Monthly Archives: July 2015

Tue 14th July 2015
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Right to reply: Happy 30th Birthday dotOrg - Stuart Fuller, Director of Commercial Operations and Communications at NetNames, comments on the 30th birthday of the dotOrg domain name, and how TLDs can help non-profit organisations establish an online marketing strategy. dotOrg was one of the six original Top Level Domains launched in 1985, along with dotCom and dotGov. As opposed to dotCom, which represents commercial interests, dotOrg was launched to reflect charitable or not-for-profit organisations. Thirty years later, the name space has ... read more ...
 
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.PRESS Domains by Radix Announces Partnership With Clippings.me to Offer … - SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2015) - Radix, a leading new gTLD registry, today announced its partnership with Clippings.me, one of the largest journalism portfolio hosting services. With the growth of digital journalism, web portfolios have become the primary tool for journalists to exhibit their work and gain an engaged follower base. Through this partnership, users of Clippings.me will be able to use .press domains for their portfolios at special prices. In turn, registrants ... read more ...
 
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Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up Over 5% -   According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is  Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com   We have chatted on many occasions that trademark holders haveonly lightly  participated in the Sunrise periods for each new gTLD rollout with the exception of .porn, ... read more ...
 
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Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps -

Review Panel Chides ICANN Board, Government Reps

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Great domain sites: UDRPSearch.com - A good resource for domain name disputes. There are a handful of sites I visit multiple types a day, in part to get content for Domain Name Wire. One of these is David Lahoti’s UDRPSearch.com. The free (and ad-less) site makes it easy to see updates on UDRP cases across WIPO, National Arbitration Forum, Czech Arbitration Court and ADNDRC. In addition to viewing the latest case filings and results, UDRPSearch has simple but powerful search features. Highlight any text and it will populate the search ... read more ...
 
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You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain - .Love which launches Thursday,  is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD’s. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices,  actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and not available. One and two character domains are also not available at this time. The normal registration ... read more ...
 
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CSC Publishes July's NewgTLD.Report: 3,945 New gTLD's in Alexa Top 1 Million - The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday “with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands” In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD’s registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May report” According to the report, the number of new gTLDs in the Alexa Top 1 Million is 3,945 up 4% from the ... read more ...
 
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Trending keywords in .com: Gay, Zone, Buzz - Used, Gay, and three keywords matching new TLDS make the list. Verisign has published its monthly “trending keywords” report, highlighting the keywords making the biggest jump from the May to June in .com domain name registrations. “Used” was number one for the month. According to Verisign DomainView, there was a big spike in “used” domains registered or renewed on June 30. Over 1,700 .com domains were registered/renewed. The Verisign trending chart only takes into consideration new ... read more ...
 
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Enom.com Wins Rights to Enoms.com Just 15 years After it Was Registered - eNom.com won the rights to the domain name Enoms.com in a UDRP just 15 short years after the domain name was first registered and 8 years after the domain was registered by the current domain holder. By the way you got to love the name of the domain holder “Muhammad Enoms General delivery / ENoms.com has been registered just few days after Enom.com, therefore could not have been regstere” (“Respondent”), Indonesia The registrant actually ran out of room to put in the line for the Administrative ... read more ...
 
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eNom wins eNoms.com. Registrant attempted to send a summary by Whois. - An amusing whois record for eNoms.com. Domain name registrar eNom has won a UDRP for eNoms.com. According to the decision, the owner of the domain name tried to sell the domain name to eNom for $1,500. That’s about the cost of filing a UDRP, but eNom probably didn’t want to set a precedent. What I find amusing about this case is that the domain name owner, who did not respond to the complaint, seems to have sent a message through the whois record: Registrant Organization: ENoms.com has been ... read more ...
 
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ALM Media and ‘law’ Domain Announce Strategic Partnership - SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration Between Leading Legal Publisher and New Verified Domain Dedicated to the Legal Profession is Major Milestone on Road to Expanded, Reliable Internet Presence For The Law Community .Law Scheduled to Enter 'Sunrise' Period on July 30 and General Availability on October 12 Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal ... read more ...
 
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You Can Buy .Love, But It's Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain - .Love which launches Thursday,  is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD’s. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices,  actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and not available. One and two character domains are also not available at this time. The normal registration ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2015
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Independent Review Panel Favored DotConnectAfrica Trust Against ICANN … - In a landmark decision, an Independent Review Process (IRP), at the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has ruled that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has violated its Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation following an expert determination of an IRP suit that was filed by DotConnectAfrica Trust in October 2013 to challenge an ICANN Board decision at the American Arbitration Association (AAA), New York, USA. The DCA vs. ICANN IRP decision was ... read more ...
 
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Makers Of YPlan App Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Highjacking on 14 Year Old Yplan.com - YPlan, Inc. (“Complainant”), represented by Eugene Rome of Rome Associates, A.P.C., of California, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name yplan.com by a one member UDRP panel of Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson Talk about a slam dunk case. The Complainant which says its the “creator of the well-known and famous application based or mobile app based service called YPLAN”, alleged its rights in the YPLAN mark date back to 2012 based on the registration ... read more ...
 
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.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over … - The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the whole price of the EAP fee is $100. This means that Rightside (NAME) just made over $40,000 in just EAP fees in ... read more ...
 
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HG.com, Here.com, TheOpening.com And More Domain Movers - Welcome to the always interesting and often “breaking news” series called Domain Movers exclusively here on TheDomains! I scour the web and watch what companies are buying and registering domain name wise and report to you what I see. I heavily rely on whois records, which doesn’t always speak the whole story but most of the time it is providing factual information as to what is happening with a domain name. Here are the latest domain name movers: Twitter Inc. registered the domain names TwitterAudiencePlatform.com ... read more ...
 
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Former GoDaddy employees contend they're due overtime - Plaintiffs say they shouldn’t have been categorized as exempt and are owed overtime. Three former* GoDaddy employees have sued the company, saying they should be paid overtime for work in excess of 40 hours per week. Sal Careaga, Joshua Berry and Amanda Collins each worked in the Website Design Department, which designs websites for GoDaddy customers. The plaintiffs claim they worked more than 40 hours in some workweeks, but were not paid time-and-a-half. According to the suit (pdf), GoDaddy classified ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines: .law partnership with ALM Media - StockMarketWire.com - Minds + Machines, a leading owner and operator of gTLDs, has announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world's largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain '.law' across ALM's legal media publications, conferences and digital platforms. In addition, ALM will adopt over 100 .law URL's for its existing legal properties and new product rollouts. The announcement was made at Legaltech ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Issues The Challenge: Giving Away $2K For The Best New .Com & .XYZ Domain Name - The .XYZ registry has issued The Challenge “Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name?” “Submit yours, along with a short survey, for your chance to win $1,000! “2 winners will be announced on August 10th and 2 more on September 7th” Here is how TheChallenge.xyz as explained on the .XYZ site: “.COM is suing me – Daniel Negari, CEO and Founder of .XYZ – in part over a video where I said it’s impossible to find the .COM domain that you want. “Reacting to my interview ... read more ...
 
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Monte Cahn Named As One Of Top 400 CEO's to Follow On Twitter - StrategicObjectives.com, published The Ultimate List of Social CEO’s on Twitter @SO_pr and my partner in RightoftheDot.com made the very impressive list of 400. If you check out the top 20 you can see its a very impressive list to make: 1. Oprah Winfrey @Oprah (24,518,272 followers) –CEO of OWN 2. Bill Gates @billgates (16,282,164 followers) – CEO of Bill Melinda Gates Foundation 3. Richard Branson @richardbranson (4,230,000 followers) – CEO of Virgin Group Bio: Tie-loathing adventurer and ... read more ...
 
 
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Mike Mann – DNW Podcast #41 - BuyDomains founder discusses domain names. My guest today is Mike Mann. Mike Mann founded BuyDomains, built it up to 500,000 domain names, and then sold it to investors. Now he’s at it again with DomainMarket.com. Mike explains how he used technology to find the best domain names and beat competitors in expired domain name auctions. In addition to using “robots” to win auctions, he has also been called the “human robot”. Find out why on this episode. Also: Cybersquatting lawsuit dropped, ... read more ...
 
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Nominet: the force is with Disney - A UK fancy dress retailer has been told to give up six .uk and .co.uk domains containing the famous ‘Star Wars’ movie title to The Walt Disney Company. Nominet, through its dispute resolution service covering the .uk and .co.uk TLDs, issued the order on 5 July. Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars movie franchise, which was bought by Disney for $4.06 billion in 2012, requested the transfer of the ‘Star Wars’ domains, all containing variations of the registered trademarks, ... read more ...
 
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.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over 1,000 - The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the whole price of the EAP fee is $100. This means that Rightside (NAME) just made over $40,000 in just EAP fees in ... read more ...
 
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Feeling some .Love for .Site? Check out these reward prices - .Site is an appealing generic, but pricing on premiums is a big turn-off. The unique .Love domain name launches on Thursday.Five top level domain names become available for registration this week. The most notable is .Site, a good generic domain name that launches Wednesday. Radix, the same company that owns .website, is behind .site. What does this mean for the value of .website domain names now that an arguably better and shorter domain has come along? Radix certainly thinks .Site is better. Some ... read more ...