Monthly Archives: June 2015

Wed 3rd June 2015
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Go pro with your own email address - It’s time to face facts: the only people who look professional with a Gmail address are those who work at Google. If you don’t believe us, think back to the last time you were stuck behind a plumber’s van in slow-moving traffic. It was almost certainly plastered with mobile numbers, and probably a webmail address. How much more professional would it look if they had their own domain?  Registering a domain is cheap – typically £10 or less – and setting it up to handle your email is easy. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo touts Direct Auction successes - Top Direct Auction sale so far is $26,500. Sedo launched a new feature called Direct Auctions at the end of April, allowing anyone to start an auction for a $59 fee. 150 orders for Direct Auctions were placed on the first day. So, how is it going? Sedo has released a few highlighted auction results that were started with the Direct Auctions option: 8255.com $26,500 USD mexico.tv $9,000 USD blumenversand.com (flower delivery) €4,200 p-k.com $3,900 USD 434.net €3,452 These are good results. Of ... read more ...
 
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Search Engine Journal: If The .Com You Want Isn't Available; Find Another .Com - Searchenginejournal.com,  just wrote a post asking What is “The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available” and seems to conclude it’s another .com “”What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?”” “You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org domains. As well as the restricted gTLD’s, which includes, biz, name, and pro domains.” If ... read more ...
 
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University of Florida gets FloridaGators.com…18 years later - Site owner changed use to one about alligators after receiving cease desist letter. The University of Florida will soon own the domain name FloridaGators.com after winning a cybersquatting dispute. The domain name was registered by a Florida man as far back as 1997, 18 years ago. For years, it was a site about the University of Florida’s sports teams. Here’s a screenshot from Screenshots.com from a couple years ago: In March, the university sent a cease and desist to the site’s owner. According ... read more ...
 
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Apple Loses Trademark Case in a Philippines - PhoneArena.com reported that Apple lost a trademark case in the Philippines. Apple was not applying for a tm but rather objecting to a tm filing from Solid Broadband who was looking to get a tm for my|phone name. PhoneArena.com wrote: When Solid Broadband attempted to trademark the my|phone name in the Philippines, Apple objected saying that it was “confusingly similar” to the iPhone and was “likely to deceive or cause confusion.” And while the Philippines’ Intellectual Property Office ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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FTC to ICANN: We Told You .SUCKS Was a Bad Idea - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to a letter from ICANN requesting the regulatory body examine the legality of the rollout of the .SUCKS new gTLD. The response (PDF) was written by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and instead of ruling if any laws or regulations had been broken, it offers several recommendations for ICANN to ensure better protection of intellectual property owners’ rights. Companies are mad at ICANN for allowing registrar tactics they say are coercive and predatory. ... read more ...
 
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DomainAgents.com Launch Domain Market Place With Low Sliding Commission Rates & 10% BIN Rate -               DomainAgents.com just announced it has opened up it’s own marketplace with a sliding scale commission rates on negotiated sales, which I believe are the lowest in the industry and a 10% flat rate on Buy It Now Priced (BIN) domain names. “”There are 2 separate commission scales depending on the type of sale: Negotiated or Buy It Now. Negotiated sales (AKA Make an Offer) now have a sliding commission rate that the buyer pays: $10,000 USD Under = 10% $10,001 – $50,000 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.1million led by AoAo.com during $49,900 - 605 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Top Sales by Category: Top .com: aoao.com at 49,900 USD Top ccTLD: optimize.me at 8,000 USD Top “other” TLD: a5.net at 20,000 USD Always been a fan of LLTV names and it was nice to see LNTV.com sell for $30,000. Dot Club put up 3 new gtld sales all at $1,500, Canyon,Foto and Makers. ... read more ...
 
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WTF? UDRP Panel Finds OBSS.com is Confusingly Similar To TM: OBSS BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS - A one member UDRP panel, just rejected the attempt of OBSS Bilisim Bilgisayar Hizmetleri Danismanlik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (yes that is the company’s name) of Istanbul, Turkey to grab the domain name OBSS.com OBSS.com was registered on August 5, 2003, the trademark was registered in 2012. So the Complaint was dismissed by the panelist. The only noteworthy part about the UDRP decision is that one member panel of Kaya Köklü found that the domain OBSS.com is confusingly similar to the ... read more ...
 
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Com nova loja virtual, Globo ganha domínio personalizado na web – Portal Comunique - Detalhes Publicado em Terça, 02 Junho 2015 11:19 Escrito por Redação Comunique-se A nova Loja Virtual da Globo entrou no ar nessa segunda-feira, 1º de junho. A área de desenvolvimento comercial da emissora inaugurou a plataforma com foco na venda de produtos para telespectadores. Na página, é possível encontrar canecas, camisetas, DVDs e álbum de figurinhas, entre outros objetos ... read more ...
 
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Research reveals that around two-thirds of internet users are unaware of … - Trevor Little Research published by ICANN has pointed to a growing awareness of new gTLDs, although such strings lag significantly behind legacy TLDs in terms of familiarity. Arguably more of a surprise is the finding that just over one in three internet users are aware of cybersquatting. We have previously reported on studies that have examined awareness ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – May 2015 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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These New Domains are Cool, But Also Dangerous - In the last couple of years, we have been watching the evolution of the new gTLDs (generic top-level domains). From the boring .com, .net, or .us, the Internet is now moving towards new and exciting domain names like .business, .ceo or .photo, among dozens of other interesting options. However, along with these came other not-so-interesting domains, like .sucks or .wtf. Those domains can be used by ill-intentioned people to mock someone or some company, which can be bad for the affected party. ... read more ...
 
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One year in: .XYZ and new tip turn domain names - Controversial…but successful? Daniel NegariThe .xyz domain name hit its one year anniversary today with about 950,000 domain names. That’s just 50,000 names shy of .xyz CEO Daniel Negari’s first year goal for the domain name, an estimate many snickered at when he made it. Now, many people are probably still snickering about these numbers. After all, weren’t they all given away for free? No. One registrar gave away about 350,000 domains. Many of the others were registered at bargain basement ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Caitlyn Jenner Sets Off Domain Buying Spree from CaitlynJenner.com to CaitlynJenner.xxx - Just around 100 domain names in .com and .net were registered yesterday once Caitlyn Jenner was revealed on the cover of Vanity Fair. While most of the domain names were registered under privacy, the direct match domain name CaitlynJenner.com was registered by domain blogger Jamie Zoch who also writes a regular series of posts on thedomains.com. Jamie published a post on his blog, DotWeekly.com  entitled Why I Registered CaitlynJenner.com In addition to .com’s and .net’s, CaitlynJenner.xxx ... read more ...
 
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ICM Says After .XXX Matching .Porn Has 7,500 Registrations; .Adult 7K & Sells A $500K .Porn Domain - The numbers are now in for the number of .porn and .adult domain names registered during the .XXX matching program Under the matching .XXX program the owners of a .XXX domain has the right register the matching .porn and .adult domains before general availability. Including to the ICM registry the operator of .XXX, .Porn and .Adult registries, including domain name registered in Sunrise, .porn now has almost 7,500 registered domain names and .adult has almost 7,000 The actually number of domain names ... read more ...
 
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Why do people try sell domain names on eBay? - Or do they have another purpose for listing domains for sale on eBay? Believe it or not, there are currently over 14,000 listings in the Domain Names section on eBay. That’s a lot of active listings for a site that most domain name investors never visit. Why is this? Are people actually making money selling domains on eBay, or do they use it for some other purpose (such as driving clicks to domain names)? Looking more closely, there are only about 1,000 active auction. The rest of the listings ... read more ...
 
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Barclays moves to new gTLDs - Barclays is moving its online presences to its new gTLDs, the UK bank has confirmed. The Barclays Group will transfer its online assets to .barclays and .barclaycard to make it “crystal clear” that customers are engaging with a genuine Barclays site, it said. Barclays will no longer use the .com and .co.uk TLDs. Troels Oerting, Barclays Group chief information security officer, said: “This clarity, along with the advantages of controlling our own online environment, enables us to provide ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Study Finds 46% Aware of New gTLD's; Only 80% Know .Com, .Net and .Org - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). The global study surveyed 6,144 consumers aged 18+ representing Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America, and was administered in 18 languages and drawn from 24 countries. ... read more ...
 
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State of Texas Fines EscrowHill.com $30K For Non -Compliance with State Regs - June 2, 2015 by Michael Berkens 27 Comments Escrowhill.com  has just been fined by the The Banking Commission of the State of Texas for $30,000 for doing escrow business in the state without appropriate licenses after receiving a C D order Respondents have been properly notified regarding their right to an administrative hearing under Texas Finance Code Chapter 151 (Chapter 151) Respondents are currently represented in this proceeding by attorneys Bradley J. Aiken and F. John Podvin, Jr The Commissioner ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the … – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, Phase One, conducted on its behalf by Nielsen, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and ... read more ...
 
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Unprecedented move: Vox Populi extends sunrise deadline for “.sucks” domain … - In a move that is being interpreted as possible overreaching, Vox Populi, operator of the .sucks domain name, extended the period for registering .sucks during the "sunrise period" without notice. The new deadline to register the .sucks domain name is June 19. Not only is it $2,000 or more to register each .sucks domain name, there is also an annual renewal fee of $2,000. There is online speculation that Vox’s extension is motivated by a relatively large surge in last minute registrations before ... read more ...
 
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Which gTLD .sucks — protecting your business brand - Since ICANN – the organization that allocates domain names — approved an initiative in 2011 to add thousands of new “generic” Top-Level Domains (gTLD), over 635 new gTLDs have been registered.  Many of these are creative efforts to expand topical diversity on the internet, but few have received as much notoriety as .sucks. A gTLD is the portion of an internet address to the right of the dot, such as .com, .net or .org.  Under ICANN’s plan, third parties may register and administer ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
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What’s Going on in China’s Domain Name Industry? - Recently, there has been a lot of noise about China tightening control of the new top-level domains and how it could severely damper domain name registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given that at least 3 people have emailed me asking what's going on, I decided to clear the air here. It started with a report by Brandma on China's "Special Operation" to regulate Domain Name Registrations ... read more ...
 
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FTC Doesn’t Want to Be Drawn Into .Sucks Domain Debate -

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