Category Archives: EN

Sat 12th September 2015
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Will .Film Prevent Squatting from Unofficial Third Parties ? - Will .film help in the battle against cybersquatting ? ScreenDaily.com published an article on the  Melbourne-based Motion Picture Domain Registry (MPDR) and their launch of .film, an extension dedicated exclusively to film content. From the article: The producers of Toronto selections February and Septembers Of Shiraz have already registered their official site with the suffix as the product is marketed to the industry as a potential anti-piracy device. Both hail from Nu Image / Millennium Films ... read more ...
 
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Apple Sued For Trademark Infringement Over "Ear Pods" - Plaintiff Direct Sound was started in November 2000 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Direct Sound is engaged in this business of manufacturing and selling audio headphones and related parts and accessories. Direct Sound owns the trademarks of “E.A.R.PODS” and “e.a.r.Pods.” Direct Sound uses the marks “E.A.R.PODS” and “e.a.r.Pods” on and in connection with its products. On September 8, 2012, Direct Sound filed Application Serial No. 85/724,049 (“‘049 Application”) seeking to federally ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2015
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Symantec/GeoTrust revokes some SSL certificates for .pw TLD - Symantec-owned certificate authority GeoTrust has revoked some SSL certificates for a small number of (unspecified) .pw domains. Digital certificates for addresses using the top-level domain are still available from other providers. Symantec said it will continue to offer organisations extended validation certificates for the .pw TLD even though the sale of regular digital certificate for the top-level domain has been put on hold. ... read more ...
 
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Veo.com Purchased By TD Ameritrade For $36K on NameJet.com Auction - Three letter domain name Veo.com has been acquired by TD Ameritrade, a domain name that was recently owned by New Ventures Services Corp according to whois records, prior to it selling for $36,100 on Namejet.com A company by the name of Veo International owned the domain name dating back to 2005 according to whois records and the past owner allegedly claims that he had his account “frozen from 2008 when i try to renewal i can’t, they tell me for reason security i do not know why, i try more time ... read more ...
 
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Making Progress: Why Progress.ly bought Progressly.com - “Github for business people” bought a new domain name to make it easier for people to discover its service. This is the second in a new Domain Name Wire series covering end users that buy domain names. Nick Candito is founder of Progressly, a company on a mission to improve business processes. The company started with the domain name Progress.ly, a popular domain name extension for startups. It’s actually Libya’s country code domain name. This past week, the company paid $8,750 to secure ... read more ...
 
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Launch Of The .Swiss Domain - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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Theralase Completes Clinical Protocol - Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - Theralase Technologies Inc. (“Theralase” or the “Company”) (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), a leading biotechnology manufacturer focused on commercializing medical technologies to eliminate pain and destroy cancer, announced today that it has completed the Clinical Protocol and Investigator’s Brochure detailing the application of its lead light activated Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”), TLD-1433 in the treatment of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (“NMIBC”).   Pending ... read more ...
 
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Huge feat for Domain Registrars and Parking companies in GoDaddy justice case - Case provides ammunition for domain name registrars and domain parking companies in cybersquatting claims. A court has found in GoDaddy’s favor in a long running cybersquatting battle brought by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The 128-page decision (pdf) has lots of findings that will be cited in cybersquatting lawsuits for years to come. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is responsible for The Oscars, formally known as the Academy Awards. It sued GoDaddy in 2010 ... read more ...
 
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Newly available ‘.tickets’ domain names acquired by global brands - .tickets’ is a new breed of top level domain (TLD) for the world of ticketing, owned by London-based start-up Accent Media. It creates a space where consumers feel safer buying tickets by providing powerful domain names that enable brands and rights holders to easily protect and develop their assets. The ‘.tickets’ domain names have been available only to pre-registered trademark holders as part of a so called ‘sunrise period’, the soft pre-marketing phase, since July 13, 2015.During its ... read more ...
 
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HIGH Movements Of 2 Letter .com Domains, Including FF.com And More Sold? - There have been A LOT of movements on 2 letter .com domain names the past two days starting on September 10, 2015 and continues into today, September 11, 2015, so I wanted to make you aware of the movements as some may be sold. The majority of movements detected include a “status” update in whois records, and this can indicate a domain name may have been “unlocked” for transfer and this can be an early indicator to a potential sale. FF.com, a domain name owned by Bank Of America has had a ... read more ...
 
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Tor Gets Its Own TLD Special-Use Domain at .onion - In a joint announcement, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) have agreed to recognize .onion as a special-use TLD (Top Level Domain). This doesn't mean you can register .onion domain names at your local money-hungry domain registrar, .onion being in the select company of other special-use domain names like .localhost, .local, .test, .invalid, .example, and the mother of all special-use domains, .arpa. Previously, .onion domain names only ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Wins 5 Year Case Against The Oscars (Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) - According to Variety.com, A federal judge ruled that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences (AMPAS) which owns and broadcast the The Oscars award failed to show that GoDaddy (GDDY) acted in “bad faith” with an intent to profit off of the Academy trademarks. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a 128-page opinion found that GoDaddy met its affirmative good faith safe harbor defense typically granted to registrars for domain name registered to customers According to Variety “The Academy ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Wins Court Case Most Thought They would lose - We have been tracking the battle between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a few years now. It was looking like Go Daddy was going to lose a case that could set a precedent for other ip holders. The Hollywood Reporter published an article tonight in which they deemed it a “surprising court loss” for the Academy. This battle has been going on for five years. From the article: In a cybersquatting case that lasted more than five years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name - No, the .onion top level domain (TLD) is not about parody news, it’s a way of accessing websites that run on the Tor (the onion router) network. The Tor network is   an Internet fixture that provides anonymity to users by bouncing connections across a wide network to thwart traffic analysis and surveillance. Tor is free, open source, and exists through the effort of volunteers who want to give anonymity and protection to people who need privacy. Wednesday, Jacob Appelbaum, computer security ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Assigns Tor’s .Onion TLD as Special-Use Domain Name - The Internet Engineering Task Force has approved a Draft RFC for "The .onion Special-Use Domain Name" by the Tor Project, the provider of online anonymity and privacy services. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), an ICANN department, last night officially placed .onion on the list. As a result, the .onion TLD will not be in the Internet DNS root and with appropriate proxy software installed, browsers can access sites with .onion addresses by sending the request through the network ... read more ...
 
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Namepros Live Auction is behind for a initial time in years and it's for a good cause - Namepros will be conducting a live auction this upcoming Monday to help fellow domain investor Rami Steitieh and his efforts to get the necessary treatment for his wife who is battling for her life. Rami has a fundraising page here which details everything he and his wife are dealing with. So far just over $3,100 has been raised. In addition to the live auction, a series of threaded auctions will be ongoing for names that probably won’t garner as much action in the rapid fire setting of a live ... read more ...
 
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Westland.com during $16.2k and other lapsed domain name sales - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. Our planet’s dirt must be popular. At NameJet last week, 3 of the top 4 auctions contained words like “earth”, “world”, and “land”. Let’s not read too much into that coincidence, though. Westland.com ($16.2k) is both a city in Michigan and a distillery in Seattle. EarthTech.com ($15.3k) could be an upgrade for solar gear; Florida sinkhole repair; Albuquerque landscaping; or Austin physicists researching gravity, cosmology, ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuit filed after Materia.com UDRP, and it's an engaging case - Michele Dinoia has cybersquatted in the past, but was Materia.com different? Michele Dinoia has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against California company Materia, Inc., after Materia won a UDRP for Dinoia’s domain name Materia.com. The lawsuit seeks to stay the transfer and seeks a finding reverse domain name hijacking. National Arbitration panelist Richard DiSalle found in Materia, Inc’s favor in a UDRP decision dated August 20. He ordered Dinoia’s domain name registrar, Name.com, ... read more ...
 
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"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For adult To $12,500 Each - Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn’t have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day 1 domain name registration is $10,000.  The retail price varies by domain name registrar but seems to be ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #20: Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto - Floyd Mayweather–Andre Berto is a major topic of discussion on this week’s podcast. We also preview the rest of the plethora of boxing action on tap for the coming weekend, and recap fights involving Austin Trout and Anthony Dirrell. — September top-10 pound-for-pound rankings —   In this episode, Diego and I break down Floyd Mayweather’s “farewell” fight, which is disappointingly coming against Andre Berto. We debate Mayweather’s legacy and a consider a slew of “what ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
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EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful—Not an Afterthought - The working group at Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number (ICANN) that has been tasked with designing a new domain registration database can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes to domain registration services. ICANN’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Registration Directory Services (EWG) issued a Preliminary Issue Report on Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services to Replace WHOIS in July, and EFF has submitted comments. Our bottom line ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user sales including a .XYZ domain name - Sedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% — slightly hire than usual — were “buy now” sales. Among the end user buyers were a site that connects bands to wedding gigs, a food sustainability organization, and some guy named Paul who bought Paul.xyz. (The abc.xyz effect continues!) Here’s a look at 17 end user purchases that took place at Sedo over the ... read more ...
 
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Over 200 LLLL.com Low Priced Domains Are in a 4.CN/ROTD Auction Closing Tomorrow - The RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction starts to close tomorrow morning Thursday September 10, at 8AM EST or 8PM Hong Kong time, over a staggered 4 hour time period with around 115 domain name closing each hour. We have looked at some great LL.com, NN.com, LLL.com, NNN.com domain names which has bids into the five, six and even seven figures and the 6 million in bids placed in domain names at auction but there are also over 200 LLLL.com domain names that have a reserve price of no more than $1,500 and ... read more ...
 
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How can we move liquidity to a domain name business? - Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domains sold at multiples and the current three letter .com craze. But for the most part and for most domains, there’s a complete lack of liquidity. Inefficient markets create opportunity, but they also make it difficult for market participants. A more ... read more ...