Category Archives: EN

Tue 21st April 2015
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Virtual .US Town Hall assembly takes place Wednesday - .US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall takes place from 1-3 PM ET and registration is required. The usTLD Stakeholder Council, which was organized last year, is planning the event. There are a few topics on the agenda, but there will also be an open floor for people to ask questions. As the owner ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to investigate .sucks registry over eye-watering fees - Brand owners, many of whom have registered their trade marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse to get first dibs on new gTLD domains during Sunrise Periods, are being charged a hefty premium by the '.sucks' registry. In the last year, most new domain name registries that have opened gTLDs (eg, .network, .business) have charged trade mark owners a couple of hundred dollars to apply for domains matching their trade marks during Sunrise Periods. To apply during any registry's Sunrise ... read more ...
 
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Wiz Khalifa Wins Control Of 8 Domain Names - Based on this United States trademark registration, Complainant has established rights in the TAYLOR GANG mark pursuant to Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i). See Janus International Holding Co. v. Scott Rademacher, WIPO Case No. D2002-0201 (finding that “registration of a mark is prima facie evidence of validity, which creates arebuttable presumption that the mark is inherently distinctive. Respondent has the burden of refuting this assumption”.)Complainant has a pending United States trademark applications ... read more ...
 
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Google starts mobile hunt rankings shakeup - Search rankings on mobile devices are shifting starting today. Today is the day. Google has begun changing search results on mobile phones based on if sites are mobile friendly or not. According to a blog post from the company, the search rankings rollout will start today but take about “a week or so” before it gets to all pages in the index. The rankings are on a page-by-page basis, so site owners can’t just make a mobile-friendly home page and skip the rest of the site. The good news for ... read more ...
 
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.London, .NYC and new ways to calculate a success of a TLD - A deep dive into how .London and .NYC are being used. The .London and .NYC top level domain names were both launched last year and have risen to the top of new TLD leaderboards. .London currently has about 60,000 registrations and .NYC has topped 75,000 in the zone file. Does that mean .NYC is “beating” .London? It’s interesting to compare the two domains. Both are world cities and major financial centers. Yet there’s a big difference in eligibility for these domains. Anyone can register ... read more ...
Mon 20th April 2015
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Will .Poker Take Off ? - Christopher Hofman from European Domain Centre interviewed Roland LaPlante and Brett Samuels from Afilias on the eve of .Poker going live. Brett Samuels listed a number of high profile brands among early stage registrants including basically any Vegas casino on The Strip such as MGM and Treasure Island, general betting sites and news sites such as PokerNews. Here is an overview: Casinos: Bally’s, Borgata, Caesars Palace, Mirage, Monte Carlo, etc. Online gaming sites: Bovada, Fulltilt, Grosvenor, ... read more ...
 
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New Domain this week: .Poker - Afilias launches .poker this week, and it is the only new TLD launch I could find. I can only find one new top level domain name on Calzone.org that’s launching this week, so it will get a little extra focus. Afilias launches .Poker on Tuesday with support from about 70 registrars. Retail pricing appears to be in the $40-$50 range. Heading into today, there are about 540 domain names in the .Poker zone file, so it’s off to a fairly good start through sunrise and landrush. Some of the good domain ... read more ...
 
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FairWinds Partners: " Top-Level Domains Owned by Brands Gaining Momentum" - Jennifer Schoelwer wrote an article on the FairWinds Partners blog that delves into gaining momentum for branded top level domains. The article is focused on .brands, not generic strings open to everyone. The article takes a look at French bank BNP Paribas and the steps they have taken to explain their upcoming .bnpparibas to their customers. Jennifer ends the article, “It is clear is that brands will – and have – set a new standard for online trust and consumer experience.” From the article: While ... read more ...
 
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WDD.2015.Delhi SnapNames Domain Auction Gets $100K Bid On Computer.de - The domain name auction being run in conjunction with The World Domain Day conference on Snapnames.com has drawn over $400,000 in bids. All bidding is led by Computer.debut there is also a $75K bid on enetwork.com and LatinoTimes.com as well as a $50K bid on Bodyguards.com and GTR.com but none of the reserve have been met on any of those domain names yet. The WDD.2015.Delhi domain auction closes on Thursday at 3:15 PM EST according to SnapNames.com normal closing procedures. Here are all of the ... read more ...
 
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Help! My Domain name was stolen! with Pablo Palatnik – DNW Podcast #29 - What would happen if your business’s domain name was stolen? Imagine waking up one day and finding that your business’s domain name was stolen. That’s exactly what happened to Pablo Palatnik, founder of online sunglasses retailer ShadesDaddy.com. On this week’s episode, Palatnik explains how he first learned his domain was stolen, his understandable freakout, and his full court press to get the domain name back. It’s a fascinating story that hopefully can help other people who become a ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Chong.com, Voice.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers! Get ready to read some interesting and detailed digging on some recent domain activity which involves newly registered domains by companies, domain name acquisitions by companies and simply domain movers for one reason or another. Enjoy these often early discoveries and the reasons that I found why the domains are moving. JPMorgan Chase Co. with the help of brand protection service MarkMonitor has acquired the domain name SoYouCan.com, which was actually acquired on March ... read more ...
 
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Is Amazon.com a biggest user of new domain names? - Amazon has registered a bunch of domains under new TLDs, and it’s forwarding them to pages on its website. It’s still unclear what Amazon.com’s strategy is for the many top level domain names it will soon control. But we might get a hint from examining its use of other registry’s top level domain names. Amazon.com has been a big buyer of second level domain names in new TLDs. For example, it picked up many city names under .delivery. I’ve also noticed recently that it registered a bunch ... read more ...
 
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Stolen domain name 608.com returned to owners in UDRP - Panel orders 608.com transferred back to its previous owner. An Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) panel has ordered the domain name 608.com be returned to its previous owner, who said the domain name was stolen from him. In the dispute, Complainant Chiu Tsen Hu said he purchased the domain name at Sedo in 2006 for $6,009. He has used it in various ways since then, including to promote his domain names for sale. He alleged that the domain name was stolen from his eNom account in ... read more ...
 
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Sorry Kids There Will Be No .Unicorn In The Domain Space But There Will Be A … - .Unicorn will remain a mythical creature when its comes to new domain names. You will not be able to register a .Unicorn domain as two domain name extension that were put into the same contention group by ICANN .Unicorn and .UNICOM have resolved with unicorn.eu withdrawing their application for .Unicorn Instead of .Unicorn we now have the less sexy .Unicom which was applied for by China United Network Communications Corporation Limited whose website is chinaunicom.com To be fair both .Unicorn and ... read more ...
Sun 19th April 2015
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Sorry Kids There Will Be No .Unicorn In The Domain Space But There Will Be A .Unicom - .Unicorn will remain a mythical creature when its comes to new domain names. You will not be able to register a .Unicorn domain as two domain name extension that were put into the same contention group by ICANN .Unicorn and .UNICOM have resolved with unicorn.eu withdrawing their application for .Unicorn Instead of .Unicorn we now have the less sexy .Unicom which was applied for by China United Network Communications Corporation Limited whose website is chinaunicom.com To be fair both .Unicorn and ... read more ...
 
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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 ...