Wed 15th April 2015
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16 Yr Old SexyJapanese.com Saved In UDRP But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Grigorius Holdings, SIA (“Complainant”), just lost it bid to grab the generic domain name sexyjapanese.com which was registered on January 2, 1998. The one member panel John J. Upchurch found that Complainant failed to establish rights in a trademark that predate the registration of the domain name. However Mr. Upchurch failed to even discuss Reverse Domain Name Hijacking despite finding the Complainant didn’t meet any of the three requirements of a UDRP and really had no claim to a right ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Announces First Round of #InternetOfficial Contest First Prize Winners - Verisign announced its first group of winners in its #InternetOfficial Contest. Our own Michael Berkens is one of the judges in this contest. Our illustrious panel of top industry experts and celebrity judges has determined the five best .COM domain names entered into the #InternetOfficial contest during the first monthly entry period. (Drum roll please)…And the winners are: 1. chooseyourtattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. electricmotorcycleclub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of ... read more ...
 
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Chat Center ditches a .me and moves to a .Center - John Biggs wrote an article on Tech Crunch yesterday with regards to Chat Center, according to its description Chat Center is the best way to help customers or friends connect with you for Chat. Once you install the app you can claim a Chat Name. This name can be expressed as a URL. From the article: When we last left ChatCenter it was running on the URL chatcenter.me and was aimed at creating a one-stop spot for chatting. Now, a few months later, it has moved from a freemium product and gone full ... read more ...
 
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Sneeze.com: good code with an engaging history - A chain of allergy doctors uses a fantastic domain name. Great brand for an allergist.The other day I got out of my car at a retail center and noticed this great domain name on the building next to me: Sneeze.com. This is a fantastic name for an allergy doctor! I looked up the company and found that they have multiple allergy centers in Central Texas as well as one in the Los Angeles area. The domain name has a bit of history, too. Remember Gazoontite.com, the .com company that filed for bankruptcy ... read more ...
 
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China Dominates 7 Out of Top 10 Trending Keyword Registrations For .Com Domains In March - Verisign’s has posted the top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET for the month of March The word “China” was the top trending keyword for both .com and .net registrations in March. The next three most trending terms in .Com were also Chinese words. So the top 4 keywords registered in .Com were Chinese and 7 of the top 10. Only appliance, Guys and Rehab were non-Chinese words (including China) Certainly further proof buyers from China are moving the domain market and aftermarket Here ... read more ...
 
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France Wants Google to Show Them What's In Their Secret Sauce - The tension between Google and the E.U. continues to persist, now there is talk of a new law in France that would force Google to reveal its secret sauce, in other words show us how your algorithm works. If you think of Google as being dominant in the U.S. it is far greater when it comes to search in Europe. While making up 68% of search volume is the U.S. according to one report, it handles 90 percent in Europe. From Foss Bytes: Google’s secret search algorithm, the heart of Google, may not be ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: China is trending - Chinese terms dominate trending words in .com registrations last month. Much of .com’s growth has been fueled by Asia recently, and the top trending keywords in .com and .net from last month bare this out. Verisign released numbers on March yesterday: It appears that 7 of the top 10 trending terms in .com are in Chinese or related to China. Verisign creates this list by looking at the fastest growing terms from one month to the next. This prevents the list from being full of terms that are always ... read more ...
 
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Which new TLDs are behaving best on a resale market - .Club is a top seller. NameBio, a domain sales data site, published details this morning about which new top level domain names are selling best on the aftermarket. Here are the top 5 based on publicly-reported sales, ranked by dollar volume: You can see the full chart here. NameBio’s Michael Sumner provides a number of caveats, and I think it’s worth reviewing them. A key one: NameBio’s database only includes public sales it gathers from Sedo, NameJet, Flippa and other marketplaces. I’d ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2015
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ICANN.WTF? FTC & OCA Asked Whether .SUCKS is a Law Breaker (Part I) - On April 9, 2015 ICANN took the unprecedented step of asking two national consumer protection agencies whether the .Sucks registry, one of the new gTLDs it has approved and which is currently in its sunrise registration period, has a business plan which violates any laws or regulations those agencies enforce. This is the equivalent of sending a message stating, "Dear Regulator: We have lit a fuse. Can you please tell us whether it is connected to a bomb?" With this action ICANN has opened ... read more ...
 
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eMarketer Report: The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices … - eMarketer.com has put out a research paper on the new gtlds titled, “The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations” This report was a paid report, as I called the company about referencing it they also included it in the newsletter section which is available to everyone.(thank you Priscilla) The report draws on data from the Domain Name Association and ntldstats as well as a few others. From the report: ... read more ...
 
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Beating the Trolls: Celebrities, Companies Rush to Buy .porn Domain Name - Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are the part of a web link that appears after the dot, like.gov or.com. In 2011, there were only 22 of those in existence, until the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided that there needed to be more. There are now more than 547 and, pretty soon, the list will include gTLDs like.sucks,.porn, and.adult. The controversial gTLDs will be available for anyone in the public to buy on a first-come-first-served basis by June ... read more ...
 
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Huh? Pay beaucoup bucks for .sucks? - As someone whose name also is his brand (welcome to 21st-century journalism), I watch with interest the new .sucks top-level domain, which is available for select preregistration through May 29—the only time to surely secure your.sucks. Today, I looked to a reputable registrar to see what joewilcox.sucks would cost me. Cough, cough: $3,797.99 now, during the so-called Priority Access (e.g., Sunrise) period, or $407.98 when general pre-reg starts ... read more ...
 
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How ICANN enabled legal Website extortion - I turned 21 in a medium-sized Massachusetts town (not that one) that shall remain nameless. Though I may have tasted the sweet nectar of alcohol prior to the legal line in the sand, it in no way lessened my enthusiasm for the day.For the audacious occasion, I imbibed a local vintage called State Vodka. In our one and only encounter, we established a level of intimacy I’ve rarely found in other parts of my life. Our evening together began early, accompanied by friends and food, but as our ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sales Total $1.2 million for a week, led by HSE.com during $34,000 - Over the past week, 593 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: hse.com at 34,000 USD Top ccTLD: czescisamochodowe.pl at 9,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: yit.net at 4,800 USD Congrats to Michael as his philadelphiabailbonds.com sold for $4,888. ... read more ...
 
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Internet: Cnr, crisi cancella le Pmi in Rete - 17:18 14 APR 2015(AGI) - Roma, 14 apr. - Il mercato dei domini internet alivello europeo e' segnato negli ultimi anni da una scarsacrescita e da sempre piu' numerose cancellazioni. Per quantoriguarda i domini ".it", ossia il Country code top level domain(ccTLD) che rappresenta il "made in Italy" nel web, continuanoa crescere (+4,8 per cento nel 2014) assestandosi intorno ai2.800.000 (aprile 2015), anche se nel 2014 ne sono staticancellati 495.000. Per capire i motivi di questa tendenza ilRegistro ... read more ...
 
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eMarketer Report: The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations" - eMarketer.com has put out a research paper on the new gtlds titled, “The Domain Name Explosion: Hundreds of New Choices Beyond .com Mean New Marketing Considerations” This report was a paid report, as I called the company about referencing it they also included it in the newsletter section which is available to everyone.(thank you Priscilla) The report draws on data from the Domain Name Association and ntldstats as well as a few others. From the report: ... read more ...
 
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Time To Re-Evaluate Your TLD Strategy -   Law360, New York (April 14, 2015, 10:21 AM ET) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers's new top-level domain program resulted in approximately 1,400 new TLDs for consumers and brands; including new domain extensions like .wine, .golf, .law, .nyc, .bmw, etc. The intellectual property community significantly influenced the creation of a variety of rights protections programs and policies for trademark owners in ICANN’s new TLD program.One of the principal results ... read more ...
 
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The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs - When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet less than 10% of those that have gone live seem to have found success. The term 'success' has different definitions ... read more ...
 
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Aditya Chauhan - The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the existing TLDs were running out of short meaningful options, all that was needed was to create newer options that would be more relevant for specific sets of customers. Years later, the process is well underway; hundreds of nTLDs have hit the market, yet less than 10% of those that have gone live seem to have found success. more» ... read more ...
 
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Google's mobile deadline one week away - Search results on mobile devices to change one week from today. Most people in the United States are making a last minute push to complete taxes, but another deadline is quickly approaching for website owners. April 21 — just one week from now — is the date that Google will change its search results on mobile devices. The “significant” change will promote mobile-friendly content over content designed only for full browser screens. Given the growth on mobile search and browsing, this is a ... read more ...
 
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Google Malaysia Experiences DNS Redirect Attack - TheStat.com.my is reporting that Google Malaysia was hit by a DNS redirect hack. It looks like Google’s actual servers were not comprimised and not everyone accessing the local Google site is being affected. From the article: Some users visiting the Google Malaysia website are seeing a hacked page that says “Google Malaysia hacked by TiGER-M@TE”. Although TiGER-M@TE claims to have hacked the search giant’s local website, it seems to be another DNS redirect attack on the .my domain. Google ... read more ...
 
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La crisi colpisce anche i domini «.it»: in 500mila hanno detto addio alla rete - La crisi contagia anche la rete. Lo dicono i numeri del mercato dei domini internet che negli ultimi anni a fronte di una crescita con il freno tirato rispetto al passato vedono per la prima volta registrare un boom di cancellazioni. È il caso dei domini «.it» ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Opens Up For Advertising - Sedo.com is now showing advertising rates on its website. I’m not sure how long they have been showing this but I believe its a new feature Here is what the site currently shows: “”Advertise with Sedo to reach the world’s largest audience of domain investors, as well as small business owners, marketing professionals and a wide variety of other consumers all interested in domain-related products and services. Our audience’s key interests include domain registration, domain valuation, domain ... read more ...
 
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YM.com Sold By Advance Publishing Inc. - The 2 letter domain name YM.com has been sold by the 44th largest private company in the United States, Advance Publishing Inc. according to whois records. Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. was the official company name listed in whois records for YM.com, and they are a subsidiary of Advance Publishing Inc. Advance Digital and Conde Nast Digital are all part of Advance Publishing Inc. company. The domain name YM.com was forwarding to TeenVogue.com for several years but I wasn’t able to find a public ... read more ...
 
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New .SUCKS Top-Level Domain is .PROBLEMATIC - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...