Category Archives: EN

Thu 2nd April 2015
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You May Have To go To Auction To Get Your Brand.Sucks Domain - According to a press release we received toady by the registrar 101Domain.com, now that the .Sucks domain extension has launched they are pricing the “reserved” .sucks domains at $2,199 well below the $2,499 suggested retail price, however the PR makes it clear that you could wind up in an auction for a yourbrand.sucks domain. Here is the info from the PR: There are two distinct launch phases for the .SUCKS extension: TMCH Sunrise Phase, for those validated in the Trademark Clearinghouse Begins ... read more ...
 
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Coming Soon: Your_Brand.Sucks - Discussion about how something "sucks" is no longer reserved for middle school lunchrooms. Soon the Internet will include a new generic top-level domain ("gTLD") for .SUCKS. The goal of this new gTLD—according to its operator, Vox Populi Registry—is to foster a town square for consumers to voice opinions and criticism.1 On the other hand, many companies are obviously concerned that .SUCKS will adversely impact their brands and open a new avenue for cyber-squatters and other bad actors. Available ... read more ...
 
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Another Category Killer Domain, Storage.com is Sold - According to a press release just out, B2 Interactive has purchased Storage.com, including the domain name, intellectual property, and any ongoing business operations from from Self Storage Co., a subsidiary of Extra Space Management, Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “B² Interactive’s founders have a long history of providing online marketing services to the self storage industry, dating back to 1998 when co-founder Bill Hipsher built the first online directory for ... read more ...
 
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New WTR podcast available: assessing the gTLD rollout - Trevor Little For the latest World Trademark Review podcast, we sat down with Susan Payne, head of legal policy at Valideus, and Jon Nevett, co-founder and executive vice president for corporate affairs at Donuts, to talk gTLDs – the discussion presenting an assessment of the gTLD rollout to date and considering efforts to increase public awareness ... read more ...
 
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Sexodrome.xxx Saved in UDRP Despite Trademark: Panel Finds "Drome" is Generic - The Complainant Librairie des Artistes in Paris, France, just lost its bid to gain control over two adult domain names, sexodrome-europe.com and sexodrome.xxx. Disputed domain names and were registered on September 24, 2014. The Respondent is using the domain name to propose referencing links to other websites . The Respondent is using the domain name to run a sex shop online. First, the Applicant must establish that it has rights to trademarks or service that he holds. As the Applicant holds ... read more ...
 
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April fools joke: Thepiratebay is about to own .pirate domain registry - According to torrentfreak, Thepiratebay’s parent company, Reservella Ltd has started trying to register a new aTLD with a .pirate extension.Thepiratebay’s winston told torrentfreak:“We can no longer trust third party services and registries, who are under immense pressure from the copyright lobby. So we decided to apply for our very own gTLD and be a true Pirate registry,”So basically this move can be a solution to the problem of copyright material hosted websites for registering domain ... read more ...
 
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ND.com, Javelin.com, DashButton.com and More Domain Movers - Domain Movers is an exclusive series on TheDomains that features domain name acquisitions, domain registrations and simply domain movers in general by large companies. These are mainly all early finds and often relate to new brands, services and more by large companies. Here we go with the latest domain names I could dig up! Vobe.com has been acquired by a currently unknown entity. Whois information is currently incomplete. The domain appears to have changed ownership on 1/31/2015 according to whois ... read more ...
 
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Drug Maker Hoffmann-La Roche AG Wins 154 Domains in One UDRP - A WIPO UDRP panel has awarded drug maker F. Hoffmann-La Roche control of 154 domain names in a single UDRP The domain names were owned by dozens of registrants. The decision has not been published yet but you can see why the panel awarded the domain to the drug maker as all of thedomain contained names of drugs that are trademarked and manufactured and/or marketed by F. Hoffmann-La Roche. Earlier this year ebay.com won control of 1,152 domain names with a single UDRP. Here are the domains: ... read more ...
 
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How domain name bonds did on GoDaddy's IPO day - Competitors also get bump as GoDaddy soars. GoDaddy went public yesterday and shares immediately shot up 30%, giving the company a $4 billion market cap. In very early trading today it’s up another 3%. There are a number of similar public companies out there. I think the two closest comps are Endurance International (which owns Domain.com and a number of shared hosting companies) and Web.com. Endurance International Group (EIGI) shares were up about 4% yesterday, giving the company a $2.6 billion ... read more ...
 
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Google flips out for April Fool’s Day -

MAGNIFICENT: The blueprint is recognizable though everything’s in counterpart mode, from hunt box to corporate graphic, typing and beyond. – Google

Via: thestar.com.my

 
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22 finish user domain name sales from final week - Car.info and Portfolio.me highlight this week’s list. Sedo’s marketplace handled 669 transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million in sales. The top public sale was Car.info, a staggering price for a .info in light of all of the new top level domains available. Yes, “car” is a great second level domain, but it’s still a surprising purchase. Be sure to tune in Monday to the Domain Name Wire Podcast, when my guest will be Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. We’ll discuss trends in domain name ... read more ...
 
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It’s the Brand Name: Cybersquatting Unleashed -   A strong brand commands respect - it is the public face of a business and delivers an emotional message about a product. In short, strong brands drive profit.   Brands are first represented on the internet through the owners' choice of domain name but, with 228 million registered top-level domains (TLDs) and 134 million country-code TLDs, the internet is a crowded market place. So the creation of thousands of new domains by the internet regulator, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned ... read more ...
 
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Donuts’ marketing offensive tops list of most-read WTR stories in March - Trevor Little The online world features prominently in the top-10 list of most-read WTR blogs last month, with coverage of the marketing campaign launched by Donuts, the largest registry for new generic top-level (gTLD) domain names, taking top spot. The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely ... read more ...
 
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Donuts’ selling descent tops list of most-read stories for Mar on WTR - Trevor Little wrote on World Trademark Review that Donuts marketing offensive was the most read story for March. From the article: The campaign is aimed at spreading the new gTLD gospel to small businesses in the US. While unlikely to be the turning point in terms of wider public awareness of new gTLDs, the campaign will do no harm in spreading the gTLD message and will be welcomed by registrars. We argued that it is also a development worth noting by brand owners. Elsewhere in the gTLD world, there ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2015
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Freedom of Expression Chilled by ICANN’s Addition of Speech Restrictions in DNS - "Public Interest Commitments" Amount to Illegitimate Usurpation of Bottom-Up Policy Freedom of expression on the Internet is at risk from ICANN's recent decision to prohibit anyone but one specific type of doctor from using the word within the .doctor new gTLD space. Last month, ICANN's New GTLD Program Committee decided that only "medical practitioners" would be allowed to register a domain in the .doctor name space. ICANN's decision to exclude numerous lawful users of the word, including ... read more ...
 
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Google’s April Fool Day prank will force you to ‘reflect’ - SAN FRANCISCO — The net firm played an April 1 prank with a TLD trick ending in .google. “Sometimes it’s important to reflect,” remarked Google’s Twitter account, kicking off a day of levity and cunning across the web. Using its own Top Level Domain, all-comers were invited to visit com.google instead of the usual google.com. The layout is recognisable but everything’s in mirror mode, from search box to corporate graphic, typing and beyond. That’s just the ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Off to the Races With Fast IPO Start – .CLUB Registry Reaches … - While the Go Daddy IPO has been met with skepticism from many quarters, Colin Campbell, CEO of the top selling new gTLD on the Go Daddy platform, .CLUB, ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic gets .love (and other sought-after domain name extensions) - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new Internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up a number of the most sought-after new domain extensions including .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the competitive tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic gets .love (and plenty of other sought-after domain name extensions) - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has added a clutch of new Internet addresses to its portfolio of top level domain names (gTLDs). The group has picked up a number of the most sought-after new domain extensions including .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty, which will be available to potential users exclusively on CentralNic’s platform. The group also recently won the competitive tender to be the exclusive technical platform provider for the .coop TLD. So far, CentralNic has launched ... read more ...
 
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After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD’s - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
 
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WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M - WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website not just a domain name. WallStreet.com was the first publicly reported domain name to sell for more than $1 Million dollars. Monte Cahn brokered the domain for $1.02 Million dollars 1999. The domain name resold for $1,030,000 in 2005. According to the ... read more ...
 
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Dubious New Domain Name Extensions Available – Protect Your Brand! - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Daniel Negari Appears To Have Acquired The New gTLD .Rent - It appears Daniel Negari of  .XYZ has acquired another new gTLD .Rent. It appears that .XYZ bought the new gTLD .Rent application that was originally filed by  DERRent, LLC which was owned by Dominion Enterprises The applicant for .Rent is still currently listed as DERRent, LLC, which won the extension in a two-way battle with Donuts who withdrew their application,  however Daniel Negari is now listed as the primary contact as well as Mr. Negari’s email address and physical address, so it would ... read more ...
 
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Google joins the fun on April Fool’s Day - Using Google's own Top Level Domain, all-comers were invited to visit com.google instead of the usual google.com, where everything is in mirror mode. — AFP picSAN FRANCISCO, April 1 — The net firm played an April 1 prank with a TLD trick ending in .google. “Sometimes it’s important to reflect,” remarked Google’s Twitter account, kicking off a day of levity and cunning across the web. Using its own Top Level Domain, all-comers were ... read more ...