.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract - In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming
The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish Richardson P.C.
Here is the letter unedited, our comments follow:
“”This firm represents ICANN’s contractual partner, Vox ... read more ...
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Mon 11th May 2015
Chinese Public Co Stock Gains 10% On Purchase of P2P.com Which Was Once Stolen - FT.com is reporting that the shares in the shares in a Shanghai-listed real estate company known as Shanghai Duolun Industry rose by the maximum 10% daily limit after it changed its name to P2P Financial Information Service Co and announced it has acquired the domain name P2P.com
The company said that the domain name p2p.com, was worth $100 million dollars
“The website currently features a few photos and a Chinese caption stating “This domain is worth $100m.”
While the FT.com story says that ... read more ...
New gTLD .CLUB Celebrates First Birthday -
A year after the launch of .club, there are over 220,000 websites registered and almost 40,000 active with the new gTLD. .Club is being held up as one of the successes among the new extensions, as awareness of new gTLDs remains low and web user and stakeholders have reported mixed experiences.
Some .club domains have sold for high amounts, lead by wine.club, which was auctioned for $140,000, and others including coffee.club and vegas.club going for six figures. Premium .club domain sales have ... read more ...
.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business.
“The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT.
ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99.
ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
World Hosting Days discussion entrance to USA subsequent week - Popular international hosting conference makes its U.S. debut next week.
World Hosting Days, a popular international conference for the cloud and hosting industry, is holding its first North American conference next week.
The conference will take place at the 7Springs Ski Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania May 19-20. Speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Holding a conference at a resort a bit outside a major city is an interesting approach. On the one hand, it’s more difficult to travel ... read more ...
Despite domestic domain name news, domestic new TLDs not holding off - Political new top level domain names are not getting much attention.
With all of the news recently about presidential candidates not registering relevant domain names, you’d think political new top level domain names would see a boost. Yet, they continue to struggle.
Consider Rightside’s .democrat and .republican. The former has about 1,300 registrations and the latter just 800.
.Vote also has fewer than 1,000 names in the zone file (and .voto is about 250) despite the registry striking deals ... read more ...
MSNBC Covers Domains & The Presidential Election Calling it #Domaingate - MSBNC.com weighed in on the domain name side of the Presidential race today in a post highlighting all of domain purchases, miscues and game playing, which now apparently includes HillaryClinton.net
“On Sunday, reporters began to notice that HillaryClinton.net now redirects to CarlyForPresident.com as well. It might be easy to assume that this was another work of mischief by the Fiorina campaign – but a spokeswoman for Fiorina confirmed to MSNBC that, in fact, the Fiorina campaign did not buy ... read more ...
Discussing domain names with Adam Dicker – DNW Podcast #32 - Long time domain name investor and DNForum owner Adam Dicker discusses the latest in domain names.
This week we talk with Adam Dicker, long time domain name investor and owner of DNForum. We discuss how Adam got into the domain name business, how you can partner with Adam to develop his domain names, changes coming to DNForum, the latest semester of DNF College, and his opinions on topics such as IDNs and new top level domain names. Plus, some great advice for people just getting into domain name ... read more ...
Domain Movers: Residential.com, 50.com, DP.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is an exciting series that is dedicated to domain detective work to uncover domain names on the move that have been registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another. Most of the following domain names have been acquired by large corporations.
These are often early discoveries, so I try my best to provide information with each domain name but sometimes due to it being so early, not much data is available. Here we go with the latest domain movers:
Covidien LP (Medtronic) ... read more ...
Kite.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - Panelist tells complainant to go fly a kite.
A single member National Arbitration Forum panel has denied a UDRP filed on the domain name Kite.com, but has not found complainant Kite Solutions, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking.
Kite Solutions just got a trademark on “Kite” last year, and Kite.com was registered in 1995. It was pretty much a slam dunk case for the domain name owner, but this case introduced some interesting discussion of what happens when a domain name is leased.
The ... read more ...
NCC adds domain security with new partnership -
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On the site we have a main news section, where our journalists publish breaking business news throughout the day. In addition we have a members’ news section, where our members can upload their own stories using the self-publishing ... read more ...
Sun 10th May 2015
Those Involved With .Sucks Took Care Of Themselves - Since Domainincite.com has been putting out a few stories about the new gTLD .sucks leading up the hearing in Washington on Wednesday here, here and here, that the Internet Commerce Association’s own Phil Corwin will be testifying in front of, I thought I would point out some domain names that are not going to be available to be registered in the .sucks extension.
It’s not clear if the domain names are registered or if they are reserved or blocked off by the registry but none are available ... read more ...
GetDotBit Has Registered Over 700 Decentralized .Bit Domain Names, and … -
Daniel Ternyak, CEO and founder of the “no nonsense” .bit domain name registrar GetDotBit, launched his project on April 23. Since then, he has offered no-cost registrations to his customers for their first domain name. Over 700 .bit domains have been registered so far, and he says an end date for the free registrations is “not yet” planned. He continues:
“Anyone even remotely interested in Namecoin should go grab [a .bit domain].”
CoinTelegraph spoke with Ternyak to find out about ... read more ...
TeriHatcher.com expires and sells on NameJet – Ex - TeriHatcher.com was auctioned off on NameJet on Friday, the auction closed at $232. The Desperate Housewives star had a dispute with a former partner which may have led to Ms. Hatcher losing her name.
The other thing that is odd is the whois, when searching on Domain Tools the whois shows Created on 1998-03-30 – Expires on 2016-03-29 – Updated on 2015-05-07. When you look at the whois history there seems to be a mention that the name was registered in 2007, checking on gwhois.org returns that ... read more ...
Sat 9th May 2015
UDRP Files on 15 Year Old Domain Name Colins.com By Colins.com.tr - The domain name Colins.com has been hit with a UDRP by the owner of the website Colins.com.tr
Colins.com was registered in 2000.
Colins.com.tr was registered in 1997
This is what Colins.com.tr describes the company:
“”Colin’s, having the mission of “To make people feel better with the products and services exceeding standards in garment industry” was established in 1983.
Colin’s, with its product range consisting of daily clothing, fashion and accessories for men women, procures high-standard ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
Darryn Durham Out for 2015 Motocross Season -
Darryn Durham will miss the 2015 Motocross season due to injury. TLD has not confirmed whether a fill-in rider will be chosen to take his place.
As the much anticipated 2015 Pro Motocross Championship season rapidly approaches, many riders are out at the track, testing and honing their skills. One rider who will be absent from the prep and the starting line of the Hangtown Motocross Classic is TLD's Darryn Durham.
Durham suffered a wrist injury back at Round 1 of the 2015 AMA Supercross Championship ... read more ...
Domain name operator Rightside posts 13% revenue gain, swings to profit -
Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside.Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and solid net income for its first quarter. Shares, which are up 28 percent so far this year, gained more than one percent in trading today. The Kirkland company reported total revenue of $50.5 million, up from $44.5 million for the same period last year. Net income was $1.8 million, compared to a net loss of $2.2 million for the ... read more ...
Internet: Neue Internetdomain für Stadt Köln ist jetzt aktiv: .koeln statt .de – CityNEWS – Das Kölner Lifestyle -
Neue Internetdomain jetzt aktiv:.koeln statt.de
Diese Domain hatte sich die Stadt Köln samt ihrer internationalen Übersetzung .cologne gesichert. Und die Stadtverwaltung hat auch direkt den Vorreiter gemacht und unter www.stadt.koeln jetzt alle Infos, Services und Dienstleistungen der Stadt eingestellt. Derzeit wird diese neue Domain noch automatisch auf die bestehende www.stadt-koeln.de umgeleitet, mittel- bis langfristig plant die Stadt Köln aber ganz auf die ... read more ...
Tucows gets $1.5 million for selling .Online domain name - Registrar gets even figure sum to promote .online for three years.
Tucows’ withdraw from a partnership to run the .Online registry has resulted in a $1.5 million gain for the company in return for lending marketing support to the new TLD for three years.
The domain name registrar had formed a partnership with Radix and NameCheap to go after the .online top level domain name. The parties ended the partnership earlier this year, allowing Radix to own the top level domain name by itself.
Tucows and ... read more ...
China's 51DNS Buys DNS.com: It May Sold For 4th Time In A Year - The company in China known as 51DNS has purchased the domain name DNS.com
The domain name 51DNS.com is now forwarding to DNS.com
The domain appears to have been sold possibly in March or April and it maybe the fourth time this domain name has changed hands in less than a year.
In April 2014, the domain was owned by the Comodo Group, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and registered at brand protection company CSC. which seemed to acquire the domain name in 2012.
In June 2014 the domain went under privacy ... read more ...
AdWeek "Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?" - AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and founder of domain name and brand monitoring services company DomainSkate, and Mark Ervin, chief brand officer at Big Communications, based out of Alabama.
The one thing I found interesting in the article was that Mitnick said he felt it would be big brands ... read more ...
3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+ - Big sale illustrates value of premium strategy for new TLD operators.
Rightside has sold the domain name 3D.software for a six figure sum, CEO Taryn Naidu revealed on the company’s quarterly financial results call yesterday.
The domain name was purchased by Visual Dynamics, a company that creates 3D software used for design. 3D.software resolves to a site similar to Visual Dynamics’ original site, VisualDynamics.com.
According to DomainTools’ historical whois records, the domain name was transferred ... read more ...
Last month's Top 5 Domain Name stories - Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Domain Name Wire last month.
Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at Google.
Here’s a look back at the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month:
1. GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million– Marchex divested its domain name portfolio of over 200,000 domains, and now GoDaddy has its own ... read more ...
Gerichte longdenervatie bij ernstige COPD -
Gerichte longdenervatie (TLD, targeted lung denervation) is een nieuwe bronchoscopische therapie gebaseerd op ablatie outpost de parasympathische longzenuwen rond de hoofdbronchi. Dit vermindert de
mogelijkheid kid bronchoconstrictie en verbetert daardoor longfunctie en symptomen bij COPD.
Via: care4cure.nl
Rightside Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Results -
First Quarter Total Revenue Increases 13% Year-over-Year
Signed 4 new gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Year-to-Date
KIRKLAND, Wash., May 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.
"We had a strong start to the ... read more ...