Category Archives: EN

Tue 2nd June 2015
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FTC to ICANN: We Told You .SUCKS Was a Bad Idea - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has responded to a letter from ICANN requesting the regulatory body examine the legality of the rollout of the .SUCKS new gTLD. The response (PDF) was written by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and instead of ruling if any laws or regulations had been broken, it offers several recommendations for ICANN to ensure better protection of intellectual property owners’ rights. Companies are mad at ICANN for allowing registrar tactics they say are coercive and predatory. ... read more ...
 
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DomainAgents.com Launch Domain Market Place With Low Sliding Commission Rates & 10% BIN Rate -               DomainAgents.com just announced it has opened up it’s own marketplace with a sliding scale commission rates on negotiated sales, which I believe are the lowest in the industry and a 10% flat rate on Buy It Now Priced (BIN) domain names. “”There are 2 separate commission scales depending on the type of sale: Negotiated or Buy It Now. Negotiated sales (AKA Make an Offer) now have a sliding commission rate that the buyer pays: $10,000 USD Under = 10% $10,001 – $50,000 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.1million led by AoAo.com during $49,900 - 605 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Top Sales by Category: Top .com: aoao.com at 49,900 USD Top ccTLD: optimize.me at 8,000 USD Top “other” TLD: a5.net at 20,000 USD Always been a fan of LLTV names and it was nice to see LNTV.com sell for $30,000. Dot Club put up 3 new gtld sales all at $1,500, Canyon,Foto and Makers. ... read more ...
 
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WTF? UDRP Panel Finds OBSS.com is Confusingly Similar To TM: OBSS BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS - A one member UDRP panel, just rejected the attempt of OBSS Bilisim Bilgisayar Hizmetleri Danismanlik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (yes that is the company’s name) of Istanbul, Turkey to grab the domain name OBSS.com OBSS.com was registered on August 5, 2003, the trademark was registered in 2012. So the Complaint was dismissed by the panelist. The only noteworthy part about the UDRP decision is that one member panel of Kaya Köklü found that the domain OBSS.com is confusingly similar to the ... read more ...
 
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Research reveals that around two-thirds of internet users are unaware of … - Trevor Little Research published by ICANN has pointed to a growing awareness of new gTLDs, although such strings lag significantly behind legacy TLDs in terms of familiarity. Arguably more of a surprise is the finding that just over one in three internet users are aware of cybersquatting. We have previously reported on studies that have examined awareness ... read more ...
 
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Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open – May 2015 Update - 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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These New Domains are Cool, But Also Dangerous - In the last couple of years, we have been watching the evolution of the new gTLDs (generic top-level domains). From the boring .com, .net, or .us, the Internet is now moving towards new and exciting domain names like .business, .ceo or .photo, among dozens of other interesting options. However, along with these came other not-so-interesting domains, like .sucks or .wtf. Those domains can be used by ill-intentioned people to mock someone or some company, which can be bad for the affected party. ... read more ...
 
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One year in: .XYZ and new tip turn domain names - Controversial…but successful? Daniel NegariThe .xyz domain name hit its one year anniversary today with about 950,000 domain names. That’s just 50,000 names shy of .xyz CEO Daniel Negari’s first year goal for the domain name, an estimate many snickered at when he made it. Now, many people are probably still snickering about these numbers. After all, weren’t they all given away for free? No. One registrar gave away about 350,000 domains. Many of the others were registered at bargain basement ... read more ...
 
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Caitlyn Jenner Sets Off Domain Buying Spree from CaitlynJenner.com to CaitlynJenner.xxx - Just around 100 domain names in .com and .net were registered yesterday once Caitlyn Jenner was revealed on the cover of Vanity Fair. While most of the domain names were registered under privacy, the direct match domain name CaitlynJenner.com was registered by domain blogger Jamie Zoch who also writes a regular series of posts on thedomains.com. Jamie published a post on his blog, DotWeekly.com  entitled Why I Registered CaitlynJenner.com In addition to .com’s and .net’s, CaitlynJenner.xxx ... read more ...
 
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ICM Says After .XXX Matching .Porn Has 7,500 Registrations; .Adult 7K & Sells A $500K .Porn Domain - The numbers are now in for the number of .porn and .adult domain names registered during the .XXX matching program Under the matching .XXX program the owners of a .XXX domain has the right register the matching .porn and .adult domains before general availability. Including to the ICM registry the operator of .XXX, .Porn and .Adult registries, including domain name registered in Sunrise, .porn now has almost 7,500 registered domain names and .adult has almost 7,000 The actually number of domain names ... read more ...
 
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Why do people try sell domain names on eBay? - Or do they have another purpose for listing domains for sale on eBay? Believe it or not, there are currently over 14,000 listings in the Domain Names section on eBay. That’s a lot of active listings for a site that most domain name investors never visit. Why is this? Are people actually making money selling domains on eBay, or do they use it for some other purpose (such as driving clicks to domain names)? Looking more closely, there are only about 1,000 active auction. The rest of the listings ... read more ...
 
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Barclays moves to new gTLDs - Barclays is moving its online presences to its new gTLDs, the UK bank has confirmed. The Barclays Group will transfer its online assets to .barclays and .barclaycard to make it “crystal clear” that customers are engaging with a genuine Barclays site, it said. Barclays will no longer use the .com and .co.uk TLDs. Troels Oerting, Barclays Group chief information security officer, said: “This clarity, along with the advantages of controlling our own online environment, enables us to provide ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Study Finds 46% Aware of New gTLD's; Only 80% Know .Com, .Net and .Org - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). The global study surveyed 6,144 consumers aged 18+ representing Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America, and was administered in 18 languages and drawn from 24 countries. ... read more ...
 
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State of Texas Fines EscrowHill.com $30K For Non -Compliance with State Regs - June 2, 2015 by Michael Berkens 27 Comments Escrowhill.com  has just been fined by the The Banking Commission of the State of Texas for $30,000 for doing escrow business in the state without appropriate licenses after receiving a C D order Respondents have been properly notified regarding their right to an administrative hearing under Texas Finance Code Chapter 151 (Chapter 151) Respondents are currently represented in this proceeding by attorneys Bradley J. Aiken and F. John Podvin, Jr The Commissioner ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the … – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, Phase One, conducted on its behalf by Nielsen, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and ... read more ...
 
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Unprecedented move: Vox Populi extends sunrise deadline for “.sucks” domain … - In a move that is being interpreted as possible overreaching, Vox Populi, operator of the .sucks domain name, extended the period for registering .sucks during the "sunrise period" without notice. The new deadline to register the .sucks domain name is June 19. Not only is it $2,000 or more to register each .sucks domain name, there is also an annual renewal fee of $2,000. There is online speculation that Vox’s extension is motivated by a relatively large surge in last minute registrations before ... read more ...
 
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Which gTLD .sucks — protecting your business brand - Since ICANN – the organization that allocates domain names — approved an initiative in 2011 to add thousands of new “generic” Top-Level Domains (gTLD), over 635 new gTLDs have been registered.  Many of these are creative efforts to expand topical diversity on the internet, but few have received as much notoriety as .sucks. A gTLD is the portion of an internet address to the right of the dot, such as .com, .net or .org.  Under ICANN’s plan, third parties may register and administer ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
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What’s Going on in China’s Domain Name Industry? - Recently, there has been a lot of noise about China tightening control of the new top-level domains and how it could severely damper domain name registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given that at least 3 people have emailed me asking what's going on, I decided to clear the air here. It started with a report by Brandma on China's "Special Operation" to regulate Domain Name Registrations ... read more ...
 
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FTC Doesn’t Want to Be Drawn Into .Sucks Domain Debate -

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You Want To See Great New gTLD's? Look during The Early Domains In .School, .Football & .Casino - The new gTLD’s of .School, .Football and .Casino are launching this week into General Availability on Wednesday beyond the .porn and .adult of this world. If the new gTLD’s are going to be an investment vehicle for domain investors you need to look no further than the domain names registered in the Early Access program  (EAP) for each of these new domain strings to find the bang on brandable domains for the next generation. For .School, .Football .Casino we found these domain names already ... read more ...
 
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VIP Programs Court Domainers - Discounts and priority service are added perks for domain name investors. Last week, domain name registrar DirectNic unveiled its new VIP program, and domainers could be forgiven for having flashbacks to last decade at registrar Fabulous. That’s because Mike Robertson, who made a name for himself in the domain name business by playing point man for many large domainers with portfolios at Fabulous, is now at DirectNic and is spearheading its VIP program. The program includes discounted pricing, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN survey: .Com still king, though new TLDs have a possibility (especially outward U.S.) - ICANN survey shows that acceptance of domain name extension options is higher outside of the U.S. and Europe. ICANN has released results of the first phase of a multi-year consumer study on the domain name landscape. The survey of over 6,000 people who use the internet 5+ hours a week was conducted in February. Here are some of the notable findings around awareness and trust of top level domain names. Awareness Unsurprisingly, awareness in legacy domain names such as .com is much higher than new ... read more ...
 
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John Berryhill on domain name law and cybersquatting – DNW Podcast #35 - Protect yourself from cybersquatting claims. What happens when a company thinks you’re cybersquatting on one of its trademarks? Domain name attorney John Berryhill has helped people defend many such accusations. On this episode he explains what a company has to prove in the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). He also discusses some common misconceptions about the factors that will sway a UDRP panel one way or the other. Did you know that parking your domain name can actually help ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Flok.com, EverydayValue.com and More Domains - Welcome to the exclusive Domain Movers series on TheDomains.com where Jamie Zoch scours the web and digs thousands of domain name registrations and domains on the move to find domains acquired by some of the largest companies on the web! The follow are often early detections of domain names being registered, acquired and simply moving by large corporations. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Apple Inc. has secured the domain name Research-Kit.com to add to its ResearchKit.com domain name I ... read more ...
 
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Heinz Files UDRP On KraftHeinz.com, Registered Same Day Merger Was Announced - Just two month after announcing its merger with Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KRFT) ,  H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ)  has filed a UDRP to gain control of the domain name KraftHeinz.com The domain name was registered on March 25, 2015 the same day the companies announced the merger, by someone in Korea. On the same day someone in Korea also registered the reverse domain of HeinzKraft.com with the same registrar, so pretty likely the same person. So far a UDRP has not been filed on that domain, however the ... read more ...