Wed 6th May 2015
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Advertising Law – May 2015 - In This Issue: Amazon Sues Over Fake Reviews ICANN Seeks FTC Assistance With “.sucks” Domain Name ASME Updates Editorial Guidelines: Don’t Deceive Readers Rough Life: MyLife.com to Pay $1M and Face Injunction Amazon Sues Over Fake Reviews In a new lawsuit, Amazon targeted one individual and four companies that allegedly wrote and posted fake reviews on the e-commerce giant’s site. Amazon’s Conditions of Use expressly prohibit paid reviews, as the site’s 250 million ... read more ...
 
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.Club domain names by a numbers - A view of how .Club domain names are being used one year after the TLD launched. .Club celebrates the first anniversary of its general availability tomorrow. The top level domain name has eclipsed 200,000 domain names, making it one of the most-registered new top level domain names. What are people doing with these domain names? I once again turned to dataprovider.com to take a look underneath the hood. In a recent crawl, dataprovider was able to reach about three-quarters of the registered .Club ... read more ...
 
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Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations - Alpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous Four, only seems to have sold registrations on Famous Four’s extensions. .Party which launched a while back has over 5,600 registrations. Its not clear how ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap Launches Online Marketplace For Small Businesses - Namecheap is launching a new marketplace today for small businesses according to Tech.co Rick Kirkendall, the CEO of Namecheap is quoted saying “The Marketplace is similar to the Apple app store, where external developers can submit apps for people to use to make building their websites easier, after they already have a domain,” says . ... read more ...
 
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Will .sucks … Suck for your brand? - In brief: Despite strong criticism of Vox Populi's pricing scheme as predatory and exploitative, brand owners are paying hefty premiums for early registration in the yourbrand.sucks domain string. With sunrise registration closing on 29 May 2015, you should now be taking the necessary steps to ensure your company can secure a registration during the sunrise period, so that .sucks will not suck for your brand. Partner Tim Golder (view CV) and Associate Carissa Apps report. Introduction .SUCKS Summary ... read more ...
 
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Famous Four Media’s .SCIENCE domain extension rapidly rises to become the … - It Is Rocket .SCIENCE Wednesday, 06 May 2015, Gibraltar: Famous Four Media, a global leader in the provision of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), today announced that the .SCIENCE new generic Top Level Domain, a domain registry that it manages, has reached over domain 250,000 registration (web addresses) in 3 months. This makes .SCIENCE one of the fastest growing domain registries on the planet. “We are understandably delighted with the adoption by the public of the .SCIENCE domain ... read more ...
 
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One Member UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On GreatRun.com - Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of the UK represented by Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom (the “Complainants”) was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name GreatRun.com On the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the one member panel of Gabriela Kennedy found “the evidence presented by the parties demonstrates conclusively that the Disputed Domain Name could not have been registered in bad ... read more ...
 
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Carly Fiorina jokes about induction SethMeyers.org - Presidential hopeful jokes with comedian about domain names. There’s been quite a bit of mainstream coverage this past week about presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and domain names. The press has said that she forgot to register CarlyFiorina.org. Some other person registered it and is using it to highlight layoffs under her tenure at HP. (As it turns out, her company actually used to own the domain name and let it expire.) Fiorina is having a laugh about it, including on Late Night with Seth ... read more ...
 
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Organizer of "Great Run" events intent in retreat domain name hijacking - Panel finds that group brought was attempting to reverse domain name hijack GreatRun.com. Nova International Limited, the company that organizes the Great Run series of events, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for GreatRun.com. The complainants use the domain name GreatRun.org, which it registered in 2002. Panelist Gabriela Kennedy gave three reasons she believes Nova International brought its case in abuse of the policy: 1. It likely chose a .org domain ... read more ...
 
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Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations - Alpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous Four, only seems to have sold registrations on Famous Four’s extensions. .Party which launched a while back has over 5,600 registrations. Its not clear how ... read more ...
 
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Meet Twitter’s first trademark counsel - How long have you been at Twitter? I have been here a little over a year. I came on as Twitter’s first trademark counsel, and manage the trademark, domain and marketing practices here. Prior to that I was at Amazon for three-plus years in Seattle, and before that I was at the firm of Kilpatrick Townsend in the New York office. Being the first was definitely something that attracted me. To come ... read more ...
Tue 5th May 2015
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Extortion or free speech? -   Molouk Y. Ba-Isa Saudi Gazette     Most everyone is familiar with dotCom (.com) or dotGov (.gov) domain names. But back in 2011, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to allow a massive expansion of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). New gTLDs that were approved included dotBlack (.black), ... read more ...
 
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Is Carly Fiorina Lying About a Domain Registration? - We published a post earlier today about the domain name CarlyFiorina.org in response to 100+ stories published on how Carly failed to register the domain name CarlyFiorina.org and allowed a hater to get the domain and use it against her. Today in response to all the stories but not ours, Carly told the Wall Street Journal today that she “Should Have Registered ‘CarlyFiorina.org Before Critic Took It” and then told TownHall.com, “You can’t buy every domain name” which has now been repeated ... read more ...
 
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It's Official: NameJet Will Only Report Pending Delete Domains With 3 Or More Bidders - NameJet.com,  the domain auction platform, recently implemented a change to how they display backorder information for dropping domains;  i.e. domains in “pending delete” status. Since late-April NameJet is no longer displaying backorder or bid information for domains with less than 3 backorders on pending delete domains. This might make it more difficult for customers to find domains that already have some interest and value, but it will prevent people from leveraging the research efforts ... read more ...
 
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD’s Done Right: Here is … - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...
 
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A Look at the Current State of ccTLDs, Particularly in Europe - European ccTLDs have passed 67 million registrations in total at a net growth of 0.7% over the past quarter, according to the new DomainWire report by Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR). According to the report, top 20 largest ccTLDs represent roughly 82% of all ccTLD registrations globally and 38% of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs, etc). The ccTLD for Tokelau (.tk) has the largest zone with 28 million reported domain names. However, it offers mostly ... read more ...
 
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Domínio .pt é o que consegue maior crescimento em taxa de registos na Europa - Os números são do CENTR, a associação europeia dos domínios ccTLD (domínios de topo de países como o .pt para Portugal ou .es para Espanha) e dão destaque à taxa de crescimento conseguida pelos domínios de topo portugueses no primeiro trimestre, que ficam à frente da Bielorrússia, Islândia, Suíça e Estónia, mas também da taxa de crescimento global que se fixa em 1,3%. Luisa Geifão, presidente da Associação DNS.pt, admite que estes números são resultado do menor crescimento ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.5 Million Led by Daikuan.cn At 75,000 Euros - Over the past week, 583 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 Million 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by daikuan.cn for 75,000 Euro’s which seems to mean “loan” or “make a loan” followed by Historia.com which sold for $60,000 Notable sales include u.is which sold for $14,700 and three .co domain names: On the new gTLD front there were several sales with .Club getting the largest sale of the week but the ... read more ...
 
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Campaigns And Cybersquatters Register Domains adult to Decades in Advance - CNBC published an article an hour ago taking a look at the brisk action in candidate domain names. “They’re the modern-day real estate,” said Amichaim Abramson, an entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, New York, who bought a number of domains for future elections across the political spectrum. He said he hopes to help candidates he supports or keep domains out of the hands of those he doesn’t like, but he’s not looking to make money on the deal. They put together a chart of domains and candidates ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board Member and Former GAC Chair to Give Evidence in .Africa Case - The controversy over the competing .africa TLD applications has been going on for some time. A recent decision by the International Centre For Dispute Resolution (ICDR) said that ICANN had breached its own by-laws and has questioned why ICANN won't allow a current board member and the former Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Chair to speak to them and provide evidence. A letter that was published on the ICANN site yesterday suggests that ICANN may have changed their tune and will now let ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Adds NCC Group’s Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...
 
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD's Done Right: Here is What You Need To Know - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...
 
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Which new TLDs I'm renewing (and not) - I’ve renewed most of my new TLDs so far, but that might change. New top level domain names have been out for over a year now, and that means those of us who registered them are facing renewal decisions. We already know early renewal results, at least from the biggest registry: for Donuts, early renewal rates ranged from 55%-72% per top level domain. I haven’t gone big on new top level domain names. I have about 60 in my portfolio and I’ve mostly registered domains in generic extensions. Some ... read more ...
 
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Carly Didn't Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org She let it drop - There has been a fair amount of press that the new GOP candidate and former CEO of HP,  Carly Fiorina “failed to secure” her matching name with the .org domain name CarlyFiorina.org but here are the facts! Carly DID own the domain name CarlyFiorina.org Carly Fiorina Enterprises (which she is CEO and Chair of) according to Wikipedia owned the domain name since at least March 3, 2008 according to whois history records. The domain was actually registered on June 23, 2006 and whois history records ... read more ...
 
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Verisign wants obvious for "Searchable Web Whois" - Company files patent application for improved whois searching across multiple registries. Verisign has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a “searchable web whois”. The application was filed in 2012 and just published today. The patent application suggests that current whois search, especially across multiple registries, is hard. It claims that current services only search a single registry per search request, it’s difficult to index whois records in real time, it’s ... read more ...