Mon 16th June 2014
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14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology - The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”. The domain name current seems to be directing into an advertising program as opposed to going to a site or a PPC or landing page. The domain was until December of 2013 according to screenshots.com parked for many years. The complainant of  the UDRP is not listed. There ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Website “The First True Alternative To .Com”” Announces Launch Timeline -   Radix the registry operator of .Website just announced the timeline for the release of the new gTLD extension which they are calling “The first true alternative to .com” Here is the some of the Press release: “Website will become the first all-purpose domain extension available for registration when it launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. Radix, .website’s registry and the largest new gTLD registry based in Asia, released a complete launch timeline for .website today, outlining a Landrush ... read more ...
 
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.Bid/.Trade Auction Ends On Sedo Tomorrow & 8 Domains Have Bids Led By PPC.bid - Sedo’s auction of Premium .Bid and .Trade domain names ends tomorrow Tuesday at Noon EST. As of publication 8 domains out of the 35 in auction have bids. The auction is led by PPC.bid which has a high bid $1,050 while both LiveAuction.bid and onlineauction.com have bids of $800 All of the domain names have a reserve range of $1,000-$5,000 and none of the domains have reached reserve as of publication. Here is the entire list:   ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Retrospective at ICANN 50 - On Wednesday June 25th from 10-12am in the Sovereign Room applicants and key community members will debate what worked, what didn't and what's next for new gTLDs. The event has been organized by the RySG NTAG as the first community led dialogue on the 2012 new gTLD round since 'reveal day' two years ago. Rather than have panelists deliver presentations, the session will be an open dialogue both between panel members and the audience. It is split into two fifty minute discussion sessions. The ... read more ...
 
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Mrs. Jello Loses UDRP On Milly.com After Rejecting Offer To Sell & Not Filing An Answer - Milly LLC of New York, New York, just won control of the domain name Milly.com in a UDRP which was owned by Mrs. Jello, LLC which of course the company owned by the late Igal Lichtman. Sadly no one responded to the UDRP on behalf of Mrs. Jello, LLC, although someone apparently rejected an offer presented sometime this year by the Complaintant and changed the parked page from adult links to links to the Complainant Milly LLC has been using the domain name MillyNy.com for its website since 2001 Here ... read more ...
 
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Auto.Ru Bought By Russian Search Engine Yandex For $175 Million - According to TechCrunch.com, Yandex, the search engine often called the Google of Russia, announced they are buying Auto.ru, for $175 million in cash. Auto.Ru is a site not just a domain name. Auto.ru has been around since 1996 and currently has some 400,000 unique listings for cars for sale. “Auto.ru is the most popular automobile-related website in Russia and operates the largest and most detailed classifieds catalogue for new and used cars in Russia,” said Alexey Tretyakov, VP of Commerce ... read more ...
 
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This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS - Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carries a potential “penalty” in the form of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) a URS carries no similar “penalty” In this case the URS involved a three letter generic new gTLD domain. The domain name Bas.Graphics was registered by QA Graphics of ... read more ...
 
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Domain-Boom für Restaurants und Bars startet mit der Freigabe von .rest- und … - Seit dem 11. Juni können sich Restaurants und Bars während der "Landrush-Phase" die neuen generischen Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs) .rest (Punkt-rest) und .bar (Punkt-bar) sichern. Das Unternehmen Punto 2012, mit Sitz in Mexiko, steckt hinter diesen neuen gTLDs.  Es bietet Domaininvestoren, frühen Antragsstellern, Bars, Nachtclubs und Restaurants die einmalige Möglichkeit, sich im Zeitalter des Internets attraktive, erstklassige und begehrte Domainnamen zu reservieren , wie beispielsweise ... read more ...
 
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Francois Launches Lend.me Putting Borrowers & Lenders Together At 12% Interest - Francois Carrillo who is the  Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which also publishes domaining.com has rolled out his newest site, Lend.me. The site puts together lenders and borrowers together which are willing to lend and borrow using domain names and websites as collateral with an interest rate of 12% per year, which is less than domain capital’s stated rate of 15%.  Moreover while domain capital traditionally only loans 50%-60% of the domains value Lend.me basically leaves it up to the  borrowers ... read more ...
 
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After .com: Using a Non-Traditional Domain Name - A nontraditional domain extension can give you the branded URL you want for your business.Credit: URL image via Shutterstock Today's startups have a lot of technological advantages over businesses that launched a decade ago. But there's one challenge that's unique to the modern entrepreneur: finding ... read more ...
 
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50.000 registrierte Domains unter der Hauptstadt-TLD – InterNetX feiert mit … - (PresseBox) (Regensburg, 16.06.2014) 50.000 ist an diesem Montag die Zahl des Tages: Mehr als 50.000 Zuschauer werden im Stadion Arena Fonte Nova den WM-Start der deutschen Fußballnationalmannschaft verfolgen. Fast 50.000 registrierte Domains hat inzwischen auch .BERLIN erreicht - im Laufe des Tages wird die TLD aus der Hauptstadt die Marke knacken. Ein Meilenstein für die dotBerlin GmbH, die Registry der Hauptstadt-Endung. Hakan Ali, ... read more ...
 
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cloud world ag komplettiert seine Top-Domains im DACH-Raum um www.cloud.li - Website Promotion Über die cloud world ag Die cloud world schafft mit ihrem globalen, ganzheitlichen und innovativen Cloud Marktplatz auf den Top-Domains cloud.de /.ch /.at Transparenz und Neutralität. Cloudaffine Kunden bekommen ... read more ...
 
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The Removed ICA Post on XYZ: My Thoughts, What Mr. Corwin Has To Say, & The Missing Emails - Ron Jackson wrote two stories at DnJournal.com, over the weekend covering a post written by Phil Corwin, that post was published on Circle ID and on the ICA website on Friday entitled ICANN is MIA on .XYZ, and its subsequent removal on Saturday from the ICA website. I highly suggest if you haven’t done so you should read Mr. Corwin’s post on CircleID.com (along with the comments) and Ron’s summary of the post he wrote on Friday and the story he wrote yesterday on the removal of the post from ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic buys domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS) - CentralNic gobbles of up large domain name registrar in $7.5 million deal. Publicly traded CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) has purchased Bahamian domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS). The move gives CentralNic, currently positioned as a registry, a strong entry in the retail registrar market. CentralNic is traditionally known for offering third level domain names, but it is the technical registry services provider powering dozens of new top level domain name applicants. ... read more ...
 
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HP employees threatened aspirant Splunk? - Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP employee take it to another level. Big data company Splunk just won two UDRP domain name disputes against the domain names DontGetSplunked.com and SplunkFail.com. Splunk alleged that these were basically part of a grassroots campaign ... read more ...
 
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.CEO selling goes from stupid to… - New TLD not doing so well? It doesn’t suck, it’s just “limited release”. By all measures, PeopleBrowsr’s two top level domain name launches have been flops. .CEO has 1,244 domains in the zone file. .Best has 434. This isn’t a huge surprise to me. .CEO launched with some silly and sexist videos. Its marketing wasn’t well executed. That, and it’s a stupid idea for a top level domain name. Registrars haven’t exactly rushed to carry either .CEO or .best, ... read more ...
 
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Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names - Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and LendingClub. A key difference is that the loans are secured with domain names. The site acts as a matchmaking site between people who want to lend money and those that want to borrow. Much like on the popular peer-to-peer ... read more ...
 
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Will .Berlin be #1 this week? Domains are giveaway for subsequent 5 days. - Free domains will boost total .Berlin registration numbers. .Berlin got off to a nice start thanks to a free .Berlin promotion. A new promotion may propel the domain name to the #1 slot on the new top level domain name charts. Officially, 20 registrars are offering .Berlin domain names for no more than 5.55 euros from June 16-21. But that max is just a max, and some registrars are giving the domain names away for free. InternetX, for example, will let you register ... read more ...
 
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Taking a demeanour a May’s NameJet sales - An deeper look at some of last month’s sales on NameJet. If you didn’t catch Andrew Allemann’s insightful take on April sales at NameJet, it’s worth a read.  This time, I’m filling in with some observations on last month’s sales — “observations” being a euphemism for knee jerk reactions and blind spots! Out of 76 sales, I’ve picked 10 to look at: Liao.com $100,000 – Mentioning this one would be obligatory for the price alone.  Not only is ... read more ...
Sun 15th June 2014
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The .Uno Registry Rolls Out Futbol.Uno In Time For The World Cup -   Dot Latin LLC, operators of the .Uno has a pretty creative way of bring attention to the .Uno extension by launching Futbol.Uno just time for the World Cup. I had a chance to chat with Esther Honig, the social media manager for Dot Latin LLC who chatted with me about the project: “”Today, and for the next 30 days on, the world’s eyes will be focused on Brazil. ” “For the first time in four years the best teams from around the world will battle it out in the greatest tournament in sports.” “As ... read more ...
 
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WordPress has had it with fraudulent DMCA Takedown Requests - Ernesto wrote a piece on Torrent Freak about Automattic the company behind WordPress and their case seeking $10,000 related to a misuse of the DMCA takedown process. The case in question involved Oliver Hotham who wrote  an article about “Straight Pride UK” which included a comment he received from the organization’s press officer Nick Steiner. Steiner did not like the article and sent WordPress  a takedown notice claiming it was infringing on his copyrights. From the article: Automattic, ... read more ...
Sat 14th June 2014
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Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly and Ghash.io gets DDOS’d - Isle of Mann is Bitcoin Friendly Andrew Moran wrote an interesting piece about the Isle of Mann and their creation of an incubator for Bitcoin startups. From the article: The Isle of Man government announced that it would be monitoring and assessing innovations in the cryptocurrency industry. Essentially, it is becoming a hub for bitcoins and the virtual currency market as it will not require bitcoin licenses and the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an event next week so citizens can learn ... read more ...
 
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.UK Registrants Will Have Home Address Published - ItPro.co.uk did a piece on a rule change for .UK registrants where if the domain is used in anyway for business, which could include parked page or blog with adsense, that their info will be published. From the article: Nominet, the company which manages the registry of .uk domains, has issued a rule change meaning that domain name owners’ home addresses will be published in online search results. Those signing up for the registry must now also agree to display their full names on the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Domain name developments – time to create or review your domain name policy - Developments Developments in relation to domain names are happening rapidly. There are new top-level domains (otherwise known as gTLDs) becoming available all the time and so it is important for businesses to be aware of these developments and take appropriate steps to take advantage of new opportunities while guarding against potential threats to their brands. New gTLDs Most will be familiar with the standard gTLDs: such as .com, .org and .net.  But there are now over 250 new ... read more ...