Category Archives: EN

Fri 17th April 2015
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Right to criticize gets a bigger public platform on the internet with the introduction … - 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 ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals .Fashion 2,182; .Garden 388: Science Passes .XXX & .Pro - Two new gTLD’s were released this week by Minds + Machines After domain name registrations made in Sunrise by Trademark Holders .Fashion has 2,182 registrations. .Garden on the other hand only grew to 388 domain registrations. On another note .Science which was released about a month ago by Famous Four Media, now has skyrocketed to the 6th most registered new gTLD’s (actually number 5 if you disregard the IDN of 网址 (xn--ses554g) which has about 350,000 registry owned domains) with over 118,000 ... read more ...
 
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Dumoulin-White speaks to the ‘powerful’ anti-cancer treatment news on … - April 17, 2015 — Roger Dumoulin-White, P. Eng, President and CEO for Theralase Technologies Inc. (‘Theralase’, TSXV: TLT) speaks to Tracy Weslosky, Publisher of InvestorIntel about the recent series of news releases updating shareholders Theralase’s patented anti-cancer technology PDC (Photo Dynamic Compound) TLD-1433. Tracy Weslosky: So you just put some news out just this morning (reference, April 9, 2015) about this new anticancer Photo Dynamic Compounds TLD-1433. Is that correct? Roger ... read more ...
 
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The story of Verisign's Internet Official competition winners - Verisign contest hits its goal in first round. Verisign’s first five winners fit its message perfectly.Verisign has announced the first five winners in its Internet Official contest, a promotion designed to show that good .com domain names are still available. The domain names selected have interesting histories. The first five winners, who will each pick up $5,000, are: 1. ChooseYourTattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. ElectricMotorcycleClub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of Pine ... read more ...
 
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Mali’s ‘.ml’ to target Malaysian internet users -

The Republic of Mali recently partnered with Freenom in an bid to foster domain name registrations underneath ‘.ml’, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mali, to boost internet use in a nation and to lift Mali’s online profile. Freenom is a Dutch association that operates a ‘.tk’ registry, that is a ccTLD for Tokelau.

In May 2013, following the…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Judge denies suit to strike UDRP cases from MySchool.com pleadings - Plaintiff asked judge to forbid information about its two UDRP losses over the same domain to be used in pleadings. United States Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson has denied a motion to strike prior UDRPs from pleadings in a cybersquatting lawsuit filed over MySchool.com. Joseph Carpenter has lost two UDRPs against the domain name MySchool.com. After the second loss, he filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit against the domain name MySchool.com. The current owner of the domain, Original Web Ventures, ... read more ...
 
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Google nixing domain names in mobile search - Search results replace domain name with site name. Google is making sweeping changes to its search rankings on mobile devices next week, but the search giant just introduced another pretty big change. Starting yesterday, Google began replacing the URL in search results with the site’s name and breadcrumb. The site-name-instead-of-domain is rolling out in the U.S. only for now. Breadcrumbs are rolling out worldwide. Here’s an example: In this example, domaining.com has been replaced by “Domaining” ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Looking To Cash in With .News - Jacob Demmitt wrote a post on the Upstart section of BizJournals.com. The article led with the launch of the .news extension and how Rightside plans to cash in. Taryn Naidu the CEO of Rightside is interviewed and gives some commentary. In the article which I quoted below, Naidu says we are seeing five and six figure sales. I would imagine he is talking about the Coffee.club and Wine.Club sales, I have not heard of a Rightside string selling for six figures. From the article: The company wouldn’t ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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eMarketer Report Says Success of New gTLDs May Depend on Promotion By … - eMarketer, a major market research firm, has released a new study on the introduction of new gTLDs and their chances for success. eMarketer releases over 200 analyst reports per year, which are ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Report: “The Domain Market in 2014″ - Aftnic.fr the manager of the .fr (France) extension, published a pretty extensive report today. The report “The Domain Market in 2014″ takes a look back at 2014 and provides some interesting stats and graphs. I will highlight one topic in this post and read the full report here Legacy TLDs: highly contrasting performance in 2014 The Afnic Market Research Team has developed a methodology for measuring the performance of TLDs that the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Report: "The Domain Market in 2014" - Aftnic.fr the manager of the .fr (France) extension, published a pretty extensive report today. The report “The Domain Market in 2014” takes a look back at 2014 and provides some interesting stats and graphs. I will highlight one topic in this post and read the full report here Legacy TLDs: highly contrasting performance in 2014 The Afnic Market Research Team has developed a methodology for measuring the performance of TLDs that the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) ... read more ...
 
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WaterCoolers.com sells for $25.2k, and other lapsed domain name sales - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. The gossip at the water cooler this week might be WaterCoolers.com itself, which was NameJet’s top expired domain auction, selling for $25.2k. Not too far behind (at $15.1k) is the German word for “style”: STIL.com. Or is it? Perhaps it’s an acronym for people in Illinois. Or a creative misspelling of the English word “still”. Then again, if the buyer is Chinese (as buyers so often are these days), it could be an arbitrary sequence ... read more ...
 
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Free .REALTOR Domains Expanded To Local & State Realtor® Associations & Brokerages On May 7 - “The National Association of Realtors® top-level domain .REALTOR will be available to local and state Realtor® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada starting May 7. State and Local REALTOR® Member Boards, and REALTOR® owned and operated MLSs have the opportunity to receive a FREE .REALTOR domain for up to 5 years” Since the .REALTOR top-level domain became available to NAR members in October 2014, more than 95,000 domains have been claimed on a free basis. .Realtor has ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The New gTLD .Theater - Donuts has won another private auction for a new gTLD, this time the right to operate the new domain extension . The only other applicant for .Theater, KBE gTLD Holding Inc. of Brooklyn New York, whose web address is broadwayacrossamerica.com, withdrew its application Some of the new gTLD’s in that vertical include .broadway, .tickets and .show .Theater was scheduled to go to an ICANN auction later this month There are now only 4 ICANN Contention Last Resort auctions scheduled for April; .Living, ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Chalk.com, Much.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers. In this series I do the heavy digging and discover domain names that are on the move! The vast majority of the domain names in the following list have been either registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another, mostly by large companies. These are often early discoveries and may lead to insight into new brands, services, products, companies and new websites. Here we go with the latest domain movers. Battlecast.com has been acquired on behalf of a currently ... read more ...
 
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20 End User Domain Name Sales - Here are 20 end user domain name sales that took place over the past week. Sedo handled 593 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. End user buyers include a webhosting company that created a shorter domain with .ch, an air conditioning company in Arizona, and a bail bond seller. A whopping 57% of domains that sold at Sedo last week had “buy now” prices. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these ... read more ...
 
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Donuts' new TLD renovation rates operation from 55% to 72% - Company releases updated figures for renewal rates. New top level domain name company Donuts has released updated renewal rates for the first 25 top level domain names it launched. Rates range from about 55% to 72%, well under the company’s predicted 80% renewal rate. (The company now says it expects rates to trend toward 80% later in the year.) The highest renewal rate belongs to .technology at 71.7%. The lowest is .directory at just 54.7%. .Guru, which received more first year registrations than ... read more ...
 
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.REALTOR Top-Level Domains to Launch for Realtor Associations and … - In a move to further offer consumers a trusted, valued source for real estate on the Internet, and thereby strengthen the REALTOR® brand, the National Association of REALTORS®’ (NAR) top-level domain (TLD) .REALTOR will be available to local and state REALTOR® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada starting May 7. According to Bob Goldberg, NAR SVP of Marketing, Business Development and Member Benefits, brokers who sign up for the .REALTOR domain will be “pinged ... read more ...
 
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ICANN.WTF? FTC & OCA Asked Whether .SUCKS is a Law Breaker (Part II) - The first part of this article reviewed the actions taken by ICANN in response to a March 27th letter from the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) alleging that the pricing of Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) registered terms by the .Sucks registry were "predatory, exploitative and coercive" and requesting that ICANN halt the registry's rollout. This second part explores additional ramifications of ICANN's decision to request two national regulators to review the legality of the registry's ... read more ...
Wed 15th April 2015
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UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Fair Criticism Site & Its Not a .Sucks - Loney John Hutchins (“Complainant”), of Tennessee, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on his matching domain name LoneyHutchins.com The panel of Fernando Triana, Esq, found that the domain was being used as a fair criticism site of conduct of the person’s name in the .com address So the domain holder was able to express his first amendment rights to free speech without having to use a .sucks address Imagine that Here are the highlights Complainant is the owner ... read more ...
 
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Framing New gTLDs’ Marketing Message - In an earlier essay, I outlined a focused, cooperative marketing strategy that would be a first step for marketing new gTLDs. After that first initiative, gTLD registries' marketing strategy must focus on the complementarities between .com, and new neutral (such as .global and .web) and branding and labeling gTLDs. The legacy domains and the newcomers can work together nicely. If we don't realize this, all Internet users will lose out. Unfortunately, registries of new gTLDs are less focused ... read more ...
 
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Tom Delonge, Ex Lead Singer/Guitarist of Blink 182 Launches New Site On ToTheStars.Media -         Tom Delonge best known as the former guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the American rock band Blink-182 has launched a new site on the new gTLD ToTheStars.Media Mr. Delonge is already running a Twitter account under ToTheStars in which it says: “The Official Twitter for To The Stars.. Alternative Media Entertainment.” Although the Twitter account lists the URL of the site as tothestarsinc.com, that domain name is re-directing to the .Media domain and the logo makes it clear that ... read more ...
 
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16 Yr Old SexyJapanese.com Saved In UDRP But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Grigorius Holdings, SIA (“Complainant”), just lost it bid to grab the generic domain name sexyjapanese.com which was registered on January 2, 1998. The one member panel John J. Upchurch found that Complainant failed to establish rights in a trademark that predate the registration of the domain name. However Mr. Upchurch failed to even discuss Reverse Domain Name Hijacking despite finding the Complainant didn’t meet any of the three requirements of a UDRP and really had no claim to a right ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Announces First Round of #InternetOfficial Contest First Prize Winners - Verisign announced its first group of winners in its #InternetOfficial Contest. Our own Michael Berkens is one of the judges in this contest. Our illustrious panel of top industry experts and celebrity judges has determined the five best .COM domain names entered into the #InternetOfficial contest during the first monthly entry period. (Drum roll please)…And the winners are: 1. chooseyourtattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. electricmotorcycleclub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of ... read more ...
 
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Chat Center ditches a .me and moves to a .Center - John Biggs wrote an article on Tech Crunch yesterday with regards to Chat Center, according to its description Chat Center is the best way to help customers or friends connect with you for Chat. Once you install the app you can claim a Chat Name. This name can be expressed as a URL. From the article: When we last left ChatCenter it was running on the URL chatcenter.me and was aimed at creating a one-stop spot for chatting. Now, a few months later, it has moved from a freemium product and gone full ... read more ...