Thu 9th April 2015
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MySchool.com domain name owners fights behind after lawsuit - Domain name owner alleges reverse domain name hijacking. Original Web Ventures has responded to a lawsuit filed against its domain name MySchool.com, and has made claims of its own against plaintiff Joseph Carpenter. Carpenter filed an in rem lawsuit against MySchool.com in February after losing two separate UDRP cases over the domain name. The lawsuit sought to get control of the domain name under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Carpenter runs a site at MySchool411.com. Original ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Finds Not Responding To C & D Letter Is Bad Faith: 14 Year Old Mascot.nl Lost - “Mascot International A/S of Silkeborg, Denmark, just won the rights to the domain name mascot.nl which was registered on October 31, 2001. Complainant, a Danish company has a Benelux trademark for the term MASCOT which is really a figurative mark for the  word MASCOT as written in a special script: which was granted in January 18, 1989 Complainant also filed a wordmark as CTM, for goods in classes 9 and 25, application date October 29, 2001, registration date March 3, 2004, registration no. ... read more ...
 
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87% of consumers uncomfortable with ‘new internet’ - 09/04/2015 By Daniel Hunter With hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLD) arriving on the internet — like .shop, .bank and .london — research has revealed that 87% of consumers do not feel very comfortable visiting them.The New Internet Study by global information assurance firm NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs.With more domains going live, 40% of web users also reported ... read more ...
 
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Study of 10K People: 49% of Consumers Are Uncomfortable With Vising A Site … - Global information assurance firm, NCC Group released the results of The New Internet Study, today of 10,000 people. NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs. 49% of respondents said they felt uncomfortable visiting a web site using a new gTLD domain. 42% of web users reported feeling less secure online since their introduction while 35% feel just as secure. Other finding from the study: · 45% of those we surveyed said they would feel ... read more ...
 
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Ford.com, eStore.com and Many More Domain Movers - I have been doing these Domain Movers lists for awhile and they never get old! Never! They are packed with valuable and always interesting domain name data watching what companies are buying, registering and selling their domain name assets. Having an “insiders” look at potential “news” like new brands and products is always cool! As always, a TON of time goes into these articles and this dedication is to help all domain name investors and the domain industry as a whole. Here we go with the ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales increases sales commissions - Rate increased to 15%, in line with competitors. DomainNameSales.com is increasing the fee it charges for brokering a sale from 12.5% to 15.0%. The commission applies to existing negotiations for which a deal hasn’t been reached. In justifying the price increase, DNS VP of Sales Jeff Gabriel wrote: Over the past 90 days we have added 5 new Domain Brokers – two are fluent in Mandarin, three have backgrounds in Hi-Technology, Advertising, and Engineering Sales. Our new team members allow us to ... read more ...
 
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.US Domains Are Subject To Being Suspended Under The URS - .US domain names have became subject to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy. Actually ICANN site on the URS specifically  says that .US domain names are not subject to the URS Technically the decision is a usRS for the .usTLD Rapid Suspension System (the “Rules”). In the National Arbitration Forum decision, Beachbody, LLC of Santa Monica, CA got the domain name t-25.us suspended for the life of the registration Sandra J. Franklin, was Examiner. The decision did not cite what trademark ... read more ...
 
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Lady Gaga gift switches from .org to .foundation - It’s a longer TLD but shorter address overall. The Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), a non-profit founded by Lady Gaga and her mother, has switched its web address from a .org to .foundation. The charity was using bornthiswayfoundation.org, which now forwards to bornthisway.foundation. Although the top level domain is longer, the entire address is three characters shorter. Born This Way Foundation is named after Lady Gaga’s 2011 album of the same name. Its mission is to inspire youth and build ... read more ...
 
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The IP-Savvy Star Who Doesn’t Do Porn - 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 ...
 
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.Wedding Winds Up With 1,254 Domain Registrations After It's First Day Of General Availability - Minds + Machines launched .Wedding into general availability yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period, .Wedding ended its first day of GA with 1,254 registrations according to ntldstats.com 1and1.com and Godaddy.com were the top two domain name registrars where .Wedding domain names were registered. .Wedding has variable pricing on premium domain names. You can see the list of ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Acquires Single Letter i.org Domain Name - Facebook Inc. has acquired the single letter domain name i.org according to whois records! Facebook owns the domain name Internet.org and is leading the effort of connecting the 2/3’s of the world who do not have internet. It is unknown at this time if the newly acquired domain name I.org will be used with this effort. I.org was held by PIR registry and under the Project 94 which is: “Project94 is the allocation of 94 1-2 character .ORG domain names that have never been released for registration. ... read more ...
 
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Study of 10K People: 49% of Consumers Are Uncomfortable With Vising A Site Using A New gTLD - Global information assurance firm, NCC Group released the results of The New Internet Study, today of 10,000 people. NCC Group questioned 10,000 consumers across the US and UK regarding their attitudes to these new gTLDs. 49% of respondents said they felt uncomfortable visiting a web site using a new gTLD domain. 42% of web users reported feeling less secure online since their introduction while 35% feel just as secure. Other finding from the study: · 45% of those we surveyed said they would feel ... read more ...
 
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NameJet lapsed domain name review - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in NameJet expired domain name sales. 5-digit numeric domains don’t typically sell for $9,120, but one expired NNNNN.com did just that at NameJet last week. 51513.com = 3 x 7 x 11 x 223, in case you care about prime factorization, which the odds are you don’t. Apart from Chinese cryptographers, neither does China, where numbers matter less than numeral strings. These Indo-Arabic numerals of ours belong equally as much to Chinese children, who can rattle ... read more ...
 
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Nevada Would Like To Regulate Internet Traffic - Nevada wants to be the first state to regulate Internet traffic, in an article on USA TODAY, Anjeanette Damon, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal gave the details. The one take away from the article was that critics and security experts believe the bill would actually aid what it is hoping to prevent. The bill is being pitched as a help with Cyber Security. From the article: Nevada could become the first state in the nation to mandate the physical route government data takes as it travels the Internet ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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Pure Drop PDM.com sells for $30,470 on DropCatch - The domain name PDM.com actually dropped and was caught by DropCatch, the domain sold for $30,470. There were 125 bidders and 297 bids. There was a thread on Namepros that started before the auction when it was clear the name would drop, the majority picked DropCatch to catch the name. Some expressed their displeasure of the whole system and specific issues with DropCatch.com. ... read more ...
 
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Revised Top Level Domain Law in Sweden? - On March 31, Swedish regulatory overview office, Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS), published a 54 pages report on revision of the Swedish Top-Level Domain (TLD) law for internet. The report contains proposals for revision of policy and Swedish law regulating top level domains. This is not a surprise. The issue has been simmering for ten years, at least. However, with increasing dependency of information society, public regulators are increasingly inclined to revise ... read more ...
 
 
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain name sales adult to $109,000 - End users buy domain names for up to $109,000. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, closing 543 transactions for a larger-than-normal $1.8 million tally. The sales were led by Mercari.com, bought by the maker of the Mercari app. Mercari has been downloaded over a million times. A number of other five figure sales are currently still in escrow or have private whois records. Before we get to the list, be sure to check out this week’s Podcast with Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. (You can view ... read more ...
 
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Uniform Rapid Suspension by a numbers - A look at which new top level domain names are getting hit with the most URS cases. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced along with new top level domains as a sort of faster, cheaper version of UDRP. Companies can make a cybersquatting claim against a domain name in the abbreviated procedure. If they win, the domain name is suspended rather than transferred like it is in a UDRP. Both National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) handle URS cases. ... read more ...
 
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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Your Company About Protecting Its Brand Online - Your company could probably learn a thing or two from Taylor Swift. Earlier this month, the ever business-savvy pop star unwittingly generated a ton of click bait for publishers by doing something smart: She registered her name under the new adult-themed top-level domains .porn and .adult. It's a wise move for any brand, but these salacious-sounding TLDs are just the beginning: The number of available website domain names is about to explode. This coming influx of domains will undoubtedly ... read more ...
 
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Donuts hurdles .Charity decision - Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed community objections against both Donuts and Famous Four Media for their .charity applications. Surprisingly, the panelist ruled that the objection prevailed against Donuts but failed again Famous Four Media. The panelist’s decision was based on a Public Interest ... read more ...
 
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD's: Highlights Coffee.Club - Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher in a more freeform system: Why not have more specific options like .dentist and .nyc? The proliferation of new domains opens up a world of new branding opportunities for companies. For a dentist who has long lived on page five of Google’s search results ... read more ...
 
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Video : SX US, le team KTM/TLD à l’entraînement - motocross Actuaschampionnat us de supercrossLes boys du team KTM/Troy Lee Design sont prêts à en découdre à Houston ! © ODV Jessy Nelson et Shane McElrath, du team KTM/Troy Lee Designs sont en pleine préparation pour la reprise des hostilités sur la côte Ouest à Houston, samedi prochain. Les deux riders ont partagé le terrain d'entraînement de Corona, ... read more ...
 
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Video : le team KTM/TLD - Les boys du team KTM/Troy Lee Design sont prêts à en découdre à Houston ! © ODV Jessy Nelson et Shane McElrath, du team KTM/Troy Lee Designs sont en pleine préparation pour la reprise des hostilités sur la côte Ouest à Houston, samedi prochain. Les deux riders ont partagé le terrain d'entraînement de Corona, en Californie, avec Justin Hill, lui aussi très en forme sur sa KTM 250 Factory RedBull... ... read more ...