Category Archives: EN

Sat 20th June 2015
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What You Need To Know About .Sucks Domain Names - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like Google ... read more ...
 
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Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn - Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com being the most famous. Moore was eventually arrested. From Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com, pleaded guilty [PDF] to unauthorized access to a computer, aiding and abetting ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015 … - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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Stages.com Sold In Jan for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week - Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for a trademark last week. The UDRP was filed by Foundation Fitness LLC which filed a trademark on the term “Stages” way back on June 12, 2015. Oh by the way that was just 7 days ago. Today is June 19th. The domain name was sold on Sedo in January for ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live … - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Releases the NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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.BANK Launches With a Bang - The 30-day .BANK Sunrise Period just concluded this week and is notable for several reasons. The .BANK TLD is highly restricted to members of the banking industry. The .BANK Registry (which also has rights to .INSURANCE, launching this fall), was founded by 24 companies and organizations from the banking and insurance industries, The Registry's founders include industry leaders such as the American Banking Association, Citigroup, Dollar Bank, Independent Community Bankers of America, JPMorgan, ... read more ...
 
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Cheap domain names are spammers' favorites - New report shows that spammers love some of the cheap new domain name options. Spammers churn through a lot of domain names. As soon as deliverability sinks with one, they move on to the next. That might explain this chart in Architelos’ June NameSentry Abuse Report: The bulk of improper use of new top level domain names is spam, and this chart shows which new TLDs are being abused the most. See a pattern here? All of the big ones are cheap domains. In fact, all of the domains on this chart can ... read more ...
 
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Brainstorm Domain Names Launches New Top Level Domain Social Media Sites -   View as PDF  Print View    <!-- --><!-- 'OptFor' this story -->Launch of social media sites to increase exposure of new top level domains (gTLDs) to the public. Brainstorm Domain Names offers information and free search tools to current and new customers.Cedar Rapids, IA, USA - June 19, 2015 /PressCable/ -- Small businesses, online marketers, entrepreneurs and home based businesses looking for increased exposure of new top level domains (gTLDs) to ... read more ...
 
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Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires – Lexology - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
 
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Seven key topics to track during ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires - The 53rd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) commences in earnest on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with some sessions beginning as early as Saturday, June 20. As always, several high-profile topics have emerged amidst community discussions leading up to this meeting, all of which are relevant to established registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike. IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on Jun 24th - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
 
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows the many renouned site Gamecoins.com Drop - I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, 2010: Sometrics launched a site called GameCoins.com in March that allows users to earn virtual currencies in their favorite ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market. And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous week’s expired auctions – evidence of what’s newest and most energetic in today’s domain market – this week NameJet presents us with something old fashioned. Insurance1.com was the top result, weighing in at a lighter $5.2k. Many years ago, registrants were prone ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Companies warned to beware of new .sucks domains on internet | The New Age … -

Imagine a website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in a wrong hands. With new general top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out shortly companies are suggested to safeguard their trade outlines are sufficient protected.

Via: thenewage.co.za

 
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Horrible domain name alert: QuiQui.me - Good luck pronouncing this domain name without an explanation. A San Francisco startup hopes to start delivering pharmacy items by drone soon. But finding the company via word-of-mouth (or even on the app store) might be a bit challenging. The company’s name is pronounced Quickie, but it is using the domain name QuiQui.me. Qui is pronounced two different two different ways in the same name. That means company representatives are going to have to do a lot of explaining when they tell people about ... read more ...
 
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Canada weighs in on .sucks debate - Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) has told the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that legal avenues exist to protect trademark owners in the new gTLD programme. Deputy minister of Industry Canada John Knubley, on behalf of the OCA, wrote to ICANN on 9 June, after the corporation’s general counsel, John Jeffrey, asked the OCA and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into .sucks operator Vox Populi Registry. Brands have complained that ... read more ...
 
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Companies warned of new .sucks domains - Imagine the website www.YourCompanyName.sucks in the wrong hands. With new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .sucks being rolled out soon, companies are advised to ensure their trade marks are adequately protected. Donvay Wegierski, trade mark specialist at Werksmans Attorneys, said .sucks, which is aimed at creating online space for consumers to share opinions about businesses and brands, creates risks for businesses ... read more ...
 
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WordPress Foundation sues owners of WordPress domain names - Group goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include “WordPress”. WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com and other domains. The lawsuit alleges that Edward Jeffrey Yablon and PC-VIP, Inc. are infringing WordPress’ trademarks and that the use of the domain names constitutes cybersquatting. The defendants own a number of WordPress related ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells during Sedo - Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned since October 3, 2006. The domain We.com has just went into transfer service at Sedo.com so the buyers are ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Seven Key Topics to Track During ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires | The National Law … - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...
 
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Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China’s Domain Name Regulation - Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy (here and here). James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical for any TLD registries that hope to have a better understand of ... read more ...
 
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What You Need to Know About .Sucks Domain Names | McGuireWoods LLP … - Over the past two years, more than 500 new top-level domains (TLDs, or the words to the right of the dot in a domain name, such as .com or .edu) like .attorney, .consulting, .menu, and even .rocks have launched. But none has garnered the attention and concern of the business community as much as .sucks, a TLD launching this year and being billed by its registry (the appropriately named company Vox Populi) as a place where consumers can find their voice. While several large organizations like ... read more ...
 
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Jian-Chuan Chang - Three Things TLD Registries Must Know About China's Domain Name Regulation Recently there have been a number of news reports/articles that are incorrect or misleading in interpreting China's domain name management policy. James has posted an article aiming to clarify what is going to in China's domain name market. Considering the potential negative impact of those reports on the participants of this market, I supplement James's post by pointing out three things, which I believe critical ... read more ...