Category Archives: EN

Tue 12th May 2015
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GoDaddy releases initial gain news as open company - Company posts 17.5% year-over-year growth in first quarter of 2015. GoDaddy has released its first quarterly earnings as a public company and will hold its first quarterly investor call later this afternoon. The company posted revenue of $376.3, up 17.5% compared to the first quarter of 2014. Revenue was up just 1% quarter-over-quarter. The net loss was $(43.4) million, which isn’t as bad as the same quarter last year but is worse than last quarter’s $(26.8) million. GoDaddy added about 400,000 ... read more ...
 
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Social app spends $233,333 for Same.com domain name - Company spends six figures for better domain name. Same, a social networking and chat app for the Chinese market, has purchased the domain name Same.com for $233,333. The company behind the app uses the domain name ohsame.com. Same.com now forwards to the existing website. Here’s the iTunes page for the app, which appears to have been released originally about two years ago. Anything.com, a company that owns a large portfolio of valuable domain names, was the seller. Sedo brokered the transaction ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings reports $4.75 million domain name sales in Q1 - Sales up year-over-year but down quarter-over-quarter. Domain Holdings has released its quarterly report of domain name sales. The company sold $4.75 million worth of domain names in Q1 2015. Although this is up 40% over its sales in Q1 of 2015, the number is about half of what the company has sold in each of the past three quarters. Domain Holdings’ sales team has gone through a lot of recent upheaval, with a number of brokers leaving. Here are some other stats from Domain Holdings’ report: 65% ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name … - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Design and 4 Early Access - .Design enters GA and Donuts releases four more domain names. Only one top level domain name enters true general availability this week: .Design went live this morning U.S. time. The domain name is being offered (fittingly) by Top Level Design. You can read more about the hotly contest auction for this top level domain, and listen to Top Level Design founder Ray King discuss why he thinks this domain offers so much opportunity. GoDaddy is offering .Design domains with a first year price of $29.99, ... read more ...
 
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10 years of brand protection on YouTube – and a glimpse into the future - Tim Lince This week YouTube is celebrating its 10th anniversary, meaning that trademark counsel have now spent a decade policing brand and content use on the platform. The in-house counsel who heads up YouTube’s trademark and anti-counterfeiting policies admits that finding the correct balance between alleviating brand owner concerns and protecting ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs in action (and comedy) - A year and a half after rolling out the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD), over 600 new domains have been delegated and about five million new domain names have been registered in the new gTLDs. Despite these impressive numbers, the feeling is that the average consumer is still unaware of this massive expansion of the Internet. However, there are some indications that the tide is turning. In the current season of the HBO comedy “Silicon Valley,” fictional tech giant ... read more ...
 
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.Design Is Live & Almost Everything is Available Including Single Letter & Two Letter Domains: My.Design - .Design just launched today into general availability and virtually every domain name is available including single letters and two letter domain names, for a price. Domain names like E.Design and A.Design and X.Design can be registered for $6,500 with renewal pricing at $6,500 a year at Godaddy (i.Design and u.design are either taken or reserved). You.Design is likewise priced around $6,500 a year. We.design is priced at $2,500 a year as is Tv.Design Domains like Great.Design and Top/Design are ... read more ...
 
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Coming soon: .bank and .insurance domain names - In 2008, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (“IANA”), the nonprofit organization overseeing global IP address allocation, began the process of creating and auctioning new top-level domains. Since then, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), has confirmed a number of new ‘generic’ top level domains (“gTLD”), including two new “community-based gTLDs” for the financial services community, .bank and .insurance. “Community-based gTLDs” ... read more ...
 
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Scenes from a domain name auction in China - These are some of the Chinese domain name investors buying your domains. The domain name market in China is hot and is driving major price appreciation, especially in short domain names. What’s the Chinese domain name community like? A lot like that in other parts of the world. It has its own “big personalities” and players. It also has its own gatherings and domain name auctions. Last month, 域名圈 organized a live domain name auction in Beijing that attracted 200-300 people. 域名圈 ... read more ...
 
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First UDRP decision under ‘.paris’ new gTLD -

In a new preference underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a heading French journal publisher has performed a send of dual domain names reproducing a obvious heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.paris’. It is a initial preference ever underneath a UDRP involving a domain…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Major.com UDRP denied, though no RDNH - A UDRP for a major domain name. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Major Wire Industries Limited against the owner of Major.com. Panelist Christopher S. Gibson declined to find reverse domain name hijacking, though. Major Wire Industries has been around since the 1800s, and decided to go after Major.com some 130 years after it was founded (and 20 years after Major.com was first registered). The company tried to buy the domain name, but didn’t ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Gets .Games; Uniregistry Got .Game - Domaininvesting.com, posted today that Uniregistry declared victory getting the new gTLD .Game in as a private auction beating out Google (Charleston Road Registry, Inc.), Amazon, Dot Game Limited, Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. However the contention set also included the new gTLD .Games whose application was not withdrawn meaning it seems that in the private auction the parties decided that there will be a .Game and .Games known as indirect contention. Donuts was the only applicant ... read more ...
 
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Apartments.com's $100 million ad debate includes "We put a .com in apartments" - Ad campaign promotes apartments…and .com. Apartments.com recently launched a $100 million advertising campaign, and Verisign couldn’t be happier: One of the ad lines used in the campaign is “We put the .com in apartments”. The overall campaign is called “Change your apartment. Change the world.” and features actor Jeff Goldblum (Will Grace, Jurassic Park) as a Silicon Valley futurist. The year-long ad campaign aims to reach 95% of 18-49-year-olds with more than 3 billion ad impressions. ... read more ...
 
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Vox Populi Registry Says "Enough" About .SUCKS Accusations - May 11, 2015 John O. Jeffrey General Counsel Secretary ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094 Re: Vox Populi Registry Agreement Dear Mr. Jeffrey, This firm represents ICANN's contractual partner, Vox Populi Registry ("Vox Populi"). I write regarding your letter to The Honorable Edith Ramirez, the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), and The Honorable John Knubley, the Deputy Minister of Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs ("OCA"), dated April 9, ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
 
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.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract - In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal  in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish Richardson P.C. Here is the letter unedited, our comments follow: “”This firm represents ICANN’s contractual partner, Vox ... read more ...
 
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Chinese Public Co Stock Gains 10% On Purchase of P2P.com Which Was Once Stolen - FT.com is reporting that the shares in the shares in a Shanghai-listed real estate company known as Shanghai Duolun Industry rose by the maximum 10% daily limit after it changed its name to P2P Financial Information Service Co and announced it has acquired the domain name P2P.com The company said that the domain name p2p.com, was worth $100 million dollars “The website currently features a few photos and a Chinese caption stating “This domain is worth $100m.” While the FT.com story says that ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .CLUB Celebrates First Birthday - A year after the launch of .club, there are over 220,000 websites registered and almost 40,000 active with the new gTLD. .Club is being held up as one of the successes among the new extensions, as awareness of new gTLDs remains low and web user and stakeholders have reported mixed experiences. Some .club domains have sold for high amounts, lead by wine.club, which was auctioned for $140,000, and others including coffee.club and vegas.club going for six figures. Premium .club domain sales have ... read more ...
 
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
 
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World Hosting Days discussion entrance to USA subsequent week - Popular international hosting conference makes its U.S. debut next week. World Hosting Days, a popular international conference for the cloud and hosting industry, is holding its first North American conference next week. The conference will take place at the 7Springs Ski Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania May 19-20. Speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Holding a conference at a resort a bit outside a major city is an interesting approach. On the one hand, it’s more difficult to travel ... read more ...
 
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Despite domestic domain name news, domestic new TLDs not holding off - Political new top level domain names are not getting much attention. With all of the news recently about presidential candidates not registering relevant domain names, you’d think political new top level domain names would see a boost. Yet, they continue to struggle. Consider Rightside’s .democrat and .republican. The former has about 1,300 registrations and the latter just 800. .Vote also has fewer than 1,000 names in the zone file (and .voto is about 250) despite the registry striking deals ... read more ...
 
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MSNBC Covers Domains & The Presidential Election Calling it #Domaingate - MSBNC.com weighed in on the domain name side of the Presidential race today in a post highlighting all of domain purchases, miscues and game playing, which now apparently includes HillaryClinton.net “On Sunday, reporters began to notice that HillaryClinton.net now redirects to CarlyForPresident.com as well. It might be easy to assume that this was another work of mischief by the Fiorina campaign – but a spokeswoman for Fiorina confirmed to MSNBC that, in fact, the Fiorina campaign did not buy ... read more ...
 
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Discussing domain names with Adam Dicker – DNW Podcast #32 - Long time domain name investor and DNForum owner Adam Dicker discusses the latest in domain names. This week we talk with Adam Dicker, long time domain name investor and owner of DNForum. We discuss how Adam got into the domain name business, how you can partner with Adam to develop his domain names, changes coming to DNForum, the latest semester of DNF College, and his opinions on topics such as IDNs and new top level domain names. Plus, some great advice for people just getting into domain name ... read more ...