are still available. The domain names selected have interesting histories. The first five winners, who will each pick up $5,000, are: 1. ChooseYourTattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. ElectricMotorcycleClub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of Pine ... read more ...
 
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Mali’s ‘.ml’ to target Malaysian internet users -

The Republic of Mali recently partnered with Freenom in an bid to foster domain name registrations underneath ‘.ml’, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mali, to boost internet use in a nation and to lift Mali’s online profile. Freenom is a Dutch association that operates a ‘.tk’ registry, that is a ccTLD for Tokelau.

In May 2013, following the…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Nowe domeny z niezłym wskaźnikiem odnowień - Według statystyk udostępnionych przez Donuts na kolejny rok przedłużonych zostało 68,4 proc. z 82 tys. domen, które zakończyły pierwszy okres rozliczeniowy. Ten odsetek może jednak wzrosnąć, gdy kolejne adresy w rozszerzeniach należących do Donuts, a także kolejne końcówki domenowe, zakończą swój pierwszy rok obecności na rynku. nTLD, czyli rewolucja na rynku domen Nowe domeny najwyższego poziomu (nTLD, czyli new top level domains) to końcówki adresowe wprowadzane na rynek ... read more ...
 
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Judge denies suit to strike UDRP cases from MySchool.com pleadings - Plaintiff asked judge to forbid information about its two UDRP losses over the same domain to be used in pleadings. United States Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson has denied a motion to strike prior UDRPs from pleadings in a cybersquatting lawsuit filed over MySchool.com. Joseph Carpenter has lost two UDRPs against the domain name MySchool.com. After the second loss, he filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit against the domain name MySchool.com. The current owner of the domain, Original Web Ventures, ... read more ...
 
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Google nixing domain names in mobile search - Search results replace domain name with site name. Google is making sweeping changes to its search rankings on mobile devices next week, but the search giant just introduced another pretty big change. Starting yesterday, Google began replacing the URL in search results with the site’s name and breadcrumb. The site-name-instead-of-domain is rolling out in the U.S. only for now. Breadcrumbs are rolling out worldwide. Here’s an example: In this example, domaining.com has been replaced by “Domaining” ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Looking To Cash in With .News - Jacob Demmitt wrote a post on the Upstart section of BizJournals.com. The article led with the launch of the .news extension and how Rightside plans to cash in. Taryn Naidu the CEO of Rightside is interviewed and gives some commentary. In the article which I quoted below, Naidu says we are seeing five and six figure sales. I would imagine he is talking about the Coffee.club and Wine.Club sales, I have not heard of a Rightside string selling for six figures. From the article: The company wouldn’t ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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eMarketer Report Says Success of New gTLDs May Depend on Promotion By … - eMarketer, a major market research firm, has released a new study on the introduction of new gTLDs and their chances for success. eMarketer releases over 200 analyst reports per year, which are ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Report: “The Domain Market in 2014″ - Aftnic.fr the manager of the .fr (France) extension, published a pretty extensive report today. The report “The Domain Market in 2014″ takes a look back at 2014 and provides some interesting stats and graphs. I will highlight one topic in this post and read the full report here Legacy TLDs: highly contrasting performance in 2014 The Afnic Market Research Team has developed a methodology for measuring the performance of TLDs that the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Report: "The Domain Market in 2014" - Aftnic.fr the manager of the .fr (France) extension, published a pretty extensive report today. The report “The Domain Market in 2014” takes a look back at 2014 and provides some interesting stats and graphs. I will highlight one topic in this post and read the full report here Legacy TLDs: highly contrasting performance in 2014 The Afnic Market Research Team has developed a methodology for measuring the performance of TLDs that the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDS – Semaine du 20 au 26 avril 2015 -   Partager cet article :L’actualité des nouvelles extensions a été monopolisée par le .SUCKS durant le mois d’avril. Mais les autres extensions ne sont pas à négliger pour autant. 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 !Fin période Sunrise :20/04 – .fit25/04 – .sale25/04 – .videoOuverture période Landrush ... read more ...
 
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Comprendre l’évolution du paysage des noms de domaine - Avec le recul, l’année 2014 a notamment été marquée, du point de vue des domaines Internet, par l’entrée en application des nouveaux gTLD (domaines génériques de premier niveau), un événement qui a eu des effets considérables pour les entreprises comme pour les gestionnaires de marques. Parallèlement à ces évolutions, il subsiste également d’éternels enjeux qui conservent toute leur importance, en particulier ceux ... read more ...
 
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WaterCoolers.com sells for $25.2k, and other lapsed domain name sales - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. The gossip at the water cooler this week might be WaterCoolers.com itself, which was NameJet’s top expired domain auction, selling for $25.2k. Not too far behind (at $15.1k) is the German word for “style”: STIL.com. Or is it? Perhaps it’s an acronym for people in Illinois. Or a creative misspelling of the English word “still”. Then again, if the buyer is Chinese (as buyers so often are these days), it could be an arbitrary sequence ... read more ...