Category Archives: EN

Mon 16th March 2015
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Shocker? Latin American Telecom LLC Beats Google To The .Tube New gTLD - • Provide all those interested, world-wide, in disseminating or seeking information, whether non-commercial or commercial, about current issues, news, culture, lifestyle, entertainment, sports or any other topic with a convenient and recognizable domain name that associates them and⁄or their information with particular topics presented primarily through a video format.• Provide all those interested, world-wide, in selling or purchasing goods or services of any kind, or providing information, ... read more ...
 
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SXSW Finalist For Wearables Tech; Feetz.co Buys Feetz.com -                     Feetz.co a finalist for at SXSW in the Wearable Tech category, who has been using the domain name Feetz.co has just purchased Feetz.com Feetz is a Platform to make Customizable 3D Printed shoes. Like another 3D Printed Shoes company, Sols.co who we wrote about in January who upgraded to Sols.com, Feetz decided to step up and buy their matching .Com for an undisclosed amount from DomainShop.com Feetz did not win the SXSW award for Wearable Tech, that was won by Tinitell ... read more ...
 
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Merchant & Gould hires Nancy Lutz - Merchant Gould has hired Nancy Lutz as partner in its Washington DC office. Lutz’s has spent her carer protecting clients' trademarks, copyright, and domain names, including within new gTLDs, on a global basis. She has filed and prosecuted trademarks in every jurisdiction in the world. She evaluates and counsels on acquisitions of intellectual property, and supervises investigations of infringers. Brian Batzli, managing director and CEO of Merchant Gould, commented: “Lutz is a nationally ... read more ...
 
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Will .Com Even Be A Thing in 50 Years ? - CNN.com published an article on the 30 year anniversary of .com and at the end asked if .com would even be a thing in 50 years ? New gtlds and ecommerce over smart phones were mentioned as possible reasons to answer no. From the article: What will the future hold? Today, the undisputed champ is challenged by plenty of eager newcomers. New, more personalized domains are cropping up all the time: .coach, .green and .money are just a few of the latest. Increasingly, e-commerce is being conducted on ... read more ...
 
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GMO loses village bid for .Shop domain name - Company scores just six points in evaluation. GMO Registry has lost is Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the .Shop top level domain name. The company scored 6 points out of a possible 16 on its CPE, falling well short of the 14 required. It scored no points for Community Establishment and Nexus. It picked up a handful for registration policies because of some basic registration restrictions. It also scored some on Community Endorsement, mostly because there was no opposition. The decision is ... read more ...
 
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Crowdsourcing and Domains with Ryan Noble – DNW Podcast #24 - Crowdsource.com and finding good domain names using the crowd. Ryan Noble has built a big business on Crowdsource.com. In this episode, he’ll explain how his company helps big brands tap into large pools of remote workers to complete big projects. He also discusses how the company uses great domains like Write.com and Transcribe.com to drive business. Ryan also explains the fascinating way he uses crowdsourcing to discover great domain names to register. Also: Domain Name Wire turns 10, SXSW invades ... read more ...
 
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Shocker? Latin American Telecom LLC Beats Google To The .Tube New gTLD - • Provide all those interested, world-wide, in disseminating or seeking information, whether non-commercial or commercial, about current issues, news, culture, lifestyle, entertainment, sports or any other topic with a convenient and recognizable domain name that associates them and⁄or their information with particular topics presented primarily through a video format.• Provide all those interested, world-wide, in selling or purchasing goods or services of any kind, or providing information, ... read more ...
 
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Froyo and sandwiches starting conversations about new TLDs during SXSW - Free food with a sales pitch. Sedo’s Solomon Amoako (left) and Jeremiah Johnston enjoy some domain-filled frozen yogurt.Spreading awareness of choice in top level domain names isn’t easy. One-on-one conversations might be the best way to explain what they are and why you might want one. That’s the idea behind promotions by Sedo and Radix at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin. Sedo set up a food truck in a downtown area with high foot traffic and is offering free frozen yogurt. People have ... read more ...
 
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Telegraph.co.uk – "Cyber - Telegraph.co.uk is out with an article that there has been an over 300% increase in the number of TM disputes. The article equates the increase in disputes with the introduction of the new gtlds. From the article: The release of hundreds of new web address endings over the last eight months has contributed to a 313pc increase in the number of “cyber-squatting” disputes, it has emerged. The internet industry regulator ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is currently ... read more ...
 
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.Fyi Donuts Beats Google To The New gTLD .Fyi -

Donuts has won a rights to a new gTLD .fyi violence Google

Fyi for those who don’t know is brief for “For Your Information”

There is also a radio network owned by A E, called fyi.tv

There is of march already a .info prolongation that has around 5.5 million registrations.

.Fyi was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort auction after this month.

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Donuts Wins The New Domain Extension .Family Beating Google & Uniregistry The Winner of .Mom - Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these new gTLD’s you would want the other. I don’t know how many people or companies, in a world of 1,000 choices of domain extension would choose either of these to use to identify their online presence but I would think if you had one you would want the ... read more ...
 
Sun 15th March 2015
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Donuts To Initiate First Advertising Campaign - MediaPost published an article a couple hours ago on Donuts initiating its first advertising campaign. Comments from Jeff Davidoff the CMO at Donuts are quoted in the article. One interesting quote, “Dot-com doesn’t mean anything. The Google algorithm looks for meaning and connects the word with relevant content. Marketers really need to focus on the quality of the content and the connection with the domain name.” From the article: The campaign will run video and banner ads online for 60 days ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com at 30: will the world’s best-known web domain soon be obsolete? - Meanwhile, the internet had rapidly evolved from an unknown phenomenon used primarily by academics and researchers to a global communication, commerce and information-sharing channel that few could imagine life without. Today, dot-com websites are accessed trillions of times each day. Millions of entrepreneurs have built their businesses online with dot-com, and the biggest names in business have branded their companies with dot-com addresses. Some believe that dot-com is now almost synonymous ... read more ...
 
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Timeout, Time Lords: ICANN says there is only one kind of doctor - Domain-name overseer ICANN has decided that only one kind of doctor may be allowed online – and that is a medical doctor. In a decision made late last month but challenged on Friday by one of the companies vying for the rights to run the internet registry .doctor, ICANN will insist that all dot-doctor domains be verified as belonging to "legitimate medical practitioners." The dot-doctor top-level ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com at 30: will the world’s best-known net domain quickly be obsolete? - Dot-com is the world’s most recognised net suffix, with over 115 million dot-com domains registered worldwide, representing about 42 per cent of all net addresses. But 30 years just after its inception, quite a few people are questioning regardless of whether it can continue to retain its dominance. Initially launched by the US Department of Defence – in the similar year as Live Aid and the release of the first Back to the Future film – dot-com was initially intended as an world-wide-web ... read more ...
 
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Why Did It Take This TM Holder 10 Years To File A UDRP On The Parked Domain HumanRightsWatch.com? - Human Rights Watch was awarded the domain name HumanRightsWatch.com in a otherwise unremarkable UDRP opinion. “The organization has a United States Trademark on the term since 2003 and “uses the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH mark to identify its efforts promoting and protecting human rights worldwide”. Respondent has not used the disputed domain name for a bona fide offering of goods or services, or a legitimate noncommercial or fair use.  Complainant alleges that Respondent uses the disputed domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain name system expansion - It’s “the biggest change to the Internet since its inception” according to the President of the Generic Domains Division at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN) referring to the expansion of the Domain Name System, the unique identifier with a set of properties attached to it so that your computer can convert a specific domain into an IP (Internet Protocol) ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2015
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts … - Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon plans to do with .free. Other than sometimes .free shipping I’m not sure what Amazon offers for free, except for a ... read more ...
 
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside - Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ — Proverb Mothers are the most celebrated members of our society. They give birth, provide nurture and comfort, ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M - Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon plans to do with .free. Other than sometimes .free shipping I’m not sure what Amazon offers for free, except for a ... read more ...
 
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside - Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ — Proverb Mothers are the most celebrated members of our society. They give birth, provide nurture and comfort, ... read more ...
 
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RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K - The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the domain and gave some details of how he sold the domain which is a good lesson I think for all of us that are brokering domain names for third parties: “A client emailed with the name RSL.com for sale.” They wanted a really low price for it, but I knew we could ... read more ...
 
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Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years - inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to complete from first contact with the owner of the domain. The company BufferApp.com did not mention the price it paid for Buffer.com in their blog post, you will have to read the inc42.com story how they got to the $600K figure. Here is a few real interesting ... read more ...
Fri 13th March 2015
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Thanks a lot, Google, for snatching .dev for yourself. It’s not like the rest of us … - Comment The internet is gradually gaining a whole lot of new top-level domain names, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol), thanks to ICANN's dot-word gold rush. Most of these dot-words are available to world + dog to register fresh domains, such as theregister.science. However, some owners are keeping their gTLDs to themselves – for example, Google has nabbed the rights to .dev domains, although it's for the US ad giant's ... read more ...