Category Archives: EN

Sat 13th June 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
 
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UDRP's Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com; Unbiased.com; AENA.com - UDRP’s have been filed on Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com, Unbiased.com and AENA.com ewomen.com has an original registration date of 1997 and is currently registered to Terra Serve of Grand Cayman and is currently being parked to a generic adult landing page. Looking at Screenshots.com, the domain appears to have been parked for many years except for a time where is was a “contest” page. There is a trademark filed on the term ewomen which was filed bye WomenNetwork, Inc. of Dallas Texas on ... read more ...
 
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France Tells Google To Expand "Right To be Forgotten" Or There Will Be Sanctions - It was a little over a year ago when a European court decided Google had to grant its citizens the right to be forgotten. As a refresher this is what the court said: In an advisory judgment stemming from a Spanish case, The Court of Justice of the European Union said Google and other search engines do have control of individuals’ private information, given that they sometimes compile and present links to it in a systematic way. The court found that under European law, individuals have a right to ... read more ...
 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion - In April 2011 Apple Inc. reportedly paid $4.5 Million dollars for the one domain name iCloud.com from a company named Xcerion. Fast forward some 4 years later and now 170 iCloud related domains have transferred ownership from Xcerion to Apple Inc according to whois records. Some Facts 167 of the domain names “start with” the term iCloud 2 start with My 1 starts with OS (osicloud.com) All of the domain names are either .com, .net and .org All the domain names were registered at Network Solutions ... read more ...
Fri 12th June 2015
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Law and Disorder: When .Brand Meets .Crime - Barclays Bank is a .brand pioneer, having recently announced plans to migrate its primary online presence to two new gTLDs it will operate on its own behalf. But Barclays Bank has also just plead guilty to a major financial services felony and been fined $2.4 billion for that criminal activity. While the new gTLD Registry Agreement is clear that a registry operator must remove any officer or director convicted of a felony, it is ambiguous in regard to whether the Agreement can be terminated ... read more ...
 
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Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far - .Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it seems very few have been renewed. Basically we are seeing 67,000 of the free domain names have expired At the ... read more ...
 
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Canadian Court Rules It Can Order Google To Block A Website Globally - TechDirt.com published an article this morning that deals with what has been a growing trend around the world. Countries wanting to dictate terms to Google. A Canadian court has ruled that it can order Google to block websites globally. This all started with one company accusing another of selling counterfeit goods. From the article: Almost exactly a year ago we wrote about a troubling lawsuit in British Columbia, where a court ruled that Google needed to block access to a website globally. The ... read more ...
 
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Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far - .Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it seems very few have been renewed. Basically we are seeing 67,000 of the free domain names have expired At the ... read more ...
 
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ECTA: ICANN hears brand owners loud and clear - Brands have suggested several areas where the new gTLD programme needs to be improved, a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said at the European Communities Trade Mark Association conference in Hamburg. Fabien Betremieux, senior registry services and engagement manager in the global domain division at ICANN, shared that brand owners are finding it difficult to keep track of the implementation schedules of so many new TLDs. "There are also concerns ... read more ...
 
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These keywords saw a spike in registrations final month - Options, Limos among popular keywords in new .com domains. Verisign has published its monthly “trending” keywords report, which finds keywords that have suddenly become more popular in .com domain name registrations. Based on the results, it would seem a lot of people got rich off stock options, used the money to buy a Tesla and became used to the keyless entry, causing them to forget their house keys and have to call a locksmith. Here are the top ten for May: 1. Options 2. Holo 3. Locksmith 4. ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy's Ad For .Show Might Lead To A Lot Of Cybersquatting -                     Godaddy has a webpage dedicated to the upcoming new gTLD .show Here is what Godaddy has to say about the extension: Everything from feature films to television shows to theater performances use the term “show.” If your site relates to any of those, register .show domain names for instant recognition and to distinguish yours from all the other sites flooding the web.” Hum Well if you’re a movie or television studio, producer or owner of the TV show, movie or ... read more ...
 
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Kevin Ham and Mike Mann let these prize-winning domain names expire - Domains that won $5,000 in Verisign contest used to be owned by well-known domain name investors. Verisign found some great domains for the final five $5,000 winners in its Internet Official contest. All five were previously registered. Interestingly, a couple well-known domainers used to own two of the domain names: Kevin Ham and Mike Mann. Based on DomainTools’ whois history, it seems they let the domain names expire. Here is the history behind the five winning domains: Delectablegarden.com ... read more ...
 
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Over 1.3 Million Piping Hot Donuts to Come Out of the New Domain Registry’s … - Regarding the release of the more than 1.3 million previously reserved domains, Donuts Co-Founder and CEO Paul Stahura said, "This is an ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2015
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Donuts to release 1.4 mln domain names for registration -

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Verisign Downgraded By Zacks Partially Based on the New gTLD Program - Zacks, a publication that tracks the stock market and covers many public companies has downgraded shares of Verisign to a sell,  partially based on the new gTLD program. “”We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long run. “The negative impact of search engine adjustments on domain monetization and increasing operating expenses related to marketing remain the primary headwinds in the near term. ” “Verisign ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Downgraded By Zacks Partially Based on a New gTLD Program - Zacks, a publication that tracks the stock market and covers many public companies has downgraded shares of Verisign to a sell,  partially based on the new gTLD program. “”We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long run. “The negative impact of search engine adjustments on domain monetization and increasing operating expenses related to marketing remain the primary headwinds in the near term. ” “Verisign ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #12: Miguel Cotto, Nicholas Walters, Deontay Wilder & more - After a brief hiatus, the podcast is back. In this episode, Diego and I recap Miguel Cotto‘s brutal knockout of Daniel Geale in defence of his lineal middleweight title. We talk about the prospect of Cotto fighting Canelo Alvarez in the fall, but we also wonder whether Cotto should consider campaigning for a rematch with Floyd Mayweather. We also break down this weekend’s fights involving Erislandy Lara, Nicholas Walters and Deontay Wilder (who are all featured in separate bouts on different ... read more ...
 
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Canada responds to ICANN about .Sucks - Move along, now… John Knubley, Deputy Minister of Industry Canada, has responded (pdf) to the letter ICANN sent to both the U.S. FTC and Canada regarding the .sucks domain name. Knubley basically states that this is not a matter for the government, and that if intellectual property rights holders think a .sucks domain infringes their mark, they already know what to do about it: Canada’s laws provide comprehensive protections for all Canadians. Canada has intellectual property, competition, criminal ... read more ...
 
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Zacks Lowers Verisign to Sell (VRSN) - Zacks downgraded shares of Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research note released on Tuesday morning. According to Zacks, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong first-quarter 2015 results with both earnings and revenues growing year over year. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long run. Additionally, ... read more ...
 
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The new generic top-level domains: Protecting your trademarks - Pat Fackrell Virtual real estate on the Internet is one of the best pieces of property that a business can own. A good website and a simple domain name, such as [yourtrademark].com or [yourtrademark].net, are easy and effective ways to attract and retain business. A big concern, however, is protecting [yourtrademark].com from improper use. For example, many times a third-party will register a domain name that is either identical or confusingly similar to [yourtrademark].com. If done with ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: FrozenVillage.com, TotallyLegit.com and More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers! If you are new to the Domain Movers series, you can click that link and more articles just like this one, that contains early detections of domain names that have been registered, acquired and simply moving by mainly all large companies. A lot of research goes into these articles, so we hope you enjoy them as much as well like finding the domains! Here are the latest domain movers detected: WP Company LLC (Washington Post) has registered the domain names Daily202.com and ... read more ...
 
 
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Baotou.com sells for $62,000 and other lapsed domain name sales - A whopper of a sale at NameJet, as Joseph Peterson reports. This week it’s no contest. Between the top expired auction at NameJet and its runner up there yawns a chasm – a 7:1 ratio. At $9k, GameStars.com would be an impressive sale … but for the fact that China claimed its own Baotou.com for a staggering $61.8k. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably never heard of this industrial city in inner Mongolia. But it makes our smart phones and tablets possible. You see, China holds 95% of ... read more ...
 
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Registries team up to launch three car-related new gTLDs -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System. At a time of writing, over 630 new gTLDs have been substituted and approximately 400 have been launched.

However, while a handful of new gTLDs…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com