Category Archives: EN

Mon 28th September 2015
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ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Releases Phase One Registrant Survey on the Domain Name Landscape / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. According to ICANN, the study demonstrates, among other things, that domain name registrants are more familiar with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) than general Internet ... read more ...
Sun 27th September 2015
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How Is Your Brand Handling the New gTLDs? - The following is a guest post by Mark Skoultchi, Principal, Catchword Branding The past two years have seen a dramatic expansion of domain-name alternatives. Before the rollout of hundreds of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that began in 2014, new businesses looking to secure a web address typically faced the gold-standard (but often expensive or unavailable) choice of .com or a country code TLD (ccTLD) co-opted to have meaning beyond its country of origin—like .ly, .me, .io or .tv. The ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Sat 26th September 2015
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Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story - DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as they were unhappy about the way the highest bidder conducted himself, who at the end offered the asking price ... read more ...
 
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20 year Old Bart.net Lost in UDRP to Owner of Bart.org & Bart.Gov - The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“Complainant”), which is known As BART and owns the domain Bart.org and Bart.gov, just won the rights to the domain name Bart.net The sole panelist Dennis A. Foster awarded that the domain name which was registered initially in 1995 and has been sold and resold by a number of entities until Respondent acquired the name in June 2015 where is now going to a non-resolving page. The panelist also took note that within days of acquiring the domain ... read more ...
 
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Blackjack.com UDRP Thrown Out With Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling - Complainant Cary Pinkowski, Darren Little, and Joe Whitney (together the “Complainant”), which were represented by Eric Misterovich of Revision Legal, Michigan, USA, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Blackjack.com The three member UDRP panel of Sandra J. Franklin, Dawn Osborne and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC  quickly dismissed the complaint finding that the Complainants which previously owed a company, Hanger Holdings Limited, which previously ... read more ...
 
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Volkswagen registers "sucks" and "blows" domain names - Here come the defensive domain name registrations… This week I wrote about how Volkswagen registered a number of domain names related to its diesel emissions scandal. The domains, such as VWdieselinfo.com, were likely registered to disseminate information about recalls. While those domain names weren’t defensive, the company is now going on the defensive with a handful of domain name registrations. Here are some domain names the company registered yesterday: VWBlows.com VWDieselBlows.com VWDieselreall.com ... read more ...
 
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DotHealthy_IDN TLD Launches Sunrise Period - HONG KONG, Sept. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Stable Tone Limited, the operator of the new DotHealthy_IDNtop-level domain, today announced the launch of Sunrise for the DotHealthy_IDN new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Sunrise period will last 30 days, starting from September 22 and ending on October 22, 2015. According to theInternational Monetary Fund in December2014, Chinasurpassed the US in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP), becoming the most prominent ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2015
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New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447 - Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses  which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don’t know much about has 447 registrations All of these numbers include Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and any landrush or any Early Access periods ... read more ...
 
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The new and softened Expired Domains Report! - Now with SnapNames, too. Domains expire all over the place, day in day out. Some expirations are shadowed by backorders, which can lead to auctions. Depending on the TLD, the registrar, and – yes – even chance, those auctions may take place at NameJet or at another venue … like SnapNames, which will be contributing sales data to these reports henceforward. Scroll down, and say hello! Some readers may remember that, until last December, most of the results I reported in these articles came from ... read more ...
 
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InternetX Lambo Races to First Place - Car finishes first…at first. This past weekend the InternetX race team had strong podium finishes at the ADAC GT Masters in Zandvoort. InterNetX Reiter Engineering had two cars (initially) place in first and third place. Here’s a picture: Unfortunately, after the race, a 30 second penalty was inflicted for a breach of rules after the safety car phase. I’m not entirely sure what that means. But I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that .Club CEO Colin Campbell was seen running around throwing ... read more ...
 
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.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD's -   The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August. I ... read more ...
 
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Ashley Madison takes down WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com - Arbitration panel awards domain name to dating site owner. Avid Dating Life Inc, the company that operates the AshleyMadison.com site for affair dating, has successfully convinced an arbitration panelist that it should get the domain name WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com. Avid Dating Life filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that the registrant of the domain name was cybersquatting. Panelist John Swinson agreed. The domain name was registered to someone listed as “Calico ... read more ...
 
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DomainSherpa publisher invests in domain investment height Efty - Deal will help Efty gain exposure. Michael Cyger, publisher of DomainSherpa, has invested in domain name investment platform Efty. In addition to the investment, Cyger will work with the company to build and promote the service. Think of Efty as a control center for your domain name business. After uploading a list of domains to the service, you can track renewals, parking revenue and sales. You can also set up landing pages for your domains through Efty, giving you more control over “for sale” ... read more ...
 
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In a Rare Loss; Philip Morris Loses UDRP On New gTLD Domain Marlboro.Party - Philip Morris just lost a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name marlboro.party The disputed domain name was registered on February 18, 2015 and the domain owner represented himself in the suit and claimed he registered this domain and hundreds of other as a Geographic domain such as Marlboro, New jersey rather than anything to do with the cigarette brand. Here are the highlights: The Complainant contends that the Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith with full knowledge ... read more ...
 
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Adidas Announces "Sport Infinity" Zero Waste, Didn't Secure Domain & It's Cheap - Adidas announced a new zero-waste sporting project, made of a “inexhaustible 3-D super-material” that would prevent the products from ever being thrown away. The name of it is Sport Infinity. Interestingly, Adidas has yet to secure the matching domain name: SportInfinity.com,  is listed for sale on a buy now basis for just $1,999 on GoDaddy.com According to the article: “Sport Infinity, its plan for a new breed of sporting goods that will never be thrown away. Instead, soccer players will ... read more ...
 
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N+1 Singer Reaffirms "corporate" Rating for Minds + Machines Group (MMX) - N+1 Singer restated their corporate rating on shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) in a research report released on Tuesday morning, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. In other news, insider Elliott,Guy bought 650,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 23rd. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, for a total transaction of £52,000 ($80,732.81). Shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.50 ... read more ...
 
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Elliott,Guy Acquires 650000 Shares of Minds + Machines Group Stock (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) insider Elliott,Guy bought 650,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 23rd. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, for a total transaction of £52,000 ($80,732.81). Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.50 on Friday. The company’s market cap is GBX 71.06 million. Minds + Machines Group has a 52 week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52 week high of GBX 12.50. The stock has a 50 day moving ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2015
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Male encouragement association nailed for RDNH over Maximize.com - Nucell, LLC, seller of a “male enhancement” product, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Maximize.com A three person Czech Arbitration Court panel wrote a scathing finding of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH), and it was warranted. The owner of the domain name bought it in 2008 for $10,000. The complainant, which may not have been an active company at the time, started harassing the domain name owner a few years later, according to the decision. It doesn’t ... read more ...
 
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Blog: Maintaining Control of Your Brand Among 1200 New gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Co. Registers 44 Domains Calling Donald Trump a Bully Among Other Things - Symform, Inc. which was acquired by Quantum Corporation for $500,000 in 2014, registered 44 domain names at corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor according to whois records yesterday, all relating to US presidential candidate Donald Trump in less than a flattering fashion. Quantum Corporation is a publicly traded company on NYSE: QTM Qauntum has a market cap of $207 Million. Both Symform and Quantum seem to be in the cloud storage business. Donald Trump is a registered trademark Trump is also ... read more ...
 
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Maintaining control of your brand among 1200 new gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the right ... read more ...
 
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1&1's new .com promotional price: Free - Forget 99 cents, these domains are now free. Domain name registrars often use discounted prices to get new customers. This is especially the case with their Google Adwords ads, where registrars frequently offer .com domains as loss leaders to get a new customer. 11 has been particularly aggressive, offering $.99 cent .com domain names on its site and in search ads. (The company has a history of investing up front for new customers. It launched with multi-page ads in huge publications promoting free ... read more ...
 
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Trademark protection patterns in the new gTLDs environment: an infographic - Tim Lince The ongoing gTLD rollout has had a significant impact on online trademark protection strategies, with trademark counsel grappling with new rights protection mechanisms and the question of how to stretch budgets to ensure that brand integrity is maintained. Therefore, to mark the release of ICANN’s revised Rights Protection Mechanism Review report, ... read more ...
 
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NameDrive owner rising new startup in Austin - Greg Manriquez launching Videotape app. NameDrive founder Greg Manriquez, who sold the domain parking company to KeyDrive, is working on his next startup. Videotape is an app that allows you to easily add your own video or audio to another video and share it. There are a number of interesting use cases for this, including adding commentary to a video and sharing it on a blog or social media, or adding a short promotional message to a video. Manriquez is self-funding the startup, which has an office ... read more ...