Fri 24th October 2014
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FoxNews Reports On Media Org’s Calling Google’s .Soy new gTLD “Segregation … - According to a story out in FoxNews.com, Google’s recent announcement of its new .SOY domain, meant to appeal to Latinos, has drawn criticism and jest from a number of places. .Soy (Spanish for “I am”) according to Google “offers Hispanic consumers, brands and publishers “a place to build, create and share culturally relevant Web content.” “A number of Latino organizations, including the Hispanic Heritage Fund and Ella Institute, have switch over to the .soy domain name, but some media ... read more ...
 
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FoxNews Reports On Media Org’s Calling Google’s .Soy new gTLD “Segregation” For Latinos - According to a story out in FoxNews.com, Google’s recent announcement of its new .SOY domain, meant to appeal to Latinos, has drawn criticism and jest from a number of places. .Soy (Spanish for “I am”) according to Google “offers Hispanic consumers, brands and publishers “a place to build, create and share culturally relevant Web content.” “A number of Latino organizations, including the Hispanic Heritage Fund and Ella Institute, have switch over to the .soy domain name, but some media ... read more ...
 
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Partners Trust “LA Real Estate Broker Specializing in Luxury Properties” Partners with .LUXURY - According to a press release out today Partners Trust, Los Angeles’ most selective real estate brokerage specializing in luxury properties, has partnered with .LUXURY, to create custom-tailored marketing experiences for luxury properties. PartnersTrust.Luxury is the first destination website built to highlight luxury properties exclusively represented by Partners Trust to clients around the world. “Luxury and technology trends change rapidly, and Partners Trust prides itself on not just keeping ... read more ...
 
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After Suspended 2,359 Domains, London’s Police IP Crime Unit Gets £3 million in Funding - According to a press release out overnight, The City of London’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has been given £3 million in funding to ensure its existence to at least 2017. The IP Crime Group report 2013/2014 notes PIPCU has already investigated more than £29 million worth of IP crime and has suspended 2,359 domain names. IPCU was also involved in the review of Nominet’s domain registration policy. “PIPCU uses several methods to address intellectual property crime including ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed To Recover Another Stolen 3 Letter .Com From Godaddy: CIN.com - A UDRP has been filed on a 3 letter .com and seems to be an attempt by the previous owner, CIN-CORPORACAO INDUSTRIAL DO NORTE, S.A. to recover the domain name CIN.com which appears to have recently stolen from CIN’s Godaddy account The domain name was owned by CIN-CORPORACAO until October 17th when it was transferred to Ename.com of China Here is the current whois record: Registrar: eName Technology Co.,Ltd. Registrar IANA ID: 1331 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@ename.com Registrar Abuse ... read more ...
 
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The 100 People Who Will Shape The Future of The Internet - Kieren McCarthy wrote a piece on TheRegister.co.uk about the 100 people who will shape the future of the Internet. The article takes a look at the Cross Community Working Group who will set out to propose the right transition plan for IANA. From the article: Unfortunately, despite having had nearly 14 years to think about it, the process for deciding how to move the global internet and its addressing systems out from under a US government contract will be decided in the next four weeks. By 100 people. ... read more ...
 
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Would you blow $5.6m to own a dot-word? Meet a bloke who did just that - Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar A further $13m was spent yesterday on auctions for the ownership rights to three new soul-sapping dot-word domains: .spot, .salon and .realty.Amazon outbid Google and gTLD powerhouse Donuts to pay $2.2m for the rights to sell dot-spot addresses; Donuts beat L'Oreal and two others for dot-salon at $5.1m; and top of the heap, domain investor and entrepreneur Jay Westerdal beat Donuts to dot-realty, paying $5.6m for the rights ... read more ...
 
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Analyst ups foresee for new TLDs, $900MM bookings by 2016 - Analyst becomes more bullish on new top level domain name potential. B. Riley analyst Sameet Sinha has increased his forecast for new top level domain name registrations after attending last week’s ICANN conference in Los Angeles. Previously, he was calling for about 20 million new TLD registrations from 2014-2016, now he’s pegging it at 29 million and says that might be conservative. He estimates top line potential of $900 million during this period. ICANN recently ... read more ...
 
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Over 200 lapsed domain name sales [results] - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name auctions. It will surprise some people that the country responsible for last week’s #2 Namejet expired auction is Turkey. Kemer.com ($11.4k) describes a seaside resort region. No, Italy, Greece, and Spain are not the only countries on the Mediterranean. ICANN has offices in Turkey, and so do domain investors. Meanwhile, there’s nothing surprising about the $16k sale of 9135.com. China has deep pockets ... read more ...
 
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Why .com had a good entertain (and .net didn’t ) - Thank the Chinese and discount pricing for continued demand for .com domain names. Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations in .com and .net in the third quarter this year, the most ever in a third quarter. That amounted to 1.15 million domain names added to the namespace. The addition was basically all in .com, as .net continued a flat/slow decline. So why did .com do so well? And why did .net flounder? Here’s Verisign’s viewpoint, gleaned from its Verisign’s ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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Wiley Rein Files Suit Over 14 Stolen Domain Names: 9 Are 3 Letter .com’s - The law firm of Wiley Rein this week filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an e-commerce company that had 14 domain names stolen by computer hackers based in China from a Godaddy Account. The case, Acme Billing Company v. John Doe, was filed on October 21, 2014 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by David Weslow of Wiley Rein LLP. The domain names mentioned in the suit include these 3 lettered .com’s: AIJ.com HIE.com SJS.com FJD.com IIW.com XJN.com HBU.com PWP.com XPE.com Along ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: .Com/Net Over 130 Million Domains; Revenue Up 4.7%; $1.5 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported its results for the third quarter of 2014, reporting revenue of $255 millionup 4.7% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $95 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.69 for the third quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $81 million and diluted EPS of $0.53 in the same quarter in 2013. The operating margin was 54.7 percent for the third quarter of 2014 compared to 54.5 percent for the same quarter in 2013. Financial Highlights Verisign ... read more ...
 
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Did Facebook.com Just Acquire Messenger.com? Looks Like They Did - We have about 1,000 domain names we track on DomainTools.com and we just noticed that the Whois on the domain name Messenger.com has just changed. The new owner of the domain is the law firm Hogan Lovells LLP of Paris which may not mean too much to you but as we at Thedomains.com follow and write about a lot of UDRP’s we know the law firm represents Facebook in their intellectual property disputes most recently in the case of Facebok.Berlin, and in many other cases including Facebook.info. Facebook ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Landrush Auctions Are Underway - The landrush auctions for .NYC domain names are underway at SnapNames.com according to someone who is involved in the auctions. We previously announced that the auctions would start today on a staggered 3 stage basis going through November 6th. We understand that not everyone who submitted a landrush application went ahead and established a valid account at Snapnames.com. In the cases where more than one landrush application was submitted but the other applicants for the same domain did not establish ... read more ...
 
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.Realty top-level domain auctioned for $5.58M - The rights to administer a new generic top-level domain, .Realty, were auctioned off Wednesday for $5.58 million to “domaineer” Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry LLC. Thanks to its trademark on the term “Realtor,” the National Association of Realtors was granted the right to administer the .realtor gTLD as part of a historic expansion of the domain name system by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). NAR is launching .realtor today, giving away a free domain to the first ... read more ...
 
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October 21: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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A Rumble in a Bronx over a Couple .Nyc Domains - The Daily News has an interesting story today about two .nyc domains that are at the heart of an online turf war in The Bronx. Welcome2thebronx.nyc and welcometothebronx.nyc. are being used as digital bargaining chips as one Bronx blogger wants another to retract statements and stop harassing her in a dispute that seems to be about of all things, a Whole Foods Market. An online dispute rooted in the Bronx has turned into a battle of domains. Blogger Ed Garcia Conde claims he’s being extorted by ... read more ...
 
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$5.6 Million A Good Buy For .Realty To Compete with .Realestate, Realtor … - Last night the highest priced paid for a new gTLD of the three that were at the ICANN last resort auction yesterday was .Realty at $5.6 million purchased by domain industry veteran Jay Westerdal’s company. (The exact price paid was $5,588,888) .Realty joins .Realestate; .Realtor; .Property, .MLS,  .Immo, (which is short for immobilier  which means real estate and is used in France, Germany and Italy) and to a smaller extent .House, .Condos, .Rentals and .Apartments. Its a pretty crowed vertical. So ... read more ...
 
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$5.6 Million A Good Buy For .Realty To Compete with .Realestate, Realtor, .Property., .MLS & .IMMO? - Last night the highest priced paid for a new gTLD of the three that were at the ICANN last resort auction yesterday was .Realty at $5.6 million purchased by domain industry veteran Jay Westerdal’s company. (The exact price paid was $5,588,888) .Realty joins .Realestate; .Realtor; .Property, .MLS,  .Immo, (which is short for immobilier  which means real estate and is used in France, Germany and Italy) and to a smaller extent .House, .Condos, .Rentals and .Apartments. Its a pretty crowed vertical. So ... read more ...
 
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TaxiBot Receives EASA Certification For Use With 737 Aircraft - October 22, 2014 – The Boeing 737 is now officially certified for TaxiBot dispatch towing, by theEuropean Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (CAAI).The Supplement Type Certificate (STC) was issued for Boeing 737 Classic aircraft.TaxiBot®, a semi-robotic pilot-controlled vehicle, is designed to transport airplanes from airport gate tothe runway and back, without using the airplane's engines. TaxiBot in-service evaluation will start inthe next few weeks, with ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals Are .Brutal: .Healthcare 1406; .Vet 649; .Army 196 … - 5 new gTLD went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis and the 5 combined for just over 2,500 registrations. Including registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid extra during the Early Access Program (EAP) to register domains ahead of GA here are the totals for the 5 new gTLD’s after their first day: .Healthcare 1,406 .Vet 649 .Army .202 .Navy 122 .Airforce 116 As we spoke about earlier ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals Are .Brutal: .Healthcare 1,406; .Vet 649; .Army 202; .Navy 122 .Airforce 116 - 5 new gTLD went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis and the 5 combined for just over 2,500 registrations. Including registrations by trademark holders in Sunrise and those who paid extra during the Early Access Program (EAP) to register domains ahead of GA here are the totals for the 5 new gTLD’s after their first day: .Healthcare 1,406 .Vet 649 .Army .202 .Navy 122 .Airforce 116 As we spoke about earlier ... read more ...
 
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Disse avgjør Internetts skjebne - Og de har fem uker å gjøre det på. I løpet av de neste 35 dagene må de bestemme seg, de 98 som sitter i Cross Community Working Group (CWG) i det internasjonale nettstyringsorganet ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Tenkt i 14 årDe har hatt hele 14 år på å tenke seg om, så vi får håpe de tar en klok avgjørelse. Vi snakker nemlig om intet mindre enn slutten på Internett slik vi kjenner det i dag. Innen ett år skal ICANN løsrives fra amerikansk ... read more ...
 
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Domaines gTLD : la prime au référencement garantie sur Google ? - Dans le cadre de sa politique de libéralisation de noms de domaines, l’Icann a introduit de nouvelles extensions, les gTLD. Peuvent ainsi être acquises différentes extensions comme .android, .movie, .ads ou encore .apps.Le prix d’entrée pour ces extensions ne les place cependant pas à la portée de toutes les bourses puisqu’il faut notamment compter 185.000 dollars pour le seul dossier de candidature. L’argument d’un meilleur référencement sur les moteurs de recherche, ... read more ...