Category Archives: EN

Mon 23rd February 2015
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CargoWiz.com Registered 2 Years Before Trademark Saved in UDRP - Brian Rayle of Apollo Beach, Florida, who was self-represented lost his attempt to grab the domain name CargoWiz.com which is owned by Portmedia Holdings Ltd of Hong Kong, China, represented by ESQwire.com P.C., USA. The three member UDRP panel of Tony Willoughby, R. Eric Gaum and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that although the Complainant filed for a trademark on the term CARGOWIZ with the USPTO back in 2007, failed to carry the day since the domain had been registered in 2005. However the panel ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon sets dates and early bird special for 2016 show - NamesCon sets dates for 2016 and offer $199 tickets. It seems like just last month that the domain name industry converged on Las Vegas for NamesCon 2015. Oh yeah, it was last month. Yet NamesCon has already announced dates for its 2016 show, which will take place January 10-13 in Las Vegas. Tickets are 80% off through the end of this month, and will cost only $199 until then. The event will again take place at The Tropicana hotel. Co-producer Richard Lau tells Domain Name Wire that it will re-evaluate ... read more ...
 
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A opposite spin on a estimation scam - A bit of a new spin on the old appraisal scam, a reader sent us an email he received, for a law related domain, three word.com that makes sense, has value. Hello! I represent a big investor from UK. He needs personal*******.com for his new business project to be launched in September, 2015. Your domain name is at the top of his shortlist of names, and he would be prepared to pay up to US$10,000 to secure this domain name. Time is of the essence as he needs to secure the domain name as soon as possible, ... read more ...
 
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Fast Company: Rips .Green Calling It "An Idea Whose Time Has Passed" - Over the years I have read a ton of stories on new gTLD program and certainly some particular new gTLD’s, but few have gone as far as FastCompany just published on the new gTLD .Green in a story entitled: “Why The New .Green Domain Name Is An Idea Thankfully Past Its Time” “The problem is that (.Green) maybe an idea whose time has passed.” “Ten years ago, setting up a .green domain may have made sense; so few companies were doing green things.” “These days .green seems passé and ... read more ...
 
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ICANN on collision path for ccTLDs -

The house of a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has signalled a vigilant to suggest that a same Name Collision supplies that were put in place for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) are also practical to newly rising country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

By ICANN’s possess definition:

“a name collision occurs when users unknowingly entrance a…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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African ICANN Delegates Call for More Help Bridging Digital Divide - Commerce of the future will take place, increasingly, on the internet. But African countries worry they won’t be equipped to embrace this brave new digital world without help from outsiders and one another. Not enough Africans are getting online and developing websites, especially for businesses, delegates from the continent said earlier this month at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Singapore. “We are in an information economy and the internet ... read more ...
Sun 22nd February 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
DNW has been rested – take a look - The site looks similar, but it should run better. You might not notice anything different when you visit Domain Name Wire today. But under the hood, the site has been completely redone. It should now load faster and work better in more browsers, with better responsiveness for mobile devices. If you experience any glitches or problems on the site, please first try to do a hard refresh or clear your cache. If the problem persists, I’d be grateful if you can send an email to me at editor (at) domainnamewire.com ... read more ...
 
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Media Company Awarded $7million in Online Piracy Case - Torrent Freak reported that the largest media company in the Philippines was awarded $7million in damages and that several domains were forfeited in the process. From the article: In its ongoing crusade against sites said to infringe its copyrights, TV outfit ABS-CBN has just netted a couple of big wins. A pair of cases filed in a Florida district court have gone in the TV company’s favor resulting in damages awards of $7m and the forfeiture of several domains. During 2014, ABS-CBN, the largest ... read more ...
Sat 21st February 2015
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Government Set To Auction Another 50,000 Bitcoins Seized from Silk Road Bust - Joel Dalais reported on BitcoinMagazine.com that the third government auction of Bitcoins that were seized during the Silk Road bust will take place March 5, 2015. Joel points out that some of the coins seized were not used in any illegal business. There were merchants on Silk Road that operated perfectly legit businesses. From the article: The U.S. Marshals Service is holding its third Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) bitcoin auction this March 5th, 2015. These bitcoin were seized from Ross Ulbricht, ... read more ...
 
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For a 3rd Time This Week UDRP Panel Awards Domain To Company That Dropped It - For the third time this week a UDRP panel has awarded a domain to the company that previously owned the domain and allowed ti to drop. In this case, WesTrac Pty Ltd of South Guildford, Australia was awarded the rights to the domain name Westrac.com which is owned by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings. Westrac owned the domain for 12 years until 2012 when the domain dropped and Domain Asset Holdings got the domain on the drop. Subsequently Domain Asset Holdings quoted $50,000 to Westrac to buy the ... read more ...
 
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Mali offers free .ml domain names in Malaysia, hoping for a global presence - Mali is offering its country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ml, to the 20 million Internet users in Malaysia, capitalizing on the popular use of “ML” as an abbreviation for the Southeast Asian nation.Internet use in French-speaking Mali, in West Africa, has been low. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, and has a high level of illiteracy.Meanwhile, Malayisa has recently prioritized ICT to ensure it contributes 17 percent to its GDP by 2020, up from 11 percent now. The .my domain is ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2015
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Guy takes third gash during MySchool.com with lawsuit - Owner of MySchool411.com really wants MySchool.com, preferably without paying for it. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. That’s apparently Joseph Carpenter’s belief. Carpenter runs the site MySchool411.com. He filed a UDRP against MySchool.com in 2010 and lost. He filed another one last year and lost again. Now he has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name in a third attempt to get the domain name without buying it. The lawsuit uses the Uniregistry whois privacy on ... read more ...
 
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SIDN releases 2014 growth rate figures for ‘.nl’ domain names -

SIDN, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry obliged for ‘.nl’, a ccTLD for a Netherlands, has announced that it had seen increasing expansion in 2014, with 5,531,186 domain names underneath government during a finish of a year. This represented an boost of 2.7% compared to a total from 2013.

During 2014, scarcely 900,000 new ‘.nl’ domain names were…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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So we got a call from Register.com this week… - Registrar called about a renewal, and it was strange. If you have any domain names at a Web.com registrar (Register.com and Network Solutions), you know the company is big on marketing to its customer base. You literally get one email every day from the company, promoting everything from search engine optimization to Facebook pages. Most of them end up in your spam folder. This week I got a call from Register.com that was helpful in one way, but disconcerting in another. I won a domain name in a ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte Foods Loses UDRP ON Delmontefarm.com, Delmontefarms.com & Delmonteexpress.com - Del Monte Foods, Inc. just lost a UDRP on three domain names delmonteexpress.com, delmontefarm.com and delmontefarms.com The three member UDRP panel of Robert A. Badgley, Michelle Brownlee and Gregory N. Albright Complainant is a leading purveyor of food and beverages in the United States, and has used the mark DEL MONTE for 120 years to identify and distinguish its various offerings. Some of Complainant’s DEL MONTE marks have been registered for more than 40 years. Complainant asserts, and there ... read more ...
 
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Coca-Cola Puts Smiley Face Emojis Into Web Address Using .WS Domains -   Ad week is reporting that Coca-Cola Puerto Rico that puts smiley-face emojis right in the brand’s web addresses. The brand registered URLs for every emoji that conveys happiness. Entering any of these happy icons into a mobile web browser, along with the .ws suffix, leads users to Coca-­Cola Puerto Rico’s website. Ad Week goes on to say: Why .ws, which is actually the domain suffix for Samoa? “Emojis are not accepted on domains such as .com, .net, and .org,” DDB Puerto ... read more ...
 
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MediaOptions Brokers Sales Of 50.com After Being Listed In Newsletter For $3.5 Million - The domain name 50.com has been purchased and the domain transferred to its new owner, Wang Yi of China. The domain was brokered by MediaOptions.com under a NDA. All we know is that the domain was sold and was listed in MediaOptions.copm newsletter back in December 2014, with an asking price of $3.5 Million dollars. The last reported two numbered .com sale was for 37.com which was sold for $1,968,000 according to DnJournal.com Congrats to the seller, buyer and MediaOptions.com on what appears to ... read more ...
 
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Brand.com domain name goes behind on a market - Company that acquired domain name in 2013 is changing business models. The owner of Brand.com, which bought the domain name for $500,000 in 2013, is putting the domain name back on the market. ReputationChanger.com acquired the domain name in 2013 and rebranded as simply Brand.com. Now Brand.com is changing its business focus to a news-related business model (and corresponding name) and no longer needs Brand.com. The short, five letter .com domain has a number of potential uses. Before the current ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Takes A demeanour during Year Zero For The New gTLDs - Afnic published a report on the new gtlds and looked at “Year Zero” for the new extensions. The report covered, looking back at 2014, the fee or free business model, the valuation proposition and where the new gtlds are heading. Read the full report here From the report: 2014 ended with 470 gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in the root, including 39 using non-Latin characters, and 290 ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) of which 41 used  non-Latin characters. In all, there were no less ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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Start Spreading the .News – Rightside Acquires One of the Most Attractive New … - the crowd in a big way. Everyone is touched by news in one way or another - people want to hear and see it, businesses and organization want to spread it and the web is the most efficient way ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 on Losing New … - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
 
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Highlights from Rightside Q4 financier call - Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) reported results today. Rightside reported fourth quarter and full year financials for 2014 after the bell today. The company had earnings of $1.5M for Q4, and adjusted EBITDA of $0.6M. For the year it turned in a net loss of ($1.9M) and adjusted EBITDA of ($3.1M). I just listened to the conference call, and here are some of the highlights from the quarter: The company got $7.8 million for losing new top level domain name auctions. In Q3 it reported $8.6 ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Wins New gTLD .BEAUTY Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding … - L’Oréal has won the new gTLD .Beauty beating Donuts and Minds + Machines. We reported earlier today that L’Oréal also won the rights to operate .Hair L’Oréal was also the sole applicant for .skin and .makeup so L’Oréal has basically cornered the new gTLD market for that vertical. Interestingly the company withdrew its .Brand application for .LOREAL but who needs that when you own all the keywords in the vertical. If your wonder no one applied for .Cosmetics         ... read more ...
 
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European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a lot of them use a .io extension - Tech Crunch did a story on Entrepreneur First which is a European accelerator for start-ups along the lines of the popular Y Combinator. Entrepreneur First is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London. We select purely on the basis of technical talent, so you can apply before you have a team or an idea. Our intensive 7-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 100 days of your startup’s life. ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTLD Apps - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...