Category Archives: EN

Fri 26th June 2015
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ICANN Mar 2016 Meeting To Be In Morocco, Oct 2016 In Puerto Rico - The ICANN Board selected locations to hold its meetings for March 2016 and October 2016 before heading out of the ICANN Buenos Airs meeting. The March 2016 ICANN meeting (ICANN 55) with be held in Marrakech, Morocco which had already been selected for the site for the March 2016 ICANN Meeting after ICANN relocated the meeting scheduled for March 2014 to Singapore during the outbreak of Ebola. The Marrakech meeting will be held March 5-10 2016 ICANN announced it was going to hold its October 2016 ... read more ...
 
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Wirecard nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Big payments company abused UDRP policy to try to get valuable domain name for cheap. Publicly traded payments company Wirecard AG has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Boon.com. The company, which has a market capitalization of 4.37 billion euros, filed a UDRP after failing to acquire the domain name Boon.com for a future payments services brand. In its complaint, Wirecard mentioned that it has been around since 1999 and had 2013 turnover of about a ... read more ...
 
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Dot Bank Launches to Clamp Down on Banking Fraud - The fTLD Registry has officially launched the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .bank into general availability, promising it will provide a more trusted and secure location for banking services online. The gTLD is set to become the new home for most of the world’s major banks, managed by a registry owned, operated and governed by banks, insurance companies and their trade associations. The idea is that consumers will be able to more easily trust communicating online with a .bank entity thanks ... read more ...
 
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No Luck of The .Irish; Has Less Than 500 Registrations After 1st Day Of Availability - There was no luck for the Irish for the launch of the new gTLD .Irish Including those domain names registered in the Sunrise period for trademark holders, the landrush period for those who were willing to pay an extra fee for early access to domains and the first day of general availability which was the 24th, the current zone files reflect less than 500 domain registrations The official count stands at just 478 registered domain names with almost 50% of those being registered at Canadian registrar ... read more ...
 
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Is a “YourBrand.sucks” Domain Name Worth $2500 per Year? - The sunrise period for "dot sucks," the new generic top level domain (gTLD), opened on March 30, 2015 and ends on June 19, 2015. During the sunrise period, the suggested retail price per .sucks domain name registration is $2,499 annually. Thereafter, the price remains unchanged for companies that were diligent enough to register their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) in order to protect them as to newly-introduced gTLDs. Starting in September 2015, the owners of marks registered ... read more ...
Thu 25th June 2015
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Alison Simpson - Is .SUCKS Pricing Model Gaining Traction With Other Registries? Until the launch of the New gTLD Program, TLD launches were relatively straightforward. They generally consisted of a Sunrise Period, a Landrush Phase, and then General Availability. We would see the occasional Grandfather Phase or "Founders" program, but all in all, launches were pretty standard and straightforward. Things started to change with the launch of the new gTLD program. more» ... read more ...
 
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GAC Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Governmental Advisory group has issued its Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina outlining its activities for the week and suggestions for the ICANN Board: The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the week of the 20th of June 2015. Sixty nine (69) GAC Members attended the meeting and nine (9) Observers. Here are the highlights: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) to ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: C9.com, BRRR.com and More Domains - Domain Movers is a series where we highlight newly registered, purchased and domain names that are simply moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies. These are often early discoveries. Lets get going with today’s list of domain name movers: Google Inc. registered several new domain names, starting off with GoogleChromeStick.com (Google has Chromecast which is a “stick”) Homero also points out the Asus Chromebit, which is a new Chrome Stick coming out soon, GoogleDeepMind.net, ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Growth Trajectory Remains Strong: Time to Hold? – Analyst Blog - We updated our research report on VeriSign Inc. VRSN on Jun 24, 2015. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long run. Additionally, VeriSign has significant growth opportunities in its network security products. The renewal of the .com contract and price hikes for the .com and .net domain names drive VeriSign's top line. VeriSign increased .net fees to $6.79 ... read more ...
 
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Actor John Stamos Gets His .Com in UDRP; Panel Finds Whois Privacy Corp. A Co-Serial Cybersquatter - Actor John Stamos just won rights to his matching .com domain name JohnStamos.com in a UDRP. David E. Sorkin as the sole Panelist wasted little time awarding the domain name to the actor from Ryan Foo who has lost over 100 UDRP’s and has been recoginzed by many UDRP panels as a serial cybersquatter However Mr. Sorkin went even farther finding that the “proxy service”, “Whois Privacy Corp” which operates under whoisprivacycorp.com, was “a co-conspirator with Mr. Foo and is also a recognized ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Growth Trajectory Remains Strong: Time to Hold? - You are being directed to ZacksTrade, a division of Zacks Company and licensed broker-dealer. ZacksTrade and Zacks.com are separate but affiliated companies. The web link between the two companies is not a solicitation or offer to invest in a particular security or type of security. ZacksTrade does not endorse or adopt any particular investment strategy, any analyst opinion/rating/report or any approach to evaluating individual securities.If you wish to go to ZacksTrade, click OK. If you ... read more ...
 
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GAC Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Governmental Advisory group has issued its Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina outlining its activities for the week and suggestions for the ICANN Board: The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the week of the 20th of June 2015. Sixty nine (69) GAC Members attended the meeting and nine (9) Observers. Here are the highlights: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) to ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #14: Broner-Porter, David Lemieux, Andre Ward & Timothy … - In this episode, Diego and I recap David Lemieux‘s firefight with the ultra game Hassan N’Dam. We weigh the pros and cons of Lemieux facing Gennady Golovkin imminently, and consider the hard-hitting Lemieux’s very bright future. We also recap Shawn Porter‘s victory over Adrien Broner and discuss how these two talented Americans are heading in opposite directions. Will Porter land the coveted Floyd Mayweather fight? And will Broner ever develop into a truly elite fighter? Andre Ward made ... read more ...
 
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Dot XYZ Featured in BizJournals L.A. - “XYZ is the last three letters of the alphabet. It’s really kind of natural and instinctive to me that you end the alphabet with XYZ, you should end a domain name the same way.” Negari’s company is targeting the “next-generation Internet user — that small business that’s coming online for the first time or startup,” he said. “They’re looking for a good, memorable short name.” Other prominent .xyz users include Place.xyz, the rebranded home of the Lady Gaga-backed Backplane, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Responds To Fees Charged On Autism.Rocks - We wrote about the domain name Autism.Rocks selling for $100,000 the other day and our interview with the Seller of the domain how was unhappy to learn he was charged by Sedo 15% fee for acting as the escrow agent. The Seller and Buyer independently of Sedo on the domain, then went to Sedo to handle the escrow. Today Semra Koerner, the Manager Global PR Communication for Sedo.com sent us an email basically saying that the seller didn’t properly identify that he only needed escrow services. It ... read more ...
 
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Two Founding Members of Minds + Machines Re-join a Board. - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), announced today that two founding members David Weill and Guy Elliott will re-join the Boardas non-exec directors. Antony Van  Couvering, the chief executive, said: “We are delighted that both Guy and David have accepted the board’s invitation to re-join the board. “They bring a close understanding of the investment community, both in London and internationally, and are personally invested in the company. “We believe they will complement the industry and operational ... read more ...
 
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Voting starts in Verisign .Com Contest: See a videos - Winners make their cases in videos. Voting has opened to pick the grand prize winner in Verisign’s Internet Official contest. The fifteen winners so far each received $5,000. The grand prize winner will pick up a cool $30,000. Each of the winners was asked to create a video about why they picked their domain name. I just watched all fifteen, and I have to say there’s a wide gap in quality. But voting won’t just be about which video is better…I suspect social media promotion will win the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo responds about Autism.rocks sale - Company explains why the customer ended up paying a marketplace commission rather than for escrow. Earlier this week Sedo announced that it handled a $100,000 transaction for Autism.rocks. It’s a big price for a domain under a new top level domain name. Both the buyer and seller are involved with advocacy for people with autism. It was made more interesting by the seller’s allegation that Sedo steered him to a full transaction at a 15% commission rather than just an escrow at 3%. You can read ... read more ...
 
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Russian Govt Blocks The Way Back Machine: Still Sure The US Should Give Away ICANN? - According to GlobalVoicesOnline.org, the Russian government has blocked the Wayback Machine, which allows users to view archived webpages to see how domain sites looked like in the past. According to the website Rublacklist.net (a censorship-monitoring project operated by the Russian Pirate Party), the entire domain and IP address for the Internet Archive was added on June 23, 2015, to Russia’s official registry of banned websites. The decision to ban the Internet Archive appears to be the work ... read more ...
 
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Auction for qiche.com domain name closes during $2 million + - An auction for “Car” in Mandarin Pinyin has closed for a staggering amount. An auction for qiche.com, which means “car” in Mandarin Pinyin, has closed for more than $2 million on Chinese domain trading platform eName. The auction closed just after 10 am EDT today with 485 bids and a final price of 12.85 million yaun. That’s equivalent to 2.07 million USD. There were 485 bids in the auction, and it was extended multiple times thanks to bids being placed within the final five minutes of ... read more ...
 
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Who should own the gTLD .Amazon domain? - When new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) became available it was almost a given that large global companies would apply for their own domains. For instance it would be no surprise to learn that eBay wanted the domain .eBay and could potentially offer you a unique URL to your eBay shop in the format www.YourUserID.eBay. Likewise it’s no surprise that Amazon applied for the gTLD .Amazon and why wouldn’t they? They’re a big enough company and could set up domains such as prime.amazon, ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350% – Virtual - LogicBoxes empowered the Registry to take complete control of its distribution network and Lexpand the .MN namespace. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 25, 2015 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. The internet infrastructure in Mongolia was still in its ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350% - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 25, 2015 --(PR.com)-- LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry.The internet infrastructure in Mongolia was still in its nascent stages 10 years ago. With only 2 Registrars active in the region and about 3,300 domains in the namespace, the .MN ... read more ...
Wed 24th June 2015
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This is Why People Hate ICANN: GNSO Resolution for Next round of New gTLD’s - The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) just sent me over this resolution concerning the next round of new gTLD’s which it seemed to just pass. Read through it a few times. I have no idea what it says and I’m a lawyer For me it means nothing, just a lot of noise Last year we predicted the soonest we would see a 2nd round of new gTLD’s open is in four years, 2018. I think we are good with our prediction Here is the resolution Feel free to tell me what the hell it means: 4. Request for ... read more ...
 
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Dot Irish Domain Names Available Worldwide – Virtual - From June 25, 2015, Irish people everywhere can register Dot Irish domain names when General Availability registration begins. (PRWEB) June 24, 2015 Irish organisations and people everywhere can register Dot Irish domain names following the start of General Availability registration on June 25 at 16.00 UTC. Dot Irish is the new top-level domain (TLD) that makes it possible to use the word ‘Irish’ after the dot in a web address in the same way .com or .net are used. For Irish organisations ... read more ...