Monthly Archives: June 2015

Fri 19th June 2015
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Companies warned of new .sucks domains - Imagine the website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in the wrong hands. With new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out soon, companies are advised to ensure their trade marks are adequately protected. Donvay Wegierski, trade mark specialist at Werksmans Attorneys, said .sucks, which is aimed at creating online space for consumers to share opinions about businesses and brands, creates risks for businesses ... read more ...
 
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WordPress Foundation sues owners of WordPress domain names - Group goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include “WordPress”. WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com and other domains. The lawsuit alleges that Edward Jeffrey Yablon and PC-VIP, Inc. are infringing WordPress’ trademarks and that the use of the domain names constitutes cybersquatting. The defendants own a number of WordPress related ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells during Sedo - Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned since October 3, 2006. The domain We.com has just went into transfer service at Sedo.com so the buyers are ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Empresas poderão usar domínio .LTDA na internet - Postado por: DiariodoNordeste em Tecnologia 18 de junho de 2015 - 20:50:20 Um nova extensão para domínios na internet está disponível no Brasil. A ferramenta “.LTDA” foi apresentada  nesta quinta-feira (18) e pretende dar oportunidade para que organizações do Brasil criem endereços de sites e campanhas. De acordo com a empresa responsável, a InterNetX Corp, o domínio de topo genérico (gTLD)  é orientado especificamente ... read more ...
 
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Empresas poderão usar domínio .LTDA na internet. - Postado por: DiariodoNordeste em Tecnologia 18 de junho de 2015 - 20:50:20 Um nova extensão para domínios na internet está disponível no Brasil. A ferramenta “.LTDA” foi apresentada  nesta quinta-feira (18) e pretende dar oportunidade para que organizações do Brasil criem endereços de sites e campanhas. De acordo com a empresa responsável, a InterNetX Corp, o domínio de topo genérico (gTLD)  é orientado especificamente ... read more ...
 
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Seven Key Topics to Track During ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires | The National Law … - 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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Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China’s Domain Name Regulation - Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy (here and here). James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical for any TLD registries that hope to have a better understand of ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .Sucks Domain Names | McGuireWoods LLP … - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like ... read more ...
 
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Jian-Chuan Chang - Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China's Domain Name Regulation Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy. James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #13: Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter, Andre Ward & more - In this episode, Diego and I tackle a bunch of topics. We start with recaps of Nicholas Walters and Deontay Wilder‘s victories from last Saturday. Will Walters still fight Vasyl Lomachenko next? And is it time to push the panic button with regards to Wilder? From there, we move onto previews and predictions for Adrien Broner–Shawn Porter, Andre Ward–Paul Smith and David Lemieux–Hassan N’Dam. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: We break down Nicholas Walters’ ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps - Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains” With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new gTLD applications. Rightside secured 39 new gTLD strings and is still negotiating on another 26. One of ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #13: Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter, Andre Ward – The Living Daylights - In this episode, Diego and I tackle a bunch of topics. We start with recaps of Nicholas Walters and Deontay Wilder‘s victories from last Saturday. Will Walters still fight Vasyl Lomachenko next? And is it time to push the panic button with regards to Wilder? From there, we move onto previews and predictions for Adrien Broner–Shawn Porter, Andre Ward–Paul Smith and David Lemieux–Hassan N’Dam. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: We break down Nicholas Walters’ ... read more ...
 
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‘.bank’ Launches into General Availability – Virtual - WASHINGTON, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ".bank" will launch into general availability on June 24 at 00:00:00 UTC for all eligible members of the global banking community. Managed by fTLD Registry Services, the private company owned, operated and governed by banks, insurance companies and their respective trade associations, ".bank", is a new communications channel, fortified with enhanced security measures that exceed those of most existing and new gTLDs.  During the initial sunrise ... read more ...
 
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Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn resources underneath management - Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than 50% of his shares. According to its website: “Established in 1934 to administer the estates of Alexander ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Tesoro - Nous venons de référencer sur TLD une marque supplémentaire spécialisée dans les claviers, souris et casques pour gamers. Il s'agit de Tesoro que certains d'entre vous connaissent sans doute déjà. Ce sont ainsi une dizaine de drivers Windows qui ont été ajoutés dans la base de données. Citons par exemple les claviers des séries Colada, Durandal, Excalibur, Lobera ou encore le dernier Tizona Elite à base de LED RGB. Les souris Gandiva, Gungnir, Shrike ainsi que les casques Kuven sont ... read more ...
 
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Référencement de la marque Tesoro – TousLesDrivers.com - Nous venons de référencer sur TLD une marque supplémentaire spécialisée dans les claviers, souris et casques pour gamers. Il s'agit de Tesoro que certains d'entre vous connaissent sans doute déjà. Ce sont ainsi une dizaine de drivers Windows qui ont été ajoutés dans la base de données. Citons par exemple les claviers des séries Colada, Durandal, Excalibur, Lobera ou encore le dernier Tizona Elite à base de LED RGB. Les souris Gandiva, Gungnir, Shrike ainsi que les casques Kuven sont ... read more ...
 
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Another pointer of a 3 minute .com domain name boom… - Sedo Great Domains mailer shows only three letter .com domain names. DNJournal’s sales charts have been dominated by three letter domain names lately. The domain names are hot, and they’re very liquid. As an owner of a three letter .com, I get up to a half dozen emails on some days asking if it’s for sale. People have resorted to including a price in the subject line (most recently hitting $35,000). Domain marketplaces are trying to capitalize on this as well, and this ensures that DNJournal’s ... read more ...
 
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What you need to know about .sucks domain names - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like Google ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD's Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps - Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains” With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new gTLD applications. Rightside secured 39 new gTLD strings and is still negotiating on another 26. One of ... read more ...
 
 
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Here are some artistic Donald Trump for President domain names - Verisign and domain name registrars are laughing all the way to the bank. There’s nothing like another Donald Trump run for president to spur people to register Trump-related domain names! I count 182 .com Trump domain name registrations from his announcement on Tuesday until this morning. What would Donald Trump do with Obamacare? Try Trumpcare(.com)! It’s all part of Trumpenomics(.com). Who will Trump pick as a running mate? Try: TrumpPalin2016.com JebandTrump.com Trump-Winfrey.com/TrumpOprah.com Every ... read more ...
 
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Domain names…in a wild - Group creates tumblr to chronicle the use of creative domain names. I’ve often come across cool uses of domain names on the side of trucks, on billboards, or while watching TV. For example, a couple years ago I saw Mow.co on the side of a lawn mowing company’s truck (see picture). Domain Name Association (DNA) has started a new site to capture some of these creative uses, chronicling them on a tumblr at InTheWild.domains. While DNA’s main objective is to grow use of new top level domains, ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2015
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Is Sharing the Answer to .BRAND Top Level Domain Disputes? - In opening up for the .BRAND top level domain, ICANN has artificially created a scarce resource of great commercial value. Indeed, the values of the .BRAND TLDs may be astronomical due to the investments made by the companies that own the trademarks represented in the .BRAND TLD. While the above is interesting in its own right, I will here focus specifically on how we deal with situations where more than one company has a legitimate trademark interest in a particular .BRAND TLD. Such situations ... read more ...
 
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Dan Svantesson - Is Sharing the Answer to .BRAND Top Level Domain Disputes? In opening up for the .BRAND top level domain, ICANN has artificially created a scarce resource of great commercial value. Indeed, the values of the .BRAND TLDs may be astronomical due to the investments made by the companies that own the trademarks represented in the .BRAND TLD. While the above is interesting in its own right, I will here focus specifically on how we deal with situations where more than one company has a legitimate ... read more ...
 
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Seller of Dot Money name for $90,000 once walked divided from The Apprentice UK TV Show - Elliot Silver broke the news about a $90,000 .money sale. The seller Adam Freeman from Essex, was slated to be a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice before he quit. The Apprentice UK is produced by Mark Burnett the same producer of the U.S. version. Sir Alan Sugar is the Donald Trump of the U.K. version. This was back in 2009 and after he quit The Guardian covered the story: He’s been called a wannabe and a drop-out, but the 31-year-old businessman from Chigwell told the Guardian ... read more ...