Sat 4th October 2014
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New gTLD’s Domain Registrations Top 2.5 Million As .NYC Sets New gTLD … - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday  as .NYC  awarded over 2,900 domain names in the land rush program which ended yesterday, blowing away all previously new gTLD launches in terms of domain names awarded in Sunrise and Landrush (or equivalent Early Access Programs) where registrants paid an extra fee to get early access to register domain names. However the .NYC landrush number does not include any landrush domain  in which ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD’s Domain Registrations Top 2.5 Million As .NYC Sets New gTLD Sunrise/Landrush Record - The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday  as .NYC  awarded over 2,900 domain names in the land rush program which ended yesterday, blowing away all previously new gTLD launches in terms of domain names awarded in Sunrise and Landrush (or equivalent Early Access Programs) where registrants paid an extra fee to get early access to register domain names. However the .NYC landrush number does not include any landrush domain  in which ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Gets Almost 3K Land Rush Domains & Sits during 3,441 Before Next Weeks Launch - .NYC the top level extension for New York now has 3,441 domain name registrations after awarding some 2.900 domain names that were applied during landrush that  received only 1 land rush application. Prior to the Landrush, NYC had just under 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders. The number of LandRush domain names, so far in the zone file, are 2,949 domains. Any domain that received more than landrush application are off to auction and none of those are included in the totals. There are ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Fees Threaten the Diversity of the Name Space - The great promise of the new gTLD programme is not that it will spawn dozens of .COM clones, but rather that it will lead to the creation of a global constellation of unique names embraced by specific interest groups. As an ICANN community, our challenge now is to ensure that the policy framework we've created to manage new gTLDs advances that vision by not penalising the very sorts of domains that the programme was designed to encourage. The first thing we did when we started our "cultural" ... read more ...
 
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Tim Johnson - New gTLD Fees Threaten the Diversity of the Name Space The great promise of the new gTLD programme is not that it will spawn dozens of .COM clones, but rather that it will lead to the creation of a global constellation of unique names embraced by specific interest groups. As an ICANN community, our challenge now is to ensure that the policy framework we've created to manage new gTLDs advances that vision by not penalising the very sorts of domains that the programme was designed to encourage. more» ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2014
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Fertility App Glow Raises Another $17 million – Should they acquire Glow.com ? - Glow is an app that allows women to track their fertility cycles, they received another $17 million in funding bringing their total up to $23 million. Tech Crunch reported, The company announced in August that it was responsible for getting over 20,000 women pregnant, using the app. It has also added quite a few other apps to the family over the last year with Glow First, Glow for Enterprise and Glow Nurture as well. These are all designed to take women beyond fertility tracking and into health and ... read more ...
 
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Supercross: Darryn Durham To TLD/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM Team - Darryn Durham has joined the TLD/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM Team. Photography courtesy TLD Darryn Durham is the newest member of the TLD/Lucas Oil/Red Bull/KTM team. It was officially announced today that Durham will compete in the 2015 AMA Monster Energy West Coast Supercross and Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championships in the 250 class along side teammates and returning riders Jessy Nelson and Shane McElrath. "I'm really excited to have Darryn aboard team TLD," said team manager Tyler Keefe. "I think ... read more ...
 
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Amd reconnaît officiellement plusieurs bugs dans les Catalyst 14.9 - Depuis la sortie des drivers Catalyst 14.9 WHQL en tout début de semaine, de nombreux utilisateurs, y compris sur le forum TLD, se sont plaints de divers problèmes avec cette mise à jour malgré une installation propre (désinstallation du pilote actuel, redémarrage puis installation). Ne vous arrachez plus les cheveux puisque le problème ne vient, dans la majorité des cas, pas de votre PC mais bien de ces drivers 14.9 eux-mêmes. Amd vient en effet d'admettre officiellement sur son site ... read more ...
 
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.dd-Ex = DDR: Die untergegangene Top-Level-Domain - Heute vor 24 Jahren wurde die DDR Geschichte. Auch die Top-Level-Domain des realsozialistischen Staates verschwand damit sang- und klanglos. Und eigentlich hatte sie nie richtig existiert. Eine Geschichtsstunde aus Zeiten des Kalten Krieges. Mitte der 80er Jahre: Jon Postel, Internet-Pionier an einer kalifornischen Universität, träumt von einem länderübergreifenden Kommunikationsnetz. Seine simple Idee: Mit Hilfe einer Länderliste der globalen Standardisierungs-Organisation ... read more ...
 
 
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Lighting company obtains transfer of domain name under ‘.lighting’ gTLD -

In a new box underneath a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before a World Intellectual Property Organisation, a obvious manufacturer of lighting products has performed a send of a domain name equally reproducing a heading underneath a new general top-level domain (gTLD) ‘.lighting’.

The ‘.lighting’ gTLD is directed during any individual…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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UDRP Filed on C-A.com and MySchool.com Gets Saved for a Second time - Back on 9/13 we wrote about MySchool.com getting hit with a UDRP for the second time in four years. We published the article as soon as the UDRP was filed, so we had no clue to who was filing the UDRP this time around. Well it was the same person as the first time, Joseph L. Carpenter. The first UDRP was brought against Andy Booth who owned the domain at the time. In July of 2012 the domain looks like it changed hands, left Go Daddy and moved to EuroDNS under privacy. In March of 2013 the name came ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Launches CITY and HEALTHCARE Internet Domains - More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]>   October 02, 2014 -- BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues its ongoing mission to expand and diversify the Internet's global addressing system in October by making two highly anticipated gTLDs available to the public. This week, users worldwide are able ... read more ...
 
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Google Organic Click Rates – A Case Study - Philip Petrescu posted an interesting article on Moz.com that is worth checking out for those who build out websites and are looking for more organic traffic. It is a long article as Petrescu goes into great detail on his case study. The summary is below: So I started searching for a way to find out how much organic traffic I could get for ranking on the top positions in Google. But I faced a big challenge. These days, with “not provided” being almost 100%, it’s very hard to measure how ... read more ...
 
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Donuts launches .City, .Healthcare internet domains - Donuts, a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), continues its ongoing mission to expand and diversify the internet’s global addressing system in October by making two highly anticipated gTLDs available to the public. Users worldwide are now able to register addresses in .City, followed on 15 October by .Healthcare. Donuts’ significant role in the new gTLD programme continues to expand, as does usage of its gTLDs. The registry recently surpassed 950,000 registrations in its ... read more ...
 
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2 Texas DUI Lawyers Battle Over Trademarked Domains: DontBlow.com Vs. DoNotBlow.com - TexasLawyer.com reported on a dispute between Tyler Flood, a Houston DUI lawyer who filed a lawsuit against The Law Offices of Mark Hull, based in Austin for trademark infringement over a domain name. “Flood alleges that the Hull firm violated his trademark, DoNotBlow.com which he alleges he began using in 2006 but didn’t register with te USPTO until 2013 by using the “confusing and similar” website name, DontBlow.com, to sell legal services. The complaint alleges the Hull firm’s use of ... read more ...
 
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Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Without Filing A Response: Judgmentfree.com - PFIP, LLC (“Complainant”), represented by Teresa C. Tucker of Grossman, Tucker, Perreault Pfleger PLLC, New Hampshire, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name hijacking in a UDRP decision on the domain name judgmentfree.com The one member panel of David E. Sorkin found RDNH even though the domain holder didn’t even file a response and therefore didn’t even ask for a RDNH finding. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “PFIP uses various marks in connection with this business, including ... read more ...
 
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$42,000 MySchool.com domain name survives UDRP - Complainant goes after domain name for a second time, and loses for the second time. Original Web Ventures has survived a UDRP that was filed against its MySchool.com domain name — a domain name it purchased last year for $42,000. The complainant, Joseph L. Carpenter, runs a site at MySchool411.com. He filed a UDRP against MySchool.com back in 2010 and lost that case. Now that the domain has changed hands, he took another crack at it. A three person National Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: MedTravel.com $18k, BrownCollege.com $16k and more - Joseph Peterson provides a round up of expired domain sales from the past week. GoDaddy’s $17.8k sale of MedTravel.com hearkens back to the $7.1k sale of MedicalTravel.com at NameJet, which I reported in June. It’s tempting to conclude that trimming 2 syllables more than doubled the market value, but the prices could as easily have been reversed. MedTravel.com does feel more like a brand name, as opposed to a generic category. What we can infer is that medical ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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Rightside Backs KCRW’s Left, Right & Center - In an effort to reach the politically minded, Rightside Group, Ltd., the spin off of Santa Monica-based Demand Media, said this week that it will sponsor KCRW's Left, Right, Center podcast. The deal is part of an effort by Rightside to promote its new politically oriented domains, .DEMOCRAT and .REPUBLICAN. Financial details of the sponsorship deal were not announced. KCRW will feature Rightside in an underwriting message both in its local FM radio broadcasts, as well as on the online podcast. ... read more ...
 
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September 30: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims … - 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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Updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification periods - 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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As Many As 5K .Com’s Taken Away By Sealed Court Order By Verisign Including Some Of Mine - Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court order. The domain names just were transferred by Verisign to another domain and are now listed for sale at another marketplace. Another domainer sent me an identical notice he received overnight on domain names he owned. The Domain names are now all owned by COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA and have been moved to Uniregisty as the ... read more ...
 
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Freenom Operator of 2nd Largest Domain Extension .TK; To Launch .GQ; Yes It Will Be FREE - From 1 December onwards free GQ domains will be offered to all internet users in Equatorial Guinea and internationally. There will be no restrictions to registrations of free domains and anyone can claim their own .GQ domain. Free .GQ domains will work exactly like any other extension and can be renewed an unlimited number of times at no charge. “The need for free domains continues to grow exponentially,” says Joost Zuurbier, CEO at Freenom. “Especially in countries like Brazil, Russia, Vietnam ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers - Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restricted to licensed lawyers or law firms, and all initial applications and renewals will be examined to verify that the registrant’s license is current. To be eligible for a name as a law firm, the firm must provide legal services and a partner or equivalent ... read more ...