Mon 13th October 2014
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ICANN Updates Agreement With PowerAuctions for Indirect New gTLD … - ICANN announced tonight that it was updating its agreement with Power Auctions LLC, the company ICANN contracted with to operate auctions of Last Resort for new gTLD’s that received more than one application and were not able to settle the contention amongst themselves. ICANN announced today that it has Updated its agreement today with Power Auctions to provide for Indirect Contention Sets for which PowerAuctions will get paid another $120,000 We wrote about ICANN agreement with Power Auctions, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Updates Agreement With PowerAuctions for Indirect New gTLD Contention Sets & Pays $120K More - ICANN announced tonight that it was updating its agreement with Power Auctions LLC, the company ICANN contracted with to operate auctions of Last Resort for new gTLD’s that received more than one application and were not able to settle the contention amongst themselves. ICANN announced today that it has Updated its agreement today with Power Auctions to provide for Indirect Contention Sets for which PowerAuctions will get paid another $120,000 We wrote about ICANN agreement with Power Auctions, ... read more ...
 
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TopCoin launches as cryptocurrency for new TLDs - TopCoin enables registries to pass rebate credits directly to registrants. I caught up with Michael Blend last night here in Los Angeles. Blend sold his company to Demand Media and was then an executive with the company for many years. He’s currently working on a number of startups, and one of these is applicable to the domain name industry: TopCoin. It’s billed as a cryptocurrency for digital goods. For now, you can think of it as a rewards program for buyers ... read more ...
 
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Heavenly.coffee is Donuts’ 1 Millionth domain name registration - Donuts hits milestone with a domain name registration that’s almost too fitting to be true. How about some coffee with those Donuts?Earlier this month I wrote about how Donuts was tracking to cross the million domain mark in October. It hit that milestone yesterday. Fittingly for a registry called Donuts, the milestone registration was Heavenly.coffee. Even if every domain was priced at just $15 wholesale, that means the company has grossed $15 million this year. ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #2: Tips to quarrel domain burglary and Howard Neu talks TRAFFIC - Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #2. It’s Monday, and that means it’s Podcast Day! This week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast includes the latest domain name industry news, plus 5 tips to make sure you don’t become a domain name theft victim. I also chat with Howard Neu, who co-founded the TRAFFIC conference with Rick Schwartz. Howard discusses the upcoming show (including why it’s scheduled on Halloween and what’s new this time) as well as the future of ... read more ...
 
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Which ICANN sessions domainers should attend - A quick look at relevant sessions at this week’s ICANN conference. ICANN 51 formally kicks off today in Los Angeles. There are a lot of domain name investors in attendance, so I created a quick guide to sessions that might be interesting to them. Even if you aren’t in L.A., ICANN has excellent online participation tools that make it almost easier to attend virtually than in person. Here are my picks. Monday October 13 Welcome Ceremony (8:30 to 10:00, all times ... read more ...
Sun 12th October 2014
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Jennifer Wolfe - ICANN GNSO Review - Final Week for Input from Community As the Chair of the 2014 Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Review Working Party, I have the privilege of working with 19 dedicated and passionate individuals who represent the diversity of the GNSO community. We've held numerous meetings and provided extensive input and feedback on key aspects of the GNSO Review in the short time that our group has been assembled to act as a liaison between the GNSO, the Independent Examiner ... read more ...
 
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fTLD Registry Announces It Has Resolved Contension & Is Going To Operate .Insurance + .Bank - The fTLD Registry announced on Twitter today that it has settle contention with Donuts and Radix the only other applicants for the new gTLD .Insurance and will be operating the very valuable string. The fTLD Registry also announced that On September 25, 2014,  “fTLD registry was granted the right to operate the new gTLD .Bank”,  although the application from the other applicant Radix has not yet been withdrawn fTLD is planning on operating .insurance with a lot of restrictions Here is some ... read more ...
 
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Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount Sells For $10,000 - The new gTLD’s Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount just sold in an auction on the site FreeMarket.com The pair of new gTLD domain names were sold together in one lot for $10,005. Here is how the description on the auction listing read: “Cruise.Discount Cruises.Discount I don’t have to tell you on how profitable the Cruise Industry is and how much Companies love Cruise Domains. Every time I was looking into booking a cruise, probably like anyone else, they searched around for a discount. Provide ... read more ...
 
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Governments look to apply the brakes to second round of gTLDs - Trevor Little Despite some barbed comments about the Government Advisory Committee’s (GAC) opening plenary session being relegated to a tent (Austria’s Christian Singer stating: “I hope this is not a sign of how ICANN appreciates the GAC), the session wasn’t as feisty as last year’s equivalent.  However, there was a clear message to ICANN ... read more ...
 
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.NYC top-level domain (TLD): Big Apple’s digital gateway, registration site … - One of the most prominent cities in the world, New York City has found its digital home via the .NYC top-level domain (TLD). "New York City is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the country. The 21st century real estate boom will also be online - with .NYC playing a key role in that boom," said GoDaddy's Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mike McLaughlin, in the official press release. McLaughlin explained further, "The .NYC extension gives anyone in New York City a chance ... read more ...
 
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Building a Better WHOIS for the Individual Registrant - Today, anyone can use WHOIS to identify the organization or person who registered a gTLD domain name, along with their postal address, email address, and telephone number. Publishing this data has long been controversial, creating a system riddled with problems. On one hand, anonymous access to all WHOIS data enables misuse by spammers and criminals and raises concerns about personal privacy. On the other hand, incomplete or false WHOIS data prolongs Internet outages and leaves crime victims ... read more ...
 
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Name.Space is looking for your assistance to take on ICANN - NAME.SPACE is suing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The future of the Internet is at stake – you can make a difference. http://www.thevillager.com/?p=8176 If you don’t like an Internet controlled by a few large corporations that own our data, and place profit and power before liberty and community, support NAME.SPACE v. ICANN. NAME.SPACE began in 1996, originating and operating over 500 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) sourced from the crowd. Our startup introduced ... read more ...
Sat 11th October 2014
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How ICANN’s New Domain Name Process Failed the Gay Community - A final point was lost because of “community opposition.” There was just one official objection received, and it was rejected, but that was enough to cost a full point. The objection concerned authentication, a principle required by ICANN. So, ICANN requires authentication, someone complains about authentication, and that is grounds for a negative review by ICANN. Whether the objection is legitimate or not, EIU says that the very existence of an objection makes it “relevant,” thus costing ... read more ...
 
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Bob Olea: “Any Domain Seized, Not Owned By Defendant Will Be Returned” - Good news for anyone who had domain names seized by Verisign as part of an ongoing case who are not related to the defendant in that case. The court appointed receiver Bob Olea sent me an email yesterday to the effect that domain that were not owned by the defendant of the case will be returned to their owners. We wrote about around 5,000 domain names that we seized by Verisign related to a dispute under a sealed court order back on October 9th. Since then TechDirt.com wrote a story about the case, ... read more ...
 
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Radix Announces the Addition of .tech to Its Portfolio – Virtual - Radix Announces the addition of .tech to its portfolio, a New gTLD for the Technology Sector. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 11, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix is pleased to announce the addition of .tech to its portfolio of new gTLDs. It is an extension dedicated to the technology community, created and conceived for use by startups, software, hardware, hi-tech corporations and technical professionals. Leading new gTLD applicants including Donuts, Uniregistry, TLDH and Google originally ... read more ...
 
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Quelles seront les conséquences de l’arrivée des nouvelles extensions internet? - L'espace des noms de domaine de top level (TLD) sera libéralisé d'ici quelques mois, ce qui fera émerger à partir de 2013 une foule de nouvelles extensions sur l'internet. Quelles seront les conséquences de cette révolution? Quels seront les vainqueurs et les perdants? Data News a demandé l'avis de quelques spécialistes. "Le gâteau pourrait bien être plus petit qu'espéré." Nous avons posé trois questions à cinq personnes qui ... read more ...
 
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October ICANN TLD auctions cringe to 3 after private deals - 10 contention sets settled at last minute, including three by Amazon.com. This month’s ICANN auctions of last resort for new to level domain names will settle just three contention sets, down from a schedule of 13 as of last month. The only three still on the schedule are .spot, .salon and .realty. Ten contention sets that were on the docket for resolution via ICANN auction this month have been settled: Amazon.com won .now, .deal and .save Donuts won .legal and ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2014
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FC Barcelona Loses Attempt To Grab The Domain Name: FCB.email - FC Barcelona just lost its attempt to score the domain name FCB.email away from Joerg Lindemer of Neuenburg, Germany in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS). The Football Association Premier League Limited did much better winning a UDRP on the new gTLD premierleague.club, (here is the link to that case) Here are the highlights of the FC Barcelona case in which the Examiner was Piotr Nowaczyk: The Complainant is a Spanish football club. It has won many national and international football titles ... read more ...
 
 
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The Online World Is Not Flat: The Need for Geo gTLDs - This post outlines location factors that make the online world not as flat as some have claimed. I then outline the impact of these factors on the demand for new gTLDs. Domain names can signal geography by means of country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and new generic TLDs (gTLDs). Location is back in the spotlight for reasons laid out by Professor David R. Bell of the Wharton School in his recent book, Location Is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We ... read more ...
 
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ResellerClub’s Inaugural New gTLD Summit Sees Participation From Key … - NEW YORK - ResellerClub’s recently concluded New gTLD Summit saw participation from a host of key players from the domains and web hosting industry such as Donuts, Radix, Affilias, .SHIKSHA, .DESI and .CLUB. The event was the first-of-its-kind to be held in India, targeted exclusively at the New gTLD Industry Segment that is still at a nascent stage of development. The summit was the perfect platform for registry representatives, registrars, resellers and other interested stakeholders ... read more ...
 
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CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars - The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to conduct a study documenting the new gTLD sales channel and registry-registrar dynamic. The goal of the study was to review the most prevalent beliefs and predictions prior to the launch of new gTLDs and determine what if any had thus far proven to be accurate, ... read more ...
 
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CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars - The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to conduct a study documenting the new gTLD sales channel and registry-registrar dynamic. The goal of the study was to review the most prevalent beliefs and predictions prior to the launch of new gTLDs and determine what if any had thus far proven to be accurate, ... read more ...
 
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October 8: 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 ...