Category Archives: EN

Tue 20th October 2015
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Verizon wins initial .Porn domain name dispute - Verizon.porn, for all of your telecom porn needs. Verizon has won a cybersquatting dispute with the registrant of Verizon.porn, the first such dispute to be resolved since the .Porn domain name became available in June. A New York real estate agent registered the domain name on June 4, the day both .Porn and .Adult were offered for sale by registrars. Verizon apparently did not take advantage of being able to register domain names matching its trademark before the domains became available to the ... read more ...
 
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Afilias is Likely "One and Done" with 101Domain Acquisition - Company doesn’t expect to acquire other domain name registrars any time soon. Last Friday, domain name registrar 101Domain disclosed that it had been acquired by domain name registry Afilias. It’s Afilias’ first acquisition of a domain name registrar. An Afilias spokesperson told Domain Name Wire that the company does not plan to acquire any other registrars in the near future, so don’t expect a big roll up from the company. Although it is the company’s first acquisition, Afilias already ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2015
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Another Great One Word .Com Domain Name; Raisin.com Sells -   The domain name Raisin.com just sold for what is as of now,  an undisclosed amount. The domain which had an original creation date of 1995 was owned by a  “T Clayton” of San Fransisco for what seems to be just a few years. The domain name came out of Sedo Escrow and the new owner of the domain is SavingGlobal GmbH of Berlin whose website is SavingGlobal.com According to Bloomberg.com, “SavingGlobal GmbH operates as an online marketplace for foreign fixed deposits in Germany. The company’s ... read more ...
 
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5 Expired Domain Tips with Jonathan Tenenbaum – DNW Podcast #55 - Learn how to buy the best expiring domain names. Want to master the expired domain name game? NameJet GM Jonathan Tenenbaum discusses how NameJet acquires expired domain names, and provides 5 tips to crush it with NameJet. Also: ICANN gets tipsy in Dublin, Afilias acquires 101Domain and University of Cambridge gets schooled about trademarks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play below or download to begin listening. (Listen to previous ... read more ...
 
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Sometimes Shorter Is Not Better: StreetHub.com Rebrands to Trouva.com -   TechCrunch.com published a post about a UK startup, Streethub.com raising another $2.4 Million in funding. StreetHub.com “helps independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online,  including offering ‘click and collect’ functionality via its mobile app and 90 minute local delivery”. “It’s also launching a new brand and consumer-facing offering: Trouva is an e-commerce site that promises to curate and make available items to buy from its 350-strong network of independent ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Law, .Abogado - Two restricted legal top level domain names become available today. Minds + Machines releases the highly-anticipated .law and .abogado (Spanish for lawyer) domain names today. There’s no room for speculation in these domain names unless you are a lawyer. You have to be a licensed lawyer to register the domain names. The domains aren’t cheap, either. At NamesCon last year, Minds + Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering said the wholesale price of .law domains would be about $150. It’s possible that’s ... read more ...
 
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There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars - During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah,  the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars in the world. ICANN has accredited 579 domain name registrars just since the last ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires 53, which was held June 21-25, 2015. ICANN has also dropped the requirement that a domain registrar carry liability insurance which should great increase domain registrars ... read more ...
 
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Australian domain marketplace adult in arms over Netfleet behest scandal - Australia gets its own type of “Halvarez”. The Australian domain community is still reeling from a controversy that emerged in late September. Haven’t heard? Then you’re not an Aussie. But if private bids are shared to attract competing bidders, then that matters everywhere. The Context In order to understand this upside-down story, let’s visit the “Land Down Under”. You’ll want to pack this background info: Australia’s ccTLD is .AU – most commonly registered as .COM.AU. Outside ... read more ...
Sat 17th October 2015
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HopScotch.com Hit With UDRP By Owner of HopScotch.fr - This is a weird one for sure. A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Hopscotch.com The Complainant is listed as the Hopscotch Group, which is a french PR company whose website is on the domain name hopscotchgroupe.com The company also owns the domain Hopscotch.fr, but that domain isn’t even being forwarded to the company main website at hopscotchgroupe.com As you can see the word “groupe” in the company’s URL is spelled the “french way” with an “e” at the end. However according ... read more ...
Fri 16th October 2015
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IAC To Spin Off Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid.com + 42 More To IPO Of The Match Group (MTCH) - IAC/Interactive (IACI) is spinning off 45 sites including Match.com, Okcupid.com and Tinder into a new public company called the The Match Group which filed for an IPO Friday, applying to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker “MTCH.” The company has filed to raised up to $100 million in the IPO. According to the S-1, The Match Group had 4.7 million paying subscribers worldwide at the end of the third quarter. The company is reporting trailing twelve months revenue of $1 billion ending June ... read more ...
 
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2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS - This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”)  in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (“URS”) the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for both those organizations we can see what the case loads in terms of decisions in 2014 for UDRP and URS ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: Total Number Domination! - Numeric domains take the lead in this week’s Expired Domain Report. A few days ago, while reviewing the month of September, I measured China’s contribution to high-end sales at NameJet. (Hint: It wasn’t small.) And in my previous weekly article, I discussed the ongoing appetite for 6-digit .COMs and other numerical domains that “traders are obsessed with” these days. Well, folks, the market is gluttonous. This past week, between NameJet and SnapNames, numerics took up three out ... read more ...
 
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Unblock.com Saved In UDRP But Panelist Should Have Found Reverse Domain Hijacking - NetProtect, Inc. just lost its attempt to grab the domain name unblock.com in a UDRP in a silly case that should have resulted in a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) but the panelist was IMHO lazy and decided just to throw out the case. Calvin A. Hamilton was the sole Panelist for the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) who rejected Complainant argument that it had acquired unregistered common law trademark rights. “In order to acquire rights in an unregistered trademark, Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Sedo GreatDomains auction launches with 2 and 3 minute .coms - One domain name has a $425,000 bid already, but hasn’t met its reserve. If you want to have a successful domain name auction these days, stuff it full of two and three character .com domain names. Sedo just started its monthly GreatDomains auction, and short domains are attracting all of the attention. At the top of the list is EZ.com, which has two bids up to $425,000 and a reserve range between $500,000 and $1 million. Two three character domains have already hit their reserves: DCR.com is at ... read more ...
 
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Afilias acquires 101Domain - Hello, vertical integration. Domain name registry Afilias has acquired domain name registrar 101Domain. Afilias, which manages the .info and .mobi domain names as well as a bunch of new TLDs, now owns a registrar known for carrying every domain name under the sun. 101Domain made a name for itself by carrying just about every domain name, regardless of how challenging their requirements. One of the reasons I quote pricing for new TLDs at 101Domain is because I can be sure they’re carrying it; I ... read more ...
 
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Twitter is meddlesome in a second turn of new gtld applications - TrademarksandBrandsOnline.com published an article that Twitter plans to participate in the second round of new gtld expansion. Stephen Coates is trademark counsel for the social media giant, he told the website that he doesn’t know exactly which extensions they would apply for, but that he would imagine .Twitter being high on the list. Interestingly Coates said the jury was still out on whether or not there are marketing benefits by using a new gtld, but he did think there were other benefits ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2015
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Blackstone's B2R Holdings Rebrands As Lending.com - B2R Holdings, a portfolio company of a Blackstone Group (LPBX ) , announced today that B2R rebranded itself as Lending.com and said it hoped to extend $10 billion in loans over the next three years. According to Jason Hogg, the  CEO of Lending.com, expects to help facilitate $10 billion in loans in the next three years. Lending.com was founded with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities. Blackstone, is the world’s biggest private-equity firm with more than $330 billion under management. The ... read more ...
 
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Tim Schoon Auctioned off 118 4 letter.coms on 4.cn - Tim Schoon of PEJ.com auctioned off 118 four letter .com domains on 4.CN. The auction ended yesterday, some wondered why Tim auctioned them all off on the same day ? There was a discussion about it on Namepros and Tim gave his rationale. I even thought a smart trader would control the supply to get maximum price out of each sales. I’m so wrong. Seems to me the bubble is not ripe yet. I held this auction at 4.cn today. There are some very large buyers out there who do not bother bidding ... read more ...
 
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How we did on a .Miami domain name launch - .Miami is growing quickly, and I’m pleased to have picked up a number of good domains in it. The .Miami top level domain name launched on October 2. It’s off to a good start, with nearly 10,000 domain names in the zone file. It’s growing at a good clip, too. I’m a big fan of geos and went relatively “big” on .miami compared to other domain names. (Granted, big for me in new TLDs isn’t all that much.) I pre-ordered 35 domain, including a couple that had small annual premiums, with several ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board to rethink .Hospital preference subsequent week - .Hospital has been on life support since bad objection decision. .Hospital is on life support.ICANN’s Board of Directors will consider the fate of a .Hospital top level domain name when it meets on Sunday. It’s a chance for the board to right a wrong. .Hospital was killed off after two of three panelists agreed with a Limited Public Interest Objection filed by the Independent Objector. The panelists disregarded the guidelines and essentially created their own standard for if .hospital should ... read more ...
 
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University of Cambridge withdraws heading plea after UDRP loss - Tail between the legs. University of Cambridge has withdrawn a challenge to a trademark application for a Cambridge.com logo after losing a UDRP for the same domain name. As I reported earlier this week, a UDRP panel admonished the 800-year-old university for making some incorrect statements in a UDRP for Cambridge.com. It seems the UDRP and trademark opposition were filed as a way to get the domain name. Once the UDRP failed so miserably, the university backtracked. John Berryhill represented domain ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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TLD Podcast #23: Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux & more - Gennady Golovkin–David Lemieux takes center stage on this week’s podcast. Diego and I break the fight down from every conceivable angle and debate whether Lemieux can pull off a shocking upset of GGG. Viktor Postol and Adrien Broner’s big wins are also up for discussion, as are the slew of sickening knockouts from last weekend. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of this week’s episode: Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux is finally upon us. But will the fight live up to its lofty expectations? ... read more ...
 
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Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter .Com Domain Sale Today - The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy.  However the servers did not change and the domain was registered at Godaddy while it was owned by VS Media, Inc. VS.com as recently as 2006 was an adult site Video Secrets according to Screenshots.com More recently the domain was used to sell Customized Live Video Web Communication The domain name’s whois ... read more ...
 
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There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold -   The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance Technologies, who owned the domain since at least 2001. The domain has an original creation date of March 3rd, 1989. The buyer is Xu Caijun of Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co., Ltd. of HangZhou, China. If you’re asking how would anyone know that the domain name was for sale? All you had to do is check out the domain PT.com It looks like ... read more ...
 
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Calvin Harris wins cybersquatting explain for CalvinHarris.com - Famous musician gets .com domain name. DJ and Taylor Swift boyfriend Calvin Harris has won rights to the domain name CalvinHarris.com through a World Intellectual Property Organization proceeding. Harris, whose real name is Adam R. Wiles, successfully argued that the owner of the domain name was cybersquatting. His attorneys sent a demand letter to the domain name owner and didn’t hear back. The domain name led to a parking page, which apparently also offered the domain name for sale for $49,999. Harris’ ... read more ...