Category Archives: EN

Wed 21st January 2015
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Team TLD’s Ascent to the Top of American Motocross - Supermoto came to America in 2003, as the Red Bull AMA Supermoto Championship. The discipline, a combination of motocross and superbike racing, had gained serious popularity in Europe, and the decision to bring it to America via an AMA championship seemed logical, since Americans love their motorcycle racing. In 2004, Troy Lee and Jeff Ward (a seven-time AMA MX and SX champ) set out on an effort to compete for the newly-formed Supermoto championship, and their success was decisive and immediate. ... read more ...
 
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SearchMetrics.com "The Rising and Falling Stars in Google US - Search Metrics takes a look each year at who fell in the rankings and who saw their website rise on Google. In addition to just looking at winners and losers they look into why some sites succeeded while other sites took a dip. If you are interested in SEO the article is very much worth reading to see their analysis and what affects ranking trends both short and long term. From the article: As another year in SEO ends, it’s time to take a look back at the rising and the falling stars in SEO Visibility ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holders Make Cybersquatting Profitable By Failing To Act: BentleyMotorCars.com 9 Years Old - We have mentioned before that when it comes to the levels of  cybersquatting trademark holders have to share the blame by creating the ecosystem for high profits for those registering bang on trademark infringing domains and allowing them to be very profitabily parked for many year before taking action Today we see another one such case. Bentley Motors Limited just won a UDRP on BentleyMotorCars.com which is they way they are frequently described.  A Google search for the term returns a ton of ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Introduces Top Level Domain for Real Estate and Retail - KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 21, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced the launch of .FORSALE, the third new Top Level Domain (TLD) to join Rightside's portfolio in 2015. Well positioned for real estate and retail, .FORSALE creates an ideal place for companies and sales professionals to build online brands and businesses. Today there are over two ... read more ...
 
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Investment organisation RVK intent in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on RVK.com - Company changed its brand last year, filed UDRP to get matching three letter domain name. They want the matching domain name, but would rather not pay for it.A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found investment advisory firm RVK (formerly R.V. Kuhns Associates, Inc.) guilty of engaging in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name RVK.com. The company, aided by law firm Tonkon Torp LLP, filed a UDRP against domain name owner Gregory Ricks. According to the decision, the ... read more ...
 
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22 End User Domain Name Sales - Recent domain buyers include TrueCar, HomeAway and a company that sells herbs for kids. Sedo handled 603 transactions last week for a total of $1 million in domain name sales. The top reported sale was BabyCity.com, which was sold to an herbal supplements company that sells a lot of products geared to kids. Another interesting sale is DrivenByCode.com, purchased by auto data company TrueCar. Without further ado, here’s a list of 22 end user domain name sales that took place on Sedo last week… (You ... read more ...
 
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The furious story about how a domain name CM.com was only registered - Verisign just allowed the reserved domain name CM.com to be registered. Here’s why. In 2013, the longtime registrant of CM.com lost his domain name. The domain name had been registered to Satoshi Shimoshita since 2004. Yet the domain name was deleted following a period in which the nameservers for the domain name pointed to NS1.SPAMSHUTDOWN.COM. That a registrar forcefully deleted an extremely valuable domain name not coming up for renewal is rather odd. But the story of CM.com has become even ... read more ...
 
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Short Interest of Rightside Group Ltd Drops by -27.8% - Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) reported a drop of 27.8% or 194,676 shares in its short interest. The short figure came in at 4.8% of the total floats. The average daily volume of 172,533 shares suggests that the days to cover 506,290 short positions, as on December 31,2014, will be 3. On December 15,2014, the short interest was 700,966 shares. Shares of Rightside Group Ltd (NASDAQ:NAME) ended the session in red amid volatile trading. The shares closed down 0.2 points or 2.93% at $6.62 with ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2015
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MaxHardcore.com sells for $10,100 - Just one bidder stepped up and outbid the $10,000 high bid placed in December, for MaxHardcore.com. The auction closed at $10,100 . Back at the end of December, Max Hardcore said he would be bidding on the domain. Today that changed, in an article for Xbiz he said: — Max Hardcore won’t be bidding on the domain name MaxHardcore.com, which goes up for auction later today at NameJet.com. The porn actor, producer and director who was convicted on obscenity charges and released several years ago said ... read more ...
 
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Panel Decides To "Terminate" UDRP On Telepathy's SDT.com W/Fed Case Pending + 1 Vote RDNH - 2 members of a 3 member UDRP decided to terminate a UDRP filed by SDT International limited company of Belgium (SDT) on the three letter .com, SDT.com from Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. who was represented by Wiley Rein LLP. The three member panel spit in its decision with 2 members voting to terminate the the proceeding since Telepathy has already filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaratory order that Telepathy’s registration of SDT.com did not violate the trademarks of SDT The third member ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1million led by BabyCity.com during $35,000 -

Over a past week, 603 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars

54% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings. 

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .coms: babycity.com at 35,000 USD
  • Top ccTLD: heg.es at 13,000 EUR
  • Top “other” TLD: sugar.net at 15,000 USD

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Pssst…Rightside expelled the name collision domain names - Many good domains on the list, but be prepared to pay a premium. While you were partying in Las Vegas at NamesCon last week, Rightside released its name collision domain names to the public. Sort of… As a bit of background, name collision domain names are ones that new top level domain operators had to hold back from registration at launch. The list includes domain names that, during a somewhat random window of time in history, received traffic. ICANN required the domain names to be held back for ... read more ...
 
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Land.com Gets A $850K Bid In RightoftheDot Extended Domain Auction: Now Over $1.1M In Bids - The domain name Land.com has gotten a verified bid of $850,000 in the RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference running on SnapNames.com The domain has a stated reserve of $1M-5MM but the fact that Snapnames.com took the bid means by its own rules than the bid represents at least 50% of the actual reserve price. There is now over $1.1 million dollars in bids. The auction does not close on SnapNames.com until February 5th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal ... read more ...
 
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MomAndMe.com spared in UDRP. Should have been RDNH? - Indian company should not have brought case. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled against Mahindra Mahindra Limited of India in its UDRP against the owner of MomAndMe.com. Even though the domain name owner didn’t respond, this case should have been a candidate for reverse domain name hijacking. The complainant claims rights dating as far back as 2007. The domain name owner appears to have registered the domain name in 2000. Case closed. More worrisome is how ... read more ...
 
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Theralase Files US Patent Application for Increased Targeting of Photo Dynamic … - [ACCESSWIRE] Toronto, Ontario / ACCESSWIRE / January 20, 2015 / Theralase Technologies Inc. ("Theralase") (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF: OTC Pink(R)) announced today that it has filed a provisional US patent application for "Transferrin Enhanced Photo Dynamic Therapy ("PDT") Cancer Destruction" significantly increasing the targeting of its PDT technology; hence, also the efficacy and safety of the treatment." Transferrin is a substance that naturally occurs in the body (iron-binding blood plasma glycoprotein) ... read more ...
 
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Architelos gets obvious for NameSentry - Certain aspects of abuse monitoring and management solution for top level domain names is now patented in the United States. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office granted U.S. patent number 8,938,801 (pdf) to Architelos today for “Managing domain name abuse”. The patent is related to the new TLD services company’s NameSentry product for monitoring domain name abuse within a top level domain name. As described in the patent and marketing materials, NameSentry is a sort of dashboard for managing ... read more ...
 
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Backend Provider Open Registry Acquired For Up To $22.6 Million -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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17 End User Domain Name Sales - Recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. I’m a week behind on end user domain name sales reports since I was busy at the NamesCon conference last week in Las Vegas. This report contains sales made at Sedo two weeks ago, when Sedo handled 593 transactions worth $1.6 million. Here’s the list. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report.) CapitalConfirmations.com $799 – Capital Confirmation, Inc. ... read more ...
 
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"The Donald" Goes After The Domain TrumpCard.com In A UDRP - Domain Trump has filed a UDRP on the domain name Trumpcard.com The domain name TrumpCard.com was first registered in 1998. While the Donald owns some casinos or at least has his name on them, the term Trump Card has a meaning well before the time there was a Donald Trump and well before he ever owned a casino. The domain is owned under privacy since 2011. The last time it was owned by someone not under privacy it was owned by a E. Dillon, of  London, and  a click on the page by the word Trumpcard.com ... read more ...
 
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Fiesta.com Hit With A UDRP -           The extremely generic domain name Fiesta.com has been hit with a UDRP filing. The complainant is Dean Simmons, Sàrl Heintz Van Landewyck S.à.r.l. which as the best as I can tell has a pending but not yet registered trademark on the term and is actually facing abandonment by April 2015. Del Monte foods  also has a recently filed trademark on the term Fiesta going all the way back to May 14th 2014. As for the domain name it’s registered under privacy at Moniker but was owned prior ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2015
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MaxHardcore.com With a High Bid Of $10K Sells Tomorrow on Namejet.com - The domain name MaxHardcore.com which we wrote about a few weeks ago is at auction at Namejet.com and will sell to the highest bidder which is at the moment $10,000. The closed domain name auction has 85 bidders (including myself who has no intention of bidding) has a high bid of $10,000 by bidder ID “chelsearam” There are only 2 other bidders at over $1,000 at this point,  which anyone in the domain industry will tell you doesn’t mean much with a day to go. The domain name was owned by the ... read more ...
 
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gTLD update: gTLD delegation sluggish after holiday season - ICANN has not started the new year off with a bang, delegating a mere four new gTLDs this January and only 11 in total since our last gTLD update. Those newly delegated gTLDs are: .fit .lat .kddi .bank .shriram .zuerich .flowers .ggee .sale .amerstadam .video Similarly, there are only a small number of gTLDs about to enter or in the sunrise phase this month. These gTLDs are on the horizon: Click here to view the table. And these are in sunrise now: Click here to ... read more ...
 
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51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A .Com: Next is .io - FINALISTSCrate.IO Vorarlberg, Austria Crate.IO has built a new breed of database to serve today’s mammoth data needs. Based on the familiar SQL syntax, Crate combines high availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design that allows you to query mountains of data in real-time, not batches. Crate.IO is easy to scale and simple to use.Hypori Austin, TX Hypori is an enterprise software company providing Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) – accessible from Android and iOS devices. ... read more ...
 
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The best domains in life are free? Freenom partners with ‘.gq’ -

A series of country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries offer domain name registrations giveaway of charge. The many famous instance is ‘.tk’, a ccTLD for Tokelau, a tiny organisation of Pacific islands located off a seashore of New Zealand.

This business indication of giveaway domain name registrations has enabled ‘.tk’ to turn a largest ccTLD in terms of series of…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Breaking: Domaining.com Is NOT Sold, Yet - On Friday the daily newsletter of Domaining carried this simple message: “”Game is over. Next week I will announce the new owner of Domaining.com” That one sentence that appeared on the top of the Domaining.com newsletter caused the domain blogosphere to blow up all weekend with posts about the “sale” of Domaining.com even leading to many bloggers and commentator guessing as to whom the buyer was. I reached out on to Saturday to Francois Carrillo who owns and operates Domaining.com to find ... read more ...