Category Archives: EN

Wed 24th December 2014
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Survey Of Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm … - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Survey Of Brand Strategies in a New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm In France - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era - Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France,  put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a lot of topics that brands face when dealing with the new namespace. I read the whole report and I think it is well worth your time to take a look at and bookmark to refer back to. From the report: A large majority of the surveyed companies (64.9%) say they are informed about the launch of several hundred new top-level domain ... read more ...
 
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Google’s Local Search Algorithm Is Rolling Out To UK, Canada, And Australia - Matt Southern wrote a piece on Search Engine Journal that Google will be expanding its local search to the UK,Canada and Australia. Back in August Search Engine Land called the local search update the Pigeon, Understanding the Pigeon Update At this time, Pigeon seems to only impact local search queries made in English within the United States. At first sight, Pigeon seems to give preference to local businesses over local brands. This is actually good news for small business owners who have a local, ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google to The New gTLD .Tours As Google Withdraws .Tour - Another indirect new gTLD contention set was resolved as Donuts won the new gTLD .Tours against Google’s application for .Tour. Google has withdrawn its application for .Tour which is applied for Donuts which applied for .Tours was put into a indirect contention set with Google’s application for .Tour At the end of the day Google withdrew its application for .Tour, leaving Donuts the only applicant for .Tours There will be no .Tour We do not have any information as to how the contention set was ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Google to The New gTLD .Tours As Google Withdraws .Tour - Another indirect new gTLD contention set was resolved as Donuts won the new gTLD .Tours against Google’s application for .Tour. Google has withdrawn its application for .Tour which is applied for Donuts which applied for .Tours was put into a indirect contention set with Google’s application for .Tour At the end of the day Google withdrew its application for .Tour, leaving Donuts the only applicant for .Tours There will be no .Tour We do not have any information as to how the contention set was ... read more ...
 
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V-V-V-Voom! and Not Much Else (Expired Domain Report) - Hi, Paul There are always competing factors to balance. In this case, I think GoDaddy is putting too much weight on a few people who complain and neglecting both the silent majority and the larger, long-term indirect benefits to the industry as a whole — which aren’t based on the misplaced anxieties of a few customers. That’s a matter of opinion, but I hope it will be debated. Did GoDaddy undertake any industry surveys before deciding to change its policy unilaterally? From my vantage point, ... read more ...
 
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Merry Christmas! Win giveaway coffee from Coffee.club - Here’s something nice to put under the tree. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! I hope you’re enjoying a relaxing holiday with family and friends. You may have heard last month about .Club’s deal with Bill McClure for Coffee.club. The registry sold the domain name to McClure (who also runs Coffee.org) for $100,000 as part of its Startup.club program. With this program, McClure will pay the domain off over 10 years and .Club will provide marketing support. .Club ... read more ...
Tue 23rd December 2014
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Merry Christmas Trademark Holders: 15 Year Old DirectorsChoice.com Lost In UDRP - Director’s Choice, LLP just won is a UDRP for the domain name directorschoice.com We read through the complaint the other day thought is was a no-brainier win for the domain holder, but as the opinion lays out it seems the three member panel thought it was a no-brainier win for the Trademark Holder. It seems the domain holder acted as his own attorney to respond to the complaint. Not a good idea people. The domain holder already let us know he will be filing a Federal Suit to stop the transfer. Here ... read more ...
 
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Md.Org Lawsuit Withdrawn: Domain Is Transferred - In April of 2013 Namejet.comm along with the Seller of the domain Privacy LLC, (Privacy), filed a lawsuit against several parties for non-payment of the winning bid. Ownership of the domain name MD.org transferred yesterday to Ari Goldberger, ESQwire.com PC Domain Attorney Trust Account I reached out to Namejet.com for comment who told me that “the lawsuit has been withdrawn and the parties are all satisfied with the outcome.” I reached out to the other parties involved and didn’t get any ... read more ...
 
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Tech.Co Covers .XYZ: “.Xyz is Staring Down .Com; This is How we Slay a Giant” - Tech.co just posted a article about .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in a story entitled; .Xyz is Staring Down .Com: This is How you Slay the Giant. Here are some of the more interesting quotes from the story by Daniel that I’m sure this story will get many in the domainer community going especially the headline. “I set out to really disrupt the name space and bring competition and choice to the marketplace. That’s what I’m about – bring a low cost alternative to .com and let people pick ... read more ...
 
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15 Year Old Geo Domain ParrotCay.com Saved In UDRP Registered 7 Years Before TM: No RDNH - A three panel UDRP decision rejected the complaint of Como Holdings USA, Inc. on the 15 year old domain name ParrotCay.com as well as ParrotCay.co which was registered on the first day of general availability by the owner of the .com, Sybaris LLC The decision was handed down by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (Kuala Lumpur Office) (the “Centre”). Its another case where in my opinion a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) should have been found. The domain name is 15 ... read more ...
 
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He Loves .LA! Page Howe Sets Up Shop on Hollywood Boulevard in Bid to … - Howe is using the aptly-named  IiLove.LA website to educate and inform local businesses, developers and companies about the .LA namespace, best practices ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s … - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks What’s Really New in a New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s Are Not Registered In .Com - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...
 
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After Winning 10 Uniform Rapid Suspensions in Dec. Nissan Loses Its 1st on Nissan.technology - Nissan Motors has just lost it first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding after winning ten URS in just December. Richard W. Hill, as Examiner declined to suspend the domain even though the domain holder failed to respond. The opinion is completely devoid of any reason of why the complaint was dismissed, or how it varied from the other 10 URS Complaints that won Nissan on new gTLD domain name. I mean there is not a word as to the reasoning behind the decision. All the examiner said was: ” ... read more ...
 
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PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings - According to a press release  Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari, one in Cyrillic, and one in simplified Chinese. Previously only available to qualified domain trademark holders, all interested companies, organisations and individuals can now ... read more ...
 
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.Club Passes .Berlin & Moves Into 2nd Place As The Most Registered New Domain Extension - .Club has just passed .Berlin and is now the second most registered new domain extension. According to ntldstats.com, .Club now has 156,821 domain names registered passing .Berlin which has 155,123 domain names registered. .Berlin offered free domain names for approximately 2 days and about 75,000 of the 155,000 domain names were registered for free. The .Club team have literally been traveling the world, several times over, during 2014. (In terms of disclosure our regular readers know that a consulting ... read more ...
 
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.Club Passes .Berlin & Moves Into 2nd Place As The Most Registered New … - .Club has just passed .Berlin and is now the second most registered new domain extension. According to ntldstats.com, .Club now has 156,821 domain names registered passing .Berlin which has 155,123 domain names registered. .Berlin offered free domain names for approximately 2 days and about 75,000 of the 155,000 domain names were registered for free. The .Club team have literally been traveling the world, several times over, during 2014. (In terms of disclosure our regular readers know that a consulting ... read more ...
 
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Addition of a top-level domain can make a trademark distinctive - FactsDecisionComment In an October 14 2014 decision, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that while the term 'SeLoger' on its own was descriptive in relation to real estate, it was distinctive when combined with the top-level domain (TLD) '.com'. Facts The claimant, Pressimmo On Line and SA Se Loger.com, was a group of companies operating the website www.seloger.com, the first French property website. The defendant, Janny B, was an estate agent based in the Paris suburbs. The claimant registered ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Joins Global Companies’ Hit By Cyber Hackers - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the internet regulator that manages the global top-level domain system (TLDs), last week joined a long list of major global companies that have been compromised by cyber hackers this year. The attack affected vital systems belonging to ICANN and accessed the system that manages the files with data on resolving specific domain names. ICANN said it is investigating a recent intrusion into its systems and believed a “spear phishing” ... read more ...
 
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Page Howe Opens Office In Los Angeles To Promote Adoption Of .La Domain Extension - According to a Press Release out today, my fellow Sherpa Page Howe, a “veteran domain name investor and educator, has been tapped to lead the effort to educate and encourage adoption of the .LA domain extension in and around Los Angeles and Southern California. ” “Domain names are the real estate of the Internet, and the .LA domain namespace is the exact location for online marketing in Los Angeles. .LA Domain names are available now at most major registrars, www.la and LaDomainNames.com. Page ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon registrations tip 600 - Next month’s domain name conference in Las Vegas will be a big event. Registrations for next month’s NamesCon domain name conference have topped 600, conference founder Richard Lau informed Domain Name Wire. Last year at this time, 336 tickets had been sold and the conference ended up with 572. Assuming the conference gets the last minute surge of registrations that are common at domain conferences, NamesCon could set a record for attendance at a domain investor-organized ... read more ...
 
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74% of new TLD registrations (SLD+TLD) not purebred in .com - Sounds like a fun experiment, however try to remember the IP location is only one of many factors that Google uses to produce any given results page. To truly see this for yourself, and see what Google displays for a “stranger”, you would also need to factor in the following: 1. WHO is searching. They can derive this from any active Gmail sessions you may have opened, or if you use Chrome, they know who you are, and what searches you’ve made from that login, even if you clear ... read more ...
 
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Interesting: A Domain of One’s Own during University of Mary Washington - Program helps students register their first domain name and create a web presence. When I started college in the mid-1990s, the web was really just getting off the ground. Websites contained lots of silly things, and most of us non-techies designed them using software like Frontpage or HotDog. Oh, and I had to dial-in to internet service. Email and webhosting were nascent. The university offered us an email address at the mail.utexas.edu domain name, and we could ... read more ...